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The title refers to Soylent, the company.
"Self-hosted homebrew" would probably be the magic word that unlocks the enterprise dollars.
Actually, I think this highlights a problem with so much of the content out there about learning to code. Back to the toilet analogy:

> When you need to fix a toilet you don't usually start with learning hydrodynamics.

I think that's wrong. You weren't taught hydrodynamics. You were taught how a toilet works and then ran in to a plumbing problem. The issue is there isn't much out there on plumbing, so to speak. It reminds me of The Cliff of Confusion and The Desert of Despair.[0]

There's tons of hand-holding tutorials that will teach you the basic syntax of JavaScript or PHP, but once you're set loose in to the real world, where we're no longer just reversing strings and other trivial exercises, there's surprisingly few tutorials available (I suspect because it's way easier to write about simple facts than it is opinionated best practices, but that's a different topic...)

I don't really have any silver-bullet for you here. The "knowing libraries, how to run php on my system, a bunch of php specific stuff" part is mostly a matter of tenacity, Googling, and reading tons of dry technical documentation. It takes a while before the big picture starts to click.

[0] http://www.vikingcodeschool.com/posts/why-learning-to-code-i...
But YouTube is not very good for providing income for
musicians who don't want to be predominantly 'tubers.

The question here is whether it's better at providing income for niche musicians than the alternatives. It has always been hard to make money doing niche music. Youtube has made it much easier. Complaining that it doesn't make it profitable enough is beside the question. Some products are never going to be profitable no matter what the distribution mechanism is. For those products it may be sufficient to make it possible for an artist to recoup some costs for their hobby.
Not sure when physical replacements start shipping, but the latest companion software (https://id.ee) offers a pretty smooth online key regeneration feature.
I'm sure glad that my Dunning-Krugerands are production ready.
No, of course not. I just try to write code in a performant way the first time around[0] - it's usually more than enough.

The problem here is lack of effective feedback on the market. You may be writing your application totally bloated, and due to the nature of software, you might not notice any significant impact on your business. It turns out that your application may be lagging just enough to make it unusable for the 1% of your userbase that has shitty connection... that's basically an accessibility problem.

But then that "accessibility problem" actually impacts your customers too, just not in a way most of them can tie back to you. It's your app, plus that other app, plus that third app, and suddenly their stupidly powerful[1] computer becomes sluggish, and they can't get any work done.

Performance is commons. Unless you're writing bare-metal embedded, your software is not running alone on the machine. By producing bloated code, you're implicitly taking away your users' productivity beyond what you could with little extra care. It's something that I try to keep in mind when writing software, too.

(Also, RE developer time tradeoff - people seem to not appreciate how software scales. If you save 100 man hours of development time at the expense of 1h per user over their whole use of the application, with 1M user you just wasted the world 1Mh - 100h = 999.9k man hours. Something to keep in mind, too.)

Related: http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm.

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[0] - It's usually entirely possible to write code both fast and clean, if you don't overdo abstractions. As a bonus, the code is usually simple.

[1] - Compared to what they had 5 years ago. User-facing software seems to be not gaining useful features, but rather constantly losing them. And yet it becomes only ever slower, for no actually good reason, just accumulation of bloat at every level of the stack.
always good reads though
I'm in the same boat as you, what I'm currently planning on doing is getting the 'cs undergrad' experience by taking a bunch of the lower division classes at my local community college, then doing the upper ones through the university's program of extended studies (the one I'm trying for) then just going straight for the masters. There are some risks, ergo, if I don't reach the master's then I won't have much to show for it other than the classes I took (don't see that happening but still possible), and its going to take awhile; at least 5 more semesters, just to finish math prereqs (up to linear algebra). I don't think the latter is very avoidable, no matter where I go however, and the former is a factor of the later.
Picture of new CEO looks like somebody who a casting agent and makeup artist/wardrobe would cast as one of Russ Hanneman's friends on Silicon Valley.

tres commas, baby
"Industry people working at regulatory agencies is an obvious conflict of interest."

Not necessarily. An obvious conflict of interest would be someone who has a significant financial stake in the industry, or someone who is married to a CEO in that industry, etc.

Also consider this: who is actually qualified to regulate an industry? It is often the case that the only qualified candidates are people who have worked in the industry or who have worked against it (which is just as much of a conflict of interest). Someone who is clueless could be worse: they could be more susceptible to lobbying pressure, since they have no prior knowledge of the issues they are dealing with.

In theory the job of the Senate should be to determine whether or not a candidate will be able to serve the public instead of their former industry bosses. Such people definitely exist -- Tom Wheeler is a prominent example. We also have an impeachment procedure to deal with the possibility of failure i.e. the possibility of the Senate confirming a regulator who fails to serve the public; by now there is ample evidence that confirming Pai was a mistake, but with today's hyper-partisan Congress there is not much hope for impeachment.
The biggest risk is going to be the temptation to roll your own PaaS on top of ECS. Later on it might be to roll your own on top of Kubernetes.

It just doesn't seem like a lot of work. Assemble this logging system, that proxy ... before long you have a working PaaS and a source of pride and joy.

And a future millstone around your neck.

A lot of people who work at Pivotal have worked at other places that tried to DIY. Usually this was a long-running bonfire of cash, during which any potential competitive advantage was lost. No matter how technically capable your team is, there is just a hell of a lot of engineering to be done to build systems of this depth and breadth, especially when they are distributed systems.

Software generally is a sharp illustration of comparative advantage. Even if you can do everything better than anyone else, it does not make sense to do everything. Focus on the area where you can add the most value. It is almost certainly not in rolling your own cloud application platform.
Reminds me of a nifty little tool I made as a teen: the breakup-text generator.
> Homebrew requires the CLT on all but the latest version of macOS (to avoid copious workarounds in formulae)

Why? What are these workarounds? The linked PR didn't explain, and as someone who's still got one machine on 10.12 I'd really rather not have to keep CLT installed as well.

Edit: Wow, the maintainer on that PR is a real jerk. He refused to answer a legitimate question (and locked the PR at the same time) because he thought the original (since edited) complaint of "The error message for this patch is terrible" was "rude".

MikeMcQuaid, if you ever read this, this sort of behavior on your part is a great argument for ditching HomeBrew.
Whether or no Pai has a confict of interest is not very relevant.

Whether Pai's conclusions are based in personal opinion, or not is irrelevant.

The problem is that Pai is ignoring those whom it is duty to serve, and abusing the authority of his chairmanship to dictate policy for an entire country without any meaningful discussion.
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If you already have a BS in another field, you might be better off taking Georgia Tech's MS CompSci (https://www.omscs.gatech.edu/).
Chapter 7?
To be fair, customers would have been happy with a faster horse.
What about extensibility?
Of those who can do iandanforth's 3 steps what's the intersection with the group who can program algorithms from scratch under interview conditions. The latter is supposed to be a proxy for the former, not a test of it, surely?
They asked for certificate updates to continue using the cards.

I don’t use them on a daily basis, because I use an app for authentication, much faster.
We need paid parental leave for both parents, and the expectation that mothers and fathers take time off to be with their newborns, not just mothers.
I'm kinda surprised that the diameter of the full-sized spare tire matches the diameter of the tires on all three cars. It would seem unlikely given the variability of rim sizes and tire aspect ratios across cars over time.
The University of Maryland (a fully accredited and well respected State school) has a completely online CS program (Bachelor of Science with an option for several minors and specializations as well). Having taken part of my CS program on-site (at other schools) and part with them online, I can say it is very comparable to other programs, quite rigorous, and you get a lot out of it.

You do lose out on some networking opportunities, but I was an older (military veteran) student anyway and couldn't stand the immaturity of most of my classmates while attending in-person class. I found the online ones more distraction-free. It will require quite a bit of discipline, especially in the mathematics courses, to get through it but it is definitely a great program and affordable at the same time.
Maybe someone hacked your account and use it without you noticing? My "2017 Wrapped" matches perfectly what I have scrobbled to last.fm this year and it contains mostly old stuff definitely not from major labels(The Smiths, Talking Heads, Slowdive, Joy Division etc).
I would say it's more useful than discussing the ad. Which is still to say, not very.
and get their ssh keys while you're at it.
Well, no, for many user-facing use cases your performance essentially averages out if you have enough users - i.e. for a single user even the worst case performance is faster than they care about, but you're limited by how many concurrent users your hardware can serve.

In that case, you want the average to be as low as possible because then you need less hardware for the same throughput, or you can get faster response time for any users once the waiting/delay caused by other users is taken into account.

A blocking read operation that predictably takes 10 ms will limit you to 100 requests per second, and with an uneven/bursty distribution many of those requests will be queued for 100ms; A blocking read operation that sometimes takes 50 ms but has 5 ms on average will have almost no queuing in 100 requests per second, so the 50ms will really be the worst case.
Interestingly, I find that it is difficult to escape the expectation of getting new things unless you're already wealthy. Poorer people can't afford a high quality new thing, so they buy a cheaper one to replace its utility. However, that object breaks, so they have to buy it again.

Is there a way to create the conditions of minimalism for everyone?
University of the People (https://www.uopeople.edu/) offers a tuition free CS degree program (both an AS and a BS). Many of the course materials are quite old (in some cases 5-10+ years), but this is really only a problem where specific technologies are concerned (for instance, there's a mobile applications class that covers Android 2.x). Many of the more general concepts will still apply.

Note that you do have to pay for exams, which are $100/class. This works out to be ~$4k for your entire CS degree.
I opened a company last year. In my country we can't access Paypal or Stripe and international bank transfers are painful. I had to travel to Estonia because of the KYC stuff from the bank, the rest of the process was completed remotely.

Also the deposit insurance in my country is quite low, so saving money in Estonia is a good option for me.

I'm using the LHV Bank, they give you a multi-currency account, a great mobile application and also access to different worldwide markets (for investments, etc.).
Don't be distracted by the rankings. Georgia Tech has an excellent computer science department. Rankings often include mostly-irrelevant details like the ratio of faculty to students. As far as I know, the rankings include essentially no information about the quality of instruction.
while the president's sons run his company and the president's daughter has an office in the White House

ethics have gone out the window for this presidency, shouldn't doesn't matter anymore
Both pics look really heavily edited. I kinda expect some editing, but they went too far.

That said, glad to see they have gone into caffeinated foods. Caffeine addiction should help them keep customers better. However, a 7-11 partnership is not as good, as 7-11 is pretty 'down market' for a 'high-tech' seeming brand.
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> it exposes some confusion associated with the ideas of correlated random variables, inner products

Read this article, then come back: [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-correlation
They released software that allowed you to update the certificates on your card.

They then gave a limited time frame for every one to migrate their cards over. Either with the software update or going to the police department and having them do it for you.

After the deadline they declared all older cards digitally invalid. Meaning that you can still use it as a physical ID but not for online auth or signing processes.
It also hugely depends on the competitiveness of the market in question. Corn is not likely to go up in price but your internet bill probably will.
I nearly broke myself at some point because I started to realise that just by typing on a computer I was broadcasting things through space, hammering rays of light under the Atlantic, and getting a reply back in miliseconds.

If I think too much about it, I almost can't do anything because that is magic, made real.

Another good way to break yourself is to go into any reasonably sized supermarket and look, really look, at all the different products and where they come from, then imagine the insane amount of work that goes into making that possible.

I mean a typewriter is pretty cool and all, but it doesn't really compare to sending messages through space, at the speed of light.
It's not exactly new and exciting, but I found that listening to calm, instrumental music helps me focus. Mostly Ambient. If you do not like electronic music, Stars Of The Lid or Bohren & Der Club Of Gore are very much worth checking out.

Also, https://mynoise.net/ has worked wonders for me.

In both cases, it seems that unstructured audio input, like, occupies the parts of my mind that would otherwise distract me.
Scion did this. They allowed you to choose any option you wanted and add it individually. They didn't really do packages, at least not when I bought one. They also did the pure price thing where you didn't need to shop around at all. And of course the brand died because consumers don't actually seem to want this.
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While it's definitely bad that Apple stopped supporting PowerPC Macs just 3 years after they sold the last machines, expecting any support at all 10 years later is ridiculous.

What ties people to PowerPC these days? Surely the speed and power consumption of the latest Intel machines is 100x better?
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Didn't down-vote (or upvote for that matter), but I think this might be glossing over some details. My understanding is that Constellation was ridiculously over-budget, behind schedule and there was no reasonable way it would accomplish it's stated mission without a massive influx of cash. The Augustine Committee results were pretty damning. There's no way the program would have made it to the moon, let alone mars. Keeping Constellation running would have been a classic sunk-cost problem.

That said, while Constellation was canned, large components of it were/are reused by the Space Launch System (SLS), including the Orion crew capsule and Aries I/V rockets. So in reality Constellation lives on as SLS, albeit with a much more vague goal now. Cynics could argue it's even more of a jobs program than Constellation was.

As an aside, what'd you do at NASA? I'm super jealous! Thanks for taking the time to share your summary of the events, I largely agreed with what you wrote :)
As I read this, it's the standard shorthand for "after a product setback, the board got worried that I'm too eccentric and not managerial enough, so they brought in an MBA". I mean, that's a bit harsh, but I don't think I'm wrong - the dot com bubble produced so many of these letters that they really are down to a standard template.

If this isn't a respectability move after Soylent's recently quality struggles, I'll... drink a bunch of Soylent, I guess.
For me, it’s cheaper to run a company in Estonia than my country (an EU country). You don’t pay taxes if you company has benefits. You pay taxes for the dividends only, which makes the company perfect for very early stages.

Also, for an international business a company based in Estonia looks more reliable and “techie” than other countries. And this is important if You sell digital goods or services.

I think Singapore can be a good place too, but it’s much more complicated for me.
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The US didn't always have agricultural subsidies. Hunger in the US was virtually eliminated before the Civil War. Agricultural subsidies did not happen until after WW1.
For the wrong reasons. See my response.
Very false. You appear to not understand how mining works.

The reason people join pools is to make money even if you never personally mine a coin. In a pool you just get paid for your effort. This is why joining a pool with consumer hardware will always lose.

In this case we aren't talking about pools!

There is two things that can happen when you solo mine - you either "lose it all" (all money spent on electricity down the drain) or "hit the jackpot," (1 full Bitcoin all for you!)

At that level with a small hash rate its gambling, you're throwing some amount of money at it at the very, very tiny chance of a big payout.

Say, for example, there's a 1/10000 chance any one person will mine a coin on consumer hardware per every $100 in electricity. So you're buying a $100 lottery ticket where the payout is $17,000.

Of course you "can't make money like that," the vast majority of people will lose money, just like the majority of lottery players will lose money.
This post contains some text from a different article, there's no mention of Shenzen or Toronto in the original link (I still have it open in a tab).
Worse, China is the next biggest market, but the Internet in China is even worse as far as innovation goes (censorship etc.). Europe and Japan also have various problems as far as the Internet goes, due to their strict copyright laws and other innovation-stifling rules (right to be forgotten, etc.). I doubt China will change, given their totally different view of what the Internet should look like, but there is some hope.

Eventually some country or federation of countries will recognize the opportunity to grab some of the market once America becomes less startup-friendly. It may even happen in the developing world somewhere, in countries that are being mostly ignored today, taking the rest of the world by surprise.
Rolls Royce lets you pick and choose options and fully customize your vehicle.

But then, you pay for that freedom...
Most people I interact with (here in EE) were not too much affected by the problem, since a lot of people actually use MobileID, with the crypto chip embedded in the SIM card of your smartphone, which was unaffected and available for like 10€ from each telco in Estonia. Saves you from lugging around a smartcard reader. Depending on your threat model, the fact that the PIN never enters computer memory is an advantage for MobileID, unless you prefer a proper PIN-pad reader.
I suspect that you are mistaken and that they put quite a bit of time into those options packages.

Generally what I find is that they make a point of scattering the desirable features across packages in order to make you upgrade to the superset.
If you look around the edges of his fingers on the left, it appears the bag of soylent was edited into a photo of him holding something else.

In the narrow gaps between the fingers on the right, you would also expect his fingers to cast shadows.
Certainly. Despite those successes however, the political and budget process still has a significant effect on NASA operations. A number of past programs--including unmanned ones--have been cancelled or altered due to those pressures. Others have been killed during budget battles while still in the early planning stages. Even during the Apollo era, NASA has had to very carefully pick its battles. And it's not always successful. But it's not a zero sum game: NASA can achieve major successes, while still being tied down by politics.

Speaking in very broad terms, unmanned missions tend to have a significantly lower public profile up until the moment they reach their destination. Unmanned missions can die during budget battles, but that's usually the extent of things.

Manned missions, on the other hand, have a much higher profile throughout the entire process. They can take longer, are more expensive, and require additional political support from politicians who will in all likelihood not be in office to take credit for the mission's eventual success. There are also far greater PR incentives for an incoming administration to dabble with NASA policy in order to differentiate itself from the previous administration. It's relatively high profile, makes a new POTUS appear "presidential" and forward-thinking, and comes with very little political risk compared to other federal programs they could touch. Explaining that manned spaceflight missions are developed over the course of years, and that bold new policy proclamations are counterproductive is a tricky political argument to make. If someone attacks them for the policy changes, they get to just argue that NASA is still getting money and "working towards the future." Whether the changed goals ever come to fruition is largely secondary.

Which sucks, but it's the nature of long-term programs. JFK pushed NASA to the moon, but even if he hadn't been assassinated, he still wouldn't have been in office to for the moon landing. Nixon never once publicly acknowledged JFK's role. When there was a push to name the Apollo 11 craft after JFK, Nixon's congressional relations assistant Bryce Harlow quipped "we have gone far enough in ‘Kennedyizing’ the mission" while another senior advisor, John Ehrlichman noted "such an action would win us neither friends in Congress nor votes in 1972,” suggesting “fall prey to this and the next step will be renaming the moon because NBC thinks it would be a good idea." H.R. Haldeman killed the proposal, literally double underlining the point (Logsdon 14).

Despite everything that's been thrown in their way, and how election-oriented thinking can impact its missions, NASA has managed to continue pushing scientific boundaries since the beginning. That's damned impressive.

- Logsdon, John. After Apollo? Richard Nixon and the American Space Program.
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