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It's quite true, IDE value is prepackaged, programmable editor value is flexibility. Both come with issues. Eclipse (because of Java culture mostly) is hell in resources and programmability. Emacs is seriously amazing here, but yeah I don't have a full fledged debugger out of the box. That said .. it only takes one guy to make it so. Just look at magit.. so far it's one of, if not the, best git interface.
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Beside how great of an effort this is, the main recipients seem to come from the US. Is the US really that poor of a country to need donations for basic school supplies?
It's fascinating how people are immediately creating fake replies to get people to fall for their scam.
Autism and the job hunt?
Im currently looking for a new job but since the last time i had interviews etc i have been diagnosed with aspergers, while it doesnt change anything about me or the way i do things i am now "labelled" as having a disability/mental illness/whatever you call it

Since ive been diagnosed ive kept it pretty quiet, only a few members of family and close friends know about it but im wondering if its something i should be mentioning either in applications/covering letter or at interview, it feels to me like the "right" thing is to disclose it at the outset but i also dont want it to harm my chances of getting a job.

Am i obligated to tell an employer about it? if im not is it wise to keep it to myself? i am capable of hiding my various quirks to the point that i just appear a bit weird, i just dont know if its the best course of action
That is not correct, typical nameplate capacity is for the electrical power. There's of course a less-than-one capacity factor due to plant uptime, but with nuclear it can be more than 0.9.
Neither did Ariane 5, Atlas V, Delta IV or Soyuz-FG. Of course SpaceX profits from the state of the art, but not developing the Xth iteration over a proven and battle-tested design with decades of flight-data is a disadvantage for SpaceX.
I see, I see.

Thank you for the advice!

I tend to want to learn how things "on the other side of the tracks" work mostly because I get tired of the heated debates around tooling and I'm determined to learn as much as I can so that I can be well-rounded (that and C++ has been the beast I never finished taming).

Do you have any recommendations for a distro of Linux that would be easy to switch to? Go gentle on me, I'm a Wandows kid by day!

EDIT: Seems I can't reply to you anymore. Thanks again for your recommendations. I think a VM is a good route too. I'm not too concerned with purity at this point as much as learning. I can find beauty in most systems regardless of ideology :)
The thesis of the article is that most companies are looking for doctors when they actually just run a cleaning service.

This is not a great analogy. "Algorithmic wizardry" and "organizational skills" are two distinct skill sets, and it's perfectly possible to be great at the former but lousy at the latter.
Facebook is to me a clear case, where missing company values created a huge mess. What are the core values/core beliefs of Facebook? I firmly believe that other than anything else a set of core values determines the long term fate of companies. Of course, it’s not enough to merely have a set of beliefs that you’ve put up nicely on the wall, but, rather, top management must speak and act according to these principles.
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Is it possible to extend and add support for other crypto-currencies ?
The correct answer as of ${any_date_in_any_esoteric_format} is:

- It depends on what you are trying to build. Basic web app can be anything from a Trello clone to Instagram. Each has it's own limitations.

- Go with what is tried and tested. Pick up something that is supported, where if you get stuck you can reach out to people for a fix. One of the few good things of the clusterfk that the current JS ecosystem is is that many many amazing developers who are extremely responsive to questions are part of it. That makes life just a little bit easier.

- Use what you are comfortable with. Prefer a proper backend and frontend? Go for it. Everything in NodeJS is your cup of tea? Works just fine. In the end happy developer = productive developer. Just because assembly is 1000 times faster than Python does not mean you should code in assembly. Pick your tradeoffs.
I study at ETH Zurich in Switzerland. In each one of my courses all students devote countless hours to solving the problems the instructors throw at us, there is explicit assistance given if you need it and each problem you solve is then corrected & graded (if you want).

It‘s very satisfying, say in an algorithms class, to come up with an algorithm that satisfies the given runtime requirements, often taking ideas from multiple basis courses - and this is expected. It‘s always explicitly stated that the goal is not to, say, remember an algorithm like Dijkstra by heart, but to internalize how to come up with such an algorithm, as the exam is also structured around coming up with new algorithms.
Traversing through dates with Kotlin range expressions
If you know Python well, tornado + mongodb(motor) is pretty neat !
Maybe the grand-parent meant the people who wrote the constitution were stoned.
> The barrier to entry represented by using Github is incredibly low

Related to this, I hate how merely opening an issue is shown as a contribution on the offending user's profile.

Some script-kiddie who can't bother to read opens an issue with a "Gimme teh codez" beg, and now it shows that they "contributed" to my project That's not a contribution, that's the damn opposite! I've had my time wasted!
I'm pretty sure that's a deliberate joke at this point.
China can still build 66GW for $200 billion in nuclear. They're the only large economy still aggressively pursuing nuclear over the next decade.

They have 19 reactors under construction right now that will add 21GW +/-, and 50-60GW of additional nuclear energy planned for the very near-term. Their goal is to add roughly 100GW+ of new nuclear energy output in the next 12 years.
I make lenticular artwork and owned a Lytro Illum before. The company was quite hostile after ending support for the camera, and refused to open source the web player, which was the only way you could make use of the living photos features and refocusing.

It is sad, because the Illum was a very well designed product and worked quite well for certain things. Unfortunately, Lytro was better at product design than business, and making the best feature of a $1500+ camera non-functional permanently was definitely a dick move.
html5 and nginx.
I'm a fairly light user of VSCode, so I may be wrong here, but the integration goes even deeper in Visual Studio.

It lets you view a pull request's changes right there in a standard IDE window, so that you can get full code navigation features during code review, including stuff like peeking the docstring or implementation of any functions the code references. Or, if you notice something amiss while reviewing your changes before submitting a pull request, you can just make the change, re-run tests, and commit, without ever leaving the diff viewer. Or being able to just toggle gitblame annotations on and off right there in the editor.

It's nothing worth switching platforms or programming languages over, but, since switching away from .NET and seeing the gulf between the level of seamlessness you get out of Visual Studio and what's available in other IDEs, I can now see why they've come to have such a poor reputation. Visual Studio isn't exactly lightweight, but it manages to pack in enough cool tricks to justify itself.

(Until you install ReSharper. Then it becomes as memory-hungry and unstable as everyone else.)
Timely! I'm on "hiatus" and producing music again after a 10 year break. It's been months of learning. With the new tools I can go so much deeper, so I am. If you want repeatable processes you have to focus on tools and organization. I've integrated github, google docs, Reaper, and bunches of VSTs and I'm just barely starting to see a good organizational approach. This is 1 year later!
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Well, if you're motivated enough, don't switch. Just fire up a VM.

Unixen are generally the same, but you won't figure that out at first, so you do want something a bit friendlier.

My personal opinion would be to go with the mainstream distributions, since you want support from fellow humans on chat, forums, etc. I'm more of an Ubuntu guy, but people seem to like and use Mint or Debian or Fedora.

Don't fall into an Arch or Slackware trap early on, I don't really see the benefit of going for "purity" at this stage. There's this curve, I find, where you first go for newbie friendly, then you go for hardcore, and then you find a balance. The mainstream distros can be user friendly and are balanced. If you want to learn a lot, IMO go all in and either go Linux From Scratch (LFS) one time, or Gentoo for a while. But since you're a professional, after getting a hang of things with some deep learning (see LFS or Gentoo), you probably want to stay close to corporate environments. Those generally are Red Hat/Cent OS (so Fedora is somewhat close) or Ubuntu/Debian (Mint is also close).

TL;DR: Make an Ubuntu VM, start using it full-screened as much as possible instead of your Windows host. See how far that takes you. Good luck and have fun! :)
The salary was high, but certainly less than what I imagine a senior dev at Facebook earns and probably far far less than what one of the original core React Native devs earn. So maybe, but unlikely.
This is completely misleading.

1 - I've yet to learn about a major open source project stealing data from its users.

2 - Open source guaranty the users have the right and access to check how it's data can be used. Apple's products do not. Actually, we discovered they were part of the PRIMS program, which means basically they gave ALL your data away already while actively lying about it (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants...).

3 - FOSS people like interoperability and choice, which is one of the major problems they blame Apple not to take care of. This has ZERO relationship with privacy.

So on one hand you have privacy savvy communities, giving their free time and work so that everybody can use it to built a better word an understand transparently what's going on.

On the other hand you have a multi-billion dollar black box giving away user data, using massive PR to pretend they are privacy oriented while they make money out of locked in devices.

Now I get people enjoy the Apple product experience.

I get they make a lot of things right for this experience, especially for user friendliness, and integration.

And I certainly get they made the industry progress from a technical point of view.

But do not compare their moral scale to the one from the FOSS folks. This is literally insulting them.
Sure, they made a good product and were ahead of their time, but software solutions for disparity maps are catching up. Light field arrays are very interesting science, and they definitely helped promote it, but as a business, well, they didn't treat their customers very well.
I think that's a reasonable point to make.

At the same time, I wouldn't underestimate the worldwide effects a ban in the US had, given its importance as a consumer of world goods especially in the second half of the 20th century. And while industrial hemp wasn't banned worldwide, it was banned or curtailed in other countries for prolonged periods (e.g. Germany from 82 to 95).

Hemp production seems to be around 0.25% of cotton production. No matter the intrinsic properties of the material, that seems like a very difficult lead to catch up to. And I'm sure both are getting squeezed by synthetic fibers (cotton consumption seems to be fairly stable for years).

Hemp: 65kt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp#Producers

Cotton: 25mt https://www.icac.org/Press-Release/2018-(1)/PR-5-2018-Global...

Synthetic fibers: 65mt https://www.statista.com/statistics/741368/world-synthetic-f...

Wool: around 1mt
> Whataboutism doesn't really change the answer to the question...

I'll take that.

I think it was a bit of an uneccessary thing to point out when the website tries to be neutral about the issue and just tries to do something good. Don't get me wrong, if I am ever in the middle east, I'm not stepping out of Israel.
Thing is, everything was walled off before too. Microsoft often broke MSN Messenger's protocol, probably on purpose.
Great, something really important like the old blink tag. /s

Only people programming ads will like this. Everybody else will pretty much hate its guts.
> I see commercials everywhere all the time ...

That's because of their marketing budget.

> ... and its #1 or #2 on most VPN reviews websites.

That's because of their affiliate programs.
https://invertedpassion.com/notes-from-skin-in-the-game-by-n...
Saudi Arabia is an interesting country in a world of very cheap solar energy. On the one hand the global shift in energy markets would undermine the basis of their prosperity and shift geopolitical power elsewhere. On the other hand, they have perfect conditions for solar generation themselves, very high levels of sunshine and huge amounts of land. Cheaper energy means reduced costs for all sorts of things which make living in such a hot place realistic or attractive. The land is also not far from the coast, and cheaper energy means more of that land could potentially be irrigated. You really wonder what would happen there if solar ends up undercutting oil many times over, it could be a collapse, or it could be a booming population living in high-tech cities, and the desert turned green.
> The difference, as the video mentions, is that they always gets attacked as being 'anti-education'

That would be partly because it is true
http://www.people-press.org/2017/07/10/sharp-partisan-divisi... ('Republicans increasingly say colleges have negative impact on U.S.')

And its not helped by the fact that much of the GOP is apparent anti-science, and anti expertise https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/american-trust-scient... ('A 54 percent majority of Democrats, compared with just 13 percent of Republicans, say they have “a lot” of trust that what scientists say is accurate and reliable.')
There's that. But the line theoretically does have the appropriate capacity. It's a race against time, if they can't get the volume up significantly in the next 90 days they are in very hot water.

Maybe Warren Buffet or another investor with the long view would be a solution?
> To me, all this rain-making news out of China seems like either propaganda

It's easier to organize a very public and sophisticated rain dance than it is to properly manage water resources at scale.
> Would you have said the same things about eBay when eBay first launched?

Not really. I don't know of any much more convenient ways to facilitate auctions that predates eBay. I'm too young, really, to say out of experience how things were before eBay, but personally I went directly from browsing second hand stores and newspaper classifieds to use the local eBay clone which afforded it the additional convenience of only listing local items, but that was eventually bought by eBay as well.

For the general consumer I don't think that trust in eBay or having to go someplace else to buy knives and license plates is enough of an inconvenience to outweigh the inconvenience of trusting your bitcoins to have roughly the same value the day after tomorrow, or having to run a daemon to access listings.

I don't think you're wrong or that you have misplaced your priorities somehow, but I think you'd belong in category 1 and/or 2, and for as long as those aren't representative of the broad public I think services like OpenBazaar will mostly be attractive to those operating in the legal grays and blacks, simply thinking in terms of who's got most to gain from anonymity, lack of governance and untraceable transactions despite their inconveniences.

But let's say it attracts some 10000 (+/- an order of magnitude) privacy-minded cryptoanarchists that are all there because they don't trust sites like eBay or can't find some categories of legitimate items there because of some of eBay's rules. The sheer breadth of items, buyers and sellers afforded by a much more generally convenient site like eBay or CL won't be available to them, and I think that's going to turn a lot of people off that aren't explicitly looking to buy items that are much harder to get elsewhere. Maybe they'll find their knives and license plates but it'll be switchblades and counterfeits respectively.
Keep in mind this is a PR piece, a "memorandum of understanding." They haven't actually legally agreed on anything, nothing has been paid or spent, no final contract is in place.

Next after that, is that the construction will take place over decades. So it should reasonably be assumed they'll take advantage of some improvements along the way.
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The fact that there appears to be a sentiment that spending on education equates to a 'firehose of money from flowing directly to the teachers union cronies' sounds like it is part of the problem.
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>Does anyone know of products that can be made quickly by the application of raw energy?

Chipsets?
> Well they weren’t convicted because they didn’t delete it, they were convicted because they made it available.

They did. The piratebay default search engine allowed people to find illegal content. That's why they got in trouble. If Google Chrome default search engine had CP and drugs on it, they'd get into trouble too. Anyone can use chrome to find CP but Google is ok because they don't enable it by default. As long as OpenBazaar default search engine does not contain anything illegal and forces people to use a different search engine to find illegal stuff, they will not get into trouble.
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The Chinese make it look so easy: https://9to5mac.com/2016/02/03/iphone-flash-storage-upgrade-...
Mea culpa.

Already added - http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commit;h=0dc11d8bbd4... and http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commit;h=99cc3cf7a26...
Exactly.

> China was excluded from the 420-ton International Space Station mainly due to U.S. legislation barring such cooperation and concerns over the Chinese space program's strong military connections.

This is such BS. All our space programs have strong military connections. We literally created our first spacecrafts from German missile designs.

China will do great without us. They don't need us. They have the money and the talent now. They already got planes, boats, nuclear plants and bombs, satellites...

So the only thing this achieves is decreasing trust and cooperation among powerful countries in the world, and duplicate efforts and resource spendings. We managed to cooperate with Russia. We should try to do the same with China.

I'm going back to listen again to the audio book of "The Martian", at least it will makes me smile and in there, Chinese and American scientists bypass politics to help each others.
The thing with Emacs and Vim is that I like polish. I like to tinker, but I like to know that if I need something people have banged their heads against the wall with the same tools and fixed them. With plugins and just hobbyists working on the plugins (or professionals only doing thing in their spare time) it's hard to get the level of polish high enough.

I'm a bit sad that Emacs kind of failed as a commercial IDE. Note: commercial, not proprietary. Free Software can be commercial. I guess it's because GNU never got into the second wave of UX that popped up basically in the early 90's.

Emacs badly needed something like a successful Lucid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_Inc.

That Lucid company would have had to push for UX features for all kinds of programmers, for a set of blessed extensions that are tested together, for proper documentation with modern terminology, for sane, modern defaults, etc. You know, turn a software project into a software product. Imagine Sublime Text levels of polish, but with the power of Emacs.
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Germany closed down their nuclear plants due to FUD.

Now they are using renewables to replace it instead of replacing fossils which does very little for actual greenhouse emissions. [1]

[1] https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-c...
The latter is not a question the applicant is qualified to answer. Specifically, "how do you add to <our team>" can only be answered by someone that already knows the team. To me it signals that the recruiter is lazy and expects me, as applicant, to do his job for him.
> Japanese workers and management always work together to perfect a process to such an extent that it becomes very easy to replicate it with a machine.

It also means basically the workers behave more and more like a robot. I don't think it produces happy humans.
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That's exactly what I think (though I am not 100% sure). The time has came for this IMHO.
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Ah, thanks for clearing that up, cool. I thought they were required when you are in a network with a private IP to reach outside world, because there is no full NAT traversal impl, but wasn't quite sure :)
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I agree wholeheartedly with your points. Though I must say I am not talking about the hospital industry, I am talking about IT.... where we developers are the doctors. I also think that these PHD's can add immense value, they are in fact very smart and educated.

I'll tell you one anecdote, when big data was starting to bubble up, there were PHD's that were hired at two firms I worked at. Eventually in the long run big data was done, but it was not from their efforts. It was the grunts.
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>This one is much, much harder.

I'm curious why that is, intuitively I'd have assumed that SIMD support would be trickier to stabilize (since you need a generic interface over a wide range of implementations) while inline ASM is pretty much "just copy-paste this bit of assembly in the middle of this function" which I assume is already something LLVM can do easily since it needs that for C/C++. Since nobody expects inline ASM to be portable you don't have to worry about making one single generic interface to it.

What's the catch?
Agree. Apparently it's ok to downvote people you disagree with, rather than crap arguments. I've mostly lost interest. Too bad too, it was really great for a while.
Does async/await have a slated release version yet? Also, is there a central resource to track progress on that topic?
This book is my top recommendation too.

Also:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=donella+meadows...

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dennis+meadows

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=peter+senge
There are many products able to somewhat import psd, but due to its (perhaps intentional) complexity many fail to fully support it.

See Xee developer Paracelsus:

> Trying to get data out of a PSD file is like trying to find something in the attic of your eccentric old uncle who died in a freak freshwater shark attack on his 58th birthday... I am spending a lot of time imagining amusing fates for the people responsible for this Rube Goldberg of a file format.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/30/xee_photoshop_psd_c...
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Thank you for explaining. That's what I meant by the uploader defense. I'm fairly sure Google removes CP from their search results so obviously they can exercise some control over their content. So they can't blame it all on the algorithm.