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Haskell have the Maybe monad, which is defined as Just a | Nothing. One may argue then that languages with nullable integers implicitly define this type as Maybe Int.
Artists upload lossless audio to the internet all the time. I don't understand how anybody can even be bothered to argue their opinion on this matter. A lot of you guys sound like jerks though.
I'm launching a new mobile client for taskwarrior: https://wingtask.com
This is absolutely the point of sanctions, its the modern day equivalent of siege warfare. Using some arbitrary method, choke the flow of resources into a nation-state and then the economy takes care of the rest. The nation-state gives in to the demands if it is not strong enough. Anyone who attempts to get around the methods imposed is basically trying to break through the siege.
Neural networks are a fundamentally statistical technique, so you find the state of the art whereever you find the largest scale. No one is operating at larger scale than Google, which has the second order effect of attracting the best talent, which then gets sorted to the highest priority problems. There are a non-trivial number of instances where Google will beat their own state of the art, and I'm quite confident they are sitting on further results to avoid a public embaressment of riches.
It's funny that you mention Amazon when referring to the ORCA card program since Amazon's outreach to other cities to kick in for transit improvements if its HQ2 is located there has caused one of the latest flare-ups of kerfuffle about Amazon's impact on Seattle. (The angst, for those unaware, is that while Amazon is offering private dollars to add transit stations or make service improvements in cities like Atlanta or Baltimore, it isn't making the same offer to Seattle / Sound Transit even though two of the new light rail stations are being built to serve the area that is effectively its campus.)

I would like to also mention that my experience doesn't match yours. I ride the bus almost exclusively (there's no light rail near my house and never will be) and have only, rarely, encountered what you describe. I'm certain it exists, but not to the extent of calling it very common. Two routes, RapidRide E and route 7, stand out as being the most likely "culprits," which is, I think, less of a function of riding a bus and more of where those two routes happen to serve. The streetscape of the part of Aurora that the E runs down looks a lot like the inside of the E's bus.
C# has (a subset of) SQL null semantics because of LINQ. That's the answer to his specific question.

Null values propagating through expressions SQL style is an approach to handling unknown values. Whether it's desirable is somewhat besides the point; databases have null values, and LINQ enables capturing expression trees that get converted into SQL, so keeping similar semantics makes a kind of logical sense.

Nulls are undesirable in a language until you want to initialise large structures in a simple language with a simple compiler. Staying away from the temptation then takes ingenuity and discipline.
What exactly does a man get for going out of his way like you suggest? Most of the time, nothing. Unless I can read that a woman is receptive to friendship, trying to befriend women because they're women is time better spent on working. It's a two-way street, and while I have had my share of female friends, the majority of women are either not receptive(i.e. won't give men the benefit of the doubt) or content to wait for men to take the initiative.
Is China trying to enforce any kind of similar ban?
I got the impression that trying to enforce unilaterally imposed global sanctions is a US thing. The next best thing coming to mind are UN embargos
As a Berliner I find this hideous. There are so many high end work spaces in Berlin which push the rents anyway. This is mostly invisible to the angry mob but with Google they have a fall guy. This is completely distracting from the underlying structural problems.
There are obvious consequences within the scope of the hobby itself, even if there aren't to your overall life. If you don't get the costume done in time for the convention, then you either miss the convention or go without the costume. Those are the consequences for missing that particular deadline.
This is mostly going to be a restructuring. Chinese companies will continue to help (and according to me they should) Iran and North Korea. Now they are going to split US only and non-US entity.
Felt this pain, I'm launching a new mobile client for taskwarrior: https://wingtask.com
And "prays in aid" current hot topics if your used to analysing people's arguments he is on some pretty thin ice.
> Rationally, they should offer as low as they think each employee will accept

There are numerous rational reasons to offer employees more than the minimum they’d accept.
Ah, thank you. That makes a lot more sense.
There are reasonable mechanisms in place. Patents expire and there's many capable manufacturers. If you think there's a need for a charity in this space, go get the funding. The difficulty of getting this funding and the scale of funding that would be required would be a strong indicator to you if whether you have reasonable expectations for existing manufacturers or not.
China has a single minded focus on that. What US does is going to be irrelevant in that sense.
Most of these commenters don't appear to be whining about their situation, but rather replying to the question of why men in tech positions don't try to befriend more women. Their answer is that they're concerned about the optics of trying to initiate the friendship.

And by unattractive, they don't necessarily mean "ugly" but rather geeky, asocial, with niche interests, no fashion sense, little in common with most women, etc. It can be the way they carry themselves, their posture, the way they walk, the sound of their voice, stuttering, lack of vocal control... For someone like that with poor social skills and a lot of anxiety, it's not at all uncommon for a woman to misconstrue their efforts at friendship as a romantic overture or worse. It can also just be shyness due to inexperience interacting with women.

This is not necessarily the fault of the women; they likely do receive a lot of uncomfortable romantic overtures from socially awkward people like this. The commenters aren't placing blame on anyone, but describing the reality of their situation.

Some of the commenters have a rather rude and selfish attitude about it, but this is a genuine issue for a lot of men and explains part of the reason why some women in CS may feel isolated. If anything, I think people should try to have more empathy for this particular predicament, so that men and women can hopefully become more comfortable fostering professional and platonic relationships in the workplace.
I have always been seeing this as a solid need especially in Japan. I know several people in japan who recently divorced that experience loneliness, they would host dinners and meet-ups like every week or so. Plus young people are dating less and less here, Plus Plus there are a lot of socially awkward people who will have a hard time trying to build a family.
That is where India can come into picture.
> you have to find your own way of getting what's in your head into a place you can trust

That's definitely #1. I'm surprised I had to scroll so far down to find it. :)

For a long time I was looking for a system that would auto-prioritize tasks for me. I'd dump things in, and it would tell me what I had to do today, this week and this month. Long story short, it turned out to be a silly expectation.

So #2 rule should be, review your tasks periodically.

Basically, an 80/20 productivity system should be:

#1 write everything down
#2 review and cull your list every day
#3 do things off your list
I don't know the exact numbers, but I imagining it is substantial in the short-term.

Also, this motivates China to produce more components domestically, which will permanently sway Chinese companies away from US suppliers, so in the long-term, this could do tens of billions of dollars in damage to the US.
How is it an oversimplification if 90% of the population decrease was because of initial contact, not overt actions by the Europeans against the natives?
I was never happy with the Taskwarrior client you linked so I'm launching a mobile client alternative for taskwarrior: https://wingtask.com
but homeowners were too stupid to do the math

This is kind of true. Builders will do things that lower the up front price and long term value of the home, because that's how their incentives are setup.
Supply & demand is what sets prices. It doesn't need to be over complicated.
Because these sanctions campaigns are themselves remnants of the original cold war?
It’s a two sided market. The clearing price is going to be dependent on the employer’s alternatives and the employees alternatives, and each sides judgements about the other sides alternatives. The employer generally will try to pay just enough to prevent an employee from jumping ship, subject to bad feelings about unfairness reducing productivity. Part of the set of alternatives that an employee has are local jobs, which vary in pay somewhat based on cost of living.
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Environmental regulations are more strict today too -- one corner of my grandparents (large) yard was perpetually swampy and us kids were warned to stay away -- turned out that it was runoff from an uphill neighbor's septic leach field, and it had been like that for decades.

I don't think such a thing would be possible with today's regulations. I'm not even sure it was acceptable 30 years ago, but my grandparents never complained about it and were on good terms with the neighbors.
Yep, this isn't a card we can keep up our sleeve until it's useful. We play it now, in the near future, or never.
Begging your pardon, but how is a decentralized social network supposed to be healthier than a centralized one?

Isn’t it still going to be full of the same garbage?

Isn’t this like quitting cigarettes then getting vaped?
These laws apply to logical expressions about things that exist. In other words: you can’t apply these laws to the unknown, which also includes the future. This is where we arrive at the edge of the rabbit hole: null represents nothingness/unknownness, so what the hell is it doing in a deterministic system of 1s and 0s?

Computer systems are purely logical, but the applications that we write, if they embrace Nulls, are apparently not. Null is neither true nor false, though it can be coerced through a truthy operation, so it violates Identity and Contradiction. It also violates Excluded Middle for the same reason. So why is it even there?

And suddenly a bunch of type theorists just winced. It is possible to have trivalent logic that's coherent. SQL does this -- and it makes sense to do it in that application.
I don't know why you're being down voted.

It's a forgone conclusion that China was always going to push to accelerate their local semi-conductor industry irrespective of what happened to ZTE or not. Not enforcing violations of US sanctions (and the subsequent plea agreement) would have just shown China that you can piss all over any deals made with the US commerce department (further reducing their respect) -- it would not have detracted in the slightest from China's mandate to replace their dependency on foreign technology at all!
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"Further, large diesel engines running heavy start-stop duty cycles like buses probably generates unproportionally more particles than just about everything else."

The good news: electric busses are coming. City busses will be huge winners from electrification, both for economic and environmental reasons. Greatly reduced fuel and maintenance costs, improved ride quality, less noise and pollution.
And how often do you think this happens--where there is an accusation with absolutely no basis in reality? What data do you have to back this up? Would you really cast out all women from your professional circles because of it?

Sheesh.

Men talk about how aggrieved they are in this new world of transparency and accusation. This transparency has come about because many women have been subject to some really, truly awful stuff. Yet reactions like this this are unbelievably unfair to women too. It's almost like it's _women_ who are in a lose-lose situation here, not men!

What on earth will it take to get men to simply treat women as reasonable, decent people?
Are you taking into account carbon sequestration and oxygen production "features" of trees instead of net carbon cost ?
Presumably they value living in LA, or they would move to Miami.
I recall reading an article a few years ago about Bogotá's transit, where the mayor (I think) said something very interesting. Among other arguments, he made a moral argument about the dedicated lane for transit. Roughly, there's 40 or 50 people on the bus, vs 1-2 per car, and you get, what, 3? 2? cars in the space of a bus. He found it completely unjustified to let the convenience of those 45 people be outweighed by the convenience of the 4 or 5.

I'm not sure that it stacks up perfectly logically, but it's an interesting way to think about it. And it looks like they have a pretty good system.
yes but HR / Recruiting aren't bonused on retention only on cost
People heal from injuries using physical therapy on a regular basis.

I also don't know what walking on ones thumbs has to do with mindfullness.

You don't need to do a statistical analysis. We have other tools that can be used like double blind trials comparing meditation and medication.

Anyways, I think you should be very careful about placing much stock in anything that can't be studied in a scientific way. Such a thing would by definition have no measurable effect on the world or be unchangeable.
Hobbies take a lot of time. You need to sleep, eat, relax, exercise and spend time with family. There is no room in there for a hobby if you are starting a company. If you want to have hobbies it is more realistic to get a job.
No, they were repeatedly warned to not violate sanctions but kept ignoring those warnings. If you break the law you have to deal with the consequences.
Well said sir, well said indeed.
Backed by science.
Not rare in the EDM world.
>I thought conclusions about the capabilities of people by gender are verboten

Where did the author express this sentiment?
Aside: are there any libraries for JSON or dict-like formats with xpath-style querying that are as quick under the hood as lxml is for xml?
Negotiation is an often-misunderstood part of a market economy. It's not good or evil really, it's just a part of what makes a market function in the face of anything more complicated than a take-it-or-leave-it offer.

I think the author just doesn't understand negotiation. I am no expert either, but perhaps they should read a couple books on the subject.
ZTE pretty much admitted the denial order is their end. From the denial order:

note that in its response to BIS 's notice of proposed activation of suspended
sanctions and in making its case for leniency, ZTE acknowledged that it had submitted
false statements, but argued that it would have been irrational for ZTE to knowingly or
intentionally mislead the U.S. Government in light of the seriousness ofthe suspended
sanctions. The heart ofits argument is the question, posed by the company in rhetorical
fashion, asking " why would ZTEC risk paying another $300 million suspended fine and
placement on the denied parties list, which would effectively destroy the Company, to
avoid sending out employee letters of reprimand and deducting portions of employee
bonuses?" ZTE argued that BIS should not act until the company completed an internal
investigation so that ZTE could answer such questions.
"Plus young people are dating less and less here" - I keep seeing this a lot. Why are people dating less and less?
There's a big difference to formal exposure in a programming class in high school and a lifetime of hobbyist tinkering with tech.
Every successful industrialized nation after the first one (the UK) started by copying the products of other nations. Germany was a notable early case of this. So was Japan.

China did the same thing, and now Chinese industry is advanced enough that we will see innovation coming from China. They are already there in software -- WeChat/WePay is a really big deal and it outcompetes payment systems from American tech companies. I suspect we will soon see successful Chinese innovations in AI, semiconductors, and automobiles.
I had someone on IRC confirm for me before I updated, multiple keywords for the same URL (eg: youtube.com/?q=%s) still works. I'm still not 100% sure what is meant by this line though, which is what caused confusion for me:

>It is no longer possible to have multiple bookmark keywords for the same url, unless the request has different POST data.

I guess I'm confused what "POST data" is - as it apparently isn't %s and I don't know what else you can change for a keyword bookmark so I'm not sure how you'd even change what the POST data is.

"y" and "yt" both work to navigate to "youtube.com" and "y search" and "yt search" both did a youtube search for "search".
The NYT has easily the best journalists and in my opinion the best written articles but post 2016, the constant Anti-American stance is entwined in every article regardless of the subject. For subjects I have in depth knowledge of, it's honestly pathetic how they subtlety spin everything into anti-America by deliberately omitting key pieces of info.

Bloomberg for whatever reason has started having more and more misleading headlines and articles, ironically right as they head to a subscription model. The WSJ I still subscribe too, mainly because it's more business and less politics related though the comment section unfortunately resembles only a slightly more dignified version of a Breitbart commenter.
If only there were a politician that reflected the political interests of the under 40 demographic.
Sensationalism sells.
Close...the infrastructure to focus on here is still transit; if the buses were sufficient, the parking issue would be solved simply by fewer cars on the road.
Yes. That is how sanctions work. And since US companies supply so much hi tech equipment and Financial instruments, banning a country from any trade with US companies is basically an indirect way of shutting them down.
It’s the government’s job to ensure adequate infrastructure. The people that buy from the developer will be paying for their proportionate share of that new infrastructure with taxes. Forcing the developer to cover the costs of infrastructure is just a sneaky way to shift the tax burden from existing residents to new residents.
Had the same experience when I lived over there too. Was pretty surprised West Oakland was as cheap as it was relative to anywhere North Oakland/Berkeley considering how much more access it had to everything.

The price of places under ten minutes from a BART station further out were sharply different to further out in the same area too. You could shave some time off by cycling but then you're the guy with a bike on the packed train.

Seem to recall 20+ minute waits for trains in Berkeley on weekends too (it'd be handy if they let you know this somewhere in the station before you pass the ticket point, but that's another thing), with a transfer required to get into SF?

SF is far from the worst area for public transport, but it'd never come near my best.
I guess this has just become a relic:

https://flic.kr/p/JS7QJd

(ZTE Firefox Phone. Still works too, I powered it up the other weekend... Might have to put a SIM in it - I bet nobody's targeting _that_ with zerodays...)
I'm completely baffled by the US stance towards Iran. I understand they want to eliminate Israel, but given that they suffered US meddling of a democratic election, capitulated to the reduction of their nuclear program and inspections, and otherwise cooperative with US demands, what is the reason for continued sanctions? Is it due to the sheer inertia of legacy policies, the Israeli lobby?

I can understand if it's the sheer inertia of legacy policies, since we managed to sanction Cuba for no good reason. The people that end up getting hurt from these policies set by average people thousands of miles away are just average citizens.
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US can grow to a billion+ people easily, it's just standard of living would be abysmal.
> How on earth does this happen on what should be a straight forward site?

It happened because the site developer didn't work around all the bugs in safari mobile.
For our compensation principles please see https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-operations/global-c...

We don't think cost of living make sense. We do think paying market rates is the way to go. Market rates vary around the world and so does our compensation.
If you don't mind, I just Ctrl-A & copied your excellent blog post about Bidirectional Varint Encoding [0]. I am going to post it on my own tech dev blog with my name replacing yours at the bottom. It's OK, its good for my readers. ;)

[0] - http://samuelhughes.com/blog/9.html

* - not really
Option monads have the same semantics as C# null described in the article; they don't apply the function if the value isn't present, you get another non-present value back out.

Result<,> has the same semantics as checked exceptions, BTW. The conversion between the two representations of code is mechanical.

Checked exceptions are a poor idea the more dynamically bound your language is, and are generally anti-abstraction in any case (failure modes are implementation specific, i.e. non-conformant with an information hiding interface). An error result is only useful if you can make a decision based on the specific value; that's not the case for almost all sources of error in most user (i.e. non-system) programs, where complete coverage of error cases with specific handlers is outside their design parameters, and termination (of program or request or whatever) is preferable.
The GOP makes it difficult to vote for anyone who isn't a landowning white person under the guise of protecting us from "voter fraud". They do this in a number of ways, including (but not limited to) under-staffing or eliminating polling locations in non-white areas and onerous address/residency restrictions (to exclude students, other young people just getting started, and migrant families).

Many young people want to vote, but are discouraged or prevented from doing so.
Not if they're developing more supply of rental units. I'll give that this doesn't play out in practicality in a lot of places. My own neighborhood is currently constructing enough apartment buildings to double the number of units, but our rent still went up. This however is a function of such pent up demand. Nearly half of my coworkers have an hour+ commute and most of them would be love to move closer to the city if the pricea dropped, and that will only happen if more units are built.

A 1-3% increase in available units probably won't do anything but change local neighborhood prices, but a city adding 10%+ in units everywhere is going to drop their average rent costs
Seems like a lot of work to maintain a presence in the North Korean and Iranian market. What if they do all of the rebranding and the US government says, "Sorry its the same company".
The biggest problem I have about not getting an offline copy is that he makes it clear that if the book does not perform to his expectations, then he will take it down.

So, even if I pay for this wonderful book (and it /is/ wonderful!) and nobody else/not enough other people do... And then it's gone!
Or you may be hiring them because you want their skillset but you don't have candidates like them locally, rather than to save costs.

Or you may be an all-remote company. (Surprisingly, even that last group sometimes adjusts pay for CoL, like GitLab, but not always.)