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This is not at all historically accurate. List brokers have existed for at least half a century. Tracking advertising with coupons can be traced to the 1800's if not earlier.

Catalog sales, mail order and direct mail businesses have been doing for the last century all of the same things we do today online.

The only thing that changed is the speed and access of information. The same way we didnt hear about conflicts two continents away, we didnt hear about the stores reselling our data.

Im not saying we dont have a privacy problem today, but its far from something new.
yeah, the market already popped as far as ICOs are concerned. many down 75-95% from highs and have no viable products
I smell an ICO opportunity!
In all seriousness, what are the advantages Blockchain has over a public SQL database with limited reads and writes that also maintains a public transaction history? Cause when I hear people talk about the problems Blockchains solves (outside of cryptocurrency which is a whole other topic), I don't see what advantages Blockchain has over that. A public SQL database isn't the most "clean" solution, but it'll save everyone a bunch of time and money over the resource intensive blockchain verification process.

This idea that centralization is always evil, or that public actors are inherently untrustworthy and we need some mathematical algorithm to verify all interactions between them strikes me as one of those Silicon Valley idiosyncrasies that Silicon Valley haters laugh at.
"...cpu frequency was used for timing"

reminds me how even today how seemingly hard it is to program a simple clock. for example, the countdown in pubg...
The article mentions how writing evolved through several stages: (a) clay tokens, (b) replaced with 2-D signs, (c) evolving into phonetic signs, (d) settling into two dozen letters each representing a single sound.

Over the past 50 years, another stage has occurred via the keyboard. They allow the 95 Ascii symbols to be entered easily, and control keys enable changes to the fonts, sizes, colors, or even tokens displayed. The pinnacle of this change is the IME's for Chinese and Japanese, enabling people to type in spoken sounds (pinyin or kana) with a selector, but allow Hanzi or Kanji to be displayed. Quite useful for tiny smartphone screens.
The question will be then if the increased amount of uninsured people will affect the economy badly (by the inability to access professional health services) and if this will result in creating a new market for more efficient, low-cost health providers. This will be controlled by the government as always by relaxing the laws.

Once again - this is from a non-emotional point of view. I am not saying this is good. The way the US works and the way they push towards more "dead weight employee" rather than "social beneficient" works for now well enough to keep it as it is apparently. Otherwise, there will be a much stronger push for change.
The biggest problem is that blockchains are inherently not scalable. That is more or less by design, but it limits the types of applications that can run on top of them.

I think a more likely outcome is that most types of payment infrastructure and settlement/transaction layers move to blockchains and not actual applications. For example, it’s not too difficult to imagine the stock market switch to tokenized stocks to buy and trade shares of companies. Or perhaps deeds to property in the real estate world could be issued on top of a blockchain.

I think the real value is removing intermediaries and allowing people to control their own finances, shares, land, etc where you can cryptographically prove that you own it. Building a decentralized Uber that is slower and more difficult to use does not make much sense to me.

I think we will see these things develop. Remember TCP/IP was developed in the 1970s so it took almost twenty years before HTTP came out, and another 5-10 years before people really started using it.
I just have been at OSCON, and they were talking about blockchain all the time, blockchain this, blockchain that, private blockchain, enterprise blockchain, blockchain plus this thing and blockchain on top of that thing. But still I couldn't figure out or find any explanation how anything of it would be useful for the member of the public, and indeed how it can work sustainably without the hype that would drive the cost sky high and makes people invest into mining hoping to cash out one day. And all hype ends eventually...
I don't understand the syncing. Why not write-only akin to UDP protocol?
When did you last use an FPGA or the tools?

Linux is fully supported on all tools from Xilinx (and I'm sure altera).
Vivado is an amazing tool, and has a very intuitive UI, with great design visualizations and cross-pobing, ip-integrator, etc (ISE was replaced by it years ago, it more fits the VB6 style you referred to)

There are advanced tools like SDK for embedded SW development, HLS for auto C to RTL convrsion, and SDx for automatic HW/SW offload (SDx basically drives Vivado, HLS and SDK under the hood). The FPGA world has moved past the ASIC design world in terms of tool usability, and I speak from the experience of using both toolsets almost daily.

Take a look at the latest offerings, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised
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It's true that, based on my interviewing experience, candidates with only a jQuery background are unlikely to have the skills to cut it developing large-scale software at a large-scale company, which is what I am hiring for. At the moment I interview mostly front-end candidates, and it takes a lot of sifting to find qualified hires.

However, the implicit companion assumption that a resume with lots of clojure experience will have those skills is not something I've seen any evidence for. Many Clojure-focused candidates are unproductively dogmatic and are at risk of wasting everyone's time by trying to rearchitect our codebase because it doesn't meet their particular taste. In general, if a candidate is an adherent to a niche programming language they need to be able to explain to me when its use would be appropriate and inappropriate. If their answer is "this language and/or dogma is always better" then you're adorable but you need some more experience before I'm going to hire you.

It's also important to point out that, while my core requirements are the same for both jQuery and Clojurey candidates (ability to function in a large, complex codebase & ability to manage your own code's complexity), the specific skillsets are very different. Most clojure enthusiasts are actively bad front-end engineers. Which is fine! But many positions require engineers to at least be able to dabble in UI work, and if I get the sense that you would find it beneath you to do so, its probably going to mean better luck somewhere else unless I have a very specific position to fill.
Battery capacity scales with volume, whereas external heating/cooling losses to the environment scales with surface area.

That means, for any large enough scale plant, the cost to keep it at a fixed temperature diminishes to insignificant.
I think the author was exaggerating a bit, or perhaps is more sensitive to other peoples' opinions than most (e.g. the bit about crying in the bathroom). In the past I have definitely worked at companies where "web developer" was a completely different job title than "software engineer" (back-end developer), and paid less money. Definitely second-class citizens. The industry seems to have turned a corner with the advent of single page app frameworks, npm, etc, and everyone these days seems to be "full stack", but I'm sure there are still plenty of companies out there still doing it this way.

Also, from what I can tell people in academia and certain open source circles are brutal to each other (e.g. Linus Torvalds). I'm sure they would shit on the work I do every day... but I'm too busy to care.
Building Chrome requires a supercomputer and not everyone has one around.

Why is that so? Because there are enough crazy people who cannot stop writing new web standards. For example, things like Shadow DOM and web components, that are not really necessary and can be implemented using existing specs.
The same is mostly true of two candidates one with go experience and one with Node. The one with go will either get the position, or recieve a higher offer.

The exception might be demand based. PHP for example is generally sneered and looked down upon, but if a successful startup is built using PHP (there are lot's) then demand will be high for that specific expertise.
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The take away for me was that I have to let the melatonin work. It’s not a benzodiazepine. It won’t knock you out in 15 minutes like a benzodiazepine. But if you don’t counteract it with stimulants (and staring at a light is a stimulant) then it will work for you. It’s probably a lot healthier because of its subtlety too. At the time, I worked a late shift. That meant once I got home I went into dark out mode - to counteract all the stimulation from work. I didn’t absolutely have to do that for melatonin to work, but I was able to push up my sleeping time by doing that alongside melatonin. Ie melatonin works, but melatonin and other restful things I should otherwise be doing helped even more. Synergistically.

At the end of the day, you literally have to decide to end your day.
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Given the model that the web has committed to, I also don’t think it is going to get much better.
The worst part for me is trying to find work as a self-taught web developer and people somehow magically hear the word 'designer' instead of 'developer'.
Read the parent comment again. As long as some of the time temperatures are in a viable range, it isn't a problem.
that might be true, but what’s definitely true is that the environment is not winning... we regularly trade environment for industry, and rarely do the reverse. only recently have we decided that sustainable sources of electricity/industry are worthwhile, and still many times have to use economic arguments to justify it.
>"They come from being able to do old things better: cheaper, more securely, free from the interference of trusted parties / government."

Name one thing that blockchain has made, or is even close to making cheaper or more secure or trustless?

The largest application of the technology has been bitcoin thus far, and bitcoin is more expensive; less secure than the traditional financial system (where if you get hacked you at least have some recourse); and you still have to trust intermediaries like Coinbase to acquire the Bitcoin and Bitpay to actually buy anything with it.

And I know the canned response to that is usually "why can't X new cryptocurrency solve these problems eventually? The internet had its problems at first as well."

But you solve those problems by making bitcoin exactly like our current financial system, with intermediaries and trust and regulation. And minus the hilarious waste of time, money, and energy that is proof-of-work.
I believe it's just an account and immediate download - I did it so long ago I can't remember. Either way there's no way you'd be refused access as it's intended be a free to use version so I can't imagine any approval being required.
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Because that doesn't work. What's a ddos to many is just routine traffic to a company at the size and scale of google and facebbook. Besides, ddossing them would be immoral, illegal, and wouldn't actually solve the problem.
Tautologies are true until they are true.
I think the attitude comes from the fact that Clojure is almost never someone's first language, and someone that went out of their way to learn it probably learned it to solve some problem they had with another platform.

Those two factors right there weed out a certain bottom percentile of developers.
> Try submitting a PR to chromium that implements a new web standard

Please don't. There is already oversupply of web standards. Try writing a new browser engine from scratch; it would take ages.
> Also, if we ever see an actual "advertisement" on the internet, we should celebrate it, I've noticed maybe 2 in the past 10 years.

Slatestarcodex has had Real Ads™ on the sidebar for a while now. Not coincidentally, they align so well with what I'm interested in that I've clicked every single one multiple times. I guess that's the difference between mass media and weird little niche blogs.
The SQL database has to be maintained by someone and with enough political or legal pressure the maintainer can be forced to change it, not so with a blockchain.
You sound incredulous about this – VCs have a pretty clear business model, funding slow-growing steady businesses is not it.
I agree with PretzelFisch.

It's not necessary to delve into framework minutia and ALL possible use cases in order to get a feel for how the frameworks operate.

The OP made a very wise decision by choosing to build a demo app that incorporated a list and child components. Lists with child components provide a very succinct encapsulation of the primary challenges that JS frameworks must manage. Managing state between parent and child, one-way or two-way binding with repeatable items, etc.
As a web developer I've even come across other web devs who are chasing "hard problems" and claim CRUD apps are easy and boring. Yet many of them still manage to write nearly-unmaintainable and rigid APIs etc. They haven't even figured out the "basics" but want to go straight for the "hard problems".
Around the mid-90's I got the kids one of the "Famous Person teaches Typing" programs so they could try learning to type. It had a few typing games which they liked, but they didn't get far.

I thought I'd try it out to see if it could improve my typing. It asked my goal WPM, and I guessed high and put in 45, since I'd done abysmally in high school typing (actual electric typewriters... this was around the time that the earth's crust was starting to cool :-).

It then had me take a test to see how fast I could type now, so I'd have a baseline to start with to see how far I'd come... and I was easily able to do 72 WPM!

With respect to the original article, I wonder if this was on typewriters. There's a lot more stress typing there, as a typo is a lot "worse", in that you have to use an eraser, white out, etc.

I imagine that computer keyboards, with the painless backspace, makes things faster.
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> Google makes the worlds most popular mobile operating system

Most popular operating system, PERIOD.
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it is entirely possible to write absolute garbage code in an FP language as well.

I can attest to that as I in college had a course on functional programming with Haskell and the way I did my assignment was awful to say the least.
Water isn't a magic lubricant. Pills still get stuck in my epiglottis with water. Usually when I take pills, I do it followed by a piece of bread and then water, but prior to bed I don't want to eat anything after brushing my teeth and the pill dissolves nicely, and like I said, I assume it's safe, because chewables exist (obviously other drugs don't work in a similar manner).
Yes, typing is about precision. The question was about whether disabling the backspace key was a good thing to do or not.
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Oh yes. Based on my experience hiring on behalf of different firms, arrogance among engineers correlates with the degree of mathy-ness of a stack.
Somebody else agrees with you..

https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld
Do I get to use IntelliSense?
huskies aren’t going extinct any time soon, and we do have plenty of biodiversity issues with dogs. inbreeding of terriers and such for dog shows is a huge problem that has pretty much destroyed entire breeds, and many people are working to fix it
Huh. Oddly enough, my positions on amazon and google are reversed relative to yours. And, I think microsoft has a decent, but not significant, edge on amazon.
That doesn't make sense for some complex (shaped) scripts where you have things like zero width joiners.
I am not sure I would class either of Gmail or Facebook with the Apollo Program in terms of headcount (est. 400k), total cost (estimates from $100-200 Bn), complexity (hundreds of contractors, millions of moving parts, dozens of directly-operated sites, thousands of projects), or novelty (landing on the fricking moon).
I posted this below, but I'll repost it here for better visibility.

https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld

This is a medium clone built in various frontend and backend technologies.
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Can you explain what you mean when you compare Gmail and Facebook to the moon landing? On its face that comment looks way out of whack to someone who is outside the tech industry.
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You miss that the kinetic energy is proportional to the square of the speed.

https://www.quora.com/Which-one-makes-a-bullet-dangerous-its...

The speeds at which even the smallest debris hit other satellites are immense, compared to what we are used to in our surroundings. International Space Station moves at the speed of 17 thousand (!) miles per hour. Even the small pieces of something else moving at the different speed or direction will be extremely destructive, see again the explanation about how the bullets "work."

Then consider the number of the pieces there and the fact that their movements are "unstable" (as in not keeping the trajectories that are always at the same distance from the Earth).

Only once you understand all that read about:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
Almost everything about our industry is weird and fucked up.
Weird (to me). I don’t care what a coworker makes or what their title is. I don’t even care what my own title is. When a former employer let me choose the title for my business card I went with “problem solver.” All I really care about is having competent coworkers with integrity who are respectful to each other. It’s not my job to judge the value of a coworker’s work.
Where did the anarcho- terms come from? I don’t remember seeing them in my academic Econ days.
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See Sir_Substance's problems with getting approved for something from LatticeCube because he's in Australia below. Mind, different vendor, but since I'm in Eastern Europe I had to ask.
> thing in their business model requires stealing a user's personal data

To play devil's advocate, both google and apple's business model involves making you buy stuff. Neither requires stealing your personal data (google could provide a significant amount of value without tracking simply by acting as a centralised, trusted marketplace for ads), but both are helped by it significantly. But I do agree that given the current state of affairs, google has a lot more incentive to steal your data than apple.
It’s never been easier for companies to raise capitol. I’m sure coops can raise the same funds.
Don't get hung up on the language. People sometimes say "statistically speaking" to mean "Based on my experience over a large number of tests". It doesn't mean "I applied a test of statistical significance to arrive at my conclusion".

You're then meant to combine their stated experience with their stated credentials and your assessment of their trustworthiness to arrive at some conclusion.

This imprecision may annoy you but it is a common way of speaking English so it's probably not in your interest to fight over the choice of wording.
How many people do you know with savings in physical gold? How big do you think the consumer market is for that?

The major holders of gold bullion are banks and governments – they are not going to pile in to a pyramid scheme style system where by a small number of early adopters become worth the GDP of a small country.
unless they have an as-yet undiscovered property that, for example, cures cancer... i’m sure before we realised bacteria can be super cool when they work for us, people would have been fine removing them all for medical reasons

it’s what we don’t know that we need to preserve, because there’s no going back
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The 40s would be a lot closer to the “golden era” of the 50s than today. For one, the US was still capable of infrastructure projects- and big ones.
>US POTUS

as opposed to the Russian POTUS :)
Really interesting articles.

2 things that stood out

> Hanssen [...] is serving his sentence at the ADX Florence, a federal supermax prison near Florence, Colorado in solitary confinement for twenty-three hours a day.

The guy made a deal to avoid the death penalty, but from what I've read about solitary confinement this can't be much better.

and this:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldrich_Ames

>U.S. mole hunters investigated 90 employees at WTC for almost a year and came up with ten suspects, although the lead investigator noted that "there are so many problem personalities that no one stands out"
Append-only/log-structured databases are worthwhile (SQL databases end up similarly structured internally). "Mining" and all the overhead it entails is only worthwhile if you need zero-trust, and few if any use cases do.
Knowing when we lack awareness is knowledge itself, and this is a very correct answer!

Good luck with your study of buddhism!
Not as easily.
Instead, with a blockchain such pressure results in a fork of the chain, which in some cases (notably those involving token ledgers) may be even worse.
You've never heard of a blockchain fork? Where the developers change the blockchain... It's happened before for different reasons.
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I'm confident that there is significant real value to be gained from blockchain technology but at least 99% of projects today are just empty buzzwords. Most wealthy people in the blockchain space are well-meaning but they don't know what they're doing; they invest their money all over the place based on superficial whitepapers and buzzwords.

I think that it will take several more years before we start seeing useful blockchain applications.

It's possible that the bubble may have to burst before the industry can progress though. Right now, smart people might be intrigued by blockchain technology but most of them don't want to get into the space because of the level of speculation.

Right now, it's just more profitable to launch some generic buzzword coin that does nothing than to launch one that actually does something useful.

Just like in AI right now, there are a lot of people who just want to make a lot of money and they don't care how.
I'll be honest: Based on the way you snipe at the replier for _your_ lack of clarity and the tone of your original post you might be in that category of engineers who think they're some kind of super genius but are actually just assholes.
I think yes, as Tata is a reputed brand & group of companies (auto, tech, steel, infra & many) & also because whole passport office & operation is always supervised by government officials. Before this, it was always a big bundle of original & photocopied documents & forms.