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I visited Pompei just last week! What an amazing place.

Most of the paintings and mosaics and other findings have been removed from the houses and are in a museum in Naples, but still, it's extraordinary.

There had been a big earthquake in 62 AD that had shaken the whole region, and Pompei was still under active reconstruction in 79 AD when the eruption buried it.

(It is said that during the 62 earthquake, Nero was singing in Naples in front of 5000 people he had forced to come listen to him, and that when the earth trembled he explained it was because it was touched by his singing. Spectators were not allowed to leave the theater until he finished. The theater is no more, but the houses later built on top of it clearly follow its path https://goo.gl/maps/AsMRjEm9sj82).

In Pompei there were small houses, big houses (some over 3000 sq. m. with an entrance in the town, and a terrasse with a view of the sea); there was, at Herculanum, a nearby town, a huge villa (Villa of the Papyri: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_of_the_Papyri) overlooking the bay of Naples.

None of that mattered. The eruption destroyed everything.
Equal say is not the right criterion to pick officials imo, equal chance of being elected is more suited to represent the views of the people [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
That's entirely fair enough, but that's not the point we're arguing on. Objecting to a specific law on the basis that you are being coerced into following it is not a basis for picking and choosing which laws you're prepared to accept, because that is a general feature of laws.
Again, maybe it differs from region to region / country to country, but I have seen many many job ads asking for more years of experience than the technology actually exists. Or asking for juniors with more than 5 years experience which is simply not a junior. I don't think it will be hard to find job ads that simply are not realistic or actually cannot be filled. That happens on purpose as well in some countries; if you cannot fill a job locally, you can get people from other countries.
> I suspect if the takeover hadn't happened, the FOSS systems landscape would look a whole lot different. Like what, I don't know, but definitely different.

It's possible IBM would have been a significantly better steward. Of course, it would have been hard to be a worse one.
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>We can use complex numbers to describe a 2-dimensional number-space with a single digit.

No we can't. What digit represents 1 + 1j?
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Two suggestions:

- smell them. Smell is part of flavor and also correlates with the other parts of flavor. Odorless tomatoes are 90% of the time tasteless

- choose tomatoes which are still attached to a part of the plant when possible. They keep their flavor a bit longer.
As I mentioned in the other comment I think it's easier to be honest when you are in a position of power (economically or socially) as you can probably absorb the repercussions without too much of a harm.
Like probably only telling the positive stats when raising money is much more beneficially.
It's always great to have some friend to ground you back again in truth, but it's very rare to find such folks. Most people are way more comfortable in ignorance rather than hearing/telling the real truth... so just to even have amicable relationships with most people you have gotta lie ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I think he's just omitting embarrassing details to be nice, as can be expected of someone who's just learning what entrepreneurs are like, and/or to avoid having to prove accusations in court.
He's proved himself naively optimistic enough to make very valuable work before getting a good contract rather than after.
I think these kinds of misconceptions people have about themselves are quite common, in fact. Like that the vast majority of people think they are above average drivers.
Yes, but if your design requires the virtual function then you'll be using a function pointer in the C implementation as well, which has the same indirection.
As an operator at a networking vendor this article really rang true. To me the whole article was a cry to re-think embedded systems design. He opened with relationship between feature-bloat and hardware performance in networking space. Won't your service be more performant if you avoid STP check on a routed network? Yet because of history and system design even if you don't use STP your hardware will perform check because of system architecture. Just take a walk through an IP or Ethernet header and look at how many of those protocols you actually use. Yet even if you avoid using them you can't 'disable' this checks in hardware. Refactoring seems to be hard or cost-prohibitive for network vendors, so it is avoided (at least until the next hardware generation is released). Even when engineering identifies an architecture problem, most managers will not take the risk of proposing refactoring. Maybe because it's more cost-prohibitive in an embedded system? Maybe because engineering teams implementing 20 year old protocols like ARP, Ethernet, STP, OSPF are in that position because they are inexpensive?
His bit about DEVOPs is just trying to point out how QA for networking gear running well established protocols should not be a hard problem, yet for some reason gear gets released still with the same bugs you'd see in 2000. Why is this?
A compromise would be 16:10.
It depends what you mean by constrain. What constraints are they under that are not voluntary?
The Oracle database is very good at its job: take data in, give it back fast and reliably, optimise bad queries, etc. The interface can be hair-tearingly awful, but the software fundamentally works.

The bad part of running Oracle is absolutely everything else, especially the bit where you ever have to talk to Oracle. When we moved our stuff from Oracle to Postgres, the best bit was never ever having to think about licensing.
> But smelling the produce before buying is considered pretty bad form where I live.

Doing that in supermarkets here is also looked upon as a bit weird. But I don't care, I prefer to look weird and eat the best tomatoes ;)
I would return it to the store after something like that. People just accept everything new without questioning...
Good point, but then perhaps the solution is some minimal theming? Good use of a menu item ;)
This is simply untrue. You can try spending some time having an actual conversation with real animal rights activists, you might find out that they're real nuanced people (just like you, hopefully).
Integration can definitely not be applied to basically anything. See the entire subject of measure theory, the concepts of Riemann, Riemann-stieltjes and Lebesgue integrals.

The class of C(1) functions is quite easy. The class of intergrable functions is much more difficult. All we know is that it is larger. Consider this: to prove a function isn't differentiable, you need only give a single point where the derivative as a limit doesn't converge. To prove a function has no integral, you need to consider all possible partitions of that function's domain. (You also need to specify what exact measure is being used, etc).
>I think that is a horrible argument. It always bothered me that my employers could ask a lot of money per hour to their clients and I would only receive a very small part, even though I did most of the work.

Did you? Are you ignoring all the work that went into landing the contract? If your work was really the major effort the smart thing to do would be to strike out on your own.
Driven but I wouldn't call either of them happy.

Personally I think these types of people are abnormal and their "success" isn't something I aspire to.
Bit of a shame, I understand the reasoning, but I also understand how poor the existing YouTube app is to this day.

I'd be happy with ads, I'd be happy with not being able to download videos, I just wanted to get videos from channels I'd subscribed to and multitask with iOS' native PiP and ProTube let me do that.
The article summarized: "NK has EMP!!!1 Buy my book!"
The original NeXTSTEP prefix was "NX"; NS came about after OpenStep, the joint project with Sun — hence Next/Sun as the prefix.

http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/cocoa/136618-what-does-n...
I wish there was a decent package manager on windows too. Chocolates used to be OK but I often find outdated packages and they keep breaking the syntax of existing scripts regularly (like by making almost all packages now require the flag --allowemptychecksum). I don't know why it never really took off. This is such a practical way to setup a machine.
Given most of the comments in this thread "IoT = universe of suffering" is not a bad name, actually.
Zones were way cool. Solaris 10 was on the right path and I actually quite liked it. (Ran it in earnest on various SPARC and x64 kit.)
Not an American. But truth be told, more authoritarian countries and their armies will have a field day if the US military is weaker than it is. Europe is not going to stand up to Putin. And forget about Taiwan, South Korea, Syria etc.

The only thing holding them back is massive American firepower. In its absence every midsize Asian country is going to acquire nuclear weapons.
It's strange, I work in engineering, and all the most talented and highest paid people are in their 40s and 50s. I guess ageism in the Valley is real, but it seems most prevelant in web-related companies. At some point in your career, working in a start-up of beer-chugging bros or in an office that looks like an elementary school loses its luster, and you find better opportunities.
The main problems I have with Polymer:

* It's cumbersome to install. apt-get install npm && npm install bower && bower install ... this is about when I give up. Why not just include a 'polymer.js' file that just does all the work, no installs needed, no questions asked, CDN provided, batteries included, like every other client-side JavaScript library on the planet? Even the appropriate CSS can be loaded by the JavaScript itself, but it isn't.

* Bloated. You end up downloading several hundred kilobytes of JavaScript if your webapp uses more than a few different types of UI elements.

* Polymer components don't behave like native components. For example, you cannot swipe between tabs like a ViewPager does on Android. Implementing any kind of swipe-based feedback is hard, including pull-to-refresh. Back to native programming, I guess.

* For having so much marketing and PR and a camel-cased name "WebComponents", you would think it would be productized enough that it employ the appropriate native Android elements at least in Google Chrome on Android, and use the HTML5 substitutes on iOS and desktop. For example, you should replace the Polymer button with an actual styled Android button instead of a nested div hell. Chrome should have worked with the Polymer team on this. Not doing this has serious performance implications when you display thousands of items (e.g. lists of results, contact lists) each with their own nested div hell. Back to native programming, I guess.

* There is no framework to make apps look iOSish on iOS and Androidish on Android. Back to native programming, I guess.
This is known as stochastic program synthesis. The training set consists of a set of input-output samples; the synthesizier tries to find a Boolean function that maps all inputs to their corresponding outputs.

One algorithm that can be used for that is Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) [1]. Another approach is based on Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) [2].

In the second algorithm, you define a grammar that describes possible program moves. Then, MCTS builds incrementally builds the search tree towards more promising programs. A more promising candiate program is a program that has a more similar I/O behavior than another one (based on the training set).

[1]https://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/publications/papers/asplo...
[2]https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurit...
What if quantum mechanics are the causal basis for spacetime. Then to the observer it might appear as random, because spacetime is a prerequisite for observation. Also for causation, this must imply time moves sideways in the quantum domain. Clearly!

I clearly had one to many to drink. My head hurts.
If you have enough training data I think a Bayesian filter might work well and be easy to set up
Is this the most underrated melody?
If you had gotten in 6 years ago, you'd probably regret selling it all 4 or 5 years ago. Or perhaps you'd regret not selling, if the bubble pops tomorrow. Hindsight is 20/20.
>Nah,I want ...

nxc18 offered pretty good advice, I'm not sure what your alternative is?
What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months. -- Fred Brooks

As a programmer, I'd be happy in a team to be the only programmer as long as the rest of the team are experts in their domains.
The devil is in the details and Material Design is not 100% flat. I think Material gets a lot of stuff right but needs to be pushed a little further in the direction of making buttony things more buttony.
For me the Tour of Go was a bit terse. I found out that typing out all examples in Gobyexample is really helpful.
Visual studio code, with go extension and Gobyexample were the tools that enabled me to learn Golang.
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I was once in a meeting on site. The task was to get some data from an AS/400 to a Linux server and display it on a website.

Text files would have been enough to cache the data. But you never know how a project can change over time so I proposed PostgreSQL or IBM DB/2. The latter in case they absolutely wanted to pay for a database and they are already using an IBM AS/400. (We were using PostgreSQL and Informix.)

At the meeting they said they have already bought a license for an Oracle DB. Without consulting us. So we were forced to use it without prior experience.
How do you figure out if an account is fake? You look for certain flags -- the customer is deceased, they're an implausible age, they live at a nonexistent address, or perhaps the paperwork to create the account wasn't signed.

Presumably the 1.4M newly discovered fake accounts had some characteristics which they didn't look for on their first pass. Maybe the paperwork to create the account was signed, but it was all signed by the same bank employees rather than by customers. Maybe the paperwork to create one account got photocopied and submitted as the paperwork to create other accounts. You get the idea...
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China has banned ICOs
They basically are banned, at least for non-nuclear powers to obtain them anyway (see the NPT).

The threat still is and always has been a real nuclear power loosing off their arsenal either in anger or by mistake - that's how you end the world.
Do you mean like in uk where you get 159.55£ per week after you worked for at least 35 years and you are at least 68 (if they don't postpone it again) ?
I hope that I don't have to explain what kind of life you can do in London with that ridiculous amount.
I suspect a lot of students don't have the discipline to cope without a schedule and hard deadlines.
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While I'm rooting for Haiku in the abstract, they've been working for going on 17 years now without hitting beta. I don't have a lot of confidence that it's ever going to get past the "fascinating curiosity" stage. (I know some people would argue that BeOS itself never got past that point, but I ran it full-time for all of 1999 with very little difficulty--it had a surprisingly robust software scene given its size.) At any rate, I suspect if you were looking for the foundation for a new mobile OS today, there would be better choices.
>Its very important to be critical of farmers.

I've always felt that it's a bit ironic for people consuming animal products to be critical of breeders. Kinda passing responsibilities on them so tadaaa ! No more consumer guilt.

If you really want to reduce animal exploitation and world GHG emission, cut down your consumption instead of putting even more pressure on producers without accepting to get more money out of your pocket for products. Because generally speaking, people don't want to spend more money on food, as there is so much other essential trash to buy. To each his priorities...
Many gradients look gaudy to me these days. You don't need phong shading on your buttons, a slight bevel using a darker and lighter shade are enough to draw my attention.

That is not to say I like flat design, I dislike 'faux curvy 3d' design. Clean lines can be combined with depth perception. For this, very small gradients (i.e. to soften edges) make sense, but these are gradients that ought to be very small. On this 14" laptop I'd say at most 1mm.
The moment Oracle acquired Sun, early 2010, I called a meeting with my boss and boss's boss and said "Speaking as a Solaris admin, with several years' Solaris on my CV, we need to get off Solaris immediately and move to Linux." Took us a couple of years for most of it, and the last went when we finally got rid of Oracle and hence its SPARC box. Stack was substantially internally-developed Java.
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On the other hand, I don't regret not gambling on Bitcoin in the last six years. It's an interesting technology but the price is driven by pure speculation rather than any significant demand.
Snapchat founded 2011, same time frame as Google+. Which is on the wikipedia list of 100M+ user communities (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_virtual_communities_wi...), but its hard saying how that google+ number was arrived at.
It doesn't need to be greyscale, colored monotone also works to help things stand-out without becoming too intricate.
For the record, Valve is a very different company today than it once was. It's hard to produce any reasonably backed-up insights into their modern culture.
Sounds like you would like A&B's old show, Trance Around the World, too.
The solution is pretty straightforward. Replace all taxes on labor and earned income with a land value tax. This will increase disposable income of workers by directly decreasing taxes on wages, by lowering the cost of housing by disincentivizng speculative land investment, and by increasing the supply and margin of production of rent-free land, the later of which increases the bargaining power of workers per Ricardo's Law of Rent. The lack of private savings can also be addressed by creating a Citizen's Savings account for all citizen residents over the age of 21, into which a dividend is regularly deposited raised from natural resource rents.

The supply of land, and the degree to which land has been monopolized, is still the primary determining factor of wages even in a high-tech economy.

The price of rent for access to land in proximity to capital and dense concentrations of skilled workers of complementary skillsets determines how much savings one has to have before they can start a competing business or work for themselves, and the ease at which people can create a new business and go into competition with their previous employer determines the fairness at which equity is distributed in the average firm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_rent
I think for those people it's harder to be truthful - there is more to lose, especially if they've always lied for the purpose of accumulating power economically or socially - the more lies there are the more lies there have to be.

It's much easier for people with nothing to lose to tell the truth. IMO telling the truth is not an ability you can gain by accumulating power or status, but is an ability you sacrifice to attain power or status.
Indeed. And why right now i am using IceWM on Linux, and consider Win2k the last sane Windows.
While that is true, it is also alarming that he would have to relocate completely over this whole matter. Curious where in the world your own words involving Computer Misused (or similar law) being admitted are not legally binding, especially considering the implications.
A great early site back in the DHTML/component days where IE4 was really pushing things was WebFX [1]. This was back when IE was actually a good browser as Netscape was fading due to DHTML/early AJAX (which was the XMLHttpRequest object originally from Exchange Server). DHTML at the time was mostly easier in IE because it didn't draw a new DOM for each layer i.e. document.layers (Netscape) each layer was a new full DOM and document.all (IE) was one DOM.

[1] http://webfx.eae.net/