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1995. Interesting because Java was initially Oak, and JS was LiveScript. But then Netscape & Sun got together. Sun wanted Java to be the language in the browser, Netscape wanted an easy to use lightweight language, Brendan Eich thought he would be putting Scheme in the browser, and the end result of all that was JavaScript. But Netscape 2 was also supposed to ship with the JVM and a canvas-like platform for both to target. However, it was too ambitious, so only JS made it.
What struck me was that the same Jenna Jemison obsessed CEO was one of the most ardent spokespersons for "Lean In".

As someone once said, "some of the most vocal feminist men are some of the creepiest".

It's as if it's their red herring for behaving badly.

Going from her quotes, it's as if they went out of their way to be obnoxious.
I don't read Breitbart (nor most media tbh), but I just skimmed through this site and can't find anything related to national socialism. It just looks like another right-wing news site, being that national socialism is a center-wing political stance, I think it is incompatible in principle.

Do you have any link of them claiming to be nazis or taking nazis stances about something? Or do you just call nazi anyone who disagrees with you? Not trying to pick a fight, just honestly asking.
Do you not see the inherent difference between prohibiting the sale of whole classes of goods and services, and prohibiting certain types of political speech by your users?
I like Tom Duff's http://www.iq0.com/duffgram/com.html for experimental programs contained in a single file.
> it's a Fortran or Cobol situation, only maybe three or four orders of magnitudes bigger.

You underestimate the amount of COBOL code that is still out there running our daily lives:

http://collaboration.cmc.ec.gc.ca/science/rpn/biblio/ddj/Web...
There is a comment from the author that states he hasn't mentioned Clojure because it's FP language. He doesn't go into details bit it looks like he just skipped everything that doesn't support class based OOP. Scala has this feature.
Yes, the animation of two aliens playing volleyball with the moon is scientifically inaccurate because the moon rotates out of sync with Earth.
It's true that I don't know for sure, but I haven't seen any citations, or verbal references, or any similarities in the APIs that would indicate familiarity with the relevant research I had in mind.

Also, a lot of research in this field is done through working proof-of-concept systems, so there is no point in implying that those designs don't work "in practice".
It's insane that we're still using systems without ECC RAM. As memory shrinks bit errors get progressively more common. The more memory you have the better chance of corruption as well of course.

Literally everything else that holds "data" has been using some form of error correction forever. Hard drives, SSD's, USB flash drives, file systems, databases, even network packets. Even HDMI uses error correction, and how important is momentary pixel corruption on a screen???

It's totally insane that we're not using ECC with such large amounts of RAM built on tiny processes. Its definitely just a cartel artificially maintaining a situation that's bad for everyone not selling server chips.
Apple's store is not a complete failure, there's some very good apps in there, but it's cluttered and disorganized.

The biggest hurdle in the macOS App Store is the stiff sandboxing rules that make the more exotic and often useful utilities incompatible.
The patents clause does not restrict to software pattents, it applies to any patent. If I had any "normal" patents, I would stay far away from any open source project with this patent license (also I'm not a lawyer, this is not legal advice). I would never allow Facebook (or any company for that matter) to limit my legal rights. I understand that they need to protect themselves, but not at the cost of the damage that they are doing to the open source community.
I remember watching the media report on Donald Trump's campaign speeches and debates late 2015. It seemed crazy, how could he say all those things! Why were the minorities getting beaten up at the rallies!

I became interested and downloaded a lot of them and proceeded to watch. There was nothing there! Everything he said seemed to be straight out of 90s/early 2000s policies and campaign promises. Some dude spat on another dudes face and got punched.

Now I'm wondering if I should read what is on Breitbart and Daily Stormer.
Something I only came across only in the last few years on how quite straightforward a steam line shaft shop would have operated. This guy is running one out of his shed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WXHNBMLZZM. If you watch this you can also see how straightforward it was to retrofit electric motors to the existing belt drive mechanism, but you can see why it was slow to adopt. If you take into the early adopter concerns, the mains reliability concerns and a general risk-averse outlook lightbulbs are a better sell then electric motors.
>Philip Budeikin, a psychology student from Russia claims to have invented the blue whale game. Why? To play God and “cleanse society of those individuals who have no value”. The game Blue whale came to light in 2016 after a Russian journalist connected the dots that connected several unrelated suicide victims. Philip Budeikin was arrested and pled guilty to inciting at least 16 teenage girls to commit suicide. More than 130 deaths have happened because of this game.

What makes this individual believe that he gets to determine who has no value to a society? These are just kids he is manipulating and I believe that they have value to their families and friends. Clearly this young man is A psychology student in need of a psychiatrist.

He is the poster boy for internet parental controls.
It sounds like a good idea, but considering how quickly the field moves, it'll become stagnant and irrelevant within a year.

"You must be an ACXXXYA-accredited Node JS 0.12-p125 developer who's earned his NPM 1.01-a B-level cert and can use Visual Studio 2008 SP3 (no other version has been approved by the body) to write the codes at this job".

After watching committees by the "best and brightest" of us come up with amazing ideas like SOAP, WSDL, and Annex K of the latest C11 spec, I shudder at the thought of giving someone like that authority over my work.
Agreed. I started with Java in 96 or 97; pretty much from the beginning. For me the big win with Java as the HTML documentation of the JDK. It meant I didn't have to grep around the file system and header files to figure out what abstractions I was meant to use.

But in 2000 I started messing with other languages like Python and Perl; at which point Java became nothing more to me than tech to put food on the table.
It just has a fairly generic picture of an Eagle along with the US slogan on it. (E Pluribus Unum)

https://store.breitbart.com/collections/mens/products/e-plur...

Calling this a Nazi parteiadler is pretty absurd.
Come on, you aren't talking about this right? That's a huge stretch if so... https://store.breitbart.com/collections/all-products/product...
David Wong has some interesting things to say about why online publishers are increasingly looking beyond ads to support their businesses. The means vary, but include pay-walls (used by such worthies as the Economist and the New York Times) and donations, often facilitated by Patreon or IndieGoGo. The publishers are doing this because ads pay a lot less than they used to. The move to smaller screens has shrunk the screen real estate and ad-blockers are increasingly common. Smaller ads viewed by fewer people means less money to the publisher; it's that simple.

Personally, I welcome this change. Ads have grown incredibly intrusive in recent years. I didn't mind static ads so much, but modern ads with sound and motion are incredibly annoying. If paying for our content is what it takes to get rid of them, that's just great. We'll need to sort out exactly how to pay for content, but once upon a time we managed to pay for books, newspapers, magazines, and newsletters just fine. We can do something similar online.

The world I see us heading towards is one where professionally produced content gets paid for up front by membership. These sites typically offer some free samples, but the good stuff is for pay. Free content remains available because some people just can't help but commit commentary or make art, and others use free content as advertising for their businesses. Between them lies a semi-pro layer where content producers get a little bit of money from their consumers, but not enough to live on, either through donations or ads.
I don't think they realize how much effort it takes to curate. Even Google's half-assed, slap-dash approach is better than nothing.
Literally anything can be ambiguous when people blind themselves sufficiently. There's a gigantic debate over whether the Confederate flag is a symbol of slavery!

Organizations like Breitbart thrive on "reasonable" people's willingness to give them a tremendous benefit of the doubt. They're like a little kid who lies down on top of the covers and plays with toys when you tell them to "go to bed." And a lot of people who should really know better step up and say, "technically they did what you said, I see nothing wrong with that."
Seems like a waste of a bright biology student.
This article doesn't talk at all about safety, which is one gigantic advantage modern statically typed languages have over traditional dynamically typed ones.

It also doesn't talk at all about the pain of having to wrestle with the compiler in statically typed languages in order to get the damn thing to compile, nor with having to deal with inscrutable error messages that sometimes need years of type theory courses under your belt to understand.
If you're fiending for good hard sci-fi check "The Expanse" or the "Remembrance of Earth's past" trilogy. Vernor Vinge his "Zones of Thought" trilogy is also great :)
Is Breitbart's store a private communication or is it public communication?

Email and phone conversations are private communication. Breitbart is public communication. There is a difference.
Arguably Lincoln, Johnson, and Grant were too kind to southern aristocrats. What they should have done, historic atrocities as a guide, is executed the entire aristocracy down to the children and divided up the land to the slaves. We'd certainly have been further along now had that happened.

But Grant threatened resignation if pardons were not granted to Lee and all who surrendered at Appomattox. These men were absolutely over the war, and as the papers of the day indicate, most people were too. There really was no meaningful demand for treason trials for the lead generals.

And the sadly, as the Civil War determined slavery was absolutely wrong, it began 100 years of institutionalized 2nd class citizenry based on skin color. The Civil War was not a successful egalitarian enterprise by any stretch of the imagination.
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1. True, but I did study it in grad school for a few years. That was over a decade ago, but I remember the basics.

6. Not at all. I said you should start from one of the handful of links I posted, all to Wikipedia pages and to the top hit on Google Scholar. You can equally start from any of the top hits on Google, as at this point, anything would be better than nothing. You can read the whole thing in a couple of hours. And don’t worry, that won’t be enough to turn you into a scholar by any means.

8. I am not sure what narrative you're referring to. Reminder: we are not talking about whether or not there are innate biological differences that can be partial explanations to the lower interest of women in tech. We are talking about whether or not that has any bearing on the subject of sexism or relevant policy actions. Like in my analogy of the polluting chemical plant, the subject under discussion isn't whether cancer can be caused by factors other than exposure to chemical waste, but whether that possibility should be used as an excuse for the plant to continue polluting.

> What exactly am I supposed to find convincing?

Either you're being too sophisticated for me, or that you're naive in an almost cute way. Obviously, I am not trying to convince you of anything. That undertaking would be completely impossible until you yourself show some interest in the subject. Don't get me wrong: I would be happy to have an interesting discussion, or even a debate, with someone who's at all interested in this, but you can't have a meaningful discussion with someone on a subject they know virtually nothing about and are not interested in studying even superficially. My only intent is to convince other curious people who may be following this discussion to read a couple of Wikipedia pages and be exposed to a fascinating subject.
And they're using one shaped just like the Nazi eagle instead of one like the standard US eagle because they just think it flows better or something?
Let's bake a cake.
There is a way to carve out exceptions to corporations ability to limit free speech. The cost of laying phone lines or setting up a network of cell towers and buying bandwidth makes entering the phone market prohibitive. If even one company bans your speech from their phone network, you are likely to be unable to speak. Phone companies should be considered the infrastructure of speech, and thus not be allowed to limit the types of converstions you have.

Shopify is just one of many ecommerce platforms. There are simple roll-your-own ones as well. If they ban someone, there is no major impedements to getting their speech out still.

Right now all I see is shopify profiting from hate, not defending free speech. Brietbart can go set up opencart on a vps.
How is it morally wrong to throw away something I know I'm not going to finish? What am I supposed to do with it? I can't buy smaller sizes. It would be morally wrong if I bought 5 loafs of bread and threw out 4. Then I agree.
Our team had the same thoughts on react-router. I'd suggest checking out https://github.com/kriasoft/universal-router. It uses the HTML5 History Library (https://github.com/ReactTraining/history) for navigation.
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Is your contention that it is racist for the American government to prioritize the needs of citizens who vote for it and live under its laws over the citizens who don't?
> I think this whole argument is mostly a problem because some people view government as an adversary, instead of the product of populace cooperation.

That's because government is an adversary to anyone who doesn't agree with what it's doing. There is no such thing as "populace cooperation" unless all of the populace agrees on what should be done. That is very rarely the case; most cases of "populace cooperation" are a portion of the populace using the coercive power of the government to force everyone else to do the things that portion of the populace thinks are good ideas.

> that's what policing has always been. Being free to do whatever you want means being free to oppress others.

But if all the government does is "policing" in this sense--preventing people from oppressing others--then almost all of what governments do today would be off the table.
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Monitoring phone calls seems like a big leap from where the conversation was it.

I think most people would agree that if you keep things private that even a private entity shouldn't expose that. But if you broadcast the information publicly, then you are now liable to be held to a different standard.

So if a group started holding advertising public WhatsApp calls where they'd discuss plans to exterminate minority groups then I think WhatsApp would be OK in canceling their account (assuming its consistent with their TOS).

I don't think messaging apps should be able to collude though. This should be at a case by case, company by company basis.
I don't run any client-side Java apps. But I do run quite a few server-side ones - like ES. Yes, startup time isn't lightning-fast, but once it's up - it's up for months.

I can wait 15 seconds. Its cool.
Uhmm you make a reasonable argument but I am not sure why it's a reply to my comment. I was commenting on peoples behavior in the workplace and not how they spend their free time. Did you just inadvertently create a strawman so you could attack it?

You see I like many people here aspire to be successful but neither do I have the personality to for example play dominance games nor the desire to develop such a personality and hence I wonder if that's something that might truly handicap one or just something that imposters do.
I recently went through my Big Box of Miscellaneous Computer Stuff and tossed out everything that wasn't current. Firewire cables? Gone. Mini DV recorder? Donated. Old A-B style USB cables? I only have one device that needs one, and it already has a cable for it. Gone.

Same with old 250 gb external USB drives - they're just too small these days to hold anything useful for me, so got rid of them.
You referencing type 2 diabetes in children. The 10% is children with non alcoholic fatty liver disease, 1% of 2-4 year olds, 17% of 15-19 year olds, about 10% overall. But this is why it's so difficult to discuss, people get so defensive suggesting they are poisoning themselves with sugar, but once you suggest they are poisoning their own children civil discourse goes out the window.

But whether or not it's nonalcoholic fatty liver disease or type 2 diabetes in children, they simple truth is they could have been avoided in 100% of cases through diet. And as we know many type 2 diabetes patients would be able to get off insulin and diabetes medication through diet/lifestyle changes.

http://www.liverfoundation.org/chapters/rockymountain/doctor...
Well Germany's free speech laws on Nazi symbols is actually so restrictive that many WWII games remove all images of the Swastika and tend to rename Hitler to something else.

And it's because banning any speech is a slippery slope. Many people on reddit would make the argument supporting Trump at all is hate speech. In the US, yelling fire in a crowded theater and threats specifically against the president are I believe the only two major restricts on free speech. The question "If x isn't allowed, than why is y" would get asked constantly, so it's better to just allow it all and let society work it out.
We've stuck with Grails for a few years now and I still prefer it over vanilla Spring Boot. Things like JSON views and GORM are still really nice to have.
E-commerce is easy.

If it's not illegal or doesn't fit into one of a few categories that cause legal headaches for the platform (porn, guns, etc) you can sell it. If people don't like it they can just not buy it.

If you hate the presence of a particular seller so much then don't go to the flea market.
Why does travel preclude accumulating stuff? Or do you mean changing your residence every X years?
> Clear goals are for junior "code monkeys" who just do what they are told without any concern for if they are going the right thing.

Most of the interview processes in tech are geared towards hiring for this exact role. There's some ego stroking involved, but for the most part the sorts of "code trivia" questions candidates jump through are basically "can you implement this algorithm or data structure" correctly. They don't actually test problem solving ability.

So it seems to me for he kinds of trivial work most of us in the industry are doing your objection is a bit immaterial.

Some of us are engaged in more complex work, and I agree 100% with you about that. Remote doesn't quite cut it most of the time for that sort of thing.
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What's a good resource to learn the technical statistical background for an analysis like this? It's beyond the basics of calculating P values but it also builds on the basics by analyzing a large space of correlation coefficients.

Would this be considered data science? It doesn't dive into machine learning, or anything advanced computer science wise.
Exactly. A "one in a billion" event now happens with great regularity on a system with over a hundred billion of bits of memory.
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This was India about a couple of decades back at the beginning of economic liberalization. Give it time. Sucks for those in the present but changes rapidly
There's a difference between viewing their public pages and listening to private conversations, so your argument doesn't hold water.

If ISIS had a Verizon phone number that they publicized, I don't think it'd be stepping over a line for Verizon to shut that down. But if it was just a normal phone line, not advertised to the public, then Verizon has no way of knowing what it's used for.

Likewise if ISIS had an email address kill_them_all@gmail.com and advertised that this was the ISIS email address, yep. It's time for Google to revoke that. But if it's just disc_golf_playa_69@gmail.com and no one knows it's ISIS, then no one knows it's ISIS.

Breitbart isn't hiding its hatred, and it isn't hiding its store. Shopify doesn't have to infringe on anyone's privacy to realize they're running a store that lets people profit from hatred and racism.

There's no way to ban someone from the Internet. But they can be banned from various corporate sites if the corporation wants nothing to do with them. Which is what has been happening.
Keep in mind, a few decades ago this same thinking would allow companies to deny services to people because of the companies' racist policies.

So right now things dovetail nicely into morally defensible stances, but there is no guarantee things will coincide this way in the future which is why we defend free speech in more absolutist terms (with special carve outs).
"I would really rather you died an early death, perhaps at your own hand. An improved situation would be if your maternal vessel has imbibed the ejaculant of your genesis than absorbed it through her tissue."

One doesn't need to scream to be toxic.
Yeah, I think the limiting factors are both time and attention.

Twitch and youtube are great for when you have some time, but not much attention. Maybe you're doing something tedious on the side, or you just got back from a long day and aren't in the mood to spend the mental energy learning a new system/paying attention to dialogue, whatever.

And things like audiobooks and podcasts are great for when you have attention, but no time - you're stuck on the bus, out on a jog, whatever. You can pay attention to something interesting an novel, but you probably don't have time to dedicate to sitting down and focusing on one thing.

To pick up a new game, you need both time and attention. How often do those two things overlap? I'd guess not very often for most people. During the week, work takes a lot of time and drains a lot of mental energy. If you also have a family, you might not have many large empty time blocks to dedicate to anything.

So compared to picking up a new game, youtube and twitch videos are super cheap. A lot of people already have sizable backlogs of titles that they are pretty confident they'll really like.
I co-founded a company called Functionize (https://www.functionize.com/) and we found the same, but the problem is one of assumptions: should you be generating scripts in the first place?

What we ended up doing on our platform was discard the notion of generated scripts entirely. Everything becomes data, not source code. If you're willing to make the tradeoff to a cloud service vs. having the code (many businesses are), it's a great model. If you prefer having control over the code, it will drive you crazy.
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