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I think you can think of applicative like specifying the abstract syntax tree for the operation you want to perform and then giving it to an evaluator, as opposed to a monad where you code the implementation more directly, but deliver it opaquely as a lambda to the system.
And I guess my concern is that doing something like this is probably solving the wrong problem.

I've worked with people who write messy, tangled code in giant methods, and my experience has been that forcing them to write smaller functions is futile. Satisfying the static analyzer is just too easy: Move all your variables into mutable fields that all the methods fiddle with, break the contents of the method out into smaller methods with cryptic and misleading names, create a master method that calls them all in a row. Voila, with barely any effort you've satisfied the static analyzer and made the code even less maintainable.
I spend a couple hours a week practicing guitar, and dozens of hours doing computer work.

I don’t consider myself a guitarist.

“Freedom to get stuff done.”, it says on the Fellowship site. For the few young folks that qualify.

The raw numbers tell the story better than a stat: some folks, not most folks. Most folks gotta shovel the money onto the pile so bits and pieces can trickle down at the rate he approves.

This isn’t limited to Peter Thiel. It’s the same old: kowtow to aristocrats.
> So yeah, I detest this sense of entitlement that programmers have, where they want to a) get paid a lot and b) have lots of free time on the side.

That mentality reminds me of the 2014 commercial for Cadillac ELR Coupe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNzXze5Yza8

It's not entitlement to want work-life balance and be paid well for your skills.
Is it really unthinkable that a fixed population could each year turn a finite set of resources into a set of resources that is 3% more valuable?

If a tree falls in a forest, and someone turns it into some chairs, while planting at least one tree in its place, then that has made the economy more valuable (assuming there are people who want the chairs, and that leaving the fallen tree in place would be less valuable than having newly planted ones).

Zero percent growth means that every time someone creates something valuable out of less valuable materials, there has to be an equivalent amount of value destroyed somewhere. I suppose that entropy takes care of the destruction, to some extent, but it seems arbitrary to try to limit value creation to precisely match that level.
There are tons of components in Apple's devices and only a few Apple logos. If you get an order for 70 million higher end tiny lenses you can narrow down the list of potential customers pretty quickly, no logos needed.
The author talked about if data is "yours," but they never mention the truest form of that: ownership. If ownership of data becomes an established concept, data will fit nicely into existing legal frameworks.

If a random person could come and take tools from your garage, you would have a problem with that, since you only have one set of tools and they're expensive to keep repurchasing. The ability to make zero-cost copies of information and transmit it instantaneously for effectively free has made our relationship with information totally different than anything else in history. We can't run from it, but we can build better systems.
I really wouldn't worry about that. You got it off fast enough to not worry.
That's more the profession demands it and those seminars are mostly in working time I actually got asked to goto such a seminar as an example of a rare expression of Sarkoidosis.
The ad entity wouldn’t be “themselves” to the search entity anymore so there wouldn’t be any incentive to give one random customer a more favorable rate than the rest.
Hmm so if we genetically modify animals with our mutation, the disease can be avoided if only such animals are eaten? Sounds cool, and is probably much easier to get approved than a drug for humans.
The problem is, whenever something bad happens, people look to regulation, but they never look at the existing regulation to see how it might have led to this. They always want to add something new rather than fix what's already there.

One of the strongest defenses against monopolies is adversarial interoperability, because it blunts vertical integration. It allows a new competitor to replace one piece of the supply chain and still use the rest of it, even if it's operated by the same conglomerate competing with them for that one piece. Because then you can have five companies replace the five pieces one at a time and end up with competition on all fronts, without them having to find each other and coordinate ahead of time before any of them can act.

But we now have multiple laws conspiring to prevent that in tech. CFAA, DMCA 1201, EULAs, patent thickets, etc. We get monopolies because we passed laws that thwart competition. So how about we do something about those laws rather than adding new ones, when the incumbents are likely to have more influence in drafting the new ones than the average user or startup founder?
The lazy sort of criminal that relies on commonplace, corporate-controlled communications apps would be caught using a traditional investigative approach regardless of any end-to-end encryption. It's the more sophisticated ones that they're using as justification for these backdoors—exactly the type that might be mildly inconvenienced at most by backdoors in standard communications services.

If what these criminals are doing is causing actual harm then there must be sufficient offline physical evidence to track and convict them by without direct access to their communications networks. Far from reducing crime, the enforcement of compulsory backdoors would itself be a crime committed by the government against its own citizens on a massive scale.
Lottery winners are true believers too.
Sure it does. Since 2009.[1]

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5550
Sure but you really do not need that high temperatures, you get enough heat in a humanure compost (aerobic and active) to kill the common pathogens dangerous for humans.
And that's not counting one the ones who didn't apply
I suspect the winners will already be well established in the field.
"Overt politics" = "free speech". There is no reason why private companies have to be politically neutral.
We use websockets for pushing things like comments, answers and question edits as they are added as well as for notifications like inbox messages and reputation updates.

Our websocket process currently has ~500k concurrent connections across 9 web servers.

Nick has some information on his blog (https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/02/17/stack-overflow-the-ar...) although it’s a little outdated - we no longer use Netgain, we use the .NET Core websockets bits instead.
Interesting. I swear for a long time this (the assertion that type annotations can improve performance) was in the Julia documentation, so much so I stopped reading it. But maybe something changed? There have been a lot of changes.

Then again, maybe I just misunderstood something.
Google doesn't put much care into the Play Store and it shows. Counterfeit apps, malware, and PII vacuums run amok
Care to explain why? Just curious.
And I have always wondered, why? Why not just straight lines and pure utilitarianism? Granted, I love looking at that sort of thing, so I'm glad they made it as they did. But why?

Was it just a given that you would put art into anything you built?
And in reverse, all of those juicy options you pay your staff with should be income statement expenses, and then reversed as non cash on the cash flow statement.
Good lord... a show kitchen? Not to doubt you, but I have never heard of this. Clearly I don’t travel in rarefied circles. But, it’s hard for me to imagine being held hostage to the psychological drive to own such a thing.
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Not exactly what I was looking for. I was interested in ethical arguments. Thank you though.
Are you suggesting Google doesn't have real academic style research groups?

Surely you jest.

Didn't they even crossover into biology on one paper? They're a profit minded entity yes, but no way is it all shaving nanoseconds off of click throughs.
> In Google's defense in this area they did try XMPP

The Google that would even consider anything like that died when the founders left.
I agree absolutely.
> I'm always struck by how little privacy is afforded by the dividing walls in toilets in the USA.

If you're ever in the Boston area, try checking out a Red Sox game; the urinary dividing "walls" are legendary.
Europe heatwave: UK could break all-time temperature record
I don’t rent one way rentals from an FBO (because I have to come back and fly the plane home anyway), but when I do reserve local rentals for a trip, I give times but not tail number generally. That’s all current.
For many startups, the only goal is to get acquired by the big players. We know fully well that acquiring competition is a perfectly viable strategy to reduce competition. It's a win-win situation for founders, investors, and the big companies.

The founders and investors get a huge payday, the big companies get useful IP and employees, and are free to bury the product (see google graveyard).

It's sad. When startups release amazing stuff, they put pressure on the whole industry to up their game; consumers get better products, companies are forced to innovate, and good by-products come along.

But in the end, money talks.
I have had far too many of these stories with Hertz. I simply will not use them anymore.

Avis still seems to do right by me, and Avis seems to give their minions enough autonomy to actually fix the customer's problem.

My biggest problem with car rental lately is simply that the cars absolutely suck. No backup cameras, no radars, no adaptive cruise, etc. unless you buy the ultra, turbo premium ones. They are rotating their fleets so slowly now that the cars are becoming way behind the curve.

I have a secondary problem in that they are always trying to fob off the SUV onto me despite the fact that I didn't want anything bigger than mid-size.
I find it significantly harder to concentrate when reading an eBook versus a physical copy. Maybe it's Pavlovian conditioning from all the time I waste on my phone, but something about small glass screens makes my focus shut right off
The way to replace their large networks is decentralized systems.
The Rise of the 10x Research Associate
I've been doing this stuff professionally since 1982 including some stints at what might be called a fairly high level (household name companies in silicon valley). For all the people I've met/worked with, where I ended up hearing their education background, I'm absolutely sure no more than 20% had CS degrees. I also feel like there is a correlation between the extremely good people I've encountered, and _not_ having a CS degree.

That said, most folks did have some sort of science-related degree. People with no higher education aren't unknown, but quite rare ime. People with higher education only in non-science fields have also been quite rare. I haven't run into many shit hot coder history majors, frankly, but those I have encountered were so smart I'm certain they could have aced any degree they took the time to study for.

Last thought: architecture, design and coding seem more akin to creative endeavors such as writing a novel or play, making movies, that don't seem to be easy to "teach". e.g. nobody is marveling that J.K. Rowling doesn't have an English Literature degree (French, to save you checking..) and nobody is seriously trying to "teach" folks to write the Harry Potter series.

Disclosure: EEE major
Time based depreciation and registration, insurance, and property/excise tax are all fixed costs that apply whether or not the Lyft driver takes that 300 mile round trip or parks the car that day.
Seems a bit in the clouds. The poster knowingly took ownership of stolen property and got a warning over it. Stopping after you're caught doesn't right your wrong.
Finally a Preprocessor for Java
No.

I have been in poorer bits of Europe, sub-Saharan Africa, South America, Pacific islands.

The USA is (so far) the only place¹ where there were gaps between the door and the "wall" of the toilet cubicle partitions. This is surely more expensive -- it requires special hinges to provide the gap. In other countries, "cheap" might mean a 2mm gap. In the USA, it's an intentional 2cm gap.

There is some other reason. I'm not American. I genuinely don't know if I should admire it (lack of shame of bodily functions), or criticize it (afford less privacy to those who use public toilets).

¹ [There are places where there are no stalls at all.]

https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/26620/why-do-publ...
Only after reading this article and then looking at his bio did I put together that this is the author of the Old Man's War series. I think I made it to the 4th or 5th book in the series and it's an enjoyable read
Why doesn't the topic of data privacy laws ever enter this discussion? Data privacy laws would apply to everyone instead of targeting whoever happens to be at the top of the alexa rankings. Most of the big tech companies are not in violation of anti-trust regulations, so why don't we actually pass new laws to tackle the actual problem (systematic abuse of user data for profit)?
Governments and government research institutes already are building supercomputers for research in domains like physics or biology. Given the increasing relevance of AI, it's only a matter of time that they also build supercomputers that have AI accelerators.
Yes, I've encountered managers like this before. They value loyalty and obedience over skills. They don't hire "smart" people because then these "smart" hires would point out how ignorant they actually are and make them look bad. Or worse, they would become direct competitors and possibly take their job. These managers are abundant especially in large old enterprise companies where accountability and oversight is non-existent.
Apple takes steps to encrypt the data so that even they don't have access to it.
Right, but the paradox is that a bunch of inconsequential changes lead to major changes over time, such as the ship being replaced plank by plank until it has none of the original material.
Tipping is an utterly stupid institution.
I used to work as a management consultant for senior executives of tech companies. I learned the essentials of accounting by going through this workbook on a five-hour flight: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0132744376/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...

It's filled with simple fill-in-the-blank examples, but the repetition really helped it stick.
> Is it really unthinkable that a fixed population could each year turn a finite set of resources into a set of resources that is 3% more valuable?

No, of course not. The bulk of that 3% has always been population growth, but economic growth outside of population growth is possible -- it's even beneficial -- it's just not mandatory. There is nothing forcing it to happen, and the bad thing that happens if you don't have it is that you don't have it.

But that's still not great. Humans have had periods of stagnation that have lasted hundreds of years, and nobody really wants to live the lifestyle of the middle ages anymore.

Which is the point. If people spend their time optimizing click through rates and suing each other then humans don't immediately go extinct, but we also don't get any further toward curing cancer or colonizing other planets. And that's bad, directly, on its own, not because of some nebulous impact on economic indicators.
Hackernews is so strange. The post some weeks ago with the title "Show HN: Poli – An easy-to-use SQL reporting application built for SQL lovers" didn't get traction at all.
Exactly, so fixed costs need to be included
Elsewhere, the contract notes: "Any changes to the reservation may impact the rental charges."

Which is what will happen here. They'll charge you this fee, but also adjust the base rental charges to much higher rates that reflect the fleet management burden caused by one-way rentals.
Flea markets are an eyesore and typically sell low quality merch, attracting ebay type resellers slinging phone cases, gold by the inch, stuff like that
Both submarines lost in the mediterranean sea could have been caused by seaquakes i read earlier today.
Still a strange timing for sure.
I bet we'll get flying cars first.
I think he was talking about the author, not the football player. The football player was going to Buffalo so I assume the bus to Ohio wouldn't be helpful.
Writing a simple SOCKS server in Python (2018)
I'm leery about rather diet makes much of a difference. Ticks are attracted to heat and CO2 and will jump on anything moving by. I've never met anyone here who repels ticks.

Take a look at this video.

https://youtu.be/TFVDv8swzxQ

I'm dragging a bath towel around my front yard and there are hundreds of small ticks attached to it.
Here in Japan, I found a new button at a convenient store restroom labeled "toilet sound".
I worked at a company that did work for Apple. It was a poorly kept secret that they were a client but even in a 50-person company, I had no idea what exactly that team was working on. We definitely were only working in marketing stuff not product because that was our business. We maybe had early photos of phones at best. They had a huge list of secrecy and security demands many of which applied to people who didn't even work on their stuff. I heard nothing but terrible things about how they treated our team too.
In my grandfather's day, Readers Digest magazine offered lifetime subscriptions. Being clever, he took out the subscription in the name of my dad, who was a young boy. My dad is 80 now, and has received that magazine for virtually his whole life.
Is it fair to say the reasoning Apple would present in favour of having an "App Store" is that Apple can act as an exclusive gatekeeper for quality control and "security". Are there other reasons?

Through the App Store, Apple attempts to exert control over the software that an Apple hardware purchaser can run. Are the business advantages to Apple of this arrangement incidental or coincidental?
How right you were. I started, as one does, with Hitler and Lady Gaga, and continued naturally from there.
> Stopping after you're caught doesn't right your wrong.

Nope! I still remain happy to see that something gets stopped without legal action, and seeing a company that didn't go for the throat succeeding in their defense.

Just because a wrong isn't righted doesn't mean we can't be happy the situation didn't get worse.
When they operate as a platform they should be politically neutral and allow free speech for their users. Companies being overtly political isn't illegal but it is consumer hostile and just a bad idea.
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This argument can be extended to any market with barrier-to-entry level high fixed cost and low variable cost. That's basically every large tech platform (search, social, ecommerce, cloud).
Enterprise has a pretty interesting corporate genesis story. And they do well by their people (for the business they're in).

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/03/business/jack-taylor-foun...
Everyone who has not worked in the heavily regulated finance industry should read the above post, because this person speaks the truth.
Yes, I think you should find a lawyer to review whatever contracts you may have signed with your former employer. The lawyer can tell you which provisions of these contracts (if any) are enforceable in your state, and possibly write a letter to your ex-employer's lawyers telling them to back off.

But how did they find out that you had met with a competitor? And how could they know that you're violating any agreement if they don't know what you discussed with the competitor?

> Also, the CEO and I negotiated my return to the company after I quit. He gave me a verbal agreement to bring me back under certain terms. On the day I was supposed to be onboarded back, he called me and told me they won't be brining me back, and denied that we ever reached any agreement to bring me back.

You could also ask your lawyer about this. But why would you want to go back to work for an employer who is currently threatening you with legal action?
I'm surprised Microsoft isn't mentioned. It can be a good initiative, if it will for example force breaking lock-in, free up standards and reduce the likes of MS monopoly of Windows on preinstalled computers.
Yes—they'll adjust the rate to the (much higher) one-way price. But there's no crazy "loss of use" fee like the parent comment suggested.

In practice, the cost usually turns into around $0.37/mile, plus the daily rate, unless you have a corporate discount.
Maybe I don't understand your situation, but screening your calls and staying in airplane mode while you're on-call doesn't seem to be appropriate.
http://brenda-web.com/# already exists for that. :)

I'm not sure about the compatibility with the fork but it should not be too hard to adapt it if needed.
This drives me crazy. I gave "you" my GitHub with a variety of open source contributions, but instead of looking at it you wait until you've flown me in to give me a timed coding puzzle on an unfamiliar laptop.
Dual flush toilets are extremely common in the united states. I haven't seen a toilet installed in the last 5+ years that isn't dual flush.

That said, the Australian style flush is pretty different than most of the toilets I see in the US. I was in a hotel in Boulder CO and thought my toilet flushed pretty weird, so I googled the brand (Caroma) and fell into a rabbit hole of toilet information.

The one in that hotel regularly required two flushes to clear my waste, so I'm not sure I really buy the advantages of the Australian style vs the siphon flush I'm used too.
It looks more modern, but this website has some late 90s Geocities feels.
Reconstruct in real time ~170M full-precision trips around the world
You said a lot of words and assumed a hell of a lot of things that were not contained in my question.

I simply asked a simple question out of curiosity, JFC. Does curiosity matter?

For the record, all code is ephemeral so since you're going to end up throwing it away anyway one day, it doesn't fucking matter what language you start with. Pretty much any language can back-end an API until a certain (large) number of users. #ProblemsWe'dLikeToHave

Twitter threw away Ruby and went to Scala; Facebook is slowly replacing PHP with... whatever, pretty much anything is superior to PHP; plenty of other companies have had to do partial or full rewrites of core functionality on a new stack. Paul Graham himself had his Lisp code tossed in a rewrite.

Uber's ripping out Python and going to a bunch of other langs: https://eng.uber.com/tech-stack-part-one/

Uber and Reddit have schemaless db backends for scalability reasons; I doubt they started out that way.

And yet, Discord is still on Elixir. Isn't that interesting. But I think they're putting in pieces of Rust.

So... I just asked a question.