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> I had a phone with Microsoft's Android Bridge beta, and while people were complaining how slow the Android apps were on it... I realized that it was more or less just the normal performance Android apps ran at.

Seems a little disingenuous to pin performance against a half-implemented ASOP API running on an environment without all of the JVM bytecode tuning Google has put into ART/Dalvik.
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In performance terms, Erlang is broadly speaking a scripting language, in the 10-20x slower than C range. It would be unusable for a AAA game because even using Erlang without any concurrency, it's too slow. It will get even slower if you do what you might be inclined to do for a game and make a separate process for every entity in the game and communicate entirely by message passing. It will be a beautifully clean architecture, but while Erlang may have cheap concurrency, it does not have free concurrency, and if you work realistic math on the sheer number of messages you'd have flying around the system it should become clear that it will not be practical to have literally manifested "messages" in that quantity being continuously created and destroyed.

If we tune our sights down from "AAA game", there are two possibilities. One is you can create a less computationally-intensive game that can run Erlang on the desktop. I suspect you'll find you're a bit short of libraries for that use case, but with motivation you can pound through that. I'm not sure if this has ever been done. The other thing you can use Erlang for is being the backend server of a game system, and that is eminently practical, in the sense that it has been done: http://erlang.2086793.n4.nabble.com/Erlang-Who-uses-it-for-g... You'd encounter some bumps if you tried to scale it up, but that's not a very strong criticism since it's constant regardless of what tech you'd end up using.
what's incredible is that their caloric intake is significantly higher ~ 600 calories per day!! That would be enough to make one gain 50 lbs a year, and they're saying these people were less fat and better and regulating blood sugar. This really is a mystery that deserves to be solved.

I would guess, their metabolism is massively increased.
Really, because I thought there was debate of whether or not advertising actually works, especially online advertising.

However, at the end of the day it won't matter. Advertising is available to all companies, we end up with a tug of war over peoples attentions, which will probably result in advertising becoming ineffective.
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Seems like there is a opening for someone to start something similar to freenode but for XMPP. Or Freenode could run a XMPP<->IRC gateway.
I know it's not in the options you listed, but why not Scala?

It has the nice things of the languages above, combined together:

- a concise high-level programming language

- a compiler that helps avoiding bugs

- fast runtime

- access to a great ecosystem of libraries

(In better words: https://github.com/scala/scala-lang/pull/852#issuecomment-37...)

Moreover, if you work with Data Scientists you might find convenient working in Spark's native language.

A great thing about Scala is that you can either use as a better Java (availability of developers) or go fully functional-category theory like Haskell with libraries such as Cats.
See if you can get him into a therapy/depression online chat room.

Use that as a path to go see a professional therapist and psychiatrist.
You are referring to the 10.1 tablet? I know its not the same but I had a Note4 and was pleased with its note taking ability. I imagine that with the extra screen real-estate the tablet was even better. It looks like they are $453 on Newegg! I agree that does seem crazy for an old device. If you can put up with a used device there are two on swappa for around $200 https://swappa.com/buy/samsung-galaxy-note-101-2014-wifi
If it truly is the hands-down best note taking tablet you might as well buy them both and standardize to the platform.
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Oh sorry, I just meant a way to get friends comfortable with IRC by having a simple doc that says how to use Glowing Bear in front of a simple weechat config so that they could easily move to IRC vs. slack. i.e. even using freenode with a modern web interface. I've seen the wee-chat-slack plugin, but it feels wrong using a normal IRC client to a heavy web stack.
> The day Apple make acquisition and brings a poor product or services out is the day they enter Oracle Era.

What about Siri?

/Siri, add ginger ale to my groceries list.
// I've added gaming hammer to your groceries list.

/Siri, what's the weather?
// Here are some web sites I found about "weather."
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I think the challenge for Google is that they have a release culture more than a product line culture. So some group in the org is really proud of releasing, Android Wear, Pixel C, AR Kit, Chromecast, Daydream, etc. They get the kudos for doing it and move on to releasing something else. So Google has products that are sometimes really compelling. But they don't execute a road map for them and they languish.
I think of Instant Run as the "crash" button.
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I'm not surprised the drop out rate is so high, it's a reflection of the low cost of entry. I'm not sure it means anything.
For what it's worth, Windows NT 4.0 ("full windows") ran on DEC Alpha, and using FX!32 emulation, executed x86 Win32 apps. There was even a 64-bit build of NT running internally at Microsoft as a proof-of-concept, but wasn't publicly released.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_Alpha

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FX!32

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/2008.08.windowsc...
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Perhaps because it's not an interesting comment.
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I use irccloud for persistence in IRC, but it's not as good as slack overall.

Work had a private irc server that required all sorts of client certificates to join, forget non-technical people -- it wasn't very good for technical people either!
Only if you don't like/use modern shortcuts for System-wide clipboards.
Good call on the encapsulation. I've encountered the occasional public API with methods that require some type like a Tuple<int, int, string>, and got pretty peeved. And go ahead and name the argument "values" or something similar, for good measure.
Couple thoughts on those who would criticize.

To those who would say the problem is global organization and the will to end homelessness is not sufficient. Its a good point, but the Internet did not explode onto the global scene from a UN commission. Rather an extraordinary technology was unleashed and the world participated, then it became essential. This is a technology.

The cost of land? At one point in history, it was not unheard of for the government to grant land to people, for free. Not purely out of generosity but in the long term interests of society. Radical?

This is a good example of a worthwhile technology and should be supported.

The danger is, when you get the banks and intermediaries involved, now you have an government contractor building the 4000$ house for $40000. Or more! Prices will rise to meet credit availability. The loans are distorted by the Govt guarantee. This is the sad truth of the housing market and 2008 taught us nothing.

And a 30 year loan to a very poor person? Ultimately a high risk loan guaranteed by the state. Just like the US housing market today.
> You should no better than that. It is only free in pure functional languages if they keep every single world around

Which a debugger for a purely functional language would do for you. Which is why I said it would be almost trivial to create this kind of tooling in such a language.

> So choose between "save the world because that's what we already do" or "save the world after the fact," it is pretty much the same.

Not sure I agree. Save the world after the fact would seem to require much deeper integration with the abstract machine to capture the evaluation context. I was merely pointing out that this integration is shallow in a purely functional language, and such a tool would be easy to create.
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They are prescriptive by extension, e.g. when describing usage from prescriptive speakers.

Language is not inherently descriptive or prescriptive, it is a false dichotomy, because language is acquired by copying, but it is is modified to suit needs, so it is used prescriptive. If language was purely descriptive, where did it first copy from? In a sense, I assume that language faculty is inherently prescribed in a natural way. And in another sense, the words show de-scription is copying (this doesn't work well in english, but in french e.g. it would be quite literall "ecrire de ..."), and pre-scription is what was written before it was copied. It's two sides of the same medal.

If they describe, somebody else will interpret that as prescription, whether that was intended or not.
If you're working with a Git repo on a remote filesystem, you're doing it wrong. Git is not designed for remote filesystems. It relies on certain file operations to be extremely fast. So Git works best with local filesystems. With Git, you want to clone the entire repository locally and work with it locally. That's the idea behind the distributed version control: every committer has the entire copy of the repository. With a remote filesystem you're effectively centralizing your repository.
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We use it for an on the spot estimation outside of our normal grooming sessions.
I expect bolas, slingshots and arrows to make a resurgence in popularity.
Yup. I worked on a VR project for an educational setting (target price point after hardware being about the same as a smart-board). Basically the goal was a 3d geometry lesson but a per classroom cost cheaper than a smart-board. All the testing up through the time I left was very encouraging.

The arc of progress is long.
The missing key ingredient will be local information. The hoi polloi from 1st world countries are unlikely to listen to uneducated 3rd world peasants.

In the Great Depression, they gave free bathtubs to dirt poor people in shacks in Appalachia. The shacks had no running water. The locals stuck them on the front porch and used them to store coal, fuel for cooking and winter heat. The monied types that gave them the tubs mocked them for their idiocy. What kind of fool puts a bathtub on the front porch and fills it with coal?

Coming up with multiple variations of top down templates doesn't fix the essential problem here.
It does have a really easy way to extract your conversations as a log file though. An OSS version of irccloud you could just "apt-get install blahblah" with may have stemmed the rise of slack, at least in companies.
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$750 for "workststation" class is really inexpensive.

$400 is really cheap even by consumer standards.
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> This is exactly what you would expect to find if you do a regression with 1000s of variables: many effects, mostly small ones.

No, GWAS is smarter than that.
TechCrunch is saying this month: https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/12/dropbox-ipo-range/

However, I was under the understanding this process takes 2-3 months.
I've been happily using Slack from my Emacs ERC mode using the IRC gateway for a couple of years now. Now, they are closing down those gateways. It's sooo annoying! It was such a nice workflow, posting and reading on Slack without leaving my beloved editor.

To quote POTUS, I can only say: SAD!
But, if you're using vault for only Secrets Management on AWS you are using a nuclear warhead to destroy an ant-hill.

It's quite frankly not a good experience and really challenging to automate running Vault in a modern environment, all something that is very simple with SSM.

You note this, but I have 2-3 people reaching out to me per week stuck/struggling with vault, who find chamber/SSM and have solved the problem with 1 day of work.
Looks like they're chasing charity money to build a unsustainable first world product using non-local technology and materials.
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Are you in High School or Uni? Grundschulekinder use fountain pens (specific Pelikan or Lamy models with stiff nibs for kids) from Klasse 1. My son's homework was rejected unless he used one. By high school things had become more relaxed...and the handwriting less legible.
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I have the same experience. I think this is important, and it seems a lot of people are overlooking the ease of Flutter especially compared to native Android. "It just works".

Being backed by Google should also aid it in API compatibility vs other cross platform frameworks who are always playing catchup with the native API's.

Static types, hot reloading, a solid library of widgets, native performance, "reactive" just like React.. seems like a win to me.

Regarding the points made in this post on front page today [0], I think Dart being an unsexy even "boring" language is a good thing, since it's so much like other languages new devs won't wast time with a steep learning curve.

From an evolutionary perspective this can help the platform catch on quickly.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16561901
Apart from Jira and Confluence, Atlassian also has a team communication product called Stride, which is free to used under certain plans. Are there any advantages to using Slack over Stride? I've heard a lot of people complain how Slack is Electron based and a resource hog.
I'm not following. You can run a 'private'/'silo' xmpp server by turning off S2S.

There are various commercial solutions that offer this.
Minischeme (can be found on github and elsewhere) could go on your list.

I found a copy of the original public-domain code a while back and have been hacking on it here and there, mostly pulling in fixes from tinyscheme.
> At some point, Google is going to screw up.

Microsoft screwed up on numerous occasions with Windows. Once the monopoly was in place, that simply didn't matter so much. Consumer behavior reinforces the monopoly even in the case of screwing up: people very aggressively stick with what they know. The same will be true of Google-Android.

Getting consumers to switch is extremely difficult. Competing with Android is extremely expensive. Delivering your Android killer at exactly the right time, with a vast improvement over Android, with the right marketing hit, with the right partners, with the right hardware - good luck, it's not going to happen.
Android is Apache 2, sadly. And while the kernel is GPL, most vendors distribute kernel binaries without source, and even years later, never publish the source.

A major part of the Android ecosystem is based on unspoken piracy of the Linux kernel.
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Mostly hedge funds and market research companies. Less frequently, companies looking to bootstrap computer vision or natural language processing systems without sourcing their own data.

If you productize the data as a forecast, it can cost between mid four figures to low six figures per quarter per client, depending on the data and its signal. Raw data is not particularly lucrative or useful, but developing a predictive forecast with a very low margin of error based on an exclusive source of data is both.

Smaller companies who find themselves with marketable data tend to partner with well-networked financial research companies such as 7Park. Sometimes they sell directly to clients if they have the network for it. In my experience, sophisticated quantitative hedge funds mostly internalize their data sourcing initiatives instead of purchasing from external vendors. For example, Renaissance Technologies and Two Sigma both have massive data sourcing and analysis operations internally, off the top of my head. They very rarely engage with outside data vendors (particularly the former).

All of this falls under what is usually termed, "alternative data." There are basically two classes of data vendors. First, you have Foursquare, Meraki (prior to its acquisition), Airmail, etc. Basically, any company which provides a free service for things like geolocation, inbox decluttering or financial account/statement aggregation is most likely reselling your data. For example, Yodlee resells customer receipt data. These companies source their data from a public facing product with a sufficiently strong moat to make the data exclusive.

The second class of vendor curates data from a wide variety of sources and has no public product from which to source their own data. For example, SecondMeasure provides sophisticated analysis of the kind of receipt data from Yodlee. YipitData is very active in this work (though they're not actually very good at it). Most of the very good companies doing this work are pretty under the radar - they tend not to be VC-funded or well-publicized. This class is more easily replicated as an internal initiative in a hedge fund, because all of the data is technically public, just very hard to find and analyze.
He has survived, that's true. I'm not sure he personally has survivorship bias though as he's quite happy to talk about all of his failed projects and how he feels he's found a recipe for succeeding now.

It's now up to the rest of the startup scene to test out his proposals. In the interview on Indie Hackers he says he stole the format of Nomad List from Product Hunt and Indie Hackers say they stole their style of app from Nomad List! There's some validation of the format going on here.
I hear what you're saying, but how much more easy does this make it to move to a non-Google OS?

The thing is that with Google Play Services libraries and the Google Play Store, Google has a really strong lock on a huge collection of apps out there.

Using something like ReactNative on top of that stuff kind of seems like a baby step away from Google, but there's still so much Google control to eliminate.
gee, I have a hard time reading that myself now.

Descriptivists would have to describe themselves as prescriptive, if many users think they are being prescriptive. -- Is that better?

The irony is: Many users think the editors are descriptive, because that's what the editors prescribe.

I really don't see a way out of this.
Also see the comment I left on the sibling.
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I would like to know too, and to Lumen also mentioned in a thread here. I may try both, and see what is closer to Lisp, Clojure or a combination of both. Thanks for pointing out Fennel.
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My nit here would be that these things aren't "ciphers" so much as they are "puzzles".
We don't get paid unless our students get a job (we're $0 until you're making $50k), so we would go out of business if that didn't happen.

We have 3x as much coursework as code bootcamps, spend a lot of time in lower-level fundamentals, spend time in CS theory, write JavaScript, Python, and C. It's a pretty big difference from "build your first javascript app!"
Glad to see Asana isn't going anywhere. I'm a power user for my personal TODOs and would hate having to move it to another platform.
The big difference is you have to pay for the OU, there is a commitment up front that filters out a lot of people.

Saying MOOCS are a failure because only 2% complete the course is like saying the OU is a failure because only 2% of their web site visitors sign up.
CNBC said the execs and bankers are going to be traveling to NYC and Boston this week to pitch to investors, and it is scheduled to be trading "late next week."
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> - Venture-capital firm Sequoia Capital actually has more power than Houston, with 25% of the Class B shares and 24.8% of total voting power.

It's likely this will immediately dissolve as these shares are distributed to the investing fund's LPs.
I'm with you. My brain continues processing as long as any input continues to arrive. Music, movies, people talking, pets walking, even the sound of my wife breathing will keep me up. Fan noise is heaven.
> C++ can't event get the C greybeards to switch over while being a strict superset

1. C++ is not a superset of C

2. Not all C loyalists are greybeards, or even old.
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My android experience is limited, but these aren't android replacements. They're replacements for creating native android apps. They usually throw on a few, if not ten, megabytes of libraries and glue to get them to work on the respective os/framework they are landing on. Download size still matters outside of metropolitan areas, and performance is always important.
For starters, I've definitely been in shared facilities where "controlling the communication channel" was pretty trivial, including unsecured WiFi, ethernet switches that broadcast everything on every port, etc. Second, I'm actually referring to how little most people care about privacy or security in general. In a disaster scenario where you need backup communications because all other infrastructure has failed, privacy wouldn't have occurred to me to be high on the list of concerns suddenly.
> The hoi polloi from 1st world countries are unlikely to listen to uneducated 3rd world peasants.

Kind of harsh and presumptuous.
This one is due to the major difference between the Unix and Windows approach to files. Windows will enforce access locks (unlike Unix, which only has advisory locks) and this is done by path (unlike Unix, which does it by inode).

Windows now allows you to delete an open file, however, the way this works is a bit of a hack. If you try to create a new file with the same name, the operation will fail until the deleted file is closed.
> Similarly, Email fetching itself has gone through one major protocol shift under her nose without changing the very nature of it, so to make claims that in the particular instance of messaging she should know the protocol is arbitrarily moving the rule-bar.

Probably your mom does use neither POP3 mir IMAP, but either a Webmailer or Google's proprietary HTTP-based Gmail protocol used by the Gmail app (or Yahoo mail or ...)

And whatever is being used: Users don't know what HTTP is or how it works, they have some understanding of entering addresses and clicking on links.

(For German speakers I suggest this video from children TV program "Die Sendung mit der Maus" from ca. 1996 which goes quite in depth https://youtu.be/8PNRrOGJqUI )
I've been using wee-slack for months, but I always assumed it was using the IRC bridge under the hood - judging by the fact that it's still working right now, I guess that's not the case :)
For a while, I used vim bindings that used Tab for Esc and encouraged you to use tab motions (> and <), and auto-tabs instead, with the slight accommodation of binding Shift+Tab to (positive) Tab.

It was a fascinating set of key bindings, but a problem with it was that it wasn't very portable, and I hit too many problems with Vim modes in other editors not supporting rebinding Tab or causing too many accidental side-effects.

(I try to keep CapsLock bound to Backspace so there is a Backspace on each hand. It's a good use of the key. Though maybe real Backspace might make a good, Esc in a Vim binding, hmm, I'm going to think about that now.)
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So rather than actually trying to find solutions, you prefer people to yell and shout at each other and not get anything done.
It's fun tinkering with all of the constants throughout the script (don't forget to click Apply at the bottom). It's surprisingly robust to changes, they just flavor the image in various ways.
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