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I truly agree with you. I absolutely love Rails and what it has to offer, ever since working with it since Rails 2+. Truly one of the best bet I've ever made!
This is an hour long, but I know the speaker, I know the material, and I find it engaging and entertaining. Your tastes might not be the same as mine, but I really like this.
Remember all your ancestors had splinters in their hands until about 2 people ago
See now this one makes sense to me, but the frog one seems crazy. If I wanted to know if I was pregnant, my first thought would have instinctively been rabbits.
The lesson here is that the business was very capital-intensive. In these situations, an overcapitalizdd company beats an undercapitalized one. The founders could have kept a larger share of a much smaller pie.
The natural distribution of wealth, on the other hand, is eminently fair. Before agriculture everyone was poor. After the rise of agriculture almost everyone was poor but there were many more of them, and those who were “not poor” had no medicine worth the name, could not travel with anything resembling modern convenience and lived in the dark when the sun went down. Starting sometime between 1300 and 1800, depending on measurement the first sustained rise in living standards in human history began, because of capitalism.

It’s how almost all other sustained rises in living standards have happened too. China’s first growth miracle in the 20th century happened because going from civil war to the Communist Party was an improvement but in India, China, Indonesia, Russia, moving to capitalism lead to a rise in living standards.

Fairness would be nice but let’s try getting everyone out of poverty first.
I got many funny looks from hotel staff on a recent trip for asking how to switch off air conditioning, or asking them not to turn it on when they showed me to my room. Apparently most tourists prefer to sit in a fridge.

If I've been walking round outside at 32–35°C, there's no way I want to be in a room at 16–18°, let alone sleep in one. I usually set it to 28° and slept without any bedclothes.
Spring Boot + Kotlin is a pretty sweet experience.
In conclusion, it's working exactly as I laid it out in my original post:

fn: (a b c) => (call a (eval b) (eval c))

mac: (a b c) => (eval (call a b c))

Everyone jumped on it, as production lisps don't implement macros this way. But it's the natural way to implement them in a SICP style metacircular evaluator, and a good way to learn them.

This is about mental models, not implementation details. And in my opinion this thread is full of experts who have forgotten what it's like to not understand how macros work.
I wanted to note that the current CEO of CopperheadOS got wind of this message and reached out to me to see if we could sort things out. I don't expect we can, since the product is tied up in the former CTO's technical reputation. But so long as I've made an issue here about treatment as a customer, I wanted to say that I did appreciate him doing the right thing and at least reaching out to try.
Songs are a pretty nice functionality.

I guess that can be done on non smart speakers too.

The alert thing is really cool! A unique way to handle kids.
I Now Have a Cardiologist
> they artificially limit admissions of medical school

Do they? I thought it was about number of residency spots available that was the real bottleneck. Anyway, sources please!
Most self taught developers really love programming, not as a career to make a living.

My earliest major is accounting and statistics, bachelor of management. I use management ideas and large industrial production lines as algorithms and programming ideas. It is simpler, more mature, more reliable, and more vivid than CS.

The history of CS is too short to explore the correct programming ideas. I had tried to learn OO and FP and found that they are Various Pattern To Die (No Do No Die).

I suggest that they take a major in industrial production management or finance. Rust learned a little from the financial industry. Unfortunately, the Rust financial model is wrong, causing the language to be too complicated and immature.

https://github.com/linpengcheng/PurefunctionPipelineDataflow
What Volvo's safety team is building now
Biotech Startup Modern Meadow Is Making a Leather Alternative, No Animals Needed
Fair, fair. Serious talk, that sounds traumatizing.

I've heard some similar stories from folks who did things for their partners, who didn't enjoy the things they were doing. It's weird because you feel like you're the responsible one; you're in control, holding the belt or whatever! But you're not really in control. You're the one pushing your boundaries, inexperienced and barely-willing, and probably completely unprepared.

I have a lot of sympathy for you, and it's okay to be upset. If these memories are still painful, I'd heartily recommend talking to a professional.

As for people in her position: go to fetlife, get in touch with your local community, and find somebody who (a) knows what they're doing and won't damage you, and (b) gives free, prior and informed consent. Don't just demand/convince your vanilla partner to try shit out -- that's neither free nor informed; and if your demands escalate in-scene, then it's not prior.
It’s a pretty risky time to be in the market at a full allocation.

I cannot imagine the 2020 electoral carnival and whatever shitshow emerges from Brexit will be taken well.
I second this, and since they just use RSS, it is still working as always.
T430 has USB3, and I would think everything should basically be swappable. I'd lurk eBay for an i7 T430 with a broken screen and go to town.

I'm speaking based on experience with the X230 though.
The Most Wonderful Map in the World: Urbano Monte's Planisphere of 1587
I agree to some extent that wealth begetting wealth can be problematic, but in order to have the first bit of wealth someone has to create it. If you made the first hammer you'd be able to make more hammers much easier. You've effectively made the world wealthier by your work and invention and as a result it's fair that you get more than just the value of your hammer.

Your claim about making more wealth from wealth than labor kinda skips over the parts about needing so much wealth and having to accumulate it.
I remember getting a good sense of the man from Ben Rich's book.
Just tried https://www.lightnote.co/ . Thank you for making it, I really love it.
We'll be protected just after Apple terminates the free keyboard replacement program and starts demanding $700 to repair them. Protected by having $700 a year or maybe twice a year to renew your functional MBP keyboard subscription.
IMHO yes. That kind of ambiguity can be a serious security risk.
I think the reason Inbox is getting killed is largely because the developers for it are already back working on Gmail - seems after the app got a good reception they we're pretty quickly brought back in.

It's a shame really - IMO it would have made sense to keep developing the inbox concept, it is a quite different way of thinking about email, and if it's a separate app it can move faster than something which has to take into account all the legacy of Gmail. Far from the first time a solid Google product dies just because the dev team moves on to other things and nobody's working on it anymore.
You can tell if it's raining by looking out the window, but you can't really see the temperature.
The Reg (no paywall): https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/28/hcsec_huawei_oversi...
We used tone.js to create https://musicblocks.sugarlabs.org

Tone.js is really good at doing things related to music.

We were able to build a scratch type programming language for music, so that kids could learn programming and music at the same time.
I worked extensively with sails.js about three years ago and it was an unmitigated disaster. The ORM has about 1/8th of Rails' functionality and queries that would be trivial with Active Record were a nightmare. On top of that the community was a mess and around the end of that time, a lot of the core maintainers dropped out because there was so much in fighting.

Unless there have been some major changes I highly advise staying away from sails.js.
As long as I have been doing this professionally - over 2 decades and before that 10 years as a hobbyist writing 65C02 assembly and C. I can honestly say that at this point in my career, the computer science part of what I learned hasn’t really helped me besides one course in data structures. That was only because I spent over a decade doing C.

Most developers won’t be doing that these days.

As my career has progressed, it’s moved further away and at higher levels of abstractions. These days even hardware is abstracted behind an API with cloud providers.
So "W1A is a documentary" strikes again...
> IBEW electricians apprentice program is 5 years long. 6 months classroom, 6 months on a job site, repeat for 5 years until you're a journeyman.

I mean, I did that for my CS degree. It was 8 months classroom, 4 months in the field, but pretty close, right? And I got paid pretty good money for those 4 months in the field!

I'll never understand the others in my program that didn't try to find internships.
Oh interesting I just got to know about w3w from this post. I agree with the criticisms about it not being an open standard.

But the idea sounds interesting. I won't be using it anytime soon, but I can see it can be useful to Ron Swanson who hides his gold arbitrarily under trees in forest. :)
I would not be surprised if some particularly damaging scandals for one or more of the sponsoring congress members suddenly came to light.
I think that Wikipedia article is about a different idea than the parent video.

The parent video is about the idea that an "individual" human mind can be described as being composed of subordinate minds. In this case, left-side vs. right-side.

The Wikipedia article is about the idea that there's no single metric by which we can judge human intelligence. This is, it's theoretically impossible to have any score, like IQ, that cleanly qualifies how smart people are relative to one another.
Take an average in a range! Neat. Floating point uses exponential indexing and gets blurry. Taking a chunk of an exponential range and averaging that seems to solve the inaccuracy (!)
I believe that's too small of a typo to fix, isn't there a minimum length required when editing?
That all depends on what you think school is for. I subscribe to the idea that school is for preparing people for society and provides a "great filter".

Doing a task your superior asks of you and doing it well is arguably the most important thing school teaches you, with time and stress management being a close second. This is what grades at school measures.

People love to talk about the virtue of being "well rounded" but the truth is that knowing bits of Shakespeare or knowing different types of Greek collumns doesn't benefit you as a person. All that information leaves your head pretty much immediately anyway. This is all especially true of high school. "Exams demonstrating skill" are not what matters to the people who look at your grades.
It used to be the norm. Most people didn't go to college, they got jobs and trained on the job. Most people were trainable just fine.

I don't think people have changed that much in the last few decades. Hell, in the last few millennia.

Most people who don't appear to be trainable are actually just assholes who want to make everyone else around them do the work.
And my business courses have helped a lot more in both undergrad and as an MBA dropout.

Most of us are working to increase business value for companies - either by making them money or by saving them money. They could care less about “Cracking the Code” and LeetCode.
There's no magic AI in Grindr that can answer the question "Show me all people that work for DoD that are into gay sex". There has to be some engineer or group of engineers to do it. It is the same with a Hinge/OKC/Match/etc.
Surely just get your drivers licence regardless? Doesn't it cause pain and headache not having the ability to legally drive?

On second thought, I guess experience differs a lot based on location. Not having a drivers licence is pretty unimaginable for me where I live.
How many startups are in the latest YC batch? An enormous amount compared to previous batches. “Innovation” is a commodity because it’s just become product market fit testing through brute force.
Both are correct.

If dangerous, we tested only inside testbed.
If not, we tested on the real network.

All tests were permitted by two telcos.
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Actually, Ember.js gives you the same experience for frontend development than Rails for backend. So you can stay happy and productive. ;)
I don't think you understand what a bootcamp is. The one I taught was 14 weeks of 40 hours per week classroom plus an additional 20+ hours of homework. It is BY FAR the most bang for your buck for practical hands on coding skills. A couple programming classes isn't even in the same universe.

Beyond that, our course material was bleeding edge. When some new hottness came out we incorporated it into our curriculum. Colleges have too much bureaucracy to keep up with the latest tech trends.
That's because searching "podcasts" on the Play Store yields Google Podcasts as the first result, and AntennaPod (arguably the best app in the market) appears on the fifth row.

https://play.google.com/store/search?q=podcasts
Let's imagine a photocopier that has a camera that looks at each "pixel" and then it prints the color of the "pixel" to a paper. In this case you can align the light source and the camera and put them perpendicular to the surface of the paper/mirror. So, the mirror will be white instead of black. It's a less efficient design than the standard photocopier model, so nobody uses it.

Anyway, this is the main idea of the confocal microscopy. You want to illuminate a very small point with a lot of light, but keep the surrounding parts as dark as posible. You want to see that point. And it's very difficult to aim two optical systems to the same point, so you use the same lens for illumination and for detection. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confocal_microscopy
I'll be honest - I don't know many people who are of sound mind and body and who consistently make level headed choices living in constant fear of having basic necessities. I know a LOT of people in this situation because they don't improve their skills, don't work many hours, had kids young, had numerous kids, want to live in a high demand area despite low income or because they prioritize luxury items over quality necessities. Factoring things like that in paints a very different picture than what you're saying.

Wow I thought we were having a civil discussion until the second half of your post. You have some very presumptuous nerve. Rather than responding to all the ad hominem I'll just explain:

My parents fed and clothed me for 18 years. The public services are there for a reason and many of them (ie schools) need to be there. I inherited knowledge from thousands of years of thinking. I believe all humans deserve those types of gifts, and as such I'm willing to pay my fair share back.

What I absolutely refuse is to allow people to come in and take more and more until they are satisfied. To tell me that they know better than me (as you are attempting to do) of my privilege and what I owe for it. You want to sacrifice your life's work to others? Go for it. Put your money where your mouth is. But you just keep your opinions about what I owe and what I deserve to yourself because you don't know me and I guarantee you're going to look like an idiot if you continue to try to talk down to me.
This is really funny:

#define SAFE_LIBRARY_memcpy(dest, destMax, src, count) memcpy(dest, src, count)
Honestly? The thing I like the most about sex is the noises my partner makes. And what's the best sound somebody can make during sex? Screaming, of course.

Turns out, making people scream (when they want to be screaming) is all that really does it for me: sex is wet and sticky and gross and I kinda hate it.

On either end of the paddle, though; I think it's all about the endorphins?
They did when I was younger. Fortunately, I work in a field without massive administrative fiat and my skill is sufficient.

See https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/health/2005-03-02-docto...

There's other news, but based on the amount of time it takes to make a doctor and the hysteresis in the market, this should do.
I think what the OP meant by 'modern,' was an equivalent of Rails that uses the technologies demanded by the tech industry today. On the one hand, the industry went to Python because a ton of data science libraries were written in that. On the other hand, React ended up real dominant on the front-end because of all the sh*t code people put between HTML JavaScript tags. Another route, is any promising asynchronous and scalability like Node or Elixir. So these divergent vectors make something like a Rails that can serve the needs of big data, snappy UI and scaling while at the same time using the team we've got super difficult. The needs of the industry have created an oblivion of the solution that was always already there, Rails.
And that’s also why I have no interest in SV. I like my nice, big, cheap house in the burbs that I could get with an FHA loan by putting less than $12K down....
War and genocide have been part of human history since before the split from chimpanzees. Wealth in anything like what we’d recognise it dates to after the rise of agriculture.

We can be quite confident that European wealth during the age of colonialism didn’t have much to do with colonialism as such because that wealth preceded the colonies and neighbours that differed in having colonies were much the same economically. Britain was rich before it took over India. Germany had no colonies of any economic importance and Austria-Hungary none. They do not suffer by comparison with France with its extensive colonial empire.
Let's take it as fact that your suggestion works, whether it does or not. Is that really the best or only way to affect political change? The poor, uneducated and disenfranchised wouldn't even think to do something like this simply out of pure ignorance.
It's been about four years since we touched it. When we used Waterline (the Sails ORM), we discovered two distinct SQL injection vulnerabilities in it, without intentionally looking. I would link the related issues, but they seem to have disabled Github issues in the waterline repository[1]. That--and lots more--scared us away. We switched happily to Hapi[2] with about a week of work and never looked back.

1. https://github.com/balderdashy/waterline

2. https://hapijs.com/
And it’s a lot worse and the tooling isn’t as robust...
> The design was so much nicer, ux so much smoother than everything else.

I disagree, It felt unpolished and raw and did not have any distinct style or consistency. You can hate facebook but they managed to cramp a lot of functionality in a pretty clean looking design.
Does it really help knowing the temperature?

I can take an umbrella if it'll rain soon but what can I do by knowing that temperature will rise by 1°C in two hours?

Genuinely curious.
That's not what correlated means.
Good technical summary is available here:

https://sites.google.com/view/ltefuzz
If the founders have $1B between the two, then employee #1 would have (guesstimating) on the order of $10M, assuming the standard employee#1 == 1%. Of course there's the initial investor share and option pool to account for, but we're still in the right ballpark.

Employee #20, who joined maybe a few months in, and then put in seven years, is gonna be at order of magnitude down, $1M. Employee #50, who put in six years, is the hundred thousands, and we keep going down.

Yeah, fantastic money, but pales compared to founders.

Lesson: don't not be a founder.
I tried A Dark Room. Then i realized it was everything addicting about RPGs distilled down to some bars that you click to fill. It reminded me of my days being addicted to Diablo 2. They are straight up skinner boxes. Clicker games are the video game equivalent of crack. They're basically dopamine stimulation buttons. Keep clicking and you'll eventually be rewarded by that little burst of feel good juice when you reach the next level.

They all remind me of this:

https://youtu.be/uBVkk5rW0lw
> It seems like the JS ecosystem changes so fast

Does it tho? React, Webpack, Babel and TypeScript have been around for a while now, and I can't think about anything else more recent that had a similar impact on the JS ecosystem.
I mean when I execute "./malcc --compile hello.mal hello", not rely on gcc to generate executable file will be good.
Eh, I'll just wait for someone else to automate it and use theirs.
... airlines, rental car companies, shoe stores, insurance brokers, video games, SASS vendors...

Is there a business that doesn’t try and suck out your wallet with ad-ons, premium packages and options of dubious value?
What happened to bringing this into core? Last I was using Django that was the next big integration and it just sort of faded away.
> Audience Gullibility

One wonders how this gentleman intends to successfully persuade the general public to agree that they should have their rights curtailed on the grounds that they are collectively too gullible[1] an audience to be allowed contact with ideas that those "wiser" and less gullible than them (presumably including Mr. Miessler himself) have deemed dangerous to their innocent minds. I suspect he will find the going difficult.

"Beware those who would deny you access to information, for in their hearts, they dream themselves your masters." Though the quote's origin is in fiction, there are all too many real world examples of it.

[1] I'm not being pejorative; the phrase "audience gullibility" appears in the essay as of the four pillars of his argument.
Sincere questions, I don't come from a OOP background, and do have plenty of Go! experience, so I feel like I'm missing the nuance of this post.

What causes OOP to be well suited for finance's use case?

What are the short-comings of structs/interface methods that Go! provides in the financial space?

If Go! had generics, would that change it's suitability for finance?

I would think that first-class concurrency would be useful in that space, is it?
There's a used market you know.
And now I’m seeing more when more migrate to Go.
Convincing Why Newlyweds Should Rent Not Buy
What military pilots can't change to civilian pilots when they leave the military?
More like PHP, which explains a lot...
Don’t bother it’s just FUD with zero detail nor does anything to acknowledge US or UK are as bad as China.
Show HN: PriceStack.io – Embeddable, A/B Tested Pricing Tables for SaaS Products
In a profession which depends on knowing the meanings of words and symbols and using them exactly correctly, naming a software deployment model as a thing that it is not is fundamentally wrong.

Why is it wrong? Because everything depends on you having a model in your head of how the universe works. When you persistently misname something in a way contrary to reality, it becomes part of your model. "It's serverless, therefore I don't have to think about servers in any way."

From a user's point of view, everything is magic. That doesn't justify calling software magic.
I opted for a recent webgl driven app to use no framework for our frontend code and it was lovely. It really makes me wonder why they get pushed so hard. There are no 'indications for use', just 'its HOT right now'.
If we get into a shooting war with China then we can switch to Russia. Last resort is north Korea. Although North Korea is really poor with the equivalent infrastructure changes that happened in China we can build it up to a nuclear super power and North Korea can supply the needed parts for F-35 at a really cheap price.
Have you heard of AdonisJS? It is more akin Rails/Laravel than anything else before it. https://adonisjs.com/
At the risk of nitpicking, Kerala population is actually close to 34M.