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>Postgres, which was reliable

My experience recently and historically has been the exact opposite. Postgres seems to blow up in more mysterious and hair-yankingly frustrating ways than MySQL does. "Why Uber Engineering moved from Postgres to MySQL" echos a lot of the issues I've had with Postgres in large production environments.
Even if it was just “this is the cash price for item X” this would be a huge benefit for he consumer.
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The main culprit to me in Golang seems to be channels, not goroutines. If your workflow essentially is defined by a mesh of channels and goroutines, it's hard to reason or understand.

I have no direct practical knowledge of Golang, but working on a large application that used BlockingQueue for concurrent communication and one which extensively used services buses for communication - both were hard to understand and reason about flow.

After some years with Scala Futures I'd say they work well and reason well. They can be seen as normal function calls returning Future instead of another 'container'.

They reflect the black box mentioned in the article, with one way in and one way out (e.g. when a method returns Future[_]).

The point about error handling: We use Option,Seq.empty on read error handling, Validation on create/write and Either on side effects (like sending mail).

(yes, they are still leaky abstractions e.g. when debugging, but work fine most of the time)
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1) It's coming https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/04/french-law-for...

2) Many shops in UK (especially London), run by Muslim or Seikh owners, have been feeding hungry people for years.
Important ADHD medication note: Armodafinil is a narcolepsy medication being used off-label for OP here. It's only FDA approved for treating narcolepsy. Usage in ADHD treatment is both novel and highly individual.
> knowledge worker productivity (let alone well-being) is pretty low on the list of things managers look for.

Alternatively, leadership has decided the price of lower density seating is not worth the increased productivity. Realizing there was no expectation of working at 100% significantly improved my well-being.
"driving" could be "riding a bus" aka "working at the office".
> How do you ensure that your social brain is exercised?

I go play with my friends and family after work, sometimes also at lunchtime.
A lot. My expenses (having moved from NZ) are probably 2-2.5x of what my friends back home pay - and I don't live a particularly frugal life. My income is 4-5x (probably even higher) what they make. Tech people on HN in the Bay Area talk about saving $25-50k / yr. The average household income in America is roughly $50k.

*Caveat: I'm unmarried and don't have kids. I don't own a house yet. I think that might change the equation a bit.
Followed @fogbeamlabs :)
And it's illegal to put new construction under rent control, thus incentivizing everyone with a rent-controlled apartment to become a bloody NIMBY.
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No, but most grocery stores do take EBT (for those outside the U.S., it's food assistance).
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did u just admit to insider trading?
You can move out of SV when you want to buy a house.
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I guess it matters what you mean by close. I can get to a redwood Forest in a 25 minute drive from SF, which I consider pretty good for a large urban area.. I agree other, smaller cities have much closer nature.
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This isn't controversial at all - a basic tenet of computer security is to to install your bits from trusted media. If the install media is a burned cd of a supposed windows ISO, it's not as trustworthy as the $25 replacement media shipped out by the original vendor.
Ah should have shared the repo, and thanks for publishing it! We're experimenting now with adapting this idea but using a directed acyclic FSA to store the index-time variations instead of a hashtable like in your version, with the idea that we might be able to search for all of the query-time variations in a single pass rather than one at a time (as for obvious reasons they'll be textually similar to one another so there should be some shared work between the lookups).
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Lots of ER visits aren't that dire. There are three hospitals within range if I broke my arm. I'd totally comparison shop if it were even remotely possible to call each up and ask how much. But getting even an estimated price for x-ray and bone set over the phone? Hahahahaha.
I don't think that cinemas are much more competition to Netflix than books or bars would be. Maybe for some, but for me it's definitely not "I want to get entertained by moving pictures, Netflix or cinema?". If I want to relax on the couch, Netflix competes with books, videogames, linear TV and, of course, other streaming services (and with scrolling social media feeds). If I want to go out for entertainment, cinemas compete with bars, actual theatres, all kinds of music venues. They only ever register in the same decision as part of the aggregates facing off in the general couch or out decision.
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"Every moment is an opportunity to better yourself, better your position, better your brand, or help others better themselves"

I'd also ask "why" to this one repeatedly (socratic method perhaps). In my mind that leads to "purpose of life" - which is, I suppose, a philosophical question with no easy answer.
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Its basically treating Ethereum as an anonymous signal bus.
If they tried Colorado they’d change their mind quick. I always thought I’d end up in the valley, but after ten years here and seeing how bad the Bay Area has gotten, there isn’t enough money to convince me to make the switch.
These medications carry black box warnings from the FDA, which means they should be used as a last resort due to significant side effects. It's great that they worked for you, but they are objectively very dangerous and should not be used unless absolutely necessary.
> What most other countries are doing: Fund healthcare from tax money.

Then why do people in those same countries purchase additional insurance from the private sector?

> In other countries they pay in taxes, in the US they pay for it in their own higher medical bills.

Surely you have heard of Medicaid and Medicare before. Yes?
Is there any professional idea conveyance you can do in person that you can't do over a modest video conference connection?
What you guys are doing is quite interesting and it’s made my job all the more interesting.

I do wish I could do the same as what you’ve done and disrupt the Canadian banking system.

The UK banking system seems incredibly more efficient and fair to consumers than the Canadian banking system does.
That's not really an alcohol issue, it's an anti-social behaviour issue. And movie theatres (and their customers) have had to deal with that for a long time.
I kinda hate this stuff. If your productivity is that fragile how do you actually get stuff done? Not that anyone enjoys getting bugged about an email they sent.

Take some notes or something if you have that much swirling around in your head. They’ll surely come in handy when you do one of those annoying things like stop working for the day so you can, you know, sleep.
Yes, there are likely to be contract terms requiring anything with a connection to support RCS.

This will be driven by carriers turning off legacy SMS and MMS servers the same way they turned off 2G GSM.
We don't want H2 cars or bikes or cleaner diesel engines. We want less pollution. Making it more expensive to pollute than to not pollute is the most direct way of attacking the problem. "Letting the market decide" just means that the government ought not care how we reduce pollution.

To respond to the GP post, IMO something like Cap and Trade makes more sense than tax for most forms of pollution; taxes only make sense for pollution when we have the ability to clearly quantify the harm done by the pollution. Most of the time we merely want to cap the amount of pollution, and cap-and-trade will more easily meet that goal than taxation.
I see it as a suggestion to try to give the best of yourself in everything you do: use the same passion/positive attitude that you put in something you appreciate (your work for example) for all the aspect of your life, and you will get a better control of yourself.
Sure, I come from a point of view that the inaugural seasons House of Cards and orange is the new black were terrific. If you disagree with me on that, then Netflix is an even lower bar for you.

I also think Black Mirror, while still good, dropped a notch after moving to Netflix.
Finding a good doctor is harder than finding a good mechanic these days...
My local AMC plays movies so loud that I can hear the dialog for some movies through the walls in an entirely different theater. It's kind of the ubiquitous theater experience for me now to just have some kind of foreign noise going on -- people crunching popcorn, talking to each other, or, the most absurd, another movie that is not the movie I'm watching.

So, yeah, bring on the death of the theater, please.
From what I understand this is a hot topic in environmentalist organizations. Higher density areas do objectively have a lower carbon footprint per person. I believe this is true without even factoring in commutes, because even things like heating and water (no lawn to water, etc.) are used less when people live in denser buildings. Adding in cars of course only makes this difference bigger. But the old-school environmentalist, classic "tree-hugger" types have been going around for decades with the attitude of basically just saying no to as much as possible, any type of concrete structure or large development to them is automatically bad. Of course all this leads to is more suburban sprawl and a higher carbon footprint per person, but as long as it happens in places they don't see these people seem happy to ignore it.

See for example, the Sierra club in SF which seems to now be basically a NIMBY group devoted to preventing any new buildings from going up because they might partially block views or cast shadows over existing things.
I believe in es6 Object literals are guaranteed to keep their ordering, and Object.keys() will iterate through them in the order defined.
Speaking of CSP, more broadly process algebras (a.k.a. process calculus) generally have such a "parallel composition" operator.

Also, CSP genuine inter-process communication primitive is a _multi-way_ rendezvous which can synchronise an arbitrary number of process, possibly more than two. This is called "interactions" in chapter 2 of Tony Hoare CSP book [1], and channels are built on top of these interactions in chapter 4.

This multi-way synchronization is also present e.g. in the LOTOS specification language, which is an ISO standard. The CADP [2] verification toolbox offers various tools like model-checker to verify LOTOS programs, and also to generate executables. For those who know how special/weird the LOTOS syntax is, the CADP folks also develops the LNT language which looks much more like Ada/Pascal.

[1] http://usingcsp.com/cspbook.pdf
[2] http://cadp.inria.fr/
You're boned. Then most systems including Ethereum are based on the assumption that the miners aren't majority controlled by an adversary. That may or may not be a sound assumption.
> But a large percentage of JS developers don't really have much background in non-mainstream languages or programming language theory

Not to side-track the issue, but I keep hearing this. I'm wondering if this is true, and if so, how such a statement is verified. I'm currently a full-time JS dev, but have written my own programming languages, have professionally written in C, C++, C#, F#, Ruby, and others, and have dabbled in many other languages (and would love to professionally work in Clojure). [EDIT: Er, to the "non-mainstream" point, I've dabbled in Rust, Clojure, OCaml, Haskell, PureScript, Erlang, Elixir, and Elm. I don't know many JS devs that have done all of that, but most people I know have tinkered in odd non-mainstream languages.]

Most JS devs I know are not single-language devs. Am I just a super anomalous member of the JS community?

... Anyway, back on topic, I'm a big fan of pattern matching, so I'm all for seeing this proposal become a reality.
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All first world and many second world systems are more cost effective than the US healthcare system...
If by "strawman" you mean my Trump-supporting friends back in Texas, sure. They are real, and I am paraphrasing from actual conversations I've had. I think it's insincere to claim "well actual republicans aren't like that" when republican propaganda seems aimed at creating a population exactly like that.

Ah, Paul Ryan.

>There’s nothing inherently wrong with high-risk pools, but they have to be adequately funded in order to work properly because the people in them are so expensive to care for. Many states had high-risk pools before Obamacare was enacted, but they charged much higher premiums than normal and excluded coverage for certain services. The federal government also had a high-risk pool temporarily, but it grew too expensive and had to cap enrollment. According to some estimates, the $10 billion a year allocated in the AHCA would still not be enough.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/03/the-bigge...

> Unless the amount of the credit is linked to the cost of coverage comparable with what people received under the Affordable Care Act (and subject to indexing), it will represent a reduction in coverage (or higher costs if people want to "buy up"). If people will be reduced to buying catastrophic coverage, their deductibles may be larger, not smaller than they were under Obamacare policies. That's a step backward for many Americans, who complain that the deductibles are too high already. Moreover, depending on the differential between the credit for older and younger Americans, older people (who use more health care) may wind up paying more.

>Equally problematic is the use of health-care saving accounts in lieu of the subsidies available on the Obamacare exchanges. If working-class people do not have the extra income to contribute (albeit on a pre-tax basis), once again they will be worse off than they were previously.

> Without massive new taxes to pay for it, it's hard to deliver more coverage for less. In other words, Republicans promised more and are delivering arguably less than Obamacare does.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-pau...
Great question. We were not responsible for the difference. The "Statement of Benefits" is a very confusing US healthcare tradition in which you're told how much you should have paid before being told what you owe. In our case, there was a corresponding "Medicare discount" (or something; it's been 8 years) and the final bill was $0.

The situation is terribly regressive: people with the least money and the least likely to be able to afford healthcare and are therefore most likely to suffer high hospital costs. People with the most money get healthcare "insurance" and so get the lowest prices.
PayPal and their underling Venmo have frozen my assets a couple times now in the past couple of months. PayPal is a scam. Venmo is a scam, says I, former user of those.
There are at least two ways to approach variable costs. One is to have a price to treat a condition, e.g. a hospital can charge $X for a pregnancy, regardless of whether it’s a C-section or a vaginal birth. The other is to allow the variable charge but to disclose it as it happens, just like auto shops do. If I see a doctor for $75, and the doctor determines that I need a $17 strep test, the doctor can tell me that the strep test is $17 before doing it.

This does impose an annoyance cost on every little charge, which I think is a good thing. If a medical practice really wants to charge for every piece of gauze they use, then this should annoy the patient up front so the practice has an incentive to stop doing it.
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Well, you can't just throw up condos all over the place and assume that alone fixes the problem. You have to build schools and other infrastructure changes, such as water and electricity to support the influx of a population.

Activism to push change requires a lot of energy and time. Most of the people who live here are busy with their jobs and families and do not have time to invest in it. So the activists who have the time to push usually want radical changes, such as 100% low income housing or homeless shelters. These are fine ideas, but for communities of upper middle class families, the change is scary and usually unwelcome. So then those families suddenly find the time to show up and protest and that's where you meet NIMBYs.

Change like this really requires the will of the local governments to make progress. Yet I think they get elected on other platforms such as, building better schools, or improving roads or downtown small businesses. YIMBY seems to be the first political wave of politicians actually running on a platform of more housing.
What a strange statement, as though life is a thing that can be won. Life is lived, and then you die. There is no victory condition. Even the universe is ultimately doomed.
You realise that makes you sound exactly like an old Fortran programmer refusing to give up goto? A for loop is just a wrapped goto! ;-)

I think the author proposes a useful way to structure multi-threading. The comparison to goto isn't perfect and he needs to play fast and loose with some terms to keep the analogy working but he makes a good point.

I'm not convinced yet that the nursery pattern should be the only allowed way to start a thread but saying "you should use it unless you have a good reason not to" is a good provocation to get the discussion going.
What would you propose as being a "market-decides" approach to health care, beyond abolishing any-party insurers and revert to a 19th-century model?
Let’s just get a few things straight regarding remote work:

* Your job is not to “write code” no matter how much you wish it was that simple. Your job is to provide value for your company.

* You provide much more value for your company when you’re available in-person than when you’re remote. You provide value to your coworkers who can communicate to you easily, effectively, and timely.

* it’s much easier for your manager to gauge that value in person than remotely, so you create less work for those that are responsible for you’re performance (and your job).

If you over-simplify your role, then it’s easy to wonder why remote work isn’t more successful. When you become responsible for the health of the business, then it becomes much more clear.
> The insurer doesn't know what each hospital charges. Posting costs online is just to make it more convenient to find the information.

Every hospital charges more than the maximum reimbursable amount for the insurer. If they don't, that's because they've made a mistake - their goal is literally to set a bill that's high enough that it will generate a reimbursement for the maximum amount each time.
Creation of new banks is only just the beginning. It takes a good while to ramp up on trust. When you consider the enormous customer bases and monetary volumes of large banks, you will see that there is enough of the pie for everyone to be successful.
With reserved seating this isn't an issue.
We're you using any specific app for writing ?
Right, and I am differentiating films from TV/shows because they're completely different markets.

However, with respect to Icarus, it was not produced by Netflix; only distributed by it. Hollywood studios also bid on the distribution rights but Netfix simply outbid them. (Per reports, it was the most ever paid for a documentary.) Similarly, both Beasts of No Nation and Mudbound, the only two well-regarded films in Netflix' lineup, were both produced by indie studios. Netflix simply outbid Hollywood studios for the distribution rights. Netflix has never actually made a good movie on its own. (Though in Netflix' defense on my thesis about the crap quality of their movies, Cloverfield Paradox was a Paramount production; Paramount got the better end of the deal.)
Just curious, slightly off topic -- for desktop what do you find to be valuable to use Fedora over say CentOS?

I know CentOS is traditionally for servers, but I've played with installing CentOS7 on a laptop for fun and side project work and it's worked out pretty well for me -- but it's also not my full time machine so I don't know if I'm just missing something.
I got my start in tech by driving over an hour each way into LA. Sucked with lower salary but now Im happily working remote and rarely driving. Last two years I've barely got 10k miles - most of those from driving from Portland to LA a couple times.
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A. The ability to manually press a button to send your location to your contact

B. The ability to manually press a button to send your location to your contact without man-in-the-middle snooping.

All I'm saying is that B is better than A, for me personally and for our society at large.
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He was taking the restore media, burning it onto discs _with official Microsoft and Dell logos on them_ and then _selling them to computer refurbishers who would then include them with PCs they were selling._ In other words, people were buying PCs with these counterfeit restore discs passed off as actual Dell/Microsoft product.
Correct regarding the 9am comment. I live 30mi west of Boston and it is essentially an automatic 90min if I were to leave my house at 730am. For reference, it is 35min w/o traffic. Natick, MA seems to have become the "I can't afford Newton and Wellesley" town. Prices are crazy.

I thought the removal of physical toll booths from the Mass Pike would help. I have seen absolutely no benefit.