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"Common Lisp is about the only software I would consider declaring long attention span."

COBOL. Fortran. PL/I. C. C++. Ada. Java, C#, and PHP possibly given enough time. Hopefully, Python is on that list too as it wouldn't be a bad language to get stuck in for a legacy codebase. Far as massively popular ones go, at least.

""Ship it and fix it later" was pioneered by the software industry."

Planned obsolescence was pioneered by the hardware industry. Appliances especially. Software split between that and lock-in. Mainstream hardware is throw-away these days. You're right that hardware sticks around longer than a lot of software on average.
I think the author is alluding to Einstein and Coltrane having quite a lot in common conceptually around envisaging the universe, sacred geometry and spirituality http://upliftconnect.com/spiritual-wisdom-of-albert-einstein...
I have a lot of appreciation for the fact that, despite how large the company has become, it's very clear that outdoorsiness is still a big part of the REI's DNA, especially with so many companies these days owned by private equity firms that seem to be most interested in milking their brands for all they're worth.
Not sure what he means by “embedded by [sic] state actors like Russia,” but isn’t is clear by now that Wikileaks has, at the least, aligned its interests with Russia’s, and, quite likely, is largely controlled by the Kremlin?
> I've been travelling for a while in areas with slow internet and the best site for me has to be HN. No BS, it just loads and gets out of my way so I can access the content.

And people hate on table based layout ;-)

Edit: context
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The first thing I noticed about the article was the complete non-mention of energy efficiency. In the span of a decade (maybe less?) LED lighting has made huge advances.

Electric vehicles would certainly provide some growth potential, though overall they would most likely even out 24-hour usage patterns rather than overstressing the grid.
Four of those are bets on autonomous navigation and driving/flying. One (welding) has nothing to do with deep learning (that I'm aware of) and everything to do with the base rate of automation.

In terms of level 5 autonomous driving, the most common retort I've seen recently is "well, we're going to need special roads with sensors built in, and then it is a tractable problem." There are more than 4 million miles of road in the US; at any given time maybe 2% are under construction. The US Interstate Highway System was built during a boom and the cold war (where the system learned from Eisenhower's WWII experiences and learning from the Autobahn's military utility.) [1] If we're lucky, maybe the interstates will get sensors. But the complexity of re-doing an exit or interchange, which involves dozens of on-the-fly lane changes and cutovers, seems impractical merely to support self-driving cars.

I would love autonomous vehicles for the sake of my children, but I suspect that at best, maybe my grandchildren will benefit.

[1] https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/interstate/brainiacs/eisenhowerinte...
The most frustrating part as a seller on Amazon is that they are taking severe action against sellers that receive complaints. I just got through a month long process of getting my account reopened after a suspension. All it took was a few complaints from a vindictive competitor.

While they are harrasing long time sellers with years of positive feedback, they allow Indian and Chinese sellers to open accounts way faster than they can be closed for selling counterfeits.

The model from the perspective of the counterfeiters is easy. Simply open an account, sell as much counterfeit goods as you can then get closed down due to complaints. Amazon then holds your money for 90 days in order to pay for any returns that may show up, but a good percentage of buyers will never know any better or won't bother to return.

At the end of the 90 days, you collect the money that is left. In the mean time, you can open several seller accounts to keep the process rolling.

If a part time Amazon seller can see exactly what is happening. There is no way that at least middle management at Amazon doesn't know exactly what is going on and that they are profiting immensely from it.

Many scam sellers are extremely obvious. Why would Amazon allow Indian sellers to list hundreds of American textbooks for sale that ship from Amazon?

The most frustrating part is to be harrassed incessantly by the half wits in their "seller quality" department when all this is going on.
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Is that because it became an internal product with competitive advantage or something more boring? I've abstracted away from detail enough so you could hopefully answer.
Actually, it's not. Those manufacturing output numbers are both tricky and misleading. They are dominated by computer/electronic production and automotive. Because of how the statistics account for imports and technology advancement, the electronic components in particular are frequently overstated. For example, when Intel was shipping chips that were 2x more powerful than the last generation, that effectively doubled the measured output.

Simultaneously, the stats under account for services and non-market production. So things like Medicare/Medicaid ($1T annually) are measured at their cost, not based in the value delivered.

The reality is that industrial production in the US is 15-20% less than it was 20 years ago. Automation kills employment but most of the value creation has been exported to Asia. Denying that is denying reality.

Some articles:
http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21697845-gross-domest...

http://www.realclearpolicy.com/blog/2015/05/27/the_hidden_de...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2009-06-03/growth-wh...
A gain, I would guess, because pretty much all cooling is run on electricity, whereas some of the heating is done by gas.
> It's sad that I can no longer feel as though Bloomberg is a creditable source of news.

I feel the same way about novelty accounts.
But I'm not comparing filesharing to slavery.

You see? Even you missed that point. And it was in all caps. You think that italics would have helped? :P

Maybe I just shouldn't even make reference to slavery at all. No matter how tangentially related the reference is. It's like an inverse Godwin's law where you try to say something like "this one guy, who was incidentally Hitler's friend, said something that refutes your point..." and your interlocutor automatically claims Godwin's law.
If you've got contradictory information you're willing to share, it would be interesting to hear about it.
In 2007, even more people had their needs met by laptops. Heck, there were people in 2002 who went laptop full time. Anyone looking closely enough in 2000 could see the writing on the wall.
Government has been targeting industrial users heavily for the last decade. If you have spinning machines or industrial scale use, you will attract investment to reduce load, and very substantial investment if you allow the utility to shed your load (i.e. Turn stuff off) turning peak periods.
I agree with another poster regarding the 'not very compelling' and that I would classify you in the junior range of experience.

Honest feedback coming up..

Initial advice:-

- Remove 'professional' from the experience subtitle, it immediately frames your resume to me that there will be non-professional experience later on and therefore you might not have much professional experience.

- Remove the professional and personal experiences programming languages/tools parts,
merge them into one. Rank them in order of your overall experience, splitting them makes it look amateurish.

- If you've been unemployed for 2 years, then I would expect your github profile to be way more active if you're really looking and planning to get a job.

- A lot of your experience descriptions don't really mention much tech and come across as vague; reading your resume fills me with doubtful questions about you rather than answers that make me picture you clearly in your head and what your capabilities are.

i.e. 'Migration of [startup's] corporate websites and blogs to a new host' - what tech were they running on?, what tech did you move them to?

'Addressed the needs of dozens of business and non-profit clients to improve their online presence via CMS websites' - what does this even mean? You made some wordpress sites? You wrote your own framework?

- Have you been practising for interviews? (phone and onsite), P.S. This advice is given based on the variable state of interviews that are given.....buy a whiteboard and pen and practise coding and explaining your thoughts whilst writing, revise for the interview ('Cracking the coding interview' etc).
Well, birds are dinosaurs. Avian theropods to be precise.

So maybe dinosaurs are still working towards their limit. We know that their brains produce more pound per pound intelligence than mammalian brains. It's like they're more efficient.

But maybe something about that efficiency is Good Enough so they don't progress further.

Although watching my parrot at home is quite something. He's definitely on par with a young human in terms of coercing cooperation and puzzle solving.
If its captain's orders however, then the captain of the airplane should have every right to remove a passenger.
Yes but not by choice. Besides, I've been to both Rome and Athens and didn't find either to be oarcicularly crowded compared to a Chinese tourist place.
OMG! you really like your Apple stores don't you? Apple stores say nothing about the vibrancy of the city. It basically states that the city mindlessly practices American consumerism that Apple needs 24/365 stores to keep up with demand.

My experience of New York was tall buildings, narrow streets with garbage on the sidewalks, ridiculously expensive rents, homelessness on streets, lots of people walking around but very few actually willing to have a conversation. I enjoyed the street food and it was a great experience but I would chose a number of places around the world over New York for a company trip.
We can test that. Is it the target, machine code? If not, are there any optimizations that can happen between the two? If it's not machine code & can be improved, then it's probably safe to classify it as an IL. Or common sense variant: it's not the final language so it's an intermediate language. :)
I would argue that Santa Monica is much closer to LA in proximity and culture that SJ is to SF.
Does it matter who it's controlled by as long as it does some good? As far as citizens are concerned, it should be / is treason to keep these secrets. People say Snowden is terrible for doing what he did and he is hiding in Russia. They are wrong for thinking their thoughts about how "unAmerican" he is. WikiLeaks could start releasing nonsense, but when they do that, their purpose is at an end.
It's worth noting that REI is a co-op, which means it's owners are actually it's customers.
This is somewhat similar to something I published sometime ago, and even gives a very similar name to the process

http://belliottsmith.com/injector/

The main differences are the potential delay for adding threads, and the use of ML. The "injector" immediately adds threads if there are none spare (and there's permitted headroom), at the time of task submission. They are then _pruned_ as they are seen to be wasting cycles.

Admittedly this approach was designed to minimise the overheads of thread state management only, whereas in principle the CLR approach can respond to harmful competition for resources between tasks as well, assuming relatively consistent behaviour.

The downside of course is potentially very slow ramp-up time when the workload calls for a sudden increase in threads.
Money is necessary, but not sufficient.
See the link that says 'Download'? Click it for instructions on how to checkout this CL.
The kinds of jobs available to typical high school students such as food service work and babysitting tend to start earlier in the day (in my experience). Food service jobs often start around 4:00 to beat the evening rush, and babysitting can start whenever the kids get out of school.
This is a "windtrap" right out of Dune. I'm curious how much the MOF costs, though.
But haven't you heard the VC driven truth that it takes one woman 9 months to make a baby... But 9 women can make a baby in one month.
we need to stop explaining LA to people. way too many people are moving here lately.
Moores law has been the driving force of chip development?

Prophet Moore predicted the future and now engineers start breaking the law?

Isn't it the other way around that Moore made an observation about some effect that arose naturally? The formula was then called Moores law and its extrapolation had great predictive power for a long time.

Similar effects occur all through industries when you start scaling things up. Quality will go up and cost per unit will go down. Often following a simple mathematical formula which describes the learning curve.

In many technologies there is something called maturity where the straight line in the diagram starts to bend and approaches a technical limit. Markets overcome this a few times by changing the technological approach of solving a problem to an approach that has a better limit. This makes the general trend continue for decades... until the point where the next technology is so expensive that noone can afford it anymore.

Thus far Silicon has won every round and chip manufacturing plants cost many billions of dollars.
ah, well I am glad to not be swatted but props for the jarring rhetorical point.
Sometimes its about Flying vs not flying. I definitely have reduced all flying to absolute necessary. Not being white, I get treated differently by TSA at times. Flying is currently a very annoying experience.
Why is it important to point out that Santa Monica isn't the same as the city of Los Angeles? If you live there, you probably know already. If you don't live there, it doesn't matter anyway. They're neighbors. And it's not like Santa Monica is any more culturally unique than the dozens of communities that make up L.A. proper.
Where I grew up Dude is typically non-gendered.
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The main reason why the manufacturing sector in the US is still large is for the increasing expenditures in defense. The military/industrial complex receives huge cash infusions every year - corresponding to a large percentage of the federal budget. It is hard to predict what could happen to manufacturing in this country without such defense expenses.
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Perhaps you're thinking of this thread? https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2xvdow/why_worry_abo...
If you have a standard headphone jack option for your hearing aid, this might be of interest to you : http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-bluetooth-headphone-ad...
Those reviews seemed mixed at best (especially that BBC one).

Tech like this is a major breakthrough. It's just not something you see come from a crowd funding campaign. I'm extremely skeptical.

Be interested to know what your personal experience with it is though. Best of luck.
That's their greatest strength and their greatest weakness. It shows that great games don't have to have top of the line graphics horsepower behind them but it also means pretty much every graphically intensive third party game will never be ported to the system (which only hurts the console in the long run).

I don't blame them for not chasing the top end but I just wish they'd come just a little closer to it.
I don't see why they don't release a "Mini steam" that allows nes/snes/n64/gameCube/wii games to be purchased and run on a pc via an official/bundled emulator.
I just finished listening and the podcast (spoiler) reminded me of nothing so much as the concept of the Speaker of the Dead from Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game and sequels. This is a religion/calling of people who learn everything they can about a dead person, try to solve their mysteries, and then tell an unbiased but sympathetic account of their life.

I thought the podcast was extraordinary and highly recommend it.
This is click bate.

Opinion piece that doesn't even define a clear objective...for example....

"the denial of the vote to white men for 20 years (just less than a generation) WOULD GO SOME WAY to seeing a decline in the influence of reactionary and neo-liberal ideology in the world"

So changing a number of countries elected officials for 20 years WOULD GO SOME WAY to ....influence"

Worthless - I want my 3 minutes back
I would happily go for check bag in for free, but sometimes Airlines take forever to get the bag on to the carousel. Its much faster to get in and out with your bag as a carry-on.

I agree, One free bag check should be compulsory. They should also ensure that your bags arrive faster than you at the baggage carousel. May be one day with the advent of robots.
I've used dudette frequently over the decades.
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A couple of years ago, I walked the entirety of Wilshire Boulevard, from One Wilshire in Downtown all the way to the beach in Santa Monica. It's about 16 miles, and it takes all day, but you can do it.

Breakfast at Eggslut, lunch at the Food Trucks at LACMA, and dinner in downtown Santa Monica.

Landmarks along the way include Downtown, Macarthur Park, Koreatown, LACMA, La Brea Tar Pits, Beverly Hills, Westwood, and of course Santa Monica.

It's a great way to re-experience the city.
I use one of these plugged in to my car's always-on cigarette lighter. It works. My battery is never flat, even if I don't drive for a month or two.

http://www.harborfreight.com/15-watt-solar-battery-charger-6...
There's a few, not quite the same, but bits of pieces of places like this exist. Monopoly driven companies like Google or Microsoft have nice R&D arms, car companies can get involved in weird things. There's the big research universities, who are these days just as commercial as PARC ever was. There's also DoE National Labs who, because of the downturn in the nuke business, get involved in all kinds of cool R&D and are surprising to most people only semi-government. And finally there's pure government R&D centers, mostly in the military.
This Psychology Today article goes pretty deep on that front: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/imagine/201003/einstein...

Talks about musical talents, but also some other things where you might see similarities if you read it, then stories about Coltrane.
Old IP is fine. Breath of the Wild it up. But when your business model is "do nothing to adapt to the times, and try to ride the coattails of the success of 30 years ago", i stop feeling sympathy.

So either it's old and unimportant, or they're a stagnating old company. And considering how well switch + breath of the wild sales were, I'm pretty sure NES games make up a pretty small portion of their revenue.
Fuck Patreon and everything it stands for on principle. Any entity that would willingly do business with Amanda Palmer is fucking suspect. No artist begs on the street because they have to if they can go home and get fucked by a millionaire spouse. Those of us who actually earn our keep don't appreciate being lumped in with people like her.

So be it.
This type of nonsense isn't necessarily evil on its face. It's a theatric response to the lazy and hysterical approach that the press and other spectators take with any event.

Communications like this are signals to professionals who speak the jargon. If you know wtf you are talking about, it's pretty easy to parse the nonsense and figure out what is actually going on.

If you're in the know about a topic that others aren't, it's easily to spot these things by looking at the editorial decisions. If there's a new smartphone, and in the 2 hour keynote address, there's no mention of battery life improvements... guess what? The battery sucks.
More of it was built pre-automobile. There are nice neighborhoods in LA but you'll find the rest looking much like Silicon Valley.
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This philosophy is the background philosophy of marxism, and was essentially developed within this school. The gist is that that human progress (assumed to exist) is based on a materialist dialectic (action/response/synthesis) -

e.g. a sort of historical predeterminism that humankind is unstoppably destined for socialism once society 'evolved' to a certain level of productive capacity -

This view of progress is what leads to there being a 'right' and 'wrong' side of history, and as best I can tell the phrase it comes directly from marxists, and is rooted in in their philosophical view of society and progress, which doesn't mean one cant use that same sort of philosophy but leading to another in context, necessarily..

just a mention, since it seems like you might not like sounding marxist, not that that would in some cases be inherently a bad thing either.
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I know hardcore retro gamers consider "on hardware" and "on emulator" to be separate categories. I remember getting super mario world to memory jump to the credits on actual hardware was a big thing.

Where does Analogue NT fit in there? That's not ORIGINAL hardware. It could technically have different quirks that means minor differences could play out. That puts it more in the emulator category right?
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What a great company, always feel like they have good products, good sales, and helpful employees. Never regretted buying something from REI.
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Having worked there, HARC is explicitly modeled after PARC (it's even there in the name) e.g. give a few visionaries a relatively small amount of funding and let them go. Even if nothing interesting happens your investment wasn't very large, but if anything interesting does come out of it then it might be as big as the personal computer and networking (so the theory goes).
I have found that working with Pivotal's form of Agile Programming with pairing has been incredibly helpful in bringing me out of my shell.

This might sound surprising considering it is considered a very social atmosphere
But said maintenance is relatively recent (~100 years?) compared to their age.
My dogs are barkin just thinking about it.
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> Further, if the 'natural trend' of economics is towards commoditization of products, why then are we abandoning those things which facillitated decentralization in order to support another entities profit motives?

your point fails to address this point; similarly 'better' has varying metrics.
I'm perplexed that to this day there still aren't physical whiteboards with a screen underneath where you can write on them and see others writing. This, along with seeing the face of whoever is talking would be basically as good as being in person.
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amiibo's are a lame money grab by nintendo. I see zero problem with using an NFC hack to get around nintendo locking access to features already in the software you bought from them.