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> I dunno, maybe I just hung out with the wrong crowd?

You and me both. I remember going out "in town" drinking and watching live bands from the age of 14, fake ID in hand. Pretty much all of my friends had them. Good times.
More caffeine!

Jokes aside (or was it a joke at all?), you need a goal. Implementing a good feature and improving the software, reaching a position, earn money for a greater good, etc. Something that injects passion into your daily life.
(A little off-topic but...)

In the last 5 years or such, that lax attitude towards IDs has changed.

Police departments in large cities, are asking bar owners to use the ID "verification" machines to check IDs at the door. And in some cases, that ask is making its way into the state's alcohol control departments' policies.

> http://www.idscanner.com/legal/new-york-id-scanner-law-affir...

I put verification in quotes, because while these machines verify the data on your ID, what they actually do is record the magstripe data for later downloading.

That data can then be downloaded by for CRM purposes, or likely by your PD after a crime, to gain a list of potential suspects and/or witnesses.
Indeed. Here's a basic analysis I did on bricks.SE of price per pound of bricks in retail sets if that's more helpful than price per piece:

https://bricks.stackexchange.com/a/8216/708
The "4G LTE signal booster".[1]

T-Mobile also has the "4G LTE CellSpot", which needs an Internet connection like the Sprint AIRAVE.

T-Mobile has better device names. "Magic Box" tells you nothing. Does it make popcorn, or what?

[1] https://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-14947
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Putting your Go webserver behind nginx will fix, by my count, only one of those, compression. Maybe 10% of a point for faking up HEAD support, but nginx converting a GET into a HEAD by simply dropping the body isn't very compelling. Putting your webserver behind nginx just to do it isn't very compelling. To get a win you really need to be doing something in nginx beyond merely just proxying.

That's not really a Go-specific complaint, that's a complaint about a loooot of implementations of web stuff.

Edit: Compression is less important than it sounds, too; for security reasons, you shouldn't compress dynamic content going over HTTPS, so nginx doing the compression only helps for HTTP, and it's only a handful of lines of code to implement it in your Go layer too so it's not a huge win. If nginx did fix a lot of those problems without having to think about it, it would be helpful, but it doesn't.
Interesting, I pitched VR training as part of a hackathon at [my very large employer] who offers platforms for employee training and onboarding. One of the studies I cited during my presentation was on VR surgical training [0], showing that it decreased surgeon error. I lost to a multiuser wiki document editor (think Google Docs, but less exciting). Because that's a huge market for a multi billion dollar company. No, I'm not bitter... sigh

Another was how Siemens was able to reduce training times for oil rigs by significant periods [1] using VR tech.

> "Architecture is another field that is seeing rapid adoption of VR"

My architect is going to bring over a SketchUp model of the work he has planned on our house and I'll be loading it up with some software for the Vive [2]. He doesn't usually do that final step, but he's very interested in trying it out.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1422600/

[1] https://www.siemens.com/innovation/en/home/pictures-of-the-f...

[2] https://www.kubity.com/
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Toyota, based on how much they continue to invest in the Mirai, looks like they are almost permanently stuck inside the Hydrogen Fuel Cell rabbit hole and it does make you wonder if they dig themselves out.

(To be fair, it's amazing that GM managed to dig out of that rabbit hole, as that was most of their "lost 90s" in R&D, but maybe not surprising it took near bankruptcy to do that.)
Appreciate the comment. Here's my thoughts:

1. I think if you looked at the time and money spent in mobile headsets vs heavyweight systems it would tell a different story than sales figures. Better to make a few people love you then lots of people just sorta like you, and all that YC jazz.

2. I'm extremely susceptible to motion sickness and I've been trying most of the latest content so I think I'm a good canary to see if VR actually makes you sick anymore. I do think there are some perception problems that are lingering around longer than I thought they would, and this is a consumer awareness problem that as you say, will take some time to solve. Luckily I think its largely a moot point because everybody that tries good content realizes that it doesn't always make you sick and that they need to have one as soon as they can afford it.

3. I bet every future Oculus Rift and Vive generation will be lighter than they are today. Making a bet that a piece of consumer technology will get heavier and larger as time increases is generally an ill-advised move.
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Looks great! I like the branding. Good luck.
Oh great, like I want my feed curated by someone from the other side of the world with radically different sensibilities. What could possibly go wrong?
I left that out because VR also requires an expensive computer -- expensive at least compared to what most people have. Rift, for instance, requires not just a discrete GPU but a pretty serious one (GTX 970/1060 level), in a market where only about a third of PCs sold at retail in 2016 had a discrete GPU at all (see http://www.anandtech.com/show/10864/discrete-desktop-gpu-mar...).

So, if by "VR" you mean Vive/Rift-level VR, very few people will have a computer already lying around the house that can cut the mustard, even if they bought that computer relatively recently.
There is no right invented from "thin air". The money was taken premised on a criminal conviction. The conviction was reversed on review, which means it was not a valid conviction (this isn't a pardon or other act negating the effect of a valid conviction, it's a legal act determining the validity of the conviction.)

The premise which justified taking the property was invalid, thus the state had no legal basis to deprive the victim of property.

Now, if this was a question of the personal liability of agents of the state in taking the money, the fact that they had a reasonable good faith belief that they acted based on a a valid legal premise would probably be a valid point, if governmental immunity didn't make it moot in the first place. But this isn't about that.
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At that point you're talking about identity theft which is a whole different ballgame...
I was comparing to a typical SV tech company benefits package. I'm pretty sure your central european benefits package isn't standard for the rest of the country either.

Sick leave is usually just taking a day off and in practice nobody really cares. If your really sick then it gets covered by your disability insurance, which is pretty close to that %XX of your wage coverage.

What is your income level there?
This comment sounds exactly like something a stereotypical cigar smoker would say.
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Speaking from personal experience I think the medical profession is ripe for disruption and it does look like increasing automation is inevitable - surely anything we can do to disrupt the god complex and compassion fatigue that is rife in the medical profession must in the end be good for patients.
I'm afraid I don't follow this trenchant rejoinder.
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A little more of an educated take from a couple weeks ago:

http://www.scotusblog.com/2017/04/opinion-analysis-states-ca...
Wow. That is pretty impressive. Although as far as the changes you needed to make are considered, my understanding from a brief skim of the page was that `__assumeDataProperty` would be sufficient for supporting use of `window`.
That it's happening, that we're causing it, and that if we don't change something, we are fucked.

The only disagreements are on extent to which we will be fucked - will we see hundreds of millions of climate refugees, or billions.
Acupuncture: The right direction or a stab in the dark?
Vision 'insurance' doesn't offer much other than an eye exam and some glasses, so it has little value. You'd be using your medical insurance otherwise. They have dental coverage.
What is a multivitamin other than a bunch of single nutrients in one package.

We know that B12 needs to be supplemented in people who are deficient, and that medicos sometimes give B12 injections.

We know that pregnant women who take folate supplements have babies with fewer neural-tube defects (spina bifid etc).

We know that we need to put some B vitamins back in the flower after it's milled otherwise the psychiatric wards fill up.

We know that people who ingest less than the recommended daily intake of Chromium (less than 50mcg per day) have more blood sugar disregulation[1].

So why not put these things together in one package, where and when it makes sense to do so.

I'll admit that some multivitamins are badly formulated, and I actively discourage people from taking certain forms of nutrients. Eg. why does any manufacturer put iron oxide or magnesium oxide in their supplements? These things are poorly absorbed and have known negative side effects.

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9380836
Yikes. I'll stay away then; thanks. I think the biggest issue is that they mess around with good things (like the Play Music UI as you noted) too often and end up sticking with it seemingly out of pride before relenting. The Android YouTube app was also refreshed recently and it looks awful now.
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For the demographic FB cares about, yes they lean left (which is what I am assuming you are getting at, and I agree with you that most of the time it's safe to just do left leaning PR). But Target openly supported bathroom access rights (left leaning) and have been met with a huge backlash from many right leaning markets which has materially impacted their bottom line with defections to Walmart and ecommerce.

It's not automatic who you need to PR for.
Perhaps a little off-topic, but can anyone share their experience with using Kotlin to build a non-trivial web app and what their stack was?
It's a communication system used by billions, with a ratio of one moderator to hundreds of thousands.

Factory worker or a farmer would never produce anything for so many people.
How do you get a McLaren from a failed job-interview at netscape? You need money to be able to affort failure..
Not worse advice than buying index funds which is strongly correlated to the globally connected over-leveraged bond market.

I'm not against diversification, but cryotocurrencies are a good non-correlating asset class
Sure, it's clearly sort of the same thing, but it's not in fact a binary search (if only because few DBs will have a tree with a branching factor of 2), and this is assuming your index is in fact a tree and not a hash index (do you really want to specify what kind of index it is, each time you use it? for that matter do you really want to prevent usage of an index just because you or one of your colleagues wasn't aware of it's existence)
From the article: "Note that most of these ICO-funded projects have not publicly launched yet." They probably took the money and ran.

The "DAO" crowd never delivered their Internet-enabled door lock, after two years of hype. (If you want an Internet-enabled door lock, most of the big lock manufacturers offer one.)
Bikes are banned in federal wilderness areas, not all Federal lands.
Well, doesn't this seem like a lot of words to get across the idea that a journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step?
At least in my case VR simulator sickness was nascent prioproception.

Fast paced and hectic movements performed in VR would make someone sick if performed in real life.

Back in the day, playing FPSs with shutter glasses, I realised the motion sensations were tied to the motion. Then the sensations became a feature not a bug.

Once I understood the feelings they stopped making me nauseous. VR-prioproception improved my FPS performance. Feeling orientation and velocity really helps.

And immersion goes off chart.

Hard to know what way one is pointing in space, sometimes there are scant motion cues.

But in VR with prioproception When your stomach jumps into your mouth, pulling insane high-G maneuvers as bolts of laser fire crackle past your ship. With prioproception you sense it, becoming as Tudyk said "a leaf on the wind". Fully Embodied. No mind, no controls, you just are.

My vision for VR is a web browser, informed by Gibson's original vision of cyberspace, XEROX Park's 3D information sorting and VRML97 with Unreal style portals as hyperlinks.

IMHO The VR in Snowcrash was mundane. Predating the net, Gibson saw further, to a paradigm shift coming from a new knowledge tool.

Gibson's later 'locative art' idea is a nice twist on Augmented Reality - you have to go somewhere to see the virtual art overlayed on that place - it is site specific.
> court-side sporting events

I still want to stand on the 50 yard line during a live game, or position myself wherever the action is, with fully realized 3D models of the players.
Does Standard Bank own a stake in Root, or do they just supply infrastructure/services?

Can this interact with FNB or ABSA accounts? Is it international? In short, what are the limits?

Also, I just want to say this is really cool. I've wanted something like this for ages.
Your premise is overbroad. Some kinds of social media use patterns can certainly have such a result. For others it's a great help. I had catastrophic problems with self image and depression long before there was such a thing as the public internet and my online social networks are absolutely essential to my health and wellbeing.
You might like Merchants of Doubt which goes deep into false equivalency in media coverage.
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If this turns out to be true, this does not bold well for a bright UBer future. I feel like I only hear bad things about them lately.

Anyone have any speculation as to what might happen to Uber if this turns out to be true?
> Or rather it'll happen again and again until the casino is turned into a viable and competitive economy.

By what mechanism? Each round of cuts drives up unemployment and poverty, and cutting expenses hasn't solved the deficit because trashing the economy has destroyed tax revenues.

The first few rounds were rationalization, but they were too little too late. At this point the deep restructuring that's still needed is unapproachable - it's too slow and too unpopular, and the economy is already too weak. The recent cuts haven't been sensible and structural, they've been deadline-beating short-term moves to unlock a new tranche.

Germany gains from this, certainly, but by making an example of Greece. It deters other high-debt Euro nations from getting into the same state, but it's not moving Greece closer to functionality.
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And probably doesn't keep his equipment in his dorm room in plain sight.
Obviously it will be in the future, which deters any small scale seed investment...
To me, bicycles have all the downsides of a motorcycle except for cost and reliance on fossil fuels. Motorcycles are in my opinion safer in a city setting IF you ride with self control and vigilance (motorcyclists seem to self-select for unnecessarily-risk-taking types of people, but you don't need to be among them), due to the convention of wearing more protection Most bicyclists wear just a half helmet, if that. A loud exhaust can also make you more noticeable to cars, I'm not going to say loud pipes save lives but in close proximity an exhaust can be the difference between a car noticing you and not. Not to mention you get to wherever you're going much faster since you can ride at car speeds and still lane split.
Oh god, there is some terrible advice in that article.

1. Don’t wrap errors, log.

Errors have two purposes - control flow for your application, and information for the developer and operator. If you are already logging the flow of your program, there is no need to wrap an error and create a call stack - you already have the call stack. If you cannot follow the control flow from your logs, you need to improve your logging, because you will also need to debug production problems that do not produce a literal error object.

And if you want more causality than you can get out of your logging, consider upgrading from logging to tracing. I contribute to http://opentracing.io so naturally that’s the tracing API I would suggest you look at.

2. Do not do anything with panics except recover from them or exit.

If you have a panic that you cannot recover from (and in general, that should be all of them), then it means your application is in a unknowable state. While Go is not as unsafe as C, any and all state in your program could be bad, and it is completely unclear what is still working and what is not. Nothing you do at this point is safe. For the love of god, do not hang your application and prevent it from exiting by trying to send a Slack message. Your goal should be to restart your program from a fresh clean state as quickly as possible, not to tie it up on the way out. Let the program exit and have an external monitoring program, whose state is NOT corrupted because its in a separate process, do all of the triage and reporting.
I might have believed this until a few months ago, when I started doing intermittent fasting, but not anymore. I was completely unprepared for how my body reacted to fasting. I crave less than I did before. Almost immediately, my cravings for sugary things (which has been a lifelong battle for me, even though I'm not overweight), went to zero.

The fasting method I'm employing: 3 24-hr fasts a week (from dinner to dinner Sun, Tue and Thu, so I skip breakfast and lunch M/W/F).
Not a comment about the tool, which looks cool and well done.

It's sad that there are developers and projects who write the type of code that causes these sorts of performance trade offs. I stopped writing this kind of fancy code a long time ago when I realized it wasn't worth it. You're just shooting yourself in the foot in the long run.

I think static analysis performance optimization tools are great but a certain part of me thinks it just raises the waterline for more shitty code and awful heavy frameworks that sacrifice the user experience for the developer experience.

"Just run it through the optimizer" so we don't actually have to think about what a good design looks like...
And they ARE making sure the debt is going to be repaid.
Had a look at the article. Not sure about the size, but if it is small, e.g. a few cm in length, I think it is what is called tundli or tendli. Common vegetable in India. Tasty too.
For those interested in how NOT to get into VR, I present: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OHlaVNOKGM
Currently two miles from work with dirt-cheap rent while I build up my nest egg. Late twenties, single and enjoying the convenient nightlife. I'll gladly move when it's time to though (better school systems and all those family-life-community benefits).
Being severely chromatically challenged myself, I instantly fell in love with this app - a much better execution than the apps I've tried in the past.

I'd upvote you twice if I could.
I would ask: who wrote the DAO code?
Someone (or several people) tested, developed and then deployed the code.
Can you be more specific? For example, I really doubt anyone thinks climate change is not always "happening" or that human activity has exactly zero influence on it.
obligatory xkcd https://xkcd.com/1827/

Not talking specifically about Elon Musk, but if you have enough coin to put in the arcade machine, eventually you will win, and you will be able to say "look, you just have to practice again and again" [and to have the financial mean to have an other "continue" at the entrepreneurship game]
Also, Nissan in Japan and Europe have almost entirely divorced SUV and Truck sales, banishing them to doomed new brands, but Nissan USA doesn't seem to have the guts to do that when they still rely so heavily on those sales for gross margin. Every time I see a Titan ad I wonder if there is a Japanese executive in Nissan cringing.
> That is what a decent and compassionate society does and how it behaves.

Capitalism, especially in the USA, is not an economic system that concerns itself with or encourages a compassionate society. Medicine is one of the most obvious ways that capitalism is literally killing people.
I think it makes some procedural sense. After all, the state was entitled at the time it took the money, and if the state insists, you'd have to sue them to regain that money. It's the same with any other transaction where the assumptions in that transaction were found to have been (non-maliciously) incorrect.

But from a... well, moral perspective (I hate to bring morality into a legal discussion but it is really where I draw my sense of these things), it's wrong because it provides a path for someone who has done no wrong to be harmed without providing a path for them to be restored.
> IANAL either but wouldn't the victim's relief come from a civil trial, not a criminal one?

Many jurisdictions have victim compensation as part of criminal process, which makes some sense as an economy of justice measure, since the burden of proof against the defendant is higher in criminal trial than it would be at a civil trial (so, in principle, the defendant isn't losing any protection) and it prevents the victim from having to go through the whole process of civil litigation.
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I've found the gaming experiences pretty mediocre.

It's $900 + big clunky thing on your head vs $500 for a really nice 4k monitor.

Something like Onward is pretty special for its realism, but its not a better game than Rainbow Six was 20 years ago. There are some other fun games but the novelty wears off quickly. It's like a really expensive ($1300 setup) Wii. The current experiences aren't worth the money.
I've lived in big and small cities and I am a strong proponent of good public transit, however, other than in big cities that have terrible parking and even worse traffic, cars really are more efficient to get around (except if you want to drink, I don't get drunk much anymore so this isn't a big issue). With cars you can easily go multiple places, close or far, you can transport kids, pets, sick and elderly people with minimal effort.

Obviously for many situations in big cities everyone can't just drive a car or you end up with terrible grid lock. Traffic problems now suggest that keeping the old trams around would probably have been better but around the time they got rid of them cars may have been truly more efficient and people lacked the foresight to save the public transit.
I swear one of the things I learned in a parenting class was that young, young children will, if repeatedly offered a wide variety of food, eat in a way that ends up fulfilling their dietary needs over a span of days.
Alabama is a right-to-work state, unions aren't as effective and there's significant action by local politics to suppress labor activism and organization
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"half a day"

I wonder if you could share your burn out experience?