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I never liked computers growing up in the late 1980s and early 1990s, not really anyway. I loved technology but I was mostly indifferent toward computers, regarding them as boring, constrained tools. Two of my neighbors had Windows 2.x machines, my interaction with them consisted mostly of gaming. At home we had an old commodore and some unusual other system (which had an awesome cartridge based rip-off clone of pac-man), both were about as interesting to me as a toaster. My father had purchased them at some point - in theory for business purposes - they didn't seem to get used much. I liked building things and I hated having other people tell me what to do with my time or brain. From an early age, I knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur of some sort and I thought I might want to go into the aerospace field. Then in late 1994 I was introduced to the World Wide Web. That changed everything about how I viewed the world, I couldn't get enough of it. I grew up in Appalachia, a world apart from the kind of intellectual stimulation I craved. The potential of the Web was immediately obvious, it was like being hit with a sledgehammer. Suddenly you go from feeling disconnected from the world, to chatting with thousands of people from all around the planet on the WebChat Broadcasting System. Ecommerce, primitive streaming, communities, message boards, personal home pages, search, internet time, online gaming, blinking text, spinning gifs, applets, instant messaging, frames, oh man. Working on a solitary PC always felt like I was a TV repairman. With the Internet, the Web, you could be Spielberg, it was a platform seemingly infinite in potential to build upon. You didn't need permission, you didn't have to jump through red tape, you could just dial-in and start doing. I was enthralled by the era in general, it was an epoch, the big bang. Since it was simultaneously my formative teen years, the memories from 1995-2000 or so, are extremely vivid. Everything about the Web seemed incredible, every new site & service, no matter how silly. The stories from that time are permanently imprinted into my brain because of that. I had a pretty good recollection of the specifics, I double checked the exact figures.
Seebs — he writes “programs” for his own brain and then runs them fast enough that he frequently picks up on things that people who are naturally talented in that area would miss.
Not a native english speaker here, could someone explain what exactly "reified" means in this context? I tried searching online but it only led to further my confusion!
I think you do and that's the whole point.

We humans learn how to walk or keep balance by falling. It would be even fun to constantly fall; however there is pain involved, so we learn to do anything NOT to fall.

I think the first one who will design simple 2-leg machine and lock it in the room for a year and let it learn whatever it wants with simple objective "stay tall, don't fall" will be able to walk Boston Dynamics machines on a leech to a local park.
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I really wanted to visit this in 2009 while driving across the state. Unfortunately there were no signs on the highway to guide us (it was a relatively new historic site at the time) and me and my traveling companion missed it.
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Journalists shouldn't be demanding higher pay while news revenues are falling across the board and the industry is being inundated with more Communications grads than ever. The economics just don't work out in the ad-block and fake news era.
SpaceX can’t possibly build an orbital rocket, they don’t have the experience.

The Falcon 9 won’t work, too many engines.

You can’t land boosters once they’ve reached hypersonic speeds, 100-1 shot.

Sure 9 engines can work, but not 27, look at the N1!

Musk always over promises.

That last one may be true. The pad they need to launch the Falcon Heavy still needs to be repaired after last explosion. Might not be ready till early 2018.
Check UT Austin, they admit a ton of international students every year. Undoubtedly UT Austin is a decent school, but it also milks a lot of money from international students.

https://utexas.app.box.com/v/2016report

There are two parts in your point. One, the exam. SAT/high school grade is basically a joke for India/China students, which can send a town of 2400 kids. Spending one or two years preparing and you can pass whatever exam set, SAT or ACT or anything. Two, the tuition fee. You clearly underestimate the financial ability of wealthy Asian families, and I had talked to people who pay the entire tuition fee (200k+) for kids to study in four years. Of course not everyone can pay that, but schools also offer partial scholarship (and thus it's quite common for students to come with 50 or 75 percent scholarship).
If it has no value, then there is no value to waive. If there is no value to waive, there is no value transfer. Either they should pay taxes on it, or the university should stop 'waiving' tuition and simply make it 'free'. What absolutely should not happen is a special entry in our tax policy for this perverted case.

If it is indeed simply a 'book keeping' exercise, then what it really is is an attempt to subvert some other policy. I'm not sure what that policy might be (student loan terms, perhaps?) But whatever it is, it's that policy that should change. Not tax policy.
There is no such thing as instance or site pricing for Windows Server. Where are you getting that from?

There is only core licensing, and you have to license all cores in a hypervisor, 16 minimum, and then you can only run two Windows Server instances unless you re-licensing all cores on the host a second time. The exception to that rule is Datacenter edition, which is only cost effective for large businesses running high-density servers. (7.5x the price for the same number of cores vs. Standard.)

http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/2/9/7290EA05-DC56-4...
Was Googling around for stats. Sorry if the link isn't good, but:

https://geopoliticalfutures.com/china-is-still-really-poor/

In 2010, only 11.2 percent (almost 150 million people) lived on less than $1.90 a day. Not shown above is that 27.2 percent (almost 360 million people) lived on less than $3.10 a day.

So that's what, a bigger population than the US who live on less than $1k a year?
I did some free UI design for a game I found on the Pygame site a while back. At the time I was gainfully employed as a graphic designer, UI designer, and illustrator. The artwork was gratefully received and I had a fun time working with the software developer. Here's what I think made it go well:

- High visibility: The game was featured in the website sidebar. So I thought it'd be neat to contribute.

- Easy as HTML: Extract game zip file, edit Python files in a text editor, plug in my own filenames instead of the default ones. Start game, see my graphics.

- Developer was very open and friendly. Just an IT guy with a hobby.

- I knew about the Pygame website already because I followed FOSS stuff.

I don't know how many UI designers are browsing sites like that, but my guess is not many. But imagine if they did: what are the chances their workflow would be as easy as it was for me? In a compiled language, forget it.

I remember a few years back when suddenly it seemed like everything was on GitHub. My UI designer peers _hated_ this and many still do. So it's far from inviting in many ways for a UI person, though I don't mean to suggest they couldn't hack it if they wanted to.
That's more than double the median Chinese wage.

Granted, that's still a lot of people in absolute terms.
Savings is used because looking at per capita income is a disingenuous metric.

Since making 10 times more than someone doesn't get you very far if you live in a place that's 20 times more expensive, savings rate was used as a rough proxy for "how much can an average person set aside for this considering all other factors".

You could certainly factor in GINI coefficients and quintile distributions for a more accurate analysis, but I don't think it will change the fundamental nature of the results:

The capital a parent earmarks for their child's college education takes more time to accumulate and is more quickly exhausted in the United States than in many other countries. This means that the United States parents may be less able to afford a secondary program for their child in the United States than their counterparts abroad who didn't have to bare the same initial cost burdens.
That means there is unfulfilled demand for a media organization and that someone should be able to fill it. If Joe Ricketts wants to throw money away that is his own prerogative. If I were a former staff member who voted to unionize, I would start a new site and use this momentum as a launching point.
A few things:

Grad students from foreign countries are not crippled with debt. They get affordable educations and can afford to be in school longer in America. Comparable American students have been consumed by debt and must get real jobs to pay it off.

If undergrads were paying $7K / year for those degrees instead of $50k, things would be very different.

Second, universities who are rich from plundering their undergrads by way of massive administrative overhead resulting in skyrocketing loans...grad students are a source of labor for the schools at low cost.

By importing foreign students who are desperate and cheap, these universities are able to continue adding administrative bloat while exploiting foreign workers for the research tasks they once gave to their American contemporaries.

You want American grad students? Reform the loan situation, stop allowing universities to have their cake and eat it too. If they charge astronomical fees, they shouldn’t get to outsource that work to foreign students and then whine about not having more Americans.
Very cool! I love the simple JSON-over-WebSockets API and would love to see more streaming APIs like this available in the wild.
"A group of workers who weren't making money decided to get together to increase the ask of the owner of the business."

According to the article:

"DNAinfo was never profitable, but Mr. Ricketts was happy to invest in it for eight years, praising its work all along. Gothamist, on the other hand, was profitable, and a fairly recent addition to the company."

So at least Gothamist -- one of the companies that Ricketts shut down -- was actually profitable.
Basically, this "cramming up all of the components tighter together" is worth being impressed with. We're at the point in manufacturing where every square millimetre of space saved on a logic board, or within a collection of components, is bringing us ever closer to the limit of what we are capable of producing based on our current understanding of physics.

Aside: I'm excited to see how far technology advances in my lifetime. The general consensus seems to be that we are approaching some supposed limit. I'm hoping this turns out to be wrong, and that our technology continues to experience "horse => car" types of leaps. All I've been reading is that we only have "faster horses" in our future. With any luck, this kind of narrative is short-sighted and naive, and we have some incredible technological advances to look forward to.
I took it more like "if you clicked on that, you may also be interested in this" (which I in fact was).
This, a thousand times this.

As an ex-contributor to some old school Apache projects, I know too well the over-whelming feeling that the marathon of maintenance can elicit. Open source becomes open-ended.

For sure, start with a thank you. People appreciate thanks for their efforts, no matter the result. It can make all the difference for some people.

Want to go beyond and be a little helpful? It's easy -- just take a look around a project and add a contribution. It doesn't have to be an earth-shattering feature; in fact, it's the mundane that can really make a project so much better. Add a unit test, fix a bug, update some documentation. There is always something that can be improved.
I witnessed exchange of $300MM of stock for cash in late 90s at my job. You are correct that noone sels $1B of stock and doesn't make dent in trading value.

So to do that right, you get on the phone with broker who agrees to buy such quantity. You put order SELL at $5 and 1,000,000 shares ONLY, which means noone can buy just 10 shares: you take 1MM or none. Once your call reach the market, within seconds the other party puts a BUY call at 1,000,000 shares. 10 seconds later the whole transaction is done. It doesn't affect market at all, because the price fluctuates based on supply and demand. In our scenario X of supply met X of demand immediately, so the market didn't tick. Of course such large volume might be some sort of a signal (buy or sell, depends on party that looks at it), but will not trigger serious movement of stock, immediately.
It looks like Blizzard has been looking to increase margins by leveraging its inventory of older games (ex: remastered Starcraft 1, which likely has had great returns for the relatively little dev and art costs), and the f2p'ing of the earlier, but not later, parts of a franchise that the sibling posters mention would play into this strategy as well.

Zero development cost, maybe some inconsequential server costs, and possibly upsell opportunities that could make a tangible difference on the bottom line. Also would be a funnel into introducing non blizzard IP players into their various creative universes. Strong plays with very little downside.
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Was it successful? All reports I've seen indicate it was losing money.
"E4-D5 notation is optimized for recording games, not for playing"

depends on the type of player. Every serious hobby player can do it that way. They learned it.

But for casual players it is not the way to go, I agree.
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As someone with a chemistry interest these thoughts mirror mine unironically, so I doubt this comment was a joke.

I think it's a fair reaction to be mildly annoyed when someone uses something within your field without any real understanding what it does.

After all, programmers are one of the first to point fingers and laugh when e.g. movies use random code snippets or wrong jargon. One of those "Periodic Table of X" things is basically the chemist equivalent of Saying "I'll write a GUI in Visual Basic to track the killer".

This website has a different purpose though, as many people note.
The way he was cut off says volumes.
I've never heard anyone say it like that. It's given me pause.
Yea but they can cancel those trades at any time. They can set up a weekly sale of a huge chunk of stock, cancel it every week while the company is doing fine, then right before a terrible quarter hits, allow the sale to go through. This does not stop insider trading.
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Reminds me I have a ton of open patch contributions I need to review.
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> JSX is just JavaScript

No, it's not. It's the bastard child of XML and JavaScript. I agree that your examples are about the best you can do with JSX. But actually just JavaScript is much easier:

render() {
return Bar(someCondition && Foo())
}

or

render() {
return Bar(someCondition ? Foo() : null)
}

That's not quite hyperscript but it's not far from it.
The cheapest smart-phone you can buy right now costs $1,100. That’s the 2 year cost of a typical service plan, assuming you replace your phone every 2 years and the phone costs near zero.

By comparison, an iPhone X costs $1,700, only $600 ($25 per month) more than a “free” phone . The reason is in two years, you’ll be able to sell your used X for around $400.
> ...suddenly it seemed like everything was on GitHub. My UI designer peers _hated_ this and many still do.

What about it do they hate?
I ask as a non-designer, to whom their perspective may be foreign.
MuseScore is great, I have used it to produce lead sheets professionally on several occasions and it does not disappoint. I grew up on Sibelius but prefer MuseScore for simpler tasks. They have done a great job.
Huh? What's a port? How do I "install a database"? I already have Excel on my laptop anyway. You lost me at around the third sentence.
Here's another bit about Star Wars, but the whole playlist is wonderful. To put it mildly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97moKnDZYlM&index=19&list=PL...

I need to have this on DVD. I may have "heard" of the man in the sense of having heard the name or having seen the face somewhere, but I had no clue what I was missing out on; thank you!

He's absolutely right, the only way to "save the world" is to be alive.. whatever additional possible useful interactions there may be, they have to come from and be in harmony with that. Most of the time, being open and constructive leads to things you couldn't have possibly foreseen or planned to achieve. Come to think of it, for the first time ever I don't feel 100% silly for sometimes feeling like "the universe" kind of "rewards" paying attention to it for the sake of the relation between it and oneself, not the relation of oneself and others. But it's not about this deity or that myth, at the very least, there indeed is consciousness everywhere we can look, so maybe there is even more where we can't look yet or ever. There sure is a lot we drown out with our own clanging of pots and pans, individually and socially... but like a plant turns to the sun, maybe the sun turns to plants, in a way. Meister Eckhart went so far as to say that you can basically "force" God to come down to you, into you, by making yourself completely empty, because he simply cannot resist humbleness. I always found that kind of a sweet and wise way to look at what others would describe very draconically, in the language of slaves rather than lovers, but more importantly it's really profoundly true. As a metaphor, as poetry.

> "You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet."

- Franz Kafka
Kind of amazing how much React has taken off these last couple of years. Was talking to a hiring manager somewhere a few days ago who said she cared more about someone having React experience specifically over Python/backend for the full stack position they were hiring for. Said she'd rather they learn Python on the job than React. Fascinating.
Go's small number of keywords is deceptive.

Let's look at some of Java's keywords which have no analogue in the Go specification's list of keywords

1. boolean: go has the `bool` type, but it's a builtin, not a keyword, so it doesn't count against it.

2. byte: same thing

3. null: Go's `nil` is again not counted as a keyword in their list of 25

....

And hey, that accounts for almost the entire difference if you count all the primitive types.

Go, on the other hand, does not consider those "keywords", which leads to absolutely silly behaviour.

A programmer can accidentally redefine `len` to be a variable, and then `len(x)` will be an error later.

Because go has a ton of important builtins which aren't reserved keywords, you can write incredibly confusing code:

https://play.golang.org/p/-xChCblMEh

For a nice list, check out https://play.golang.org/p/yjkxqVY4eo

... yeah, Go's small number of keywords is often touted by Gophers, but really it's because the go team made this incredibly stupid decision.

If you counted the same sorts of things as keywords that java did, Go would have almost exactly the same number... and more problems would be caught at compile-time (like `len := 1`) .
Soooo, in most circumstances these products are set to be allowed to be crawled by robots for search engines. I think it’d be a hell of a lot more accurate and powerful to use Google with keywords (like powered by lines) than say have to get into possibly vague hostnames (like docs, bugs, issues, git etc).
I appreciate the time/energy you put into that comment. That was unnecessary but informative. Thanks.
Does Linux kernel have the code to manage these SMR drives as they need to be? (Seems like HGST purposefully left that to the OS to do - imho a smart choice)
I love guilds. I know the article mixes the term with unions, but they are truly different. For a union the primary weapon is withholding of labor by many (replaceable) individual members. Guilds however do not need large numbers to be powerful. They are composed of skilled (ie: less replaceable) artisans and small businesses, and have power by actually owning and wielding property/capital.

If there were a "software engineers guild" today it would retain the power to withdraw rights to the intellectual property of its members from any company behaving unethically. Much like how guests visiting a home for a party are expected to behave, a guild works with businesses that are well behaved and punishes those that are not. It holds both its members and outsiders wishing to contract with it to ethical standards that our legal system cannot because it is too gray area. Sort of like how one decides not to invite a bad guest over to the home again.

eg: Situations such as FB/Instagram blatantly copying Snapchat features, or Apple sherlocking F.lux with Nightshift while not illegal, could be judged as unethical by members. If unresponsive to pressure to make things right, the guild could respond by withdrawing rights to use its member-owned-IP from the offending company. eg: Imagine certain OSS licenses having a stipulation that one be in "good standing" with the associated guild in order to use it.

It only takes a small number of artisans with property to have quite an arsenal. A guild with just a few of the big names in the OSS community would be formidable. Ageism, monopolies, and many other threats out there easily fall down. Remember: guilds went up against kings in the middle ages and often held their own.

One last thing: Unions do not own common-stock, but guilds certainly do. In fact they would even seek to become majority holders. This aligns interests of the members with company success. Guilds also have to hold members to a very high standard.

There is much more to guilds vs. unions however I'll stop there. One can dream.
I bought an 8TB shingled drive. While the initial hundreds of MB of backup files wrote at reasonable speeds, it quickly dropped down to 4-5MB/sec sustained average for the rest, until it was idle for hours to catch up. Host management probably can help, but I'm not touching another SMR drive again.
"reified" comes from the Latin "res" meaning "thing". It means "to make an abstract idea or concept into a real thing". For example, the Turing Machine model of computation is reified in the form of actual computers.
I've heard that mergers aren't (legally) supposed to be anticompetitive, but I've seen the banking and semiconductor industries undergo a merger-fueled competition implosion in the last few decades, so obviously whatever mechanisms we have in place are laughably insufficient. As a voter, what keywords should I pick up on to fight the good fight?