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When a window is created (with Window.open, or from a link with target="_blank"), it implicitly gets focus. That part wouldn't change.
I hated them and can confirm they're optional (at least on android)
How can anybody look at how much Apple executives are currently taking home and think that lush perks are being limited by large shareholders?
Anything without lyrics. Classical music is my normal target, but some of Reznor's electronic soundtracks for movies works well too.
Kind of like Asimov's 'Three Laws', really. It's a talking point and a foil for the plot. It was never intended to be a realistic and workable solution.
But there might be free donuts. Once, anyway.
I have used Fedora + KDE for the past 5 years. Yes there are occasional issues but they are normally common to all distros which happen to use the same combination of components.

For me, I ran into a regression with compositing: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=354146

After I disabled the desktop effects Fedora 25 was rock solid.

I haven't upgraded to F26, I normally wait a week or two to shake out any big issues.
Serious wars between evenly-matched participants always result in said participants losing more then they gain. Somehow, though, we never learn from history.

If the US invaded North Korea, and China did nothing, it would be the equivalent of China invading Canada and Mexico, and the United States doing nothing but issuing nasty diplomatic protests. Even if it did not threaten its interests directly, the loss of face would be immense. Wars have been started over far less.

Have you forgotten how half of the US government wanted war with Russia over Crimea? A little Ukranian province, on the other side of the world? Completely insignificant to US interests?

Compared to the Crimean war, unilaterally invading North Korea is like striking a match in a gunpowder factory. I'm sure that the fools who will authorize and cheerlead it will not for one moment think that it will turn nuclear.
It works with "Alexa, play 'Buy This Song' by the PapaGanders" or "Alexa, play 'Buy This Song' on Spotify".
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I have forwarded your post to a small group I co-own aimed at helping blind developers solve some of their coding challenges. Hopefully, a blind coder will get back to you.
What would be your solution to this?
> logic that directly relates to the data being stored is much easier to express in the database (constraints), resulting in a big reduction of code which means small simple functions that almost don't need debugging.

I think this is true for SQL experts (provided you're on the right database platform, of course - Postgres probably, MySQL and SQLite I doubt it) but it's not true for people with expertise in other language(s), which is the majority of people using the database. I can write arbitrarily complex business logic in Python and Javascript, which I am very familiar with. I would struggle to do that with SQL, and I know that all of my colleagues would struggle to understand what I had done. And I'm not unfamiliar with RDBMS - I've been working with them for years. Maybe that's a reflection on me, but I'd say it's been true of 95% of people I've ever worked with.
To be clear, you're talking about direct cash, right?
Also Kline spends a good part of his book shredding the standard math curriculum (especially rote memorization and mindless application of standard algorithms) and agreeing that it needs reform, at the end advocating constructivist alternatives, with word problems, use of physical manipulatives, and motivation via applications to other fields.

His beef with the New Math is with an emphasis on axioms, deductive reasoning, rigorous abstract logic, linguistic purity, and symbol manipulation, rather than with teaching conceptually or letting students think for themselves. He also doesn’t like the specific content of the New Math (set theory, inequalities, alternate number bases, boolean algebra, modular arithmetic). [I haven’t studied the New Math curriculum enough for myself to know how fair these arguments are.]

His key criticism: “Psychologically the teaching of abstractions first is all wrong. Indeed, a thorough understanding of the concrete must precede the abstract. Abstract concepts are meaningless unless one has many and diverse concrete interpretations well in mind. Premature abstractions fall on deaf ears.”
It's guaranteed to be more than 2X. That's why the number forms the lower bound of the estimate.
Let's see. It seems to me the obvious approach would be a very large number of solar sails manufactured in space. Eric Drexler wrote a thesis about that in the 70s, for transport instead of shading: https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/16234

The general idea was to make lightweight thin films by metal vapour deposition onto wax (or something, iirc), followed by heating the wax to remove it. These films can be far thinner than what could survive launch from Earth and unfolding.

I'm not gonna reread it now, but say 50nm thick (which is above the knee of the opacity curve) times the cross-sectional area of the Earth gets you about 6 million cubic meters -- you wouldn't make one giant shade, but a lot of small ones; there's overhead for each one's control/power/cooling. Aluminum masses 2700kg/m^3, so we need to manufacture 17 million tons of solar sails (+ the overhead) somewhere up in space, I guess at a convenient asteroid that supplies the materials? And then navigate them to the Lagrange point, but solar sails are great for that.

Easy for me to say, but this sounds doable in this century if we wanted to enough. If you just want to reduce insolation by a few percent, then scale down the requirements to a few percent.

Added: I found the R. Angel paper the OP referenced, with the sunshade design: http://www.pnas.org/content/103/46/17184.full -- also a thin-film swarm, though not as thin, launched from Earth, and 20 million tons for 1.8% reduction.

Also, my sketch above left out stationkeeping overhead, which I was vaguely thinking could be small: rocking back and forth to alternately spiral out and in from your orbit. But that's wrong, it's not even in orbit. I'm not sure how well you can do.
Is there a good resource (short of getting a finance degree) that would permit me to fully understand this instrument, the problems it solves, and its caveats? (heck, even a youtube video)
because of a glut on resources

Did you mean a run on resources? Or maybe a shortage of resources?
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> blotting out the Sun is probably easier than fleeing to nearby star-systems

If we want to later use the sun-blotter as a solar panel to power our interstellar exploits, then yeah.

If we just want to make the Earth a little cooler, we'd be far better off seeding the stratosphere with some dust, creating a mini 'nuclear winter' / 'Krakatoa effect' in a controllable way.
well to be fair, they did beat everyone else to the market, when it comes to a decent speaker . you get what you pay for, and what you are paying for is with your loyalty to the amazon marketplace, the speakers on the echo / tap alone might warrant the prime day prices #sidenote
You're right! i just skimmed over the article and missed the important thing in the box on top :)
Its not an A or B question. A company isn't a charity handing out awards to random people.

If they give someone money to support research without specific goals, playing nice is implied.

Unprofessional conduct (blowing money on donuts) is reasonably expected to not attract more funds.

But when does undesirable conduct come into play? Would they fund a guy who discovered that YouTube improves high school academic performance by 48%? Would they fund a guy who finds that YouTube slows child cognitive development?

You don't know, because the company's decision making is unknown. But a clever professor who needs grants could probably make a good guess. Even if Google (or any other company) doesn't act that way or has no desire to influence research, the perception of bias still exists, and that undermines science.
If you can't buy them from your favorite vendor, look around and buy from whoever's selling them -- I see that SuperMicro says they're selling AMD EPYC servers. If your deal is big enough, any SuperMicro distributor can lend you a machine to test on.
I'd hope that a million years from now we'd be able to move the Earth further away from the Sun, and/or simply turn the Sun down a bit and refuel it.
So...it's not that people have to change jobs because pensions don't really exist anymore, it's that there aren't really pensions because companies don't give a shit about employees anymore?

I guess that's a reason other than pensions, technically.
Yep, that was on purpose somewhat. A choice of +/- will essentially make a restricted codomain, to positives say.

That means switching the variables around switched domain/codomain.

An example where they are both the same:

y(x) = x + 1 <=> x(y) = y - 1
Extra Credit's episode about Sesame Credit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHcTKWiZ8sI

So, where else is there a widespread system of social media scores used to enforce conformity? Right here! The only difference is that there is a greater diversity factions influencing this in the west. From what I've seen, we are all being very effectively conditioned to hate "the other."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc
The corollary of this is: don't use people's apologies against them. If they are sincere then accept. Don't exploit for political or financial gain or to make it look like you 'won'.
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What about using GraphQL implies that you're trying to map objects from the database? As far as I know you can just query for the fields you want (with whatever joins you might need, or subqueries, or calls out to some other system) and return them to the client.
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Google (and other large tech companies that have invested in AI internally) are probably the most valuable investors, because they have access, and can purchase, the largest and best data sets available. It's hard for AI start-ups to do anything without access to the right data sets, and large companies can and have better access to that data.
Well you could still need some JS for the frontend but once we're adding a database too is it really any different from whichever Desktop GUI framework? The only difference is I guess that CSS and HTML are separate whereas this isn't as common for Desktop applications.
How is medical school funded? It's not uncommon for medical school grads in the USA to graduate with six-figure student loan debt.
JavaScript is the de facto name of the language, at least the version used in web pages.
That UI though ಠ_ಠ
We have the great benefit of stewards having already learned those lessons.
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An amazing discovery. If we can see things that far away, it's a wonder what we'll discover when we keep improving telescopes, introducing new telescopes (e.g. Webb space telescope), and even build devices on other celestial bodies! I'm looking forward to a permanent telescope on the far side of the moon where Earthly signals are no distraction.

As for the article, it was distracting by the poor writing style (emphasis mine). It's frustrating to hear people say "like" and "literally" all the time in speech, but far worse to see it in written pieces:

- "...point source (literally, a dot of light)"

- "...galaxy, a star, you, me — bends space, literally warps it"

- "...too faint to see. Like, hundreds of times too faint"
I remember reading about (or at least seeing cool looking ads) for GeoWorks, DESQview (and DESQview/X!), and GEM in magazines like Byte in the early 90s. I was always sad that I never got to try out any of them on my machine.
Here's [1] an article from 2015 describing Casey Mann, Jennifer McLoud, and David Von Derau's discovery of the 15th type of pentagon.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/science/alexs-adventures-in-numb...
I was a math teacher for 10 years. I had to give it up when I came to realize that "how to think" is about 90% biological and strongly correlated to what we measure with IQ tests.

This may be grave heresy in the Temple of Tabula Rasa where most education policy is concocted, but nonetheless every teacher I ever knew was ultimately forced to chose between teaching real math class with a ~30% pass rate or a watered-down math Kabuki show with a pass rate just high enough to keep their admins' complaints to a low grumble.

In the end we teachers would all go about loudly professing to each other that "It's not about numbers, it's about learning how to think" in a desperate bid to quash our private suspicions that there's actually precious little that can be done to teach "how to think."
If you've left Big Law, you are already off the risk-averse path. These are very seniority-focused places, which will not hire you back after you've left the Big Law system (with the exception of a few high-prestige postings, like a court clerkship). i.e. these lawyers will probably never again work at Latham anyway.
React and React Native (web/mobile and native ios & android).
I found a cache of the slidedeck. Some of the techniques seem old -- a few of the URLs have expired/parked domains. One has been parked since 2013.
Possible spoiler alert:
Can think of two examples.

I am readying myself for a reread (including Urth, as yet unread), so this is all IIRC, but there is a paragraph mentioning how Erebus or Abaia have influence in the world - likely through a computer network similar to the Internet (as telegraph to Net, Net to ...) but unimaginably more sophisticated e.g. embedded into everything, like the IoT. Of course there are other entities with access to infrastructure that the peasants are either ignorant of or dimly aware of e.g. cacogens, Father Inire.

Another example is Jonas's past life as a sailor. I believe at first he is a sailor, but later... very poetic.

The bit that is bugging me about BOTNS is part of the final book, where a young woman is seen by Sevarian in an old part of the city - it's beautifully written and this feels familiar but I can't place it, I know there's something I'm missing about that experience.

That has settled it, next time I take notes ;-)

Great moments for me include:

Sevarian's explanation of his craft's morality (which he later discounts!)
The battle of the flowers. I could see it.
Realizing Agia's betrayal.
Rethinking everything I've read after the gemstone, and then again after the nature of Sevarian's role is uncovered, and again as I realize the meaning of a Autarch.
The Ascians!
So much more. Often I'll realize something about it hours or days later after reading.

Note: if you read this past the spoiler alert, do not be afraid, read the book!
It would maintain actual backwards compatibility, since that is the hill Java has been dying on for 8 minor versions.

This tradeoff is between two principles which really shouldn't be compromised on - there is no halfway for backwards compatibility where you can only break some APIs and get away with it. If the designers are willing to sacrifice rarely-used parts of the language to make way for new features, then there are plenty of other places that are begging for a nip and tuck as well. They don't have to overhaul the language completely, but it's not like there aren't areas in need of improvement where change wouldn't affect 99.999% of existing code, as is the case with these APIs. Abandoning purity for this little of a modification is practically an insult to all the people who have demanded change in the past.

This has brought about what should be Java 2.0 (or however you would represent that in their strange version counting system) by right, and it's been botched.
That's likely true for some sort of missile strike, but a missile strike also doesn't remove the problem. Even in the event we killed Kim in a strike, the replacement would be unlikely to be western friendly.

This discussion is about "going in," which I take to mean an invasion. Any invasion attempt would start with the understanding that Seoul is going to look like London after the blitz at best.
> That computer wasn’t super-fast—what, with its 40-megabyte hard drive and one megabyte of RAM—and, as a result, it really benefited from the lightweight, object-oriented approach of GeoWorks.

…am I the only one that made a double-take at this? I don't associate OOP with being lightweight. It's either oxymoronic or irrelevant.
You could also have had an Amiga which AIUI blew away NeXTSTEP as far as price/performance?

Not really speaking from a position of expertise on the matter, since I've only ever seen (and never used) a Video Toaster and the only NeXT machine I've ever used is the one in the computer museum in Google's NYC office.
It is small, and I think it's impressive that these are among the first API removals in 21+ years.

OTOH, there may be a general fatigue setting in with developers these days. For instance, consider what Google did to its Angular 1.x adherents. Maybe the fatigue I sense emanates partly from this whole mantra of "move fast and break things", along with this explosion of frameworks, libs, projects, tools and tech in general to keep up with. Combine this with agile and continuous integration, etc. and you get a recipe for exhaustion.

It's hard being a dev these days. Productivity is at an all-time high in our industry, but I would wager that burnout will soon be a significant issue that will require change. There is an implicit assumption in tech that devs are more machine-like than human, with endless sprints and ever changing tech. If you follow that, burnout is more a matter of when than if.

EDIT: To clarify, I am not saying burnout is the case with the author of the GP comment. But, I've experienced this kind of impatience with even "reasonable" changes due to pure change fatigue. I know others have as well. In fact, for anyone who has yet to, I'd say just give it time.
I was given one as a gift. It got sold on craigslist. Surveillance culture is not for me.
The idea that any rational/game-theoretic civilization ends up rabidly genocidal, or close, has become an increasingly well known premise in SF. Modern use maybe dates to "The Killing Star" by Pellegrino & Zebrowski? It probably says something about the way we have come to view ourselves, compared to the era when it was argued that any rational/game-theoretic civilization would necessarily be enlightened and friendly and seek out opportunities for mutual benefit.

(Of course the more general idea, that it might be smart not to be noticed until we know what's out there, goes back much farther.)
>That being said, you can't control them; however, I like to look at different performance styles. What makes someone binge watch Netflix episodes but want to nod off during a lecture. Sure, one has less cognitive load, but replace Netflix binge with anything.

I personally find that if the air quality is not perfect for my needs, I tend to go drowsy really fast. Since I hate the artificially dry air, in any setting where there is either excessive heating in the winter, strong AC in the summer or too many people in a classroom where you get excessive CO2 concentrations, the attention span plummets. A 15 min break every hour helps, where you can get outside for at least 5 minutes and get some fresh air. Also, rooms that have windows that actually open are a lifesaver.
Truly cringeworthy. At a global scale, wages are increasing at their fastest rate in history [1]. Wage growth for the middle class has stagnated in the US, but not nearly as much as some people (myself included, until recently) believe [2]. The primary cause of this slowdown in wage growth is slowing productivity growth [3], while the major secondary cause is growing income disparity. Growing income disparity can be traced [4] directly to growth in exactly the type of regulatory restrictions that the author thinks are needed to prevent some dystopian neo-feudalistic future.

While the author is fixated on Uber and the rest of the sharing economy, he misses the bigger picture, which is that an increasing number of occupations and business activities are being placed behind regulatory barriers to entry [5], to protect incumbents from competition, so that they may better extract economic rent.

Even the sharing economy is under threat from these incumbents, who are funding a sophisticated PR campaign [6] (which I suspect involves a significant dose of astroturfing) to make ordinary people advocate for policies that go against their own interests, and support prohibitions on their right to compete.

In the author's world, anticompetitive organizations like unions are good for wages. This is no different than the ideology created to justify the medieval guild system, which created a set of haves and have nots, while massively inhibiting economic/wage growth. The more things change, the more ideologies to justify coercive control remain the same.

Another thing that strikes me about these kinds of missives for prohibition of services like Uber is what a paternalistic attitude it has toward the drivers, who are choosing to drive for Uber because they perceive it as being the best option available to them.

The author wants people who currently drive for Uber to no longer have that option, for their own good.

The author presumes he has more perfect knowledge of a potential Uber driver's best interests than they do. The author and their judgements are just as imperfect as the drivers', and more so on the matter of the drivers' own best interest, as the author doesn't have the benefit of knowing the driver's personal circumstances and options like the driver does.

[1] http://www.csmonitor.com/World/2016/0207/Progress-in-the-glo...

[2] https://www.minneapolisfed.org/publications/the-region/where...

[3] https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/sources-of-real-wage-stag...

[4] https://www.brookings.edu/research/make-elites-compete-why-t...

[5] https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2015/01/27/nearly-30...

[6] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/16/technology/inside-the-hot...
Intel.
In this instance it's a great step in the right direction. On the other hand Google uses the "do as I say not as I do" model when it's convenient for them to do so.

Full page ad interstitials on mobile will get you banned from AdSense, but Google also offer their own full page ad interstitials on mobile within AdSense. So long as it's them disrupting the UX its fine.

Not advocating for ads just notice the discrepancies in policy.
Where, where does it say that std::deque is supposed to have O(sqrt(n)) space requirement as worst case?
Eagerly awaiting the day-after-prime-day so I can make a purchase I was prevented from making yesterday.
Does it run java applets?
I think that flavor of OO was more about encapsulation, orthogonality, and modularity before OO meant the things that it means today.
Is there any update on BEAMJIT?

It was super promising 3 or so years ago. But I haven't seen an update.

Erlang is amazing in numerous ways but raw performance is not one of them. BEAMJIT is a project to address exactly that.

https://www.sics.se/projects/beamjit
Good to set reminders and play, occasionally, some music. After all Echo is a good bluetooth speaker at the basic level. I would be curious as well how other people would put echo into use though.