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Its kind of balls that those moments are so far away, yet so near. I mean, we could if we wanted to, 'make menuconfig', I'm quite sure, even still.

But .. nah.

;)
before uber, I don't think I've ever rooted for a company to fail
That's how things always were. Not the best outcome always and the fact you see my post shows we are trying to change. Unless you keep that smug smile on your face.
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I emphatically disagree that C++11 has made D irrelevant. With C++11, I still have to think about fifty possible ways to do something, old and new, and all of the possible different implications and risks and segfaults I could get with each. I don't have the luxury of ignoring all C++ written before 2011, nor can I ignore all of the design decisions before 2011 that resulted in the current status of C++ features.

After working with C++11 (or C++14 or C++17), D is such a breath of fresh air. Everything is so... easy. I can do what I want, and I don't have to worry about doing just the wrong kind of thing to get a segfault or UB. I might get stack traces at runtime if I make a mistake, or even better, compiler errors because my types didn't check correctly or my compile-time evaluations had errors, but the language is much simpler and cleaner because it's been able to throw out the baggage of C++. In fact, it's thrown it out twice, once for D1 and again for D2, what is now simply called "D".

And being able to actually throw out cruft without concerns for backwards compatibility is why D isn't irrelevant.
I did email them but when I pointed out the Chinese knockoffs, that didn't go over too well. I guess I could have handled my response differently but come on!

The fact that they closed my shop without pre-warning when I had sales along with pending orders really made me lose complete trust in them. Especially considering the endless Chinese products on there that are obviously not handmade.

If they had contacted me inquiring about my products before closing my shop, that would have been a different story but that is not what happened. I refuse to do business with reckless providers.
This radiates truth. I would like to read more of the things you write.
Don't know about that, 3 of the 14 employees monitor the plant, the rest:

The other employees maintain equipment or retool the plant for various wire gauges—hundreds of variations ranging from 4.5 millimeters to 60 millimeters.
> Reading difficult work earlier develops higher reading comprehension faster.

What makes a classic American author better than a modern author who writes at a high level? (Note that most popular authors don't write at a difficult enough level, but out of the thousands of books published each year some will be high enough - many authors of old did not write at a high enough level either)
Interesting story, but I think it was a bit unfair to Uber. I'm glad this guy was made whole, but I'm not sure Uber's reluctance to paying you 4000 dollars because a driver stole your backpack qualifies as corruption.

From what I can tell, the worst thing Uber did was not be sufficiently cooperative with the police investigation. This part of the narrative is extremely muddled and unclear, so it's hard to take a strong position on their behavior here.
Wow, thank you so much! I had not seen this before.

I just requested to be put on the mailing list and will reach out to those folks. I'm not sure if they realized the potential of this notation. (Or maybe they have long known this--I don't want to assume anything).

It appears Egil Möller had 90% of the details correct years ago! This is really well explained and clear. I am not surprised to see this come from the Scheme world. TN/ETNs and LISP are quite closely related.

I think the distinction between TN and the ETNs is important (and not having the additional S-expr construct in the base). Also, a minor technical detail or two in the implementation that matters in terms of anti-fragility.

Thanks again, really super helpful. The number of notations and languages I've carefully looked at is over 300 (I'll post a full list soon), but I've long suspected that others have been super close or already found TN and ETNs.
As someone who has spent nearly 6 months in spanish speaking countries, trying to learn spanish; I think language acquisition is a similar-but-different aptitude type thing.

I am just bad at parsing audio basically, I also have a hard time picking out lyrics in songs and whatnot. My spanish is terrible to this day.

I definitely learned some, and can stumble around by myself without english, but no one is going to mistake me for a spanish speaker.

I think programming aptitude is similar; for sure just about anyone could learn to use a loop and if statement to solve fizzbuzz type problems; but are they going to be able to modularize those control structures and come up with solutions for "real" problems?

I am pretty sure not.
Including this ugly monstrosity, which is the result of a Public Private Partnership in Vancouver, Canada: http://paragongaming.com/developments-properties/parq/
OK, so we've established that the legal definition is different from the dictionary definition. Now we just need to figure out if the OP is a blog post or a legal filing and we'll know which definition we should use.
I see a lot of Russians and Chinese emigrate to America to bring up their children. I dont see any sending their children back to get the "superior" education there.
How does that excuse how Uber acted in any way?
What's so different about self-teaching programming that makes it possible when self-teaching CS isn't?
I also wasn't that impressed by the fact that I had to wait a few seconds for it to work. A font demo -especially a parametric font demo- really should be instant.
This happened to me. The driver decided to drop me off in the bus lane (instead of the normal taxi/car lane) at an airport and encouraged me to get out quickly and drove off just as fast because we were in violation of airport policy. Very shortly after I noticed my phone was gone and was in his car.

I was able to contact him since I luckily had a tablet with data and I was using Project Fi but there was absolutely no good process to deal with this since it was impossible to get in touch with him.

Uber support was completely useless and in the end he returned it to one of their service centers. He never told me so and enough time had passed where Uber just recycles/destroys phones beyond a certain point.

I was absolutely livid about this. I only use Uber as a last resort now.
Try buying a nice watch or high-end stereo equipment there. No such ceiling applies to Amazon, probably because Amazon welcomes re-sellers (which can span all market niches), while Walmart doesn't.

Ha- as it happens I just bought a nice watch, today, and after perusing the options on Amazon I found the same watch I was about to buy direct from the retailer. However after considering the number of knock-off items I've received from Amazon, I simply refused to trust that the watch was authentic, and ended up paying more for the peace of mind that I got from buying it direct from the manufacturer.

Amazon's lack of quality control makes it impossible to trust them for expensive items that can be knocked off. It's funny that you say that Wal-Mart is middle-to-down market, because Amazon is where I buy my household staples and some consumer electronic items and cheap crap that I'm not overly concerned with the quality. Clothing, watches- pretty much anything of quality I look elsewhere.

That said, I do buy clothing from Zappos, and I think Wal-Mart made a smart move to acquire Bonobos to make a serious move into high-end apparel.
Perhaps he pledged a small fraction of his shares to collateralize a non-recourse loan. This is one way to monetize equity without selling it.

The lender takes the risks as to share value and liquidity. If presented early in Uber's climbing valuation curve, it probably would have looked like a good opportunity to lenders.
vendor is free to enter in a relationship with WalMart. WalMart is free to dictate their terms, vendor too. No agreement, no deal, part ways.

Explain how this is wrong.
Chairman Mao would be proud.

(clicky: https://www.google.com/search?q=Chairman+Mao+steel )
Good question!

Overall the Roma population probably has it worst. Followed closely by the immigrants.

I'm not a good judge of Why because I don't have good insight. The Roma seem to have your usual problems of being below the poverty line, a culture that heavily discourages improving your lot in life, and a strong culture of expecting govenment handouts. If you asked a Roma I'm sure their explanation would be different, this is what it looks like from the outside.

The immigrants, well, they're immigrants. New culture new life new jobs low prospects due to social standing and so on. Immigrants always seem to struggle.
"The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment." - Warren Bennis
My favourite DSL!
"Where breaking the law benefits everyone, we should lose respect for the law."

In this case, it doesn't benefit everyone, especially not everyone equally -- it benefits Uber massively, and only incidentally benefits customers, and basically rips off the driver's time and investment.

That said, you're resting on the point that this kind of thing can occasionally bring about marginally beneficial change faster than legal methods.

What you are arguing is that "startups" should be allowed to freelance the rearrangement of benefits in our society and ignore the law in doing so. You want the rule of entrepreneurial people to override the rule of law.

Yet, this is a society and country built on the rule of law.
And yes, the rule of law is much more cumbersome than the rule of men/women.

What you argue for is tantamount to anarchy, or at best rule by (economic) warlord.

It may seem like a good idea at first, but it is a rapid path to a broken society.
Travis is walking away as a multi-million dollar man. This is whether you root for Uber or not.
I'm so, so happy that after close to a decade of tireless work D is finally in gcc. I don't have much to add except congratulations to Ian for his mostly solo work on this. Having D "standardised" in this fashion within the GNU project can do nothing but benefit both D and GNU.
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> Enterprisey APIs with adoption

Your conflation of "bad" with "enterprisey" is unfortunate. Also, is it really adoption if different banks only support specific features/versions?

> If FinTS is too difficult to implement, how come they are not offering something simpler?

Well banks aren't really in the business of APIs, are they? Nobody is graduating #2 in their class at Stanford with a CS degree and going to work for a bank as a web developer.
I'm on an Android phone in an airport, so no chance to check it out, but what kind of tech stack are you using?
I think iain bank's "the culture" novels explore this future in depth quite well. I will not spoil it but the basic idea is "games" - people will just be able to play all the games they want and compete with one anoher without the need to survive.
When one of your customers accuses one of your agents of stealing > $1,000 of stuff from them you should get to the bottom of it. Anything else is poor customer service and apparently also enough to get a magistrate to rule them liable for the theft.
I don't get the "should have heard the car drive away and chased him" angle they twice tried.

He should be at fault for not being as fast as a car? Most people aren't going to be able to run at >10mph for very long, forget about anything more.

And even then, suppose he had caught up to the car and the driver didn't want to stop.

Just slimy.
Similar story for Gary, a once booming town around a single industry (steel).

>The Gary Works is a major steel mill in Gary, Indiana, on the shore of Lake Michigan. For many years, the Gary Works was the world's largest steel mill, and it remains the largest integrated mill in North America.

>The Gary Works remains Gary's largest single employer and a key element of the city's tax base. However, employment levels have fallen substantially since the mid-20th century; the plant and allied facilities employed over 30,000 people in the early 1970s, but only 6,000 in 1990, and 5,000 in 2015.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Works
And what about AirBnb? Or any of the many 'gig economy' startups that flaunt labor laws? I agree with the article. Let's not punish innovation, but let's make sure we don't get a new normal of startups making money by breaking the law. And not just abstract policy wonk big gummint type of law, but like the things that make sure people don't get taken advantage of and are safe.
It's beneficial for the sellers. Usually if you go back after some time, it's to leave a negative review.
But what happens a lot of times is that the US company will produce a low-cost version in China and sell that exclusively in Wal-Mart.

Not sure if this is the case with Snapper (article doesn't say), but that's typically how they get back into the stores.
You can make your own decks and cards, and import decks from Quizlet or csv.

I'm currently working on an accompanying web app that will allow importing of lists from more services and allow for faster bulk content creation.
This is annoying, I got all excited and then realising this is for a handful of UK banks. Would be great if it were tagged as a UK thing more prominently.
Have a good example of one that took that piece? Outside of Amazon
I wonder what sort of qualifications you need for that sort of job. I would like to be prepared for that sort of future.
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Yeah, or you could get your $4000 back...
Completely local unless you make an account and turn on sync. In that case, they'll be stored remotely for the purpose of syncing between devices.
My ears still feel that uncompressed is king for several of the test passages but Opus 1.2 was quite good. The problems with the compressed versions is hard to describe because I don't have the vocabulary but it was something that was only discernable on headphones and I would say had to do with phasing between left and right, a stereo 'presence' that was missing in all the compressed variations.
I agree, but investors don't want to break even. The fundamental tension here is high operating margins -- 60% not being uncommon operating margins for a software company -- are incompatible with a highly competitive industry. But it's those fat margins that justify massive R&D investment. Although software companies have enormous operating margins, they generally are not more profitable, because of huge fixed investment.

That creates a bit of a puzzle for industries with very thin operating margins that want to make significant investments in R&D. Generally they don't do it. That is why innovation at the Grocery store or in Long Haul trucking is so slow. From an engineering point of view, they are ripe for disruption, until you bring in an accountant to tell you that the disruption doesn't pencil out. Uber, like everything else, said to hell with it we're going ahead anyway. So how can they make things pencil out?

One option is to raise unit revenue in the future, which in an industry that's currently competitive means driving out the competition. IMO Uber was originally targeting this. But it turns out -- and really anyone could have told you -- that what Uber is doing isn't technically difficult. The heavy lifting is smartphones, GPS and Maps, whose availability made Uber/Lyft possible. Uber doesn't own any of the key technologies that make Uber possible, nor do they have a track record of being able to tackle really hard technology problems. They've had huge problems scaling and when Uber started using its own maps, it was a disaster. Bad maps is the #1 problem with Uber. Lots of new competitors have sprung up already that give basically an equivalent user experience, so Uber is not going to get real pricing power.

The next option would be "Lower unit costs in the future", But so far, that means spinning tales about self-driving cars, which is way beyond their technical ability as well as decades out even for those that have the chops to pull it off. IMO this only works because the latter round investors are naive about technology and the current investment climate is conducive to reaching for yield.

So while it's perfectly possible for Uber to continue existing as a concern, I don't think it's possible to satisfy their investors, and this means, unfortunately, that Uber may not make it. Many companies engage in a lot of self-destructive acts to meet unrealistic profit or growth goals set by investors, but in this case, Uber has only themselves to blame for setting these expectations. This is a shame, because I prefer Uber to Lyft and think they've created enormous value for both riders and drivers.
Monzo, the UK mobile-only bank, also has an API: https://developers.monzo.com/

Teller is not a bank itself though. I believe it started as a wrapper around banks' private APIs, not sure whether that's still the case.
...is this a good thing? It seems so? Being able to fine-tune your fonts seems like it's better than using something static.
What sort of corruption is possible when everything is done by machines. The greatest argument to privatized enterprise is efficiency, but how does that argument hold up with factories that are massively automated. Why are owners of such an enterprise needed at all?

If everything is automated then such companies need no owner as the ownership is to make sure the work gets done properly. It will be done properly no matter what the owners do. Why are they entitled to anything more than your average person.

I would think in the future you have shareholders, people who own the machines, that employ like a few workers who are managed by machines. And therefore those shareholders can just be just about anybody or even governments... who take the profit or revenue that enterprise generates and distribute it to the people.

I am talking about something like this sort of business which does not change, or grow much. It's a commodity. It can just be produced by pretty much anyone.
The "difference" between robbery and theft exists primarily in legal jargon, and was never sharply defined in common usage. Regardless of your distaste for "literally," the dictionary is a much better source on colloquial usage than the penal code.
Far better to leave their users open to huge liability instead, eh?
It's not excusing it. Just putting things into perspective. As bad as Uber might be, they might be less bad than the alternative. In those terms, one may not want to champion the legacy system as better.

Users got a better experience from Uber, but it's not clear it was at the expense of the service side of the population being treated worse than they were treated by the incumbents, therefore all other things being equal Uber would still be a net positive.
Sure, but there is principle involved here which makes it worth the time invested.

The driver who stole the backpack full of gear should not be in a position of trust with other people's belongings. Following the thread to make yourself whole and also hopefully to have some repercussion for the thief is worth while.
> There is a real human need though... to be needed

Get a pet.
Doubt they are interested in writing elegant code there.
Literally does mean virtually now. If you care about using words to convey meaning, you should care what other people think words mean. What you think is pretty much irrelevant if everyone else disagrees with you.
Good point, that takes care of maintenance. Definitely a small/efficient workforce for the amount of output.
I'm just saying what a waste of time just because of this one strange random event.

I am not saying it was (or was not) worth it.
Nothing fancy - objective C with core data. The backend is Django + AWS.
Easy there, Hoss. This guy is just giving an honest account of the decisions he made and how it turned out. Doesn't say anything offensive or exclusive at all. Certain attitudes are harmful to the industry and people wanting to learn and share their experiences...
In pure libertarianism, collectives of all kinds ultimately devolve into gangs that perpetuate their place in the social hierarchy through 'by whatever means are necessary' and legal. That's hardly an ideal worth defending, methinks.
The natural conclusion is that someone should write a piece of code to manage evidence and file small claims suits in various municipalities.

Surely no one would ever abuse such a tool.
Punch Card Programming
I was burned by Simple (online checking account company), which had similar promises. Turns out, they had terrible QA, couldn't get their shit together, and I had frequent errors in my account. Payments not going out, payments going out twice, card stopped working when I tried to withdraw cash and they couldn't tell me why, deposits lost in limbo for days -- even customer service couldn't tell me what my account balance was at several points. Many other banking errors on top of that.

I take "online banking disruption" with a huge grain of salt now. I'm fine taking some risk with investments, or business, or what I actually spend my money on, but the sort of day-to-day banking and payment systems aren't something I really like gambling with. I want to know that my paycheck will be in my account on or before the 1st each month. I want to know that -- if I need to -- I can pay my mortgage 5 days before it's due, and I'll be fine. There's too much uncertainty in the world already to add uncertainty on to THAT with your checking and credit card accounts.

If you don't use the card exclusively, and you use it for low-risk things, it may not be a big deal. But I certainly wouldn't be comfortable relying on it.
not to mention (at least in the US) that you're handing over a huge political/power pawn. Vastly simplified:

- Party A's candidate is clean and runs on improving infrastructure but that requires a slight cut to UBI

- Party B's candidate has issues regarding corruption, doesn't talk much about infrastructure but promises an increase to the UBI stipend

Which candidate do you think people will vote for?
Do you think the Microsoft store is selling chargers that will set your laptop on fire?
This argument comes up time and again but I have never really seen someone attack it or someone substantiate the claim with studies or something. As far as I am concerned, I could not care less if I had no longer to work for a living.
Note to self,
"leave doors/trunks open UNTIL I am positive all my luggages are out of the car."
People who have not yet discovered named functions.
Heck, You're never too rich to enjoy a free turkey dog.
Haha, thanks for stating this. Very helpful to see the common reactions from various folks (lispers being a category of folks whose reactions I am extra curious about).

I'm quite familiar with sexp, (had not seen https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-49/srfi-49.html before though--thanks!).

What TN and ETNs allow is the power of Lisp, with many more ways to build your programs. You give up a few tiny things (like the ability to have an arbitrary number of arbitrary nodes separated by arbitrary whitespace), and in return gain new powers like visual programming, fast/simple/easy-to-parallelize top down parsers, machine written programs with perfect code, et cetera.
Great project, although my opinion may be a little biased.

I'm one of the founders of oko.ai and I would love to share some of the things we learned doing something similar.

Feel free to check our demo in https://app.oko.ai/ycdemo