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Note that I never used the term "conniving" myself nor called anyone by name. Someone else did, and that is on them.

For me what was most difficult and disappointing was not being able to rally peers or their teams to get the necessary work done. Rather they were too busy sniveling amongst themselves — too jaded from burnout, I suspect. I felt incapable in the role at first until I recognized that it was really a maturity problem that pervaded much of the engineering organization.

I knew it was time to call it quits pretty early when seeing that nailing myself to the cross wouldn't affect change but hung on for two years. I was able to help a few people along the way by shielding them from the bullpen and the drama and giving some good career development opportunities. Let's face it: my peers in the leadership circle were long burned out, and I was quickly becoming so myself.

I have nothing but respect for the founders. They had their work cut out for them. Never asked a whole lot from them but they gave it their sincere all when I did. Maybe a learning opportunity for them would be having someone in their steed who was less conflict averse who could have helped referee the discord.

If anything, I wanted to caution folks to not be under any illusions with respect to SoundCloud's organizational and personnel context and work environment in Berlin. Everybody held it up as a panacea, which it sadly wasn't. Irrational exuberance is dangerous.
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Binutils has had debuglink support for, like, a decade now. OpenBSD uses it to put the symbols in a separate file. gdb knows how to find it using information in the executable.
>> your own brand

What is this "brand" that you speak of ? do consumers even care ?
Non-pro version of Fusion has a free home-and-startup license, in fact, auto-updated annually (unless am wrong) :)
It should be well know that HIV is viral, gonorrhea & chlamydia are both bacterial diseases, so if hard times are coming defend yourself: USE CONDOM!
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I would not recommend building a business on the affiliate model to anyone, unless they don't mind having virtually zero control.

eBay and Amazon are particularly notorious for draconian "enforcement" and sudden changes in terms and/or payouts.

Also, be aware that coupon and rebate sites generate the overwhelming majority of commissions across networks. While programs claim to want content, that's not where the real money or priority lies.
The way I understood it is in a YouTube video by Looking Glass Universe. I watched it time ago, but if I remember correctly, if there were hidden variables, the distribution of outcomes of his experiment would look different compared to what it actually looks. Sorry it's a half-assed explanation :)
Kind of seems like if you are measuring the analog computers virility by the number of decimal places it can represent maybe you are mis-using the machine. I mean how many decimal places can you or I do in our head in real-time?
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What? This isn't necessary at all. HTTP includes the requested hostname in the request so you can have as many DNS names as you want point to a single IP. No NAT or other magic necessary. The entire HTTP Internet could be hosted on a single IP.
1. Why now? Why talk about it after so long time?

2. How do you feel now? Better, Worse, Don't care.

3. What is your suggestions for men, when a woman uses femininity to get attention in business?
There is more to a job than the culture?
The wheels look too tiny for the real world. Nice idea, though.

This guy invented the Roomba? He must have been really screwed by iRobot if he has to do a Kickstarter to fund his next project. He should either have enough money or the reputation to talk to VCs.
I don't event want to open the article that has both of "idiomatic" and "tao" words in the title.
> I'm familiar with the Turing thesis but he's wrong.

Could you at least explain in what way you think he is wrong. Surely you must guess how participants on a programming forum will react to a statement like that.
Typing speed does not matter at all in creating software.

I type around 140wpm with a maximum of 146 in normal text whilst using qwerty. Never did I feel like this was important when writing code.

Dvorak might be interesting to learn just as a challenge but I am not sure if it necessarily makes you a better typist either.
Perhaps redux really might benefit from communicating heavily with beginners.
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Awesome. :D

Bonus points for then displaying it via serial port to an HP 48G{,X}.

Anyone else ever used their HP 48 as a learning remote to randomly turn on/off a TV in a lecture hall from 50' (15 m) away (thanks to its high power IR LED)?
With VC you are giving up part of the company and control, with kickstarter you are still the boss and get all the profits
But you keep calling it Vibe!!
It would be nice for a "git 3.0" to introduce a few new commands with consistent separation of responsibilities (new terminology as needed), and deprecate the twisted ones for removal in "git 4.0".

Whatever is confusing today will only be worse after more years of piling stuff on top.
I am a free market capitalist, sorry if that offends you, I'm happy you can't report me to a government official for my views and have me arrested.
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That sounds plausible. I believe content supplemented by YouTube videos may help in such situations. The fact that there is publish date (I hope you can't change), it is unlikely someone can claim your content.
I apologize about calling out the entire Brazilian group by name. That was unfair. Not all of you were bad. I think if you asked folks at large anonymously they would say that their was a whiff of nepotistic networking privilege in whom was hired, why certain immature acts were tolerated from members of the group, and why certain favored outcomes occurred to the Brazilian network disproportionally.
Everything mentioned in the linked article and his soundcloud post seems quite good. They greatly reduced new feature cycle time by bringing the right people together and having them work collaboratively rather than sequentially.

What were the unintended negative side-effects?
Needs lasers, invasive bugs are worse.
Not OP, but besides the work culture, there is also the actual work. Which you can love doing :)
Ivy growing over trees can be easily handled by humans.
"Governments need to incentivize new antibiotic develop heavily"... Governments overloaded by debts must invest billions just to allow people to enjoy their "rights" to free sex...
U are deluded, wake up 'cause it's over: USE CONDOM!
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Is the implication that oil supply has much to do with Syria? I understand Russian natgas companies have some pipelines that traverse the country into Turkey and their eventual customers and Europe, but I'm failing to see what that has to do with oil and the US. The US gets most of its oil from Canada.
The extended Turing-Church thesis states that an analog computer can be simulated on a Turing machine. It can but not efficiently.

Look into the work of Lenora Blum. She wrote a book "Complexity and Real computation".
I don't think it's counter-intuitive at all.

I think the patent durations of hardware should be shorter, just like many here think that they should be shorter (if existant at all) for software.

Part of the issue with durations in hardware is development time. It would be nice if the duration could take into account the date of first sale rather than just the inception of the idea.
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In a few words what is the general model to explain it?

Is it because the atmosphere becomes a better heat sink so it can store more energy? And then consequently release more of it?
> What happens after a few years when batteries lose most of their capacity?

That's rather pessimistic isn't it? In their cars, which is arguably a less stable environment, they don't seem to fall much beyond 70-80% capacity. The lose capacity quickly at first, but then it stabilizes. I haven't heard anything that implies that a lithium-ion battery in a stable, temperature environment will lose "most" of their capacity, i.e. over 50%.

And unlike cars, it's not like the value of the battery becomes so much less when they lose capacity. There's plenty of space, that's not the problem. They could just add a few extra batteries if they want to keep the capacity (more likely they will add more batteries other places).

Of course battery capacity loss will be part of the contract. Tesla will probably guarantee a certain capacity after a certain time, and they will tell the customer how much loss they can expect. It will all be taken into account when calculating the profitability and life-time of the system.

Why would they report this in the media? It's not something most people is interested in. It's the kind of thing you find in datasheets for the product.
To add to your list, with 1. referential integrity becomes a problem. Basically you move it up the stack into the application code and lose consistency guarantees RDBMS can provide.

I'm curious wether Datomic supports RE and how.
Swapping is an option if the batteries aren't owned by the drivers/truck owners. Otherwise its a huge issue.

I don't want to buy a new truck and have my new battery swapped for a 5 years old battery, then have a break down somewhere and pay for it.
The iPhone was the point at which the mobile computer finally got traction after 30+ years of prototypes and product sold to early adopters (palm pilot, windows ce, danger hiptop, etc...). Furthermore the iPhone was significantly cheaper than a VR setup is today and the iPhone was heavily subsidized.
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As a Roomba owner, I have to say that I'm not really impressed with their decision to make another product when their first one barely even works.

> "Some 15 million of them are cleaning floors all over the planet, and they’re doing so reliably and affordably and autonomously enough that people keep on buying them"

It is absolutely not "reliable". It's barely better than cleaning the floor myself. Some days, cleaning the floor myself would actually be easier, or ends up being what I have to do anyway. The number of issues I've run into with the damned thing is absurd and I feel like they should be fixing those before making a new product.

I think people are for the most part getting tricked into buying these. They're not that great.
Reminded me of A.K. Dewdney's "Computer Recreations" column in "Scientific American" back in the day (I think a lot of people may have hated on his column since it followed in the shadow of Martin Gardener's infamous "Mathematical Recreations"). One of the "analog computers" he mentioned was using dried spaghetti to sort numbers — where the length of each spaghetti noodle represented the magnitude of a number. Of course grabbing them into a bundle in your hand and setting the bundle on end on a flat surface would "sort" the values.

Would the surface tension across a film that accurately finds the shortest path between n points be considered a "computation"?

One thing fascinating by "analog computers" is the way they seem to be practically instantaneous regardless of n. That is perhaps part of the efficiency reflected in the article.
"we're" - it sounds like you're connected to NZ immigration! I can fill you in with more details if you're interested.

$75k is 4x my current salary in Taiwan. Yes, I know the economy is totally different in NZ, but I don't have high hopes that changing country will suddenly make me become rich. My boss here pays me the minimum that the government allows for a Masters graduate on a foreigner work visa.

The other consideration is my girlfriend. She applied for Working Holiday, but wasn't one of the 600 lucky ones. We were in an internet café with the fastest connection in Kaohsiung, but the site just wouldn't load in time. She's 30, so she can't try again next year. If we wanted to get a partnership visa, we would have to live together and share a bank account for 1 year. Getting married doesn't even help, just living arrangements.

We're getting kind of sidetracked from the original topic of analog computers, but if it's something you want to talk about more, then just search for my name on Facebook and send me a message. It would be nice to personify the immigration forms.
The whole point of storing history is ability for clients to explicitly query it (and sometimes manipulate it), isn't it?
Mulching robot?
Well, the incentives of the wirecutter are to recommend you the more expensive products, like any commission based salesman. And it shows.
Well, I do spend a ton of time answering questions from Redux beginners in many places online: Reactiflux, Stack Overflow, Reddit, etc. That's why my first contribution to Redux was writing the Redux FAQ [0], because I kept seeing the same questions being asked over and over. Ditto for the "Structuring Reducers" docs section as well [1]. So, I'd say I've got a pretty good idea what kinds of questions people are asking.

The docs themselves are written in a very "from first principles" style. For example, the page on "Middleware" starts by trying to show various ways to solve the problem of logging all actions, and iterates from "monkey-patching the store" up to a reusable system for wrapping `dispatch`. Some people find this approach very helpful, others don't. As Dan commented during the original development process:

> So hard to write the new docs. Many different audiences to cater to. Should make sense to: Flux beginners, FP people, FP people who don't get Flux, Flux people who don't get FP, normal JS people too. Flux people: “is this proper Flux?” FP people: “is this that weird thing called Flux?” Normal people: “why not Backbone”

Now, at this point, far more people are familiar with Redux than with "Flux", so perhaps the goal of making the docs understandable and relatable to Flux concepts isn't as important.

Most of my work around Redux has been improving the docs, writing my own tutorials and explanations on my blog (like this post), and answering people's questions elsewhere. I'm always happy to work with anyone who wants to help improve the Redux docs, and I'm totally open to suggestions and pull requests.

[0] http://redux.js.org/docs/FAQ.html

[1] http://redux.js.org/docs/recipes/StructuringReducers.html
You can upgrade Home to Pro for about $15 by buying the license from eBay. Not that you should have to but there you go...
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I think it does.

"Since 2000 heavy trucks have" tells me "2000 heavy trucks" did something and I'm going to read what that something caused.

It's only when I get to "and similar gains are projected over the next few decades." that it's clear the author meant "Since the year 2000, heavy trucks have".

It's a garden path sentence because the initial interpretation while you're reading it is incorrect and you only realise this when you get to the end and reprocess the start.

If the author put a comma there, it would be clear on first read: "Since 2000, heavy trucks have".
For what it's worth, "Practical Redux" is my blog series that demonstrates Redux techniques by building a sample app. "Idiomatic Redux" is my series for my own thoughts on why I think certain Redux usage patterns are good or bad. The phrase "Tao of Redux" was just something that popped into my head and sounded catchy, and seemed to go along with the idea of "explaining the Redux philosophy".
Yes exactly, and "having to do" a Kickstarter doesn't necessarily mean that he "must have been screwed", I think regardless of how much capital you may or may not have, there is no shame in raising funds, is there?
For that matter, why do we need xargs and not just `find <stuff? | rm`?
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It's not exactly first or untested - Tesla recently build an 80 MWh battery farm in California. I'm pretty sure they know it will work.
Redux itself is boilerplate heavy but conceptually pretty easy to understand. But once you start building real world apps and have to deal with async actions things get a lot more complicated and a lot of the benefits of the redux model evaporate. I plan to use mobx on my next react app.
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I did the back of the napkin math, and saw this coming a year ago. The numbers just didn't work out.

When the whole finance team quit late last year, I knew it wasn't good.

I got out of there earlier this year. I feel bad for the new hires that were just coming in. I heard that a atleast one was just moving from the US to Germany, their things are still in transit in a shipping container and they just got laid off.
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This reminds me of this discussion about AB testing, power statistics & significance:
https://p-value-convergence.herokuapp.com/
I'm not from SA but I think the Desalination plant they built to supply drinking water to Adelaide was a pretty infamous example.
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Why is accelerating from 0 - 60 in a few seconds so important for people when their journey would largely be for minutes/hours?

Its not like going to office/supermarket/school/college/home is a race.
Unrelated: since when has this picture of Bologna become a new lenna.jpg?

I think I have already seen it in a couple of recent posts about image compression. (Fits perfectly the definition of Baader-Meinhof phenomenon [1].)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases#Frequ...
I'm sorry, but earnest question: Do you really believe this in a world that has more than enough resources to take care of its population, however, millions have no access to clean water, basic nutrition or healthcare; even while others control resources sufficient to cover their own needs by several orders of magnitude?
Right. GoPro to me is like the iPhone of the action cameras. Yes there might be other cameras with better performance, but when you think about an action camera and you have the budget you go for a GoPro. That can hardly be considered as a failure from the point of view of a product. Now, investor's point of view will clearly differ as per the data pointed out.
Do you have a fliphone? How often would you honestly say you check the weather with it?
I'm not sure those 2 things are cleanly separable
Agreed. Maybe I'm ignorant but the cyber-war doomsayers sound to me a bit like the Y2K doomsayers.

Now, when cars/trucks become fully self-driving ... now you have a scary scenario ripe for hackploitation.
> After I withdrew my application he made sure to tell friends of mine that he had rejected me because of my depression. Really mature, that guy is.

Sorry, I just wanted to post to say I completely misread that. I dropped the sentence before the mature statement. I felt a seperate post was warranted.

In that case where he talked about it to others? You should have sued the fuck out of him. That is unacceptable in any situation. This kind of changes the entire tone of my follow-on posts, so I do apologize.
>> "Home gardeners apparently aren't mulching"

Yeah.. wow. Stop by a Home Depot sometime next spring and observe the mountains of bagged mulch they stock. Home gardeners and hobby farmers do indeed mulch. A lot. Where I am they stack mulch between gas pumps at every station. If that's too much trouble a single call will have a truckload on your property inside a week.

Simple weed killing robots of the sort depicted here will find their home on lawns. We're not all living in a coastal desert; ample fresh water affords nice lawns and that means squabbling with weeds.
Possibly because there was nowhere else to hang the port off with that Broadcom SoC. See also the myriad SoCs and devices that use a USB->SATA converter where I really just want SATA (e.g. a little known, obscure device called the Playstation 3).
That's because there are a lot of awful, unprofessional programmers out there trying to get jobs and we need a way to filter them out.

Agree. After being told a couple of times how happy <company> are to finally see a real, competent programmer when I enter the room and just answer simple questions I've come to accept that there must be a few people out there pretending to be programmers in their applications.

Even then these methods only filters out the worst of the worst, the developers that can solve fizzbuzz level problems.

Well, the problem is that the sum of these methods (clueless(?) recruiters, keyword filtering etc) often filter out me before I even get to an interview.

The ones who hire me tend to be very happy though :-)
Redux-saga helps a lot for this. It has a bit of a learning curve, but it's an extremely elegant way of dealing with tricky asynchronous workflows once you get a feel for it. I think it's actually my favorite lib in the redux ecosystem.
You can even see this problem in the article. The convolution-based sample image is clearly darker than the nearest-neighbour one.

People go all crazy about interpolation and then get the brightness wrong. It's even more obvious for high resolution photos of a tree or grass in bright sunlight. Once you start looking you notice the change in brightness everywhere, when you click on a thumbnail or while a JPEG is loading.
If you're for example an archer you can "calculate" angles and velocities to a pretty high precision.
Good to be reminded of that. I haven't read mine for years, time to take it off the shelf again.

I think that the point about selfishness and envy is spot on.

I'm convinced that one of the few things that were better in the past, well the bit that I inhabited in the 60s and 70s at least, was that people were not driven to the same degree by the need to acquire the latest gadget, and to excess in general.

Of course excess was there but in my experience in more episodic form, and therefore more sustainable and in fact more enjoyable.
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I have to image Google eventually figures out how to weed these out altogether.

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