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So, price increases for everyone else. It's the loyalty+tracking plan you can't refuse.
Root-less installation of packages into user-directories.

I use it a lot in our scientific cluster environment. My User home directory contains a linuxbrew installation and is shared over NFS. Every cluster node can access all linuxbrew software.

It beats central coordination with the administrators, or writing module files for the cluster environment by a lot.

A cp -r $HOME/.linuxbrew $HOME/.linuxbrew.bak && brew potentially-destructive-operation is also super useful.

Packages are also very close to the latest version.

You get all the work people did got MacOS on Linux.

For package developers, their recipe system is really good and easy.

Of course, a transactional package Manager like nix or guix that can also run inside a user-directory would also give most of these advantages, but I am already used to brew from my MacBook, no additional learning effort required.
I empathize with the MTA a bit. It's an old system that is probably underfunded and operated by a very strong union which costs a lot of money. There are still parts of the system that no manufacturer builds for anymore requiring staff machinists to custom make parts.

The signaling system is ancient and any real effort to modernize it (like on the L line) is fought by the union which considers modernization a threat to jobs.

Lastly, it's a system that runs 24 hours a day which almost no other train system can claim. finding times for the appropriate maintenance is very difficult and requires all the rerouting you tend to see on the weekends. People litter so much more in NYC than they do in other major cities across the world in my experience and litter on the tracks causes so many issues. And there's little to no time to clear litter daily off the tracks.

The system is underfunded, oversubscribed and outdated.
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The US government already makes it cheaper for us to get Chinese goods. Admittedly, it was to protect mail service between countries, but as most things, is being gamed.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/439532/us-postal-servi...
sure but that pays for salaries, building, drinks...etc. So they're lucky if they end up with 1%
Tell me again how charging by amount of data use and speed is not already solving this problem? I can go to comcast.com and buy an email only package right now. Also, why is this suddenly going to allow you to take market share from Comcast? Do you honestly think the reason we don't have competition in the ISP space is due to not being able to unbundle packages?
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Nah, you just make voluntary compliance the preferred option.

If people and Amazon paid their damn taxes, we wouldn’t even be discussing this.
free, but not open source. author specified both as criteria
How we started sharing components between projects
Reducing power centralization is the key issue. Lobbying is cost-effective, and it shouldn't be.
I don't really follow the logic presented in the article.

For convenience, let's assume that the coin spins at 2 seconds per revolution. The coin begins in a Heads up position. After 0.5 a second, the coin is on its edge. The coin then takes another second to pass through Tails and again be on its edge. The coin then takes another 0.5 a second to reach its initial state of Heads up.

So it sounds to me like the coin spent 0.5 a second in "Heads", then 1 second in "Tails", then 0.5 a second in "Heads" before starting all over again.

If I borrow the numbering analogy from the article, it sounds like if we examine the coin in 0.5 second increments we get H T T H H T T H H T T H H, etc. which invalidates the article's claim.

Furthermore, the article claims a 51-49 split between sides. Even if we accept its reasoning (i.e. H T H T instead of H T T H H T T H) To get that specific result, (if my math is right) the coin would have to flip around 25 times on average (i.e H T H T H T H T H T H T H T H T H T H T H T H T 0.5*H), which is a specific number not mentioned in the linked article.

All of that to say that I have no intention of refuting the paper behind the article, nor do I think they are wrong, but just that the logic presented by the article (and not the paper which I didn't read!) sounds too simplistic to be correct to me.
> "Vue.js is awesome. I’m telling this after having used React for more than a year in production software"

Had the exact same experience. After Angular 1, Ember, and React, Vue is the first JS framework that I'm actually excited to use. My three biggest gripes with React are solved with Vue 1) better out-of-the-box experience (CRA is still not ideal), 2) single file components that strike a great balance between templating, logic, and styling, 3) Vuex is a slick Flux architecture with much less boilerplate than something like Redux.

Vue is opinionated enough to give you a sane structure and guidance, but not so opinionated that you feel trapped in their domain and get lost in domain-specfic magic. You might say it's the goldilocks of frameworks. Doesn't introduce any radical new ideas, but MAN does it strike the right balance.
Is this postmarkapp.com you're having issues with or another URL?

I'd love to make sure I'm testing on the appropriate site and then I can get you some more information.

Kyle

AgileBits
(Not familiar with Vue.)

When you talk about "template syntax" and "directives and filters" are those a non-full-JS-style of templates? As in can you execute arbitrary JS like you can with JSX? Just curious.

For me JSX is one of the biggest reasons that React is much, much better than Angular. I've found that once you get into re-implementing for loops, if statements, fallback defaults, etc., etc., for the sake of templating in an entirely new DSL, it becomes super complex and hard to learn/remember.
> isn't there also an implicit age discrimination against younger people in any job spec when you say "X years experience"?

Yes there is, and it's lazy and wrong. Figure out how to test for the skills you need; how many years someone's been using something is only very weakly correlated with how well they know it.
It actually hasn't. Anyone without a presence in the buyer's state who shipped anything out of state (aside from some particular bigger ticket items that are registered to the buyer in some way) simply didn't collect sales tax and left it up to the buyer to pay any "use tax" they owed at tax time.
I'm not saying that it's bad, the thing is that you don't talk too much about a mature tech with established ways of doing things.
Rust for the frontend powered by blockchain ai which will power 3d printing and drone gamifacation.
Well, WebAssembly's primary near term contribution will be introducing the world of C++ exploits to web apps, which are already groaning under the load of XSS, XSRF, path traversal, SSRF etc attacks. Adding double frees, use after frees and buffer overflows on top doesn't seem ideal.

As for the rest, well, it'd be nice if there was any sort of plan to make Blink safer. I know about oilpan but what Mozilla is doing with Rust is impressive. The JVM guys are working on rewriting the JVM in Java. What's Blink's plan to make its own code safer? Sandboxing alone?
Well, that's silly too. They should play a separate pre-departure jingle 30 seconds or whatever before the train is expected to depart.
Needs [2016]

(and maybe "neeeever gonna happen".)
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They've acknowledged the "trash can" design was a mis-step and they're working to correct it, so there's that.

Competing in the server market was very difficult for Apple, their needs are often radically different from consumer or even "pro"-consumer. They realized the couldn't "win" at servers, so backing out was the best bet for them.
I haven't tested this myself, but from what I have heard it is not necessarily a good idea to store several different things in a single byte like this. While it may consume less memory there is a performance cost for each access since you may need to do masks and shifts.

Of course, there is a non-trivial performance trade-off with more cycles but more objects fits in cache, etc.

Some quick googling gave for example this source which seems to hint that under some situations it is not worth it at least https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4240974/when-is-it-worth...

Lastly, it seems like being quite harsh to call the code being of poor quality because of something like that. Unless it really is very important to get the extra memory, just the maintenance cost of packing things efficiently might make it not worth it. Even production code bases such as the JVM will happily use a single byte (or even more?) to store a boolean, and such things probably occur all over the place.
Unfortunately, since everything is off chain in third parties' hands, bitcoin is slowly becoming what it meant to replace.
"The other issue I see is that for some reason Houston didn't require all of these people to have flood insurance."

Banks require homeowners in flood plains with mortgages to maintain flood insurance. The problem is if you don't have a mortgage, you don't necessarily need insurance. However, perpetual Federal Government bailouts of homeowners creates moral hazard, and the expectation that Government will make you whole regardless of insurance, and thus bigger risks for all.
What is taking its place React? Or something like php.
I recently read a paper about security exploits in WebGL, thanks to bugs on shader compilers and drivers.

"Automated Testing of Graphics Shader Compilers"

http://multicore.doc.ic.ac.uk/publications/oopsla-17.html
Carl Sagan’s predictions were really dire. Here’s a three paragraph TLDR of his specific predictions from his 1983 article that brought "Nuclear Winter" into the vocabulary:

—

“Our baseline case, as in many other studies, was a 5000-megaton war with only a modest fraction of the yield (20 percent) expended on urban or industrial targets… In the baseline case, the amount of sunlight at the ground was reduced to… too dark for plants to make a living from photosynthesis.

“Land temperatures, except for narrow strips of coastline, dropped to minus 25 Celsius (minus 13 degrees Fahrenheit) and stayed below freezing for months -- even for a summer war... virtually all crops and farm animals, at least in the Northern Hemisphere, would be destroyed, as would most varieties of uncultivated or domesticated food supplies. Most of the human survivors would starve.

“But what if nuclear wars can be contained, and much less than 5000 megatons is detonated? Perhaps the greatest surprise in our work was that even small nuclear wars can have devastating climatic effects. We considered a war in which a mere 100 megatons were exploded, less than one percent of the world arsenals, and only in low-yield airbursts over cities. This scenario, we found, would ignite thousands of fires, and the smoke from these fires alone would be enough to generate an epoch of cold and dark almost as severe as in the 5000 megaton case. The threshold for what Richard Turco has called The Nuclear Winter is very low.

—

I think the reason the Carl Sagan was widely panned afterwords is that the science was just plain bad. The scale of the predictions he made were so off the charts from almost forty years of previous nuclear experience, that he was obviously was wrong. He predicted essentially the end of the humanity from a mere 100 megatons of nuclear explosions, and yet twenty years before article, the Soviet Union had tested a 50 megaton bomb with no more than the usual local effects.

Using bad science to advance a public policy goal is exactly what got us to the current "distrust of science"
> This would just be basically the nationalization of most of the companies and much of the real estate in the US. We could try communism/socialism at this scale, but it has not worked out well in other places it was tried.

That's the "ugly" part. And it gets really ugly.
(It's worth noting that, while this sort of thing comes up a lot in the context of the midwest, the midwest isn't special in this regard.)

> I think that communities in the Midwest have tighter cultural restrictions on what it means to be "one of us."

The genetic basis for delineating "races" is sketchy at best. The cultural aspects are as important as skin color to the definition of race, which is why either the first or second definition of "race" in any reasonable dictionary refers to all these things aside from "melanin content".

So at some point, segregating oneself from people who worship differently, go to different schools, play different sports, ... -- especially in communities where many of these divisions are inspired by geography distributions that were intentionally created along racial lines less than a century ago -- is more than just "unhappy coincidence".

But let's set that aside for a moment and take your assertion as fact.

> This puts the Midwest in a really hard place because just about any white person can claim (truthfully) they are not being racist. Yet, the outcome of the collective actions of all of them end up with a pretty strong divide that is mostly along racial lines.

Indeed. Sometimes, the consequences of aggregate social behavior are more important than individual intent. (Actually, I'd argue almost always.)

A community in which wealth is disproportionately divided along racial lines is a racist community, even if no one in that community harbors individual and purely racially motivated prejudice.

> Does anyone have suggestions on how to fix this?

Teach people how to think dispassionately about systems.

I'm not sure that there is a way to fix this without switching from a "nominally typed" definition of racism to a "structurally typed" definition of racism.

Such a definition already exists. And by happy coincidence, the programming analogy works especially well because this notion is already called "structural racism".

> So it seems like it is an impossible situation.

At least for the current generation, for whom anything short of direct and violent prejudice on the basis of a few phenotypes is the only thinkable definition of racism, and for whom "racist" is a stinging moral and personal indict rather than a statement of fact about an emergent phenomenon that may or may not have anything to do with the content of any particular individual's character.
async/await is available as a backport, so it can be introduced into legacy code bases.

Writing new projects in python 3 is great. Backporting old legacy codebases is a pain. It really depends so much on the library, and whose manager wants to dedicate the time to it?
a t2.Large instance is $76/per month. You can reduce that even further with reserved instance pricing. T2 is much more akin to what Linode offers.
Southern Indiana comes to mind.

Here is the SPLC's interactive map of 'hate groups' in operation. Though the density seems, to my eyes, correlate strongly with population, there are still a fair few assholes out here.

https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map
> GPL don't quite apply here.

You can license your trained network data GPL if you choose. Applies fine.

You are right that the valuable IP is in the data, but this is no different to Doom without the WADs, or MAME without ROMS.
Ageism <-> Burnout

Change what you call it and the conversation changes. It depends on the narrative the author wants to push. Those two things are related.

The middle age software dev you burned out then tossed aside has the children most likely to be software devs. You spoil your reputation with the kids before they're even old enough to apply at your company.

You've also increased the chance that, due to unstable home life thanks to layoff, the kids won't ever become software devs in the future. Then you complain about needing H1Bs. Those things are also tightly related.

Zuckerbergs of the world are too immature to see cause and effect. They only see next quarter results while driving society to ruin.
Possible solutions (speaking about the US of course):

1. Let the federal government establish a uniform national sales tax and outlaw all state and local sales taxes.

2. Even better, eliminate sales taxes entirely. Replace it with higher income taxes or property taxes. Yes, yes, I know, regressive, not progressive, taxing consumption is better, but there's something to be said about an economy without crazy levels of bureaucracy and regulations.

3. Just keep fighting off the states until they accept that Internet orders should be non-taxable. The Internet has completely changed the business models of music delivery, porn, and newspapers. No reason it can't eventually convince states to back off on sales taxes.
I mean with their respective UNIX-like operating systems.

There was a time when you'd find server rooms with a mix of AIX, HPUX, IRIX, SunOS, VMS, A/UX, and Netware and that was considered normal. In an academic environment you'd have someone running Plan9 or BSD some other quirky thing as well just because.

Then Windows and Linux came along and started to kill off this diversity one system at a time.
> Nobody is spamming anyone.

Really? I'm sure at least some of these are made using (cr)AppyGEN: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=dog%20simulator&c=app...
This is a private bill introduced by the Aam Aadmi Party. Let's see what happens to it, but kudos for the attempt!
I like the idea of the first kick in the world cup being decided by debate tho.
Have you ever heard of an omega or theta bound?
> Torture only works if you are sure of the existence of such a thing.

I don't think you comprehend the workings of "mass terror". Here's how it goes: we'll make you watch while we beat up your wife and kids until you tell us something worth knowing.

No evidence necessary. Pretty much everybody has some valuables, or knows someone who does, and if not who cares? It's your funeral.

Once again, the nerdy preconception that thugs somehow operate on a legalistic or technical basis is just completely wrong. You'll be the one "giving" the valuables to them, to make it stop.
So stupid considering they were Union. I just don't understand it.
Thank you very much for this perspective from a smaller ISP. Regulation specifically written to address the worst practices of the largest actors in a market can indeed place disproportionate burden on the smaller players. I.e. regulation is always imperfect, especially when lawmakers become zealous about issuing only minimal regs, neglecting nuance. My question, tho, is what sort of regulation in broadband service would you see as beneficial? If you're a WISP, your wire-line competitors hang their service on publicly funded utility poles for attachment fees that don't really share the burden of maintenance. Just ask electric customers experiencing consistently rising bills. Those competitors will continue to depress the level playing field to tilt towards them, which can dramatically stifle innovation too.
The comment was clearly not about colons alone. I've built a large project in Vue and I absolutely hated the template language compared to JSX. It was Angular 1 all over again.
>It’s no coincidence that climate change people are almost universally leftists — redistributing the means of production is their obsession; climate change hysteria is just a means to achieve that end.

I used to think this was some Limbaugh conspiracy theory and then I read Naomi Klein’s book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Changes_Everything
I would agree with that, and folks from those areas probably take more grief from their neighbors than what we deal with.
It's a prelude to overdue broad market downturn IMO.
As a Midwesterner, this is incredibly accurate. I personally don't like multiculturalism, and I don't know of many people in my area that do. In my opinion and experience, multiculturalism in society makes a sense of community very difficult if not impossible to create. Having standard methods of communication, standard social and moral norms, and standard goals and beliefs makes empathizing with my neighbor so much easier than it is in big cities.

There's also a question of how much a culture influences a persons behavior. Multiculturalism in school and work pushes the idea that all cultures are made equal, yet different cultures are represented unevenly in our society. There has been a significant amount of racism against Asians and Jews, yet both groups have significantly higher average incomes and college attainment rates than other groups. Personally, I don't believe that's a coincidence, and is due to their cultures that emphasize self-discipline, self-improvement, and consideration for their fellow man. There are some cultures formed by chronic stress and poverty(white trash, ghetto cultures) that don't have those traits, and so their people don't make it as far in life. That's not because of racism, that's because of poverty and chronic stress.
> Early windows development (for years after it became popular) was done at a DOS command line ...

I could just as easily flip this and claim that Linux development is all backwards because it's still done on the command line.

Given Microsoft's commitment to tooling, backwards compatibility and extensive documentation I think it's pretty lame to try and paint windows as not targeted towards developers. The difference is that windows has actual users, as opposed to the eternal horizon of "the year of linux on the desktop".
All JetBrains IDEs are cross platform (Linux, Mac, Windows). Kotlin Native has support packages for all three for developing to those targets.

https://bintray.com/jetbrains/kotlin-native-dependencies
The concept of "nuclear winter" is a great example of science gone wrong. As it turns out, the original 1980s report vastly overestimated the amount of combustible fuel in cities and inaccurately estimated both modern nuclear weapon yield and blast size. Nuclear war would not create firestorms capable of injecting soot into the stratosphere and would not cause years-long crop failures. Nuclear war is, in fact, quite survivable.

https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4244

https://www.nature.com/articles/475037b

https://www.quora.com/How-many-nukes-would-it-take-to-cause-...
Sorry, no. MLMs also make money selling bogus nutritional supplements and such.
The local train operator RBS (Regionalverkehr Bern-Solothurn, a metre gauge line, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regionalverkehr_Bern-Solothurn) usually leaves exactly fifteen seconds after departure time. Doors close usually five seconds before.

There's a local bus waiting at the platform of the Papiermühle stop. When the train arrives, people walk across the platform (five meters) and thirty seconds later the bus leaves. The bus has a tight schedule. Bus drivers usually sportily speed uphill to the end stop and downhill back, so people can transfer to a different train back to Bern already arriving.
Which, if sellers are going to collect sales tax at all, is probably the only thing that makes sense. It's impractical for small sellers to file tax returns for all the states they sell to just because they sell on Amazon. (And in the vast majority of cases, non-Amazon sellers without a presence in the buyers state don't and, indeed, can't be forced to.)
> "You'll see in a few years" - California, c. 1992

Fixed that for you.
They work around it by having the stations not move with respect to each other.
Could be, but how is this considered spam ?
Something tells me "brick and mortar" won't be big fans of option 3.