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Because candidates are not aware of the environment they get in to, or have not experienced such an environment. You don't know the company's language yet. You think you heared A at the interview, and you are not getting A. "They use continuous integration and deployment" which in their terms is a custom ant-based build system of 3000 files, while you think they use Jenkins with Maven.

Bonuses and raises are one part that influence the scale. Colleagues, maintenance work, difference in code style, heated discussions, way of working are another.
RDL and Diamondback have a different approach. Diamondback works with given code without modification and able to find (some) errors, RDL needs code modification. See this issue https://github.com/plum-umd/rdl/issues/33#issuecomment-31707...
I attended a similar course and talked with other students about their solutions and what difficulties they encountered.

From what I've seen I had the impression that MiniZinc had some problems, i.e. it has some unexpected behavior, such as:
- reordering constraints changes performance
- reordering constraints may change results/feasibility of a problem

For quick prototyping it was nice though.
> Standardized sizes would waste a lot of energy in transporting

Why?

All I can see is how this would save a lot of energy in transporting by making it easier to stack things together, as well as making it a little more difficult for companies to play games with packaging size and form factor.
How are they managing the content not specifically served over https? Do the scrap and download it, rewrite urls at their storage and re-serve back over https?
I've heard some people claim that it's not necessarily the brain/body size ratio that determines intelligence, but the ability to manipulate the world around you. An octopus has 8 appendages, a dolphin has none (maybe its snout and tail could count as two, but are not nearly as efficient as an octupus's arm).

I've never seen any research that backs this up, but I'd love to read some more about these claims. If anyone cares to elaborate?

And you'd be surprised about how little we know about animal intelligence. You should look into the psychology professor Irene Pepperberg and her parrot Alex (Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene_Pepperberg). Fascinating.
Bitcoin has a use now, people use to store their wealth away from prying eyes, I think this is why China recently tried to ban it....

Magic leap could be the future, it could be complete vapour ware, though I like to be positive about these things as they could be doing things the Apple way and will only announce finished products, not technologies....
Your observation which just occurred to you has been a long-time bugbear of the conservative tabloid "Daily Mail" and at least some Tories. Here's an article combining the two: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2364718/No-benefit-c... .

My view is that people don't want to simply maximize income, otherwise everyone would have two or three jobs and no free time. And taking care of children sometimes feels like having an extra job. I think the Daily Mail, etc. view comes from the idea that the poor are poor simply because they are a bad type of person, and not because of, say, structural inequalities or class oppression.

Bear also in mind that those countries with a level high amount of social services (long paternity leave, free day care, subsidies for children, etc.) tend also to have low rates of childbirth. Quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_rate#Coercive_population... :

> In many countries, the steady decline in birth rates over the past decades can be greatly attributed to the significant gains in women's freedoms, such as tackling the phenomenon of forced marriage and child marriage, education for women and increased socioeconomic opportunities. Women of all economic, social, religious and educational persuasions are choosing to have less children as they are gaining more control over their own reproductive rights. Apart from more children living into their adult years, women are often more ambitious to take up work, education and living their own lives rather than just a life of reproduction.[45] Birth rates in third world countries have fallen due to the introduction of family planning clinics.
It’s possible to have both; just make your js component issue a synthetic click on a hidden native input, and read the value when changed. I do this all the time.
Retropie isn't only about NES. I have a rpi3 and it can handle N64 games too.
Agree very strongly.

I have been attacked multiple times on wikipedia trying to add useful information. Even when I cite all the rules and how I am following them, my edits get reversed "because".

I run a separate wiki, and many, many people are hesitant to contribute because they think wikis suck because of bad experiences with the politics of wikipedia.
Someone should write a WebGL miner already
In all that rant of yours, you don't mention once why recycling doesn't work, just implore us to stop believing in it. Why is that?
You start investing intelligence and effort where it really counts so I'd say most younger people I worked with are extremely inefficient but hyper-energetic and willing to waste time and energy on insignificant problems.

This is necessary for education of course but it's often times not contributing to a business' bottom line.

More mature people are almost universally more valuable for a business.
Yeah, I was a bit too quick with the five years. It depends on the technology. 5 years of Java development you still work with is relevant. Or that great project which really stands out of your normal line of work, I'm really interested in that.

But that two-month project of C++ which you haven't used since 2012 really doesn't matter for me. I will ask about it, and you will tell me "I haven't used that since..". Or that framework you used in 2007-2009, and then died out and which nobody uses today any more, I don't really care.
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But those are for dynamic typing. I was looking for static typing
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I'm wondering how difficult (if not impossible?) it would be to change the format in the US.

It makes no sense whatsoever and the US seem to be the only place in the world to use mm/dd/yyyy excluding a few countries in Africa (and even there it's not the most popular format):

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pict...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country
another case of post shipping software debugging philosophy ?
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Absolutely.

It's refreshing to spend time in the undeveloped world and see how glass bottles are re-used hundreds or thousands of times, how many things you buy don't come wrapped in plastic and how people simply buy less crap.

In order of importance - Reduce, re-use, recycle.

The developed world is just now catching on to the worst of the three.
Stop worrying and jump ship for 5-10k more because it seems you work in a toxic environment.
I think this is a great turning point for Facebook and might even bring Facebook back on the map SOCIAL media wise. Since almost all people I know barely use Facebook anymore for communication, because you just don’t see any posts by your friends no more.
If (a big 'if', ofc) you handwave all the display, compute and cost issues better, AR is a no-brainer even simply as a better alternative to tablet and smartphone displays. Screen-on-a-handheld-box displays are trapped in inescapable trade-offs—screen too small, device too big, screen too close to the eyes, choose one; screen at a low angle, device hanging from a fastener contraption, auxiliary display in use, gorilla arm, choose one—that HMDs are not trapped in.

Going beyond that to 'real' AR applications, maps applications alone are enough to justify AR. Turn-by-turn on-foot navigation and local points of interest are use-cases which cry out for head-up display instead of forcing the user to divine information from a small handheld map (and audio cues etc.) Alternatively the user could do flatscreen AR by gorilla-arming their phone, but it's obvious why using a sufficiently good AR HMD is preferable to this. The big extra stumbling block here is once again technology—the coverage, accuracy, and speed of tracking with GPS etc.—not inherent uselessness.
Yeah, I was a bit too quick on that one.

Imagine only developing .Net from 2005-2007, would you still be interested in their .Net skills if that person switched to Java and has't touched .Net since?

"Any coding/tech you've done more than 5-10 years ago and haven't touched since, isn't relevant any more." <- better?
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> I just think that trying to make Los Angeles into a Manhattan or a Paris should not be the goal of the urban planners of LA. Houston and Atlanta are also not going to be able to change that much. It would be very hard to do; really impossible without some kind of wholesale destruction by war.

It's possible to get incrementally better though. LA is building more and more metro lines, because they're working.

> Maybe some other way of city living can be a great also. Let humanity try it out. There are lots of cities in the world.

Building in a sprawling, car-oriented way has been tried though, and it's resulted in cities that aren't very nice to live in. At what point do we draw a line under it and say the experiment has failed? I'm all for having city design experiments, but at some point we have to put those experiments into practice and use the results to create more livable cities.
Webgl has no benefits for mining. Coin hive already uses Wasm, but was falsy classified by every media outlet as "Javascript".
You generally want the converse, the ability to block off Saturdays and Sundays.
I also think that there is still room for improvement for embeddings based on other contexts as pointed in the blog entry. Another example from this year is leveraging dictionary entries as external context -
http://aclweb.org/anthology/D17-1024 ()

Selecting context words differently is also an option for improvement. Using dependency structures to "filter" out context window seems to work better than "filtering" using subsampling frequent words illustrate that there is room. We may see other solutions to select context words in the future, as a building block as it is. Especially lately with the StarSpace hype advocating the idea of general purpose - task-agnostic - embeddings.

Or we can also consider that the expected improvements are insignificant w.r.t. improvements with the model learnt on those embeddings for downstream tasks that may update embeddings especially for this task...

() disclaimer: I am a co author
Maybe if you're used to driving manual cars and use engine braking? Sometimes I try to engine brake while the gearbox is in neutral by mistake, it's not a pleasant feeling when you don't feel yourself slow down.

If people are used to the car reacting in a certain way and it suddenly changes I'm not surprised that in can be enough to momentarily lose control. I wouldn't like that at all.
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Fully agreed. There are myriad of ways to continue to be a viable professional.

For me personally, getting out of the corporate bubble was extremely worth it. So much toxicity gone in an instant.

I now work with people who don't judge me by age, only by what value I create. It's liberating and it feels like you're chest-close to the business side of things where no drama or intrigue exist.

To summarize: meritocracy can work but it requires a pretty tight regulation and smaller teams.
It's cleaner because you can't pass invalid options, they won't compile.
They are above paying subhuman wages for extreme exposure to dangerous and toxic environments for extended periods of time. Yes.
What happens when the entire structure collapses?

please just retrospect the history of other countries
Ugh - There are restaurants but people still make a kitchen in their house.

Cars inspire beauty and passion, so car ownership is never going to be a thing of past.
Even if it were feasible I doubt any government would admit to being able too. That would be an incredible escalation point.
It's more the risk of China producing a good EV themselves and selling that in the rest of the world.
Yes, of course, sure. I mean it's a completely different world then and now (Multi core cpus, High dpi displays, language versions gone from C#1 to C#7 etc). Complete window toolkits swapped out etc. Feature set has probably grown 1000% (E.g. like Word 1.0 to 20XX).

So it's almost unrecognizable but the thing is that someone who was in on the project 10 years ago would be up to speed fairly quickly even though the language jumped 6 major versions and the window toolkit changed etc. And someone who wrote a swing app in '97 could jump on board this C#7 project and be productive immediately. The fundamentals don't change much.

When I look away from Javascript for 5 years I feel like I woke up on another planet.

> did you consider webdevelopment and if so why didn't you change (I'm not pushing for web here, I'm just curious why you didn't follow the trend/hype).

Same reason other heavy desktop apps and games aren't web based. Need the power of the local machine. It's not a db+forms app, it's a CAD+FEM package. There are of course some examples of "cloud cad" now but I doubt it will become mainstream any time soon.

Probably what is the core of the matter here is that the fundamentals of the application isn't the code that makes application tick, it's the domain logic. So while desktop moves slower than web/mobile, apps that are 90% e.g. physics etc moves slower than apps that are thin on logic and deep in presentation such as many web apps.

I suppose if our app was an AI app, then it would be pretty out of date because the domain moved so much in 10 years. But for CAD/FEM it doesn't.
> it only supports 1.8

Yes, it is because this is a fork of a project started in 2009 (and not maintained afterward). I spent a couple of evenings trying to resurrect it and see what this thing is capable of. There is a lot of things to do to make this really usable. But I was able to get it to the point to run examples (those examples are the same in ruby 2.4).
It doesn't work because everywhere you look the world is full of garbage.

I went on a holiday to the pacific recently and stayed on a remote island and walked around it and every 10 feet - literally - was a plastic drink bottle.

Is that not enough to convince you that there's a problem?
I guess most of us saw it for the first time used in the url bar. It did surprise me too altho I knew how they were used to embed images and such.
How does MiniZinc compare to other modelling languages, such as Pyomo? http://www.pyomo.org/
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Best advice here.

Communicating with a lot of non-tech folk and just going out there in the world helped me realize that us the programmers live in our own bubble just like everybody else.

Now that I can express the business value of my skills, I am sought after and I have to turn down offers on a regular basis.
Well, if you would be happy to give it away for free than go and do that. If you wouldn't pay - go and do that too, don't pay.

I, by the way, wouldn't (and didn't) pay for it too - but I sure as hell ain't complaining about it or try to tell people what to do with their intellectual property.
Agreed. I personally use it everywhere I can because it makes it easy to sort anything that is date/time based.
Completely agreed. I could easily spend an hour talking about all the potential real world uses for AR I see at work and non of them would have anything to do with consumer smart phones or Google/Apple's target audiences.
They had serious problems, period.

As you say, one major problem was that the aircraft skin got really hot from friction - hot enough that they had to build it out of a special titanium alloy, and paint it with heat resistant paint - but that was inadequate. Due to the heating and cooling that occurred each cycle the entire airframe would expand and contract very substantially - over repeat cycles this lead to metal fatigue, and would lead to failure but not for incessant expensive maintenance. For an idea of how much the thing expands, on the final flight of the model now at RNAS Yeovilton, the flight engineer stuck his cap between the engineering console and the bulkhead, where it remains sandwiched by pressure today.

Apart from the thermal issues, the entire craft suffered from “so cutting edge it barely works” all over, from special tyre compounds to window seals to the famous drop nose. It was an engineering marvel and nightmare, in one improbable package. It’s frankly surprising it even ever existed.

I think the major difference will be that Concorde was a space age plane built with 60’s tech, and these will Be space age planes built with space age tech.
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> Many clients decide not to try masking age, as any company that might discriminate based on age isn't a place they would want to work. I respect that as well.

That's exactly my attitude. I am aware of age discrimination and I am not gonna hide my age. The people who do it aren't pleasant, and work is not only about the money. You have to like your workplace else your life becomes a wide-awake nightmare.
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No, push back against insane requirements. Why do we want to style input? Bill them for a custom solution if they want a custom solution.
This rather tends to be a middle ground solution while we do not have an idea how to do types right in Ruby. Let me remind you that whole Ruby core team struggles with this question. But this thing can work with original source code without modification or with type annotations in comments, so it intentionally stays out of Ruby syntax.
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Yet they over time created this crucial need of local/small business to have a Facebook page if they want to engage with potential customers and such, but now they change this “contract”.
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> What's the benefit of this?

Apart from Xophmeister's point about embedding within a cached resources, two other use-cases:

1. generated or dynamic resources - e.g. displaying an image from a file input before it's uploaded to a server

2. reliability - e.g. Github's 404 page[0] uses them to ensure the entire page source is standalone and works independently of other services/resources.

[0] https://github.com/404
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Welcome to the world of middle endian.

And for this reason the ISO standard is yyyy-mm-dd, big endian just like writing numbers; and it sorts (numerically not lexigraphically) properly too!
> That's why I said that redistribution is OK in principle, but many feel that in Italy there's just too much of it.

While the amount is huge, that is not event the biggest issue. What people resent is _how_ that money is spent: public construction project meant mostly to funnel money to organized crime and companies of relatives of politicians; covering the bizarre expenses of the politicians; and the never ending legion of public employees that got a job in exchange of votes (but get paid without working much or at all). If you add the fact that southern Italy is where most of tax evasion and health-related fraud occurs, the feeling for many is not that they are paying to help the poorer, but that they are sweating so that others can live a comfortable life.

While it is not a black-white situation (there are also such issues in the North, and hard working people in the South), the difference is notable.
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Someone told me the same applies in Thailand. Something about owning a Porsche (etc) showed more than normal wealth because you know they pay a huge extra on top of the already high price.

That was the gist of it anyway.
There was major coverage of it in Amiga Active magazine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Active), over a number of issues. Sounded really exciting at the time!
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I agree that packaging needs a rethink.

Our household waste stream is quite low (UK). Less than a small carrier bag per week of what basically boils down to plastic wrapping and lids. Most of which is unnecessary.

All our food wastes, cardboards, poor quality papers, (pretty much anything the worms will eat) ends up in the compost heap. Nature is a good recycler in that regard.

Our recycling bin is mainly full of glass and metal. These packaging materials do feel rather extravagant, but at least they are simple mostly non-composite materials. I still don't understand how and why it's worth recycling a Tetrapak.

While I agree many plastics are probably better burnt for energy rather than shipping them to China; buying into incinerators just perpetuates this rubbish packaging industry.

Simple compostable packaging is certainly a swaying factor for me when buying a food item.
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What is the reasoning behind the decision to not make localization configurable?

Can we agree that some webpages and webapps have already make the decision to control the locale through the app and not choose the environment default?

My OS and browser locale is pt-BR, but if for whatever reason I am not happy with a pt-BR UX, which is often, I want to be able to change it on a case by case basis.

For example, any documentation I look up, like say on MDN or AWS, I want to see it in english and not a poor/incomplete translation. If I play a Star Wars game on my browser or phone I do not want any translations, I want the original terms like scoundrel instead of the translator's choice of terms.

It is already bad enough as it is for the reasons I pointed out, now we are gonna have that same nightmare in forms as well?

Sure webapps that actually care will find a non standard way, as they already do, but then we are not actually improving when in 2017 you have to load 3rd party libs just to be able to choose the locale of a date input.

<input type=date> (environment default)

<input type=date locale="pt-BR"> (actual chosen locale)

Is that too much to ask?
You could introduce it gradually. First it's only available to those of age 65+, then one year later, if all goes well, it becomes available at age 64, etc.
When it turns out a bad idea, you similarly roll it back, one year at a time.
I run uMatrix with a small amount of allowable filters. I have no problem with ads generally, so if I must I will open FireFox where I don't run such things, but also don't log into anything personal.
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