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No. Merely attending the SOTU, or being someone's guest, or talking with someone, does not imply "tacit endorsement" of their agenda.
> And I'm not kidding myself. Most companies know they can get good devs for significantly less than 400/hr.

You can get a great dev for much, much less than $400/hr. You're right. However, should I charge less than that to do a few hours of work for you? Absolutely not.

If I'm doing a small project for a few hours for you I have to charge a lot to cover the business costs.
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I can't shake the feeling that Regexp could be written just as efficiently as a fluent interface with a more human friendly syntax.

I've been telling Jr devs bucking for promotion for years to explain what they're doing in plain english, then write code that looks like that. Basically telling them to skip right over the "gee look what a clever fuck I am" stage and write good code instead of creating riddles.

The Regexp problem just screams this at me. What am I doing? I'm looking for a line that starts with a capital T, then has some quantity of alphanumeric characters greater than n (if n is not 0, 1, or infinity, this requires extra work in Regex), followed by an equals sign with or without whitespace characters around it.

Give me an API that does exactly that, instead of Regex. Something gets lost in translation every time.

I think the fact that the origin of Regex is the command line interface is pretty telling. We didn't and we don't have a convenient way to type in imperative code on a command line. So an arcane syntax was created so you could do the whole thing in a quarter line of text.

Speaking as someone who has had a Unix shell for 25 years, and routinely works on mini tools for their fellow developers, I don't think we actually type stuff into a shell that often anymore. The difference between documenting a one-liner in a README and just building a shell script that does the same thing is not that big. There's a difference in development effort but building a script can allow you access to a debugger. Personally, I'd be willing to pay that tax any day.
Yes, and largely for the arguments that he concedes. The fact that a substantial fraction of news is gossip and speculation just means that not everything on a news outlet is news. In the same way that not everything done by scientist is science or everything done by an artist is art.
It sucks, but some people try to make the best out of a shit sandwich.

I understand if that seems like an untenable view for some with regards to this administration, but the alternative is often much worse.

For the record, I support Bill Nye's decision to do what Bill Nye thinks is best, concurrently with a first round voluntary layoffs that will assuredly affect me within the DOE.
For convenience, there is also a nuget package available (https://www.nuget.org/packages/NetCrawlerDetect)
Really sad to see the Scientific American to reach such a low point. The guilt by 3rd degree association is just shamefull and on par with the tactics of the Twitter hate mob.
Witness the number of times someone complains about a feature of a programming language where to anyone who has encountered the problem it was created to solve it is fairly obvious that the complainer simply doesn't get it, and usually no amount of explaining will alleviate them of their complaints. They usually have to have the problem for themselves because it is not something that is easy to articulate.
Ah I see so deciding, as in to act as though something is intrinsically true. Is it just me that these things so often seem like arguing about semantics? Or are we talking more about weight (extrinsic) vs. mass (intrinsic)?
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I'm sorry, but I don't feel the tone of the letter represents how any compromise or progress can occur. If you are completely banned from associating in any way, shape, or form with someone who espouses views different from you, because of an accusation that by so doing you are tacitly endorsing those views, puts every single person and issue at an impasse.

If you ever want to affect change, you have to talk to and interact with people you don't agree with.

There may be other issues at play here, but accusing someone of endorsing all of the viewpoints of an administration when said person has expressly disavowed those viewpoints shouldn't be ignored. Bill Nye is trying to move forward one point (promoting NASA and space exploration), and I don't think he's in a position to also move forward every other political and social issue mentioned in the letter.

We can all do better, but I don't think we do better when we attack others.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-30/google-is...

"Google officially closed its $1.1 billion deal with HTC Corp., adding more than 2,000 smartphone specialists in Taiwan to help the search giant chase Apple Inc. in the cut-throat premium handset market. The deal will help Google design more of its own consumer hardware and could set it up to wade deeper into special-purpose chips -- like Apple. Google’s most recent Pixel model came with a new image processor to improve the device’s camera. More of this "custom silicon" will come in the future, Google’s hardware chief Rick Osterloh said in an interview."
All news is fake news.
This is batshit insane. Bill Nye is a darling of leftist pop culture. He is a vociferous opponent of anything or anyone even a hair to the right of center.

Trump derangement syndrome is so extreme that simply attending the SOTU is all it takes for Scientific American to completely turn on this guy.

People really need to take a deep breath and take a step back from the ledge. This is a childish embarrassment.
> LibreOffice is considered to be more actively developed than OpenOffice

This is such an understatement that it borders on the absurd. OpenOffice is mostly abandoned and has had issues even marshaling the resources to get security fixes out as shown by a previous exploit that took 6 months for a patch. A quick glance at the source trees shows LibreOffice has somewhere between 40x and 100x the activity as OpenOffice.

The "pulse" for the last 30 days:

OpenOffice: Excluding merges, 3 authors have pushed 14 commits to trunk and 14 commits to all branches. On trunk, 42 files have changed and there have been 207 additions and 240 deletions.

LibreOffice: Excluding merges, 97 authors have pushed 1,509 commits to master and 2,042 commits to all branches. On master, 5,583 files have changed and there have been 60,123 additions and 519,150 deletions.
You can probably find cheaper dinnerware at goodwill.
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He's intolerant, have they seen his show? This is insanity.
Yeah fair enough. I'd be interested in knowing that myself.
I don’t care for Bill Nye or Neil deGrasse Tyson personally, but science needs every advocate in these dark times.
Science is not a religion, a person, or a people group. One does not "attack science".
One of the nastiest things in the failed TPP from my perspective were provisions to make illegal a government agency in my country that successfully keeps costs of medication down by forcing competition and negotiating strongly.

The numbers are small by world standards but I guess the drug companies are paranoid of this idea catching on in, say the US.

I’m sure it will be regarded as communism, but hey, it makes the market actually work for us here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmac
Science is not an identity, nor is it an institution. Science is a process. This article is about as far from science as you can get.
Somehow, this sounds like a weird version of "you're either with us or against us."
If his mere attendance demonstrates approval and acceptance of climate deniers etc., then every politician in the room that campaigns against these various platforms is equally in trouble. But this article only singles out one person, who is by his own admission only there to support NASA.

" Further, from his position of privilege and public popularity, Bill Nye is acting on the scientific community’s behalf, but without our approval." He hasn't been voted into any position, he's a private citizen who may go where he pleases without seeking or needing anyone else's approval. This article is trolling and seeks only to destroy character.
> The investor Mark Cuban called for a real-name policy on services like Twitter, arguing that “there needs to be a single human behind every individual account.” That’s a terrible idea: As the entrepreneur Anil Dash has argued, it would endanger marginalized people without improving trust.

I think there are a few fundamental cruxes of human society where there is no ideal solution because you have directly opposing and yet just forces pulling on it. This is one of them.

Secrecy is vital to allow good people to evade bad actors. But it's also harmful because it allows bad actors to hide from good people. Any system that ignores one side of this coin is going end up causing significant harm. Good systems that work with privacy need to be sophisticated and see both sides of it.
I guess that's a testament to the faith of US citizens in the rule of law / their government following the rules they themselves set up. Being able to have such faith is a good thing in general, but it doesn't excuse stupidity. As for Russia, their government is a bit more "move fast and break things", I would guess.
One thing I keep hoping for is improvements in the UI side of LibreOffice. I presume under Windows and Linux the UI feels more fluid and natural, but under macOS it is definitely inferior to that of MS Office or Apple’s iWork apps.
I think a lot of first time freelancers/consultants think like employees instead of a business person. Your customer is going to sell what you do for them for whatever the market will bear. Here is the thought exercise that I've used to explain the difference to a friend that didn't want to charge enough.

Suppose you make unbelievably delicious apple pies and sell them for $10 each at your roadside stand. Along comes a businessman that offers to buy them from you for $10 each and resell them for $40 each in the city if you only sell to him exclusively. Do you:

(a) Sell them to him for $10 ("An honest days pay for an honest days work.")

(b) Tell him "I'll split the profit with you and we'll both win." Thus earning say $20 a pie.
Serious question: why didn't they merge their efforts?
Since this is a 'signed editorial', with an identified author other than the editors or publisher of Scientific American, it's not fully or directly 'Scientific American' that's layering on the political-tribalism. It's common for publications to include such editorials that have no relation (or are even against) the 'house opinion'.

(It's somewhat confused further by the fact authorship is credited to an activist group named "500 Women Scientists".)
I think there are two ways of looking at this.

Bill Nye is showing he supports the current policies by appearing at a State of the Union with Republicans.

Bill Nye is choosing to work with those in power to try to have influence in the directions they choose to go. Elon Musk often argued this was his reasoning as well.

I personally think the first opinion is very sad & results in a country that is torn apart by conflicting ideas. I disagree with the article. We need more people who are willing to work with those who they strongly disagree with. Butting heads constantly seems pointless. Agree to disagree & find some common ground where you can make improvements, even if that means you disagree on 99.9999% of things. Start with the 0.0001% and then try to leverage that into getting the other side to agree with 1% of your ideas.
Something that's plug and play and works cross-device. If I'm using a UI kit, I don't want to be crafting my own styles, so something that's obviously customizable for my brand, but includes everything I need for my site out of the box.
I can’t wait to try this on my friend’s Google phone.
The SEC probably has about 5 employees working on ICOs, if that.
Wow how overbearingly stupid.

The author's claim is certainly not the case, as the very first episode of Bill Nye Saves the World shows. By accompanying "the other side" to the dance does not mean they will. MAYBE Nye is just going to hear and is perhaps intellectually curious about the claims to those of which he has challenged before. It does not mean he tacitly agrees. It does mean that the author has inferred that through some partisan "not like me" lens. This is terrible.

"Bill Nye does not speak for us or for the members of the scientific community who have to protect not only the integrity of their research, but also their basic right to do science."

This is a great example of how ideology eats itself.
Lest anyone imagine that Scientific American wasn't politicized.
What's frustrating here is the attitude that if you agree with (or work with) someone on some particular topic, then you are necessarily endorsing that person's views on EVERY topic. In other words, you should never associate with someone unless you agree with 100% of their views.

If we brought this attitude into our personal lives, it would make our interactions with family members and colleagues impossible! I disagree with Uncle Bob about X, so therefore it doesn't matter that we have Y in common; I have to condemn him completely. One of my co-workers has a different attitude towards business aspect X than me; therefore, we can't work together on business aspect Y.

Only associating with people whose views are in complete alignment with your own is a good way to become lonely, angry, and ineffective.
I agree with you on questioning Bill Nye's credential to become such a prominent science figure. But the article is just a ridiculous hit job trying to poison the scientific community.
The incident happened before the ACA, though insurers have found clever ways around it: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/27/obamac...
Excited to see how people use this.
This extreme rhetoric only strengthens the right. By condemning Nye for debating creationists and being a “combative white nerd”, this article reads like the Onion. Attending this event may be bad idea, but with friends like these who needs enemies? Who wants to even try and take part in public life? The moment you stand up you’ll be marked next for the pillory. Do we really wonder why liberal democracy is collapsing?
I needed a simple app icon solution for RevenueCat, was surprised it didn't exist. So I built it.

It's a node server that uses the iTunes Search API to fetch the URL for the app icon, caches the URL, then redirects the request to Apple's CDN.
Seems it's still a UX problem.

UX is not limited to visual interfaces. UX in audio communication has been improved in several contexts, aviation is one of the most notable, some of the things they use:

- Standard phraseology

- Use key terms only in affirmative phrases (that is, never say "don't takeoff" but rather "keep your position")

- Disambiguate between similar terms (e.g. 'niner' instead of nine as to not confuse with 'five' as well as other reasons https://www.quora.com/In-aviation-why-is-9-pronounced-niner-... )
What odd feelings are those? After all, they've given him a handful of honorary science doctorates.
It's funny, I find that this article clearly provides the counterpoint to its own argument.

If Bill Nye truly valued his own brand more than he valued scientific progress would he not have chosen to boycott the SOTU, disassociated himself from this administration's NASA, and written his own version of this exact article?

I understand that if your agenda is creating a fair immigration process or marriage equality or improving our public education system then you might decide that boycotting this administration is the best way to push that agenda... Since this administration is clearly not serving those interests... But, if your agenda is scientific progress or increasing mankind's presence in space then boycotting this administration probably isn't the best way to push that agenda. If anything, this clearly shows that that, more than the other things, is what Bill Nye cares about...
You just made me seriously wonder if we're not living in a Black Mirror-like simulation of the world, run by a bored programmer who feels a growing urge to turn the whole thing into a big joke.
It does something different and equally pernicious.

There is real impact in lending your image and accrued credibility and reputation: your social capital.

The associative mind associates; semantics are an afterthought.

Providing for the association is a act with moral consequences, intended or unwitting.

Nye should know better.
Yeah I was really hoping for more, this is kind of a joke. For example at one point Nye was very anti-GMOs despite the science and ignoring the science is worthy of such a headline.
It may, hopefully, but for now it’s a universal statement which isn’t exaggeration.
I think this is extreme, but I completely agree with it. This makes me an extremist, but that's okay because we're talking very extreme topics, namely, climate change.

I don't want Nye to be demonized, but unfortunately if you associate with an administration that denies climate change, these are the consequences; you'll be associated with climate change denial.

The takeaway from all of this, is Bill Nye understands these consequences and made the choice to attend the SOTU.

So be it.
There is a third option: maybe he's going there to lay his case. And even a fourth option: maybe he wants to go to learn what the administration has to say in order to prepare to challenge it.
They seem to have made it free, recently. Last time I saw it, maybe 6 months ago, they used to charge an unholy 35$ per week or so.

Now, let's chat up that bot...
Bookmarked, this is a very nice reference I will need to read in greater depth.
Also: This shouldn't be flagged. People need to see how ridiculous the whitch has become.
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I agree. That’s why I pointed out that a necessary addition to get more productivity out of writing custom parsers is

a) easy usability in shellscripts
B) easy tooling for unittests

I started writing shellscript in kotlin, so i get the unittests for free
I agree with most of what is said in the other comments here. While I also thing that the article is really pushing it, it is true that Bill likely shouldn't be attending the State of the Union. The article is still likely a bit of an overreaction
It's depressing to watch the Atlantic inexorably cross the event horizon into clickbait.
That's how Tether is spinning it. It's not confirmed who ended it. The more like version is that Friedman ended it.

Source: Auditor.
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This is a solved problem -- the UI could require confirmation from a second employee.
Apple's Decision to Delay Features and Focus on Software Quality Extends to Mac
If you are charging by the hour then you've already lost. Contracting/consulting, like any business, is about exchanging value. You want to be fairly compensated for the value you're providing to a client.

> Start with the minimum wage you would like to take out of the business. How much do you want to earn a year? Remember, this is the minimum figure you could survive on. We will increase that number later.

Your lifestyle or annual expenses have little to do with the value you're providing, so why in the world would you peg your rates (and cap your income) based on it? If you ever move from SF to Idaho are you going to halve your rates just because your living expenses did?

And why limit yourself to $240k/year (what the current top thread is suggesting)? That's not even a crazy number and already you're forced to defend the $240/hr rate. Is that an argument you want to have every time you pitch a project?

I highly recommend reading the book Value Based Fees by Alan Weiss.[1]

[1](https://www.amazon.com/Value-Based-Fees-Charge-Youre-Worth-e...)
It would take balls to do this while facing a risk of a prison sentence. As 'IntronExon wrote, "most people aren’t crazy, stupid, or brave enough to defy court orders indefinitely".
At the SOTU? Nonsense.

the SOTU is simply a way for a President to campaign for himself. Always has been, always will be. I give Congress and the Supreme Court a pass because of their traditional role in being there. Everyone there who is not a government employee is there out of fealty, not obligation.
The article starts by highlighting Bill's explicit statement that his presence “should not be … seen as an acceptance of the recent attacks on science and the scientific community.”

Then it says to ignore his _explicit_ rejection of the administration's actions and just accept that his presence is an _implicit_ endorsement.

Then it goes on to assert that Bill Nye's popularity damages the scientific community's image because he is a nerdy white man. Apparently he also shouldn't hold public, civil debates with anyone either.

The whole thing reads like a hit piece to me. I haven't heard of the 500 Women Scientists organization before, but this does not leave me with a good first impression.
This is absurd. Maybe the reason Nye has decided to accompany a man whose views are so different than his own (afaik, Nye himself is not a climate denier...) is because he believes space exploration and science is more important than political associations. Putting articles out like this undermines that and imo shows that the writers are far more interested in political virtue signalling than actually promoting science and research.
The real question is does intent matter for Facebook these days. If I am browsing around to buy something, companies leave cookies that aalow them to retarget wherever you go and since you spend a lot of time on Facebook, you will be retargeted there anyway.
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> For a non-linear system, machine learning can perform much better and solve more complex tasks. Like walking for a humanoid robot. A linearzied PID solution can not beat that.

Right but you are comparing a nonlinear regression model with a linear control scheme, which isn't really fair. Plenty of nonlinear control strategies exist and are used in practice for things like humanoid walking. Moreover, many people prefer these controllers due to the theoretical guarantees they provide over a learned control policy.

That said, ML does have a place in control theory, and you can find papers going back to at last the 90s (I never looked earlier but they probably exist) that combine the two, and not just in a reinforcement learning context.

> However maybe a ML can be used to choose and tune the controllers better than humans?

Probably not, assuming you are discussing linear systems. You would need to come up with some cost function for your ML algorithm to determine the performance of a particular control policy, but then why not just use that as the objective function for your optimal control algorithm?
That doesn't affect the download size because it's not distributed.
I think it is more that in the rest of the world people understand the purpose of the law, and do not get hung up on the words, whereas in the USA people look at the words very carefully and try to find some way around the specific wording of the laws.

A law stating, for example, "no man shall shoot a gun at another" will clearly mean "you cannot shoot anyone" in the rest of the world, whereas in USA you can expect lawsuits seeking the court's definition of "shoot", "gun" and "man". Why? Because it does work that way often in USA.

Same in this case. I imagine a good lawyer might be able to find a way in which AriseBank really was "not really IN texas" and in fact was "not REALLY a bank"
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