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Yep. Same goes with whatever supplants any other social media site too. The next Twitter won't be a simple Twitter clone, and the next Reddit won't be a simple Reddit clone.

It'll be what makes the entire point of the original service completely obsolete.
thats neat there's a full spreadsheet application on there too in this jsfiddle http://jsfiddle.net/audreyt/LtDyP/. No external libraries used either, 99 lines
> The problem with 'others slowing down the internet' is usually on the last mile and it's cable providers oversubscribing this shared medium

This sounds correct, but can you point me toward some additional info?
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You're not getting any insight into the candidate's problem solving ability in general, though. You may be getting insight into how they think about a specific class of algorithmic problems, and possibly (although it's unlikely) algorithmic problems in general.

What this interview question does is confirm your own biases regarding what "algorithmic thinking" is and little more.
Sounds like memory regions in Nim[1]

type
Memory[T] = object
len: int
data: ptr UncheckedArray[T]

Kernel = object
Userspace = object

var a: Kernel ptr Memory[int]
var b: Userspace ptr Memory[int]

a = b # type mismatch: got (ptr[Userspace, Memory[system.int]]) but expected 'ptr[Kernel, Memory[system.int]]'

You can even change the GC to region-based memory management [2].

[1]: https://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#types-memory-regions

[2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Region-based_memory_manageme...
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Apart from the actual set up to include org-capture in it, not much.

Shortcuts to open a file (C-x C-f), close it (C-x k), and closing emacs (C-x C-c) would be the emacs shortcuts you'd need to learn. The rest would be org-mode shortcuts, like setting something as done (C-c C-t d) etc.

You will have to get used to being in Emacs though, that's for sure :)
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I'm confused. It would be a very strange operational semantics that considered an O(n)-space program isomorphic to an O(1)-space program. What is your notion of "isomorphism" here?
Forgot to say. I am familiar with Riak. Worked at one of the competitors of the company who acquired them.

I really hope that the Entreprise version will be open sourced and will be happy to add it to the list of multi cloud options. At the moment, I can't do it in good faith since it's not gonna be released any time soon, and it's impossible to procure now that the vendor is bankrupt.
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I recommend that people take a look at “Diffusion of Innovations” Rodgers 1962 and all of the subsequent work since. It doesn’t directly address usability and design, which I believe are also important, but it addresses it indirectly.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_innovations
Subconscious sensing is what was on my mind. Intuition in a way... not doubting it could be pure Ear related skill, just wondering what all you have considered so far...
Sure, if the customer's contract says that their packets need to all be treated with equal priority. But the whole point in repealing net-neutrality is to allow for contracts which don't need to treat all packets with equal priority. In that case the ISP isn't violating the contract and the customer wanting to spend %100 of their bandwidth talking to netflix for instance is the ISP's business too.
Matt Barrie (founder & CEO of freelancer.com) wrote a far lengthier and more detailed essay on this a week or two ago, which has kicked off this latest round of navel-gazing: https://medium.com/@matt_11659/matt-barrie-australias-econom...

Be warned, it's a long read - but I think he's basically right.
Networking. All of my consulting contracts came from people I already knew, who either hired me directly or introduced me to someone who needed help. And those contacts and clients then introduced me to other people who were looking to found something new. FYI, I found zero value in meetups or other networking events, because the people who are working hard on good ideas are too busy (in general) to attend such things.
Can't say I disagree with this. The amount of time I've spent worrying about writing the perfect story is ridiculous, and that perfectionism has been a reason I've missed quite a few trends I probably should have written articles about.

That said, you know what makes this even worse?

Having a SEO plugin installed. Having the software yell at you about 'readability scores' and 'transition words' and not using the same word at the start of three sentences in a row will make you even more obsessively picky about your writing than merely being a perfectionist will.
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I don't know if this makes me sad or angry.

This guy works for 11 years in the industry, aquired a whole bunch of knowledge on how to ship and market games, runs communities for indi game devs and what not and then when it comes to the actual games, he fails hardcore.
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But people don't do a cost benefit analysis or anything rational like that when they select a keyboard or when they select most things. Its a subconscious decision mainly factoring in what other people do (what is most popular) and the rationalizations come after.
> The demand for Netflix, for example, has required investment on the part of ISPs to support.

So the ISP were overselling bandwidth?

> Why shouldn’t Netflix have to contribute to the increased investment that they are benefitting from?

They do. Netflix give CDN boxes to ISPs for free. They contribute by saving the ISPs all that external bandwidth (which is what they oversell).
I saw this recently when a small but vocal portion of early federated social network users complained that the "inferior" Mastodon was gaining so much traction. They only saw it in terms of technical features and seniority, oblivious to its main draw: a welcoming user and development community for marginalized people.

Most of the early users and developers were (and continue to be) LTBTQ+ people, and the project leader (Eugen) was 100% welcoming. In a world where we don't get much that's for us, it's nice to have a thing where we're well-represented.

When I tried the previous attempts at federated social networks, they seemed to match the general demographics of tech. The predominantly white, male, straight, cisgender population wasn't exactly unwelcoming, but I didn't feel comfortable talking about some topics. It wasn't any better than Twitter in that sense.

And then we got content warnings and per-toot privacy levels. The possibly technically superior predecessors didn't stand a chance.
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Hah.. our guy barely knew the material... My friend and I ended up teaching the recursion module to the rest of the class because he couldn't wrap his head around it.
Hamilton, Ontario. Here, "e-bike" means an electric scooter/moped, and they have a reputation for being used by drunks and the down-and-out here, unfortunately.
There is a drug used to treat a form of eye disease that causes blindness. The product, eylea, has dominated the market despite (until recently) having no evidence that it improves vision vs the competition, provides no significant improvement on other relevant clinical endpoints, had no major safety benefit, and it is priced at a comparable or higher level than all competitors

A development stage product had shown better potential for vision improvement without major safety concerns, but when I interviewed physicians to ask whether they'd still prescribe eylea if this "better" drug was approved. They unanimously, without hesitation, said they'd prescribe eylea

Why would doctors treat eye disease with a product that does a worse job of treating eye disease? Why would patients accept a treatment that does not optimally restore their vision? There was nothing in the clinical literature to suggest this made sense. This must be a case of a large, established pharma company playing dirty, maybe bribing doctors or brainwashing patients with tv ads

The reality is that eylea required fewer doses than the competing products. For this drug, dosage means injection in the eye with a big needle. Further, physicians don't get paid more for doing an additional dose, so for them it's lost revenue. Turns out the incremental vision improvement does not offset the benefits of less frequent dosing

Getting this insight is not a feat of data analysis or scientific brilliance, but simply talking to customers. And getting this right, in this case, means winning a $4-5 billion market
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On the industrial side, Jim Gray's paper complements Hewitt's nicely.

http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/tandem/TR-85.7.pdf

(On second thought it helps to have Armstong's thesis on Erlang as a bridge between them, but I can't find an easily downloadable link at the moment.)
The stark dark humor is just a way to cope with the crushing seriousness of reality. For instance, our undergrad reactor thermohydraulics class's professor was notoriously strict because there's just no tolerance for failing to do the math for cooling a reactor. But one of the very few ways he would be humorous would be to call a meltdown an "uncontrollable rearrangement of geometry" with a wink and a nod precisely to both convey the seriousness of the issue and to use the needlessly absurd technical language to make us more empathetic to the common person, and therefore make us more readily internalize the seriousness.
Even though Rx/ReactiveX is not easy and simple, it is a big improvement over traditional event-driven programming. The ideas behind Rx are also more general than, say, the actor model. Unfortunately, it is also easy to make a mess with Rx, and when that happens, the debugger is of little help. I often end up writing stuff to the console.

I have not found hot vs cold observables to be a problem in Rx (for C# or Java; I have never used RxJS). In fact, I often use "semi-hot" observables, such as what you get from a BehaviorSubject, which initially gives every new subscriber the latest/current value.

To me, the fact that "the concept of time may be screwed" when using Rx, is a good thing because of the flexibility it gives. In particular, it can be very useful for testing; but I do struggle with Rx scheduling at times. At some point there will hopefully be more information available on how to use Rx effectively in complex, real-life scenarios. Maybe someone should write a book on Rx design patterns?
>On an anecdotal level I've also heard more than a few people say they it was hinted by banks that they could put a bigger number in the 'income' box and borrow more money.

There is at least one survey showing that liar loans are common in Australia: https://www.domain.com.au/news/australian-housing-market-bui...
About 500bn mortgages are based on inaccurate/false information, 1,100bn are 'correct'. Note that these numbers are estimates because they are based on surveys, Australia's banking system does not need to check this.

Liar loans were a big factor in the US' started financial crisis: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/13/upshot/how-mortgage-fraud...
I know you don't necessarily mean it this way but this sounds a lot like the cable companies' argument that it's "unfair" that the likes of Netflix can "push" all this data onto their network without paying.

Well someone is paying: the customer. Netflix isn't hogging anything. So ISPs want to double-dip and get paid at both ends but really what they want to do is protect their ailing TV businesses. It's naked protectionism, nothing more.

So to your comment: if customers can't get all this Netflix data then the ISPs have lied to them about the capacity of the connections they've sold. Or they're not charging enough (heh).
Ask HN: Do you ever enable browser notifications for a website?
If so, what is the use case/value?
I am referring to Annex #11 (East Asian Width) of the Unicode Standard, which is all about CJK. Under those rules, U+FDFD is one column wide. If you happen to see it rendering really wide in the middle of text set in a monospaced typeface, it’s probably because a fallback font is being employed. In one arrangement locally I see it as eleven-and-a-bit columns, because it’s using it from another font; in another which sticks stringently to actual columns and doesn’t use fallbacks at all, it’s one-column-wide blank.

I do not know of any monospaced fonts that include U+FDFD. I’m not at all sure what they would do with it.

What I find particularly amusing about U+FDFD is the broad range of widths and styles it can take. I see three wildly differing styles depending on the font employed (two long ones and one roughly square one).
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Totally agree.

If I ask this question (I never would) and I get the "tortoise and the hare" answer, it's much more likely that the candidate already knew the answer rather than deduced it themselves. And I have learned exactly nothing about that candidate, except that they probably looked up common interview questions before coming.

A more reasonable answer to this question would be to store the nodes you've already seen in a hash map, keyed to their position, and stop when you encounter the same node twice. This in turn leads to interesting discussions about list size, memory cost, and more general questions about the properties of a hash map.
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"Scripting: Higher- Level Programming for the 21st Century" by J. Ousterhout was certainly very influencial (cf. Python, Ruby, etc.)

https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/papers/scripting.pd...

Not sure the paper in itself aged so well.

Also, see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_important_publications...
As far as I can tell, product development is still guided, at the bare minimum by the ability of humans to predict other humans’ preferences based on an assumption of similarities between humans’ minds. I’m not aware of any product development that is intentional truly random, other than perhaps some details like the color of a button.
Nope, haven't ever enabled browser notifications. Possibly because most sites with said systems also have perfectly functional 'on page' systems to do the same, which also don't bother me when I'm looking at something else.
NYC is one of the few places I have seen with enough e-bikes in what looks like daily use to make a difference in how people get around. It's a shame to try to stem this tide. It could bring cheap, small-footprint transportation to NYC.
Affordable housing is high density housing, while the majority of Australian cities are suburbs with low density, mostly detached single houses, often with a garden.

For any given 'feature' in a suburb (shopping centre etc.) the houses in walking distance will have a higher value. If you have several multi-family homes or even towers you have a large supply of walking-distance-dwellings. If you have a bunch of single-family houses (the common thing in Australia) then you have low supply.

In other words, Australia tries to huddle together as least as possible which causes many weird anomalies (don't get me started on quality of life/walkable suburbs/rise of US-style drive-everywhere-life with increased obesity/etc)
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Initially I thought this was something to do with Hashicorp's Vagrant. It's really not.

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> but honestly my bills are paid and I don't feel the need to make more money than I do right now. Why take on the stress?

What is the retirement plan for a farmer?
I do not think it's necessary to speculate on the nature of reason for simulations in terms of the logic. In terms of recreation, it's very interesting though. And oddly enough, I think it also adds some circumstantial evidence to simulation. We now live at what will likely be one of the most important moments in the history of our species - the internet, becoming an interplanetary civilization, automation (and the probably change to a new economic system it entails), are all happening with our lifetimes. Any of these events would be a monumental once in a civilization type event. To have them happen all at once is just unbelievably fortuitous. Beyond that interesting coincidence, this is also one of the first moments in history that would be able to be compelling reconstructed. Think about the massive data collection happening all the way from private corporations up to the NSA. If that data is not erased, it will serve as a completely untainted and objectively perfect time capsule of all true views, ideals, desires, and so on of our time. I'm not fond of this data collection, but in terms of societal impact - it is hugely beneficial in the very long term. An advanced AI would be capable of creating an incredible replication of a society, perhaps with its emotions somewhat exaggerated, by combing through and simulating this information. Of course that's just one of an infinite number of possibilities, but like I said - I find them interesting and fun to consider.

There's a logical slip in your math. It is not more likely that someone else lives in the real universe than you. It's equally improbable. And the more simulated the realities, the less probable of any given civilization existing within the real one. Just picture it as balls in a bag. There are 'n' black balls representing the number of simulated realities one may be within, but just 1 white ball representing the real reality. And like you mention, even if somebody was able to reveal and 'disable' the simulation of their reality -- the same logic holds (that the new unveiled reality is likely also false), unless there is some newfound reason to think it might not.
Nah, it's not weird. I mean, tons of blogs and websites I read are by people who learnt English as a second language, and many of the people I subscribe to on YouTube aren't native speakers either.

Heck, most of the time I don't even notice they're not native English speakers until I come across the location field on their profile or an article where they talk about their personal background.

But yeah, if you can get your points across clearly (without the kind of stilted wording found in machine translations or works by people with only the most rudimentary knowledge of English), then you'll be fine. Most people won't even notice you're not a native speaker.
You are correct. London has a few Sandwich places that most people know about, Obviously Pret, then maybe The Earl of Sandwich, and Birley Sandwiches. These are all pretty average at best. Max's Sandwich Shop in Stroud Green, or Monty's Deli are worth checking out. All the people below obviously haven't ever eaten a decent sandwich.
A related thought based on my recent experience.

One of my teams is currently using a mesh colorization system for our game, which we developed in-house. E.g. we have a game level where each mesh is assigned some color ID, such as "primary accent" or "background1" (but not an actual RGB color); and there are color schemes which we can apply to the level according to these color IDs to get different looks.

The first version of the color scheme system was "clearly superior": it offered a lot more possibilities for assigning color schemes to meshes, but it needed about 80 color values for each color scheme.

The second version of the same system was "clearly inferior" -- just 28 color values, and much less creative control over the resulting look of the level.

Guess which system was adopted? Right, the second, simple one. Despite offering less creative possibilities, the second system was smaller and thus could fit more easily into artists's heads, which produced better-looking results overall.

To sum up, "superior" is multidimensional. Dvorak can offer better typing speed, but it offers much less "habit compatibility" with existing keyboards in the real world, and thus is a worse time investment. Or, Haskell offers much better maintainability, refactorability and reliability, but dynamic languages offer faster time-to-market and easier-to-hire coders.
Estimates for the weight of the battery put it at like 10,000-20,000 pounds, and it's a 120,000 dollar battery. Who's going to maintain a million-dollar battery stock? You'd need liability insurance and equipment out the ass to deal with batteries that large. That's not a procedure you'd easily get done in 30 minutes. Charging the dang thing is a way better model.
Ideally, by recording (as best you can, and estimating after that) the cost per unit time of using a non-standard keyboard layout (including the cost of learning it and the cost of occasionally needing to use computers that don’t use it) and the benefit per unit time of using that layout.

Either the benefit per unit time eventually surpasses the cost per unit time (since some costs are fixed, namely the initial learning), or it doesn’t. Only switch if benefit surpasses cost in a time window you’re comfortable with.
The German government doesn't control the prosecution. Especially not because it's not a federal investigation. Criminal matters are state matters, with very few exceptions.

And to counter your next try: No, the government of Lower Saxony does not control the prosecution either.
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Just to clarify: the US Civil War pre-dates the Geneva Conventions. So Confederate soldiers weren’t confused about whether the Conventions applied.

But they sent letters home wondering why they hadn’t been informed of charges against them, given a bail hearing, or promised a speedy trial. I think it’s a safe bet they also didn’t have an attorney represent them during any questioning. They were confused about why they were in a prison even though they hadn’t been arrested for a crime.
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This algorithm can also be used for integer factorisation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollard%27s_rho_algorithm
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Are you arguing against dualism? What kind of existence could emotions have that is not "rooted" in the material biological world?
Emotions are a useful concept that helps explain and predict human behaviour and makes human interactions more predictable/rational. If a person is sad at t0 i know that his answer to go to a party at t0+1 will be lower than if his emotional state was happy at t0. That you can describe emotions by biological processes is inconsequential. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Concept_of_Mind
The reason.com article inflates the significance of the QWERTY myth, and then claims that debunking it debunks path dependence, which, of course, it doesn't.
What you describe is true and makes it harder to prosecute the management. That does not excuse individual engineers for effectively their own decisions.

Leaving such company or not having much career is ethically much higher then participating at fraud. And engineers do such decisions and earn less money because they did such decisions.

Another contributing factor is larger culture that treats such people as losers or "makers of excuses" for lesser success and excuses or celebrates those who merely did not get caught.
The new style keyboards from Apple are terrible.

I have a 2017 MBP and their BT external keyboard (provided by work) and it is noisy, it's like having a mechanical keyboard...clack....clack....clack...

Its just so difficult to type silently, unlike their previous keyboards.