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From TFW:

"Mandaeism or Mandaeanism (Arabic: مندائية‎ Mandāʼīyah) is a gnostic religion[1]:4 with a strongly dualistic worldview. Its adherents, the Mandaeans, revere Adam, Abel, Seth, Enos, Noah, Shem, Aram, and especially John the Baptist. The Aramaic manda means "knowledge", as does Greek gnosis.[2][3]

"According to most scholars, Mandaeaism originated sometime in the first three centuries AD,[4] in Mesopotamia.[citation needed] They are Semites and speak a dialect of Eastern Aramaic known as Mandaic. There is a theory that they may be related to the Nabateans who were pre-Islamic pagan Arabs[5] whose territory extended into southern Iraq.[6]

"The religion has been practised primarily around the lower Karun, Euphrates and Tigris and the rivers that surround the Shatt-al-Arab waterway, part of southern Iraq and Khuzestan Province in Iran. There are thought to be between 60,000 and 70,000 Mandaeans worldwide.[7] Until the 2003 Iraq war, almost all of them lived in Iraq.[8] Many Mandaean Iraqis have since fled their country because of the turmoil created by the 2003 invasion of Iraq and subsequent occupation by U.S. armed forces, and the related rise in sectarian violence by Muslim extremists.[9] By 2007, the population of Mandaeans in Iraq had fallen to approximately 5,000.[8]

"The Mandaeans have remained separate and intensely private. Reports of them and of their religion have come primarily from outsiders: particularly from Julius Heinrich Petermann, a scholar in Iranian studies,[citation needed] as well as from Nicolas Siouffi, a Syrian Christian who was the French vice-consul in Mosul in 1887,[10][11] and British cultural anthropologist Lady E. S. Drower."
heavy metal! :)

Breaking Benjamin, Slipknot, Three Days Grace, Metallica, Slayer. I also have a di.fm subscription which includes rockradio.com radiotunes.com and a couple others (jazz and classical), all excellent choices.
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What are some examples of successful businesses that launched and operate without person-to-person contact and negotiations?

Purely automated online operations conceal identities, sure, but investors usually know who the entrepreneurs, and major clients and vendors and joint-venture partners do too.
Yeah they definitely tried to colonize Ethiopia then. We're agreeing. They simply failed to stay long enough to convert an occupation into a colonization.
I had the exact same experience living for a year in Seattle without a car. I saved some money, but I didn’t want to go anywhere.
That's a false dichotomy that because there was a blockbuster nearby they automatically had every classic movie in stock. I wouldn't be surprised if Netflix's total active catalog size is much greater than what was in a blockbuster in 1999
After reading a large number of GDPR-related articles and summaries, I've generally come to the belief that if you are doing the right thing with user data, it is unlikely GDPR is going to cause you to suddenly start suffering.

This is an extraordinarily dangerous view of GDPR and will likely subject you to fines of up to 20 million EUR. There are hundreds of technicalities that can easily expose you to company-killing fines. This is like saying “you see that massive, fire breathing dragon over there? He’s actually really nice. I mean sometimes he’s not, but grab the kids and let’s go cozy up to him...it will probably be OK”. Unfortunately, most of the time, things are exactly as dangerous as they appear.

Loading Google Analytics automatically on the page on which you ask permission, even if it was an oversight? You’re toast. Using a wordpress plugin that utilizes JavaScript from a third party site and didn’t ask permission for that first because you didn’t know about it? Oops...you may lose your house.

Now, the usual people will say “nobody is taking your house for that”. All I can tell you is that the plain language of this regulation says the only limits are 10 and 20 million EUR.

Edit: to those downvoting this, and there are many of you, please show me where in the GDPR it says that I am incorrect in my assertion that loading third party JavaScript without permission could result in a fine of at least the average value of a house in any given country. Otherwise there is nothing to downvote, because I am not wrong.
Many years ago, I wrote a Java ORM that solved that exact problem. But I still have come around 180 degrees to the view that ORMs are terrible.

Even aside from this N+1 problem, to use an ORM well, you have to understand the SQL that you want to be generated, and then instead of writing that SQL, you have the additional problem of having to know exactly what to say to the ORM to get that SQL generated. Also: you don't always want objects returned; sometimes partially instantiated objects are what you want; bulk updates are hard to get right; stored procedures break everything; and on and on.

The thing that really started me on the path to my current view was a conversation with an app developer who was evaluating our project. Just from a career point of view, having Oracle on her resume was a lot more valuable than having OurProprietaryORM on her resume. That, combined with the realization that solving the N+1 problem was really a pretty minor thing, and that all the other problems were even harder to solve.

The approach I have been using for a while is to use a very simple mapping layer that hides some of the ugliness of JDBC, but still lets me write SQL directly. I understand that MyBatis does something like this, although I haven't used it.
> No, it absolutely does not.

Can you explain what the law on the books currently is, and how the majority opinion "absolutely does not" respect it?

> It completely makes up a reason why this should be considered any different than any other instance where things have changed since a law was enacted.

Things have changed since a law was enacted by legislative fiat. The thesis behind those arguing the intended function of the judiciary is that any instance in the past where the judiciary has actually changed a law since it was enacted is considered abuse and not to be repeated.
I remember this app and used it for a while. It was fun calling people all over the world for wake up calls. Some of us even had interesting conversations!
There was an interesting article about other such deals with the Chinese. The Chinese would make a deal with an African nation and dump products on the market that they couldn't sell in nations who had an actual choice or quality standards that were enforced. The market would be flooded by cheap garbage tools, electronics, and etc. Quality products would disappear quickly as they were many times more expensive.... and then everyone realizes everything is garbage.

Interesting enough the construction sites contain none of these tools (the Chinese workers don't use them), and the locals now can't afford to bring them on a special order because they're either locked out of the market or many more times expensive than before due to the trade deal. Crappy state run industries just keep on trucking at the expense of the locals in Africa.
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You are not excluded from the law as volunteer organization.

As far as deleting old member records and public archives, it depends on what consent members have given before. Membership information, especially receipts for subscription must be kept usually for 10 years for bookkeeping purposes. As for public posts, unless the members withdraw their consent (Excercise Right to be Forgotton) i don't see why. They knew then that the posts are public?

edit: you must formalize this with a privacy policy though, what data you keep, what type of consent (article 6) and for what reason you need it, if you haven't done so yet. Then ask every member for approval of the policy.
Yes.

It's not implemented 100% and there are exceptions but most parts of the public sector are required to find ways to do more for less every year. Obviously the idea is to use technology or better procedures.

This doesn't mean that the public sector doesn't grow just that it has to be more effective with it's money.
Any idea how such rewards get taxed ?
Changing the food on supermarket shelves could help but I meant "intervention" in the sense of things you can do with someone who is already obese -- few seem to be very successful in keeping weight off.
Thank you for the kind words!

Regarding companies that use Prolog, here are a few examples:

A third of all airline traffic is handled by systems that run SICStus Prolog:

https://www.sics.se/projects/sicstus-prolog-leading-prolog-t...

A large portion of the New Zealand stock exchange is powered by Prolog:

https://dtai.cs.kuleuven.be/CHR/files/Elston_SecuritEase.pdf

Oracle uses Prolog in the JVM specification:

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jvms/se7/html/jvms-0-pr...

IBM has used Prolog for natural language processing in Watson:

https://www.cs.nmsu.edu/ALP/2011/03/natural-language-process...

RedPrairie uses SICStus Prolog for optimization tasks.

Prolog is used for voice processing on the International Space Station.
Yes, I saw your previous comment. If you feel that you can discard a whole article because you find one line in it that confirms your prior belief then that's fine with me. But I've been in this business for long enough and have seen EU regulators at work often enough that there is no mystery to me about how this will play out. What will happen is that the small fry will be ignored unless they cross the lines in very visible ways. Larger companies and companies with more risky models will be more at risk of having the regulators take an active interest in them. Large companies because there is a large chance of complaints to the regulators, companies with more risky models because they will be acting against the spirit of the law even if they will do everything they can to comply with the letter.

If you don't believe that's how it will work that's entirely fine with me but about 30 years of data confirm my point of view.
Spoofing a GPS signal such that it returns home to the local dump would be amusing. Thing just lands atop a mountain of trash.
Is that due to the larger history of success of the Arianne family of rockets?
$150? No way. I'm talking Inner Richmond, Laurel Heights. Not even SOMA or Downtown where it's over $350.

What area were you getting $150 for?
A designated DPO is only required for companies that have over 250 employees. Surely that can't be a huge burden? Just appoint the head of security to be the DPO. He can google the GDPR requirements and then be all set after 15 minutes.

If you are smaller than that and you outsource processing of the personal data of your customers, then all you have to do is make sure the customers consent to this, and you are good to go with GDPR. It's practically effortless, unless your business model relies on monetizing innocent victimes without their consent.
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Since I posted it I feel compelled to add: its irrelevant that this person was a woman of Japanese decent.

We all know gender and nationality is irrelevant when it comes to skill of coding, but I wanted to keep it intact in the title as the article goes.

As of her age, I do think its quite unique skills to be so laser-focused at something as tedious as coding, even more in CamelType structured language as Apple forces on you.

I only code for last 30 years but I do hope to have such clarity of my mind when I reach her age, hopefully :)
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Yes Markus does know, and has sprinkled examples throughout the book! One need look no further than the first chapter to find them.

One that was new and interesting to me is that gerritcodereview (by Google) is written in Prolog.

https://gerrit.googlesource.com/gerrit/+/master/prolog/
Dogs seem to eat feces for many reasons, such as poor digestion, hunger, boredom, stress, curiosity, seeing mom do it when cleaning up after her litter, getting attention, or avoiding punishment by hiding “accidents”.
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Which is a platitude that doesn't mean anything
Very inspiring, this is her website: http://marchan.travel.coocan.jp

Also previous discussion and video: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14995333
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> One challenge is that everyone's reading is different. What reading will regulators have? And what reading will they have in 6 months vs now?

Multiply that by the number of EU countries.
Posting from a throw away account - I've recently exited a company after an acquisition. Employee payout was laughable: gourmet burgers cost more. There were tears and terminations.

If you still think that you are in a small company, you are most likely going to be screwed (imaginary valuation would come crashing down). Things to consider:

1. Verify if you have options on equity or actual equity. If you do not have equity and you only have options, you need to look at your agreement to see what happens to non-vested or vested but non-exercised options during the liquidity event (It is possible that they get wiped out or they get bought back by the company at some very low valuation). It is possible that you would need to exercise your options ASAP.

2. If you have equity and there's a sale in the works and you have voting rights (not all equity has voting rights ) then you will get to see and vote on the terms of the deal.

3. If you have equity and voting rights and the terms look terrible to you ( but you think the other party really wants for transaction to close and you are OK burning bridges, it is possible for you to get better terms for your shares than the general deal - a company may be willing to buy back your shares even at a premium just to make you go away )

4. You should presume that you will be terminated by the new company. Start looking for another job now.

5. Good luck.
Here’s a link that describes the Couchstore file format. It’s the storage engine for Couchbase and is essentially the same design as CouchDB. https://github.com/couchbaselabs/couchstore/wiki/Format
Unfortunate name conflict with http://opalang.org/
> hash partitions shouldn't have hot spots unless you hash on a bad column

In the nice world of all data having an even load, sure...

But in the real world, you can easily get a handful of users in your "Users" table sending millions of requests per second, and in that case, you would really like to re-partition so that they don't happen to all end up on the same partition.

Implementation can be as simple as allowing splittable partitions, so that whenever load/size gets too high, a partition can be split in half, and half the records moved to a new host. The partition map is only a few kilobytes, so is globally shared/updated. There are no concurrency issues, because during the splitting process, either the old or new partition is responsible for each record, and both the old and new partition hosts can respond to a read or write query, either themselves or by forwarding it to the other host.

Whenever two neighbouring partitions both see low load/space usage, join them with the same method in reverse. By joining only neighbouring partitions, you can't suffer terrible fragmentation and blowing up the size of the global partition map.
Cooling only works if you have somewhere to put the extra energy. Peltiers are inefficient to run and generate a ton extra heat. It's best to build something that can run with as little support needed.
That's a strawman. It's not what I said.

I'm saying that there being a creator is a serious possibility. It's certainly not the only one, but it doesn't deserve the flippant attitude or ridicule. And sure, God doesn't really "explain anything" (who created God? what is He like?). Doesn't mean it's not a possibility.

Part of the atheistic position is an inability to admit that there are things we don't know. What's beyond the universe? We have no idea. I think many atheists are just reactionaries frustrated by the irrationality of religion and throw out all spiritual or religious concepts without thinking it through.
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The biggest advantage I see is maintennability. After years of ORM, I have to say that result is less effort to keep as not complete mess then the older way - which tended to end in much more horrible state.
I know that Negota Logic uses Prolog for the reasoning in their Legal Tech app (which is mainly written in Java). Since the app itself has a terrible user experience and looks like stuck in a ninties dystopia, there might be better examples.
twice I have worked with colleagues in Japan on non-trivial things.. patience, skill and conflict-averse were my direct experience.. regarding the age topic.. it is rampant in the Bay Area, and in my opinion is a flimsy mask over an even greater list of ugly management practices
If I had to do it over again, to better my chances of increasing my retention bonus, I would have stayed at the job as close to the signing day as possible and then threatened to walk a week prior.

During the acquisition that I went through, we were promised that everyone was going to get great retention packages and salaries. At the end of the day, it was stock that amounted to several thousand (lol, vested over 4 years!) and my salary offer was the same. Completely laughable compared to the hype we were fed.

I was living in SF at the time. The additional amount I was offered I could have hustled part-time consulting and saved it within a few months.

I should have left.
Get you an air popcorn popper and some green Ethiopian coffee beans [0] and enjoy some of their great economy right in your own home!

[0] https://www.sweetmarias.com/green-coffee/africa-arabia/ethio...
>you aren't breaking any FCC regs (uses a wifi de-auth)

Has the FCC's enforcement been successfully challenged in court? Because last I knew their interpretation of 47 USC 333 explicitly considered monkey business at layer 2 or above to be within scope of malicious interference.
Good article.
I’m currently using Entity Framework in .net and I’ve designed the latest bit of software I’m developing by using the balanced approach advocated here; the modelling and the RDBMS are both part of the system and have their own constraints one has to bear in mind.
After working with EF there’s only one thing I couldn’t express that I can do in SQL and that’s have multiple parent keys in the parent table to represent relationships with multiple children. It took me a while to work out and I believe it is possible in .net core.
> After this was pointed out Google updated the +1 buttons

Has Google ever claimed that the code had an innocent purpose and the privacy-bypass was purely accidental in nature? The descriptions of the code imply that not breaking Safari's privacy features required much less and much simpler code than what was in place.

If they didn't, then it wasn't so much as having it "pointed out" as "found out".

The context at the time (as best I recall) was this came on the heals of the wifi-snooping street view cars that cracked weak wifi encryption and recorded traffic, so maybe people weren't in the mood to listen to any defense.
I think that openness and confidence are major factors. Having taught older adults to use computers, one of the major difficulties is getting them past the fear that they might "break" the computer and the need to memorise rote instructions rather than experiment with the interface.

The body language is quite distinctive - tentatively pressing keys with an outstretched index finger as if the keyboard might jump up and bite them, pushing around the mouse with their fingertips rather than grasping it with their whole hand, leaning away from the screen as if it might explode in their face.

Some older people just can't internalise the idea of looking at the screen for clues as to how to proceed. No matter how many times they're told and shown, they just don't get the idea that computing is interactive. They try to memorise every interaction as a series of rote steps, so if something unexpected happens they're completely lost. They are completely incapable of navigating a UI without very explicit instruction, even if it's broadly similar to UIs they know how to navigate. Something as trivial as accidentally scrolling down a few lines on a website is a complete showstopper. I don't understand it, but I find it endlessly fascinating.
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Nice, but how does it beat passing a writable collection around?
Your comments in these threads are all more or less identical and typically resort to fearmongering. Please get educated on the subject.
Oh, ok. I assumed they would just avoid touching it directly, by wrapping it in a cloth or something.

EDIT: Like this one, actually :) http://cousinjackspastyco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/IMG...
The crimp is like the crust of a pizza, the handle to hold your food if you will. If you didn't have gloves or access to running water and held your pizza by the crust with said hands, would you eat the crust?
You don't actually:

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=956894...

"And to prevent sophisticated laser devices from capturing the telltale vibration of his voice on the glass, music played between the panes."
Why is it the most unlikely event? We have no proof for any possible explanation of the universe... otherwise we'd have a proven explanation.

> God can exist, I could be Superman.

That doesn't sound like a rational argument to me.
> It is unreasonable in my opinion to consider Janus a constitutional issue.

I'd agree with you if it weren't for the fact that this is about the government and government employees everywhere you look.

I never understood how we as a society and how the labor union movement could tolerate the existence of public employee unions in the first place, as they end up intermingling two otherwise very distinct worlds, as I believe has happened here.

What you call "collective bargaining" in this case I could call "pure political pressure", since the "bargaining" is against politicians.

That sounds awfully Constitution-ey to me.
I went as far as having the track in my queue "on the deck" but couldn't see it in the global playlist or when it would be playing.

It's super fun because I tried to make a music app to make collaborative playlists on steroids but my UX is so lacking. You can check it out at http://www.niche.fm
"Merkel is solidly centre to centre-right. "

Cough, cough. Look, I gave REASONS why I think she is extremely left wing. Pointing out that she is leading the conservative party is not enough to counter my point.

What in her politics is conservative, right, or liberal?

(I would consider "marriage for all" liberal but in the end marriage should be not the business of the government)

What does the AfD stand for? Basically AfD is CDU before Merkel.
Stuff will never get fixed if you don't.
What you lose in terms of waiting for the car to show up, you gain back in not having to park and getting delivered as close to your destination as possible and not having to walk from the parking spot.
> I notice the biggest difference between me and a child is that children don't care about messing up.

A physiological difference you wouldn't have noticed are that children will be making more neural connections than adults at that stage of their development.
Here's one

https://twitter.com/BBCCornwall/status/919835097184002051
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I use voluntary in the same way as the day to day common usage of the term. Seems to me you want it to mean "without personal sacrifice". I hope we can agree that it is not the commonly understood meaning of the term.

> Researches either publish in high impact journals or lose funding. Publish or perish. Society loses out.

I don't see how breaking copyright law addresses this.