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> and it's insane to me that it doesn't have more adoption yet in big tech companies.

elixir (and winter) is coming

> My best theory is that engineers in top engineering companies are actually not the best engineers but simply career engineers that learn one skill (python/java/C++) and then explain to every employer that this technology is the best for the problem they have, over and over again.

you conflated "top" with "large".
White House Calls for Serious Moon and Mars Plans
One of the most fun things I ever did with my five year old son (now six) is build a cloud chamber with dry ice and a fish tank and talk about it. Strongly recommend.
In France when you work you have to pay a percentage of your salary for the national healthcare to cover you and your family. This national healthcare reimburse you about 60 to 80% of the bills depending on the type of treatment. The remainder is paid by a private healthcare that your employer is chosing and paying for you. The difference between the many private healthcare is usually the amount reimbursed for dental treatment and eyeglasses.

If you have no work, there is an universal healthcare to cover you, but you cannot get fancy glasses or good tooth implant.

The prices are regulated by deciding the amount reimbursed by the national healthcare for each medical act. The private healthcare reimbursement are based on these prices. Doctors are free to ask more money, but you are going to pay the delta.

Savings are mainly achieved by having both sick and healthy people paying. Also, the fact that any medical treatment is basically free encourages you to see your doctor everytime you are beginning to be sick, preventing complications leading to a stay in hospital.

Note also that many private healthcare are mutual insurance which are lowering the rates if there is a profit.
I wonder how Google Home installs compares to that of Amazon alexa hardware?
Interesting. I have both, in several of the same rooms, and I find that I use Sonos all the time and almost never use Alexa. But I think I'm the oddball in the world, because I find voice control (I have both Alexa and Siri in my life) to be annoying and clumsy most of the time. I'd rather just tap or type. And the sound quality on Sonos is so much better that aside from voice control, Alexa seems to have no advantage. But again, I know I'm the weird one here - everyone else seems to love voice control.
Note that Erlang 20 may have solved the problem that FastGlobal tries to fix (that of not copying large amounts of data unnecessarily)
No focus APIs are necessary to implement pop-unders.

AFAIU, the way modern implementations work, is that they make some link (occasionally the entire body) a target=_blank link, which points to some other part of the website. This causes the link target to appear in a new tab. Now, the original tab has its contents changed to that of an ad; when the user finishes browsing the website and closes the newly-opened tab, they will see the "pop-under" tab (which is actually the original tab the user entered the website with).
Mz is on a roll recently. Can't say I'm complaining.
Why you should, actually, rewrite it in Rust – Unhandled expression
Or simply exercise some self-control, and do not visit social media while you are working, studying, or otherwise occupied.

If you hate what you're doing so much, that you have to do something so unhealthy as locking yourself in isolation to perform the task, you probably shouldn't do it. Listen to yourself, and go do what you want to do instead.
I don't know why we're both getting downvoted here!

There were other apps similar to iPhoto/Photos like Picassa that were less properietary. But... Google's interests didnt align with the consumer.

Apple loses points for a wonky proprietary format, but their interest in providing the product are in alignment with my interest as a consumer. And if that changes, the software doesn't go away.

The only cloud services that I'm interested in are pure commodity plays like disk, email, etc. Everything else comes with that high transition cost.
I would urge you to learn more about side effects of using white noise for a baby. These high frequency sounds might cause development problems [1] and also your brain is getting used to them and then it's hard to live in an environment without white noise.

[1] - http://www.webmd.com/baby/news/20030417/white-noise-may-dela...
Why should Apple pay any taxes to the US government for things it sells overseas? They already paid (or in this case, avoided) EU taxes on the sales in EU countries. If we're arguing about 'fairness', the EU should be getting approximately all of the taxes the Irish subsidiary allows Apple to avoid.

Double-taxing exports (1x from the US government, 1x from the country they are sold in) is a really bizarre policy, especially in this era of global trade.
>That's why almost every professional athlete starts as a child.

Professional athletes are highly competitive. People don't hire basketball players to throw balls into hoops; they hire them to beat other basketball players. Unless you are one of the best humans at basketball, you are worthless as a basketball player.

In almost any profession, you do not need to be the best to have value.
The testers a typical jeweler or diamond merchant might use only identify between diamond, cubic zirconia or moissanite. They do not identify origin of a diamond.

The testers that can identify a diamond's origin are quite expensive and usually only found at major gemological labs.

All synthetic white diamonds are "Type IIa" (no or trace amounts of nitrogen) while only 1-2% of mined diamonds are IIa. 97% of mined diamonds are "Type Ia" (clusters of nitrogen). It is possible that is what they were referring to about purity, but the amount of nitrogen is not a definitive indicator of origin.
If I realize someone I know is one of those "never say you're sorry" people, I lose a little bit of respect for them.
Great job. Awesome to see all the focus on documentation and conceptual explanations. Clear messaging and spreading understanding are just as important as the tech.
Right, but SystemD also got right of shell scripts, which are Turing complete and very difficult to secure when run in ring 0.

But yes, I hate C, too.
Thanks for looking that up. Experience tells me (s)he isn't really interested in your sources though. His/her opinion is already formed. I can tell by the tone and use of selective excerpts.

(S)he'll just quote different sources supporting her argument, all from politically motivated bodies. Your sources will never be good enough.

My advice is to let them scream in the wind and think they've scored points somehow. They'll figure it out by 40 or continue to be someone's useful idiot.
These typically require large investments to build and suffer from other problems like salt corrosion, whereas putting wind turbines in seems like a very quick win.
Andrew Carnegie
It took me approximately 3 years for each patent.
Friends in High Places: Secret App Makes Manhattan Skyscrapers Change Color
Not at all, I'm saying that as that's pretty much the standard across the entire industry, it is weird why this is even news.

A more appropriate headline would be "Shocking news: Google is a for-profit business, and it acts like one!".

Move along folks, nothing to see here. I guess yesterday was a slow news day before all the Trump Jr. stuff came out.
Sometimes it is necessary to have a strong example of what is wrong to be able to define what right is.

Most people on this forum are the type that can learn without touching the hot skillet for themselves, but we still benefit from helping others to not burn themselves.
Seems like a strawman to me.

This article is about a man who misinterprets a car purchase and pulls a gun to "protect" property, which was not his and was not being stolen.

If someone pulls a gun to "defend their property", they better be really damned sure it is their property and the property was being stolen (not a {leinholder, repoman, undercover police officer, deaf person, autistic person, etc}). The risk of making the wrong decision may not be high, but the impact of the wrong decision is.
> and actually made several of the issues I had with my Ruby code not being expressive/obvious enough, or difficulty in composition, disappear overnight.

I've noticed that pattern-matching and guards just completely eliminate a stupid* amount of boilerplate logic in Ruby code

* "stupid" in hindsight, of course
I'm not surprised. There are very few mass appeal deals in Prime Day, and the Echo devices are heavily subsidized. I think it's more a statement of how lackluster Prime Day continues to be than it is a success of Echo.
Learn OpenGL, extensive tutorial resource for learning Modern OpenGL
This question is a cobweb, and you my friend are the spider.
"No, std::deque has O(n) space overhead... the goal here is to get that to O(sqrt(n))," implies that compact dynamic array can't be used for std::deque, when it is used as such, also I did not find a source that states this space requirement for std::deque in the first place.
One that made me about $833.33 per month I guess!
This was after the non-provisional filing.
The title is overly broad considering that the only example in it is of hotel workers.
I bought a Camelbak portable coffee mug that's scheduled to be delivered between early to mid August. Not exactly what "Prime" advertises itself to be in most cases, when it comes with a 3 week shipping lead time (in in no hurry so I didn't mind the delay)
I fell in love with the language, which is why I kept using it to begin with - working in a functional language is great, and it's very readable and powerful (pattern matching <3).

With that said, I could write basically anything Elixir gives me with Ruby. The real value I get from elixir is the blazingly fast performance of BEAM and the speed at which I can build complex and stable distributed systems with OTP.
I'm not clear on if it's dated and ugly or just way too future for me.
The links aren't meant to prove there is some kind of government-planted backdoor, but rather to show the same kind of evidence Kaspersky is being charged with: rumors and whispers. And it's completely fair to judge based on that because every company is judged based on that.
cat /dev/urandom | sox -traw -r44100 -b16 -e unsigned-integer - -tcoreaudio synth pinknoise band -n 1400 200 tremolo 40 .1 gain 8
Well, that is the alternative? Forbidding privately-funded research? Submitting it to gigantic bureaucratic committees?

The only proposal I back is forcing publicly-funded researchers to disclose all gifts and grants, similarly to public officials, but even that is a massive bureaucratic ordeal.

Research is not a regulated environment, and it should not be one.
That is a good question to ask, certainly any time you put data into the cloud, you are trusting a 3rd party. In this case, we here at Microsoft take security and data privacy very very seriously.

Actually we even published a whitepaper on this topic, see:

Visual Studio Team Services Data Protection Overview
https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/articles/team-services-se...

I hope that helps.
The point of having an approval process of any length or complexity is precisely to make changes less likely to happen ad hoc. That's a Good Thing (tm)!

Sometimes "small improvements" have ramifications outside of the context of the change (potentially significant ones). The person implementing these improvements has to understand the scope of the change (including side effects on external systems, if any), and that effort should be documented somewhere or at the very least reviewed by peers for correctness, especially for truly mission-critical or sensitive systems.

It doesn't have to be a "fill out these forms in triplicate and don't forget the new cover on your TPS report mmmkay" kind of documented effort: it's not one extreme or another.
This kind of thing makes me think that remote work must be the future. Have everything in writing, interact when necessary for business, do the work, and avoid common everyday interactions and meals with people. The current popular belief is that forcing everyone to smell the fish that someone just microwaved will help their companies prosper, but all this negative energy over casual contact seems to indicate that operating a company in a way that is socially sanitary may be more helpful and less likely to generate liabilities than operating as a kind of social pressure cooker and reactor.
Funny, I have both and I consider them different products with very different use-cases (although I have the Echo Dots, not the full size Echos).

Also, in a great development, both are going to integrate with each other much better soon; there's a private beta in place right now: http://www.aftvnews.com/sonos-begins-beta-testing-amazon-ale...
I've avoided Messenger and the Facebook app altogether. I've come to accept that my data is being sucked up, and it's a necessary evil, but I just don't want their apps on my phone. At least give me that in life.
I am puzzled... are they useful?
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> while my Java apps take 2 minutes to start up, have several hundred millisecond HTTP response latency and hoard memory

yeah this is pretty much exactly why I turned away from Clojure and Scala and went for Elixir. Also, super ugly Java stacktraces that were not hard to trigger at all. The vast majority of errors in Elixir are wonderfully explanatory.
Info Ops Officer Offers Artificial Intelligence Roadmap
Here is why I am asking:

https://www.thestreet.com/video/14217402/alpha-rising-victor...
I haven't used the app in a long time.. did they get rid of chat heads? That drove me off completely.
I am currently building a software for auto piloting for consumer cars, AMA
> 200yr old document that explicitly denies the federal government the right to micromanage except in very specific circumstances.

right, as long as you ignore 200 years of legal precedent in which it has...
We might be better off replacing both dictatorships with an international leadership panel or something. It seems like that would be the quickest way to dilute the effects of opinion and clashes between different cultures.

It might be a quick way to blunt innovation in both. Or not. I dunno; people are complicated.
what would purity in this instance serve? this is the real world, we don't have to be all-or-nothing for the sake of it. tradeoffs are a legitimate path, and this is a terribly small one
The experiment was _continuous_ white noise, rather than 'while the baby is sleeping' or 'while the baby is falling asleep'.

From the article:

"""Both Chang and Paula Tallal, PhD -- a researcher who was not involved in Chang's study -- say it is probably not a good idea to intentionally expose babies and infants to nonstop white noise, but they say everyday exposures are probably not harmful for most children."""
From the grants I've dealt with, you better not in anyway spend the money (that includes line items for particular purposes) in a way inconsistent with the grant. Both the government and non-profits will blackball you so fast its amazing. The government might even have a talk with you.

If you absolutely have to change the budget (does happen), you better have permission.
You've met my ex?
Better yet: automatic comma insertion! (I'm only half joking.)
It is all about national security for China. China will not tolerate a unified Korea that is friendly to America. It is in China's interest to keep the Koreas divided and have influence over NK. NK not only provides a buffer from the US army but serves as a threat that ties up the military of USA, Japan and SK. Kind of like the way they use Pakistan to tie down India. Why would China help out and do a real sanction of NK. A real sanction of NK by cutting off food and fuel would collapse the regime. Followed by a unification under South Korean leadership. The last thing they want. China will continue to pretend to sanction NK or say that they have no influence over NK. Always ask what is in it for China to figure out what is going on.
Ah, Echo: awesome "AI" for consuming Amazon services, including buying stuff from Amazon.

Not so great for much else.

The real trick is that they manage to get people to pay them anything for these little trojan horses.
Given the rationalization the scientist makes, its probably wise to be skeptical of his judgements overall.

A direct quid pro quo / payment for services rendered is more honest than this model which is Google buying the professor vs. buying specific research. That's a serious ethical issue.
Sounds like something out of Daemon.
Apache Spark 2.2
>They're not an umbrella company, they're a tech company.

Well given that their tech-y umbrellas seem to cost more than normal ones and aren't returning anyway maybe they should just use normal ones while they're working out the kinks in the business plan. Cost cutting measure so to speak.

--Management consultant
Phoenix/Elixir will likely never have an ORM because, well, the O... But I think Ecto is pretty cool, working with it right now on my first Phoenix website, actually
I can't use Facebook with all the ads and noise. I've blocked mine down to just the news feed, everything else goes away. Much cleaner and easier to use.
Just in case you weren't aware, when I view your website on my Windows 10 PC or Android smartphone all of the prices have an 'Â' preceding the £.

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Or when EL James rewrote Twilight without the vampires and called it 50 Shades of Grey.
How do you get from "I just think how it should work" to "discuss it with the senior members"? You've got notes, at the very least, that you've jotted down about the proposed changes. Guess what: that's the draft of a design document! If you've taken any reasonably thoughtful approach you'll have just a little more work to make it formal, invite formal comments and feedback, etc. Not weeks "drafting an architecture" document, just days (or possibly hours, if it's a small change). That's a small price in time to pay for such a big dividend down the road.
Have Macbook, will travel
Well, you can write stored procedures in JS/Perl/Python for Postgres, but not necessarily for other databases. And if you do it's probably not portable. And the fact that this capability exists I think is some evidence that sometimes you can't do enough with SQL to do everything you need in SQL.

Anyway, I was talking in generalities, not about Postgres specifically. I would argue that if you're going to use Python to write stored procedures, why not just write a traditional Python script/app with SQLAlchemy? That SQLAlchemy has an ORM capability doesn't mean it needs to be used that way, as it's creator takes pains to point out. And this is a much more common pattern for using Python with a database, which is to my original point that its easier for most people to do.
...you were asking what's so "exotic" about compact dynamic arrays if they're just deques? I'm telling you they're not deques, because they have additional constraints that deques don't have.

Are you intentionally twisting this backwards or something? You're basically turning the conversation into something like this:

You: "Penguins are birds, right? What's so exotic about penguins when I see all these birds flying around me?"

Me: "Penguins live in Antarctica... and don't fly... (hence why people find them exotic...)"

You: "But who says birds can't live in Antarctica?? And chickens can't fly either. And penguins are birds. So what's so exotic about penguins?"

Me: {what sane response can I even give you here?!}

________________________________________

But anyway...

> implies that compact dynamic array can't be used for std::deque, when it is used as such

To entertain your new argument here:

Deque requires references to existing elements not to be invalidated when new elements are appended. I don't know how compact dynamic arrays work, but dynamic arrays generally move elements around in memory while maintaining guaranteed worst-case O(1)-time access to them, so it seems kind of impossible for them to meet both requirements.
There's different government grants. Basic research stuff isn't the same as a DARPA grant.
Rolling Out a Threat Modeling Program
With the impending split I would probably sell it all now and deal with the consequences of that later because they might be worth significantly less by the end of the month.
Good, now link me the source code and 3D definition files required to replicate that without any further work.

That’s what should be provided with patents, as I said in the original comment.
I was blown away by Geoworks. Using a 25MHz 286 felt like a power machine. I remember printing a page with a Giant lower case e on it to see if it scaled it up to full page nicely. It printed two pages. The second just had a tiny triangle of black on it. Looking at my document I saw the end of the e had just clipped past the edge of the page.

At the time WYSIWYG was a bullet point promise that never delivered. Seeing it actually happen was amazing. That it was in a product that had the feel of "Of course it does it that way, because that's how it should be done"

I often lament that it was never an Open Source project. It got passed around companies looking to use it in some niche or other while it slowly decayed. It had enough enthusiasts that as an open project it would have developed.
No. std::deque is like a vector of small arrays. Small meaning 32 to 512 bytes or one T if larger. Compact dynamic arrays have sub-arrays which can be larger and can be dynamically sized.

The small fixed size of the sub-arrays in std::deque is basically a defect making the container a lot less useful.
The government doesn't give you spending money for you to do with as you please. There's a whole web of strings attached.

If you open a donut shop with it, you're probably commuting an act of fraud.
>And it keeps going like that for the entire paper. I smell experiment design hacking.

This sort of thing is exactly what pops up in my mind as well. I think they just looked at complete set of data, which might have shown that there is low-to-moderate correlation (assuming most people only use laptops when there is a part of course that is completely irrelevant/boring/already known); once they dropped the most significant use-case, all was left is the butt-in-seat users.

Also, I don't know why they never produce figures of a scatter plot for the data they are analyzing. A simple grade vs laptop time (academic, non-academic, total) figure would explain the results so much better than the raw tables. Maybe I'm just used to other kind of articles though.

P.S. There is also a really funny correlation in table 3, showing negative grade influence from playing games, where table 1 has 0 minutes spent for that across the board.
> reducing the value they provide by adding nag screens

Is this sincere? How does it reduce the value? You just scroll past it.

> I think you can call that trolling.

You can call it trolling, but you won't be using the same definition as most people[1].

If Wikipedia is trolling, then so are art galleries who ask you to donate at the door, churches who pass around a collection plate, toll roads, and anyone else who provides a public service and asks for money.

If people are really irritated by Wikipedia asking for money, they should stop using it. But they won't because it's literally one of the most important and useful creations in human history. How can people begrudge them a request for a donation?

1. From Webster's:

> a : to antagonize (others) online by deliberately posting inflammatory, irrelevant, or offensive comments or other disruptive content
… trolls engage in the most outrageous and offensive behaviors possible—all the better to troll you with. — Whitney Phillips

> b : to act as a troll (see 3troll 2) on (a forum, site, etc.)
… is also notorious, for trolling message boards on the Internet, posting offensive material he himself has written and then suing anyone who responds in agreement. — Mark Hemingway

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/troll