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So Scala is harder to write, but the question is: is it easier to read?

(Since in general a particular piece of code is read far more often than it is written).
From what you describe it seems you already live under the dictatorship of the locked down pocket computer that can be used to make phone calls.

Clearly your family is engaging in voluntary servitude and is probably highly dependent.
I always thought that myopia was caused by the old CRT screens or more like the too much time in front of screens was true 20 years ago. But not anymore.
I don’t think design is the antithesis to agile just that design needs to be an iterative process not just in terms of product features but software architecture.

Jamming new features into an existing architecture whether it fits of not is amazingly common though. In that vein I’d maybe even think about separating product and software increments just to highlight technical debt.
I saw some reviews that claim the books just presents common knowledge. Keep in mind it is aimed at undergrads.

I personally think the author is to harsh on "tactical programming" (solving problems locally without the big picture in mind). I agree with someones note on HN that tactical programming is fine till you get a product market fit. Technical debt has not to be paid back if the product fails.

I try to design strategically for overall architecture and don't care for most of the rest (in worst case you can refactor later).

If 9 out of 10 startups fail you can have huge savings. If you have enough success that it matters then you have the resources to improve.
FTA,

>>> For example, the authors recommend that policymakers should avoid premature closures of existing plants, which undermine efforts to reduce emissions and increase the cost of achieving emission reduction targets

are they actual "premature" closures ? In my country, they do everything they can to extend the life of the nuclear reactors waaaaaaaay past their expiration (150% of the planned life --- which looks like almost criminal; but I can't judge; I am not a nuclear expert)
For everyone suggesting to imagine a black void - try imagining the reverse. Try imagining blinding white space, like looking at the surface of the sun, up close.

This is much harder to do, it requires more concentration and for that reason it works faster and more reliably.
I wouldn't define gender disparities as a problem to begin with, so arguments of the form "but the problem is big so it's OK if the actions are big" have no weight with me.

What remains is that the word "diversity" doesn't mean diversity. It means focusing on getting women into positions of wealth and power - which you appear to be agreeing with me about, but for you it's an "ends justify the means" situation whereas for me and other posters here it isn't.

If diversity advocates cared about diversity they'd attack all gender disparities with equal vigour because it'd be the disparity itself they care about. But obviously they don't: they only go after the ones where there are big benefits of money and power to be had. Gender disparities that favour women or that don't yield large streams of money and power are ignored.

However they don't admit that. This is what rankles. Instead of talking about money and power they claim they merely want "gender diversity", which is false.
Radical open-access plan could spell end to journal subscriptions
Seconded - one of my default actions when setting up a campaign is to switch that off.
In yoga, this technique is called "virtual" Nadi Shodana or alternative nostril breathing. There are many variants, A/B
tested for centuries, that might work better for different people.
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China is much more obviously polluted such that ordinary citizens have to deal with it every day.

Most parts of the west aren't so visibly polluted anymore, but that doesn't mean the air is clean.
> I'm from Microsoft and when you see Microsoft documentation it often says, you know, x y or z is a rich something, right. In this case Haskell - or ghc's version of haskell is a rich language. What does this mean? Sounds good, doesn't it? But it always means this, right. That it's a large, complex, poorly understood, ill documented thing that nobody understands completely.

From a great talk by Simon Peyton Jones https://youtu.be/re96UgMk6GQ
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Where do you get this glue info? I don't see it in the article.

So someone accidentally drilled through an expensive space station module on earth and filled the hole with glue. Wow..
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“Female Consumption” is rising in the Chinese market
I usually just let my mind adrift, imagining all kinds of crazy bizarre things and worlds, and fall asleep. Trying to focus on "don't think" actually did the opposite for me - instead of falling asleep it made me focus on all the weird things my mind kept creating.

Imagine yourself chanting "don't think" in your head while your mind creates a room, a wooden chair for you to sit on, shadows, light, a window, and the sky and the sea is upside-down outside the window, and walking on the sky is considered normal in this world. Normally I'd be falling asleep in that bizarre world but I kept chanting "don't think" instead. Absolutely useless.
Why did you use death sentence cases as data? I've spent around 20 minutes just reading the last words of various executed people. It's... disturbing and distracting.
> And yet that's precisely what the Google engineer linked to was doing by circulating his memo describing how he and others believed women weren't as "qualified" to be programmers based solely on their biology. Hence, why he was fired.

After all discussions on the HN on the topic you still hold this view? When you paint the dissenting view in the worst possible light (and imagine a few things just to be sure), you will be seen as the oppresor.

Hence the identity threat to the conservatives.
That's an interesting question although it's not directly related to the article.

I think it is definitely possible to write Scala code that is easier to read than the same Java code.
However it seems that a large part of the Scala community does not see this as their main objective when writing code.

Sometimes the focus seems to be on writing code as terse as possible, which is not the same as readable.
Or the focus is on making code more generic and abstract, which can be a useful goal depending on the use case, but it's definitely not the same as readable.
I want to be her student, à la Macron, though I suspect I am older.
I like those, and also the vietnam barber shop stuff for some weird reason https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jqwnv1eLfY4&t=836s
Listening to an audio book on some scientific topic will almost always put to sleep within 15 minute. I really like books on cognitive science - I have used books by Daniel Dennet and Dean Buonomano for this purpose. I not only learn interesting things, but I get to relax very quickly.
Third paragraph, with a quote directly after it:

An unnamed source told RIA Novosti the person responsible for drilling the hole filled it with glue instead of reporting the mistake.

"The glue dried and was squeezed out, opening the hole," the source told the media outlet.

It's fun that the astronauts did the proper/final fix with epoxy, which to most people is of course also a glue. So perhaps the worker used (or mis-used) the wrong glue to fix this, rather than tried to cover up the mistake? Of course it sounds reasonable that it should have been reported, which didn't happen, so so the working environment seems improvable.
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I have heard about that method, too. If I remember it correctly then that exercise can be used to both calm you down and energize you. It all depends on the direction, if you breath in with your left or your right hole. Unfortunately I don't remember which direction is aligned with the calming effect. This can be an advantage: on different days, try out either way and observe what happens. If this method is more than some spiritual entertainment then there should be a clear difference.
It's a good point that it takes effort for the parent to break the tasks down into small learnable steps.
Scientific American or not, this is just a rant. It's not that I don't share the author's concerns. It's just that there's a large jump from a summer with lots of fires in the Northern Hemisphere to the collapse of human civilization. Maybe if the next summer or two are as bad or worse.

I honestly don't understand how we got to current US policy. But it does seem pretty clear that people who voted for Trump wanted these policy changes. Arguably because it's all become so horribly polarized and confused. Somehow, concerns about terrorism, trade imbalances, immigration, affirmative action, changes in sexual identity and so on have become associated with skepticism about anthropogenic global climate change. It makes no sense to me.
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Thank you for your devoted work on Stellarium for so many years!
I think your comment reflects well the mindset difference between programmers working for startups and the rest of the world. When you're working on a system that's supposed to last for decades, you think in a completely different way.
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How can a sensitive organ like the eyes just keep on taking the sustained stress of bright blue light day after day, hour after hour, with little break and rest as programmers aren't too fond of doing (flow), without tensing up thus changing refraction? It's just physics and a very logical problem to tackle.
Agree, getting rid of all social media was one of the most productive decisions I ever made.
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I do this. I fantasise about a fictional point in time when I pump myself full of nanotech, and transition to post-human. Going through the details as they interact with blood, muscle, bone, neurons etc. helps me to cool the dread and drift off.
> the collapse of human civilization

I must have missed that bit in the article.
I remember reading the first article about the Mayan moms and now this made me think that this method is very logical and we just forgot in our rushed modern lifestyle.

When you think about it, a child not doing chores is raised to believe they're somehow outside of the family unit. Most families start with one child and two parents. So you're subconsciously telling that one child that you are its servants and all it will ever do in life is play.
Reading the final words is really moving. So much suffering.
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It's not just "people in power". People have voted for them, in support for such policies. How has that happened?
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I thought this was about a literal fire in a DC. It would have been a more interesting read than the classic and often told tale of 'dev makes one tiny, harmless change in prod without testing and trouble ensues.'
Reason I posted this to HN, not only because it was interesting, but having recently finished watching Ripper Street, there's a character in that show who's backstory relates to this.
Maintaining a vm is roughly like maintaining an additional computer.
As evidenced by the "rollin' coal" phenomenon, destroying the environment is a way to signal how manly you are.
OK, that's my reading of "the long night that will last centuries".
In C++ the main actual rabbit hole of useless abstraction begetting useless abstraction is premature generalization from what you actually need to templates that can be used with types you don't need, which then proceed to kick you with implicit assumptions, type traits, unforeseen subtle type distinctions like those that come up in Haskell.

Other kinds of "stuff from the latest C++1x standard" tend to consist of relatively harmless novel ways to express something, usually not intrinsically complex and, when inappropriate, causing only localized damage (typically puzzling syntax or slightly wrong declarations with no impact on unedited code parts, even in the same class or function).
Genuinely enjoyed the book. A couple of notes:

1. In The Long Tail > Nested Queries, the first example contains the function LEN, which gives an error as LENGTH is expected.

2. On the questions with multiple answers, when showing hints, I would use different font colors for correct/incorrect statements as it will be easier to check your results.

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He makes observation of women's preferences, based on data. You claim he is "suggesting" something that is not there (seems like projection). Is this really the best argument for Damore's "intolerance" (in the memo) you can make?
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Thank goodness, I am not the only one finding this habit a terrible, unforgivable profanation of the book.
At least there are two of us.
Damn, I had forgotten about that.

But really, isn't it just a form of trolling?
Glad to see that the Creative Commons license is used!

I used the MIT license for the interactive SQL tutorial I built ( https://www.sqlteaching.com/ )
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I've created a tool to easily track and remove some cached files that are stored by Xcode - and usually never ever removed. This could lead to tens of gigabytes on systems that were used for development for a longer period of time.

Especially "Device Support" files are tends to take many gigabytes of space. Those are files with OS symbols that are downloaded from a device each time a new version of iOS is released. This is what's downloaded to Mac when Xcode is "Preparing for debugging..." - it's ~2-3GB per iOS version. As you can imagine, that could grow to a very substantial sizes.

It allows also to set reminders to run it periodically.

Tell me what you think!