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> Complaining about JS Fatigue is just like complaining about the fact that humanity has created too many tools to solve the problems we have, from email to airplanes and spaceships.

No, complaining about JS Fatigue is just like complaining that we should actually try to launch a spaceship instead of tearing the last one we started into pieces just so we can put some shiny new thing in the middle of it, and that we should try to actually finish an airplane and send an email while we're at ooh React Hooks! Hang on, I really need to start my post again and do it perfect this time now that it's possible. Bear with me a sec, trust me I'll be finished soon, hopefully you still have enough money to pay me.
You're not too old! I really like Eloquent JavaScript as an introduction, it's free, you just need your browser to do the coding parts and it's extremely readable. From there I'd try to figure out what sorts of things you want to build and then grab those skills and running for it. Best of luck!
> Software solves business problems

Not entirely correct. Software solves problems in general, they don't have to be business problems.

> Software does not exist to please us as programmers

Nope. Examples: Pretty much any good development tool. There is a lot of software out there that exists to please programmers and to make their lives easy.

> Nobody cares about which programming language you are using, nobody cares about which frameworks your team has chosen...

Not really. I have come across managers and even investors who care about what was being used. Why? They need to ensure that it won't be too expensive to hire more people to work on the software when there is a need.
Apparently not; some people are glad to correct their mistaken beliefs about orthography, and others are not. In this forum many people are in the former category, but apparently not you. That's fine, but I couldn't know until you replied.
Yeah, it would be okay if they were talking about coding at that specific organisation.

But the generalisation is just stupid.
The library could lend in a useful format though. I wasn't suggesting they lend tortuously.

Also if they limited loans to 1hr (or any time short of the regular loan), but allowed reservation ahead, then they could probably have many more people with the book available. The majority of the time I have a library book checked out it's on my shelf; doing the checkout virtually, when it's on my virtual shelf the library can loan it to someone else. Either I wait (if I want to access it and all copies are currently in use), or they take a payment from me to access the book immediately and they buy access to an extra copy.

Of course publishers would probably just increase the loan charge.
Is there really a qualitative difference? Public discourse is a vehicle to arrive at a shared understanding of (= beliefs about) facts.
I remember Parse tutorials fondly (now mostly open sourced) [0]. When you needed a token or application key in a snippet of code it will be provided dynamically from your selected project so the code is ready to go (instead of "go to a complex config page and copy paste).

I also liked the interactive part where they wait for you to send a request from the SDK and then congratulate you, and display the actual values you sent. It made me feel I was getting productive very quick.

[0]: https://parseplatform.org/
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Why not ? Microsoft is a big company and that come with jobs and revenues that can be taxed.
I wonder how much of all these issues is due to Twitter. 140 characters isn't enough for nuanced conversation.
Adding costs doesn't mean it is more expensive to you specifically. Just for the economy in general. There are advantages to having cashless payments only. One that comes to mind would be for places in dangerous neighborhoods (which affect low income households more)
Hit it with a laser or whatever force far away and 1mm movement over there means that earth is saved and then some.
They very often don't get to work from home even in Europe.
>You can misuse a non-self driving car by speeding, giving you above-average chances of accidents.

I feel like it's the opposite... When I drive the speed limit, other drivers around me become more aggressive. Even if they have to exit the highway 20 seconds later they fiercely fight for tiny speed differences of 10km/h, start flashing their headlights, etc.
Hang on, is this DO-178B _different_ from the DO-178B now replaced by DO-178C that is about _safety_ in aircraft systems? It isn't is it. So, you're talking about _safety_ when the parent and article are specifically about _security_.

Because confusing safety and security is exactly the kind of awful goof that we're talking about here. I'm sure these car alarms are _safe_ the problem is they don't keep your car _secure_.

The security record of military procurements is... not good. Same for the financial industry. Do a bad job, hope nobody finds out, if they do insist you didn't do a bad job and hope nobody who understands the difference is empowered to do anything about it.

Let's take something easy, communications. Your generic Android phone is capable of doing secure voice communications over a distance subject only to traffic analysis and other inevitabilities.

The British infantry have Bowman. At squad level it's unencrypted spread spectrum voice radio. So, much worse than that Android phone. A sophisticated bad guy (so, not some random bloke who decided to join ISIS last week, but say, a Russian armoured division you've been deployed to counter) can literally listen to everything you say, seamlessly, without giving away their position. Brilliant.

Now regulation _can_ improve things by mandating something that people who know what they're doing already recommend. But you're not going to get there with things like DO-178B.
They shouldn't unless it becomes an economic advantage to do so. That's the point of the free market. I don't think it's the government's place to force it in either direction.
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> Many JavaScript developers are scared (by scared I am paralyzed in the face of death catatonic scared to the most possible irrational extreme) to write original code when often times original code takes less time and is a better fit to the immediate problem. This is called Invented Here Syndrome and is internally coddled when developers are appeased by writing configurations opposed to logic.

I think this is true of a much larger category of developers than JS developers (though one could argue that defining yourself by a specific language is indicative of belonging to this category), that is developers who can't do more than plumbing, i.e. developers who can't actually solve problems properly on their own.

The flighty attraction to the new shiny is somewhat driven by a lack of understanding of how either the new or the old shiny actually work. If you understand the job you're setting out to do you're in a much better position to decide upon tools, frameworks, what to do in house, etc. If you don't you're stuck gluing black boxes together, because any actual code you write will be far worse.

JS being an "accessible" language and a mandatory part of practically all software companies with a front facing website makes this the most apparent in both the constant flow of new tools and libraries and the view that the new tools and libraries must be adopted. But any novice developer can fall prey to this behavior regardless of their choice of language, JS just makes it easier.
> The killer detail (in the article) is that 1/3 of the (small) development cost of 40 million were borne by the Dutch tax payer. How did that patent end up in a big pharma portfolio?

It says so in the first few paragraphs: Novartis licensed (bought) the right to sell the drug in Europe. The patents remain with the hospital.

The hospital that developed the drug is a public hospital associated with a public university. So the government paid for development, and (indirectly) to government is benefitting from the license fees paid by Novartis. That is co-profiting.
Did... no one read the article before upvoting? This can reduce specific frequency sounds by -12db, NOT 94% of "sound". Can /u/dang or someone edit this clickbait title?

The wavelength of 100hz is 56.5 feet. While it may be possible that these rings can attenuate specific high frequencies, they don't [and cannot] reduce all sound in general. To say otherwise would be to defy physics. Assuming the rings aren't vaporware, they could work for specific, constant higher frequency sound sources, like machine hums as mentioned in the article. However, the rings' aesthetic would be useless inside of an MRI machine...

There is a reason existing sound barriers aren't open, because even regular walls block high frequencies. (And not just specific ones that match to a ring's size). The best way to kill frequencies are thick objects (like walls). For a room (like a editing studio or recording booth), it should have a non-symmetrical wall with various recessed spaces to function as sound baffles, at the least.

And lastly, these would be completely useless for low frequencies.
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It's worth noting that pharmacists in The Netherlands have a doctorate and the same training requirements as MDs (the study last until 24/25 with no skip years). The requirements are considerably lower in other countries (in the UK for example they just need a BSc).

Source: my wife is a pharmacist and could have worked in the UK after only completing 1/3rd of her study.
Sorry, I didn't understand your comment. Do you care explaining it a little bit more?

"That is a common, effective, and ethical rhetorical tactic people use every day in conversation."

What is a common, effective, rhetorical tactic? Repeating something dissonant forever?
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Is it? Keep in mind that the JavaScript is likely running on a C++ interpreter, and has mostly unfettered access to the page's content by design.
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Who knows the actual weights? How much did the capsule weight dry? Consumables ex. fuel and pressurization gas for it? Fuel and pressurization gas? Trunk section? All data i can find is extremely contradictory and makes an impression that project went way way way out of it's initial mass budget and SpaceX is trying to conceal it to avoid losing face, as it exposes troubles managing the project. Ofc it's not a deal breaker, as F9 rocket has grown in capability a great log along the way too, but still?
Well, from a European perspective the jobs and taxes are all abroad. I think that some politicians don't like that very much.
>Nope. Examples: Pretty much any good development tool. There is a lot of software out there that exists to please programmers and to make their lives easy.

Wrong way to look at it. From his perspective, the developers you talk about are consumers.
This is exactly the kind of excellent initiative that can save lives and benefit lots of patients, that could also, in principle, be completely obliterated by ISDS rulings.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISDS
Same here, I used to see myself as liberal but nowadays I can't stomach the identity politics, oppression olympics and witch hunts.
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I've worked as a customer of WITCH companies for many years, and now work for one myself, and have many good friends in India.

Indians are not being exploited - they are being paid market wages, and are part of a huge emerging middle-class in India.
I really wish browsers would just render formulas directly from TeX. Let me write <tex>\sqrt{1+x}</tex> or whatever. TeX is the de facto standard for writing mathematical formulas. That browsers don't render it natively just screams of NIH syndrome on the part of browser and web standards developers.

MathML still hasn't caught on after two decades, for three reasons: 1) not working in all browsers; 2) even when it worked, the rendering was often buggy or plain ugly; 3) no one wants to write MathML directly.

MathJax instantly solved all problems, which made it an overnight success. MathML might be able to overcome 1) and 2), but 3) should not be underestimated. MathJax will be around as long as it is the most convenient solution for showing equations in a browser (no user-side compilation required), and rendering times and network traffic will suffer accordingly.
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Brilliant things like this make me sad that recruiters almost universally mangle nice pdfs to add their header and remove personal contact details. If you're going direct, though, should be no problem.

Congrats on a project that makes me wish I'd thought of it first.
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I have been reading Lyft S-1, especially their risk factor assessment. While it is full of normal warnings like limited operating history, competitors etc. One of the warnings stood out for me.

Our results of operations vary and are unpredictable from period-to-period, which could cause the trading price of our Class A common stock to decline.

If this is the case, I wonder how do they can they even predict their future growth? How much credence can be given to the data they present or expect about their growth?
Wouldn’t transforming the asteroid from a solid rock to a ball of sand already be an improvement?
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Unless your business goal is to advance computer science research, why would you want to hire Knuth and why would he want to work for you?
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I'm not sure it's a good idea, I've seen some other software companies they support and concluded it was a gravy train for those businesses.

If they are worried about the dominance of Google et all then they could look at taxes and regulatory changes to shift the balance.
If you work in an organization that has an I.T. department, go ask them about some persistent problems they're dealing with. I work in healthcare I.T., and I could give you a dozen ideas in 10 minutes.
Typical R&D spend in pharma as percentage of revenues is 10-20%. That’s in the same range as Google, Intel, or Microsoft, which are widely considered to be very efficient structures for turning money into innovation. By your reasoning, we could cut out a lot of the fat and get better R&D for less by nationalizing Google.
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If Windows would then become free (as it is paid for by the taxpayer then), and preferably open-source, then absolutely. MS is not going bankrupt any time soon though.
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This, being an active process, would require energy would it not?
The article reads as follows:

“Novartis bought the rights to Lutathera with a $3.9-billion-euro takeover of French company AAA last year.”

Where exactly does it say that the patents have remained with the hospital?
Is there anyone that's a software engineer in your workplace? If so befriend them and start learning about the problems they solve. Then try to implement solutions on your own and soon assist them. If not, research other similar companies and find software engineers there via LinkedIn, and do the same.
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It's a 6 year study, but like the study for Medical Doctor, at the end you have a Masters diploma, not a Phd/Doctorate.

Source: apotheek.nl e.a.
Sure, people are certainly free to say "this happened to me", when the subject is aligned. However, the plural of anecdote is not data. Anecdotes may guide research into areas which may be fruitful - but they are never a substitute for proper research.
A useful application would be e.g. in cases where you want to target specific frequencies AND airflow should be possible.

So this could be useful for attenuating small computer fans by 12 db without or adding meandering pipes filled with absorbing foam.

For general acoustics I'd stick to a accuratly calculated and well built diaphragmatic absorber or at least a helmholtz absorbers.
The vast majority of users will forever be beginners - they'll learn a few techniques and wont bother with the rest - simply because that's not the only thing they do. For such users, a canned, ready-to-understand UI that looks like paper is pragmatically better than providing the capability to do whatever they want at the cost of becoming a power user in word processing.

People use spaces for tabs and newlines instead of page breaks despite there being solutions for them even on mechanical typewriters. As long as it works for them, that's ok.
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I agree with you on that point 100% - its really sick whats been going on in that way and i feel much like you do about it as i stand sickened by so much of the hate i see pouring so freely out of what had been my side.
Lol, are these assert libs mimicking badly written English still a thing? I thought we grew out of this a few years ago.
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Of the main customer of Google was the government itself then why not? (The point is: it’s not. So so what’s your point?)
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Twitter is a weird site. It's got a core of extremely active users who are almost entirely people who are famous or journalists. I'm at university - probably the place where the concentration of twitter users is likely to be highest, and hardly anybody I know has an account or if they do, doesn't use it for anything except occasionally reading something they got linked to.

It's almost like a kind of echo chamber for the media and famous people imo - I don't know if thats nessacarily a bad thing entirely, so long as people are aware on some level of that. There just aren't the opinions of suburban moms on twitter. There aren't plumbers on twitter. Cleaners.

Opinions might not matter, but it does bother me quite a lot when you see companies not caring on their support phone lines, on their facebook. There's almost no way to usefully get through to these copanies, but then one journalist idly tweets that they're having a problem with something suddenly you seem to see a dev team drop what they're doing and fix the problem. It's concerning that such behaviour benefits those who need it least.
How about for lower frequencies: motorways, busy roads (no individual car noises; a solid background roar)? They make having the window open here a nightmare.
What you said would've been true in maybe 2002. However, the wages at these companies have been stagnant for the last two decades. They haven't even kept up with inflation. So no, $5k per annum isn't "market wages" for software developers in India. These are the lowest of the low. New grads in India often take these jobs as a last resort if they have absolutely no other option.
Please provide conclusive proof this process is not consequence of neoliberal policies, aimed at defunding public spending and encouraging for-profit spinoffs, aligning the research process to its ideology
If you are just looking for an alternative, GNU Parallel publishes a list of alternatives: https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/parallel_alternatives....
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> nobody cares about how good is your code

the person who has to maintain it?
Although that does bring up the question of which subset of TeX browsers are willing to support.
So many ‘security’ companies making coding mistakes that there’s simply no excuse for.

How are these companies remaining in business? Call yourself unhackable and then don’t bother to even authenticate API requests... mind bogggles.
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> It doesn't address, for example, the fact that the two political factions in America now accept different versions of reality. You cannot square that circle with "better disagreement".

You can't square the circle, but you can have a better discourse that recognises the fact. Abortion has been an issue like this for years - one side believes it is murder, the other believes it is fundamental to women's rights. But in the main, debate has been civil and about the issue rather than the people. That might be changing, of course - but it demonstrates that you can have a better discourse.
In addition to the already mentioned performance issue with client-side MathJax, having native MathML makes it conceptually far simpler to do more complex things with equations, both for the end user and for the developer.

For instance, as a user, if you want to scale the equations by some amount or use a different maths font, it's a couple of lines of CSS, using exactly the same method you'd use to make any other changes to the appearance of a web-page. (Yes, you can easily do the former with MathJax, but I don't think the latter is possible user-side).

As a developer, if you'd want to interactively highlight parts of an equation, for educational purposes, it'd be trivial with MathML, but rather hard to do nicely with MathJax (statically coloured elements are possible with MathJax, with the "color.js" extension, but not dynamically coloured ones — and no, swapping out the entire equation to make colour changes is neither nice nor scalable). Alternatively, if you want to embed equations in a diagram or a graph, it's pretty easy with MathML[0][1], but would be difficult otherwise.

Obviously, all of the above is in principle possible with JavaScript implementations, but it's far harder. You might argue that this extra effort is worth the smaller attack surface. IMO, given the importance of maths and science, it isn't.

Also, why do we, say, have the CSS flexbox layout? After all, we could have used javascript to arrange elements into an appropriate table or even just set the x and y positions of all elements...

[0] http://fred-wang.github.io/MathUI2014/demos/2-mathml-in-svg....

[1] http://fred-wang.github.io/MathUI2014/demos/6-mathml-in-webg...