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I'll drop in the customary link to hammerspoon: http://www.hammerspoon.org

It has a couple libraries for window management. One is plug and play, the other is lower level. Here is my config for setting up a 2x2 grid: https://github.com/andrewhampton/dotfiles/blob/master/hammer...
Yes, with reader macros. So far that you can have C[0], as you know it.

[0] http://pkgs.racket-lang.org/package/c
I think we're seeing the end days of diesel for passenger cars, at least in developed nations with strict emissions controls. Hopefully electric will take over. Unfortunately, no one's quite solved the trucking problem yet.
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I am pretty sure the internet exist before Twitter and Blogger.

And i am sure, that people were able to exchange information and definitly more anonymous as today with twitter and everything else.
But what is an API? Is it just a set of functions? Even then, it is already a language, with its own vocabulary. Or, is it a set of classes, interfaces, etc.? Then, even more so. And so on. Limitations and particulars of the syntax of a host language do not matter as much as you may think. Also, if you look close enough, you will realize that most of the languages already are, in fact, combinations of various built-in sublanguages, each having its own "subsyntax". What matters is the ease with which the host allows to create a new sublanguage that suits a particular purpose.
Add discovery, error handling, system resource allocation(dma, memory, interrupts, pins, clocks and timers).
I used C... But just linked to Guile's library.

My professor was unimpressed.
Not sure I understand this logic. Certainly everyone is not cheating emissions regulations. Some vanishingly tiny proportion of humanity (0.0001% of people or less) are responsible for cheating emissions regulations, whereas all 100% of us have to breathe in the resultant harmful pollution.

You're trying to compare this to jaywalking or something, but it isn't. Laws are passed by and for the benefit of all of humanity, so you must look at the entire group of all people. You can't just narrow it down to automobile manufacturers and say that if they all do it it's right, because there is more to society than automobile manufacturers!
I've got no problem with intellectual elites. Too bad that most Medium writers aren't such people, despite whatever they may believe about themselves.
> So the study really tells us about very 'low volume' providers compared to slightly higher volume providers

I don't think 'slightly higher' is accurate. The report says, "We classified physicians into thirds of patient volume: low (estimated number of total admissions <90 per year), medium (91-200 admissions), and high (>201 admissions)". So you have two-thirds of doctors whose median volume is 90 per year, and one third of doctors whose median volume is well above 201 per year. That seems to be a significant difference.

> That in turn suggests the effect was pretty small.

For two-thirds of doctors the effect is: "adjusted 30 day mortality rates were 10.8% for physicians aged <40 (95% confidence interval 10.7% to 10.9%)...and 12.1% for physicians aged ≥60 (11.6% to 12.5%)". I'd say that's a significant effect - certainly something that should be included in the title.
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Its speed and range specs are so poor that it is joke of a jet. It performs worse than many turboprops. Can totally see no point in owning this.

There are no 'real' jets below Embraer Phenom 100 $4M price tag, sorry. Cessna Mustang at $3.3M but it doesn't have 'real' toilet. Or Eclipse 550 at $3M but it has none at all.

There are aftermarket conversions of old Cessna Citations like Sierra, they start from $1M used or $2M new and provide a killer value compared to any of these, with 3000-4000km range, full size toilet and much bigger/comfier cabins.
It's pretty simple: engineers are professionals. Professionals make mistakes, but are most effective when allowed to own up to them without consequences and learn from them.

In a good software team, a single developer's "big mistake" gets fixed by the whole team. I guarantee nobody on that entire team will make that same mistake; nor will they hold anything against the offending developer unless there's a pattern.

But in short, empowerment is the most effective leadership style in this environment. It's not appropriate for all employees (specifically newer folks who need a bit more hand-holding at first) but for professional workers like engineers, it's really the only way to go -- especially if you have senior technical employees who have decades more experience than their manager.
I have no problem with the quality of used books, when they are what they say they are. I buy anything old or unusual on AbeBooks for the most part, which apparently is part? owned by Amazon. There are some POD results, but they seem to be mostly correctly labeled and to not flood the marketplace nearly as much. I own a lot of books that were printed in the 1800s but still in great shape.

This phenomenon is definitely most prominent in the market we're talking about (though I've also seen it with much newer books), so to take an example, consider Carlyle's History of Frederick the Great.

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Da...

The first print copy in my search results is titled "History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia - Frederick The Great-Complete Table of Contents: 22 Volumes". This is literally a print-on-demand copy of the table of contents. The first reviewer also notes that it's "hard to read." It also costs $10. The next print edition is also a POD of the table of contents. The next is a print edition of the "first volume" (what the first volume actually consists of is not mentioned; the work was published in different editions with different volume counts) by Forgotten Books, which is a relatively OK POD publisher. (I would buy it if truly desperate, but not normally.)

Continuing to go through this search, I can't confidently find a single good copy of any volume. I think maybe the "Elibron Classics" copy of Volume X is good. Some of the POD are better than others. Some of them are clear scams - for example, the "Works of Thomas Carlyle" for $14.40 that claims to be his complete works...in 336 pages. (Carlyle's actual complete works would fill quite a bit more space.) I think the $1500 one on page 2 might be good, but there's no picture.

It's not that good, cheap copies of the book don't exist. I recently bought a full set of an 1900 edition for $80, which was still higher than I liked, but finding full used sets can be difficult. Here's tons of copies of "real" volumes:
https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=Carlyle&so...

This is an especially egregious example, since I don't think the book has been reputably printed since 1969 and it's in the public domain; for most books the bad stuff is merely interleaved, instead of being almost all you can find.
I'm sick of people deciding that the problem with the internet is other people.

The internet isn't "broken." The internet is the only mass communication and media paradigm which doesn't have to present a facade for the sake of commercial interests, but an honest, unfiltered glimpse at the zeitgeist. It's a mirror, an honest mirror. If we don't like what we see, it's because we had a naive understanding of what we are.
Live in the UK, we get taught that sort of stuff in high school. Every term we'd have one morning for PSHE (personal, social, health and economic education) where we'd learn things like how to fill in taxes, how to create a CV and also some more varied ones like how to play poker.

Although occasionally they were hit and miss (pornography is as bad as cocaine was a memorable one), I really valued them as useful life skills. The Wikipedia article gives an excellent definition [0]:

> Personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education has in various forms been part of the National Curriculum for schools in UK since 2000 ... PSHE education is defined by the schools inspectorate Ofsted as a planned programme to help children and young people develop fully as individuals and as members of families and social and economic communities. Its goal is to equip young people with the knowledge, understanding, attitudes and practical skills to live healthily, safely, productively and responsibly.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal,_Social_and_Health_Ed...
No coffee. 2 cups of tea per day. No more caffeine than that, and none after lunch, or I won't be able sleep easily or soundly. Caffeine crashes and the exhaustion from caffeine-related sleep deprivation are both so much worse than just not consuming caffeine at all. It's not worth it.

Alcohol: up to two beers at a date, happy hour, or other event. Three if it lasts more than 4 hours. A glass of wine if eating dinner with someone else. Probably averages 2-3 nights per week with any alcohol consumption. No negative effect on social life (though I do enjoy social events more when self-medicating for social anxiety with those beers). More than one drink does affect my sleep that night and energy levels for a couple days, but I haven't been hung over in a decade except for after that one wedding...
Oh, United States military operations in Africa? I've heard of that one. Interesting article though.

What bothers me is that there is a ,largely, simple solution here: stop global warming and build educational, medical, and governmental structures to support the people in Africa. We need to bring them along with us in our prosperity, and, find a way for them to enjoy stable government. I know that part of the stable government solution involves taking down dictators and other military action, but this has to also include education, food, medicine, and teaching people how to build things.
>what is so complicated about writing device drivers, whose sole purpose typically is to transport data from input to output, and vice versa

I don't think it's the device driver part that makes it complicated. It's implementing something that is a collection of interdependent state machines in an asynchronous fashion, and doing that in a way that performs well and is reliable and safe.

In their specific example of a USB driver, here's what's in the paper:

"It receives a large number of un-coordinated events sent from different sources such as OS, hardware and other drivers, in tricky situations when the system is suspending or powering down. It can receive unexpected events from disabled or stopped devices, noncompliant hardware and buggy drivers. The hub driver can fail requests from incorrect hardware or buggy function drivers. However,it is important that the USB hub itself handles all events and does not crash or hang itself."

But it doesn't have to be a device driver. They give the example of elevator control in the paper as another collection of state machines that interact.

>shouldn't drivers be sandboxed to prevent stability problems

That would be a microkernel, which has it's own set of problems. There are ways to implement user mode drivers for Windows, Linux, etc, but they are currently limited in functionality and performance.
Thanks for sharing, this is really insightful.
That is a false metric. Different for me, different for you - assuming we come from different countries.
To replace something you have to offer something better, and often, there's a ton of value there:

- Google: Actually there's a lot to improve on Google, and a ton of value there. Just think that instead of what Google gives on medical info, you'll be refereed to an AI that will ask you questions, and give you top quality information like a medical expert would(or better - more time, better quality content, etc...). Or the million ways better search could help engineers/scientists/lawyers/etc...

Actually i would like to see something like a subscription marketplace for quality search engines(where your query is refered to the most suitable search engine and profits are shared fairly). Would be interesting.

- Replace universities: Just solve the affordability problem. That would be huge enough.

- Ongoing diagnosis - If it works well, and affordable enough, could create plenty of value. But that's a big if.

But the rest, sure they seem mostly about money.
> I didn't understand that our tax brackets in the US are marginal (i.e. we don't pay 35% of our entire income if we are in that bracket), until a quarter way into my PhD program.

Is this common? How do we educate people about this? How can we have a serious conversation on tax reform when people don't know what system we have now? Personally, I want an end to most deductions and credits (but honestly because there are so many that I'm not using and never will use). However, if wager that the only people who know about them are the people who use them.

For example, the Masters exemption for Airbnb hosts makes no sense.
Personally I had much more problems with mono 1 year ago then .NET core today.

Also, I run multiple website with databases, gb of record processing in queues etc. Also I'm building CI runner on .NET core and so far I've got 0 problems. so I would not call it "hello world".

I have 99 problems but .NET Core ain't one.
More like society is broken.
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Uber employee here. No, absolutely not. We would not do this, and large swaths of the company, like myself, would quit if this were the case.
you seem to be selectively glossing over one: "replace universities", the social impact of which would be unfathomable, but otherwise you're absolutely right.

"Ambition" is the wrong word here.
Logo?

Don't know what packages are available to run it on modern OSes, but LogoWriter was a great intro to programming in 3rd grade...
I think that more than three data points are needed before screaming discrimination.
Mono cold start up time are faster that Roselyn. Pretty useful for command line applications.
The market cap is high because of speculation. Whether Tesla can turn the high expectations into reality remains to be seen.

GM produces very high quality EVs and PHEVs that are available right now at a reasonable price. They are just being cautious about producing them in volume. Same with LG Chem and battery supplies (the two likely tied together) That could change in a few quarters if they sense the time is right.
They working on a Unreal Engine implementation too. I really can't wait for that. It sounds like they in the final stages however, it has been there for a few months.
Yes, at KU in 1994 it was a little over $100/credit*Hr. Tutituon was free if you were a TA. I had an RA and TA, so I got paid to go to grad school.

Now I have two kids in elementary school, and I'm socking away $2k/month for college savings, wondering if that will be enough. I figure $80k/kid.
Another one is called slate: https://github.com/jigish/slate

Very flexible, my favorite feature is that configs can be written in JS, here's mine: https://gist.github.com/tnajdek/48ea2a2ccac365b91f29
Nope. Not at all.
I don't know if this is only new for books or new in the US or if I somehow hit a trial of this feature, but I've had this buying a music CD from Amazon UK. I hit the usual default "Buy" button in the buy box and the CD was shipped from a third-party seller in another country.

Kind of annoying as it was a Father's Day gift (so the order must have been about a year ago) and the unexpected international shipping meant it didn't arrive until after the day itself. I'm pretty sure there'd been no indication of this on the sale page.
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And yet, the evidence is there.

Will this be reported and investigated within Uber?
They could also knock it off with the tribalism - there's what, 100000000 different tribes?[0] They'd go back to killing each other anyway.

EDIT: read that link and then explain how that is not a problem instead of downvoting:

"The ethnic groups of Africa number in the thousands,"

Wake up boys - it's all the same meat and bones.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_of_Afric...
How confident are you that you know everything that everyone at Uber is working on?

It is understandable for this to happen if there's any kind of machine learning deciding prices, it doesn't have to be designed discrimination to exist in this form.
The graph visualization towards the end of the video in MS VS is amazing. I can see this being really useful for my robotics projects. I'll have to figure out how to get started. I was learning Erlang, and looked briefly at Pony, but the syntax and the demo appeals to me.
> useless and worthless ripple coins

https://ripple.com/files/xrp_cost_model_paper.pdf
I think you mean that they will not necessarily find optimal solutions, at least when the problem size is large. I understand that. What I don't understand is how to verify that they're giving me anything better than local search. I also don't have the background to know what settings to use (initial temperature in the SA case or the similar setting for Tabu search) nor which heuristic better suits my problem.
What does "stop global warming" have to do with all the other Africa-specific solutions you've outlined? And I don't think any of the solutions are simple, and the resources to accomplish things like education, food, hospitals would most likely have to come from outside of Africa, where most otherwise "rich" countries are struggling with their own unemployment and immigration issues
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I am and I will always be a foreigner (2016)
No toilet? Pass.
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Clickbait title could be fixed..

Edit: You fixed it, hurrah!
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I saw the webassembly can speed up node.js. However, what if we compare node.js(using webassembly) and golang and which one will faster?
I've never actually seen it, but I expect the same thing for most aftermarket things that are frowned on- fix it tickets & fines.
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I can highly recommend kvm[1] for those of you who are interested in tiling window managers for macOS. Another pearl is Amethyst[2]. I've used both of them (and others such as xnomad) extensively for the past 5 years or so and must say that I'm very pleased.

[1] https://koekeishiya.github.io/kwm/

[2] https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst
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Ah, the infamous crotch pot slow cooker.
Slack replaced Skype chats mostly for me and it did also reduce email.

It was really important for us, because important decisions were being agreed in the midst of a Skype chat, which was only in your history on one machine and not easily searchable.

We also had Google Hangout chats/conversations which are searchable. However this caused further confusion about having to search via email/Skype/Hangouts to find out what was said. Also the conversation from one Hangout was separated from the other - where as we could replace that with one slack channel from all the Hangouts that we had.

Skype for Business now does something similar in that it also keeps you chat history in Outlook.

However I really like the clean separation of emails vs Slack chats. Slack is completely independent of my email so I'm not dependent on Gmail or Outlook.

For me it means that email becomes reduced but I regard it as a channel that is reserved for more important communication, i.e. I'll email something if I want it to be on record as having been written. All the chat fluff gets dumped in Slack.
I agree. In particular, the NYT and other large media organizations seem to talk as though the internet became abruptly disharmonious during the election. It wouldn't be an NYT article of it didn't have "Trump supporters are evil" undertones. Our country isn't going to get better if we are constantly demonizing those with whom we disagree.
As a former MacRumors regular, I find it interesting to see that the even the Mac fans there are not in favor of Apple's decision, with a notable exception being a user who mentioned that without the app store, the apps would be nothing.

WeChat is huge in China. It's used for everything. It's bigger than Apple's or Google's app stores. I expect (and hope for) Apple to lose this battle.
Ethereum has this planned for lamport signatures in Serenity.

https://blog.ethereum.org/2015/12/24/understanding-serenity-...

There is also a new project called the Quantum Resistant Ledger.
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Yes, BlueTEC is just Mercedes' name for the DEF system that treats the exhaust. There's nothing special about the engine itself, the exhaust is just treated.

BlueTEC is just a marketing term like SSRS ( airbag ).
Most Africans are subsistence farmers, when climate change causes their crops to stop producing, they can't make money, and can't eat. Africa has been pretty hard hit by the changes in the climate caused by green house gas emissions.

And I disagree with you. The solutions themselves are trivial. What's difficult is, as you said, getting the "rich" countries to support it. But these immigration issues don't exist in a vacuum. Why do you think Africans are fleeing Africa? What do you do if all you have is a farm and it dries up? Do you just sit there and die? Do you try to travel to Europe?

I'm very bearish on immigration. I think immigration policies in both the United States and Europe have been so negligent that they might be considered criminal, but I don't think it gets any better or easier if we leave people in Africa to starve or die from war while we keep pumping the atmosphere with CO2.

My point is that it's in our best long-term interest to create stable societies in Africa.
Bloomberg article says Uber would like to price based on how much you are willing to pay instead of using some static factors like length and time of day.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-19/uber-s-fu...

This is what every smart business likes to do. Charge more from those who are willing to pay, but also keep more price sensitive customers. Traditional way of doing this is to create multiple versions of the essentially same product and price them differently.
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffin_corner_(aerodynamics)
Exactly. It’s so frustrating that with some topics there is almost no difference between accusation and conviction.
Don't forget infrastructure which on its own has transformative potential. China seems to be making the running on that though: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals...
Didn't a recent article describe Uber's extensive internal firewalls to prevent employees knowing what's going on?

Also, if you or other Uber employees would quit over this behavior, why haven't you already quit? This is arguably less egregious than many of the reported abuses of employees.
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I also can't think of any startup in the 5 years since that has really taken off by pursuing one of these ideas. (Unless you stretch the definitions enough to consider Snapchat a replacement for email.)