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I have this variant. AMA

(It hasn't been traumatic knowledge for me -- anyone with severe dementia in their biological family knows that there is some heredity there, whether or not they know they have this particular gene variant)
My argument is that the process by which money is moved to these tax lenient locations and the companies that facilitate this and the options and services they offer has to this point been largely unknown to the average person, and is thus interesting to read about. Are you contending that all this was known, or that even if it was unknown it's uninteresting? Because otherwise I'm not sure what you're arguing.
F# was the only reason I wanted to dip into .NET. I really expected it to take the development world by storm because it was introduced when FP was getting a lot of attention.
"... which is, of course, not true."

It is true. Stop lying about this.

All this stuff unfolds in public, the non-stop harassment of people like Anita Sarkeesian by people like that person she called out.

There is no mystery here, no ambiguity about the wretchedness of the behaviors of the guys dogpiling on people like her.
While I don't agree with OP... you could make a case that switching to Git is a way for Microsoft to make itself more fashionable to the engineering community at large.

The marketing here is: it's cool to work at Microsoft again!
> Textbooks don't have a black-box warning on the front page saying "The accuracy of this book cannot be guaranteed. Please verify any facts stated before storing them in your long-term memory or using them for any purpose"?

I just checked a 2004 medical textbok I had nearby (don't ask). YES, they do have such disclaimers, and they're worded even better than you put it.
You can't draw a line, which is part of the problem. In addition, the moral compass of various people can and will be different. What I think is fine, someone else will think is excessive.

As long as there are smart people, you will have avoidance. The capital gains deferral is a simple example of something that is hard to fix. And there are a ton of situations like that.

If this was an easy problem to solve, it would have been solved. In fact, I'd go as far as saying that it can't actually be solved. You can get rid of tax havens, but tax avoidance has existed for 2000+ years. In fact, in most cases, you don't even need to go "offshore" to secure great tax benefits.

There used to be a window tax: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_tax. Guess what? People avoided it by bricking up their windows.
Does this mean we have to fdisk/format if we forget the commands to correct a broken git repo?

https://xkcd.com/1597/

I seriously did that first learning Git. And there's plenty of niches and side-cases that I'm still not quite sure of. Going from client-server to distributed has a level of complexity that usually isn't discussed until you implement.

EDIT: And further understanding is, this provides a GIT filesystem based connection so that one can work on a multi-TB repo without downloading everything locally.

This seems to be the result of choosing to have all the software in one OMG-sized repo, rather than 1 project/repo. And evidently they need a "keep on server" for this. Makes me wonder more why they even went with Git or a distributed model at all. This seems more like they 'screwed up and now have tons of bandaids'.
That sounds like the cure for anti-diabeetus.
"For example, English has about 400 million native speakers but, depending on the criterion chosen, can be said to have as many as 2 billion speakers."

So depending on how you choose you metric, English wins overall
Can you give me example in the standard library where they recover from a panic? So far I've only seen recovery through error handling. I think the crypto/tls example is pretty telling on the way they're using panic for sensitive code. No recovery there.
> Even if it didn’t you act like ram is expensive. Everyone that complains it takes too much ram needs to get a job. Seriously ram is cheap it’s not 1970.

Could you explain how this rant or my job helps the amount of RAM on my phone or Raspberry Pi? Have you also ever considered that not everyone is from a first world country, able to afford the latest and greatest device with crazy amounts of RAM?

What you say is true for x86-64 desktops and servers in the first world. For everyone else, amount of RAM matters. And its you with the ostrich politics who has to stop. A quick glance at [1] suggests that, yes, you can run FreeBSD ZFS (OP was on about FreeNAS) but not without hassle.

[1] https://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSTuningGuide
Hard to believe we can write programs to defeat 9-dan Go professionals but not to avoid printing "Northlake Way Northlake Way Northlake Way Northlake Way Northlake Way Northlake Way Northlake Way" on a map.

I understand that maps are hard. But they are also important.
In the general sense, this is the wrong place to ask. It's a self-selecting group in that most people over 40 here will be among the group that lasted in the career. It won't give a sense of how large that group is in the wider world, nor how many didn't stick with it.

On the other hand, if you want to hear how to make it past 40 in software, this is probably an excellent place to ask!
Sure, and then you have no idea what was executed and what failed. Did you run 9 functions or 1? What do you need to roll back? How do you handle the error?

This is the problem with exceptions. They make it too easy to be lazy with your error handling.... Most of the time it's just catch and log, because the code itself has no way of knowing what failed and what succeeded. This is how you get your program in a bad state.... Because maybe you uploaded the file but didn't set the metadata in the API, because the connection broke between those steps.

With go's error handling it forces you to think about "what happens if the code fails here". Its always obvious what code had been executed and what has not.

To get that behavior in exception oriented languages, you'd have to wrap every call in try/catch, which ends up just as verbose as go, if not worse.
for me, using 23andme and other components of genetic testing related to health risk factors (all four of my grandparents passed away from or are currently battling cancer) helped me make some long-term decisions regarding my habits and lifestyle, and it did influence my decision to go into a healthcare-related field as a career. I like to think of it more as "I'd like to know what I'm up against," rather than "I have a morbid curiosity about what non-accident deaths will most likely happen to me"
Are people just not testing their websites on non Apple devices or why are there 2 vertical scrollbars next to each other?
What's required for a sleeper cab? We got some shots of the interior and it looked easily big enough to add a bed or the like. With a battery that big heating overnight should be practically free.
> The semi-official Debian server, alioth.debian.org, where a lot of random developer stuff is hosted, is stuck on Debian wheezy for various reasons

Jeez. How is security maintained? That actually scares me a bit.
"lots of people thought Windows Mobile was actually really good, too. Same for the Palm Pre"

Wasn't that my point?

"History teaches us that there’s no room for third place"

As for Siri being on phones, I was talking about the home assistant market.
This dismissive attitude of a domain expert's opinion while taking Musk's/Tesla's word on revolutionary claims that they don't even have a working prototype of yet is a perfect example of why the court of public opinion is slowly starting to turn on Silicon Valley
Believe it or not, that was the original goal of COBOL.
I worked at Microsoft before and after my team (not Windows) did the Source Depot -> git transition, and I can say that it was mostly for the better. Source Depot was pretty good as non-distributed VCSs go, but it doesn't hold a candle to git. Some specifics:

- Branching in SD sucked, the only way to work on multiple features at once was to either have multiple copies of the repo or constantly fiddle with "package files" that contained your changes, and the whole thing shit the bed if the server went down.

- All the new hires both from college and the industry all know git and there were an increasing number of them who just found it bizarre that Microsoft was still on a proprietary, non-distributed system.

- Higher-ups (correctly, IMO) decided that VSTS/TFS had to have git in order to remain competitive, and that we should be eating our own dogfood. That's partly a marketing concern but also a legitimate technical decision.
I didn't start being a developer until I was 35. Going strong 20 years later.
Arms distance. It's not the startup being profitable, it's Breitbart being funded by people who make more money off the influence Breitbart has on national discourse than they spend on Breitbart.
High-end battery packs will not be a commodity for at least the next few years. The continuing (decade-long+) trend of improving Li-ion battery cells and Tesla's demonstration that you can significantly improve pack performance by improving the packaging, clearly indicates that we aren't yet near the point where battery packs are a mature discipline.

We'll probably get there at some point, once diminishing returns starts setting in. And lots of industries that aren't interested in developing battery packs (e.g. general aviation, construction, etc.), would have a sea change if high-performance battery packs were easily available. So I think the incentive to start a company in the space is good.

But for the next few years, I think battery pack design will still advance very rapidly and hence be left to the industries that are massively capital intensive and where the best battery packs are an obvious competitive advantage.

It's a super exciting development, and I can't wait to see what the future brings in this regard.
And Lynch is still relatively well-liked despite this particular action because his public appearances are funny and self-aware (see his commercials), in addition to owning a super bowl ring.

Kaepernick is a whiner.
Can't use it as a phone. The all-purpose compute device is the shtick they want
this isnt true, when countries have massive instability and currency manipulation (see Zimbabwe), people can buy bitcoin as an alternative store of value.
I sometimes check this just to see where certain stuff falls according to their hackathon project:

http://www.taggernews.com/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14337275
Stanford algorithm can diagnose pneumonia better than radiologists
I wish I had more than one upvote. If you have no management experience, and no mentorship in managing, you have no business managing people. Managing requires empathy and a desire to help your subordinates level up, not SWE skills. Your job is to deliver value to the org and to your individual contributors in equal parts.

At least as a software developer, you're only breaking code. But you start affecting people's lives, emotional well being, and career paths when you're a manager, and I find it rare where a manager understands this.
No there was a big difference. Paypal was a referral system and the money came out of Paypal's pocket not the user sending the referral. So if the user never redeemed it was no loss to paypal.
same as me, in addition to daily aerobic exercise, a lot of walking, and trying to maintain a strong social circle
We'll do it live! We'll write it and we'll do it live!
There is a simulator from Apollo also (Baidu)

https://github.com/ApolloAuto/apollo
Made the original comment because my friends who do this professionally for a fortune 500 company share the same tales of woe--that would probably end just as badly if they weren't operating under the safety of a corporate megabucks legal department.
Likely will happen at some point. It's the next logical extension of consumer devices after the smart phone. It will happen eventually, except there isn't a clear time table as to when. The concept is general purpose enough that interesting things can be done with it.
not always. i'm about to retire at 65 and I've been a hands-on software engineer for 35 years.

Pro-tip : one type of work that can last is in the Defense industry. Projects in that industry can last 10-20 years or more, and experience seems to be valued much more there.
What does "open a door to dialogue" even mean?
Real-time Reddit like ChatRoulette ?

https://www.chatroulette.com/
Pony does use most LLVM optimizations and already IS faster than C++ with OpenMP so there's still a lot of catchup to do.
Servus Brokus
Anyone else get superconfused and think about the GNOME Virtual Filesystem?
We're barely over 5 years into it. Scifi takes longer than that
You don't yet have a kid and your perspective on all of these things really changes when you do.
I'm a white guy. I'm a software engineer. I'm totally cool with hiring people who aren't white guys (assuming they can do the job.) It seems that Denise Young Smith understands that, but there's a weird fringe of the extreme left that only sees headcounts by color and gender, and only sees me as "a white guy", and only sees others as "an <enthnicity> <gender>", and it's sad that a black woman got fired for being reasonable instead of having a specific and idiotic political agenda.
This is why I made a service to serve up RSS feeds for Youtube channels, ytrss.co.

Love live RSS! :)
Glass failed because it was too early for the tech, they needed to be able have the functionality of the the camera they had but make it something you didn't immediately notice. Also the display mechanism needed to be less noticeable as well. What killed Glass was that it made people uncomfortable.

Also glass relaunched in July targeting enterprise applications.
Because git is the latest fashion rage and by itself incapable of managing the size of the Windows code base. This is the ideal combination of reasons for corporate PHB to decide to use it.

Exhibit A: GVFS was solely invented as a hack to make git usable by the Windows team according to the Windows team blog.

(Yes, there is some sour grapes and sarcasm in this post)
The court case is, of late October 2017, still alive, believe it or not.
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I also learned I have one variant (not two) and was already fairly aware as well due to my family history. I already live as healthy a life as I can and focus on enjoying it. Can't really do much of anything else.

To me the greatest benefit of this knowledge is being able to prepare loved ones and family for the inevitable - beyond that, there's not really much to be done and the knowledge hasn't really impacted me much.
> Mac’s entire ecosystem is designed to take money from the consumer and lock them in. You can easily find the equivalent Linux programs for almost everything, free and more user friendly. For e.g., I paid for 1Password on Mac. Instead I use pass on Linux. I paid for Omnifocus on Mac. Instead I use Neovim with Notes.

I’m sorry, but this is nonsense. The author could have opted to use the same tools on Mac — having the option to purchase a commercial software on a platform does not mean it is designed to take money. There are plenty of commercially available software packages on Linux as well.

I also don’t see how one can compare the experience of using OmniFocus and 1Password with pass and neoview (Apples and Oranges).
One attention-crypto as a browser extension is WildSpark by Synereo: https://wildspark.me

I have no affiliation, I have zero of whatever their coin is, but I randomly signed up for their mailing list a while back out curiosity.
Thank you for following up! I'm glad we were able to get past the surface misunderstanding
I wonder if this is a precursor to open-sourcing Windows development...
The author is a career journalist/digital publisher with lots of professional contacts in the industry. He has spent lots of time investigating digital media business models and the financial health of digital media companies. His own company has transitioned from being mostly ad supported to being mostly directly reader supported in the past few years.

He is just making a blog observation, which can be best read in the context of the rest of his site/blog, which have been talking about similar issues for years. Much of his evidence is scattered through tiny posts, which blog readers are assumed to have been following. It’s not supposed to be a deep carefully cited research article.
At what speed/acceleration can you put wings on the thing and be able to fly? I wouldn't put it past Elon for his master plan to include flying cars.
>Exactly. This system makes things easier on users at the expense of making it harder on creators. I think that's kinda the point though.

And my point is that such a system is unsustainable, due to asymmetry of work.

Lets start with a few things that we can know are true:

1. In any system of patrons and artists, an artist will have more patrons than a patron has artists, or the system is unsustainable.

2. I could create a competitor to Brave, "Fearful", tomorrow. So could anyone else.

As a creator, its possible that every single patron of mine will pay me through a different service, I then need to register myself in all of them, and either manually, or via a middleman, convert the disparate currencies to my preferred one. But, because there are so many different payment methods, its likely that the long tail isn't worth my time to receive payment from. Systems that accept payment on behalf of someone else and require work on the part of that party to receive the payment create this loss.

On the other hand, even if every creator has their own payment platform, there's no loss. Patrons simply don't pay the long tail of the creators that they use, and instead only make payments to the ones they appreciate the most.

iow, asymmetry means that creator-focused services are the only ones that can be successful except for very niche groups. So, if your goal is to support blockchain tech, Brave is great. If on the other hand, your goal is to get paid by patrons, its not.
Is this a common perception? I've used Alexa (on Sonos One actually) and I thought it was terrible at recognizing commands compared to Siri. Even worse when it doesn't understand you it defaults to listing products you may want to buy. It felt like a parody of voice assistants rather than a real product.

I'd love for Siri to be more extensible but I still find it far more reliable, pleasant to talk to, and ultimately more powerful when integrated with HomeKit.
>You might want to look for a less painful and less expensive suicide method

Well sure, at least regarding the pain part. My preference would be massive heart attack at the peak of sex.

>then proceed to not suffer and donate the money saved to charity.

Been doing the charity thing all my adult life. Choosing when and how I die is a control of premium value, however selfish. Quantity of life doesn't interest me as much as quality of life.
That is a great movie to understand what it was like living in communist eastern-Europe.
I think this bias needs to evolve, and maybe birth year is more descriptive than age.

In 2000, a 40 year old was born in 1960, when the home PC was nearly 20 years off.

A programmer who is 40 today was born in 1977, and they could learn to program while they were in diapers.

These are very different experiences, and the bar will move over time.
It's due to the contrasting temperatures.
> you could make a case that switching to Git is a way for Microsoft to make itself more fashionable to the engineering community at large.
The marketing here is: it's cool to work at Microsoft again!

But that makes it a technical decision! If it's easier to attract talented engineers because you're using git, that improves the product. I was trying to make this point in my other comment too: OP is drawing a sharp line between "marketing decisions" and "engineering decisions" and sneering at the former, but actually the boundary can be pretty fuzzy.
Today, the fastest lap time of the Nurburgring by an electric car was set by a Tesla Roadster driving itself round the track in 8m30s. The autopilot software developers are said to be 'very proud' of the achievement.
Depends on who you know. Ideally you should have built up a lot of contacts to tap by that age.
Is that possible? Assuming 500 miles of range at 2kwh a mile is a 1000kwh battery, charged over 30 minutes, is 2 megawatts, if the voltage is the same as the supercharger (480V) requires 4000 amps...
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So, I don't see anyone even trying to start something like this in Finland.

It might be interesting to speculate on potential reasons for that.
Not surprising. This is going to be a tough product for Apple going up against Google. The Google Home is just perfectly in Google's wheel house. In many ways it is an extension to search. Then Google also has YouTube.
Example from this site?
It is really odd that most of the people who complain c++ are the people who never or seldom use it.
Insanity prevails. Why Apple, why?
Lots of things are well defined only to completely fail when it comes to being used in a real context. There are many obvious examples and even more less obvious examples.

Trump is a good example of a person who has said some racist things but even more things that were interpreted as racist.

We are all racist even if we don't want to be, we cannot help ourselves the question then becomes how do we let that affect us and how we act on that.

And so if it only takes one example to show someone is racist then we all are.

It's much less well defined once you look at the entirety and doesn't just take a sentence out of its context.

Language is tricky and defining something well does not mean it's easy to put things into these boxes.

You are right there is a difference and to the extent, it easy to identify this racist/sexist rhetorics we should obviously object to it.

But it's not much different when liberals paint all Trump voters racist. Very often do we see comments that were not meant racist suddenly be attacked simply because of the person who said it.

You are not a better person just because you are against racism if you base your judgment of what constitutes a racist or a racist remark on who said it and we shouldn't listen to you more by your own definition.

You can very easily be a Trump voter and not a racist and you can eve be a Trump voter and against racism or misogyny as that exist on both sides. Yet listening to the public debate one should think it only happens on one side.

Two wrongs don't make a right and yet it seems like most liberals (and I count myself amongst the liberal crowd) basically justify the sentiment you seem to be supporting with something along the lines of "well he/she started".

There are (luckily) very few racist in the Hitler sense of racist.