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pretty boring article. i've had ex/current girlfriends shoot out my car windows, pull knives on me multiple times, jump out of moving vehicles, punch me in the face while driving, wake up from a dream and attack me because they dreamed i was with another girl, and all sorts of other batty shit. the crazy is real and it's universal. stay tough and live your life.
"Yes, the money laundering part should not be prosecutable as long as you weren't involved in any crime."

Aiding criminal activity, which money laundering most assuredly is, is itself a crime.
I.Am has a net worth of 75 million, how does that take over a company like Wink? Almost 100 employees? Bullshit.
I disagree with the "People began to stop being [creators/hacker]" part - the existing people didn't change, the market OPENED UP to allow people who were not hackers and computer experts to be computer users. This is a good thing; otherwise computers would have remained a niche hobby like ham radio or woodcarving.

You're right that the average computer owner is not as savvy about the internals as before, but that's just because the pool of computer owners has expanded so much, on account of the simpler and consistent and more learnable interfaces.
Not to mention the number of heirs one might expect to divide the inheritance amongst. Might just end up a pittance per person after all.
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Massive hype squeezing functional programming into all kinds of imperatively shaped holes, code that's going to remind you of your dad's 80's pictures someday.
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> But if I just give her some JS and ask her to run it she'll stare blankly right back at me.

Exactly. I know how to program, if programming means designing an algorithm to achieve a task and returning the result...but even though I'm most of the way through my CS program, I don't know how to do a lot of the stuff necessary to make that program useful in the real world. I know I'm missing that and I'm learning on my own, but I'm really bothered there hasn't been much emphasis so far on how to deploy the program in a real-world environment and integrate it with an ecosystem of programs, such that laypeople can use it. Algorithms and programming are only a small piece of the puzzle, and a lot of people won't have senior developers to guide them.
The article didn't mention how Iliopoulos came to acquire his wealth in the first place. I did a few cursory Google searches but couldn't find much about him. This is truly a remarkable story.
Wow, I just couldn't imagine spending that sort of money. But if you can afford it and it makes you happy, awesome.
What surprises me is that large-scale insurers aren't more stringent about cameras and evidence-taking. Maybe the ship was high-risk, but dash cams are becoming pretty normal now - shouldn't the industry be ahead of the curve, especially with that amount of money involved?
LOL. I remember saying almost exactly the same things and not long ago!

It's not necessarily a matter of "tangled up" (although that happens also with size if one isn't careful). It's more a matter of very unwieldy to work with and a lot of cognitive overhead. The few "updating DOM" things turn into hundreds, the callbacks multiply, "what function was it that did this? What file was that in?", the bindings start tripping over each other, it quickly turns into another level of problem at size and when it gets to the point it does it's big enough to be real work to refactor.

At the scale you are talking about sure, raw HTML, a handful of global functions doing this and that and a few arrays and objects holding data, no problem. If you have (or work with) something of a different scale using jQuery I'm pretty sure you'll see for yourself and come to the realization I have. There's a reason for the rise of these frameworks and it isn't all fancy hipster nonsense. Well not all of it anyway :)
I do that with my wallet and keys. I rarely take my phone out of the house though, and even leave it switched off for days or weeks at a time. I'm not sure what I'm missing out on by not having it available 24/7.
Coinfloor however says that they'll support Cash if it gains traction.
One of my professors used to say that functional programming makes all problems equally hard. There's some truth to that. For example, for I/O, most functional languages fall back on imperative idioms. Those that don't (Haskell, mainly) basically tell beginners to pretend that this weird thing (I/O monad) is just an imperative code block. You can figure out how it works once you're more familiar with the language.

Since doing I/O is a pretty common task, functional languages generally include imperative constructs to fix this, but these constructs generally feel tacked on.

The main drawback I see in practice is that functional programming can encourage people to be more clever than they ought to be. In the worst case, you can get some of the worst Java-like issues, where there's a function that returns a function that returns another function that actually does what you want, even if it's only used in two places anyway. In a more typical case, you'll get someone who likes to unnecessarily write everything in continuation-passing style, or jumps through hoops to move recursive calls into tail position even though the recursive depth never exceeds 5.

If the team has the discipline to just avoid that kind of thing, the only real downside I see is being farther from the hardware.
Thanks I really appreciate the perspective! Quick follow up, are you assigned a team from the get go and what's the the mobility between missions/tribes?

I'm definitely going to apply, but I image they get inundated with apps so I'm trying to learn as much I can for that cover letter (hopefully that counts for something,haha?).

Would you suggest I email a recruiter directly on top of applying online?
> Turkish piece of shit.

And you wonder why he doesn't want to deliver your packages...
> It's a lot more work to write platform-specific code without those frameworks

Qt/QML abstracts over a ton of platforms, lets you write UI code in JavaScript, is extremely easy to pick up, has a WYSIWYG drag-n-drop editor and consumes a small fraction of the resources Electron does.

The overuse of Electron is not because everything else is impossibly hard; it's just old-school fashion-driven development.
As is so often the case, this is already a solved problem in Japan. When a package arrives, I'm alerted to its presence when I RFID my key to open the lobby door. Then I RFID my key again on the package locker and the locker with my stuff pops open.

The issue with lockers filling up too quickly or packages sitting in them too long is handled by the shipping company, which has sufficiently good customer service to contact me about re-delivering items that aren't reaching me. Also, my neighbors would be mortified if their deliveries ever inconvenienced someone else in the building, so it's somewhat self-policing in that sense.

The amount of over-engineering that goes into overcoming the shortcomings of customer service and lack of basic etiquette in America is amusing and sad. Amazon seems to be an emerging leader in finding solutions for social breakdowns that could be easily solved if people cared more about doing a good job or about extending basic courtesies to their fellow citizens.
Yeah, it the same ones that Postnord uses here in DK i think.

http://www.keba.com/en/logistics-solutions/logistics-solutio...
Nothing - but the same habit also compels me to carry my wallet & keys everywhere I go as well. It costs me nothing to carry it, and there are times where I've returned to my apartment after stepping out for a minute to find myself locked out.
> The IPFS network is ideal for this kind of situation.

I like ipfs, but in this situation specifically it's got problems. It's not private and it's not secret. It means that, by hosting a mirror of the data you're announcing: I'm publicly offering these documents, likely illegally as far as copyright is involved.

(And without a country/region limitation, which may be another issue)
None of those things are sexist, they're just inappropriate.
Except that the first block and the millionth are not of equal value so there is very definitely a difference in risk when trusting one over the other. The information that the millionth block is safeguarding is way more valuable than the information the first block is guarding. You can't really treat them equivalently.
Having automated security updates, backups and support has value though. Every server you have to admin is overhead.
They're supposed to be significantly improving them both - we'll see. I think it would be hard for them to justify spending something like $10b for Slack when it doesn't help move the needle on competing with Facebook.
Indeed.com (API) by job title/USA shows 611 Rails jobs, 835 Node.js, 353 Django, 243 Laravel, 117 Symfony and 9 Elixir. For the UK (Indeed.co.uk) it's 239 Rails jobs, 758 Node.js, 234 Django, 441 Laravel, 359 Symfony and 11 Elixir. By what measure is demand for Rails declining? Elixir isn't even close.
He was talking about car company.

Chevy is a brand... GM is the company iirc. Even if Chevy sells more in Texas it doesn't mean GM is sold more in Texas than California.
How does this doom subscription journals? I mean it would be nice but realistically it just means they move to exploit the university subscriptions since the professors can't admit use of illegally obtained copies. They can further exploit the authors since many journals require payment from the author for submission and some journals charge in the hundreds. One might say "just publish to a different journal" but it's not that easy. Because of the heavy reliance on Impact Factor in scientific publishing, it is the journals with those high impact factors that the authors will try to publish to. Regardless of whether or not they are being pirated.

This is sad to say, but in reality I think this isn't going to massively impact things for the publishers. Academia at its core is where the problem lies. Sure paid subscriptions are a big part of things, but it's the stuff most don't realize (the authorship fees and institution sub fees) that give the publishers power.
> I love Slack and have no plans to stop using it to communicate with my team at Ably.

As long as your willing to tolerate it don't expect anything to change. If people stopped using slack then the bean counters would sit up and take notice. If slack died it might even serve as a warning to others.

It's easy to blame slack, but everyone that continues to use this and other bloated apps are also part of the problem.
Thanks for reading!

For Manhattan, these prices aren't that crazy. It's certainly much more than groceries, but about on par with restaurant delivery.
Yes, Alexa is bad at answering random things we throw at it, but making an app to control what I want to and how is why I love it. I don't trust Google to be as open.
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I usually set mine on a table or whatever when I'm home, but if I need it to get my mail, I'd take it and it's not a big deal.
strongly agree about the multiplayer. not generally into re-playing video games from my younger days, but i'm really looking forward to this.
That's really stereotypical and reductive.
Why do you say so? The original AoE always struck me as kind of clunky, specially because of the atrocious path-finding. But I never actually played it in multiplayer.
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>it's not imprecise to say that a more complex code base that didn't follow the best approach available likely has a bug.

It is imprecise because the Parity multisig bug is an outlier. There are numerous contracts both by 'crack' teams like Parity, and by teams with a less established reputation, that have not been found to have a critical bug in production.

Therefore, the evidence that most contracts have serious bugs is simply absent, and one can't accurately state that the odds of a contract being launched without a serious bug is "remote".

>Moreover, I was cautioning OP to be careful. One valid response to that is what he's already going to do (get an audit). This makes a bug less likely. The next phase would be a Bankor-style pilot+bounty. After that... well we just don't know.

Yes and I agree with your advice.

>Sorry, but unexploited is not unexploitable.

And the possibility that it is exploitable does not mean it is exploitable. I'm not saying that it's out of the question that there are numerous contracts out there with exploits. I'm saying that we can't assign a probability to that being the situation.
I always thought that heart disease was something I might one day have to worry about but could ignore in the meantime while I enjoy eating what I want. But I'm only 46 now and over the last year I've been experiencing increasing tightness and discomfort in my chest and strong heart arrhythmia. That's what motivated me to take a closer look at my diet. After only three weeks of eliminating animal products from my diet those symptoms have disappeared.

As for growing obesity, there is a lot of evidence that points to toxins in our food as an important factor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieQBdS9cN0I

Most of these toxins are concentrated in animal products.

People are also eating a lot more cheese which contributes to obesity:

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/09/now-is-th...

Of course refined carbohydrates and sugars are also a big problem and they should be scrupulously avoided.
Thanks. I didn't try Multivalent as I didn't have a Java VM. Maybe I should take another look. I tried pdfsizeopt, and IIRC it didn't actually reduce my particular PDFs.
You are not allowed to talk about genitalia at work. There are literally laws about this in the US. It is mindblowing that you find this an unacceptable restriction.
"many visually impaired I've talked to"

This says it all really.
Ah, word, I didn't know this even existed -- I might look into it.
Great story. I am reminded of the story of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, who walked from somewhere near modern day Galveston all the way back to Mexico City in 1527 [1]. His record of the voyage is a wealth of information on Native American societies prior to the arrival of Europeans.

[1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81lvar_N%C3%BA%C3%B1ez_Cab...
All those African-Americans playing in the NFL, you think they're Republicans?
Another important missing factor here is the modeling of empathy and altruism. It can often simply feel good to help someone else, even if you get nothing tangible in return. This is a biological fact, as far as I'm aware.

Incredibly crude approximation: some situations that appear as [empathetic helper +0, receiver +3] on the surface, might in reality be [empathetic helper +1, receiver +3].

There is a ton of complexity in how this works in the real world. The magnitude or presence of the non-tangible reward may depend heavily on a certain aspects of one's value system. It may be heavily contextual -- only certain situations foster the non-tangible reward. Sometimes there is a potential tangible reward that may come much later, after some weeks, months, or years. And so on... I think this is barely scratching the surface.

Lastly, none of the people or dynamics in the system are static.

The linked interactive tool was very cool. However, I'm increasingly skeptical of these types of analyses as they generally are forced to ignore most of the complexity of the real world.

EDIT: I completely forgot about technology... things like the internet which completely change the nature of an interaction between people, or apps that mediate or flavor in-person interactions in ways that society has never seen before.
I feel a lot of sympathy for the author.
Would it be correct to infer from this article that the appropriate response after ("make no contact with them" and "keep records" should be:
1) Talk to lawyer
2) Get restraining order (useful info here[1]),

possibly preceded by
0) hire private investigator to find stalker's actual identity

[1] http://www.womenslaw.org/simple.php?sitemap_id=90#2

anyone with experience of how effective (or not) this might be?
Sure, agreed, but even if you use more sophisticated immutable structures you either accept the performance/memory trade offs or you have to fall back on mutable structures.
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Haven't seen it posted here yet but wee-slack [0] works wonders if you're not afraid of using weechat.

I'm looking at an average CPU usage of 2% and memory usage of ~30MB for three IRC networks and three different Slack teams.

[0] https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack
Elixir is hardly visible in the jobs market. At least if Indeed.com is to be believed. It's too niche. Clojure is at least as good as Elixir, if not better, and has failed to gain widespread adoption after 8 years since 1.0 so I don't see Elixir going anywhere. There's just too much competition.
And even if you don't live in some fancy apartment building with RFID locks you can just get a box that you chain to your front door and the delivery services will respect that and put your packages in there, use your seal for a signature, and then lock it after they're done https://direct.sanwa.co.jp/ItemPage/300-DLBOX001
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Interesting writeup! Can you cook? How much time did you you spend arranging a cook and preparing for their arrival?

I would have thought cooking in bulk with simpler recipes would save more time overall than arranging someone to turn up to cook for you unless it was a regular thing or simpler recipes aren't good enough.
Did everyone forget GoogleTV? Amazon has a strong presence in the retail market and my amazon kindle dx is still supported. I'm not wasting my time with google again.
You might have saved his life - or someone else's. 80 in a 35? Completely insane.
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Might be worth looking to see if the processes are creating hidden windows or other UI objects. The previous post references NtGdiCloseProcess, and it'd make sense that some of those handles would require a lock to clean up safely.
I hear that - being a remote worker the social isolation can sometimes get to you.

As for online communities - I'm a member of the Remotive.io Slack group which is fairly active (it's a paid subscription). I also recently joined the workfrom.co Slack group (which is a paid group as well) and it seems to be fairly active. There's the nomadlist Slack group too (again, paid) but I haven't joined that one so can't really speak to it. Hope this helps.
What do you use now then?
I disagree with you, but I'll keep it short.

The author is injecting their own narrative into the words of her colleagues and is already assuming intent as malicious. The whole racism/sexism view-point comes from a misunderstanding and attribution of malice to innocent parties, it's so god damn ironic.

I will not and do not tolerate sexism and racism.
But I will also not blindy accept claims of racism and sexism without intent, context and backstory. Logic and rationality > outrage and ignorance.
Article on TC: https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/27/i-am-buys-wink-the-smart-h...

Wink was created by Quirky, which blew through $185M of VC cash then declared bankruptcy two years ago. The Wink product alone got bought for just $15M by Flextronics. Wink itself is not exactly a big valuable money maker; they sell (or give away) a cheap hub but have to support a 24/7/365 web service to power it indefinitely in exchange for those few dollars.
"Each TaskRabbit worker chooses their own rate for the services they offer, so it doesn’t make sense to add a tip on top of that." yeah I'm sure they love not getting tips.
What a crazy jump. You would guess I'm a creationist or want some other sort of similarly bad mis-education?? Why would you automatically assume that whatever the Gates Foundation is funding, it must be the best education? I suppose if you can't think of any bad direction besides creationism, you must be someone who never thinks much about education.

Education isn't just a matter of what information is presented, it's about how it's presented and all the complex issues around that.

The point is that there's real complaints from actual educators about the views on education that Gates Foundation promotes, including the whole overemphasis on testing and more… I'm not certain of all the details, but for an example:

http://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Gates-Effect/140323/
I just wait for the second ping (that usually has the details) before sending an ACK.
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I wish that history lessons could show videos of custom AoE maps with recreated player actions that correspond to real-life past events.

Studying history is a combination of 1. Calendars, 2. Maps, 3. Contacts, and 4. Messages.

I've been trying to figure out how to represent Calendar & Map data in a single user interface. (such a program would have other uses outside history, too). A video of a changing map, such as a screen recording of an AoE game, is one way I can think to show that data. Being able to then click on the characters and see what they're doing/saying would be helpful too. This idea is still quite vague in my head, but if anyone has any comments, I'd appreciate the discussion.
If you can read russian the name of the guys was
Захарченко 120 mil cash 400 mil in swiss bank
https://iz.ru/news/632412
http://www.ntv.ru/novosti/1660682/
and he is literally nobody in the russian corruption hierarchy
One critical difference: GoogleTV was a platform where distribution (updates, etc.) were owned by the TV manufacturer. Google owns the update channel on Google Home.

It's like comparing the Pixel now to early carrier-operated Android phones.
Chrome and other Blink based browsers are doing this on Android already, PWAs can be installed to the device and are treated like a native app. (Except that they still use the web's more restrictive permissions model)
I'd actually be completely fine with the original graphics, so long as they scaled to my larger screen correctly. I enjoy having older games that run on some of the older hardware that I have around (or newer, but far cheaper), but they do tend to have only a short list of supported modes, rather than querying the hardware for capabilities.
First link does not mention anything about scripbox taking commissions from the consumers.

Second link does not mention scripbox at all!
I appreciate the curiosity, but answering would help the spammers and obviously I'm not going to do that.
Right but you are doing so in an disingenuous way. I like baking too. Referring to "girls baking" implies cupcakes, cookies, frosting, and cakes. All of which are impractical while camping.
I am getting really fed up with Slack and other CEF/Electron apps. Between Slack, Spotify, Atom, Adobe CC, and Firefox (the one program that isn't running on Chromium), I have no RAM left.

Why does Spotify use 1 GB of RAM, and 1 GB of swap?
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You won't reach alberts-hacker-cloud.com behind the great firewall. The warning message you get from the internet police won't be a pleasant experience either. But try it and learn the hard way. Let the fear and dread wash over when you realize how far away from home you are, and how utterly alone you are in a foreign system.
Cool post. What about finding someone on craigslist instead? Would that save money?
Do you receive tips for the work you voluntarily do on a daily basis?