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That's not universal in Australia. Brisbane encompasses all of the surrounding suburbs up to the satellite cities like Ipswich and Gold Coast, Frankston and Geelong would be the Melbourne equivalent of these I think but it's hard to say, I think Brisbane is much larger (in Area) than Melbourne. In the 00's Queensland pushed through council amalgamations state wide. I believe NSW has tried to do the same and the result was a mixed bag.

From what I understand looking around the world, the age of a city seems to define it's boundaries. Cities that were populous prior to the car are much smaller.
Right, I meant organization data meaning who people are emailing, calendars, etc for building CRMish software on top. Wasn't tryint to imply you share any of that data. Just poorly worded on my part, sorry bout that.
Like, is everyone ignoring the picture at the top of the article? That looks like a pretty believable direct translation of the ligatures to me. I know its not the whole thing, but it is plausibly consistent.

That image is titled p16_Gibbs1.jpg. To me that hints that the author is serious and is planning to release a detailed paper.

His final statement at the end of the article is really bold. "Not only is the manuscript incomplete, but its folios are in the wrong order – and all for the want of an index."

Perhaps the author is going to provide the index, and the correct order for the folios while providing what he believes to be the missing pieces from other texts from that time period?

This article looks like a teaser to me for something significant. Let's hope anyway.
So what, it just means one needs to ship one with the runtime.

Commodity processors also don't have a GC.
How do we know the recruiter is not a chat bot?
Python took the obvious approach - they already had UTF-16 and UTF-32 builds, so this was just making that mechanism dynamic.

Go and Rust expose UTF-8 at the byte level. This is something of a headache and may result in invalid string slices. It basically punts the problem back to the user.

Here's an alternative: Use UTF-8 as the internal representation, but don't expose it to the user.

If you're iterating over a string one rune or one grapheme at a time, the UTF-8 substructure is hidden from the user. Only if the user uses an explicit numeric subscript do you need to know a rune's position in string. When a request by subscript comes in, scan the string and build an index of rune subscript->byte position. This is expensive, but no worse than UTF-32 in space usage or expansion to UTF-32 in time.

Optimizations:

- Requests for s[0] to s[N], and s[-1] to s[-N], for small N, should be handled by working forwards or backwards through the UTF-8. (Yes, you can back up by rune in UTF-8. That's one of the neat features of the representation.)

- Lookup functions such as "index" should return an opaque type which represents the position into that string. If such an object is used as a subscript, there's no need to build the index by rune. If you coerce this opaque type into an integer, the index table has to be built. Adding or subtracting small integers from this opaque type should be supported by working backwards or forwards in the string.

- Regular expression processing has to be UTF-8 aware. It shouldn't need an index by rune.

This would maintain Python's existing semantics while reducing memory consumption.

Some performance measurement tool that finds all the places where an index by rune has to be built is useful. It's rare that you really need this, but sometimes you do.
> Admit that it would be the same.

Sorry, can't do that. If my estimate was 2 months in Scala, it would be 6 months in Java: 2 to write the software, and 4 to find and chase down all the NPEs, casting exceptions, and concurrency bugs, while building a test kit for things the scala compiler already verified the moment my scala code compiled.
Also:
- OSX is a certified UNIX
- iOS is UNIX-like (BSD based)

Due to this, when someone is asking me whether I have experience with UNIX-like I say that yes, I had an iPhone.
When I'm trolling you'll know it. I have a point, I believe it's a good point, and I'm making it.

For languages that can be represented as a sequence of little pictures Unicode is a little better than ASCII. For the rest, it's a scam: We tell people that we have a way of dealing with human languages in computers but it's half-baked, born in ignorance, and all the grotty details are papered over, but you can write PIZZA SLICE or POOP now, so fuck it, ship it.

Represent: "Astral Plane"? What does that have to do with a standard catalog mapping numbers to pictures? I feel Unicode messes that up.

Encoding: UTF-8 is near perfect, 'nuff said. Ken Thompson and Rob Pike doing their thing.

Drawing: Doesn't even begin to touch it really.

Unicode is a nasty little black hole that's sucking up time and other resources and not really solving the problem.
Even if true you can still beat a hundred other things like not having to be on-call, base pay, location (remote vs Manlo Park/ManFrancisco or being senior enough for their alternate locations), and lack of Test Driven Development (feel free to prove me wrong here). It's far easier to get a fat base pay somewhere sensible that knows how to manage a remote team, where you can then live in a low COL area or with better housing and cultural options, than to deal with bureaucratic nonsense for the chance of cashing out a few extra dollars in a few years in a high COL area where you don't have a life outside of work for that time, IMHO.
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> There's a reason the majority of our armed forces hail from the South and not from the coasts.

Careful. You are likely confusing two different statistics.

There is:

A) Recruits by state which reflects (roughly) the state from which they hail

B) Residency of current military personnel which reflects (roughly) where the military bases are.

While your statement might be true per capita (although http://www.statemaster.com/graph/mil_tot_mil_rec_arm_nav_air... makes even that seem a bit doubtful), the sheer difference in population size of California, Texas, and New York probably swamps that.

Also be sure not to get civilian employees mixed up in the statistics.
You can have GC languages already today on WebAssembly, the runtime will just be bigger.

After all it is no different than targeting a real processor, I never get the point why people think it is a stumbling block.
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I'd be more worried about 0 padding the month, imagine the breakage an october release could cause.
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macOS is also officially a Unix system.
The US is usually broadly categorized as "strong mayor" (very consolidated power) and "weak mayor" (board of supervisors form a coalition) depending on the municipality.

Where this distinction gets muddled is when a metro area is sprawling enough to have many governments. For example, City of Los Angeles has a mayor, but it only represents some of the major neighborhoods of the metro area, while Los Angeles County, which spans multiple cities, has a board of supervisors providing oversight on a more regional scale.

In contrast, San Francisco is a combined city and county with both mayor and board of supervisors: but the Bay Area has 9 counties(more if you count certain outlying cities) with a multitude of city governments, and there is no equivalent to the LA county board unifying representation at the "millions to one" scale - those issues are duked out between different county agencies or pushed up to the state level. Accordingly, Bay Area cities have some more individual freedoms but are much less inclined to cooperate on regional issues and will frequently export problems onto each other.
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Not to mention he shouldn't have to in this instance. He's talking to someone who's recruiting for technical positions.

At a big-name company like this, is it really too much to ask that someone understand the basics of the technology and they're recruiting for?

I mean, I explain technical jargon all day long, sure, but I work at a trucking company. Still, my interview process certainly didn't run in to any problem like this, and had it, I can assure you I would've been met with no resistance with the given explanation...
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There are already JVM and .NET prototypes.

Rust also supports WebAssembly.
Is your app solving a real problem for customers?
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they may only account for 5-10% of purchases, but that money has impacted all pricing through competition

I don't believe that. Somehow the other 90-95% don't have a greater impact? If the roles were reversed you wouldn't even consider that possibility.
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Are you staring at a screen just before trying to sleep? Again, this may be impacting the quality of your sleep [2].

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2: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-sleep-smartphones/s...
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Yes, while "back up one UTF-8 rune" is a well defined operation, "back up one grapheme" is tough. Forward is easy, though.

I had the need to write grapheme-level word wrap in Rust. Here it is. It assumes all graphemes have the same visible width. This is used mostly for debug output, not for general text rendering.

[1] https://github.com/John-Nagle/rust-rssclient/blob/master/src...
You're going to have a hard time supporting multiple versions of Python that way. If I started a new package today I would target 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7-dev, and likely, 2.7. A lot of well maintained packages have different dependencies based on the exact version of Python. If you're crazy enough to support 2.6, then there will be a lot of additional packages in pip freeze.

Ideally, packages would have just one set of dependencies and the packages would be version locked, but that's just not the case in the Python community.
25k is less than 1% of most major auto manufacturers yearly production numbers. No article I've read on this news has put that into context and instead praises the legislation as liberating car manufacturers to bring FSD cars to the masses. Most people don't read past the headline let alone look into the facts of the article. Also nothing good EVER gets passed legislation unanimously. Last time the House passed legislation this quickly and unanimously was when they passed SOAPA. Something feels fishy about this. I haven't read the legislation directly but I bet if a journalist went through it fully, somethings would surface that people wouldn't like.
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Well, I certainly can't be responsible for bugs in the Subaru SDC software. So who else would be?
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That section was written for people who know little to nothing about Unicode and the ways Unicode can be encoded to bytes. So it starts with the obvious approach -- just spit out a sequence of bytes whose integer values are the code points, which is near enough as makes no difference to how UTF-32 works -- then introduces variable-width encoding through the history of UCS-2 and UTF-16, then gets to UTF-8 and what motivated it.

The advantages/disadvantages of the various encodings is something that could eat up several pieces just as long as the entire post, and for fun I'd probably throw in weird stuff like the attempt to do EBCDIC-compatible UTF instead of ASCII-compatible, etc.
The US "won" the Cold War by bankrupting the former Soviet Union. And then they humiliated its leadership. Putin was Yeltsin's protégé, and watched him dying of alcoholism. He's still angry. And remember, much of his family died in the siege of Leningrad.

So, yes. They have a plan.
I know someone attending Olin. She will graduate with $300,000 in student loans and a degree good for a median salary of $85K. In my mind this is financial slavery.

A small percentage of a small percentage of graduates might succeed in business. This does not mean they will be wealthy. Some? Maybe. All? Not likely. Which means most will face a lifetime of paying on outrageous student debt that might prevent them from such things as buying a home and saving for retirement. Thirty years of financial slavery isn't a good way to go through life.

I simply can't reconcile this reality with the article.
We did that in 2014 in production already :)
Good point. No-one will take you up on that, because as much as we hate to admit it, we know the newly-available EPA talent is good for some other org to take in, not our org, heavens no.

As others have noted in other comment threads, EPA needs some serious cleaning. It is an agency that has gotten so large that it is no longer effective.

Our drinking water and rivers and lakes and air are becoming unsafe everywhere. We need EPA to focus on its core mission.

Trump is a results-oriented guy. If EPA is in charge of clean water, and you have Flint... the course of action is clear. Trump is a simpleton: just produce the results you are supposed to produce, and he'll go find some other heads to lop off.

Predictable action from a simple-minded guy.
A number of articles seem to sadly be in the vein of dry "so I did a thing once and it worked". Kind of missed opportunity.
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Yes, it was that New Yorker article that I was remembering. In particular, this bit:

> In 1996, during a summit meeting in Moscow, Clinton went for an early-morning run with Talbott in the Sparrow Hills, near Moscow State University. Clinton had known Talbott since they were students at Oxford, and confided his anxiety. He did not regret the expansion of NATO or the decision, at last, to battle Serbian forces in Bosnia. But he knew that he was making Yeltsin’s political life excruciatingly difficult.

> “We keep telling ol’ Boris, ‘O.K., now, here’s what you’ve got to do next—here’s some more shit for your face,’ ” Clinton told Talbott as they ran. “And that makes it real hard for him, given what he’s up against and who he’s dealing with.”

> Earlier that year, Yeltsin had summoned Talbott. “I don’t like it when the U.S. flaunts its superiority,” he told him. “Russia’s difficulties are only temporary, and not only because we have nuclear weapons but also because of our economy, our culture, our spiritual strength. All that amounts to a legitimate, undeniable basis for equal treatment. Russia will rise again! I repeat: Russia will rise again.”
If that's literally the only thing it did, with zero management structure, that means a scant 4-5 people to assure clean water per county in the US.
How does Prop 58 amount to an anti-assimilation ideas?

It allows for bilingual education. If it were advocating for something other than English it would have merit. But that is not the case;

"it preserves a portion of the statute mandating that all students become proficient in English, no matter what program they choose."
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> Put the skills from the job listing on your damn resume.

He did. Everyone seems to be scrolling by that screenshot. He's trying to be honest -- the poor bastard.

A few more interactions like this though and he's bound to start telling white lies on his resume. Eventually he'll start to think "sure, I've got like '4 years'ish of experience in that... fuck it..." And so it goes.

Pretty soon he's just like everyone else who doesn't bat an eye at "10 years of Swift experience" and all that garbage.

Frankly, if Facebook is hiring recruiters fresh out of HS with no tech background and treating fresh, naive, honest soon-to-be devs like this, then they've failed their own interview. This is nothing short of ridiculous.
I never quite understood why a mention of Donald Trump needs to have a comparison of Hillary Clinton along side - and for that reason anyone? He is a vile and despicable human being and the fact that a big fraction of US voted for him doesn't change the fact. So we can criticise and ridicule him at every step without having to qualify it by mentioning every disliked person in history of humanity.
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Those people were advocating for stability, not necessarily for P2. The 2->3 was a pretty big screw up, and it definitely had an impact on the language and ecosystem.

Python seems to have overcome that (keyword: seems), thanks to a strong offering in data science, but 2->3 is still a headache. I never really used Python for application development, but rather for utility/scripts and I am still on 2, because I don't need more.

2 is available out of the box on all OSes and at work we also use 2 for building tools.

I have the feeling that Python is still losing people to Golang due to its weak performance and Golang's reputation in that area.

So instead of being arrogant about 2->3, I'd say Python devs should be thankful to data science for saving their butts. :)
They are focusing on the distinction between UNIX and Unix.
seems like it says "Folia de oz 3 et in de aqua et de radacis de aromaticus ana 3 de seminis ana 3 et de radacis seminis ana 1 1/2 [fraction unclear] etiam aromaticus confundo."

At the end of the article the author provides the following:
aq = aqua (water), dq = decoque / decoctio (decoction), con = confundo (mix), ris = radacis / radix (root), s aiij = seminis ana iij (3 grains each), etc.

"Folia" = "leaves".

"Oz"= unknown, but can this be simply ounces? I'm not sure when the abbreviation was first used or if it was used in latin at all.

"etiam"="also", "furthermore", "still"

So... "3 leaves of "oz"/ 3 oz of leaves and in water and of the roots three each of 'aromaticus' three each of seeds,and of the seeds of the root 1 1/2 each also 'aromaticus' mixed."

Still kind of a nonsense. It seems there's no mention of what plant or plants should be used, unless aromaticus is that plant.
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This article reads like a thinly veiled attempt by MGM to encourage two more bidders into the race.
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Let me reverse the question: how many years ahead is enough for you not to worry?

A fair question. I'm not worried by the heat death of the universe, as I'm fairly certain that any action I take during my life will have no effect on it. I can't really picture the difference between a million years and a billion, so they don't really concern me, although I don't have a logical explanation for this.

My actual concerns vary between the 100 to 10,000 year time frame. I'm periodically incapacitated by my inability to find a convincing counterargument to the Great Filter theory, whereby the reason we haven't ever ever encountered aliens is because all civilizations collapse before achieving interstellar travel. While I'm doubtful that I can personally do anything to prevent this eventuality, when I do have hope, it's that I can make it slightly less likely or less catastrophic.

There is of course the famous exception of the young Woody Halen in Annie Hall[2], but it's a comical scene precisely for this reason : most people don't worry about these stuff.

Thanks for the link, although I find it more bittersweet than straightforwardly humorous. Having had similar failed conversations with psychological professionals over the years, I sympathize with young Alvy. I can say from experience that trying to explain your concerns about the 1000 year time frame doesn't go over any better.
Can't tell if this is sarcasm. Clean water is the responsibility of local governments, not the federal government.
"The EPA has gone waaaaay past just the drinking water thing. Also they ensured crappy drinking water by mass dumping a bunch of waste and ruining one of the rivers in southwest CO."

I assume you're referring to the accidental leak of contaminated mine water into the Animas river. The private sector is free to clean up after itself instead of abandoning mines in a hazardous state. Unfortunately they don't always do that. The EPA is charged with managing hundreds of thousands of abandoned mines of which tens of thousands threaten to contaminate groundwater. Sabotaging and underfunding the organization with this responsibility can't end well.
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Update: I've moved the 5268AC behind my EdgeRouter Lite. I wasn't happy with any of the 802.1x proxies other folks wrote and/or they weren't working for me and/or I just wanted to write it in Python, so I wrote my own:

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> Power also flows from the barrel of a gun.

Warmaking is not as profitable as it used to be. And its only decreasing. What has China to gain from invaded HK ? Problem solvers will just move to another region. If its aggressors vs problem solvers, later does not need former at all. To defend PS dont need gun, embargo will work just fine.
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People keep mentioning Solaris as a solution but as one recent college grad (2014) I can say nobody was really using Solaris anymore. Maybe other schools still have Solaris labs but we did not. Same with AIX and HP-UX. I really only know about these because I'm interested in tech history.
Reminds me of folks referring to a desktop computer tower as "the cpu" or "the hard drive".
This works well only if your manufacturing process produces an isotropic material. SLA sort of does; it's equally strong in all directions, but there is a layering axis. Filament-welding printers don't have that property. The material is much weaker in the layering axis, because the welding between layers isn't very good. Things have improved somewhat, but strength of things made from ABS filament is much lower than the same part made by injection-molding ABS.
What does this have to do with the article? People (all people) fled violence, hunger and death that came from a series of conflicts so dire that some populations haven't fully recovered still.

Add to that incredible amounts of political violence at the dawn of the 20th century, and you have the immigration flows. Similar thing happened when the Soviet block collapsed and economic/political strife spilled out.
Looks like TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) has an Android version of the app as well (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=trai.gov.in.dn...). Permissions requested by the Android app seem to be very broad (Reading call log, Sending & Receiving SMS etc.) If they tried the same thing with Apple, I am not surprised that Apple has blocked their app. Such permissions can be used to easily snoop on a user's activity by Government entities.

What Mr.Sharma does not seem to get is Apple is very particular about user privacy. In the past users have been tricked into giving out their private data or scammed into subscribing to really expensive subscriptions by scammy apps (http://thehackernews.com/2017/06/apple-subscription-scam.htm...)

I am not saying TRAI's app is going to scam users but Apple's concern is genuine. TRAI can work around it by changing the away the app collects the spam call data from a user's phone. They certainly don't need the entire call history.

Here's where things get odd. TRAI has a tough job on its hands too. They cannot simply allow users to report any phone numbers as spam callers without verifying it. The reason is simple. It opens up the possibility of misuse via fraudulent reports. Those who have dealt with the Indian market will recall that fraud is rampant in the system - both by users as well as businesses.
I'm a fan of the Climeworks concept, but the article and the Climeworks website fail to address the obvious question: what's the net sum of CO2 collected to CO2 created in creating the energy needed to power their plants?