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Right, I tried editing my post a bit more to make it clearer:

Added the adjective "optimizing" to "compiler" in the first sentence (I meant something like LLVM opt, what you get when you -O3 your Makefile -- constant folding, loop unrolling, dead code elimination, compile-time constexpr function evaluation -- your extreme example being running the entire program at compile-time).

Added quotes around JS "compiler" -- what your run-of-the-mill JS developers call "compilers" aren't actually real optimizing compilers, even though the JS world would say otherwise, but I digress. Yours is the first to even come close.

Your approach is subject to all sorts of breakages. You mention the lack of "environments" in your documentation which means Prepack out-of-the-box is completely oblivious to the browser itself -- the DOM, etc. What really is annoying is if Fib(6) gets replaced with 8 (including the whole definition of Fib itself, then I can't pop open my console anymore and type Fib(3) -- nor can I bind a UI control to a textbox that evaluates Fib(text) in the box).

An actual working compiler takes in account the "execution environment" as a whole. You can't Fib(x) Linux into oblivion.
Yep this. In Thomas's world, local government would fast track petty convictions to continue to fleece us. It would incentivize terrible things like you mention.

Not to mention, perverse incentives would instantly appear like cops worried about their pensions and budget planting evidence on people for convictions. Nice car you got there, shame I found cocaine in it. Now it belongs to the state because a plea is better than $50,000 in lawyer fees to fight a corrupt police department you probably can't even beat. Even if you could, spending $50,000 to save a car worth $10,000 doesn't make sense.
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I'm confused. Why do you think Honda and Toyota won't be making electric cars? Why do you think electric cars are always going to have premium pricing?

You are strangely focused on the NOW when we are talking about 2040 ... which is 23 years from now.
Your comment reminds me of a personal experience which seems appropriate to this thread.

I had heard for years about kimchi. All sorts of things along the lines of how it was cabbage buried in the ground and isn't that weird / disgusting? I finally found myself at a Korean restaurant, and they brought out the banchan, and there's some kimchi. I try some. And holy shit, it's just spicy sauerkraut. I have Polish heritage; I grew up eating sauerkraut. This was literally nothing special to me.

I think the lack of reaction was disappointing to my friends. I took them to a Polish restaurant later and introduced them to good sauerkraut.
hold on, let me brew one ;)
I went to university with him in a rather liberal sub-program within the curriculum. You should see all the squirming and uncomfortableness he has created among the professors. Their claim is to teach free thinking and they just love to bring in past students who are successful and/or controversial like authors of books on how gender is just a social construct. But you can bet they haven't asked Cody to come present to the students.
This is called an "audience". You can pretty much create an audience from anything.

You can build up a whole chain of audiences. For example, if you watch a video ad, you can then be targeted. If you, say, click a link as part of that audience, you can find yourself inside an even tighter targeted audience. At that point, you're considered hot. Before you know it, you could be buying a product. At which point, you're in another audience still, tempting you to buy again!

In fact, with this type of targeting, interest and demographic based targeting doesn't even come close. You can, however, target all the people, at each step in your funnel, who "look like" people who wanna buy (have the same interests, age, gender). These get fed back into the top of your targeting funnel and so it goes.

As for the UK GE, I'm not seeing this type of targeting so I think they may be stuck in the "old" interest-based model of FB advertising.
Yeah, but he has a history of dumb contrarian lone dissents that throw some poor citizen under the bus.

Generally when the question "who the heck dissented on that?!?!" is asked, the answer is Thomas.
Averages can be misleading in highly skewed distributions...
I use Betterment. While I agree that for the upside market periods it won't be any better than a Vanguard ETF, but for volatile or downturn periods I was able to save quite a lot on their automated tax loss harvesting feature. Also automatically using slightly different portfolios between regular and Roth accounts to get yet another tax advantage is a nice touch.
But isn't resource-bloat something that poisons any application?

A blender that emitted harmful radiation would be unsuitable for anything too.
I've heard announcements to this effect during takeoff on-route to the US: "Ensure you don't use your devices too much during flight if you can't charge them—they are required to be powered on during entry to the United States".
I have the same pet theory. One of the reasons that I make it a habit to pick up strange vegetables in the super market, and try to incorporate them to my dishes. If you only ever eat, say, the same 5 vegetables, you may be missing out on some trace nutrients which your body might really want.
The market I see it for is monitoring workers and by using this you would be able to get an idea of what people are working on/doing
I was under the impression that V8 and the like are so optimized that this would give marginal gains. Would love to be wrong though. Do you have any performance benchmarks?
The reason trump was successful is because he didn't apologize for being rich. On the other end you have hillary clinton pouring beer terribly and spending hours planning which meal to get a chipotle to appeal to the most voters. People aren't dumb and they see right through that type of stuff.

As for charisma nearly every interview I've seen of him has been painfully awkward and it's pretty hard to learn something like that.

On paper he's a great candidate, but on paper nobody thought Trump would make it past the Iowa primaries and now he's in the white house.
My pleasure @chapium, I hope on it too ;)
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"I'm sure Google does these days, though when I was there PGO wasn't widely used".

Yes it was.
Maybe you didn't know, but it was.

"and Chrome is one of the most intensively optimised apps out there. "
This isn't really true actually.
So if that's your counter-argument, ...

"So I think it's fair to say that most C++ apps built by mere mortal companies probably still don't use it"
No, it isn't :)
Really.
So far you've cited one example of someone being late to the party.

" But I'd be keen to see data showing I'm wrong."
What form do you want it to take?
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Oh, huh, good point re post-tax benefit of expenses, hadn't thought of that.

I'm pretty conservative regarding investment, yes. Been through two massive bubbles+crashes so far :)
Thanks for the questions:

The legal one was looked at by lawyers earlier this year. There were two points to consider:

- copyright infringement via reverse engineering

- "hacking" statutes, e.g. Computer Misuse Act 1990

They concluded that there are no concerns in terms of copyright infringement, we have devised many non-infringing techniques for reverse-engineering and use them wherever possible, not least because they are easier to work with. When it is not possible to use such a technique this is where the exemption kicks in for creating inter-operable systems. FYI "infringement" occurs when transforming a low level language, e.g. machine code, into a high level representation. Computer programs are considered literary works, and their authors enjoy the full protection afforded as such.

The hacking statutes are very broad and technically if you used my laptop to access your own email while I was away in the bathroom you would fall foul of computer hacking laws in the UK. They said action via this angle said is a low risk (despite lawyers being conservative by nature). Teller isn't actually liable anyway, as it does not "cause" the access, the user does. Can a user accessing their own bank account ever be considered unauthorized? Would a bank prosecute their own customers for doing so? Unlikely, given Yodlee has been able to operate without legal challenge for decades now.

In terms of breakage, bank APIs rarely change. Most do not ever. The most aggressively defensive and technically competent bank IMO is Barclays and it takes them months to ship something to mess with me. They also can't just simply break something there is a window where both versions are supported where they advise users to upgrade before forcing the matter some releases down the line.
> Those are the rules for democracy, so he is the legitimately elected president.

Those are the rules for American democracy, which has many flaws, an inherent two party system being one of the major ones.
If I understand correctly (and IANAL), that dissent does not leave room for civil asset forfeiture.
How you invest depends on many factors: e.g. your age, your family status, income, locale, tolerance for risk, and above all your investment goals.

I live in Vancouver, so real estate investment would be crazy for me. Since I don't like to dedicate time and energy to investing money, I'm just going with broad ETFs. More info: http://www.pesfandiar.com/blog/2015/05/01/how-i-invest-my-sa...
I always wonder how many people do those surveys online for legitimate sites that offer to enter you into a drawing for a gift card or some other relatively small prize. It seems like whenever I do click on one the survey is ridiculously extensive and most questions don't even apply to me.
Especially because the poster has their full contact info under their profile.
Wow. I'm a bit surprised this isn't on the front page already.

This is such a cool service.

I've had the pleasure of knowing Peter (and a decent amount of his team) through their work @ Heroku over the years, and have always been a huge fan of their work. I had dinner with Peter and team a couple of weeks ago, and was 100% psyched to learn that manifold was going to be launching soon.

The problem they're trying to solve is that purchasing / managing subscription services for developers is tricky.

If you've ever used a platform like Heroku, it's extremely convenient to manage additional developer services because you can easily provision / upgrade / downgrade / remove them using a consistent interface (billing included). But the problem here is that you're bound to Heroku specifically.

I've often wanted to have a similar place to purchase all my services for apps (and companies) and have them bound to an independent identity: that way I can carry them with me wherever I might need them, and for whatever projects I might have.

The other important part of this here (which is where I hope Manifold will be particularly useful) is helping me (a developer) figure out what services to use.

The problem I have now is that when I work on applications, I'll need to provision Redis. So if I'm on Amazon I might use ElastiCache, or RedisGreen, or some other provider, but being able to sort through them, compare them, see reviews / rankings, etc., is all really important.

Anyhow: I'm really excited! Congrats on the launch!
When I get something from Amazon that's genuinely great, or genuinely terrible, I leave feedback. Otherwise I agree with the article - you've had my money, now stop bothering me!
1.) Usually when I'm not feeling motivated it's because I'm hitting a wall. The pomodoro technique helps me with this a lot personally-- it forces me to take breaks and recharge my creative batteries, but it also equally forces me to sit still and keep attacking that wall during the scheduled study time.

2.) Recently even pomodoro was not helping me. I think I had a project that had poorly written specs, and was also complicated to boot. It was very hard and I struggled a lot for several weeks. I tried writing down a visual map, trying to get a better mental model of it but had trouble grasping it still. I could feel my ability to focus and be motivated starting to go down over the weeks as I got more frustrated with the project not moving forward well. I felt dumb. What worked for me is going home and programming something I cared about instead for a half day on the weekend. I also did some tutorials that I could definitely succeed at. I feel like it rejuvenated my ability to focus and got rid of my frustration, I was finally getting things accomplished again and learning new things, which is a big motivator for me when programming. I like the "achievement" of completing things and I had not been getting that for weeks. I came back to work feeling like less of an impatient idiot and finished the project rather quickly from there.
> and its users throw money away on fees,

Have you seen the transaction fees for Bitcoin lately?
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I always add kimchi to my pizza as a condiment. Amazing.
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AND the lower your expenses, the lower your 25x* expenses number is, so the less you need to save to be financially independent.

* If you are going by the 4% rule http://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/four-percent-rule.asp
My last sentence was half serious, in that I understand, but that it's completely foreign to a Texas native.
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Even in NYC the places with bad pizza outnumber the good.
The legal argument would be as follows:

1. The Defendant was charged with a crime and received his Constitutional due process (fair trial; lawyer; confront witnesses; remain silent; etc...)

2. Defendant was convicted and pursuant to that ordered to pay: court costs, fees and restitution (make the victims whole).

A. This is where it starts to get a little tricky...what if the defendant pays, but the conviction is later overturned?

3. The situation in A is accounted for through the Colorado Revised Statutes, specifically, the Exoneration Act. In short, the Act lays our the procedure for all refunds pursuant to A above.

4. Essentially it is this law/procedure that is being challenged for Constitutionality by the Defendants.

5. The majority of Justice's opined that upon the overturn of the conviction the defendant's are automatically entitled to their refund as a matter of law.

6. (5) above is what Thomas seems to take issue with: 1.) Colorado law doesn't provide for automatic return of funds upon overturning a conviction, in fact the law in question says the opposite, and 2.) The Colorado law doesn't violate due process (this is both an interesting and clever legal argument he lays out, see below)

Thomas' due process argument: Constitutional due process only applies when their is a Governmental deprivation of life, liberty or property. Here the defendant's received due process when their property was originally deprived. At that point moving forward, under the law, the Defendant lost his property rights and there is no State law that restores those property rights upon overturning the underlying conviction. What is really dramatic about Thomas' dissent, is that since the defendant has no property rights, the defendant isn't even entitled to any due process to reclaim the funds. In other words he believes the Colorado Exoneration Act is not only Constitutional but it goes above and beyond any legal requirements whereas the Defendant's don't even have a Constitutional Right to a process to reclaim property they lost rights - basically the Defendant's already have a due process and legally they aren't even entitled to that.
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I'm not sure who your comment is addressed towards, because I didn't say anything about ID programs. If you want to make an argument in favor of privacy, then make an argument in favor of privacy. But that argument has nothing to do with "absolute rights over your body".
I think you're overestimating the number of specialized pieces out there. This is easy to do when you walk down the toy aisle at Walmart and see thirty big box Star Wars models, each with one or two unique pieces. But Lego actually makes so many models that don't use any specialized pieces. When I started looking at their website I was surprised to see that the boxes you see at the toy store seem to be the exception--probably because they sell so much better if they can pull off that iconic look that one or two cover pieces provide. I've been buying the Creator Expert series for a while now (Really cute rowhouse style models) that iirc don't use any uniques.
I get that the whole thing smells like overpolished PR, but personally I think it's a neat idea and more power to him for just getting out there and meeting so many people.
You can smack together something that grabs JSON over HTTP and does something with it really, really fast in Node. Fast to write, that is, not necessarily to execute.

Reading command line arguments and config files is also much faster/easier/saner/just-works than other, otherwise-better-for-the-task languages (to pick on a favorite: Go, at least the last time I looked at it, which was way too long ago)
Oh you're definitely correct, I was just surprised when I learned that fact, and there's a bit of a "No WMDs at all!" echo chamber.
We are fine with Apple (enterprise deployment of custom stuff is a known scenario). I would expect a lot of schools wouldn't have a Chromebook problem[1] given elementary schools are different beasts than BIE schools or colleges. We have some additional software because of agreements related to text books and training videos plus specific contractor provided software for grants.

1) well except for one they might not be aware of https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/11/guide-chromebook-priva...
Conversely.. I wait for a wait for a stock to rise - it's another signal that others have come to the same conclusion, and I'm ok with leaving some money on the table as a payment for that information.
Great looking app. I'm an iOS dev, and I need to implement a similar color picker for picking a color within an image in my app. Any tips or example code you can point me to for how to performantly target a screen pixel and get the hex?.
A) "But mom, all my friends are doing it too" is s pretty bad excuse.

B) I'm having no troubles setting up firefox as my default browser with whatever search engine I want for all apps on android.
> And to be honest, if I were a real lawyer, I would still probably want to "IANAL" disclaim most of these speculative/navel-gazing posts anyway.

For that, I've seen the disclaimer "I am a lawyer, but I am not your lawyer."
yeah man, that's the thing, that leaving the work is the easiest solution. It's like your survival instincts are talking to you, to go in a way where you don't have to fight.

I feel If I leave the job I'll just follow my survival instincts and not solve the real problem.
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What games (rulesets) cannot be broken? Where the spirit of the game cannot be violated by a strict intepretation of the rules.

Tic tac toe? Rock, paper, scissors?

Are you suggesting the law, any law, can ever be made so simple?

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> then i asked them to put their skin in the game and lose their commission if the property were to sell below their recommended lowest sell price"

The propositon as framed, sounds all or nothing. You as the seller ultimately control the acceptable offer price. Relative to 100s of calls, that's a demand indicator of property in your market. Often a Selling Agents value is qualifing true buyers, dealing with all the bozos, moving the process towards a speedy close.

A good question for these guys might be, how would you sell my property faster/better/smarter than I'm doing all on my own?
I watch Big Think regularly. They have short videos with quite a wide variety so speakers and I feel as though I've gotten some pretty good insights from their videos.

https://www.youtube.com/user/bigthink
so i'm in line behind someone paying with one of these cards, and i'm supposed to wait while gary pulls out his phone on the toilet and clicks the button to approve the transaction???

why are you doing this? you're ruining society.
Awesome. Great idea, even better execution. Would you be interested in an Android developer for developing an Android version?
Do you have to be in South Africa for this? Or can I somehow use it in the US?
* Bogleheads investing philosophy -- http://bogleheads.org -- the single best financial forum on the internet (and praised as such by none other than John Bogle)

* Vanguard index ETFs, mostly.

* International investing in proportion to market capitalization -- i.e. the market portfolio. The truly passive choice.

* Buy and hold, low-cost tax-efficient strategy.

As for where my ETFs are actually located: Merrill Edge. They have commission-free trades on all ETFs/equity with a sufficient balance. And the credit card rewards with Bank of America are tough to beat.
How "safe" is it? I'm thinking, for example, of Google's closure compiler and the advanced optimizations, which can break some things.

Or roughly, if it compiles without errors, is it safe to assume it won't introduce new bugs?
Styling is a little like a badly disguised car in Robocop, but growth of electric can only be a good thing - especially here in Europe where stupid diesels are choking us.
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Are you seeing a noticeable improvement in peak performance using prepack or does it mostly help improve initial performance and warm up?
I max out my 401k, and then once I have over $X in my bank account I transfer more into my Vanguard account, buying enough to rebalance based on my asset allocation spreadsheet (US Stock, International Stock, US Bond).

I limit myself to investing a max of 10% in individual stocks.
S&P is too US-scoped. One bad president pick and it will be all gone. It's better to diversify 20-30% worldwide and a little into assets with different source of value like gold, real estate, crypto, oil, whatever. Just S&P is not going to cut it forever. I know central banks are buying it now too, so it may find itself being very political soon.