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Seeing lots of people in our team passionated about photography I thought such initiative would boost their motivation, help our projects and the community and it worked.

If you are wondering how this is better or different than sites like Pexels for e.g, is the very first reason sites like Pexels exist since they are just a search engine getting photos for independent photographers and sites like this one.
You can use Perl instead of PHP, Python or Ruby. They all have their strengths and weaknesses but overall they are very similar when it comes to usefulness.

I prefer Perl.
https://www.djangoproject.com/ ?
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I wonder how the decision process went.

Perhaps something along the lines:
"Wow, look at that ugly page from Dropbox. My eyes hurt! Let's make ours even uglier!"

It's all about "Designer experience", not "User Experience" in this case (i.e. trying to be edgy for the sake of it, in order to impress your designer / PM peers)
Does that include the energy used to pump the water after processing?

From what I understand the most energy-intensive part of desalination is pumping it to where people can actually use it.
Hmm, it used to be that after some amount of karma points, you were able to downvote. Was that feature removed? (I was in the same situation, started to care too much about my karma points (was top 100 at one point), so now whenever my account gets too high, I make up a random password for it (type eyes closed), log out, and create a new one.
Many people in this thread criticize this as a bad PR move and Ripple in general.

Still, the utilitarian view on this is only good - it helps a good cause and is better than nothing. donorschoose only gains from this and every pledge that stands behind donorschoose.

People are always quick to scrutinize everything, but what do you do to help the underprivileged?
That's what I was thinking also. Yes, desalination, but you can't sell your excess water for too much and how much can they possibly need?

I'd be very curious to see the math on this one, for desalination and gas processing.
Right, so we both know both types. But the person I was responding to either doesn't, or chose to omit one to try and make a point about it.

> That is not nearly accurate analogy. Note that doctors in hospital do more then just looking smart.

That's precesily my point. Doctors in hospital do more than just looking smart, even though janitors may or may not realise it. It's really an excellent analogy.
> The tough truth is that you need to be able to do both

There are many, many more opportunities for organised people who aren't great with algorithms, than disorganised algorithm geniuses.
Golang for components that need the speed, Perl for the rest.

Mojolicious is my preferred Perl framework.
That is so, which is why I see Russia no more evil than USA.

In fact, less so, given the historial record. Funding revolutions, killing 100 000 civilians in another country on other side of the planet from them, was not on Russias list of deeds for past 25 years.

Yemen.
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I'm glad that I wasn't the first (or second) person to notice this.

Admittedly, 99% of people are using git as a centralised source control system, and outside of branching/merging there hasn't been much of a change in workflow for many. I've not used their system, so I don't know how well this svn-like system works, but every time I think back to svn all I can think of is how painful this workflow was.
Buffet buys companies with pricing power while Son does massive bets with debt. His major skill seems ability to convince banks to borrow him billions for increasingly larger leveraged buyouts.
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The Middle East will continue to provide power to the rest of the world and meanwhile here in the US were wasting billions trying to revive coal. In a decade from now we’re going to be wishing the US had invested in renewables
If I understand correctly, warrants must be served unchallenged as long as there is no mutual treaty with the originating country? What incentive would then be left for the government to negotiate those?
I suspect a strong background in Physics leads to systems thinking.

Especially since a couple of my favourite system thinkers are Jacob Lund Fisker and Elon Musk. They both have degrees in physics.
But can it power Bitcoin?
I recently switched over to Visual Studio Code and even though I previously had a bit experience with it, switching over was frustrating. It takes time to change your work flow, to set up the IDE as needed, to get plugins and what not fine-tuned.

Now I can't imagine working without Visual Studio Code because all those seemingly little features add up and what do you mean I can seamlessly use Git to manage my code or easily rename variables and functions without breaking stuff WHAT
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> That would be like using clang in development and gcc in production!

... I've done that too.

It's not a blind 'compile & release', but some compilers optimise better, others are faster. Wildly differing behavior is very, very rare in my experience.

Tradeoff being you have a more limited language subset, and may need to adopt only one compiler in the future.

> I'm assuming you used the R6RS language in Racket for compatibility?

Sometimes, more often r5rs, as that's what Gambit-C aims for.
Isn't that just really vague and easy stuff that requires no knowledge of any kind?
I hear you and I agree with most of what you've written. That's why I said above that I agree with you but I still find the approach very idealistic and sometimes very difficult to accomplish.

> The notion of "alpha" among canines is so misunderstood by most people that it is kind of pointless to use it as a guiding principle in dog training.

I come from the place where stray dogs are a very common phenomenon, they almost always move in packs and the behavior of alpha dog can be at times very brutal towards the pack members, if they don't follow the lead. I once even had two dogs at the same time, both males and they would fight for leadership badly unless one of them established himself as a leader. So I wouldn't say that most peoples'approach is necessarily pointless.

> Perhaps we're just using different terminology here, but when people say "punishment", I assume they mean loudly yelling "no!" at the least and at the worst a rolled up newspaper, or rubbing their nose in poop, a shock or choke collar, or throwing them out of the house, or whatever.

all the examples of the punishments you've mentioned are very violent and brutal and are mostly observed by unexperienced caregivers or by people who are violent by nature. I frequently caught myself yelling, too, and it might be normal at some point, because you are a human and sometimes things happen and you say or do something in a way you didn't mean to. Important here is to realize it was too much and not to do this again. So you learn.

> I sometimes catch myself becoming frustrated and yelling...but, I have also observed that it does not achieve my goal with the dog, and I can see their confusion and discomfort.

The confusion comes into play when the dog is used to a distinct pattern of your behavior and you suddenly change it. If your dog has never seen you strict and you've been always gentle with him, of course he will be baffled, that's very natural.

Strictness is not bad by definition. If you can balance, and it is very important to do this, it is alright to be strict from time to time IMO. Raising a dog is the same for me as raising the kids, they are part of the family deeply loved and cared for. As I mentioned before, I'm not a violent person but I am strict because I have my limits.

> Nearly every dog owner I've ever known is doing it so wrong, and I wish I could fix all of their broken ideas because dogs deserve a good relationship with their people.

I hear you. i want to live in a better world, too and I hate seeing people mishandling animals. There are millions of people who are brutal to their own children and who are very sure in the rightness of their raising methods. That's very sad and unfair, but will stay the way it is unless the awareness will be raised. Only this way will all creatures have a chance to be treated fairly. So I thank you for your kind attitude very much.
That's a good question. Messing with weather may cause all sorts of unintentional second-order effects
Huh? I currently work with some of the technologies you mention, but fail to see the connection to systems theory. Can you elaborate why e.g. jq or Erlang are relevant here?
There's a non-resolving link to join.app.net in the post. It seems like it was already active or, if not, launched within a week of this post.
AMRAD BBS, Bruce's NorthStar Horizon BBS, NBS-TIP, MIT-DM ITS, ZORK, UNTALK, Essex MUD, INFO-MICRO, SF-LOVERS, ITS-LOVERS, UNIX-HATERS, BANDYKIN, TANSTAAFL, LECTROIDS...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15080221

Keith F. Lynch wrote up some interesting history of the net from his perspective:

http://keithlynch.net/history.net.html
There's a distribution there that needs to be mentioned, because most job applications are submitted by unqualified applicants.

My last half dozen gigs have taken 0-2 emails to secure. The 2 was a genuine job search where I identified two possible fits and reached out. The zeros all were people seeking me out.

Contrast that to the guy applying for your Sr. Developer position who can't FizBuzz. He has applied to 1000 such jobs already. Every one he's seen. All over the country. Every once in a while a company will make the blunder of hiring one of those people (they make up 99% of the applicant pool, because they are always on the market, whereas skilled devs are not), he will skew your number.

So yeah, that guy averages a couple hundred applications before scoring.

But you don't want to emulate his tactics, or you'll find yourself lumped in with him and filtered out of every job you apply to.
as an outsider, this is what i am really curious about. obama did it, trump did it. why now?
How much does it cost to build an app like Spotify
Philosophy and Design, I wanted to understand the world in the most general way possible to be flexible enough to adopt to any problem. I also like thinking clearly and being right
I've used Django and I liked it but it really was quite slow.
In my work I use VS with TFS as the source control. Each branch is in a separate directory, and one can store explicit change sets at any point in time as "shelve sets" without actually committing them into the repository. So there are the two hierarchy levels to experimentation - one can create a new parallel branch on the fly, or do experimentation on top of a branch using shelve sets. That's not explicitly a sandbox, but provides for most cases where one needs to experiment / have distinct development lines / put away random experiments etc. So, uh, depending where you need a sandbox the features may or may not exist.
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For the purported usage (desalination) distribution is not an issue. But obviously fusion generated electricity won't be free, though marginal cost of production may approach that (if it ever becomes a reality).
> Hmm, who do I trust, the guy who figured out how to land rockets onto a barge, or some “analyst” ...

This kind of comment is a disservice to all the engineers who actually figured it out. Elon Musk is certainly a visionary and a financier, but is not a 1000x engineer/mathematician who did all the work himself
the project will create 100,000 jobs

50 persons/MW or 20kW/person sound a bit high at that scale. Even considering the sandstorms in the region.
The Mail is read by people who think the EU and immigrants run the country...
"Has anyone ever been prosecuted for making software, or using it, that was used by another in the commission of a crime?"

Are you serious?
Or git worktree
Facebook allowed ProfileEngine to scrape data of over 400M user profiles
Most of those technologies are known for either how they handle complexity, or the coordination between asynchronous actors with shared resources
This is why the attitude of "well, we know Facebook stores all our data, so what?" really annoys me.

It's not that Facebook tracks this data, it's that the Cambridge Analytica story shows that this data has been shared against their ToS. Not only that, Facebook's attitude to the initial arrest warrant shows that they were probably perfectly happy with trading data.

The data from CA is out there forever, and we've got no way of knowing who else has this data. We also don't know who else has profited from the larger pool of data, or whether there was more to the CA story than what we currently know from the Channel 4 investigation. Instead of laughing off this story, tech workers should probably panic more, because we know just how easy it is for data to spread, and how it is near impossible to stop that data spreading.
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Systemantics: How Systems Work & Especially How They Fail by John Gall.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Systemantics-Systems-Work-Especiall...

The writing style is kind of unusual, but there is a lot of wisdom to be found in it.
So OpenBazaar's no worse than preexisting systems in this respect.
Read 'Domain driven design'. Read about product development and talk to non-technical product owners, CEOs, and so on. One of the major challenges in building functional systems is to understand the domain as that's what going to constrain you in the real life.
You don't need an expensive coding bootcamp. I honestly think you'll get more value from something like https://edabit.com or http//codewars.com
the "t" gets one angle with a rounded curve, and one is 90 degree sharp
As someone who lives in the region I am delighted to see initiatives like this. I wish in the future companies and personals will create bonds across the harsh borders.
$FB closed at $21.50 on the day this article was posted and at $153.03 yesterday. The stock price at the time was being beaten down by concerns over whether the company would be able to adapt to a shift to mobile, and not any issues with how tactfully (or not) acquihire offers were being made.
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Hilariously that site makes no choices at all about what font to use; it merely puts the message text into a pre tag, making it monospaced. You should choose a better font to display monospaced text in.
Pretty much all janitors realize that doctors do work.
Where does one get started building a simple database?
Oh sorry, let me rephrase: you kids are taking Facebook far too seriously
The problem with offering any free tier is that it lets people keep their wallet in their pocket.

It's impossible to determine but as a thought experiment imagine if the only way to subscribe to Facebook after the .edu phase was to pay $1 / £1 / €1 per year.

Overall revenue would be lower but they wouldn't have to maintain enormous sales and ad-tech teams.

app.net flunked IMHO because noone understood what it was, not because it required payment.
"In this face paced IT environment, if you stay too long becoming an expert on something, it's replacement is coming right around the corner..."

Depends what the value adding function is. I work in a field (essentially CAD) where getting anything done takes years at best and if a technology does not have an estimated lifespan of at least a decade we don't invest in it.

Web stuff is of course starting to spill in.
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Thought experiment: imagine that I'm a huge multinational company who makes billions in profit. Imagine that I evade (or "optimize") my taxes as much as possible using all the tricks in the book. Now I decide to invest a few hundreds of thousands of dollars to, say, donate computers to schools. It's great, isn't it? But wouldn't it make more sense not to do that and simply pay my taxes instead, which would probably end up contributing a lot more to the school system and the rest of the infrastructure? Isn't it effectively an empty PR move to make me look like the good guy even though I'm actually saving a lot of money by not paying what I really owe?

I'm not arguing that Ripple did a bad thing but I'm not in the position of somebody receiving the donation but rather in the position of a 3rd party who has to form an opinion about it. Clearly this is a good action on Ripple's part, as would be Bill Gates donating $100 to some charity but morally speaking it's not like it was a huge sacrifice. I'm very skeptical of the ethics of these cryptocurrency organizations and I'm not willing to suddenly consider them the "good guys" because they made a (for them) rather minor donation. As far as advertising campaigns go it seems like a pretty clever move that may well pay off way beyond $30millions for them.

There's no "False" or "True" when discussing the morals of these acts, you can make a good action for bad reasons and a bad action for good reasons. In practice it's great that Ripple did this though, regardless of the reasons, I agree with that.
What happened to Slaughter?

Except for perhaps an unfortunate name it was an interesting project. I can see that all links to it doesn't work anymore..
> I'm not sure binary protocols are any better, unless you make the first two bytes of every message a version number.

Actually we've seen people manage to fuck that up royally, too. Examples: Routers confusing MAC addresses starting with "6" with IPv6 packets. Various TLS implementations in proxies falling completely apart when they see an unknown version. Various TLS proxies falling apart when seeing an unknown extension. Far too many instances of "assert version==1" to list.
There are ready-made boards for this being sold for less than $2. Just search "eMMC Adapter 153 without flash" on ebay.

153 is number of balls on the eMMC chip OP is using. You might need a different adapter for different eMMC chip.
I would love to read more about your experiments! any chance for a blog post?
Yes, fusion will make energy nearly free.

Fusion reactors are mechanically simple and safe and can be made in tiny form factors, including engines. They are predicting container-sized "plants" that can power hundreds of thousands of homes. Fusion will heavily decentralize the grid (partially because of transmission costs).

Nothing is totally free of course, but fusion can do for energy what the internet did for distribution, which we can round to having made it free.
These would be perfect questions, if candidates didn't lie.

They do. All the time. More often than you'd think about something as trivial as "can you actually write code".

And so, you'll need to demonstrate your skills. Find a better way with an extremely low false positive rate, and you can make a fortune consulting and implementing that. It's not like anybody likes doing these interviews.
Do you know what the Uranus probe's goals are? They're laid out here [1]. It's to measure wind speed and atmospheric densities/temperatures. And that is typical. This is what I was getting at when I said that these probes do not achieve near what many people seem to think they can. We have a limited budget and I think this budget should be directed towards things that can advance us in the most meaningful ways possible. Measuring the wind speed and density on Uranus does not really fit the bill there.

Think about SpaceX. What they've done should have been impossible. A private company operating on a shoestring budget revolutionized space in 15 years? That doesn't mean Musk is a genius, it means that our current space system is simply incompetent. There are certainly many reasons for this, including congress using NASA as a jobs program, but I think a lack of direction is also a major reason. 'Discovering how life began and evolved on Earth' as a mission statement is like a philsopher stating his goal is to 'discover the meaning of existence.' It's a goal that's so impossible and so broad that anything can be justified in its name.

'Easier' goals are in many ways much harder since you need to remain focused. And when NASA has focus they, at least in the past, have shown themselves capable of amazing things. Going from having never even put a man in orbit, to putting a man on the moon in a decade? Think about that, if you even can. In today's times that should seem completely unbelievable. And we should be capable of exponentially more now a days. And that is where we should set our sights. The point I'm getting at is that if you aim low, that's always where you're going to hit. Aim high and you might miss, but at least you're pointed in the right direction.

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As one brief aside, those mission statements immediately made me think of Oumuamua [2] -- that cylindrical weird interstellar object (it's exact nature is, and will likely remain unknown - the name translates to 'first scout', as the imagination might imagine) currently looping around the sun on its pass through and on its way out of our solar system. Being able to get ships and ideally humans onto that thing would be groundbreaking and actually go a long ways towards pushing those mission statements, abstract though they may be, forward. But our space program and technology is so backwards and dated that we're instead left watching jaws agape as arguably the single most relevant tracked celestial object lackadaisically (...as lackadaisical as 30km/s can be) laps us on its way on out of our solar system. It's again absurd that the primary interest in trying to perform an intercept with this object has come from the private industry. But hey, at least we'll know the wind speed in Uranus...

[1] - https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/201700...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CA%BBOumuamua
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Or even more realistically, no "one guy figured it out". A team of people worked on it for years and eventually got it to work.
Are you guessing, or have you actually asked?
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there's also training to consider. japanese automotive worker have more training, less turnaround than other workers, a greater incentive to stick with a single company because of the "honor rules" that drive their planned careers and in general they are rewarded to optimized their workflow instead of berated with even more work.

also, local manufacturer where I live are famous for messing up hiring non qualified workers. Panda had a recall because seats weren't correctly screwed in, for example. most of the time when you dig the faults are in the manual part of the lines. And the Alfa I drive has only one misaligned component, and it's the manually placed windshield - the alignment mark are off more than an inch!

that's not to say that the problem is in the workers themselves, because their training and their efficiency is part of how the company configure the plant, but it's not just the work ethic of individual workers, more like the work culture of the whole company