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Describing the production operation of MySQL as a minefield is an excellent analogy. I maintained a list of the mines I stepped on in the last job I had where MySQL was used and here are the two I encountered with the biggest blast radius:

* If you have pre-5.6.4 date/time columns in your table and perform any kind of ALTER TABLE statement on that table (even one that doesn't involve the date/time columns), it will TAKE A TABLE LOCK AND REWRITE YOUR ENTIRE TABLE to upgrade to the new date/time types. In other words, your carefully-crafted online DDL statement will become fully offline and blocking for the entirety of the operation. To add insult to injury, the full table upgrade was UNAVOIDABLE until 5.6.24 when an option (still defaulted to off!) was added to decline the automatic upgrade of date/time columns. If you couldn't upgrade to 5.6.24, you had two choices with any table with pre-5.6.4 types: make no DDL changes of any kind to it or accept downtime while the full table rewrite was performed. To be as fair as possible, this is documented in the MySQL docs, but it is mind-blowing to me that any database team would release this behavior into production. In other words, in what world is the upgrade of date/time types to add a bit more fractional precision so important that all online DDL operations on that table will be silently, automatically, and unavoidably converted to offline operations in order to perform the upgrade? To me, this is indicative of the same mindset that released MySQL for so many years with the unsafe and silent downgrading of data as the default mode of operation.

* Dropping a table takes a global lock that prevents the execution of ANY QUERY until the underlying files for the table are removed from the filesystem. Under many circumstances, this would go unnoticed, but I experienced a 7-minute production outage when I dropped a 700GB table that was no longer used. Apparently, this delay is due to the time it takes the underlying Linux filesystems to delete the large table file. This was an RDS instance, so I had no visibility into the filesystem used and it was probably exacerbated by the EBS backing for the RDS instance, but still, what database takes out a GLOBAL LOCK TO DROP A TABLE? After the incident, I googled for and found this description of the problem (https://www.percona.com/blog/2009/06/16/slow-drop-table/) which isn't well-documented. It's almost as if you have to anticipate every possible way in which MySQL could screw you and then google for it if you want to avoid production downtime.

There are others, too, but to this day, those two still raise my blood pressure when I think about them. In addition to MySQL, I've pushed SQL Server and PostgreSQL pretty hard in production environments and never encountered gotchas like that. Unlike MySQL, those teams appear to understand the priorities of people who run production databases and they make it very clear when there are big and potentially disrupting changes and they don't make those changes obligatory, automatic, and silent as MySQL did.
Thanks a lot for the add-on.
Please don't. It's irrelevant.

The short 5k-5.5k idea could be a bust anyway; maybe we do rally to 6k from here. I am concerned with managing risk, less so with any particular idea itself. That's why I thought it was funny that another posted how I was "very wrong" about how I described volatility. Who cares who is right or wrong? It doesn't matter. Just be safe, that's all that matters. Protect capital.
then just platform would be ignored, but it would have no impact on messaging
Hmm, I'm not sure if I like the idea of a development tool dictating my folder structure.
good luck if it's a .uk domain, I tried moving a couple of mine away and eventually had to force the transfers through nominet, which cost me money!

thankfully .uk domains have this option, otherwise I would have been screwed

their support kept saying "its the fault of the registry"... I did a test from another supplier for transferring a .uk domain and it went through instantaneously

66 days after I forced the transfer I received the email from namecheap saying "domain transferred out"... what the hell

namecheap's systems appear to be antiquated and the support are worse than useless

I would advise anyone avoids "resellers" for domains, at least if you go directly to the registrar there's one level of bullshit removed
I can think of the following reasons:

1. It is less profitable to develop exploits targeting a minor OS.

2. Minor OS may have some specific features that the major OS don't.
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If they wanted to use Python, they probably would have forked it. Not everyone thinks python is good.
Although I don't know of any sites that will do this, when I was on the upswing with CSS, I found that making breakable toys was very helpful for me. (For example, I made a very basic site about cat fashion- nothing spectacular design wise, but it taught me a lot about responsive design and let me practice more on my Sass skills as well.)

Perhaps a better tack for you to learn is to find a small business or nonprofit who has a strong brand identity but has no real budget for getting their site made. (I also did this, very helpful.) On the plus side, you'll be helping out someone while you learn, and you don't have to necessarily have great design skills as its already ready already.

Lastly, just my two cents here, getting better at CSS doesn't have to necessarily be 1:1 with design all the time, but it helps to be open to working with designers and having a rudimentary knowledge of design to achieve the look and feeling that they're requesting. So maybe befriend a designer or two and pick their brain a little. You'll probably find that when working with designers in the future that they'll appreciate that you have some knowledge of what they do as well!
Doesn't seem to have stopped the alt-right.
It'd be a hell of a high school student who competently used uberStudent. Most career programmers don't need the latest and greatest so I'm sure this will be fine.

Also it's fast on old machines, saving you money/recycling.

Your 7 year old ought to be able to throw it across the room when they get annoying bugs :-)

Come to think of it, this should be a feature of all laptops programmers use...
Pretty thin on details, apart on three advice. I like reading the upverter blog for this topic, they have some great articles on this (I have no affiliation).
Because the wealthy have more resources to maneuver their assets and income streams, tax policy complexity is a regressive tax.
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Sorry, missed your comment.

Yes, to learn the tech - but also to toy with ideas. I've been using Kakoune recently after years of Vim and while I enjoy it, it makes me wonder many things. After much speculation to myself, I decided to try implementing my ideas. I mainly expect them to fail, in the UX department at least, but I have to use it to really flesh it out.

This may sound more editor oriented, and you'd be right, but for a simplest explanation a self made multiplexer like tmux/etc will be involved.
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Do the later editions have less content? Would your recommendation be to read the first edition? Thanks!
It has a Slow Down and Almost Catch Fire instruction.
Complete aside: I've been working on a "book" (quotes because I'm sure I'll never finish it :-\) That is designed to help provide vocabulary and ideas for breaking down problems. The book will contain no programming, and part 1 won't get into anything like "how to sort" or "different ways of constructing a tree". The idea, especially in part 1 is breaking down problems and solutions, not how to implement those solutions. Part 2 provides more information on implementation and analyzing algorithms, but still not the actual implementation.

http://jimkeener.com/pdfs/aptb-book-toc-44e1b61.pdf is the current table of contents. It feels a little disheveled in places. I'm still working out some of the structure, but I'd say 95% of the final sections are there, and maybe 85% are in the correct relative positions (at least in part 1). I'm also going to be trying the following parts mirror part 1 in structure as much as possible.

Right now it's a GFDL license, but it's not yet public. I'm still debating if there is a better libre license, but one that would allow it to be physically published as well.
Nah, I'm saying that we need to talk about free speech in the context of diverse viewpoints and needs and stop prioritising fascists. It's ok, I knew this would be controversial.
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Regarding the footnote, no need for the author to justify himself. I mean, does Bill Gates really need shills at this point anyway?
Actually, yes. I want that the user is able to force a page to do whatever the user wants, if they choose to do so.

Just like my browser blocks popups, and my browser blocks those sites that try to prevent right-click, and my browser blocks those sites that spawn dialogs when you try to leave them, Just in the same way I want my browser to force websites to allow PiP.
The problem is, with interest rates at 0.1%, you need $20MM in the bank to be able to retire.
> I think there is a whole scene of street fashion which is basically this, but applied to hats, hoodies, and other garments.

Indeed. /r/streetwear is a fun subreddit for pics. The extremes of that side of fashion (the tech wear stuff, goth ninja, etc) can get really expensive, really quickly.
In order to bring our arguments to a common frame of reference, I think that I can reword my point as follows: to do the sort of abstract reasoning that is required for what is commonly (so not like the OP, who redefines calculus as 'abstract(ish) concepts that will be useful in real math later on') considered 'calculus', one needs a part of the brain that is not just 'grown' by training, but that actually needs to grow to a certain baseline before it can function at all - after which it can be further developed by training/practice.

So in other words, some brain functions just do not physically 'exist' (the matter needed for those functions) at very early ages. You can't take any 2 year old, or 3 or 5 year old, and practice until they get it. You have to wait until that part grows naturally. And growing (or maybe just 'activating') that part earlier doesn't say anything about overall intelligence, either.

And yes, it's different from emotion control, but not dissimilar - the mechanisms is the same.

All of this, of course, for the general population. I can't deny there are child prodigies who understand these things years before their peers; they exist, it's a simple observation. My point is: some things you cannot train in children. You have to wait for the brain to get there; and children not being there yet is not (necessarily) because of lack of training.

Hopefully this clears up my position, and contrasts it with yours. If it does in the way I think it does, it becomes a matter of the state of the art in neurology and neural development. My information comes from having read some popular literature (books, not the 'parenting' section of Marie Claire, but still...) on child development; not a very authoritative position, I'll freely admit. I never got the impression anywhere that this position is controversial or even just not universally accepted, but if it is, then our (apparent) disagreement can be reframed in these terms. (to preempt - at that point I don't have anything to add except the tried and proven 'trawl google scholar until I find something that I can bend into supporting my position, to make it appear that I have Science(TM) on my side although I don't really know anything about it'; but maybe I'm getting ahead of myself here :) )
I'm not sure if you're trolling or not at this point. Nothing antifa has protested is actually fascist. Just calling everyone you oppose a facist or nazi to justify your actions doesn't make it true. Look up a definition of facism other than google / wikipedias and you'll see what I mean.

Attacking free speech rallies is terrorism, not "fighting fascism". In fact, the US Dept of Homeland Security already categorized them as a domestic terrorist group in 2016.

Even the extreme left LA times admits they're bad in the wake of their terror attacks at Berkley - http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-far-left-violence-2...

The fact that they wear masks to everything should clue you in on their evil, lawless intent. Law abiding people who oppose facism don't need masks.
If you're in the US, you can do that with Youtube Red.
Even in "still" air, the individual molecules have random velocities due to temperature - on the order of 100 m/s. Combined with the fact that there are more mixed configurations than unmixed configurations (entropy of mixing), this randomness effectively stirs the atmosphere without the need for the bulk motion of the wind.
unpaywalled mirror: http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2017/09/05/verizon-wants...

I'm actually ok with this idea, because it introduces the concept of companies "paying" for your data. To me, that means a couple things:

1. People with privacy concerns can use verizon but _not_ participate in their data collection program.

2. It opens up the idea of a competitive market for your data. Google and others have gotten away with "all your data for free access to [product]" for too long, which is almost like a fixed exchange rate. Clearly, Google makes enough money in search that they could have started "paying" users to use their products long ago.
My point is that you often don't get that luxury.
> If your using money to keep score your probably using the wrong system to keep score.

I think another side of the problem is 99% of people who are not rich are using the same score and since they are "losing" they hate the rich. If we all stop using money as the score we'd all be better off.
That’s their problem. A browser should always give a user the upper hand.

Browser block popups, forcefully enable right-click on sites that disable it, browsers allow users to forcefully enable zoom, or background playback.

And just like that, browsers should also allow users to forcefully enable PiP.
Whenever I read about Sun going down, I'm always reminded by the Joel Spolsky article https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/
Wine would probably be worth a shot as well.
If your base load (power that can't easily or efficiently be switched off; typically coal, nuclear and hydro) plus your renewable production exceed demand, then the best solution is normally to turn off some of the renewable.
Yes! Throw them off a high building and ask how fast will they be going when they pass the 30th, 20th, and 10th floor.
Indeed, the only reason anyone would get Campag is status ;) (Di2 all the way here...)

Regarding Castelli though.. The Perfecto and Gabba are so much (technically) better for cold/wet weather than anything else I'm not sure that status matters.
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Robert Harper's book Practical Foundations for Programming Languages (free draft) http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/pfpl.html

This book will stop you from making easy mistakes in design of whatever DSL or language you're trying to create. Also see the commentary he keeps on it which changes often http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/pfpl/commentary.pdf
This has nothing to do with PHP, but saying "don't" can be a positive thing too, and a change for the better.
Okay but it's not reality, it's a mathematical model and if you don't look for other mathematical models you could be missing a much cleaner simpler model that is just as accurate in predicting outcomes.
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Personally I don’t believe a real AI currently exists today (with one military caveat bellow).

I am not in the filed and I am not even a developer, but I do enjoy building trading algo robots on the side (they are quite successful, so I am not sure what is the side anymore, my real job or my side project earning me more on a monthly basis) and I really keep an eye on the so called AI space, because I believe my systems will be profitable as long as humans are involved and trading the market (either manually or with algos)... Essentially what we see today are rule based and data driven systems, but the logic behind is all human with its own greed and fears (especially talking into the stock market context)

I think the real AI will come form the military (as all other great live changing inventions), so what I am looking for the determine if the singularity already occurred is something like this: news report about a drone swarm enters in to ISIS controlled city and kills all terrorists and not a single civilian casualty...

I hope you get the idea and who knows, the real AI might be as greedy and fearful as us humans, which will not be a good thing about the human race to say the least...
Comments about substance and quality of discussion are always the same in the same ways.

One would need to have automatic classifiers and lines of discussion that can travel across hyperplanes.
I was thinking of languages (e.g. python and c#) where you can specify default values for named parameters.
What credentials are there to prove that this is a legitimate outfit?
Remember there a lot of people where more money can actually make a huge difference in their lives.

Most people have a tiny amount of savings, and are struggling to get by.
The only speech that needs protection is the icky speech. Absolutely no one cares to suppress palatable, well meaning, everyone agrees to it speech.
This preserves the structure better:

> As someone who's never used Solaris [...] I'm curious: can someone [...]

Notice that you left out the subject (I), left out the verb (am), and replaced a colon with a comma!
Interesting side note:

A significant number of Oracle shops use Sybase Replication Server to replicate from an Oracle - to an Oracle database.

Go figure...
To quote the brilliant Jim Morrison:

"Waiting for the Sun"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0kypyGSKsE

"The End"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FMGYycBAMU

And to quote the also brilliant Jim Thompson (whose Levenshtein distance from Jim Morrison is 5):

We had Joy, we had fun
We ran Unix on a Sun,
But the source and the song
Of Solaris have all gone.
That's very easy to say when you have money, and not really possible to do when you don't have money.
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Why run hundreds of even thousands of detectable bots, when one can seed real living agents of chaos? It is not unlike a reflection attack. I call it FOGGYMIRROR.
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I agree; I found this comment, while probable well-meaning, very condescending. It seems to approach programming as something one does only for work, or as something that's an impediment for a more meaningful life.

I'm a free software hacker and activist. I'm also a professional programmer. My life outside of work is how I described myself in the first sentence of this paragraph, and I'm unhappy with how _little_ time I have to devote to it. These are things that are fundamental to my identity, so saying "get a life" when talking about what makes me me is telling me that the life I chose isn't one worthy of choosing.

Again, I'm not confident that this was the
oldandtired's intent with those comments, but I think there's an important perspective to consider. The username is also suggestive. :)
The great thing about developers working on a project in their free time, is that they can choose anything they want. They're not constrained by what other people think they should be doing, despicable or otherwise.
There are trash bins but now the person doing it to save 7 € is now committing an administrative offence so now you have a few legal instances of a problem instead of many instances of an ecological problem.

This is not to say that consumers paying for their trash solves all problems.

It does, however, provide an incentive to avoid "bad" trash in the first place. "Taxing" manufacturers doesn't (because those taxes apply equally to every manufacturer)

EDIT: To be clear, taxing the manufacturer works via contributions of ecological people in facor of the unecological ones. It's the opposite of what you'd want.
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This very same meme is on Reddit in multiple places, including /r/ImGoingToHellForThis.
You can keep score how ever you like.
> There's plenty of research on the "entity theory" bias, mostly applied to gender.

Junk science if there ever was any. The effect sizes for these treatments are tiny, if they even replicate it all. It seems like every day now there's a new rebuttal of stereotype threat, implicit association tests, priming, etc.

Just from today:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09515089.2017.135...
http://internal.psychology.illinois.edu/~acimpian/reprints/j...
Usually, gas is used to cover shortfall, yeah. Here are stats for the Irish national grid (see the monthly view): http://smartgriddashboard.eirgrid.com/#all/wind

There are periods of almost no production for a few days; this is handled by spinning up gas turbines, mostly. In the future, storage may be more viable; here's an interesting project: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/07/germa...
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The types of trivial examples in the post are exactly what you should use makefiles for. make excels at managing simple file transformations: you get into trouble when you try to do complex cross-platform scripting with it.
"The problem is that no tax code can close all loop holes because you just can't foresee the creative ways people will out maneuver the tax code."

I disagree. I simple flat tax rate where everything is taxed at a single rate would close every single one of the loopholes above, if only by making it moot.

The fact that the rich can maneuver themselves into a much lower tax rate than the average person presents a significant, unfair advantage in my opinion. A flat tax rate would make things much more equitable. Plus it would asimplify the tax code tremendously.
Which Windows version are they emulating now?
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I believe the answer is quite simple - the two major US parties would like to maintain their duopoly and allocate a considerable fraction of their vast resources towards pushing that narrative and smearing anyone who tries to act outside it.

The acceptance of the left-right paradigm by half the US voter base looks like little more than a successful propaganda campaign by the incumbent political parties.
Your being banned from a subreddit is not the same as your right to free speech being infringed upon. "Free speech" does not equal "permission to post in one or more specific subreddits".
> The problem is that no tax code can close all loop holes

I don't see why it won't be catching up if it is updated to match what people are trying to do.
My commute I grab a paper off sci-hub from a journal, print it out at a corner store and read it to and from work. If it must be a podcast one I enjoy is the Type Theory podcast http://typetheorypodcast.com/
There's a typo. "Datahub has more then 1200 datasets" should read "Datahub has more than 1200 datasets"
It seems like each of the folders with makes files having Makefiles also have a package.json, suggesting they are self-contained packages under the same repository. Still, it seems like a questionable move
And if project using CMake then it's even better with MXE [1]. It's basically let you build toolchain with no effort by typing few commands and while I didn't test Wix it's perfectly capable of creating installer with CPack / NSIS.

Another option is to use AppVeyor CI + Microsoft's Vcpkg [2], it's also integrated with CMake and require no manual setup.

[1] http://mxe.cc/
[2] https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg
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