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"elixir is like fast/better ruby" is simplistic but it's also not entirely untrue. When I first started playing with Phoenix I found it palpably similar to Rails, but also faster and better in a lot of ways, especially the WebSockets story.

When I started writing Elixir I didn't know how great it was nor did I understand how different it was from Ruby. The BEAM is a challenging thing to grok. As I used it more and more, I did learn and appreciate those things. But at no point, did I feel deceived about how similar Elixir and Ruby were supposed to have been. I was surprised and relieved by how many of the things I had to worry about in Ruby, I didn't have to worry about in Elixir.

At the end of the day, Elixir's similarity to Ruby is part of what gets a lot of people like me in the door. It's a hook and I think it's a good one. I mean, sure, we're going to have to explain to people why they don't need something like Sidekiq, and we're going to do it many, many times. But that's what we do as a welcoming community.

I guess it's a balance. If we have a lot of people trying out Elixir and leaving because they feel they were misinformed, that's definitely relevant. But I don't hear much of that. On the other hand, if we can use this similarity to get OO people to try out this crazy, awesome FP language that uses the actor model, that could really help grow the language.

You're on point that Elixir really is a completely different paradigm, but I don't know if I agree that it really matters from a marketing perspective, particularly when marketing to Rubyists.
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There are captcha "breakers" that use that method.
It's been precedent for a long time. For example, we could have much better satellite photos but it's illegal to sell footage with resolution better than 1 pixel/meter. If they're doing it publicly for commercial satellite imagery I have zero doubts similar secret restrictions for video quality exist for military footage taken with optics
> And so far in court, long lengthy legalese Terms & Conditions haven't always held up to scrutiny, and nor has any contract that states "we can change these terms at any time". [0]

Especially not in the EU, many ToS that are completely legal in the US wouldn't see the light of the day in the EU due to consumer protection rights.
I share your frustration missing the perfect password manager.

I have not tried it but I heard https://www.passbolt.com/ the self hosted aspect would be a turn off for me but some might like it.
Then you will lose, the good EV cars have 90% of their battery life left after a lot more miles than that.

See: https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1110149_tesla-model-s-b...
> one reason why I find the UFO thing interested is in hypothetical situation if we can have proofs of existence of aliens, all those nonsense, ridiculous religions (like Islam, Christianity, Judaism, etc) would be horseshit to common people. With a simple question of : “Why your God only sent his prophet to earth?”

How is that question substantively any different than “Why your God only sent his prophet to the Middle East?”

If the Abrahamic religions (not even to mention all the religions that don't rest on a singular preeminent emissary, which don't have this problem at all) can survive and thrive in the face of the latter question, the former isn't much of a challenge.
Bit off topic but, Canada is about to legalize marijuana.

Do you see US border patrol trying to "sniff out" Canadians trying to enter the US with specific marijuana related questions?

Are there an specific questions that Canadians who smoke weed and cross into the US for work, should or shouldn't answer?

I'm not worried about blatantly stupid things like trying to bring in weed to the US, but more concerned about the estimated 50% of Canadian adults who say that they have tried, or will try once it legal but who also have to go to the US at some point in their life time.

Asking for a friend....
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calabash

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1311910/
> So really, what does fundamentally differ?

Sure, one can argue that nothing ever fundamentally differs because all languages are Turing complete, but...

When I decide to use functions in a language that has objects, 99% of the time it is implied that a function either

1. holds no state, aka "referential transparency"

2. if it manages external state, it does it by modifying one of its arguments (usually the first one and in a very obvious way)

This allows nice mixing of functional and OOP!

("mixing" by keeping things separate, paradoxically :P...)

I know that if I see a piece of code with a dance of functions that take in and/or generate functions etc., that's a "functional zone" of a program and those function obviously don't have state.

When the only way of passing functions to functions and returning them is basically the same thing as passing and returning objects, you'll always be lost when reading someone else code and have to ask yourself at every step: "is that thing that receive the `.call` message maybe also holding some state". Or you'll always be unable to just assume that a function is referentially transparent, because "it's OOP, object aren't RT, dooh".

This places a huge mental burden when reading/understanding other people's code!

(And yes, in Python or JS you can also treat functions like objects and even attach fields and methods to them, BUT there is no not-extremely-awkward or obvious way to mutate those from code inside the function. Referring to the function by name makes it obvious. Using stuff like `arguments.caller` is awkward and widely accepted as bad practice. Only static variables in C++ allow such "muddying the semantic waters" practice easily, but they are also bad practice and easy to grep for.)
But there is a middle ground solution between large buses and trains and single occupant vehicles. Here is another thought experiment, stand by a busy road or highway for a few minutes. Notice all the single occupant vehicles and how they are all traveling in the same direction. Now picture if some of those occupants were grouped together in the same vehicle and how much more efficient that would be. Lyft line, for example, works pretty well. Wider adoption would make it work better. It should be noted that the U.S., according to recent census data, is "gradually" shifting back to urban core living.
I bet they don't like folks posting on Glassdoor and Indeed company reviews, interview processes, etc. It's amazing how many bad companies I filtered out just using those two resources.
Is executable size not a good reason?

Also, I don't know how you think there's a noticeable difference of readability between minified asm.js and textual wasm for the average person. It might be more difficult for a programmer to read the wasm, but I can't imagine that "disassembled" asm.js is particularly readable in the first place (and both are completely incomprehensible to a non expert)
Use of the word "emoticon" instead of "emoji" would also be a strong indicator :)
They don't have a choice.
It's funny because the share price isn't reflecting these trends.

As privacy laws become more strict, which seems inevitable given what's happening all across Europe, the data itself loses it's value. If the data loses it's value, having more of it, won't translate to having more value.

Facebook/Google will just have more stuff they can't use, or more stuff they'll need to try and stretch further than they did before.
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I'm not entirely convinced, but the argument I've seen is:

Politician does something corrupt. Then they order takedown notices across the web, because it is about them personally.

The Right to Forget allows them to obscure their dirty deeds.
I too have heard this story, yet I had this exact problem at a k-8 school district, the staff would unplug the power to my t1 each night.
Where's the next Hollywood? This question has always been absurd to me. Silicon Valley is here to stay.
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The only argument would be that the people are demanding it. And so far very few of us are. (I’d love standard hardware!)
How is it less invasive? Isn't Apple and iOS big on not sending your data out as much as possible? While Android isn't like that at all?

I do miss webOS a great deal though. Same with Windows Mobile which I used for a year.
Yeah, I just meant to say that it was implausible that that number was revenue, which should be much higher than an average of $5,000 per car.
It's not called an IQ test legally. But it has precisely zero to do with your job unless you need to predict the next shape in a sequence of shapes, write essays on grammar, word association, or do head math within ~30s.

Here's another kind with (broken) word association problems from FirstBank looking to hire developers: https://imgur.com/a/QXlKC
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So why isn't the question phrased "What are your expectations of how we work here?" or something along those lines? If the goal of the question is to address the motivations of the person applying for the job to determine if there's any mismatch with the companies mission than "why do you want to work here" is absolutely the wrong test.
It's a straight, short line between mugshot companies and credit rating companies like Experian. Data which is available but hard to access is fundamentally different from data which takes ever decreasing costs to aggregate. We're on the front edge of a vast readjustment in how society treats personal data and privacy.
I was recently having a discussion with the founder of a very successful company. I was asking him how they got their start and their initial customers. They were not from the Silicon Valley originally.

He said it was slow going at first, until they moved to the Bay Area and started going to meetups. He said that meeting potential customers in person was what really accelerated their initial adoption, far more than their write-ups in the press or their "free customers" from their accelerator program.

My point is, that will be hard to replicate anywhere else for a long time. The density of startups and the opportunities that presents will be hard to have somewhere else -- it's a chicken and egg problem.

I had a friend who started a VC in Montreal. You know what happened as soon as the companies got successful? They took a round from a VC in the Bay Area and then moved here. They kept their dev office in Montreal for the "cheap labor" but made their HQ here.

I suspect that is what will happen with these investments too. Most of the companies will probably leave Ohio when they get successful.

And then they'll exit and have a bunch of money to invest where they now live -- the Bay Area.
Was the image upside down? Sometimes stuff coming out of iOS is stored in a different orientation than it appears on the screen. (There is some metadata in jpeg that says to rotate it before displaying - browsers typically ignore this for backwards compatibility.)
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I'm torn on this. On the one hand, I agree, the EU legislates privacy to a degree that no other political entity does as far as I'm aware, but on the other hand, they often do so with poorly designed policies. As an example, I'd point to the cookie notices that appear on almost every major website, which must have absorbed, globally, many careers worth of man-hours to implement while offering virtually no real-world privacy benefits.

Maybe I'm over-indexing on one bad example? I'd love to hear more informed opinions about this.
I ran a bunch of stained glass images through several APIs - Google's did by far the best, although there are a lot of issues (curved text, hand-written text in odd alignments or on a curve)
I don't disagree with the sentiment, just with the assertion about the particular piece of regulation.
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It wasn't a part of the numbered list of things. The author didn't even treat it as a first-class thing to be talking about when considering "trouble hiring developers".
Further, being able to run some fans or even AC while in full sun is a significant benefit.

You’re going to need those fans with giant, black heat sinks on your roof. To the point that I wonder if the panels heat the car faster than fans can remove it.

Still, you see a lot of campers with solar panels on the roof because a few kwh/day of extra power really does add up over time.

You see a solar panel on our VW camper because a 100W panel can easily recharge the battery that runs the 20W of LED lighting, and charge the occasional laptop, not run a 80,000W traction motor. My parents have a 35 foot fifth wheel with A/C, microwave, and other goodies. It has an option for solar panels. They didn’t buy that option because solar panels ain’t gonna do squat for that load. They figured it might buy an extra half day of boondocking before the house batteries run out. No, you see a lot of campers with solar because they either have a small load like us, or the salesman convinced them it would be a good idea on their 40 foot Class A tour bus.
And "The colors of the strings also appeared to be related to the people’s first names."
Originally WhatsApp ran completely on a subscription model, users would pay a small fee to use the service and users were okay with that because it would mean nobody would try to commercialize their information.

Then Facebook gobbled them up, they removed the small subscription fee (not even giving an option to keep on paying it) and went: "All your data are blong to us".
"World" is neither a political nor an economic union.
It's over two years away. No new phones are being made. I highly doubt they'd have to provide refunds. Did HP have to do anything with the much shorter window of closing the webOS store?
Exactly. Every single problem can be worked around with more money. Market rates are simply tables stakes to hire, and how much I require goes up from there.

Obligatory reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XGAmPRxV48
It’s the exact same cables that powers the thousands of light bulbs, hundreds of computers, AC, TV, fridges etc in the buildings next to the street
I have used tesseract and in my experience unless you train it for the particular type of text you want to recognize (font, background color, etc.) it will do quite poorly (including the recent lstm based versions). Would be great to see how it stacks up against these APIs though.
How do i read this page, it seems to be listing some competitions.
There are several options which will depend on your background and country of citizenship, among others, such as the E-1, E-2, H-1B, O-1, and visas specific to certain countries of citizenship but many of these require the establishment of an employer/employee relationship, which can be a stumbling block. That is why, if possible, the E-1 and E-2 (and O-1) are oftentimes the best options for founders/entrepreneurs.
Not a lawyer and I am also interested in the answer. As a developer though I often wonder if there is a lack of talented engineers. It seems like companies want engineers for a big discount. The US immigration system, since it ties you to one employer, seems to be almost indentured servitude. If you get fired you lose your Visa. I am not anti-immigration. But I would like to see immigrant salaries the same as or very close to local worker salaries - that would be a true indication that you cannot find talent elsewhere. And I would like to see immigrants able to move from employer to employer. Good question, and I hope you don't mind me hopping on this with my $0.02.
I see these every single day in my inbox, the amount of bad indicators in job specs is impressive, I nope out within the first few lines on 95% of the specs. At least they are being upfront about the mess they are in and it is going to be a bad place to work. The alternative is nothing other than a very basic technical list and those are worse as they give me no reason to enquire either, hiding the bad is even worse. One yesterday contained so many little nope moments in it:

"Christmas contract"

"a few outstanding issues that need ironing out"

"Critical Path web app"

"system is reflective of an Excel spreadsheet"

"two junior and one senior developer"

"senior developer is cutting down his working days"

"mentoring element"

"based in the office to help out the junior developers"

"3 years + experience"

"Experience mentoring"

"for 3 months"

"terrible pay"

"interviews immediately on Skype"

"start immediately"
I don't understand how users own their own data. That doesn't make any sense. Where does that idea come from?
I should have clarified, I meant the services that they had were better, but you're right, they don't have the breadth of services that the others do.
I like the idea of starting with simpler games to get a feel for how close AZ is to the minimax optimal strategy. For instance, just put chess or go on a smaller board. Part of DeepMind's claim is that their algorithm doesn't need tweaking when one changes the game, so this should be an easy experiment for them to run.

I wonder if there is any principled statistical way to test, given a set of players, how far the best of them is from optimal. Hmm....
So, are you going to report NK users to them if you host dissident contents? You have to comply to your local laws, not foreign laws.
Not sure I agree with the analysis, although I do agree with the conclusion.

We've only known there's a pervasive limit for a century. We've known for a few decades that the limit is quite subtle i.e. the violation of local realism. It's not at all difficult to imagine that there is more to know in this field. I mean, it took 200-odd years before Newtonian mechanics was supplanted. So there's form.

Also, you don't need to go faster than light as long as you don't go back. If alien explorers are going at a decent fraction of light speed, they can get a fairly long way in a sensible timespan for them. Just not for the folk back home.

My objection to the conspiracy theory idea is that it just doesn't make any sense. They drew huge pictures and built great monuments then got shy. They now play peekaboo with rednecks and the odd fighter pilot.

Governments could be covering up alien tech from a long gone race but one that's still here? A race that they collude with but let out to do a bit of probing because, presumably, the government can't find bodies for them.

So nah. They're not here but it's not technically inconceivable that they haven't been in the past or won't be in the future. It just doesn't seem very likely.
as the discussion on the article mentions particles > 1mm are still pretty large.
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> That is so clearly not the case with this specific regulation, that your conclusion is total nonsense.

Just to be clear, the first sentence is not my argument, and not my point of view at all: I was merely stating in a very clear way the (flawed) chain of reasoning people in favour of killing net neutrality put forward, which makes it all the more obvious how much nonsensical it is.

If you (re)read my second paragraph you will notice that it exactly states your last three sentences, and that we definitely agree.
Or false positives!
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One proposed implementation of your suggestion is the shortest split line algorithm: http://www.rangevoting.org/GerryExamples.html

The OP also uses split lines, but they are optimized for maximum partisan effect.
Even before reading the article, my first thought was 'need to expand the range of the vehicle'.

Yes, advances in battery technology means even the lowest-common-denominator consumer will get better battery life without having to shell out more -- but that will hit a cap before long.

Assuming an average range of about 100mi for the consumer-grade EV, that would satisfy many. But there are still many more who that will not work for, with longer commutes or more driving distance (errands, kids, other activities, multiple jobs, ferrying, taxi/rideshare services, etc.).

A dual-engine design seems to be a more obvious solution, with a primarily electric engine with a secondary, small engine providing backup power either with recharge or straight up horsepower delivered to the drivetrain when the battery is depleted or running critically low. This doesn't necessarily have to be ICE; this engine could be something else that's fairly revolutionary like a hydrogen fuel cell. Even if we get to a majority EV situation, having these be commonplace will give everyone who owns one more freedom and options rather than locking them down to what that particular model has (I see a future with more vendor lock-in).
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Fact: any time anything is discussed anywhere, it can never be discussed on any other forum ever again forever. Doing so would make the person who discussed it the second time be a smug prick for not checking to make sure his comment was wholly original.
>How is that question substantively any different than “Why your God only sent his prophet to the Middle East?”

Nice question. I remember when I was 12,13 and lived with my family (in religious country) I have thought about the exact same question. I think you are totally right.
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> But what is your take on this video? Do you think this is legitimate?

Yes, they legitimately saw something that they could not explain at the time.

> Do you think this proofs there are UFOs?

Of course there are flying objects that haven't been identified by someone. That doesn't mean they are extra terrestrial though.

> Somebody mentioned they are trying hard to redirect attention from something else?

Who's "they"?
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It’s a compelling idea, but the science is spotty. There was a popular article in the nytimes suggesting this a few years ago that got people talking, and here’s a good critical response:

http://www.rff.org/blog/2014/should-we-all-take-bit-lithium

You can buy low-dose lithium orotate supplements very inexpensively in the US however, if you want to do an n=1 experiment.
They don't pay tax? [citation needed]
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The Midwest has crappy weather, and rich people as a rule don't like crappy weather. This alone will prevent many investors from moving to the Midwest.

Geographically, Texas and the east coast near North/South Carolina are the most likely places for the next silicon valley. Both are in proximity to large population centres and have relatively good weather, cheap COL, low taxes, and plenty of 'natural beauty' type things that rich people like. Hills, driving distance to ocean, forests, etc...

I lived in the Midwest and IMO it's mostly cold flat and boring endless farmland with little natural beauty and no access to large water bodies outside of Chicago area. It also has high taxes and cost of living. Not really anything attractive about starting business is there.
I’m a Canadian who wants to start a startup, incorporate in Delaware, and work on it in California.

Are there visa options that allow me to do this?
The sentiment they're getting at is "We want people who are as dedicated as owners, but without the incentives" and this translates to "We are only interested in gullible people who don't know their own value."

The reason people have trouble finding good developers is because they don't want to pay for them. Owners aren't driven by only doing as well as the market average. If you want people who want to beat the market, offer them something better than the market rate.