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That's not clear to me. Nobody relies on the feature, it's a tiny piece of code, only some vendors support it, and it's not even part of the spec. (It also can't be reassigned because it was never assigned to begin with)

If they like 418, they can add it to the spec. But this idea that it's been "consumed" is weird. It's like saying <blink> was "consumed" in HTML because two browsers used to support it. It was just an unofficial feature of popular vendor software, and is now officially disavowed.

Basically what we're saying is we're not going to implement 418 in the spec, but at the same time, we're not going to let anyone use it?
It's a modification of the default Pandoc template. I add css to it directly, but it can load css files if you wish. Think of it like this - there's a $body$ statement in the middle of the template. The html generated by Pandoc goes there. Everything else in the template file stays there.

You can view the Pandoc html5 default here: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/blob/master/data/templates/def...
I know it might be a contrived case, but it's rather disappointing to see that even with the -O2 optimisation level, the final generated code contains 43% (3/7) useless instructions to mess around with RBP. I mean, it should be bleeding obvious to the compiler that this function doesn't require any stack allocation, much less an RBP-based one (the tradeoff between using RBP/RSP-based allocation is far more subtle, and I can forgive a compiler for choosing nonoptimally in that case), so why did it emit those useless instructions?

There's plenty of articles about how intelligent compiler optimisers can be, and I don't doubt that they can do some pretty advanced transformations, having read a lot of compiler output; and then, I see things like this, which just make you go why!?!? It's puzzling how compilers behave, applying very sophisticated optimisation techniques but then missing the easy cases. The effect might not be as great as more advanced optimisations, but so is the effort required to do this type of optimisation. This is not even low-hanging fruit, it's sitting on the ground.

However, the compiler will use as few registers as possible.

Compilers usually try to use all the registers they can (although sometimes they do exhibit odd non-optimal behaviour, as described above); eschewing register use and using memory instead will increase code size and time.
"Forward secrecy" is listed as a feature. I've heard of "perfect forward secrecy" -- is there a distinction between the two?
A recursive-descent parser is probably the only part of a compiler which people will easily derive on their own, even without taking a compiler course.
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I played Beneath a Steel Sky entirely on ScummVM. Fun little indie game. It's kinda amazing the story telling that's possible with that engine. My favorite LucasArts adventure game from that era would be a toss up between The Dig and Full Throttle.
That's cool. I can admire a dedicated Nintendo fan site. I ran Mario-Kart.net for a decade. In its most popular days it was #1 on Google for "mario kart". I let the domain expire recently since the site was outdated and I don't play anymore but it was a good long run. We had a dedicated forum base for a while too.
> It's like saying <blink> was "consumed" in HTML because two browsers used to support it.

Which is accurate. Reintroducing a tag named "blink" into HTML to mean something other than "blinking text" would be a really bad idea for compatibility reasons.
That's actually an extremely fascinating experience. I only have two comments, both of which you've probably already considered:

1. Become a freelance web developer

2. If fish oil helped you, then avoid consuming vegetable oil (which is sadly used for 99% of takeaway/restaurant meals) and eat lots of salmon. It's possible that chronic inflammation and Omega 3/6 are related. I wouldn't be saying this if fish oil didn't help -- the fact that it helped says a lot.
Tables amuse me. I honestly think they are easier in raw TeX. Though, they are a pain in all languages, sometimes. Word, TeX, HTML, I don't think anyone has ever succeeded at the perfect table.
Not quite. It's more like:

"since 1865, the huge decrease in black slaves—something notoriously tough for capitalists—has rendered the notion of a "productive economy" into an oxymoron".

Followed by the non-denial:

"It would be absurd to suggest black people will be re-enslaved".
Jesus. Now that's a grandfather I'd have liked to have had. Imagine the stories!
And the TV in the gym serves as a glorified set of speakers most of the time using AirPlay listening to podcast while I'm running.
How do we still have issues with counterfeit products in 2017? There should be electronic records with audit trails for every shipment into the US. This ordeal is probably going to bankrupt several small businesses.
It's only an issue because there's such a pervasive notion in our culture that an individual cannot trust themselves. If I believed everything I was told I would think that I'm incapable of feeding myself properly; dressing myself properly; communicating with anyone, even those closest to me; raising my children; even walking or running. "You need to defer to experts in order to conduct your daily life", is the mantra chanted in a thousand little ways.
Even better, you can script parts. Yes, the text nature was what I was highlighting. I didn't want to overstate it.

In particular, for short papers within a term, the sharing feature of word is decent enough. I confess I prefer text source control, but I know most of my peers in school did not.
I am self-publishing.

> Not everyone knows this but MS Word lets you create formatting blocks that essential behave like CSS classes. Most people have used MS Word Heading, Sub Heading, etc not realizing that as long as you never touch the font formatting options the classes can be changed globally just by applying a different template.

Absolutely, but it's going to be a nightmare when all of my 40 chapters are in a different word doc...
Thanks for this, this looks amazing
So we're trying to avoid breaking the internet by committing to people expecting an error when they're talking to a teapot? So that past implementations of clients connecting to teapots won't break?

Like I say, we could also just add it to the spec... But that would be ridiculous, because why would you support telling someone you were a teapot in an HTTP protocol, when the feature is only useful in a protocol for brewing coffee? That would be like taking a programming language's syntax for assigning data objects and turning it into it's own standard for a text file format.

Maybe a time traveler set this whole thing up 19 years ago just to troll people on standards boards.
Well, a reason to care about the ugly codebase is that unless you're 100% satisfied with somebody else's theme out of the box, you're going to be tweaking it in a child theme (or a full fork), and wow it's ugly.

But having said that, the ecosystem of WordPress is really hard to beat. The original linked post complains that WordPress won't do Markdown without a plugin, but y'know, so what? Jetpack gives me Markdown and great site statistics without Google Analytics. Out of the box, I get a reasonably solid taxonomy system with per-category RSS feeds, threaded comments with Gravatar support, and an API that lets me publish drafts directly from offline clients (including Ulysses, the writing app I was already using). More plugins give me Akismet anti-spam, microformats, webmentions, and per-post crossposting to Tumblr and Dreamwidth. (And Facebook, Medium, and a dozen other systems, if I chose to use them.) There are a lot of things I don't love about WordPress, but the reality is that it's damn hard to beat its user experience.

I'd love it if something else stepped up to be a modern WordPress, but Jekyll, Hugo, et. al. just aren't it. (They're terrific at some things--I maintain a different site with Lektor, using it for things that WordPress wouldn't actually be very good at--but it's not a blog.) Ghost is the closest attempt I'm aware of, but between their launch and their recent 1.0 release, they refocused on being a platform for "building and running a modern online publication. I can't help but feel there's still a real opportunity out there for "modern WordPress competitor," although I don't know if it's a market opportunity--which is, one suspects, why it remains unfilled.
No, they are the same thing.
This is definitely good for papers that are "one and done." Just don't upgrade during. And try to have a set of coworkers are using the same version and is.
Not only that but anyone can claim to be a nutritionist.

Going to a nutritionist is just like going to a toothlogist instead of a dentist.
> So you think he wrote the memo in bad faith and/or ignorance

By now I'm convinced he wrote the memo in bad faith. The moment he beelined to every alt-right media outlet wearing a "Goolag" t-shirt it was clear this wasn't just an honest mistake. Even an idiot would understand that writing a memo setting up a "left vs. right" argument and then attacking Googlers as "repressors misguided by leftist ideals", while laying out a flawed biological argument for why "women are not well suited for engineering" is not going to go down smoothly.

It's no coincidence that he admittedly kept pushing this around when it got ignored until it eventually "made it to the public." Had he really wanted to have an honest discussion with HR about practices, he could've emailed them directly. Then he sued immediately after getting fired. Very tight timeline for a well-intentioned snafu.

> Why argue that it says things it doesn't?

Where did I do that?

> At least be honest about what he literally said and what additional context and inferences add to the picture.

At least be honest about the actual content of the memo. The additional context and inferences are just fluff to mask the base premise: "women are biologically different, that means they probably don't want to work here, please stop trying reaching out to them, you are discriminating against everyone else."
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The last sentence serves a purpose though. It urges the commenter to reflect on their own industriousness or lack thereof perhaps causing them to modify the standard by which they judge others.
I wonder what occasional socially accepted sleep deprivation (staying out late, working long hours, making love all night ^^ ) does to a body. The day after does typically feel like part of you died, and that dead part has to go to work anyway.
Why is it statistically impossible for 50% of drivers to be good?
> You're mixing up "support" as a logic connective with "support" as an opinion.

No, I'm not. I'm using it strictly in the latter sense. (I am, of course, assuming that Thiel has a minimum degree of rationality, and thus does not hold positions he himself describes as logically incompatible.)
Side note, forgotten (by me): Post-Dunkirk, Britain and France--represented by Churchill and DeGaulle--planned to unite. From The Atlantic story:

"Although that battle story is fairly well known, the accompanying political drama that almost saw Britain and France merge is now largely forgotten. But the drama of that near-fusion can help explain the origins of European integration—and the reasons why Britain ultimately pulled away from the European Union in the decision we know as Brexit."

Common knowledge in GB/France? How's the Brexit analysis?

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/08/du...
> Or they completely stop taking you seriously.

You take yourself really seriously, for someone defending the modern equivalent of phrenology.
I bought a set of 15 supposedly iso certified and tested them all when I got them. Couldn't see light bulbs or anything else but the sun. I wonder if they seller sold a mix of counterfit or just wasn't able to get the certification to amazon as a bulk seller?
As a musician I've always found that situation to be the best for improving my musical chops. The trick is to make sure you're good enough to stay in the band.
"as long as they have the ISO logo and a statement attesting to their ISO 12312-2 compliance, you should have nothing to worry about"

But if the problem is counterfeiting in the first place, why would the manufacturers stop at falsifying a simple sticker?
> I always assume they simply have a script that pulls out the raw text with formatting indicators and compiles it all together.

Not sure how it works for titles that are really 100 % text, but if any layouting has to be done for images etc. a typical workflow is to import all the files into a DTP/layout application like Adobe InDesign and do the final steps there. InDesign can import the format labels from Word and map them to its own.
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This is a perfectly valid perspective to have, and I totally understand the apprehension and aversion to management buzzwords.

If I may share an alternative possibility..

It often comes down more to communication styles and the individuals involved. It's still possible to do exploration and answer the questions about what's done / doing / blocking. You could say "I learned X won't work, now I'm exploring Y, and currently debugging Z". The only time this would be problematic is in scenarios where the leader is not supportive of honest communication about activities, in which case it may worth asking why you're spending your life / time underneath such an individual.

In general I'm a strong advocate of tight feedback loops and frequent communication in a team. There are many benefits, including helping ensure everyone has access to the support they need to be successful. The result of these tight loops sometimes also translates to deciding to set someone loose for a[defined] period of time to focus their energy on researching creative solutions or just jamming on something without distractions.

P.S. - Regarding "going dark": As a manager I can understand why as a general rule of thumb that managers pose issue with this.

The common, crappy scenario goes like this. An individual goes dark, then comes back with nothing of consequence to show for it or any evidence that they tried to do anything. Now valuable time has been squandered, while the rest of the team was hard at work. This leads to an array of harmful effects for all involved (the manager, the team, and individual worker).

Even if you are super responsible, fear and trauma from past offenders could still be a trigger for some managers.
> Show me the part of the memo that requires it? you are the one that suggested the memo said things that it didn't.

What, exactly does the memo say in your opinion? Because so far I hear you complain about all kinds of things it allegedly doesn't say, but I haven't heard you explain what it does say. I understand that's the semantic game most alt-righters love to play, but c'mon, if you want me to take you seriously at least argue something instead of just saying "no, didn't say so."
VCs used to oust founders and bring in experienced operators as soon as a company started scaling. Cisco is one of many high profile cases of founders getting kicked out [0]. With the success of Google and Facebook, VCs pattern matched and became enamored with the founder.

The pendulum swung too far with and things started going wrong. When things go wrong in founder controlled company, things can go really wrong. Uber is the poster child.

The question is how VCs can take back some control without being painted as founder hostile. You can see that happening with Benchmark. I am impressed that USV is speaking up. It is easy to hide in the shadows.

[0] http://www.businessinsider.com/how-ciscos-founders-were-oust...
Would you rather be in a situation that before any real work gets done you have to have a "project charter", 3 months worth of requirement gathering, three months worth of development and user testing and find out at the end that your delivered product is completely unusable by the people you were developing for?

"Buzzwords" create a ubiquitous language (a Domain Driven Design buzzword). I can change companies and if they are using those "buzzwords", I know what they mean.
You seem to have misunderstood my point. My point was that people cite the law when the law happens to allow their preferred state of affairs, and cite morality when it doesn't. In this case, the worthwhile debate isn't what the law says, but what it should be. When you respond to my argument about what should or shouldn't be by citing the law, you've severely missed the point.
> There is no reason one could not map a basic GQL service onto an existing set of REST endpoints, with each one a type, and the return of their fields controlled by the request.

I know you meant this to be rhetorical but unless this added some fundamental features (e.g., abstracting a distributed transaction negotiation) besides a new awkward interface I think I'd lose my mind writing GQL proxies over all my existing services.

Why just add a layer of waste and latency, along with a whole new intermediate serialization? Seems like make work. Just to adopt a technology for no real reason.
Interesting! I would try to hoist a digital flag of some kind so that people can find me using the internet! (Like those used by people in disasters).
If you disagree, that is one thing, but regarding cost: I am willing to bet that a very large number of folks would be 100% OK doing business with a company who refuses to do business with Nazis.
I didn't know Amazon did this. It'll make me think twice next time I purchase certain items.

After a quick search I found this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...

Even though inventory tracked using the manufacturer barcode is commingled within the network, the source of the inventory is tracked by our fulfillment systems and is taken into consideration if inventory problems arise.

Given the article, it seems they're not completely sure what was sent where. It would seem that using the manufacturer barcodes in Amazon's network opens you up to an unexpected risk.
Thanks for this,

Going to take a bit to get my head around it.
This guy has written a gigantic blog post to complain about the number of items in an RSS feed.

That explains why his blog has over 2400 posts.
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zzalpha predicted this a couple of weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14877216#14877731
But macOS and iOS share enormous amounts of code, if not the majority. The kernel is pretty much the same. APIs usually get support on both systems, with the exception being the UI layer.

Indeed, if they have different APIs on the 2 platforms for the same functionality, you can probably bet that pretty soon one will be ported across to the other and the other obsoleted. Recent examples: PDFs, Bluetooth, Media SDKs (AV Foundation etc).
Except blink is a string that means what it is. 418 is one of a small set of codes to use and has no purpose as it exists other than nonsense.
So our metro library system (well respected) is promoting an eclipse education event, with free viewing glasses. Should the sourcing be suspect? (95% viewing area)
> Actually, I don't think you can sum up a lenghty "manifest" about a tricky topic in a few sentences without misrepresenting its points and losing the nuance

When you want to prove a paper wrong you don't need delve on every nuance, you just need to prove the base premise is flawed. Not sure why Damore deserves a different treatment, when clearly he's trying to build an argument and proposes "solutions" based on it.

> One could argue though that Damore should have expected this

Oh, I'm pretty sure he was looking for this.
I've asked for an invite years ago.
Safari requires https to use geo location API.
People use jira?
I'm pointing out that Thiel's own description makes certain combinations of normative statements untenable as they are contradictory.
I'm lukewarm on 3 because it's got that feeling of "made by fans" instead of original ideas coming from the original minds. So you see repeats of insult swordfighting, the lazy crew that do nothing once you put to sea, etc.

Murray and the "A Pirate I was Meant to Be" song are both great, though.
Selling "eclipse glasses", or anything else cheap that encourages people to look directly at the sun, is a terrible idea to begin with. All it takes is some muppet to misread (or ignore) the directions and the next thing you know, they're blind and you've got a lawsuit on your hands.
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I've been experimenting with hosting the site content on GitHub, creating and editing posts with https://github.com/fiatjaf/coisas and auto-publishing with https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/deployment/pages/
Critical thinking in general seems to have become a lost art in schools. It's rarely taught in depth anymore. So if something is brainwashing, its alarmingly effective these days.
Oh sorry to confuse, I didn’t want to be too harsh on one of the richest websites in the world...
I was worried that page would actually return a 200 OK response, but curl confirmed it actually returns a 418 code
Never buy an Apple USB charger from Amazon, 90% of them are fake.

https://www.theverge.com/2016/10/20/13343682/fake-apple-char...
> "Buzzwords" create a ubiquitous language

No, that's jargon. Buzzwords are distinguished from jargon by being language that has become semantically ambiguous (possibly even semantically null) through pervasive inconsistent use, particularly in marketing.
Do you realize how hypocritical your position is?

You are OK with a woman not being hired because of gender bias
- which exists right now, instead of in a potential future imagined by Damore - as long as you get hired. In other words: let's not solve the current problems, just so that we introduce one that might potentially affect you.

Nice.
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The causality is bidirectional; it's a positive feedback. Does that answer your question?
I've always believed they deceived consumers but I makes sense when you see a lot of large brands becoming more disconnected with real society.
Seconded, would love to read something about this.
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The IBM Watson win on jeopardy was completely made up. IBM does not have an AI that can answer natural language questions now and they also did not have that 7 years ago. IBM'ers are delusional.
My https://github.com/fiatjaf/react-site is imperative instead of declarative, maybe that will suit you.

By that I mean you write generator script[1] and use the helper functions `listFiles`, `generatePage` and `copyStatic` to generate the pages you want with the template/configuration you want at the path you want. That means you can render content not only markdown files, but any source whatsoever, and combine the sources in any way you like.

[1]: https://github.com/fiatjaf/levypla/blob/1407b110228387e4a4b7...
Many libraries have received glasses for free from the Space Science Institute, which is a reputable organisation funded by NASA, the National Science Foundation, and others.

There's a map of libraries on their website:

http://spacescience.org/software/libraries/map.php

If yours is on that list, you should be pretty safe, I think.
Oops...Resent the invite.
I just ordered a set from B&H Camera Store in NYC. These are the Lunt glasses that are mentioned in the article, but are also identified by NASA as "safe" [1]. I'm hoping that B&H does not suffer the same counterfeit problems as Amazon. Shipping from NYC to the Bay Area is still a concern though (I'm a lot closer to NYC and just got the e-mail that they shipped on yesterday's order).

[1]. https://eclipse.aas.org/resources/solar-filters
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Oops, I was invited already? I've probably messed things up and deleted the email then. Sorry.