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>However, it’s easy for even that simple idea to end up being something like: Item.FinalPrice = Item.BasePrice * CalculateModifier(Item.ItemCode, Item.OrderContext); Which sacrificed understanding for elegance.

Sure, and I'd call that bad code unless it exists because there are far more considerations than sales tax. Either way I don't see how that is an example of when to or not to leave a comment.

>Sure, the functionality to find that SalesTax number might take tens of thousands of hours to create and cover a multitude of egde cases. Still with proper context, structure, naming conventions, etc the why’s should be clear.

Again, that's just not true. I have a hard time imaging that you're a professional engineer with real world experience if you've never found yourself in a situation where variable names alone could not express the _why_ behind a piece of code.

>Elegant code is elegant when it encapsulates the why’s not just the how’s

Great, not always possible. For example:

// We have a longer than normal backoff period on
// timeouts here because device XYZ is a piece of junk
// and randonly stops responding for minutes at a time

or

// version 2 of the spec switched to an XML format and
// allows the header to be anywhere above the root
// element of the document (as a processing
// instruction). We cannot define a reasonable min
// header position/length. Just read the whole file.
const size_t MinHeaderLength = std::numeric_limits<size_t>::max();

or

// Workaround issue caused by .NET 4.6.1 upgrade which
// has more restrictive certificate checks for secure
// connections. This is currently affecting SignalR
// Scaleout connections to Azure Service Bus.
AppContext.SetSwitch("Switch.System.IdentityModel.DisableMultipleDNSEntriesInSANCertificate", true);

Of course you could suss out the reasoning on your own eventually, but why force people to do that? What variable naming scheme would you use to convey those reasons?
> CNN’s “Journalist of the Year” - who worked for Der Spiegel - was recently outed as having completely fabricated the majority of the articles

Of course he's going to win awards.

The rest of the journalists, who have to confine themselves to the much more difficult task of developing sources and researching facts, won't be able to compete with someone who just makes up fantastical stories out of thin air.

He was caught in the end, so what's the problem?
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I'm told that most of the cost is the US will treat people longer who are going to die in a short time. Someone who will die in 2 weeks can have their life extended to 4 weeks with expensive care... Of course the costs are much higher and outcomes don't change much. For normal care (meaning you are expected to live a good life for a long time latter) costs are more in line.
Padding with zeroes doesn't have to involve reallocating anything--you could wrap the array in an iterator that first yields 0, then yields each array element, then yields 0 again.

E.g. in C# using Linq:

foreach (var num in myArray.Prepend(0).Append(0)) { /* blah */ }
> Why an union formed by you and your pears would put those barriers?

Unions are run by majority rule, not by me. It is perfectly possible for the majority to implement rules that I disagree with.

The history of almost every union in existence, proves implementing barriers to entry is extremely common.

The fundamental reason, as for why unions try to screw over new comers is obvious. The reason is become people who aren't already in the industry don't get a vote.

It makes perfect sense as for why people who already have a job might want to screw over people who don't have a job, to prevent them from competing.

And it turns out that a lot of people are horrible individuals who want to discriminate against newcomers because "F you, they got theirs!".

> It is like you telling me that you heard that some

It is not some unions that do this. It is instead most of them.

Screwing over new comers to protect the established members is almost the entire purpose of unions.

> I am under the impression that the programmers that are not having the CS education are not few

Those people would be grandfathered in, if they already have a job, likely. The people who would get screwed are the ones in college right now, who aren't allowed yet to vote on union rules.
If I recall correctly, the debate was more about whether the apps would be built with web technologies (JavaScript, HTML, etc.) presumably running in some sort of wrapper, or if they would be built with a more traditional platform language.
You require care. Insurance company agrees to pay X. They pay X to hospital. This has no relation to the actual cost of the care you received. Hospital, you, and the uninsured split what health insurance doesn't pay for. That remainder has to come from somewhere.
The x201 is a Thinkpad sold with an i3, an i5, or an i7.
How much the option 'I want to stay alive, please?' would cost?
Solar charge controllers are one of the least expensive parts in the system, so anyone serious about preparing for that kind of scenario should just have a spare. Whether the panels themselves would be affected I'm unsure of.
Perhaps I'm not getting the setup right. Assuming that data is partitioned between worker A and worker B, I see no way to rewrite a distributed transaction to proceed based strictly on information available to A or to B.

T(
A.x = A.x - 1,
B.y = B.y - 1,
)
under constraints:
A.x >= 0
B.y >= 0

What is the rewrite for the above transaction?
Wouldn’t it just be vastly easier to take out a loan?
It is clear that you, like many commenters in this thread, have very little, if any, understanding of US patent law.

This patent is a nothing burger.

Don't take it personally. Patent law is about the most complex area of law. Most tech press blows it too.
Proverbs 18.8:
The words of a whisperer are like dainty morsels,
And they go down into the innermost parts of the body.
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I don't quite understand the issue with the GitHub use case. If the operation is just "set name to X", then multiple such operations are trivially serializable and the latest one will win. All prior changes are accepted, performed and immediately overwritten, there's no need for any coordination at all. Or am I missing something?
From the article:

> Ms. Grupp, 66, said she wasn’t rich, and was disturbed by the letter. “I kind of resent it,” she said. “I don’t think they need the money.” The hospital last year reported nearly $48 million in net income and paid its chief executive officer $1 million.

This is where it goes. That said, if I could spare $200k, I would if I had the information about which % of that money went to actual equipment and patient services. I think that information is available for non-profits, but I am not sure about hospitals. There will always be admin waste, but the best way to decrease it is to reward more efficient hospitals.
Sure, I'll donate $15 but ask them to consider it a $1000 donation

What, this doesn't make sense? So, about that...
>Their fact checkers evidently started with the assumption that their journalists weren't being deliberately deceptive.

People reviewing pull requests at our company also have to assume that programmers aren't being deliberately deceptive.

So what? Almost all of our working relationship, heck relationships period, are based on trust.
Oh, okay. Thanks for explaining. Do you know some of the reasonings around the support for the shut down?
Isn't procmail dead?
Apple shifts staff from autonomous vehicle project
The problem with ghosting -- all forms of ghosting -- isn't that you break up or quit but that you don't bother to tell the other person.

While the break up/quit might be initiated more often when one has "market power", there is no reason people should become less or more polite while doing so.

To put it another way, you might job hop more if the market is hot just as you may date more if you are very attractive, but that doesn't mean you can or should be less polite.
Then what's your proposal for NATted, self-contained (no gateway), and Tor Onion networks?

Sure, if I have a public IP and DNS records pointing towards it, I'm served by LE or a multitude other vendors. But that's a small number of machines on any network.
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Evidently he didn’t let iPads into the home as far as the kids involved:

https://www.businessinsider.com/heres-why-steve-jobs-never-l...

For some, these gadgets are crack cocaine.
It's a kernel, not an OS.
More information from 2017 about the fight to remove cars in Oslo: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/jun/13/oslo-ban-cars...

It's interesting to see the political pushback from conservatives. Still, removing parking seems like a good way to get rid of cars (especially that large fraction of traffic that circles around cities searching for parking).
In North Carolina, the "Click to Sign" services (such as DocuSign) must be licensed/approved by the North Carolina Department of the Secretary of State. An electronic signature from a licensed provider is just as good as a paper signature. They certainly have legal value and are used for real estate closing and the like.

NB: HelloSign, the other provider that's come up in the comments here, is not on the Secretary of State's list and is therefore worthless in North Carolina (and they're possibly in violation of the law for offering such services without seeking approval).

Secretary of State page listing approved providers (including DocuSign):
https://www.sosnc.gov/divisions/notary/e_notary_solution_pro...

Electronic signatures are the same as paper signatures:
https://www.smithdebnamlaw.com/2015/05/electronic-signatures...

Relevant North Carolina General Statute:
https://www.ncleg.net/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/PDF/ByArti...
Unfortunately, that's all you can do. The real remedy is shining sunlight on the policy violations, which is why the journalism is so important.
In Canada you need to game the urgency of your ailment.

Your mileage varies everywhere.
please don't spread misinformation - abusing long live socket connections is what drain the battery - having one open and managing it in sane manner is quite battery efficient. Google brainwashed everyone to force them to use their push service, which is just plain awful... (and requires open connection... sic!)
As a Python developer, and when docker is not an option, nodeenv is the perfect solution for me, to the point that I have a bash function specifically for creating a Python virtualenv and then installing nodeenv on top.
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Yes it can. I ran into an issue with one of the APL examples once because the index had been changed and it wasn't documented. The Dyalog folks answered my email on the weekend (I'm not a customer).
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I read this as YC saying to investors that if you want to play in the YCA pool, you will respond to emails and make decisions in a timely fashion. Major props to them for this.

We raised an A on great terms, though we are not in YC or YCA. It was surprising how many investors ghosted us, or promised timelines that didn't happen, etc.
He underestimated smartphones, so what?

We all did..
Your hard answers the question by asking it again or assuming something is wrong with needing a solution.
D'oh! Forgot about scaling up. Thanks for reminding me!
I discussed this a bit here: https://www.fast.ai/2017/09/08/introducing-pytorch-for-fasta...

Also some info in the fastai release post: https://www.fast.ai/2018/10/02/fastai-ai/
No, he didn't, he called Paul Ryan and said "if you don't give me XYZ demands that Mitch McConnel wouldn't let me have I'll veto the bill and shut down the government" and then Ryan flopped around like a fish and then the shutdown started. It was still Trump's veto that started the whole thing, the fact that it was threatened instead of exercised makes no difference.
Dating doesn't involve an HR department, legalese, and contractual obligations.
Your live coding demo is boring me (2015)
Could someone recommend in which order should the fast.ai courses be taken for someone new to the AI field completely?
Should "Introduction to Machine Learning for Coders" be the first? or I could dive into "Practical Deep Learning" right now, followed up later perhaps by "Cutting Edge Deep Learning for Coders" ? What is the difference between the two deep learning courses also?
This is non-news. People have been walking away from jobs forever. That's way employment policies have rules about when persist absence is considered a resignation.
I sorta view actively suppressing information, while not completely removed, as censoring...which YouTube very much does.

There’s plenty examples of things that should have been on trending by every possible metric, but never gets there. And I don’t think I’ve ever seen PewDiePie appear in my recommended section, even though he’s the only creator I consume regularly. I have to find him in my notification list, on the site, buried.
Depends on the hospital, but very possible. It's also very complex.

Sometimes it is just a matter of what you offer as a hospital, the volume of people you bring in, and what you do.

Example:

Obstetrics is becoming a major money looser due to changes in the insurance market. So insurance companies how require a hospital who handle's births to also have a surgery center and be able to handle c-sections in order to insure any birthing. The thing is that requires an on call surge and staff and things that previously a lot of hospitals didn't have.

So in order provide that service the overhead just skyrocketed. Many rural hospitals just don't offer it anymore or if they are / are taking big losses to provide the service.

That's just one area.
Not even that. It is designed for hvac applications and measures VOCs on the assumption that they are from human breath and have a corresponding increase in CO2 levels due to breath.
Specialized training, the supply of which is artificially constrained by the AMA/RUC.
> Senator Pay is $174k, which is less than senior developers around the tech world.

Isn't this just a stipend to cover housing/food while drumming up kickbacks, insider trade information, or cushy post-office executive positions in many (unfortunate) cases?

not sure if we can necessarily rely on base pay as being an accurate measure of income related to being a senator..
The biggest issue with bikes and walking in SF (as well as Seattle) is the hills. Oslo is relatively flat, as are other very bike centered cities like Amsterdam. Mind you, the rise of electric bikes is helping a lot, but it seems like hilly cities would only be able to get rid of cars if they replaced them with better, efficient, clean public transit. And it doesn't have to be just buses. Seattle, where they exist, escalators are very helpful. Maybe trams? I'm not a public trans expert by any means though. But as a guy who's not getting any younger, I definitely start to appreciate a hill escalator (there's a couple here in Seattle, some public, some parts of buildings) when my knees are hurting.
Mission would be a good candidate too. We've already re-routed most of the traffic using tactics like mandatory right-turns to other streets like South Van Ness, Cesar Chavez, San Jose, and Alemany.
Keep in mind that some infrastructure has to stay in place to allow for things like supply vehicles or emergency services.

The "losing business because you can't park right in front of it" is BS in most big western European city centers where you either go to a paid parking or to a spot on the street 10-15 minutes away from your intended destination sometimes.
SavaJe had fundamental battery life issues by using the standard Java process models.
> However, I concede that most drivers are nowhere near as interested in the technicalities of driving and teaching learner drivers to rev match and heel and toe is probably too complex at that stage in their driving careers.

For every ICE driver like you, there are an equal number of EV drivers trying to optimize their driving habits as well. The difference between ICE and EV when it comes to brake wear is that it's an active effort for an ICE driver and passive for an EV driver.

The regenerative braking in an EV varies by make/model but the 1st gen. Nissan Leaf has by far the least aggressive system. With the Leaf, the brake engagement is based on a number of factors from how fast you're going to how hard you press on the brake. The Leaf will almost come to a complete halt simply by taking your foot off the accelerator and allowing the regen system to drag the car to a stop without ever depressing the brake. In stop-and-go traffic you rarely have to take your foot off the gas.

In the Leaf when you depress the brake pedal the regenerative system ramps up quickly and only after it has peaked do the mechanical brakes engage. When stopping it's not uncommon to hear the mechanical brakes engage just as the car comes to a rest to hold the car at a stand still, it's an audible thunk.

The Tesla Model 3's regenerative braking is quite aggressive compared to the Leaf and if you take your foot completely off the accelerator pedal you will lurch forward in your seat as the car quickly decelerates.

I personally find the Leaf to be a much easier, and a lot less fun, to drive than the Model 3 because of how the brake regen systems work. In my 2015 Leaf I can engage hill mode (aggressive regen) and eco mode (gummy pedal) and then only have to touch the brakes to come to a complete halt. I've yet to find a setting in the Model 3 that compares.

You should go test drive something like the Model 3 as it's a very different driving experience to an ICE in terms of braking.
My mind is blown by how the US Federal Government can claim someone is essential and force them to work without pay.

I've read a pretty good explanation of it here:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/01/11/how-can-go...

Yet, I still cannot understand how it is legal to make people work without pay based on an Attorney General's thoughts on it in the 1980s.

Amazing.
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This. I can tell anybody thinking about taking this course, do it! The way Jeremy Howard explains things is so down to earth and clear, you'll be surprised at how easy all this ML/DL nonsense is :)

But seriously, there's a lot to learn here, and if you are looking to make your entry into the hype field of the decade I would strongly suggest starting here first

(Alternatively, for the more math inclined, perhaps take Andrew Ng Coursera course first: https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning)
What would be even better is if they had somewhere that you could just specify what episode it is in a series rather than it try to guess based on titles
I'm completely on boar with preventing employers from providing it as a benefit, but I think you may be overestimated how much the wealthy class will give a shit. They can foot the bill for their care.
I think the author is wrong on nearly all counts. I think Steve Jobs loved to see what people were interested in and find a way to make it easier to have and use. The iPod was a way of taking something people loved to do (listen to music) and make it easier with "1000 songs in your pocket."

At the risk of romanticizing: from what I've read, he wasn't about creating brand-new concepts, he was all about taking existing concepts and turning them into what people really wanted them to be.

Lastly, I think the author gives Apple and Steve Jobs far too much credit. Apps didn't become successful on these platforms because of app vendors, they became successful because people started asking "what else can I do with this phone?" People _want_ to constantly feel "in the loop" and "productive."
"private paid healthcare" is also a myth in the same sense, so this isn't a useful line of analysis to distinguish the two.
How can you guarantee that the person publishing their findings won't change their mind later and apply for a patent?
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A company will fire you with absolutely no hesitation or mercy if they feel it is good for their bottom line, with no respect for your personal well-being. However, I feel that informing your boss that you're quitting is a reasonably easy thing to do which could help real people at that company and seems like common decency to me
Where's the standard for Java?
A great contributing factor in Oslo is that very few people live in the city center. It’s only business. I would imagine in the US, residents would still like to have cars accessible. But maybe in SF it’s the same with business-only areas?
It can't be a hash collision if the mysterious tracks/artists are no longer on Spotify. If Spotify deleted the artists or tracks instead of giving them new ids, that suggests something else is going on.
It sounds like they are overfitting the recommendations.

They really need to get the users explict preference, rather than trying to infer it from what videos they watch, as that data is tainted by the recommendation engine.

Also they have killed the annotation system that most video creators have used to manually recommend videos to their viewers, which is probably going to cause even more overfitting of recommendations.
> "So what?"

Do you really need me to answer this for you? Did you miss the part where it failed in spectacular fashion and will haunt Der Spiegel's reputation for years to come? Not to mention god knows how many innocent people were defamed by this fraud over the years he was allowed to run wild by Der Spiegel's fact checkers.

This guy was publishing "too good to be true" articles for years and none of Der Spiegel's famed fact checkers noticed it. He was eventually uncovered by another reporter, not a fact checker, so to suggest that understaffing in the fact checking department is to blame is farcical.
> Public transport though is probably the best in the world per capita, with subway, buses or trams going every couple of minutes.

I believe Zürich would like to have a word. Not that this is a competition, but it's an even smaller city (by population) with incredibly extensive public transport that's well-known for its punctuality.

It really is quite easy living without a car when you have a multiple reasonable options in any of these cities with well-developed public transport.
With at-will employment and layoffs being what they are, the only thing gauche about this would seem to be the lack of notification to the employer.

Having seen several mass "firing-squad" style layoffs where there's a meeting and some go right while others go left, I've always wondered why two-weeks notice is so engrained culturally when an employee decides to leave on their own.
how about subsidies and open development for these sorts of software?

seems to be doing ok in the raspberry pi arena, etc...
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Presumably they could require that the from address is one your authenticated user is allowed to use, right?
I get lambasted for this opinion all the time, but I am still holding it...

The Blackberry was the peak of efficient, minimal phone usage:

* It optimized for doing things like short letter and message writing well through the keyboard.

* Blackberry messenger still leads in terms of features that can reduce noise: appear offline and availability settings, friends lists.

* It focused on productivity applications, screen size kept browsing to "as needed".

As a Canadian, I remember when the iPhone started to take over. My friends were sitting around playing Paper Toss, meanwhile my berry sat quietly in my pocket.