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>But, good management will insist on root causing failures where this will unravel.

You can have management that understand tech who will get to the bottom of the problem and you can have management who don't understand tech. They won't.

Management who don't understand tech will either keep somebody on hand who they know and trust who does understand tech (e.g. a consultant) or, more likely, they'll just keep rewarding the faux superheroes who keep screwing up and bailing themselves out.
That's all revenue, including non-advertising revenue.
Society goes back and forth on what is considered 'right' and 'wrong'. You only need to look at older movies to see how things change.

What was once considered neutral or even progressive is now considered racist/sexist/etc. Watch 'Dumbo', 'Animal House', 'Blazing Saddles', etc. None of those would be filmed today. Yet we still have not cured many of the ills that plagued society in both times.

The left must relent and let conservative voices be heard. In the long run, it will be destructive to the left if they do not.
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How did you find this out? When people complained about PC, did you ask them 'Are you really upset that you can't call people niggers and faggots any more?'
Billionaire financier who took down a famous blog out of revenge, helped elect a President, and bankrolled a not insignificant amount of companies that are changing the world takes his ball and goes home because his neighbors don't agree with his political views. Film at 11.

Sorry Mr. Thiel, I don't think I feel sorry for you here. Your freedom of speech is constitutionally guaranteed and you've exercised it on many occasions as you are allowed to do as a citizen of this country. However, there is nothing that says that anyone has to like you for it or agree with you about it. There are a lot of places in this country, unfortunately, where your views are accepted and shared as the majority. Perhaps you should visit on of them? Hint: It's not LA...well maybe Louisiana.
Coming from Germany, I find it hard to understand the scope of the problem described in the article. In my course, less than half the students bought any textbook at all during their entire bachelor's program. The professors made almost all their lecture notes available online and if you needed a textbook, there were plenty stocked in the library.
The problem is legacy culture & systems. Theres almost no chance of a transformation unless a paradigm shift in senior management thinking takes place.

Maintaing their mess costs massively and large projects carry risks and a bad track record no one on top can support.

Too bad the fintech revolution lost some of its momentum challenging the profitable areas of banking
Students should feel absolutely no guilt in pirating textbooks. The whole industry is a racket, designed to exploit kids in a situtation where they have no choice. I did things the "normal" way my first year of college back in the day and realized how stupid paying $400 a semester in books was before I just nabbed pdfs (and finding them was a challenge in the days before The Book Bay was a thing).
3. Stop allowing professors to require their own book as a source for the class. It provides a terrible incentive.
I have god 15 years of experience and generally only a small part of my time is spent "programming". A lot is about setting up servers, databases, setting up my dev environment set up to reproduce bugs. Assuming you are writing software that runs on a Linux based server it's pretty useful to know how it works.
> It's not idiotic to buy something with a 95% chance of failure if the 5% chance has a 1000x return.

It is not. It is idiotic, however, to buy something that you don't know it's probabilities of payoff.
Plaid co-founder here. We don't resell data. In the case of Coinbase, they're setting up ACH transfers (see Auth on our products page), to avoid the 3-5 day delay in connecting a bank account for ACH.
> Women are seen culturally as caretakers

Depending on the topic of conversation of course. When the topic changes to, say female representation in corporate board rooms, many of the same people will then say women are indistinguishable from men. And they sincerely believe both,

And this is why living in Western Society circa 2018 feels like living in an insane asylum.
Sorry, I left two points disconnected:

If you are on the left side of the aisle and are not disturbed by this modern day McCarthyism because you are absolutely certain you are 'right', you need to review what was 'right' in past days and realize it is all relative and will change. Persist in smothering free speech and you'll end up as tomorrow's Nazi.
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I'm a long time out of college but even back then, textbooks were hugely expensive. One trick my school had was the EE/EL club ran their own used book store. We'd buy books at the end of a term and resell them next term for a small profit. Students who sold and/or bought got a great deal and we made money for out club to pay for activities.
This is just going to end up like the race for the thinnest phone. Nobody really cares past a certain point, but jeez, they'll keep trying.
He just did a podcast with Tyler Cowen yesterday - its a good listen: https://soundcloud.com/conversationswithtyler/matt-levine-ty...
> That's interesting to hear! I'm going through "Flash Boys" right now, and it (to me at least) paints GS in a pretty negative light wrt their engineering culture.

As an aside, if you’re not planning to already, please read Flash Boys: Not So Fast when you’re done.
There is, they're called video games.
Brush up on your algorithms and whiteboard coding. Tech interviewing is a skill that you can practice and master.

Cracking the Coding Interview, Topcoder, Euler Project, etc. are good places to do this.
> But most of the emails I receive are only text/html - no text/plain alternative

Care to elaborate on that? Virtually every email I get has a plain text version (I can't even see HTML email). I don't think the email I get is particularly selective. The only pure HTML email that I ever get is spam.
Yeah but it's a different kind of fuckup, designing a system with a vulnerability that lets you "escape" into the underlying machine, and designing a system that, per-se, turns out to be Turing-complete.
A Conditional Cash Transfer program called "Opportunity NYC" is mentioned in this article. Given what I read in the article, I expected the amount of money in question to be on the order of hundreds or thousands a month, but according to Wikipedia, the only gave parents "$40 to $100 a month"

The cash payments go to the family, almost
always the mother or other female head of
the household. Parents can receive from
$40 to $100 a month if they keep up with
responsibilities such as taking their children
to the doctor or keeping them in school.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_NYC
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Visual Studio Code.

If I were in the JVM world then IntelliJ IDEA.
Can you quantify the small demand somehow?

Is an apartment with a view not something many people want?

When I look at r/digitalnomad, the top post right now is somebody showing of the view of their apartment.

Booking.com has a filter 'View'. So there must be some demand, right? The filter just does not work. When I look at apartments with a view in Bangkok the first 3 they show me are:

https://www.booking.com/hotel/th/bangkokshortstay-3br-sukhum...

https://www.booking.com/hotel/th/aspira-parc-39.html

https://www.booking.com/hotel/th/ekkamai-prestige.html

None of these are what I mean with an apartment with a view. Some are just hotel rooms. Some seem to not have a view.
Given that wood sorrel grows wild in every NYC park, I'm failing to see what exactly is rare about it.
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5. Buy the east asian english edition of the textbook.

This was all the rage when I was in school, especially since our bookstore sold at retail price (or about 80% for a used copy) and _generously offered_ to buy the books back at the end of the semester for 3-10% of list price. College bookstores are a racket.
I'd take that over the "agile means we can yell at developers and just tell them to give us exactly the same things following exactly the same processes, just FASTER".
I took a sick day today, and that’s OK
I work in technology for an investment bank and i hear “we are not a technology company” every quarter. Ironically, the tech we develop is a major factor, if not the only factor, for revenue. My motivation is instantly shattered when i hear that.
I had this same issue. Google also blocked .jar and .zip if I remember. I had lost some old school projects that I tried to recover, which we're turned in via email. I couldn't download the attachments for this, despite the fact I sent them in the first place! Much less, why couldn't I allow someone to send me a .js file I wanted it? It's a weird restriction to not even be given a choice.
Honestly if AMP is such a nice format, how hard can it be to just format the content in plain HTML+CSS and let the browser do the scrolling and UI bits?

Only if that doesn't work pleasantly, then you get to complain about the browser not doing its job properly. (this remark aimed at some other replies in this subthread)

It's probably not hard at all, it's just that Google's priorities are currently at "fuck you" especially if you try to avoid being tracked.
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You can say that pretty much about everything. Why have big malls when you can do online shopping? Why have big skyscrapers that are super expensive to maintain when you can live comfortably on small studios?

The answer is we consume for our understanding (or assessment) of value. Bitcoin is not burning electricity. People are burning electricity to generate bitcoin.
I don’t have much cause to write Lua, but I can very much support lispy syntax.

When we all started coding, we probably used a text editor and thought in terms of editing characters: backspacing, typing, maybe mousing around for bigger changes.

Then at some point we graduated to a programmers editor where we got comfortable cutting, pulling, yanking, killing larger units of text: words, lines, paragraphs.

With tools like paredit, you can take another evolutionary step to edit the structures of your code. I find this very productive. It feels a little like those code block programming languages for kids.

If for no other reason than to enable slurping and barfing code structures in my text editor, this is a win. May all languages someday have a lisp syntax.
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With FDA-approved "breakthrough" status, the treatment could be approved as early as 2021.

Also, for the more business-oriented crowd here, the business model for MAPS is really interesting. There's a MAPS benefit corporation that plans to manufacture and sell regulated MDMA when MDMA-assisted therapy becomes legal. Their plan is to use all the profits from that b-corp to fund more research done by the main MAPS non-profit.

I saw a talk by the director, Rick Doblin, where he said that fundraising was taking most of their time which made doing the actual research difficult. Their plan to make a sustainable benefit that directly funds the research is a super interesting idea and I hope it works out. The world needs more examples of sustainable organizations doing work that really benefits human happiness.
I disagree with this comment because, while everything said is technically true, it ignores the fact that it's a big trade-off.

Going with "the operating system you are using" does optimise quite a few things; these are the "pros" of this approach, things like:

- not burdening yourself with the learning curve of a new OS at the same time as you undergo the learning curve of programming

- being able to ease the programming effort by taking advantage of microefficiencies you've already gained from friend use of the OS.

- etc.

This has to be weighed against potential cons though:

- how long do you intend to program for (presumably some large multiple of the time it would take to learn a new OS)

- what is the actual difference in overhead of using development tools on the two OSes–if you're repeatedly undergoing a little extra overhead for every dev task on your current OS, this builds up over time

- if you intend to simply defer learning Linux to a later date, what's involved in switching your dev setup over? Will there be habits and disinformation to unlearn in the process?
If I understand correctly, the Memrise data is closed source right? So what motivated you to contribute to something you don't control? Or do you keep ownership of your contributions somehow?
Hi, I'm the guy who wrote the original VCBlog post. I would assert that we've been consistent in our messaging: there is not an automatic fix available for Spectre. The /Qspectre switch offers help in mitigation. It doesn't offer, nor does it claim to offer, complete protection.

We--as an industry--are learning as we go with Spectre. There's a lot of data that went into the decision to release this switch with its current implementation. And this isn't the last iteration: note in Paul Kocher's writeup that we've asked for feedback as to whether anyone would use a switch that was sound (for known variants) but incurred very large performance regressions.

As evidence that this is an industry-wide issue, I ask that you reread Paul Kocher's post. Also, see Chandler Carruth's tweet this morning about this topic: https://twitter.com/chandlerc1024/status/963995521705627648. Chandler is the guy driving Spectre in LLVM.

Lastly, understand that Microsoft has a lot of customers who rely on our technologies. For their benefit it's often better to say less than to say more, especially when talking about security vulnerabilities.
Bitcoin Cash was listed in an incredibly dishonest way. They “surprised” announced it at 8pm on a Tuesday night. Along with the “launch” they had disabled selling bch from the fork (you could only buy). The launch coincided with Roger Ver and numerous CNBC “stories” trashing Bitcoin. It was so shady Coinbase agreed to launch an insider trading investigation.

Worse, coinbase is dragging their feet improving their Bitcoin technology stack. At this point it appears intentional.
Compared to what? Seems like the fairest comparison point would be Google's TPUs.
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The very existence of a quota is sex discrimination against both men and women.
Since at least some university professors should be able to write a good textbook on the subject they teach, the university should give them a semester or two off of teaching classes to write one, give the professor a little royalty ($1/book?), and then publish and sell the book at cost. $15 to $30 per book. Then don't change it until necessary (calculus could be the exact same book for decades) so that even cheaper used books are plentiful. Many universities even already run their own publishing houses.

I'm not sure where the friction is that prevents this from happening? University presidents like to have fancy dinners with textbook publishing house CEOs?
The solution is silod shared-dependency-free APIs (even if that means a duplicated code base across APIs [storage is cheap]) and micro refactoring.

We've started on this path with Apps, we just need to lock it in with an open source OS that is simply a userdata securing app store.
The operators care, because faster traffic means more customers per megahertz of spectrum.
Virtually all textbooks are available as pirated copies for free on library genesis. Of course it may be illegal in your jurisdiction to download them. So in a sense this problem is currently fixed, if your ISP allows access to libgen and if you are not worried about the consequences.
Very interesting video. I've also been watching the progress that General Fusion has been making https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3zcmPmW6dE

I think they're building a full size generator right now working off of all their smaller scale experiments.
I'm not quite sure what your point is. Mine was that their bonus being > salary implied a role/level at a bank that was higher than what they likely had at Google, so a commensurate salary increase would make sense.

Could you explain what you're getting at?
Man, this type of program sounds patronizing. "Here, let us rich people tell you poor people what you need to do so you can be successful like me"

Making this conditional is basically saying, "You don't know what you need, and we can't trust you to do what is best for yourself"

People know what they need. If we have money to give them, just give them the money.
I'm still mourning RethinkDB. It's supposed to still be alive but the release cycle, or lack thereof, says otherwise.
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We have plenty of those as well, but the overwhelming majority of them are about 2-3 weeks of work once we get started
Depends on what you want to build. iOS software and you will need a mac. Microsoft stack and you will need windows.

If you are doing more general web development then there is a good chance you will be using a Linux server so it makes sense to learn it - your dev environment will be more similar to your production environment. There is plenty of open source software and material available so you can try things out.
It's not the Chagas that's scaring me, it's the idea of a spider-like insect sucking off blood from my lips. Can you imagine the feeling?

Although I guess Chagas would have more damaging consequences.
I think that the problem is simple. People respond poorly to long-term rewards. You need to set up a short-term reward payoff cycle.

https://buildingpharmabrands.com/2013/05/27/the-ad-that-crea... is inspiring that way. It shows how people who could not be motivated to solve a well-known long-term problem, tooth decay, were successfully motivated to solve a short-term problem that they previously ignored - the fact that you wake up with film over your mouth that doesn't feel very good.

Long-term problems without good short-term feedback loops rewarding the proper behavior are hard, and will probably always be hard for humans. So rather than increasing the reward for the long-term issue, we need to find good short-term reinforcements for good behavior.

(Yeah, easier said than done...)
I think it's impressive that _any_ college expense has come down at all.

Also you're not taking into account the fact that inflation alone should have increased costs by roughly $100 since 2008. But instead there's a net decrease.
Had that happen to me. I'd "electronically signed" a PDF of a contract, and returned it to the other party with some minor questions.

The other party marked up the PDF I had signed with some changes, based on my questions. All of the changes were agreeable to me (or not worth fighting about, I can't recall). But I still insisted we start with the changes made to an unsigned PDF, and then I signed that PDF with the changes.

My thought was that socially/culturally green-lighting "after signature" contract changes was a path to madness and misunderstanding.
I mean maybe not for last quarter specifically, but look at the last fifty years overall.
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Losing the ticket is NOT extremely rare chance at all. Avoiding troubles going public, versus losing all of the million dollars rewards, it's obvious what people would choose.
Did he previously do much to oppose it?

His statements going back to at least 2000 make his position less politically convenient than, uh, quite a few other politicians:

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/10/us/2000-campaign-republica...

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/high-profile-politicians-chan...

Doesn't do much to offset the rest of his record.
Exactly, and getting woken up from tickling every hour, so sleep deprivation probably doesn't help with the mental breakdown. And freaking out every time you see or think that you see a tiny thing moving towards you.
> Everywhere else, all you need to transfer money is the name of the bank, account holder and account number.

Actually here only the IBAN account number is required (and it's used everywhere). Bank is inferred from that and it's not stricly necessary to give account holder's name.
Yes, come over to the actually greener lawn of Postgres, it is amazing how much more powerful than MySQL it has become with recursive CTEs https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/queries-with.... and some rather amazing JSON support https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/functions-agg...
Soon, people will be able to max out their monthly data plan in less than 10 seconds. After the first glorious 10 seconds, their bandwidth will be artificially reduced to 256Kbps.
Isn’t this the same ideology of Tesla? Innovate your product via the dollars of wealthy early adopters; as cost declines, widen your reach.
Unfortunately a lot of textbooks come with a unique code to access the homework problems and an older or used textbook can't be used.
I think Percona's MongoDB version also supports RocksDB as storage engine but they are not keeping up with latest releases and hence new features offerings.
Correct me if my assumption is outdated as of today.
Understated here is that cuttlefish manage to match their surrounding's color while being color-blind, in the sense of lacking color receptors. It's thought that their pupils have such wild shapes because they can somehow use chromatic aberration blur patterns to distinguish colors. See http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/07/01/1524578113
Video games storing player data are a great example of nonrelational data. I'm intending on writing a blog post after I finish my game detailing the structure of data I store and why it was so perfect for mongodb.
Cunningham’s law goes back to USENET, and was clever in a pre-Lycos internet. There is actually a reference to that xkcd comic in this article.

https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law
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