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> Rehouse people from single family houses into highrise appartments. Except many people find that high rises suck. What to let your little kids out front to ride their bikes? Go down the elevator, through a lobby, onto a very crowded sidewalk or the major road out front. In a house, I can have a backyard. Walking the dog doesn’t require 5 minutes of elevators and hallways. Kids can play outside. I am not opposed to high rises at all, but suggesting that people be “rehomed” is what I am objecting to. However else minariby arbitrary height restrictions would be a good start. Some people would like to live in greater density, but attempting a 40 story apartment in Mountain View would be by howls of protests from environmental groups. There is room for all sorts of housing to meet everyone’s lifestyle needs, the problem is that the regulation has become an albatross and it prevents a market response to increased demand. Try to build a mid rise in Palo Alto; people there would lose their minds.
The attachment points tend to fail. There is a solution, but it is difficult to make: have a gradual transition between hard and soft material.
>I think parenting has over-corrected from the overly didactic and stern parenting of previous generations to endless "follow your bliss" and "you can do anything" -- which is causing a lot of young people to spin their wheels for decades at a time, never growing up while their body is growing old. It's a shame to see.

It will likely be the last generation that has this opportunity. I don't imagine our children or their children living on a planet with much 'bliss' compared to their parents. Earth's trajectory is not looking good.
There's some interesting analysis in here but overall, I think it's focused on the wrong points. I don't want to ignore the danger posed by propaganda committees like those described in the article, but the author’s dismissal of bots/automation in this space as passé seems totally wrong. She writes: "bots are of increasingly minimal value...". Sure, in 2018, this is true for simple bots, but I doubt bots have said their final word. AI could power bots that are massively more sophisticated than their cousins that spam retweets, not to mention better at slipping through filters designed to catch them. Such next-gen bots might be able to read an article or view an image, decide what it’s about, formulate an "opinion" on it, then generate some sort of response - maybe a comment that's passable for (at least Internet-level) real human discourse.

Imagine such a bot on reddit, for instance. Imagine it's the stereotypical Russian bot, trolling the internet to sow discontent in the West. It might upvote anything about racial strife or immigration issues. It might show up in the comments to support Euro-skeptic candidates in the EU. It would pipe up about the Deep State in the US. Now imagine there's hundreds of thousands of similar bots, across a variety of sites. They would be able to control online discourse to a huge extent and dictate the media/opinion diet of millions of people. An army of these bots would be more powerful than any current propaganda arms, even those with State-level support.
Think of it this way: if you spend time learning and using a feature that is not guaranteed to be there, say, a year down the line, is that a good investment?
Eh, I think most failing artists would do well to learn a lot about business.

Very few people care about what's best. Yet so many artists strive to do the "best" something. Write the best story. Write the best song. Paint the greatest painting, and so on...

That's fine. But you've got to know very few people actually care about "best". They care about new, different, someone who's creating art just for them. The ones that actually do care about quality, they're hard to reach, and everyone has different tastes. So no matter how good your art is, a lot of that small group of people who cares about quality probably won't like it still. It's all subjective!

If you want to make a living as an artist, and you don't have an inheritance to live off, stop trying to win the artistic lottery. Start thinking of markets, how to differentiate yourself, how to create something you can sell, how to carve out a niche of people that will buy your art and pay for your living, how to grow that group of people, and over time, maybe you'll grow a big enough following that you can create the exact type of art you want to create.

Until then, create something you can sell or starve. Fantasies are for stories. Life isn't easy.
Arguably, the sole purpose of life is to procreate. You can live a purely unfulfilled life and die the most miserable wretch possible, but if your children have children, and their children do as well, and so on, it doesn't matter - genetics doesn't care (barring some kind of recessive hereditary illness responsible for this original misery).

And perhaps this is why so many people get divorced, and even why there are so many bastard children and deadbeat fathers/parents: in some inherent way, such people have already fulfilled some unnamed biological goal and have no real incentive to pursue it further. Because a family, being a committed parent, is a societal abstraction that many need not bother with. Certainly you can see this in other animal species.
Try disobeying any law, and then resisting any agent of state that comes to apprehend you, and you'll see just how right Mao was.

Yes, in practice, it's threat of violence rather than actual violence doing the trick most of the time. But the reason why that threat is respected is precisely because the violence behind it is very real, and we all know it.

And this all has nothing to do with majority rule etc. A gang that has most neighborhood residents as its members is still a gang. And when gangs do get formed "for protection of both the group and the individuals", they still need to use violence (or threat of violence) towards that goal, oppressing those that would oppress them otherwise. So you might end up with a "good guy with a gun", but it's still a guy with a gun. Remove them, and government becomes an advisory council, making recommendations rather than laws.
I don't think it indicates that students start too young, as much as 1 year increments is too granular for grouping young children.
> If you had 20 past due copays that was worse than owing 20k

Copays are typically (though not always) paid at time of service, not billed after-the-fact. In any case, it takes a long time for a bill to become overdue and get sent to collections; before that, it won't show up on your report at all. Having 20 different overdue bills (of any sort) in collections is definitely an objectively worse sign of creditworthiness than having a single active loan of 20k of any nature.
> more and more full city blocks of store fronts sit empty

Hmm, which part of manhattan are you talking about? Living in the upper east side I don’t notice any change at all
Another victim of 3rd wave feminism and modern western culture. It will be hilarious when it becomes more and more apparent with every woman that hits her mid 30s and realizes she doesn't have shit to show for it.
NYC landlords need to stop waiting for the big pay day and start dropping prices.

And that appears to be what’s happening. Commercial landlords apparently are still waiting, hence the empty storefronts, but it seems the residential landlords have finally realized the market needs to correct.
As per the article itself, many states implement the "1st of September cut date". A kid born in September has to wait an entire year to start school compared to one born on 08/31.
> adult ADHD

that was my case. Had all those symptoms you described. 30mg of Vyvanse every morning, prescribed by a Psychiatrist, allowed me to get a hold of my life again. The difference is night and day.
It may be crazy but it's not exactly without precedent. Neither C nor C++ fix the sizes of the fundamental integer types, although for backward-compatibility reasons popular 64-bit platforms still have 32-bit `int` and even `long`. But yeah, there's a reason eg. Rust has no `int` and friends but `i32` etc. instead.
It's been really sad to see people still continue to equate homes with investments like 2008 never happened.
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I think Manhattan real estate is overpriced. The price should be lowered.

And about "high-end dominated markets." I think it's true that there is simply not enough of billionaires and Saudi sheikhs to fill 10 million bucks apartment buildings, and there are simply too many places in the world competing for billionaire level clientele. People developing such projects are too optimistic, and omit that they will never make money on them because there are too many ifs in their plans. Simple demand/supply math is not on their side, and they lack any unique advantages to lure away wealthy buyers from other places.

From all above, I conclude that high-end real estate is a very, very, very risky business.

News coverage, and popular public stereotypes also play a role there. In case of Shenzhen for example, the press is happy to report that average price continues its surreal non-stop growth, while completely forgetting to mention that the median price was going down for at least 5 years. The high-end of the market is being dominated by big name speculators, and low-end with "moms and pops investors."
I've known people who lived a life very similar to the one this person describes: moving from town to town, making art wherever they go, meeting new people, floating from relationship to relationship, not much money or stuff to their name, nothing really tying them down. The difference is that they were the sort of people who said "f_ck 'normal' society and its expectations" – an attitude that I don't see much these days – and, maybe as a result of that attitude, they were really happy people.

> I used to think I was the one who had it all figured out. Adventurous life in the city! Traveling the world! Making memories! Now I feel incredibly hollow. And foolish. How can I make a future for myself that I can get excited about out of these wasted years?

I hope she can learn to stop thinking about those years as wasted. She saw and did things that most people never get to see or do because they're too busy working. Plenty of 35-year-olds are in debt, upside-down on their houses, in miserable marriages, and just a few years from getting divorced, buying a convertible, and dating someone inappropriately young for them. More than a few of them would envy her life.
How I used DigitalOcean Spaces to automate OpenVPN server migrations
That's an anecdote, not data; boomers were the hippy generation, that doesn't mean all of them were hippies.
Religion, like drugs, can be useful and life-affirming, or it can be misused.

Learning to code in high school is great, you should be proud of that!
A better rule would be a unique definition of:
- "myVar"
- "myvar"
- "my_var"
- etc
inside a scope, once you define the first.
60 hour workweek is absurd. I only have a couple decades on this planet. I'm happy to work 60 hours for myself, but for someone else? Nah.
it's beyond me why anyone would risk criminal prosecution for reporting a bug for free.
It's a nice feature, but several other languages have that, including languages that directly compete with Go.
To me, $50M seems like a tiny amount of raise for such a high valuation. Is this normal?
This is almost humorous in a sad kind of way. If Google is not able to fulfill contracts for the Defense Department, then the government will simply go to the next source. I think Amazon, with its new HQ2 a mile from the Pentagon, and less problems of employees walking out, is going to dominate in this area.
That's a good point yeah. But I think when I said that younger kids didn't do as well it meant both in terms of ranking (they were in the lowest percentiles) which indicates that they don't do as well as their peer, but also in terms of future opportunities to attend college or university.
Why would you need to make an active Job handler? What would that do for you over just a regular event based Ruby lambda?

Honest question: I don’t Ruby, I just looked up what it is.
I have a Phd in computational biology. Myself and many other computational biologists I know are moving away from the field; transitioning into Data Science, AI, and Natural Language Processing (many of the sequence analytics techniques transfer quite well to NLP). The reason for this Biotech companies treat scientists very poorly, offering them low salaries and a lack of respect. This particularly true for companies like Calico. A friend of mine from grad-school was asked to join Calico during its founding stage. He was promised the world. Instead, he was forced to subsist of a post-doc's salary for years and years. So my advice to you is to stay away from Comp Bio. Consider transitioning into NLP instead.
The September 1st cutoff for Kindergarten is treated as a distinct milestone when it really should be treated as part of a developmental window. As far as California is concerned, if you have a kid born on September 1st, they get 2 years of Kindergarten (TK + K). If their sibling happens to be born on August 31st, they get 1 year of Kindergarten (K only). And that 1 day distinction could be the difference between a childhood of grade appropriate behavior (older, more mature) or being labeled as ADHD (younger, less mature) with many years of drug treatment to look forward to.
This is massive for adoption. Can't wait to give it a try.
Jim Gilliam backed an idea we had to make finding out what you could run for and how to get on the ballot. It developed into the free site runforoffice.org

He was brilliant, fierce, opinionated, and amazing to work with.

He will be dearly missed.
I didn't read the advice part either. Didn't seem fitting, felt wrong. Her letter stands alone.
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-your-birthday-affects-yo...
Mostly this. I think most doctors mean well but but when you go looking for problems that you are trained to find you usually find something, and medicine is so defensive these days due to malpractice litigation that nothing even slightly anomalous is ever ignored.
> You can always do something meaningful with your life.

There lies the rub. What if you don't find anything to be meaningful to you. This implies that there are some activities that are inherently more meaningful that others and you just have to find them. Now you are back to square one.

Can it be rewritten to

> You can always find meaning in anything you do

This doesn't handwave the problem away. Main task is to find meaning in yourself not keep looking for activities that will give you meaning and hope you get lucky.
It is just not my impresion that men who hop relationships look all that better. The comitted ones are not ugly ones.

Also, a men who is having relationship with you solely because he can't find replacement likely sux as a partner. Or maybe she sux or they don't match, but in any case, that relationship will be crap.

And that relationship will become real bad after children.
I agree heartily that context is viral in APIs, but would argue that that's essential to the nature of context. Accordingly: implicit association of context with a goroutine would introduce a complementary API virality issue: you now need need to worry about whether anything above or below you starts to delegate their work to separate goroutines.
Yeah, and that simplicity is also why systems like WordPress, Drupal, etc aren't going anywhere any time soon either. Yes they require an install process and a database setup, but compared to their newer competitors like Ghost, that's a lot more viable for someone with little computer experience than figuring out the command line or what not.

Like it or not, PHP and many applications written in it are more user friendly than many of their alternatives, which is worth a lot more to average Joes than security or code quality.
For better or worse, ZFS isn't really targeted at "average users" as of right now.

See also: There is no stable ZFS implementation for Windows as of right now, and the implementation for macOS (while surprisingly painless in general) requires at least some command line use to set up.

If anyone actually develops a ZFS implementation designed for average users, I would agree that it should include automated backups by default.
One that at least makes a credible attempt to justify privileging brutality, as in the sort of 'brutal honesty' on display here, over kindness. I have no preference over whether such a justification proceeds from pragmatism or principle, but I would like to see one attempted.
I'll bite... I've protested apartments being built near my house-with-a-garden in the suburbs (Seattle area).

Not because I have a particular interest in my house price, or want to interfere with other people, but because the plans are doing absolutely sweet FA to improve the infrastructure to cope with the additions. In general, I'd be happy for the extra apartments if they came with extra infrastructure. We'd all benefit from it.

In one case, they started planning to add hundreds of apartment blocks specifically targetting young families, and yet the way it was being done there would be zero money going towards local schools to deal with the extra influx. Usual construction requires money towards schools, but there are loopholes, and the developer was using them, and the city seemed happy to let them.

Nor were there any plans to deal with the additional cars being added. Even with good transit links to Seattle, the roads leading to the proposed site.

Nor were there plans to deal with increased sanitation or power demand on an already flaky power grid.

The list literally goes on and on. What we keep seeing around here is developers interested in doing the absolute bare minimum to build apartment blocks, and a city content to just let them overload an stretched resources.
I mean getting you're license doesn't mean you will own a car and get insurance, it's certainly a life skill to know how to drive, where many schools are still providing services that people just aren't taking full advantage of.
Wait, that would mean getting government permits to develop software, OSHA and other agencies' inspections, and union workers. Also software development would become orders of magnitude slower.

Maybe that wouldn't be so bad after all.
For the their purposes, the people who would care are those who are currently maintaining a significant Go codebase.

So even if you did Go full-time for 5 years, but then switched to Rust and now work full-time in Rust, you would not mind at all if the language added some backward-incompatible changes.

In fact you'd probably welcome them, since often you moved away because of features the language was missing.
Anecdata, but this was my experience. I have a November birthday, and the school district in Massachusetts gave my parents the option of having me start a year younger than everyone or wait a year. My parents opted to send me to school a year earlier. I performed poorly, and at one point was labeled with ADHD. On the standardized tests they gave in 6th grade I scored at the 12th grade level, so I don't think my problems were cognitive as much as behavioral. Also, in high school having some peers who have been held back a grade being 15 years old while one is just turning 13 can lead to some rather unpleasant physical bullying. I often wonder how those early experiences may have limited my life.

I was so tempted to send that article to my mom, but I didn't know how she would take it.
You aren't supposed to use different styles in the same codebase: Nim is going to have a tool that can enforce this soon.
A while back I worked at a company I really liked. I made lots of good friends there and it was, I think, the best time in my life to date.

A few days before I left that company, people have taken me out for farewell drinks. We hang out until late at night, having fun, drinking and eating and chatting and so on. Until it's like midnight and we all have to go home.

One of my friends is the new girl. She's pretty attractive, and new in town. She's also from the suburbs and hasn't figured out the basic safety steps to being able to walk through downtown SF safely late at night, so she asks if I can walk her to her apartment. I say of course.

As we start walking, she starts bawling. I take it things haven't been going to well in her life and she's got some demons to grapple with. Well that's fine, I'm not going to ignore a friend in need when she calls for help. So we sit and I listen as she goes for about two hours, telling me her problems.

What were her problems? More or less the same as what was written in this article. She had just turned 30 and was starting to realize that she had nothing to show for it and the time available to her to settle down was quickly evaporating.

It broke my heart. She was a really cool person. She was smart, and pretty, and yet still down to earth. Unlike a lot of people I'd met in SF, she wasn't snobby or arrogant. She had a lot going for her. But at the same time, she was on the same path as OP was and I didn't see her getting off it any time soon.

Her big thing was travelling. She loved to travel. She'd been all over the world. She'd done backpacking, she'd done hotelling. She spent a few years living on a boat the Caribbean doing scuba stuff. She spent a few years living in an expat community in Asia. She had had a lot of experiences. But unfortunately, experiences are expensive, and it's really hard to put down roots when you're constantly on the move. And she was being made miserable by the conflict between her desire for an exciting life and her desire for a stable life.

I didn't know what to say, so I tried my best to be a good friend in the moment. I haven't heard from any of the folks from that company in a few years. I hope she's found the life she wanted, and that she doesn't end up like OP
If we see religion as a dominant world viewpoint, it becomes less about one particular religious interpretation (or not), and more about the benefits of having a practice that helps you be better for yourself and others.
I don't dispute that ADHD is an observance of a real phenomenon, but maybe the prevalence of the diagnosis is a result of society overoptimizing human productivity? Having ADHD, especially now that ADD is ADHD-PI, seems very normal these days, but it we treat it more like an affliction than a common behavior the modern world needs more compassion towards.

If I have a child and they seem to have ADHD, I would pull them out of the public school system so as they don't have their time wasted and their esteem destroyed. If the system doesn't become more understanding, then it's up to me. At least then my child can be brought up to learn good coping mechanisms they'd be lucky to otherwise learn before it's too late.
"int" in Go the native index type for arrays. I consider it an error to use it for anything else, and since I've adopted that policy, I've had no particular problem with ints.

Probably a good linter idea in there somewhere.
https://www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Design-Manual-Steven-Skiena...

I bought it and it was a counterfeit book. Pretty sure if you buy it there you will get either a counterfeit book or an international edition which has significantly lower print quality.
The anatomy of search: The root of the problem
52% of tech employees believe their work environment is toxic
What would you have the software do when it runs out of space? IMO, not making new backups would be worse than deleting old ones.
Count me in the "don't care" department -- the company needs to do business to survive and thrive. I like that things are going well for the company at the moment.

Some of these people complaining about it are likely the same sort that, when given a chance to ask Satya a question during a Q&A session, ask about getting free food in Redmond.
Yes, well stated.
I wasn't a "follow your heart" kid, but school came super easy to me and I never learned how to force myself to do things I don't want to do. It's a constant struggle.