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"The name 'AND' is just as opaque as 'Hadamard', if taken by itself. It just doesn't appear as such to you because you already have an intuitive grasp on the concept of conjunction."

True, but the difference is that most people able to communicate with a modern language have an intuitive grasp on the concept of conjunction, and can use that intuition to guess what an "AND" or "OR" or "NOT" might mean, as well as more easily remember what "XOR" or "NAND" or "NOR" might do as long as they can remember that "X" stands for "eXclusive" and "N" stands for "Not".

In other words, to even a basic English speaker, the name "AND" shouldn't really be all that opaque. Any basic English speaker should be able to guess what "AND" means.

In contrast, naming such things after dead mathematicians makes their meanings unintuitive and unguessable to anyone who hasn't memorized said mathematicians and their notable discoveries. As one of those people, I'll take "the lemma where you plug that thing into this mapping and then this thing becomes frobnicated" over "Zorn's lemma" any day; the latter may be more concise, but it's also significantly more opaque, leaving me with absolutely zero starting point to guess what this "lemma" does.

In the context of quantum logic gates/operators, I'd propose some alternative names for things currently named after random people (disclaimer: I'm no expert on quantum mathematics, so my names are probably not really accurate depictions of what such gates do, but rather what I currently understand them to do based on what I can glean about them):

- "Hadamard gate" -> "equally-maybe gate" (gate that ensures equal probability - "maybe" - of a qubit's potential states)

- "Pauli-X gate" -> "maybe-not gate" (gate that inverts the probabilities of a qubit's potential states) / "X flip gate" (gate that rotates the qubit's state space along the X axis)

- "Pauli-Y gate" -> "Y flip gate" (gate that rotates the qubit's state space along the Y axis)

- "Pauli-Z gate" -> "Z flip gate" or "phase flip gate" (gate that rotates the qubit's state space along the Z axis)

- "Toffoli gate" -> "and maybe-not gate" (inverts the third qubit if the first two are both in the |1> state)

- "Fredkin gate" -> "maybe swap gate" (swaps the second and third qubits if the first qubit is in the |1> state)

These possible names are arguably much more intuitive than the names currently assigned to these operators/gates, especially once you're familiar with representing qubits as Bloch spheres (which is another thing that needs renamed; maybe "qubit sphere" or "state sphere" or "state space" like I've put it above would be more appropriate?).
You should use homebrew to join the pythonistas club on Mac. Better yet, use https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf/blob/master/README.md to get all the pythons, rubies, nodes, and golangs you want.

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS plans on Python 3-only, but Ubuntu has been shipping Python 3.x since 13.04 and 3.x is the default with 2.x available since 16.04 , so in terms of shipping Python 3 code, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (the last LTS where you can't assume it has a python 3) EOL'd on April 28 2017. Assuming $WORK follows EOL depredations, you should be fine for Ubuntu.
I've heard of environmentalists being murdered while trying to stop loggers from cutting down protected trees. Not sure if that's what they mean.
I immediately thought the developer would post what they are currently working on (or intend to work on), and businesses would encourage more rapid development by funding it.
Open page. Nothing works. Enable their scripts. First slide shows but nothing works - except the link to the pdf version.

Why not give a link to the pdf version in a <noscript> element?
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No. I would not take a second interview from them.
Congrats! Great ratings at App Store, seems promising. Although, you are not exactly on Android already, are you?

We also believe that interactivity is super important

I agree with this premisse and I can't learn through videos. But I am glad with codecademy/freeCodeCamp style (lesson on the left, browse coding on the right). And after the initial steps, following tutorials online to build my own things on a real dev environment.

But I am willing to try another approach that favors interactivity.

We think personalizing content is key

I also agree in theory, but never saw it in practice. I couldn't understand from your landing page how Py solves this either. Would you care to further explain how the content is personalized and what exactly is this game-like?

If you think it's relevant, some context: I am 37 years old, on a career change from marketing to software development. I am learning web development from scratch, studying fulltime since last November. Basically 2 months to complete the first certificate of freeCodeCamp, then, building my own projects following tutorials and documentation. I start next Monday at my first dev job as front end developer. I mostly interested in learning Javascript, maybe dig deeper in CSS and general CS concepts.
I remember very distinctly about 15 years ago there was a site that had a "members only" page that had some reports that I really wanted (names/addresses/emails of the members of the org - I wanted a quick and easy lead list for a product I wanted to sell to them). I could see through a simple view source (remember, no chrome dev tools back then) that it wasn't some server side check of the password (the members knew it, there was no associated username).

They had found some library that would take a password and a desired output and would generate some super crazy javascript looping/shifting/replacement algorithm that would generate the name of the html page that had the desired content. The report was available openly to the internet, but there were no links to it, just through this algorithm.

I spent about 4-5 hours slowly but surely reverse engineering the algorithm so I could figure out what the page name was. There was an immense sense of satisfaction that came with being able to look at those reports.
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You have many hackers already donating their time to work on free software projects, that might be able to do more if they were compensated to do so. $400k is a lot of money to partially compensate people who are already donating much of their time, especially when you consider that you don't have to worry about paying for benefits.
> A common thread among cryptocurrency enthusiasts is that the revolution is coming... except it never does.

You can have a series of encrypted bits on a personal computer with a single unit being worth more than an ounce of gold. That IS revolutionary.
You'd think that you would learn more about playbooks from a sport that actually uses them, like football, right? How do you learn about playbooks from rock climbing?
Do you think Institute for New Economic Thinking, a think thank founded by George Soros, is any less biased?
He'd also need the GIMP devs to cooperate: to provide tangible feature sets with timelines, part time PR for updating and managing the Kickstarter campaign, and an part time CFO for managing the sudden influx and management of $360,000 (minus Kickstarter and the payment processor's share), dev salaries, taxes, and such.

I would be curious if the GIMP dev team could reach usability parity with Photoshop on only that money. It seems a bit on the low side frankly (about a year's time of a good developer and UX designer, plus support staff).
Well, even languages that bend themselves for backwards compatibility do introduce breaking changes, every now and then.
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I tire of the internet comparison. You're drawing a surface-level comparison between the greatest communication and economic innovation in human history and blockchain software, because people were skeptical of both. And? That doesn't prove anything except that people were skeptical of both; nothing in that comparison speaks to the underlying nature of either things being compared. They are not the same.
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Thank you for explaining my very, very little joke.

We might consider the possibility that a suitable woman in the role is significantly less likely to make this very embarrassing class of mis-step. And with billions of dollars on the line... where's the smart money? I suppose that is a sexist sentiment, too. Nuts, I can't win!
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> Imagine if unions were strong and IT were unionized. How would you imagine the progress we've seen in information technology?

Unions would've collectively bargained and agreed not to work for companies that abuse H1-B visa farms. And this whole issue would've been resolved ages ago.
Health insurance is not like other insurance. As best I know, no other insurance has the feature that an identifiable subset of people will need more than they can reasonably pay in the future. If we somehow knew my house was going to fall down in the next ten years, I couldn't feasibly insure it, and there are people who'll need much more healthcare than my house costs.

Arguably that militates against treating it as insurance as opposed to a straight-up single payer system or Singapore
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> it provides the same level of security

No, it absolutely doesn't.

If an attacker breaches a user's mailbox, and then uses a 'forgotten password' process to gain access to another system, the user will know about it - their existing long-lived session would be killed, and the password they remember/have saved will no longer work.

If the attacker simply uses the mailbox access to use & delete "login link" emails, they could make use of this to access the victims account for as long as they have access to the mailbox.
Just from __past__ import print_statement

I really hope someone makes this work. I literally laughed and thought that it was a troll the first time I saw the future print import and that being used as a compelling reason that I should switch to Py3.
Interesting. What is the use case for this versus HTTP basic auth?
>Cars were a solution to a problem that didn't exist when considered a certain way.

What way? Because people absolutely would have jumped at the chance to go from a place to another faster (and more comfortably) and had myriads of reasons to want to do so at any time in history.

>I'm not saying that crypto isn't getting love. But that it isn't getting much love from a very particular place. A place that traditionally has never had a problem embracing a million odd ideas. A place with a culture where 90% failure is expected because that 10% success more than makes up for it.

Well, is it getting much love from ANY other place though, except a small niche of enthusiasts?
Thanks for the comment! So we just launched our Android version today: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.py (it's still in alpha and there are a number of issues we've noticed that working around the clock to resolve ASAP)

RE personalization:
At the end of each chapter, users answer quizzes. We motivate people to review wrong answers through a star system: a user will earn 3 stars if they answer 100% of the assessments correct, otherwise, they have can review to earn more. This allows us to customize the content that users see while also gamifying the experience to incentive people to spend more time on concepts they’re struggling with.
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Affordable for whom? It has become much less affordable for those who are healthy. How do you justify the healthy paying for the unhealthy?

And is it really affordable, even for the unhealthy?
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Surprisingly there's one in here that I'm already starting to work on. That at least confirms to me that I'm not THE sole person who wants this service. Applied. I'm interested to see how this process works.
Also, to clarify a bit on why spatial capabilities weren't part of the MBTiles spec: when rendering maps, you assemble tiles for a given zoom scale in the vertical and horizontal directions, like a checkerboard. The unique tuple defining a particular square on the map is z/x/y — zoom level, horizontal, vertical. So stuffing these into SQLite and uniquely keying across z/x/y there makes for fast retrieval at render time.
This 4chan thread is pretty illustrative of Gimp's UI shortcomings: http://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/60884056
But you do provide courses to people for money, right?
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I think that the curation aspect of it is also a big thing. Think of this as a "loot crate" for but for books.

I think the service should also have _two_ services. One is for great sci-fi fantasy books of all time-- obviously that's going to be cheaper. The more expensive service would be for books that have come out in the last 2 years.

For myself, I often look at the winner & nominees for the Hugo and the Nebula for the last two years:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Award_for_Best_Novel#Winn...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebula_Award_for_Best_Novel#Wi...

Keep in mind that media mail is like, $2.60? If I was making this service, I would want to ship 3 books quarterly, rather than 1 book monthly.

There ought to be economies of scale by buying hundreds of books from a publisher. What do book retailers pay for books anyway? One benefit is that you also won't be returning books, like brick-and-mortar bookstores do.

An additional awesome feature would be if it connected to your GoodReads account and never sent you duplicates.
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Yep, unmanaged goat herds are a big part of the desertification problem. They can range on heavily degraded land (which is otherwise an economic signal to allow it to lie fallow). They'll eat even the remaining hardy plants down to nothing, finalizing the land's transition from forest to desert.

Pretty tragic how traditional (and sustainable) herd management practices were abolished via privatization in the name of "progress." The mechanisms they used to prevent the Tragedy of the Commons were dismantled, with predictable results.

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Spinning disks.

If you want raw file access, your ideal filesystem is a giant key-value store that keys on the full path to the file. This choice means doing a directory listing will involve a lot of random access reads across the disk, and in the days before SSDs this would be a performance killer.

So instead, a directory would have a little section of disk to write its file entries to. These would be fairly small, because most directories are small, and if there were more files added than there was room, another block would be allocated. Doing a file listing would be reasonably quick as you're just iterating over a block and following the link to the next block, but random file access would get slower the more files are added.

It's probably a solvable problem in filesystem design, but because current filesystems fall down hard on the million-files-in-a-directory use case, nobody actually does that, so there's no drive to make a filesystem performant in that case.
Groups of actors across the world can make an agreement that is enforced by a smart contract. When an actor fails to live up their obligation they are refused payment. There is no way to take off with something that is not yours. There is no reliable or efficient way to cheat. You don't have to know the other actors you are making an agreement for something with.

Can you do this now without a smart contract? Of course. The usefulness is in that it's universally visible and lowers the barrier to entry and is far less complex.
Yeah, it's good info in an unfortunate format by default.
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Cornell is such an odd university, thousands of little contributions over the decades to every field that touch the lives of everyone in the world.

I always get a kick when I learn about another little thing that was invented there.
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It's self-contained so you can serve/share it statically. HTTP basic auth requires a server backend configured with the credentials.
> I was hoping the algorithm was to design a new shape of a jar

Me as well. It would have been a fascinating experiment.
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Exactly this. Right now, Google Docs marries the worst aspects of version control (long, weird, unstructured, incoherent change history) and the worst of no version control at all (the need to keep creating final.v2.edited.JS_changes copies as a multi-author document evolves).

I'm fairly convinced that Google doesn't really give a shit about their apps suite. The apps have barely changed in years.
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and if you're building on Gimp you're WAY past "from scratch". The bulk of it is already there. Mostly Gimp just needs usability / human interaction changes.
Currently, all of our courses are actually free! We will be releasing a new version of Py on iOS within the next day or two that will contain a premium subscription that unlocks access to new premium content we're rolling out.
Cornell is a common enough surname that it could've been named for it's inventor.
If you're only worried about the domain aspect, and want a super simple approach just check if you can resolve the hostname.
I do, but I understand the reasoning behind why it was changed. So I made a snippet in my editor and moved on with my life, haha. New print is now easier to to type than the old.
I have seen similar comments about "what happens if you want to switch providers" or "don't want to put all your eggs in one basket'. I can understand the comments but at the same time I do a lot of enterprise migrations with companies. We do not go in there while working through a plan on how to migrate to AWS or Google cloud and start promoting the multi provider feature of terraform. Why would you be going through so much effort to plan and move an entire enterprise into the cloud and use terraform and then throw in the idea that "Hey, you can also write the code to stand up similar services in another provider?" Maybe for smaller projects it would be attractive but for the big boys I don't see that to be very beneficial. At least this ability would not sway me to use Terra over CFT.
Just like email replaced phones as the go-to method of business communication, chat is doing that to email -- at least in some types of companies and teams.

But it's not just chat. With interactive messages, Slack is becoming more like an OS for communications and business processes. And there are seemingly infinite ways for it to evolve to better serve the needs of just about anyone using it to communicate with others.
Works for me! when I hit <enter> or right-arrow it goes to the next slide, <left-arrow> for previous slide.
A lot of static hosting methods don't make it easy to implement HTTP basic auth. The beauty of this approach is it's completely transparent to the network/application layer. You can use this with just some files on S3 or GitHub Pages, for example.
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If it's so uncheatable, why did the original DAO get hacked?
Thanks for these. I've got Behind Closed Doors on order from a previous recommendation in this thread, but The Manager's Path appears to be especially apt!

I've read the MSMS essay a few years ago, but had completely forgotten about it. The scheduling problem is actually something I've been struggling with the past few months in the run-up to this new role. When everything is urgent and you're the only one who can fulfill certain data requests, it's difficult to maintain progress on your own projects.
Honestly I'd rather have a native ncurses app.
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There are different types of contracts. A standard form contract or "Contract of Adhesion" has certain limitations because it is where terms are created by only one party, in this case Amazon.

- While these types of contracts are not illegal per se, there exists a very real possibility for unconscionability. In addition, in the event of an ambiguity, such ambiguity will be resolved contra proferentem against the party drafting the contract language.

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he could always fork it and pay for other developers if the core team didn't want to participate in this. You'd rather the core team's approval and participation, but you don't NEED it.
That depends where you are hiring from, even within the US. You're also reaching out to people who may be okay taking a lower salary to work on a project they are already passionate about or already donate their time to.

Chris Webber, for example, took less than a $40k salary without benefits to work on MediaGoblin full time for a year:

https://mediagoblin.org/news/we-did-it.html
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Imagine if the operations of boolean logic were, instead of AND is BOOL, OR is QCC(for queens college, cork), NOT is DFG(for duncan f gregory), etc

I think that would be more in line with what OP was talking about.
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They're doing it based on engagement? Great.. it's just going to surface the jokes. Seriously, there's a lot of important information that passes through our slack channels, but, for the most part, we don't "engage" with it in the way they are measuring. We don't react, reply, click on, or share the important messages. We just respond to them in the normal flow of conversation.

The jokes, wit, and quips on the other hand... those get reacted to. So there's a good chance those are going to be the highlights. Which, while fun, is a complete waste of screen real estate and isn't going to help me be more productive.
You think someone is going to start a new project and use a 7 year old OS? I don't think it's "unfortunately my problem" when biz/client reqs for a 7 yo OS are completely out of my hands, unless of course the mindset is "use Python 3 or die trying".
> How do you justify the healthy paying for the unhealthy?

Because we live in a society, and in a society people help one another.
What is the social cost of some not having car insurance?
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"Learning how to use them, how they work, and when to use them takes a lot more time than learning the names."

That part is made significantly easier if their names actually reflect how/when they're used and/or how they work. Remembering that information is also easier when there's at least some semblance of a mapping between the name and function/purpose.
Keep in mind that a third party who has compromised the server could change the JavaScript to report password entries back to it.
This is pretty cool! I found myself reading through all of the entries I can see and even cook up some solutions on the spot. However, how do you make a profit off of it? Do you take a cut of the end cost?
I didn't even process that the poster literally teaches ESL -- that's mind-boggling.