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They didn't fork GHC. They wrote a new Haskell compiler to target a pre-existing runtime that existed inside the bank. For various reasons related to the runtime that meant the language had to be strict. Mu's creation was, in fact, a step away from legacy.
Not OP, but I'm personally a fan of chill-hop stations, such as Lo-fi Hiphop Radio 24/7. This kind of music lends itself to studying and working, as it has very little lyrical content. Find it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQBh9soLSkI
I would agree that's true. The same happens if you go really deep on certain types of philosophy, you end up "looking behind the curtain".
Because subjectivity in favour of someone, is to the detriment of another employee (because the budget is limited)

This is not how salaries work. Companies don't have a pool of $x for y employees. They try to hire every employee at as low a cost as possible. If you accept a salary at $10,000 below what they were willing to pay for that role, it's not like you can rest easy knowing that the other employees will get that money. That $10k is now additional profit [1].

Anyway, you can think this system is unfair and that we should have another one, but this is the one we have now. So you can work at below market rates for companies like Buffer, or you can go get a higher salary at companies that don't do this.

1. This seems like an argument in favor of more worker-owned companies, which I think are fantastic. I think we should have a lot more of them, and I'd like to better understand why we don't.
The point is that its questionable whether it will work in practice, or ever reach the level of adoption needed to be autonomous. Treating IOTA now as a potential payment system to rival bitcoin is hugely risky.
Your firmware probably does not know how to do full-disk encryption.
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Which is crazy, because it would sell like hotcakes.

Hopefully some day some Chinese company will notice this huge pile of money left on the floor.
You could probably adapt this technique https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqqEYz38ens to detect your garage door state.
We plan to open source it as soon as we can. Tiny bit more work to do, then review from a couple of people in the team, then we make it public. :)
I am not talking about a combine, I can understand the need for having your own combine during harvest. I am talking about a brand new fully optioned Peterbilt Semi-tractor, or buying a new pickup each year.
Re your scenarios:

I'm not sure users care about domain names in search results (this is measurable) so these two scenerios have similar cases:

They see the owner is ACME Corp and in this case know they're dealing with a site whose legal identity has been vefified, in their own country or one they trust.

Not someone who registered a domain name, not someone in the Phillipines.
The white-paper is about 10 pages long and completely approachable to programmers with some knowledge of hashing functions and public-key cryptography.

The biggest challenge is understanding how all the pieces fit together, the pieces themselves aren't any kind of ground-breaking computer science.
So he has thousands of friends and acquaintances? Or did each leave multiple reviews?
> While there are easy to find books and movies for adult employed audiences, it is not nearly the same with games.

I disagree. There are tons of puzzle games which can be played by anyone. Lot of e-sports focused games can be played fast like Rocket League. Point and click games are still alive and kicking. Things like "Long live the queen" or "Black Closet" can be played in 30mn sessions.

But yeah, that's not AAA games so when you have to check some game store and not expect ads to get drilled into your eyes about those games. You have to open Steam or GoG at least one time.
Loot boxes come from Japan, where they are extensively used in mobile games and all sort of products. In there the concept is known as gacha.

https://www.serkantoto.com/2012/02/21/gacha-social-games/

In Japan, gambling is illegal and the games industry looked for ways to bypass this regulation. Gacha is what they found.

But after gacha was perfected into its ultimate addictive form, Kompu Gacha, the government had to take action and regulate it. Now Kompu Gacha is illegal. The legal alternative is Box Gacha, and that is what all westerners are copying.

The idea is to not sell you what you want, but rather to sell you a low probability of getting what you want for a lower value. This causes people to underestimate and lose track of what they're spending.

But Box Gacha is not the only thing, there are millions of other ways in which those guys have perfected the art of taking money from addicted gamers.

Pay to win is a race to the ground. Some players won't mind throwing $10,000 to win, you will never beat them. And if you do beat them, you are a chump.
Not the phenomenon itself — everyone should be free to pick a new career as circumstances and desires change — but of some interpretations of that phenomenon.

I don't want to set up a straw man here, but a hypothetical analyst could look at this trend and think something special is happening with farming (as mc32 put: "[thinking] that they have a better farming plan or better farming insight over generational farmers") — picture a cover story with the headline "farming is back", now picture a less upmarket story titled "15 reasons to be a farmer (ear of corn emoji)! You won't BELIEVE number 12!".

Whereas it's an iteration of the eternal "strike gold, open a boutique" story.
I disagree. The ultimate goal is to stop the behaviour, and the first step is to make it clear that a) your behaviour has a good chance of being exposed, and b) you'll suffer consequences for it.

If the offenders think they can keep secrets, or that no one will care, there is no disincentive to continuing the behaviour. Aside from the whole morality problem of being an awful person, which seems not to be a big factor for some people.

It's possible that the Moore situation, however it breaks, will only apply to political figures, or only in Alabama. But the idea is chilling.
I need to jump in here, because I want to make sense of that situation in the least political loaded way possible. So let's try this:

We have come to the point, where voters are going to vote for the person, who is showing the opposing party the biggest middle finger.

This is the result of the ourage culture. Voters are bored as f*ck by the moral doctrine that media and self-proclaimed authorities are trying to shove down on them, branding anyone a mental-rapist, who is critical to their narrative. Their belivers are following that example - case and point the massive downvoting of every comment slightly critical to the situation among the comments here.

In my opinion voters are actually smart. They realize that just because somebody has a fucked up sexuality, it doesn't make them a bad person. For the other side it is hard to accept that idea since they went so far over the line that it is totally normal to celebrate the destroying of a person publically just because a journalist wrote a story about them. Judging a person's character by their sexuality alone is just absurd, but in the current landscape it is the defacto standart.

With Roy Moore it is a similar hypocrisy ongoing. Ultimately most guys have caught themselves looking at 16 year old becaue she looked hot. 'Teen' is definitly one of the most popular porn category. But we don't want to talk about this at all. So we continue to act totally amazed about Moore's popularity. While the outrage machine is hyperventilating many guys are probably secretly respecting Moore because he was able to pull of, what they were not able to do.
JoeAltmaier says>" he pays rent on the land and suffers the risk all himself."

Doesn't that depend on which way the wind blows (you can be exposed to airborne chemicals and organisms)? And what about the water supply - any problem with nitrates, for example?

I envy you to some degree, but my mother's relatives lived on farms and paid heavy dues health-wise for that.
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I can't speak to anyone else's experience but when my uncle took over the (CA Central Valley) family farm he didn't experience a windfall. And most years he made more money at his side job (substitute teaching) than from the farm.
Depends on the tree and how the lots are built.
What about multiple devices where their respective waves converge at a specific point?
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> They check the address bar for https and also notice an EV indicator that says Bargain Central [UK]. Without existing knowledge of who the company is, what value does the EV indicator provide?

At least in that case the user knows that they're on the website of a real, legal entity in the UK, and not, for example, a phishing website based in China.

This, to me, is the main value proposition of EV certs. Not a huge deal of course, but significant nonetheless.
Sure you can sue as you'd like, but in this case:
* Apple never lost over trademark in court with Apple Corps and did not had to pay.
* When Apple Corps tried to finally sue breach of trademark agreement (the one for 80k), they ultimately lost in front of court: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer#c...
What would a good role of government be?

It sounds like subsidizing getting people off the farm would be helpful, but that's also loaded politically.

One program I've heard of working well is subsidizing fallow land that eventually just becomes wild and never returns to cultivation.
It'd be interesting to weaken AZ until it is on par with a human, and then compare moves evaluated. I'd suspect humans still evaluate significantly fewer moves.
https://i.imgur.com/kwCyiHn.png

That was a bad move for white to play. It's easy to win when your opponent throws the game.

No human player would trade queens in that situation.
While eight may seem like a lot, it's not that hard to find people willing to lie. If eight women came forward and said that a guy in the shipping department had harassed them, I may question it less because there is less motivation for eight women to say that. With a senate seat at stake there is a lot more reason to question it without any accompanying evidence.
> It doesn't actually use WiFi communication

Actually it does. It manipulates the WiFi signal.

> it cannot work reliably across variable environmental conditions

Nope nor can my tablet, notebook or streaming stick but 99% of the time. It does work almost all the time though. I really think this is possibly the best scientific measurement tool idea I have seen in a while. Minimal of parts should keep this working for years and no electronics sounds like there will be many different applications.
But is it? I don't know about corn, but the mega-crop varieties of tomato and apple are bred to maximize revenue/reduce cost (larger, more robust for shipping, more consistent shape), not taste and nutrition.
But there are already more mobile computers than non-mobile. Anybody who thinks desktop still matters for the general population is kidding themselves. Especially Apple seems to like the very (VERY) heavy handed walled garden approach. FB is a bit nicer than them, and Google seems most flexible, using "soft" means (e.g. kicking adblockers and emulators out of the app store, or simply not promoting them).
Ugh, just like all those trillions of man-hours spent making cars just to replace some simple horses. What a world we live in!
That's true in theory, but rarely in practice. Committing to enabling remote work is nontrivial and doesn't suite every team nor every employee.

And that still doesn't solve the talent issues; highly skilled professionals congregate in areas with amenities (culture, like minded people, access to top notch medical care, access to schools, access to public transportation, etc) so even if you're remote you're still competing for the high CoL people at high CoL prices.
> Skylines probably will increase sales of the next SimCity due to more attention to this genre.

Maxis is gone, I'm not sure I care to play another city sim made by EA without the creative team that made SimCity 1-4 such a joy.

It bugs me that the video games industry (both production and consumption side) seems to have a looser relationship with creative talent than, for example, the movie industry. A Quentin Tarantino or Guillermo Del Toro can get all kind of pet projects greenlit within the movie industry and on the consumer side fans of these directors will show up to anything with their name on it (I know I will). That doesn't happen as much in games where even a hit-maker like Kojima gets treated pretty poorly by his studio meanwhile the franchise he's known for shambles on like a zombie after his departure - still making money. See also: Call of Duty after Vince Zampella and Jason West.
A more appropriate analogy would be generating C code when developing apps in C. Which people do.
IoT never had that meaning. It stems from CMU smart devices work (1982) and ubiquitous computing (1991). Gas station and retail POSs as well as smart traffic lights predate that and aren’t related. Maybe some people have decided to take IoT literally and redefine it to include existing technologies, but that definitely wasn’t the original intention of the word.
I'm not opposed to your proposal but I would have some hesitation about an intersitial like that. The example works well with Amazon and Apple but what about:

- some-company.com
- Other Company [United Kingdom]
- some-company.com-fake.uk

Unless you already know you wanted Other Company [UK] (pre-existing knowledge) the EV indicator really doesn't help.
I agree with you that such a strategy is not optimal but it is not quite how you describe it to be.

In the mind of the farmer:

* $150,000 tractor: something that has value (not easy to calculate, but a $150k tractor has a value above zero, even if not brand new) and utility.

* $30,000 to the IRS: money that I will never see again. Literally thrown away money.

Option number 1 is very tempting.
Yes, that's what I get also. The calculator is way off. I can't imagine them holding employees for more than a few months or year.
Definitely. I did see someone dump 1000 BTC on finex the other day though, and while it did cause a ~$1000 dip they were bought up in a few minutes. Like you say though, there's no way of knowing if the buyers were third parties or the seller rigging the order book (although I don't know how one could have much control over a transaction like that without having control of the exchange itself, but exchanges faking volume and manipulating the price is par for the course in bitcoin land).
Meditation helps me. I'm calmer and I can stay concentrated for way longer periods of time when doing something. I also, rarely get bored because of it.
Cuba seems to be cooperating with the US during the investigation. Perhaps it was a false flag attack?
Probably, the first thing I thought about when I saw this was WiSee ("Whole-home gesture recognition using wireless signals"), which is also from UW: http://wisee.cs.washington.edu/
I appreciate the citations.

>"Unhelpful if you're female"

3.7 billion women in the world, and not a single female is successful in negotiating a higher salary?

Of course not. In fact, when comparing men vs women at the same level, company and profession, wage differences disappear. So there's obviously women that are quite successful in negotiating their salary.
https://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2017/08/daily-...

And the initial point is that you don't want (or even need) the crutches that the average person requires (transparency).

You're not average. You can find a way to negotiate more that plays to and exemplifies your strengths.

You have desires for your life (e.g. travel or a family or a cool hobby) - push hard, demand more for yourself and don't apologize.
>One thing that increases the stress on the farmers is the way they avoid income taxes at all costs so they rarely save any of the profits from good years to help them float during the bad years.

I'm from Iowa and a family member does lots of farm bankruptcies here. This is definitely a thing. Farmers buy new pickup trucks in lieu of showing a profit. Pair that in with land purchases at 7k+/acre and the saying "the neighbors land will never come up for sale again while I'm alive" and you've got a good mix for very high stress situations.
I also expect commodity farmer have significant debt and illiquid assets (namely all the machinery necessary for large-scale commodity farming as well as related lands), and most likely contracts with agro distributors to fulfil.

Regardless of soil suitability, you can't just shuck off a farm worth (tens of) millions, debt on the same scale (average debt-to-assets as of 2017 is ~13% and I would expect the farmers featured here are way worse) and throw out decades of experience to try and grow mushrooms, it's unlikely that it would make your clients and creditors happy. Even less so when you're in your 50s.
Is it still targeting Windows XP though? Or is it just Windows NT more broadly now, albeit with a much older looking interface?
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I actually think this is a really amazing demo and am excited about the possibilities of this kind of "high efficiency" interface. I'm imagining it as a first step towards the next stage of machine-learning-powered workflow tools. This demo might even be the first step to higher efficiency character animation for game dev shops!

The tracing box as a UI is very interesting too. I haven't seen it used very often but it looks powerful and flexible. Keep up the great work!
Check out "parametric speakers".

Amazon has an assembled kit for sale:
http://amzn.to/2AxtPBS

Also, more info from soundlazer.com, here:
http://www.soundlazer.com/what-is-a-parametric-speaker/

Also, reminds me of the MacGyver (original) episode "Soft Touch"- where a Columbian drug cartel tortures a federal agent in a garage using high-decibel noise.
Listen to the ones the market listens to.

For crypto currencies is not necessarily people with deep technical insight nor is it established economists.
Paying hackers ransom money, is it worth it?
Not sure where the 'with Four different browsers supported' part of the headline came from -- searching for 'browser' gives no results on the page. Is this from the screenshot of Chrome / Firefox / Opera / K-Meleon?

I would hope the OS can support a truckload more than four browsers! I would be interested to learn how well ancient Internet Explorer versions work.
The original statement was most people don’t know Tencent is bigger than Facebook (in market cap). That’s simply because most people don’t know what Tencent is, like they don’t know SoftBank or Deutsch Telecom. They aren’t international brands.
Farming is irreplaceable as of now. I don't want it to be replaceable, do you?.
Maybe the price is that high in part because the offer is limited by things such as lost bitcoins and unfriendliness of transaction.
Just go to the comment click "vouch" and it will go through.
except the CEO and the director of people. their salaries magically stayed exactly the same
I would just like to say that I appreciate that you're doing this purely with donations as the income stream. I really dig the social aspect, and more people discovering the joy of classical music is always a good thing. Cheers!
For senior position, you get 150k USD more in SF than in Eastern Europe. The rent difference is not even close to 150k USD...
The real key is to unify all the smaller markets into one big market. When everyone has to compete with everyone (rather than being the big company in the small market) salaries will go up everywhere except high-cost areas due to market pressure.

Both negative (taking away) and positive (adding) responses are beneficial to devs.

If if a company chooses to raise everyone's salary, Awesome! Now companies that lower salaries must compete.

If a company chooses to lower everyone's salary, Awesome! Devs in high-cost areas will be forced to move which will unify the market at which point devs in traditionally lower-wage areas will now be able to compete in a larger market and negotiate for more pay.
Vice is what you get when you combine journalism, capitalism, and navel-gazing college dropouts with no skills and lots of ambition. It's Tumblr for Medium. It would be beautiful, if it weren't so blatantly terrible. In a world where where startups with good ideas, talented people and lots of cash fail regularly, these witless wonders turn garbage into viral gold. Kudos to them.
> I'd like to better understand why we don't.

My view: most workers just want a paycheck and at the end of the work day leave work at work. That isn't compatible with running a company. Besides, even in worker-owned companies an implicit hierarchy emerges and gains its own inertia until eventually "ownership" is technically true but doesn't mean much.
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Yeah, the descriptions they offer remind me of the few times I've “heard” meteorites plunging through the atmosphere: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2003/oct/23/research.h...
I agree. The first step to fixing or avoiding a problem is knowing it's there.

It's great to be able to have a little more understanding of what companies are thinking when they try to judge an employees value based on location rather than... value provided to the company.

I think the dynamics are pretty interesting. Forgive me if this seems like a not so humble brag, but I'm remote and paid way more than anyone at buffer. I also have a pretty decent network of remote friends at my company and at other good companies.

With that in mind I can tell you that the practical effect of Buffer's policies is that they have decided to self-select for developers who are currently underpaid and historically have not had their pick of good jobs. Because otherwise they'd be taking a pretty big paycut to work at buffer and, while possible, it seems unlikely that social media management is a dream job for many developers.

So the entire open policy, no matter it's surface intent, is basically a policy to grab sub-par talent. Especially insecure talent who is willing to buy into "radical transparency".

Meanwhile, my base is pretty close to their CEO's compensation, but I live in a low COL area. It turns out that the marketplace is competitive enough right now that it's a viable bargaining technique to say "pay me X, where X < Value provided" and some companies will, without arguing (as if the argument made any sense at all) that many people in your zip code make < X.

I guess that was a really long winded way of saying that buffer has implemented policies that self-screen out the best developers, which is fine. You probably don't need the best developers to send tweets on a schedule.
"The grass is always greener". I grew up on a dairy farm, its easy to romanticize it but the reality of waking up to literally chip and shovel frozen shit at 5am (almost daily chore to clean barns in winter) gets old after a decade. I worked hard to get out of farming and never want to go back. I love my tech job.
Yes. Core mechanic is incredibly fun and it starts when you start playing. Cards you get by reaching higher ranking are not necessarily more fun to play and you don't win more with them because you are playing always with players of similar strength to you.
I think one of the issues is the farmers are conflating their incorporated farm's assets with their own.
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The weakest link in the chain. If a company's working on a bad project that will never contribute, it's good to kill it. If you work on a money-center, that's obviously good, but if you work on the thing that allows the money-center to continue to be a money-center, that's just as good even if not as obvious.