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You're depending on undefined behavior of the term "you".

For example, if "you" means the singular poster then you are correct and your comment is a truism.

However, if "you" means the citizenry then the cost of parallel construction at scale clearly exceeds the cost of using the mass collection program currently under discussion.

Edit: clarification
Yes. I was pointing out that there's still lots of low hanging fruit, rather than this specific typo. But just checking out those questions shows lots of low quality stuff that could be corrected.
Rails is definitely way more stable over the past 3 years than it was the 3 years before that. It's settled down. For better or worse.
What's TechCrunch's source on all of this info? Or is it just pure speculation/reasoning?

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I was talking with a friend a few days ago about how the physical Apple Card would work in reality. During that conversion, I came up with the idea that maybe the physical card contains a custom chip on it that an iPhone can communicate with via NFC. That NFC chip would be able to rewrite the card info (i.e. card number, exp. date, and CVV) at will to the physical chip on the card (the one that talks to the actual payment terminals) and that's how Apple is going to issue cards that never technically expire. Perhaps they'll do something similar with the mag stripe (their promo videos pretty clearly show that the physical card does indeed have a mag stripe)?
We had huge performance issues with ActionCable that basically made it unusable for more than 100 concurrent users. We considered EventMachine however ended up going with AnyCable in conjunction with AnyCable-Go which got us up to 1000 concurrency users without any performance impact.
No, it would not be a good start. How do we know this? Because that's what the actual start was. And it led to Facebook becoming the carrier of all the hate people could convince each other to accept. And people targeted each other, conditioned each other, to normalize this hate and acceptance of violence against 'others'. And so we have the situation we have today, where Facebook was forced to acknowledge that they became a platform for hate.
Yeah, he didn't exactly need an Apple watch to tell him something is going on. That's a bit under double what his heart rate should be. Equivalent to what someone in reasonable shape would have when they're jogging. It's amazing he never got it checked out before.
>>The insidious notion that our credit history speaks to our reliability as human beings is largely taken for granted.

That's literally what a credit score is. A record of (financial) reliability.

What an article
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Crystal is definitely type safe, I’d recommend taking a look at the Lucky web framework also written in Crystal.
I think conventional wisdom is that you should pay your card off each month and never pay interest. That way you benefit from the cash back or other rewards program and have better protection against fraudulent transactions (it’s the issuing banks problem, not yours). Now, in practice, many people don’t do this and the credit card companies bank off of that
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That is a good idea, but after thinking about it for a bit I think it would be a very hard thing to create.
I was a little young for the original, but Faceball 2000 has a special place in my heart. I asked for the Game Boy 4-player adapter just hoping one day I'd know enough people with the game to play a full match. Most I ever got together was 3, but it was exciting as hell.
It's high, but not really so, at least when not compared to the US (which appears steadfastly religious).

For example, Australia [1] saw a 9% decline in Christian religions between 2011 and 2016, and a corresponding 7.8% increase in non-religious over the same period.

France, to randomly choose another, shows a 15.9% drop in Christian religions between 2010 and 2016, and a 7.6% jump in non-religious over the same period.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Australia#Censuses...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_France#Demographic...
I'd say it's more use Rails for all of your standard CRUD operations and then use Go as a module in Rails using Quartz/FFI if you have any algorithms that need to be high performance. Of course you could always go down the microservice route and spin up a Python/Go service for your more intensive data processing modules.
Because its justturning rails into a huge (compared to say postgrest or prest) database and auth api.
Interesting, makes sense. I wonder — is setInterval not as precise because it doesn’t really need to be (and thus it’d be a waste of complexity to be that precise)?
Exactly what I was hoping to discover. Thank you!
Ah, I took the period at the end of “etc.” to be separating two sentences. It makes much more sense reading it the correct way :)

Regardless, Uber is profitable on a per ride basis in most markets, except for those they’re trying to expand in. In established markets raising prices would lower demand for rides faster than it increases revenue.
I find a lot of criticism and hate of homeless people in our tech world. Which I kind of don’t get because a lot of tech people are quite liberal. I would expect a softer heart to follow as well as concern for these (and all) people.
Now THIS is a fun factoid. :)
The last few versions added a bunch of really nice features but it seems the existing features are considered still good and not in need of change.
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Again, they are not refurbished, and this would be obvious if you'd bothered to look. The banner at the top of the page says "refurbished clearance", but that's only because Apple's site categories aren't neatly divided. These are not refurbished, they are brand new.
I don't use rails, but I agree with sentiment in general. I first learnt front-end stuff with desktop UI libraries and I hated it. Creating UIs with programming languages sucks. The first time I used the web environment, I really enjoyed it and it was the reason I decided to focus on programming for the web. I was using PHP and server-side rendering, with some javascript to do some interactive things. I liked that the design aspect (html and css) was completely separate from the programming, and that there were no compile steps.

Then eventually the requirement for more application-like experiences led me to adopting client-side frameworks because server-side just wasn't able to do those things very well. I like the idea of a json-based api talking to a client application, but the client-side libraries have bought back all the things I hated about desktop UI programming.

I think html is great and should be left on its own, not combined with the programming language. That is the reason I don't like React. I can't read all of that jsx/pseudo-javascript together. It looks like a mess. Vue is better, but it is just a big hack of stuffing things into html attributes. Both of them also require a compile step if you want to use them to their full potential. So now all the things I hate are back, and I don't like web programming anymore.
Every ecological disaster is our fault by definition. If it's not in some way anthropogenic, it's "natural" and therefore OK. Dinosaurs being wiped out? Meh, asteroids happen. Mammoths being wiped out by cavemen? Ecological disaster!
Australia's (and Australians') attachment to the monarchy is one of those things that will change dramatically over the next twenty-odd years as the 60+ year-old set, who have anachronistic romantic notions of the monarchy, die off.

The "royal weddings" (good lord, kill me now) do their little bit in fluffing up pro-monarchy anachronistic romantic notions in some of the younger set, but nowhere near the amount needed to sustain the 'no to a republic' vote even in the next ten years.

My assumption is that a lot of these same monarchists are fundamentally racist as a direct result of the various wars, which is semi-understandable. Humans don't tend to change their minds beyond a certain age, no matter the changing context.

There's a quote somewhere about "beliefs don't change, their proponents die out". I'm finding it applies in almost universal contexts.
Catching up now. Would highly recommend listening to some of his talks, or reading some of his books. Freedom from the Known is very accessible; it's basically a "cleaned up" version of his talks.

I'm currently reading Krishnamurti's Notebook, which is absolutely beautiful. But perhaps difficult to understand if you're not familiar with his terminology/way of thinking.

He uses a lot of words, like religion, meditation, truth, with a meaning that is entirely different from how we normally use them.

His whole way of thinking is so foreign that when I first encountered him it seemed almost boring. But as I kept going I was really enraptured by the beauty of the way of thinking he models. He's very much a "first principles" thinker, but from an internal psychological perspective rather than in the traditional external "scientific" sense. (Which is not to say that he's unscientific. Just that the focus of his attention begins from internal perception).

I've already written a novel here, but his whole life story is fascinating. His wikipedia page is a surprisingly thorough account. However I didn't learn his life story until after having been exposed to a bunch of his talks, and thus I might be biased but I think that's the right order to do it in. He talks about himself occasionally, but tends to drop small details rather than talking endlessly about himself.

Here's a couple random links:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux-1aRB8Res&list=PLfZ5kzVg_z...

^ The above is a series of 18 talks with Allan W Anderson (some sort of theologian/philosopher type professor). This series is great because you get to see how the views/behavior of Anderson change as he engages in dialogue with Krishamurti.

His "public" talks (i.e. more like "lectures" although he was adamant that they were not to be treated as such) are in a different style, but the same content is covered.

If you want just one talk, I really enjoyed this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyNeWEGgmFQ It's the 7th of a series of talks, so skipping right to that one is going "out of order", but the content is pretty great. (I pulled that talk randomly from some notes of mine).

Side note: Krishnamurti was a significant influence on Alan Watts, Aldous Huxley, and the physicist David Bohm.
Uber has a fairly solid 4% cashback on restraunts, plus some high percentages on hotels and online shopping.
Is it though? I can't find anything that explicitly says that Facebook has banned the CCP. Could you provide any sources which say this? Also, the post I was replying to said:

> The CCP is running concentration camps for hundreds of thousands of Muslims right now, yet I see no ban on the only party that can be called National Socialist today, just because the nation they are supporting is yellow.

I don't see any way to infer this as saying that Facebook has banned the CCP–what am I missing here?

Also, if Facebook has indeed banned the CCP, well, turnabout is just fair play–after all, the CCP has banned Facebook from China.
ActionCable is super easy to use out of the box to get WebSockets running, but it's incredibly non-performant. Anything more than 100 concurrent users took the time taken to a send a message to the socket from milliseconds to seconds. Replacing it with the AnyCable gem in conjunction with AnyCable-Go got us to over 1000 concurrent users without a hitch.
> - Lastly, I firmly believe MVC is a leaky abstraction

Then what is the abstraction that you think it should replace it?
My health and my retirement depend upon Apple getting this right :)
How many "quality of life" features does your website have that require some JavaScript that you end up writing as one off functions/endpoints/etc? (various kinds of autocompletion, live search, notifications, messaging, etc.)

I'm all for server side rendering - I maintained several vanilla PHP/HTML/CSS websites in the 2000s, and only used jQuery sparingly when things grew in complexity. I later used Django for many years similarly, and when react/ember/angular/etc. started blowing up is when I started feeling like performance was something we had to worry more about.

That being said, server side rendering shows its limits when you build an application with lots of actions your users can perform on the data shown in their window, and reloading the page every time would significantly slow them down. That's when you're tempted to start going the SPA route, but those frameworks tend to be pretty opinionated about how you should structure your code and data, a slippery slope that leads to the stereotypical bloated, unresponsive JavaScript mess some websites have become famous for.

There is certainly a balance to be found, but it's a tricky one.
I agree it's a difficult problem to solve in general. But I set the bar much lower. I'd be happy if I could a) search by label (or limit the results to a certain label, for non-classical folks that is Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, etc), and b) instead of seeing 6 tracks all named "Requiem in D Minor, K.626:3. Sequentia:" be able to tell which one is the "Confutatis".

This really doesn't take that much and it isn't an impossible goal. And yet Spotify wasn't able to implement these two things for years, even though people keep begging them to.
There is no regulation that prevents them from making safety-related components optional?
I had several Allied Telesis switches at a previous job. The hardware was fine but resetting the configuration password was a remarkably painful process.
As you can see from the other reply to your comment, lots of people have been tricked into using Credit Cards by things like "Cash Back".

i.e. "I'm going to save money because I get 2% cash back" ! Type of reasoning. Marketing it very powerful, lots of people have been tricked by it.
Edit: Still not in Canada, though it seems to be in more countries. Very frustrating!

Original: I don't think they enable the ECG feature for anyone outside the US. It's locked based on the point of sale last I checked. Very frustrating to buy something so expensive to find out it's been region-locked!
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I live near some wetlands and any time it rains or is damp overnight we get frogs everywhere. I definitely don't see as many earthworms as I used to, though. Probably because (like you) I don't spend as much time outside.
The best part of this article is one can you use sed s/Java/$atop5tiobe/g and nearly everything still true.
Many tech people may come across as being socially liberal but they aren't necessarily financially / economically liberal.

They also aren't necessarily liberal when it comes to their personal safety.
Even more than the divide between older & more modern languages, I think specific context is key.

I talk to lots of app devs who think that array indexing isn't "safe" in languages where OOB will trap – because for lots of UI operations (say, the user selected item #5 and our local datastore thinks there's only 4 items), the answer can really be to tell the user something went wrong, reload the UI, and try again. That's what "safety" to them.

I hear related perspectives with services – where devs understand that if they're doing OOB array access, it's a bug and needs to be fixed. But if that bug traps the process, now there's a potential DOS attack vector. They want some way of throwing away an invalid execution environment, but return to a known-good state without respawning.

Is Java a safe language? I think you have to start by asking, "in what context?"
Ruby on Rails out of the box gets a lot of bad rep for being slow and non-performant. Has anyone replaced MRI with JRuby or TruffleRuby to mitigate that? Were there any significant "gotchas" with integrating it?
Having just deployed Discourse and Diaspora its obvious Ruby and Rails was not designed for end user use. There is complete and total dependency hell and a hard requirement for a build environment for basic app deployment.

This kind of engineering directly leads to endless wasted hours troubleshooting errors, routine build fails and apps that think nothing of pulling in hundreds of dependencies that in turn have their own dependencies that can fail at any time.

This is plainly wasting millions of man hours of end users time if its not a SAAS app. Compared to that Go is an ode to simplicity, PHP just works, Python is relatively painless and even Java causes little stress. Its node and ruby that seem to be designed by people who revel in complexity and have zero concern for deployment and end users.
Conor McBride has some very memorable paper names. His generalization of Huet's zippers [1] gave rise to the "Clown" and "Joker" bifunctors in Haskell, and his paper [2] introducing quantitative type theory (on which Idris 2 is provisionally based) is called "I Got Plenty o' Nuttin'" after Gershwin.

[1] http://strictlypositive.org/CJ.pdf
[2] https://personal.cis.strath.ac.uk/conor.mcbride/pub/Rig.pdf
After Rails' memory usage, I would say that the "magic" is the worst part of Rails. Wish I could have Rails, except a bit more explicit.

That said, with pry, it's pretty easy to dig down into the "magic" and see wtf's going wrong when something is borked.

Despite that minor grumbling, I'd say that Rails is still darn good! It's very mature framework (or perhaps more accurately, collection of frameworks) at this point. You can get stuff done quickly.

Most things really don't need to be SPA, and many (most?) don't need to serve up more than a few hundred or a few thousand responses per core per second.
I think it is worse the other way around though. Science majors generally have to take real history and English classes, often side by side with humanities students. Humanities majors generally are corralled into things like "Biology and You" and "Physics for Poets". It's unfortunate because it isn't surprising that these people then fall for the postmodern critique of science as nothing particularly special because they've only been exposed to dumbed-down versions of it.
A lot of databases have this weird idea that there is some secure "internal network" and its OK to just pretend its 1995 in there. Antirez actively blogs about how "insecure" Redis is but its OK because just don't put it on the internet [1]. Others just avoid the subject completely. Never mind that internal networks get infiltrated all the time.

Security in depth is just not a thing a lot of people think about right now.

[1] http://antirez.com/news/96
I think it's wonderful that a bootcamp leaves out requirements that involve stuff like sociology, art history, community service, political science, and similar undesired gunk.

I think it is tolerable that a bootcamp leaves out 3 semesters of calculus, 3 semesters of physics, 2 semesters of discrete math, 1 semester of statistics, 1 semester of digital logic, more math, and more science. The value here is limited.

What is terrible is that a bootcamp usually neglects anything outside of one narrow specialty that happens to be popular, typically web development. The typical bootcamp isn't teaching how to create a compiler, an OS, factory automation, life-critical software, or hard real-time software.
> it's very rare CDC says 2.7-6 Million people

There are 329 million people in the US. 1 in 122 (329/2.7) people is not "very rare". 1 in 55 (329/6) people is even less so.
Still better than famine and genocide. And since we have a representative liberal democracy, the institutions and the state have recourse and are solving the problem.
Or you know could just hire employees who don't have college degrees as having a degree doesn't mean much now.
Shorting Lyft right now might be a great idea. (as great as it can be for someone with lay person knowledge of a company)

I think it may be the company with the largest IPO, that is still this neck deep in losses.
This is social liberalism though! Creating programs for all to survive and thrive and have a shot at a decent life. It’s the same thing with the NIMBY (not in my backyard) movement. Everyone wants to complain about high housing costs, but as soon as they themselves get a house they want to protect their wealth by blocking new housing developments. I find the contradictions frustrating
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You realize that it’s zero interest if you pay it on time, every time, right? Even with the money, I use cards to get airline points and fly around. Might as well get something if you’re spending it anyway.m and paying it off.m monthly to zero.
I think its because I remembered reading about Alcyone being a star that our solar system orbits. It was called the great sun I think?

Also if you opened Stellarium and looked at the Pleiades where Alcyone resides, you could see blue-ish formation and it looks beautiful for me.
Hmmm. That pretty well explains how I've solved problems my whole life. Interesting. Will have to look into the book.
We're heading for a showdown in San Francisco between the homeless and residents.

For those of you not from this area, it'd be hard to believe just how bad the SF homeless situation really is, and how it's tied to drug use and mental illness.

SF has a lot of resources for homeless people, so functional homeless folks who want help can get it. Shelters and low income housing up and down the peninsula don't allow drug use, don't allow people with criminal records, and some don't allow men. Cold weather shelters make exceptions, but those are very temporary. Those conditions exclude a lot of the homeless who would like to use them. Then, you have the issue of the homeless who are heavy drug users, mentally ill, or simply don't want to be in a shelter. These three groups are most of the homeless you see in the streets. San Francisco (and San Jose's) big homeless problems are exacerbated by the fact that peninsula cities crack down on homeless people by buying a bus ticket to SF or SJ, whichever is cheaper, and police escorting them to the bus.

So, as someone who's lived in the area for over twenty years, I'm sick of San Francisco's lack of action on this problem. On one side you have shelters, but on the flip side is utter lack of enforcement of loitering, since being on public land isn't illegal. These people need help, rehab, or even institutionalization, but you can't force that, and nobody's willing to pay for it. It's a mess, and the more money SF throws at homeless people in the form of food, shelters, and safe injection sites, the more homeless people it "hires" from abroad.

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That article is disingenuous. The homeless on the streets of SF are not due to displacement by tech, though I'm sure that contributes. They come from all over for the perks. The weather is mild, food is available, police turn a blind eye to minor crimes and shooting heroin on Market street, so as far as being homeless goes, it's not the worst place to be.
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Unpopular opinion: there are a lot of other locations than the heart of the SF waterfront.