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Rejected in FL in 2012 because my signature didn't match up to when I signed my license back at the age of 16. I'm not sure how I thought they would verify but I wasn't smart enough to attempt to forge my signature from over a decade ago.
> it's horrible for developers to use and no-one I know advocates it

I've seen developers advocate for document.write to inject locally-hosted JavaScript as a fallback for when CDNs are down:
https://www.hanselman.com/blog/CDNsFailButYourScriptsDontHav...

I definitely don't agree with this method, but there you go. Apparently ASP.NET 4.5 will even insert this pattern automatically.
Investing just means trying to turn your money into more money. When I say "poor" investment I don't mean that it's a bad idea but just that you can't reliably produce returns from that activity. If you could reliably produce returns from, say, playing slot machines, then investment funds would hire people to go out and generate those returns. Purchasing equity in a company is obviously very different legally but in the most basic sense you're making a bet that the company's shares are going to be worth more in the future.
Can someone remind me why boot camps were even a thing? What employer wouldn't be more impressed by a work sample? One possible plan:

1) Define success before doing anything. Pick specific companies or a specialty you want to end up with first.

2a) Take the three months (or however long you can afford to invest) and work backwards. Figure out the most impressive and relevant project that can be reasonably be accomplished in that time. Make sure it's part of a hot trend because the time spent is probably the same regardless.

2b) In parallel, network and build the best quality contacts you can in your target area. Blog about any interesting observations made as the project progresses. Come right out and say in your posts that you are doing this in hopes of building skills, experience, and proof of your abilities, and say where you want to end up.

3) When its done, make it public online make sure it presents with visual appeal and with cogent explanations. Ask for feedback from your contacts, because that's your excuse to show off: "sure was challenging but I was able to go from zero to learning and building this in three months!". Ask for feedback because it's your chance to ask about openings and interviews. Ask for feedback because you really will need it.

How does somebody new make a good project choice, when taking into account everything that would actually be impressive and help land a job would require years of experience to know? You can't without feedback or validation, so don't make the mistake of choosing solo. Just ask people who are in the target area to help you decide. Lots of people would be willing to give input and it's more chances for networking and follow up conversations.
We don't have inner envelopes on mail-in ballots in California, though.
We could farm the fish we eat or we could eat all the wild fish...
That and in the past electronic voting systems have been designed badly. For example electronic voting systems implemented in Microsoft Access which simple increase a counter number.

It's trivial to tamper with such machines.
Bootcamp dropout, here. I 100% agree.

I left The Starter League after the first semester when I realized the buyer's remorse of paying more per day than tuition at MIT. The prices for bootcamps simply aren't worth it, especially given the numerous online and self-paced options out there... many of which are free. How my story ended: I left the bootcamp and took a few Udacity Nanodegree programs for $200/month and (full disclosure) loved them so much that I applied for and got a job at Udacity. I really flourished in the self-paced environment, and found that I was able to learn a lot more, faster. Now, I get to go to work every day and build systems that provide affordable education for students across the globe.

There are so many amazing and cheaper options out there, and I cringe when I hear about people dropping $15k+ for the same (or better) content that they can get for 100x to INF-x cheaper.
Recently, an international client was hosting a website surrounding a global sporting event. At a critical moment, their servers came under a DDoS attack. They needed our protection and they needed it immediately. The sporting event would have been completed by the time their financial institution could initiate a wire transfer. And it would have been several days later before our bank would have received the payment.
However with bitcoin, the customer was able to pay quickly and we were able to activate the protection immediately. Bitcoin is hands-down the fastest way to secure an international payment from a new client in the event of a DDoS attack.“

LOL, maybe not the best source to post when we are talking about legitimate uses.
Don't confuse migrant workers and refugees. Poland has profited greatly from the ukrainian workers.
FTP, not SFTP?
I'd increase the bill of my neighbours I don't like a bit.
Sexual Harassment in Silicon Valley [video]
Swish in Sweden?
Invest in tokens and ETH, BTC, BCC etc.
Something strikes me as odd. The article and all the comments here give me the impression that people have only one online persona.

Surely there must be a substantial number of people who have more than one because they feel a need to express themselves in ways that their mainstream friends, acquaintances, and family would not approve of.
I think traditional education, university, has a lot of flaws. But I also think one reason college/university has been around for a "long" time is that the system has merit. That merit in my mind being grading rigor, deadlines, classmates, and office hours.

I haven't done a bootcamp, but I've done quite a few MOOC courses so my opinion is based on equating the two. This might not be a valid assumption.

To me, MOOCs and I'd imagine Bootcamps are good to get an intro to something new, but they can't replace rigorous study of a defined base of fundamentals...i.e. a course of study.

What seems like a real opportunity are programs like OSU post-bacc in comp sci, and GA Tech comp sci masters. I've been toying with OSU for about 2 years now, and haven't commited to it yet because they don't have some of the courses online that I'd like to take (computer graphics). And I haven't done the masters program at Tech yet because I don't want to get into that without a more solid foundation. To me, more schools with post-bacc in comp sci and expanded course offerings (online) would find themselves flooded with demand. Recently I signed up at UCLA Extensions...It is almost the right thing, but still has a limited offering and isn't quite the right fit.
Don't you mean nightmare format?
So, I work in the Valley, and I read & participate here, but I'm not working at a startup, and most of it is unknown to me.

With that note, I have a question!

>Most significantly and to our unpleasant surprise, our investors recently backed out of our funding round.

I don't understand something about this.

I mean, yes, it is very un-specific, but I am wondering, when is the 'point of no return' for something like this? Is it possible for a VC firm to go through all the motions, and say all the right things, and then back out 10 seconds before wiring payment for whatever reason they want?

Of course, I don't know if that happened here. It just seems to me like stories regularly appear of a VC backing out at the last minute.
That screenshot was taken from Firefox 53.0.3 on Linux/Cinnamon, if it helps.

Maybe SVG should support hinting...
But but rewrite all the things in node.js!! Don't worry about understanding the file format, which is well established, or what the users of the file are actually doing with it, also well established, the important thing is node.js!!!

Frankly once they hear it's node.js the users should be bowing down to worship!!!!
The difference between the projects you do on your weekends and projects a code school student completes are absolutely immense.

An applicant with strong weekend projects implies:

- They have a passion for building software

- They are self directed learners

- They have the initiative and determination to build things and ship them

- They managed to navigate problems without having an instructor hold their hand

- They actually did the work, and aren't taking credit for a group effort they may have had minimal impact on

Code camp projects don't say much of anything either way to me on a resume. They don't rule out the above but they don't support it either. They basically say:

- I care enough about learning to code that I paid for a code camp

- I didn't get kicked out or completely fail out of the code camp

- I realize that employers value seeing projects on resumes

To me putting the code camp projects on a resume when they are not clearly marked as being part of that code camp is as dishonest as doing it for college projects when they are not listed under your education background. I've seen countless resumes come in where the projects from code camps are presented in a way so that the recruiter/hiring manager thinks they were self directed projects the person did on their own. The code camps know that this is a strong signal for top talent, and so they mentor the students to craft their resumes to mask the fact that the projects were assigned work.

The result of this, sadly, was that enrollment in code bootcamps became a first order screen for me. I'm sure there were some good people in there. But the work required to actually decipher what the resume was actually telling me required too much effort. (It would require opening the projects they did, trying to figure out if it was assigned or not, if it was a group project, and what contributions they made directly.) In the end, this combined with the fact that many code boot camp applicants are woefully underqualified made it not worth the time to sift through them to find the best ones.
If your weekly groceries are like $100 and the flat delivery fee is $15, then that's 15%. You can't just buy milk for the next six months in one go to make the percentage smaller.
Pastebin link https://pastebin.com/raw/q9DMFa7c

Edit: Story if true sounds good, but sadly I guess Half Life will end on a whimper rather than a bang... Sigh
I don't know many humans who eat grass!
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Could you elaborate on what you hired the bootcamp graduates to do, what you mean by "under qualified" for the rejected candidates, and the gap between expectations and performance of the ones you did hire?
Exactly. Don't think of people landing on the site as an infinite stream of people. There are influencers who land first and you don't want to be in their bad books.
And it's right bang smack in the habitable/goldilocks zone.

Would digging a big valley (no dome), and putting air in it be ridiculously inefficient? Of course you'd lose some over time, but at what rate?
Expert Xamarin Developers Catering to the Needs of Clients
> I hope in the future they teach children to find out where there food comes from and what impact it has on their environment before purchasing it. This stuff isn't cool.

What's are the alternatives here? The ocean is overfished, mammals and birds require large amounts of water and either large areas of land or bring welfare concerns.

I can't clearly see that fish farming is any better than farming of any other animals. Did I understand you right?
San Francisco to consider taxing robots
Someone (who worked on the phone) commented here the other day (sorry, I cannot remember which article it was on) that the phone was praised for it's technology, and bunch of those went into other products (I think the camera was called out specifically). They also said the phone's OS drives all their devices now.

I can believe that a lot of these engineers worked on a smaller thing, and some of them did call out that the phone wasn't going well. Just because they called it out doesn't mean they can override PMs gunning for a big promotion :) (or Bezos set on having his pet idea in the market).
That's astoundingly quick. 30-90 days is in the same range as crossing the Atlantic via tall ship. With transfer time that low, it really does seem feasible. The two year gaps are a bit rough, but there are plenty of ways to plan for it.
Writing, Fast and Slow
I read The Slow Winter by James Mickens. Reading that brought a revolutionary change in my thinking. Have bookmarked his Harvard profile, just in case he publishes any more articles.
took the course, I think it is pretty good, it follow the rhythm our brain to remember something.
Agree, I have learnt both Clojure and Haskell on codewars when I was bored in lab. Another advantages is that the typical problems in codewars often does not involve learning extra libraries or IO, which often distracts me from learning the language itself.
I've always been under the impression that you have to 'invoke' them, meaning you have to know they exist and the kind of circumstances and cases they cater to, but I'd be very interested to know if they are proactive and try to represent people that might not realize they need them.
> Aren't go programs statically linked?

Not by default. You have to set CGO_ENABLED=0 to statically link libc.
To be fair, 2010 technology in use by the U.S. government in 2017 is actually pretty impressive. The expectation is usually 2000 technology in use by 2017 (and that's, like, bleeding-edge).
Also rails is not a language, it is a framework, aka an opinion. Languages should lean towards being opinion agnostic while frameworks by there very nature should be opinionated.
So is sqrt(-1) but that doesn't mean sqrt() shouldn't exist. Just don't call add() with arguments that will overflow.
The author has been programming for 18 years. Of course he doesn't share the same passion for programming as his younger self. Passion is a necessity in this field unless you have decades of experience to lean on.
I found an excellent Quora answer that dealt directly with this. Well worth a look-over.

https://www.quora.com/Is-there-enough-lithium-in-the-world-t...

tl;dr- Lithium supply (in terms of raw quantity of element available) is not going to be an issue, ever. Economical extraction might be.
(after reading through https://github.com/nodejs/board/issues/58 and other issues related to this situation)

The Github comment revision needs to stop. It makes it impossible for people who were not involved in the original conversation to understand what actually happened. Without a full archive of all revisions, you cannot even judge if the edits were made in good faith or if the current text represents the author's original intent. It casts doubt on everything.

The whole mess is even worse on long threads like the ones linked to. Editing a comment that other users responded to can make the responding comments look silly or stupid, or completely change the meaning of their response.

This is mostly a process thing but Github also needs to improve how edits are handled.
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In the UK we have "faster payments" and money these days typically appears in about 15 minutes or so
One of the promises of hypertext was to be able to "dig in" into deeper information if you wanted to. It would be nice to see a single page summary of a book, and then be able to click on hyperlinks to see more details about the interesting bits. Self-help books and textbooks are ideal for this, but I can see that it's a lot of work to structure something like that.
I was totally engaged by Seveneves, right up until the time jump, at which point I completely lost interest. The hard rain stuff at the beginning is totally fascinating.
They don't want to dilute their brand by dumping unsold stock under it, but they DO want to dump unsold stock.
This is an example of Tesla's RADAR sensor at work.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BE2lQK_0CDw

And Tesla's engineers aren't the first to bellyache about being asked to make the impossible a reality.
I'd say don't do this because it's theft. Whether or not you get punished for stealing multiple times shouldn't even come into the equation.
The same can be said of a space elevator around Mars too, of course. (Though not the earth).
> Why would these people change to a phonetic writing system when most of the world's isn't? English for example is a morpho-phonemic one.

This isn't some binary category where you have or haven't achieved holiness. Compared to Chinese, English is indistinguishable from a purely phonetic script.
Hmm. There was an excellent comment here that has vanished. It added that there's been bad reviews of the product in the last week, and more importantly, a claim that the startup offered bribes of $500 for good reviews. Bad reviews are one thing, but I can see if there's even accusations of corruption, that might cause investors to back off at least until it can be cleared up.

The video review link is here - I've updated the timestamp directly to the bribe claim. Worth noting that the video title seems to have been updated in the last 24 hours too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36Gw3tErUSM&t=24m40s
Yes, it's possible to write unsafe code that exhibits undefined behavior in Rust in general (not just through FFI and bindings such as this).
Cool markdown editor for programmers
It's worth mentioning that a reviewer on YouTube recently posted a scathing review of their product[1]. It's a long video so TL;DR: product is junk and they knew it plus they tried to pay him off with a paltry $500. No idea how much of am impact this made on the decision to shutter the company.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36Gw3tErUSM
Hybrid development is how we give our teams of three superpowers
All due respect to your experience with the rail industry and its impressively high bar for safety, in the auto industry, if they can get the death rate down to 48 people killed every day in the US, that will be twice as safe as we are currently.
Seconding what kalleboo said, setting directory permissions has been a staple of file-sharing for decades. Setting up a node server to block read-access seems incredibly byzantine.
Publix, while it has over 1,100 stores, operates them all in only seven states in the southeast US. Whole Foods, although relatively small, has a nearly national footprint.
On the off-chance that you're serious, I'll point out that there is no way to compare equal by identity without also comparing equal by value.
Ubuntu system cleaner app Stacer ditched Electron for C++
other projects in that space are: cython (need to manually do wrapping), xdress, SWIG, SIP, clif.

Does anyone have experience with using these and able to compare/contrast?

I'm afraid of C++, but if I can wrap it and learn how to use from a python REPL, I think I can handle... any recommendations/tuotirals/howtos would be much appreciated. (The library I want to wrap is https://github.com/openzim/libzim )
My impression is that people generally leave the television or radio on the entire day because they struggle with silence and being alone with their thoughts.

The same is true with social media and internet addictions, although there's also the dopamine kick to contend with, which makes them a bit different.

Practicing meditation, general mindfulness and taking long (more than a week) holidays without internet or even electricity helps me a lot to avoid getting addicted to distractions.
You don't have to make people pay, when they click on "buy" or "prices" you just display a page that explains the project isn't ready, with a newsletter form. Search for "buffer MVP" to see a classic example of this.

The demo can be extremely simple, a sentence describing the concept and a (fake) screenshot.

Be aware that presenting the same product in different ways to different people lead to very different results, so you can run multiple tests like this to find the approach that has the better chances of working.
This is a great smoke screen for the ACLU to blow. While the real problem of MASSIVE illegal alien voter fraud continues in California.
How does a state go from voting for proposition 187 to halt illegal immigration and having a conservative governor like Pete Wilson to the far leftist government presently in place?
Massive voter fraud is the answer.
I'm so glad the Trump administration is investigating
:)
Yep,

add(INT64_MAX, 1)

Is undefined.

If using Ada, similar kind of code would produce "raised CONSTRAINT_ERROR : program.adb:7 overflow check failed"

To be fair, Ada's behavior is easy to reproduce with a checked integer class like https://accu.org/index.php/journals/324
I really like to believe what you have written, but it sounds way too elitist.
Lisp did not 'invent' Lambda functions, they were invented by Alonzo Church in the 1930s. And even that was only a minor syntactical innovation.
You may want to look at MWS then. It's the same batch processed feeds and XML over https instead of sftp.
What is the next innovation after the internet of things? [pdf]
I don't disagree with you as such.

The problem comes when the fish farming industry doesn't stick to the rules and the government, who are meant to be overseeing the industry, decide to look the other way.

That exact situation has been going on in Tasmania for many years now and that type of neglect can only end badly.

More details: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-08/how-salmon-farming-got...
I consider the assumption correct in most circumstances, and almost always when visiting a restaurant.

Otherwise, why bother with the logistics of getting people all in the same place at the same time?

I would only agree that engagement is irrelevant when leaving the table with one's food is acceptable. Otherwise there's the implication that you're there for some purpose, other than getting yourself some nutrition.
> We should question old habits/traditions especially when the environment has changed.

I strongly agree. I'm always surprised how much resistance to this idea I encounter, though.
Yes, as long as money haven't changed hands you can pull out usually at any time.

Furthermore funding is often not a one time payment but is paid in installments with preset milestones which means that the investor can still pull out at any time.

For the most part the investors hold all the cards, sure you can potentially draft a contract that would lock investors but no one would commit to those terms.
If they submit projects they did not contribute to then that is an issue. Your other points however, I disagree with.
- all code I write commercially will have dozens of contributors. It's a team sport and you need to be able to play well with others to succeed.
- the best place to get experience is in the works place. That is why folks hire juniors. They will have massive gaps in their knowledge, but they will also be keen and in learning mode. Help them improve and become great developers. They will do much better in a commercial environment with good guidance than struggling at home alone