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FWIW, I made my MSc thesis working on Idris as a smart contract programming language:

https://publications.lib.chalmers.se/records/fulltext/234939...

https://github.com/vindaloo-thesis/idris-se

Note that the state of the code is a messy PoC and abandonware - I hope to be able to pick up the ball here again at some point but probably not happening any time soon. If anyone really wants to continue on this and wants to take over as a maintainer, feel free to PM.

Someone also created this list of resources: https://github.com/pirapira/fp-ethereum
Yeah, let's not talk about that $10 billion fraudulent bailout.
@jackpot51, any word on if System76 will build a Ryzen-based laptop?
You seem to be quite knowledgeable about board games, so I'm curious if Stranger Things has led to an uptick in popularity of D&D and the D&D influenced ones you mentioned. Luckily I live in a big city so I was able to find a nice business to try out the game with friendly people, after watching the show.
My claim isn't that most physicist never write code, it's that most physicists spend most of their time not writing code.

Analytical work dominates in high-energy theory, quantum information, mathematical physics, cosmology theory. I'll also dispute your characterization of quantum gravity with my own anecdotal experience. If we wanted to solve this, I think we'd just open up an issue of Physical Review and count whether more than half the papers are numerical.

Outside big collaborations (e.g., particles, astronomy), my impression is that most experimental work is not writing code even though rudimentary code is of course needed for data analysis and equipment control.

We're on a site for programers, so I think the former physicists who happen to be here are unrepresentative.
If you were picking today what will you use?

What did you find difficult to do in devise? In my experience extending it was possible but the documentation was sparse and wiki can be confusing.
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English more closely resembles French than any other language I can think of. There’s a lot of overlap in the roots.

Edit: I mean, French resembles English more than other languages.
in this day and age, any gossipy tabloid accusation is viewed as true by its audience if it fits a certain narrative.

Sometimes companies think its an easier/faster solution to pay them even if the accusation is false. But sometimes, they choose the wrong way to deal with the problem.

Disclaimer: not saying Uber is innocent in this case specifically, just giving an example
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I don't think it's a coincidence at all. The closer a language and it's speakers are to English speakers the more likely those languages are to cross-pollinate, by sharing vocabulary, grammar, and culture. It makes sense that the closer someone is to you both culturally and geographically that the easier it is to speak their language, and understand their meaning.
French is basically the same as any romance language. It is a little trickier for native English speakers to pronounce than Spanish, but that is really the only difference. Its grammar is basically the same as Spanish, Portugese, Romanian, and it has regular spelling rules and consistent pronounciation rules for the most part. The nasal vowels are tricky for English speakers, but you get the hang of it pretty fast.
Might be a setting in yours, or a plugin of some sort?
What do you think of Weboob, http://weboob.org for French and other banks?

"Weboob is a collection of applications able to interact with websites, without requiring the user to open them in a browser. It also provides well-defined APIs to talk to websites lacking one."
So I do think this is a cool idea, though I have found that my phone usually gorges on battery power when it isn't in range of a tower (I'd love to hear the exact reason it would if anyone knows). An "airplane mode" pocket sounds handy and interesting, but I'd hate for it to drain my battery while the device is desperately trying to phone home.
Awesome work on OpenFaaS. It serves a critical need in defending against serverless vendor lock-in.
I think French is closer to English. It's also a little easier to pronounce for English Speakers. German is hard for them.
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I suppose Russian is an Indo-European language which would make it slightly easier for English speakers.
there's also a lot people who just don't care.

They have both lyft and uber, whichever is faster or cheaper, they take.

Sometimes you just need to get from point A to point B
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we are transitioning from a knowledge based economy to a decision based one- it's useless to ask questions which test skill competency if those questions could be answered by a few search engine queries.

your goal as a person hiring (or firing) is to assess the candidate's ability to consistently make efficient decisions given complex scenarios with many rotating pieces. can this person handle their responsibilities and grow with them, or will they be difficult.

some of the most technical and capable people also have terrible interpersonal skills and a fickle work ethic, which means they follow their interests and not yours. do you want to herd cats or work as a team? teams need leaders, leaders need respect and to be followed. a working environment is a benevolent dictatorship not a democracy. if flat structures worked they would be applied broadly across fortune 500 companies, are you a wheel inventor?

it takes about 6 months to train almost anyone to do almost anything in the modern digital/information world. it takes a lifetime to be agreeable, polite, conscientious, patient, dedicated, unbiased. you'd learn a lot more about someone watching them interact with strangers and friends for 5 minutes than from hours in interviews (which ostensibly they have crammed for and are hiding as much of their weaknesses as possible). i assume this is why so many companies want private information on their employees, social media, public profiles. hiring at the moment works as a great filter, there is no best candidate for any job, a better strategy would be to filter out personality traits which would clash with company direction and assume some level of skill training will be required. pretty sure this transition is already happening.

the real stickler will come when hiring agencies realise basic fitness and hand eye coordination tests are better predictors than technical ability, then you enter into some genetic discrimination areas which will only accelerate the relevant bio-technologies, a fissile cavitation.
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Worked in downtown Chicago for 2 decades. A 7-hour day is not Standard. GP must have worked at some sort of hippie commune across the river.

Most common official working hours are 8-4, since there are so many banks and exchanges that want to be on the same work schedule as NYC markets.

Also it gets dark at 4:30 in December/Jan and millions of perestrians, cars, dark, and icy streets aren’t a very safe combo.
> ... captivates everyone from mom-and-pop investors to high-frequency traders and Wall Street banks.

If this isn't a recipe for financial disaster, I don't know what is. When dumb money, fast money, and smart money are all feeding off the same carcass, things will get ugly.
Yeah, for example, for whom?
Spanish has one advantage: nouns come with gender built in. You don't have to memorize it.
It's arguably more likely that a few traders there are planning on pumping Bitcoin until it goes on the exchanges soon. Then, they'll take a short future position and remove their support.
Y Combinator partners have been saying for a while now that accelerators were a bubble. I see what they mean now.
The gold rush is over and the profits go to the big five.

This is unfortunate because a lot of the 'innovation' in the big 5 comes from acquisitions, and without the VC money startups won't exist to be acquired
Do you have a ticket that I can look at? I don't like to have Oryxen not living to their full potential
Isn't this just as bad as the "if you've seen this before" whiteboard questions? A lot of specific problem domains don't make for good general purpose questions. If I used my daily work as an interview question I'd insta-fail the large majority of candidates because they don't have relevant PhDs.

There are good balances. The question I ask is a real problem for a real product but quickly reduces to something small and manageable rather than getting bogged down in incredibly specific requirements.
The grammar in German is killer. Damn verbs at the end, it ain't right I tell ya. (German is the only other language I know)
It's a nice xor swap, but I think you reversed your list twice. And xor swapping with x=y=2 is likely not ideal. Seems like exactly what I'd do in an interview too :p
No, that's not how bribery works.
The stock market is white hot right now. Why take a huge risk on a startup when your index fund is up 20% in just one year?
There is some pretty strong evidence for this: all the toddlers in the world. You only need to show them something once and they'll immediately be able to recognize more examples of the same thing from different angles and even when it is partially hidden. All they have to guide them is the structure of their brains, not the quantity of data they have been exposed.
Finnish (and Hungarian) are part of their own linguistic group (Finno-Ugric languages). They both basically have no cognates with the Indo-European language group (which includes not only the Germanic languages like English and German but also the Romance languages and languages like Hindi and Persian, all of which are more similar to each other than they are to Finnish or Hungarian).

Basically, Finnish and Hungarian are the hardest European languages to learn for non-native speakers, almost without comparison.
From what I can determine, the authoritative version was always the one with the later timestamp. This might have worked at least in theory, however there were always issues.

The foremost issue was that the timeserver was virtualized, and drifted to an unbelievable degree. This issue was compounded by the fact that we used citrix virtual machines for some applications, and our local desktops for other applications.

The latter issue wasn't a problem until they moved the citrix servers from an on-site server room to cloud provider about 40 miles away. (I think this is when the timeserver became virtualized as well) At that point the latency between the citrix sessions and the local desktops was such that I could create a document on the file share, edit it on my local desktop, close it, save it, and then open it on the remote desktop and it would lock the replication from my computer and lose all my work.

My department managed to wipe out the changes every other department had made to the yearly budget workbook because of this interaction. Of course part of the issue was using Excel as a shared document, but that issue was hugely compounded by the fact that our network infrastructure was bananas.

For instance, building access databases using the Microsoft recommended separate front-end/back-end files, with each individual user having their own front-end file actually managed to make the issue occur more frequently. If you used a single access database file on a shared drive the issue was substantially less likely to occur. I can only imagine this is because the dedupe was postponed until everyone was done using the file, and the file was more likely to substantially change in size when multiple people were using it.

The IT director had an incredibly fragile ego, and he attacked anyone who challenged him in any way. He hired a truck driver (with absolutely no IT experience) to work the IT help desk, which I assume was because he wanted a sycophant. He reported me to HR any time I did anything he didn't understand or which perceived to be a challenge of his power. He reported me to HR for using open-source software, with a description of open source software that made it sound like Wikipedia meets programming, and only used by hackers. He also reported me to HR after he heard I called our IT situation Kafkaesque.

As far as nightmares go, that might have been my favorite, because my defense was literally "it is Kafkaesque, and I can prove it." I managed to successfully convince HR that the IT situation was Kafkaesque using examples from Kafka's work, whose response was "well there isn't anything we can do about it, but you aren't wrong."

The sensible thing would have been to leave as soon as possible, but I really liked the field I was in, which was kind of specialized. Looking back I stayed way too long.
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All android phone are definitely sending data to United States. Why is sending data to one country better than sending data to another?

For US citizens, this might be irrelevant (not so much if we go by the leaks). But for everyone living anywhere else on the globe, owning a smartphone means usually owning an endpoint for one of the giant corporate data sinks which its government can easily access.

I understand that it is the price I have to pay for a free (sic) OS and play services. But I use it because of a lack of viable libre and open alternative.

And I have about as much choice as someone in the market for a decent quadcopter unwilling to send data to China.
> taking wealth from people

None of the ideas in the article truly boil down to this, except maybe some specific implementations of taxation.

> redistribution is not the only kind of distribution.

I’m trying to understand this, but I can’t.
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If you want to invest in early technology that is vague on substance and has only speculative potential to add true value, then why would you invest in startups when bitcoin has far higher returns?
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English is a Germanic language. French and Spanish are both romance languages. A knower of one can quickly learn another.
I'm not sure why. I've seen nothing that would lead me to change my opinions of him.

I probably wouldn't feel so strongly about it had I not listened to a couple of his podcasts. I had several hours of driving ahead, searched for something that sounded interesting, found his "Security Now" podcast, and downloaded a few episodes. Keep in mind that his audience, AFAICT, is primarily made up of younger listeners who are relatively new to infosec as well as "non-techy" people en masse (the kind of people who get their tech support from a guy on the radio, as someone elsewhere put it). Now, I'm far from a security expert but I'm not exactly a "n00b" and it didn't take long at all until I heard him saying things that were just patently incorrect. When one is repeatedly wrong in an area in which they claim to be an expert, I tend to question their credibility.

Others have found plenty of issues with "SQRL" -- arguably his best idea -- which he simply dismisses and I can still remember when he first presented "GENESIS" to the world.

Oh, and be careful out there on the Internet, as your ISP-assigned reverse DNS "might uniquely identify you on the Internet". IMO, that's right up there with "your computer may be broadcasting your IP address".

Last, remember, he's a marketing guy. That's his real area of expertise. He's certainly better at that than he is anything related to security.
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English is a Germanic language and it originated in North West Europe. In 1066 it was invaded by people from neighbouring France, who brought with them their Italic language, resulting in lots of new vocabulary and a simplified grammar. So it's hardly surprising that Germanic languages with simple grammars, and Italic languages with similar vocabulary, are easier for English speakers to pick up than other languages.
very likely. a company like Goldman can make more money manipulating the BTC market, versus simply buying coin as an investment, which would spike the exchange rate up and reveal them.

Goldman already has a cryptocurrency patent portfolio and top-notch lobbyists in Washington. I wonder what they're using both for.
For anything which involves real money, the threshold is $10k:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_transaction_report
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Yep, the most useful program I ever wrote for business was a Perl script that ran SQL against a Sybase database and sent the output as a spreadsheet. Multiple return sets went on multiple sheets. Took the column names from the return sets and did decent formating of data. Then the user would do all the fun stuff.
Even if I did work for Uber (I don't) would it change the fact that this headline truncated the original quote to make it sound more controversial? That kind of thinking is what leads people to ignore facts that challenge their preconceived ideas.
In which case I'm curious why it's an unreasonable interview question.

The argument is always "use the stdlib one", but if there isn't one, and you need to implement it, why isn't it fair game?
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Web front end developers sure. Kernel hackers though??
What a neat and inspiring origin story. Congrats on the financing. I look forward to hearing more news from you folks.
Nope. I've built tons of stuff for companies though. Stuff you've almost certainly used before, in fact. I do have a github account, but the publicly available stuff is just a bunch of garbage from me tinkering with new technologies or whatever.

The idea that I need to have some sort of public portfolio to land a job is ludicrous. I have a life outside of programming.
French is harder to pronounce than Spanish, and the irregularity of French spelling makes it even harder. On the other hand, Spanish grammar is quite a bit more complicated than French grammar.

In the long run, though, these little differences are insignificant compared to the truly time-consuming part of learning a language: the vocabulary. French and Spanish are about equal in the difficulty of learning vocab.
You could say the same thing about Goldman Sachs.
Frisian is a close relative to Eng, but obvs not widely spoken since proper Dutch replaced it completely in schools till recently, where now you can take some classes.
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The U.S. has strong legal protections against unreasonable search and seizure, as shown in the Apple vs. FBI case after the San Bernardino attack. My understanding is that China has no such privacy protections, either in principle or in practice.
Japanese is usually more difficult than Cantonese? Really?
As an English native speaker who has learnt some rudimentary Cantonese I find this hard to believe.
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Absent are Celtic languages, which have hardly any shared vocabulary with English, and completely different grammars (though lots of shared culture). Irish is listed as taking 1100 class hours to learn here:

http://multilingualbooks.com/languagedifficulty.html

i.e. category 4 on the original web page.
so if the candidate had never heard of 'RESTful' but the hiring manager hired them anyway, how long do you think it would take for someone on the team to teach the new hire what they needed to know about 'RESTful API'ness ? I seriously wonder if the person asking you that question is hoping you can explain REST to all of their coworkers :)
English is really a kind of German, just with lots of French/Latin words merged in.
Russian thankfully borrows a bit from Latin and Greek for technical things, so that helps a bit too.
I love the mindset of the creator. he's got a bias for results!
Observation model is trivial and data-free. For example, just mean squared error for denoising, mean squared error of downscaled image for super-resolution, etc.
Japanese has fewer phonemes than Canto or Mando, which always gave me the impression that it was easier to learn.

Maybe the added difficulty comes from needing to understand the grammar (particles) and the different forms of speech for different levels of politeness (after a few years, it now weirds me out when a white dude calls himself 'watashi').

Edit: Actually, if the methodology is "average time spent to learn" another possibility is that the average is slower because the barrier to learning the language is just low enough to attract a bunch of slow learners that wouldn't be interested in Chinese or Korean. (Reminds me of a study where decreasing page weight in KBs increased average page load time because users on the slowest connections were now able to load the page and skewed the average upward.)
I'm a native English speaker (well...the Scottish version) and I have pretty strong French, however the place where I felt the people were speaking the closest thing to English I've heard was in The Netherlands.
I can't comment on Cantonese, but I've heard that most people never truly learn Japanese unless they went to school in Japan. Apparently you can learn the basic in a year or two if you immerse, but learning the more complex stuff can take a decade or more.
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These language categorizations are famous and have been around since the 50's - not sure what the colored map really adds. When looking at the suggested number of hours, keep in mind that these measurements are for:

* a Foreign Service Officer (read: elite, meritocratically-selected diplomat, usually with a background in humanities, who is probably in command of another foreign language already).

* 5 hours/day of continuous study, with classroom instruction at the FSI's internal language school (which is considered the gold standard in language education). Don't expect the same results from self-study with a textbook and some subtitled movies.

* Reaching a B2-C1 level of proficiency. That's certainly conversational, but far from fluent. Consider that for Russian, the passive vocabulary of someone with a C2 proficiency is about twice that of someone with a C1.

I would never want to discourage someone from learning a foreign language, but the notion that one could reach professional proficiency in French within ~6 months is unrealistic for 99% of learners. Even if you lived there and devoted your entire days to study, it would be difficult to ramp up that quickly.
Isn't this the streetfighter.io guy? Pass.

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Nearly every Excel wordbook I've ever reviewed has errors caused by updating a complicated model.

Often this is down to people adding/deleting/copying or modifying rows/columns and forgetting to change cell formula.

So, in theory you can modify a workbook and get instant results. In practice this seems to be nearly impossible to to get right.