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Wow this has been a disappointing discussion up to now, with most commenting on how much visual coding tools suck. That's not the take away here, at all.

A frequently asked question is "where is Access for the Web?", closing aligned with "what happened to 4GL languages and tools" or "where are the RAD (rapid application development) app builders for the web?". This is an answer; they've hit $100k monthly. They have found a market where many, many similar projects (I've listed them here before) have not. The relevant and amazing thing is how? How have they succeeded where so many others have failed?

The interview gives some answers:

He (Josh) was in New York, and everyone, literally everyone, was asking him to be their tech co-founder to start a business.

We started "recruiting" users at tech meetups in New York. With the startup wave, everybody was looking for a tech co-founder, and there were plenty of co-founder-dating meetups. ... We went there and told people that while we couldn't be their tech co-founders, they could use Bubble, as it would allow them build the whole thing themselves.

The following year (2013) we did a pilot at Harvard Business School, which I had just graduated from. Their first year entrepreneurship class required students to build something under a very tight budget, and Bubble was a good solution for this.

Answer; these guys had a kick ass network and expanded it. They had direct access to people in their market who were starving for this type of app.
I would use Lyft or Uber in Toronto, whichever is convenient at that point of time. If you start to boycott companies which are not ethical in doing their business, well almost all companies are. Lets start with Amazon with their sweat shop warehouses, Garment manufacturing outsourced to workers in Bangladesh working in deadly conditions. No corporations are saints.
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It's not that there are people willing to sit in smaller seats.

It's that airlines don't tell you how badly cramped your seat is going to be, you don't think about it when buying, and people have a short memory unless the experience was so brutally bad that it fixes itself in your memory.

They should, at the very least, be forced to disclose the seat pitch on every flight, so people can make an informed decision - and then, yes, you can let the market decide.

At the moment there's no reward for offering decent seats, the airlines doing so are effectively at a competitive disadvantage compared to the ones which don't. This needs to change.
NOTE: If you find GTD "too technical" or "too overwhelming" give a try to ZTD, zen to done.

It's a modified version that keeps goals and main tasks for the day front and center.

https://zenhabits.net/zen-to-done-ztd-the-ultimate-simple-pr...
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> Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
I agree but have to be careful with this one. I'm relatively junior and we had a lot of "it's not the time for this right now" when I believed it was... You have to win somebody over with your arguments rather than a unilateral explanation IMO. (edit: what I'm saying is - prove your explanation and convince the person of the business priorities, you can't say "it's confidential" or "we can't talk about why" or "the decision was made above our head".)

Also when your team has many priorities and are tackling many fronts and one of your frustrations - as a team - is your rarely addressed tech debt (due to business/monetisation priorities), then the team is up for demotivation.
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We seem to have a lot of unhelpfully rude comments about TFA, and why it doesn't apply to or help in their specific situations.

Everyone (for large values of most people) thinks that they are normal, and that everyone they interact with has a comparable, rational evaluation mechanism.

Disabusing this notion - and providing some simple ideas to consider when interacting with people who don't know you, but from whom you seek favour - is one of the more useful aspects of articles like this.
I'd rather willingly visit Futurama's suicide booth than slowly deteriorate due to Alzheimer's.
> Doesn't Google's browser hide the address bar

Huh? What are you talking about? All mobile browsers I'm aware of hide the address bar when you scroll down, not just Chrome.
You can skip the entire SQLite output to file by reading directly from the database: http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/version/0.20/generated/...
A visual node based computation graph editor is nice when crafting 3D shaders, if the substrate is rich enough such that the number of nodes to visualize remains comprehensible.
If lots of creative bits floating around in your head works for you, and doesn't distract from accomplishing the day to day things, then all good.

The thing I've seen most about "GTD doesn't work!" feelings is the assumption that 'doing GTD' is all or nothing. "record everything and become task robot" is one extreme.

The core idea is "use something other than your mind to keep track of the core things you want to be reminded of later, and the stress of 'what was that thought again?' can go away."

If you get to a point of not worrying about what might have fallen between the cracks, you've got enough of a system and I call that 'working'.

My "GTD" system doesn't look anything at all like DA explains it, but the concepts were enough to push me in the right direction and find what works to keep that worry at bay.
Everything I know about microservices stems from 2 quotes. One is an excerpt of _The Fifth Elephant_ by Terry Pratchett:

"This, milord, is my family's axe. We have owned it for almost nine hundred
years, see. Of course, sometimes it needed a new blade. And sometimes it has
required a new handle, new designs on the metalwork, a little refreshing
of the ornamentation... but is this not the nine hundred-year-old axe of my
family? And because it has changed gently over time, it is still a pretty
good axe, y'know. Pretty good."

And the other is a tweet from Honest Status Pages (@honest_update)

We replaced our monolith with micro services so that every outage could be more like a murder mystery.
I agree that the main problem is leadership — and arguably mentorship as well. As a field we're too predisposed to view all problems as technical and ignore the social factors which lead to the visible technical symptoms.
You also forgot the part about how they always say, "Your data is safe, we can't get it without a court/judges approval." Which means from a FISA court. A closed, secret court no one hears about and no one is there to act as your advocate.
But in fact UBer has cleared the way for any other taxi company. Uber's drivers can all (within one single day) download the app of any new company, and switch to driving for them without a hiccup. Uber's riders can all (within one single day) download the app of of any new company, and switch to hailing them without a hiccup.

There's no barrier to entry at all.
Could you explain it to us? Thx.

I know how bitwise operators works and have a CS degree... But even with googling I couldn't find a straight forward way to implement a general exponential operator using only bit operations.
But how can they do that without access to `window.opener`?
> I don't really get why it's specifically dystopian that you are recorded by a camera while you stand in line to hand over your government issued photo ID to a government agent with pretty broad discretion to make your day pretty awful.

Because automated iris-at-a-distance systems that can track and identify non-cooperative human targets scale a lot differently than tetchy border guards. Pervasive CCTV is one thing if it's mostly not watched (and only used to piece together what happened after incidents), pervasive facial/iris-recognition that is watched by computers 24/7 and tracks every single human's movements is a whole other thing. Also frankly, given you recognise the ability of customs/border/immigration personnel to make your day awful, why do you seem fine giving those people even more power and methods to pervasively surveil and track people?

> I'm pretty sure those cameras at Gatwick are supposed to track how long the waiting time is

Even per publicly-available information, this is flagrantly false. Queue management does not require enrolment of the passenger's face/iris data with their boarding pass, as indeed happens at Gatwick. This is explicitly for tracking passengers through every area of the airport:

http://www.professionalsecurity.co.uk/news/press-releases/mf...

http://www.planetbiometrics.com/article-details/i/1850/desc/...
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This. The difference between python and excel is that excel functions at the same time as an IDE as well as data prototyping platform.
I once joked with my friends about something similar to this. The best target audience to attempt something like this one would be people who are really big into conspiracy theory's and would have any attempts to bring something like this to light immediately shot down due to their other beliefs. It would be pretty simple for facebook to flag users that match a profile like this just off their likes and profile activity!
It's important to choose companies that you like - and behavior is a key component of that. Sometimes you have no choice but to deal with unfavorable companies, but if there is an option you should consider all aspects when purchasing.
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I used to drive to the D line terminal station and take it to Copley Square and it was a pretty OK ride.
Instead of having twelve tasks now you have 15, because you also need to keep track of the twelve tasks you are not doing. the problem is often more about getting started than getting done.
I am not assuming. The article contains evidence that it is useless vis a vis block or custom handwriting.
I wonder if Apple experimented with using eye movements as a passcode? I imagine they have the technology available to do such a thing. That would make it so your face is your username and a specific movement you made with your eyes the password.
> Most of math/physics taught during first/second year at university now, was taught in 11-12th grade back then.

(Foreword: Hungarian here) I didn't know that this happened in other Easter European countries as well. We used to have the same thing, that people in 11-12th grade learned (around 70'-80') the first-second year university curriculum.

But by the time I got into secondary and university education the system had changed and we adopted our system to the crappy Western-European credit and whatnot system (Bologna process anybody?).

This had the obvious drawback that the first semester of university still assumed the same knowledge in 11-12th grade from me, which I completely lacked by the time I arrived to starting my undergraduate years. In turn the first 1-2 years sucked big time in uni (for me at least).

I guess this also answers the previous commenter's question how did it get worse and worse.
Bubble platform is the most advanced no-code tool that exists so far. It allowed many entrepreneurs (including me) create apps fast and with low budget which otherwise would take many months and tens of thousands dollars to build. It's true, I'm a bit biased here, because it also became possible for me to start a no-code development business which never existed before. So we focus on building apps without code for people who don't have time or patience to learn the no-code tools or who don't have budgets to afford the traditional development. And for the sceptics that doubt about the complexity of apps that can be built without code you could check our portfolio at https://bubblewits.com (this web-site is too built on Bubble). But we have taken it 1 step further and created a no-code platform for all things no-code. The main part of the paltform are the no-code templates built for Bubble. Which makes building new products and startups even faster (just like creating a web-site with Wordpress themes is easier than doing it from scractch). If you are curious take a look here: https://zeroqode.com
Example? (Of very influential Chinese papers in computer vision)
You don't. You simply allow whatever perfectly natural reaction your spinal cord chooses to trigger - to bubble up through your system. Which you should in no way be ashamed of. You're the one coming to them on good faith, expecting to be treated as a professional, after all. And they're the one who, unfortunately, has chosen to revert to silly mind games, and demonstrate a complete and obvious lack of respect for your time.

The only way to "prepare" for situations like these is to go in with a willingness to trust one's own gut - and to simply break off the interview once you start to feel you're not being treated professionally, and that the questions you're being asked are, like the above, completely out of line.†

† Okay, maybe if you were applying for the job of chairing some IEEE committee on numerical standards or something, thiis particular question might be. But I somehow doubt that was the case with this particular role.
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Kids with me I pay. Kids often without me and they pay. Well mostly. I do have 8 kids and some are better about this.
Seems to be the general trend in technology in general. Just look at NodeJS and Javascript ecosystem reinventing 90s. Now they are at the stage of JSON and Electron. Just wait until they develop a XSLT equivalent for JSON.
I have a very flexible list, I use it to remind me of the things I have some commitment to , and the rest of my time I do what comes up... not either/or.
Yeah, Beck's been fighting a losing battle. Once I called them to give it a shot and they made me wait for 15 minutes. To be fair, the taxi did arrive and I was not in any rush so overall, the delay didn't matter much. However, that's probably the last time I'll call them unless something changes drastically. I also just noticed they have released an app. Curious how's the experience is on it so far.
> SoA for example is a very non-idiomatic thing to do in most C-like languages and especially OO ones

Isn't it rather that switching between SoA and AoS is tedious? SOA style itself (using common indices into multiple tables) works ok in C, IMO.
Even easier perhaps, with all the news about adversarial networks lately!
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"Visual tools don't teach you to code, they introduce an unnecessary layer"

I disagree. The main benefit of a visual tool (if implemented correctly) is that it exposes the constraints and the tool grammar to the user when implementing and not only when compiling.

The difference is more or less of that with clay, and lego blocks. Yes, you can design a house with both (Lego house). Clay offers an infinite shape grammar, but if all you want is a lego house, then Lego blocks are much faster.

Now, is the visual tool a cognitive crutch, or a bicycle for the mind, is another matter entirely.
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It's not a nice feeling to know your mind has been hijacked. But it has been. Ads are very effective.
some digital proof would be more convincing, like "at time X we got archive with merklehash H of all documents (https://opentimestamps.org/), and this information Y is from this source file hash F proved by this tree T".
> If you make something that is performance critical, and in particular if it's concurrent, the normal rule is you avoid allocating on the heap at all. Use object preallocated data (just operate on massive lists), or use pools of data etc.

Which really defeats the point of the garbage collector, because the good ones do that kind of work for you! The good garbage collectors re-use pre-allocated ranges and pools of data.

Garbage collection usually works out to a performance / latency tradeoff. (A GC app runs faster than a non-GC app, but has latency.) If I get to the point where latency, even with a pause-free of concurrent GC is a problem, then I know I chose the wrong language.
This is why we will still have C for times to come.
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"Just doing it" seems to be the solution to a lot of things. Whether it´s trying new things or starting a business. I´ve learnt the hard way that overthinking and then not doing is worse than just doing and then failing. Out of failing you actually learn and get better. Out of overthinking comes .. literally ..nothing.

Gary Vaynerchuk always preaches the "concept" of putting in the actual work. Also a variation of "just doing it" but with the side-note of "actually go out and do something"! Really important stuff because most of the people nowadays don´t get that and think success will somehow come around the corner one day.
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I think you're making an aggressive assumption with regard to this being a premeditated murder. It happened in the early morning in the place where they were all billeted, and the evidence as reported suggests simple asphyxiation, i.e., they choked SSgt Melgar to death. Their alibi, apparently "hurr durr we were all doing combatives at 5am and I guess he was drunk?", seems like a quickly assembled and half-baked story.

Team guys are meatheads but they're not stupid. If they had thought through their alleged crime ahead of time, they likely would have done it in a less self-incriminating way.

I do think your point about a culture of impunity in the Teams might be valid to the extent that it might explain why the two accused (allegedly) thought it doable to embezzle HUMINT funds. Assuming the proceedings are open (likely that AFSOC wants this and will make it so), I'm sure we'll all find out all the shitty details in the coming months.
their bphone is just an overpriced android phone. they even goes as far as re-branded chrome to be bchrome. probably without google's permission as well as installing market and google default apps.
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"Josh and I both had enough savings from previous jobs to be able to live in NYC for more than two years (with a simple lifestyle…), and we didn't start paying ourselves a salary until 2.5 years in."

Critical factor here.
I searched for the quote and did find it in "Technology and Courage", by Ivan Sutherland (https://www.seas.harvard.edu/profdev/spring09/TechnologyCour...). It's a very interesting reading, sometimes quite illuminating things are hidden among other, more common, things..
Thanks for the quotation!
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FWIW, Firefox seems to be able to handle the "password in separate screen" idiocy, the password manager still lets you choose the account despite the domain not changing.
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OTOH, immutability affords many more opportunities for safe, precise liveness analysis, and the optimizations that can be performed based on this. Frequently functional compilers produce highly mutative output from immutable inputs. After all, isn't the purpose of a compiler to strip away a level of abstraction? Sure, you can't explicitly use an object pool, but a Sufficiently Advanced Compiler could do a better job anyway.
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>>It's one thing to watch a human mentally deteriorate when they are at the end of their life<<

Alzheimers is terrible to witness at any age - the elderly included. While it's certainly tragic to see in younger people, it's no less tragic to see older people in a state of fear and panic, when they should be enjoying their twilight years.
Right. I'm very happy to see these low level Span<T> things enter C# so it's a much nicer integration than it was in the past when the only option was to just offload the inner loop to a C library. But even that (Writing 10% of your app in C) is a much better proposition than writing all of it in C.
Remember when they nearly broke the internet back in IIRC '06, when they had that peering dispute spat with Cogent?
I've tried many systems over the years for implementing GTD (Palm Pilot, MS Outlook, Evernote, One Note, paper) adding scripts and tools like autohotkey. For me by far the best system is org-mode in emacs, but getting proficient in emacs is not trivial. For me at least emacs also seems to work much better under linux, and org-mode works better if you use emacs as your email client. This is a good reference

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Purchasing the rights to a stock photo is fairly straightforward. You can just Google it.

What you may want to invest more time in is researching if your plan to use someone else's photo will maximise your employability.

My guess (though not particularly educated) is that there are hiring managers who wouldn't consider you to be immature for doing this. Unfortunately, they're unlikely to be the sort of hiring manager who would give priority to minority women. I could, of course, be wrong.
There is nothing special about this code. I guess it should still work (but please don't use it ;-) )
The original PR line taken by Go team was that langauges like Java "communicate by sharing" whereas in Go you would "share by communicating". It wasn't so much about Green vs Native threading as it was about the core semantics of Goroutines and Channels. This original PR also had annoying (to people such as myself) aspect of poopooing Java in context of concurrency (of all things).

As it happens [lol] facts asserted themselves and (at least some in) Go community saw the reason as to why "communicating by sharing" paradigm ever got traction. "It's performance, stupid", to paraphrase Slick Willy, not because other language designers were thoughtless. So now it is "idiomatic" to see Go code using both paradigms (locking & passing channels). The original matra was quietly dropped along "systems programming PL" bit somewhere along the line.

This OP type of article, in an interesting way, continues this pattern of "let's do it this [obvious] way" in face of dealing with concurrency. No less an authority than Cliff Click has asserted that lock-free type algorithms pretty much require a GC.

Concurrency and memory management seem to be zero-sum games. Root cause is clearly Physics, and not the mechanism devised to deal with the physical realities.
Yes, SoA is just slightly odd (Doesn't look idiomatic with points[i].X instead of points.X[i]), and the switching is so cumbersome that you have to settle for one way or the other.
In over a decade of fiddling with manual / desktop OS / Palm / Palm / Palm / Android versions of tool after tool, I finally realized the only important part of GTD is the "write down enough thoughts to ease the stress of forgetting, in a system you trust". Everything else is jump starting detail, valuable to get going toward less stress but will be adjusted & customized by everyone eventually.

Like another answerer to this comment, I finally rolled a custom Sheets layout that works the way I think about things, and over the last few months, have slowly tweaked it closer and closer to my personal thoughtflow.

It's not the details of the system that matter, it's the relieving of the stress that makes it worthwhile.
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Seriously, is there a good graphing calculator app for Android that gives you all the same functionality but runs on modern hardware? I've been out of high school for 20 years I don't care what's prohibited in exam rooms.