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Newton's father died when he was 3 months old and his mother ditched him as a kid and when she returned years later made him quit school to take care of the pigs. The reason he went on to become the Isaac Newton everyone knows, was because of the role all the other Adults around him played, not his parents.

Don't write off that kid.

I teach part time and see this a lot. Especially from fellow teachers. Oh this kid has an alcoholic abusive dad, that kid has a mom with cancer, those 2 have family members in jail etc etc, followed by go easy on the struggling kid or this kid has no hope etc. If the kid flunks a test or skips class let it slide etc.

All this compounds the issue. What is required is the opposite of just sympathy.

Help them find their strengths and interests. Show them how to focus on positives and tune out negatives. Encourage whatever small steps you see them taking. Sensitize the other kids around them to be supportive. Show them examples of resilience and what it takes to be resilient. All these small things add up. Basically don't focus on the parent, focus on things you can do for the kid.

It's very hard to reprogram dysfunctional adults and get them to change, but kids are very different story. And there are few things more beautiful and satisfying, than watching a kid who has struggled for years and years, overcome and kick ass.
In my country, there was a flat-earthers convention some time ago. It was going to happen in a small town, and the media took it as a funny thing to report on.

One journalist actually went there, and reported about it... What at first seemed like a funny thing, turned out to be kind of scary.

Yeah, there were a few small talks about flat earth. The rest of the day, the talks were mainly about about anti-vaccines, "New Germanic medicine", nationalism, white race superiority, antisemitism, etc...

I guess a group of neo-nazis were smart enough to use the "flat earth" talks as a means to attract Mass Media's attention, to get them to publicize their convention for free.

Here's the article about it (google translate from spanish):

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&tl=en&u=h...

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PS: I don't get the reason for the downvotes... I'm not saying "flat earth = neonazis" nor giving any opinion at all.

I'm just telling the anecdote (and linking the source) of how some people used "flat earth" for manipulating mass media into getting free publicity for their convention.
Find the mentions of it here. What is it used for? If you made a table of all uses, what would you see?
I know the guidelines. But that downvote was incredibly low quality and I chose to make an exception. It's unfortunate that someone needs to censor discussion of someone that actually does creative work for a living and of a comment that was not inflammitory or off topic without anything of value to add on their part.

There is even another comment in this thread that continues to discuss "taste". Which is the absolute 100% worst way to think about creative work. Taste is like the bootcamp for creative work. It will get you shallow quick results that will not extend anywhere past the introductory levels. At which point your work will stagnate.
That's a fair critique, but one that applies equally to other strategies for picking stocks of public companies, so is kind of out of scope.
Someone else already mentioned JSON5 (https://json5.org/), which is JSON with a few ergonomic improvements, including comments. Hjson (https://hjson.org/) is a similar, slightly more complex format with a few extra features such as unquoted strings for object values.
>The better your engineers, the bigger your system can get before it collapses under its own weight. This is why the most successful tech companies insist on the best talent despite their massive size.

Translation: the successful tech companies have so much poorly documented legacy enterprise spaghetti code and tooling that they need the best talent they can get just to make sense of it and maintain it
Right, it was killed by a software filter and then users vouched for it. I've fixed the software filter and moved kenneth's reply to be a child of the comment it was replying to.
> I suspect most of them will have heart disease and skin cancer when we're in our 60s.

You've got to die of something, if enjoying the sun and eating fatty tasty cuts of meat means dying 10 years earlier, I'm OK with that
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No it's objectively the baby boomers fault. Once they die things will mostly get back to normal since a huge voting block which has systematically defunded infrastructure, welfare and services they benefited from will finally be out of the political system as pathetically reliable voters.

They're fortunately aging out of power right now too.
> (and misogynistic) society

This word is becoming way over-used (and thus losing its meaning).

There are real misogynists and real misogynistic behaviour; I can think of a prominent media identity in my own country who is definitely a misogynist. But misogyny is not simple sexism; it is active hating and dislike of women, and words and actions that show you hold them in complete contempt. I don't think that word can be applied across any society; it's an individual pathology, not a cultural pattern.
I found this to be an incredibly accessible and easy to read guide for software development. It’s a very short read - just a few minutes - but it’s full of practical examples and written in a way that speaks to non-engineers (like bureaucrats). If you are a non-technical person handling software stuff, this article should definitely be high on the reading list.

The author seems like an unknown in the software development world, but they’re one of the managers for Singapore’s fairly successful digital government initiative. So it does feel safe to say they have some experience.
I think there is just a fascinating parallel in the lives of two men who were both responsible for the key bit of knowledge that turned the fates of the European and the Pacific - Sorge and Rochefort.

Sorge’s key contribution to the war was the knowledge that the Japanese would not attack Russia in 1941, which allowed Stalin to move forces to save Moscow. Rochefort on the other hand led the intelligence effort that allowed Nimitz to ambush the Japanese fleet six months later. Both of these men ultimately lost “office politics” which led to them both being marginalized and ignored by their governments after their great victories. Rochefort ended up the better of the two, only being reduced to building dry docks, while Sorge ended up being shot,even though the Japanese tried multiple times to trade him back for their own captured spies.

One side note - it’s amazing how good and ruthless the soviet spy network was. They were simultaneously stealing Japanese war plans, hitlers sexual history, Churchill oppositions private notes and atomic designs from the US. It’s not for nothing that the red scare occurred after the war.
I get what you’re saying. But I don’t think such a philosophical approach will move the discussion forward. I don’t think many value one belief (freedom to spend) absolutely over the other (freedom from financial ruin). Most are willing to compromise and can be swayed by appealing to other things they might value, like saving lives.
The difference, for me, is that neither of those quotes explain why you should value knowledge workers or why employees are valuable (maybe hiring is expensive, maybe turnover reduces morale, etc), nor do they suggest the mechanism that creates this value.

I'm sure another author has put the same sentiment out there before, but it's not every day I see such a nice phrasing of it.
It's available from Amazon for Kindle too (I bought it last time it was discussed here).
Ultimatums are one of the best tools for people in terrible relationships to use:

"Give up the bottle, or I leave."

"Stop hitting the kids, or I call the cops."

(Other ultimatums, such as "Marry me or I kill the dog" are obviously abusive.)

In this case, the woman is forcing the man into a choice, but he still has a choice. "Show me that I'm not wasting my time or I leave" is in the grand scheme of things quite tame.
Happiness in slavery. :) Not every potential partner might be into that or the faking of good leadership qualities that owning a dog enables.
Link to the actual project: http://www.homemadeliquidnitrogen.com/index.html

I kept getting errors trying to show the video. Its a pretty cool project (no pun intended). Back when I worked at Intel there was a LN2 "generator" outside the building, you could walk out, hold up your Dewar and fill it up. The whole thing was probably 8' on a side and 10 - 15' tall. Later when the building was torn down to make it a data center I saw the remains of the generator where it had been dismantled for scrap and that made me a bit nostalgic, and I thought "I wonder how hard it would be to do this at home?"

And now this guy goes and does just that! Given his progression I'm wondering if his next step will be to build a liquid oxygen generator using the liquid nitrogen to liquefy it.
Nobody said they couldn't handle them. I said it's traumatizing.

And so were all the things you just mentioned.

I'm ready to be a part of the generation where we learned to heal, not merely handle. I wish that for my child, too.
> It seems we are on the path to repeat history with software engineering, what with how software and the internet is being developed with such little regard for public safety and long term consequences.

> Unfortunately, it appears that the "free love" phase of software engineering is coming to an end, as society now relies more and more on software and major tech players for life and safety. It's starting to get real for software engineering.

Software will always be a spread of reliability requirements, from pacemakers on one side to excel reports on the other. Part of being a responsible user is choosing software with the right balance of economics and reliability for the job.
Get 100 developers and small companies with similar stories and it should be easy to convince a jury that Google arbitrarily, without cause or review, destroyed these people's livelihoods and should be held liable and accountable.

EULA is not some magic shield against the actual court system, either.
These incinerators are not your typical campfire. When your scout master yelled at you for throwing plastic in the fire, he was right because such a fire is relatively cool and has lots of incomplete combustion. Burning plastic in such fires produces a lot of nasty gases.

But modern industrial incinerators are another sort of beast. They burn hot enough to tear apart most of the nasty shit and burn that too.
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I dont even think it's similar in kind. Even during the violence everyone, even Macron and French state media gave lip service to their grievances and went to great lengths to at least pretend to sympathize while China is hostilely mischaracterizing HK protestors and encouraging mainlanders to hate.
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It could be a stress reaction. He might be so overstimulated he needs something close to focus on.
It's almost like we are all capable of making our own apps
People buy ICE cars knowing the petrol delivery infrastructure means they'll never run out of gas on a long trip. People are wary of short range electric vehicles because they might not find a charger in time, or the chargers they do find might be in use, and then they'll be stranded.
Despite the assholish title, the blog post actually makes a very good point and it’s a pretty good advice. Before you ask somebody to spend them time on you, make sure you put the time yourself.
There was this study published around 10 years ago, showing that in 1850 the average diameter of field of play of children were around 10km close to the house. In 2007 it was mostly 250m away from the house.
I think it´s funny with that much comments, none of them are really on the core issue here.

Just imagine if Tim Berners-Lee banded together with Mark Andreessen to create a closed and centralized platform, were they could centrally control everything.

Thats why i think the mobile phone plataforms are a real danger to a world were the information flows freely and were no government or company can control.

People are giving to much power to those companies, and when they do what a lot of people know they would do, they just wip, and try to contact his digital lord to just have mercy.

Dont neal, dont help them kill the spirit behind a world were people can access the things they want without any sort of centralized control.

Its beyond me how many people are so worried about government controlling their freedom, but are ok with companies doing it.

We do not need to accept this. The problem is in the app store model.. (they could create it, as long other could compete, but they could NEVER choose what you can access) and guess what, now our governments are too are weak to regulate them.

They can spy on us, know what we are doing, help shady government agencies, control what you see, listen, access and in the end shape what you think (Remember all the mess the simple 'like' Facebook algorithm did to the world.. its too dumb. It reminds me "Donnie Darko" with that shady coaching of "everything should be on the hate-or-love axis").

The despotic government of the future for me is a bunch of big tech companies who control information, and the lives of all of us united to have a world were they will be all powerful and always relevant.

People dont seem to know the dangers we are facing. This is very serious, and its a glimpse of the future. Think how much of what you understand as your right will be suddenly terminated by despotic tech companies who are too powerful to be controled or regulated.

It´s even worse, if you think we are in the dawn of the AI and what a very powerful player can do to keep the control.

You can think im exagerating, and i really hope im wrong, but its a real possibility, and we should not let this awful future be materialized because we did not see how this could be possible.

And to help you figure it out, if you travelled back in time to tell your 2010 self how the world would be in 2019, do you think he would believe it? We are living in idiocracy all over the world, and we use to laugh to those sort of movies. (Dr. Strangelove will soon look a lot like a documentary of the modern days)
> People don't buy ICE cars based purely on MPG

Because range typically isn't a problem with ICE cars.

I really like the Honda e. It looks good and has good features:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEKq8jmckz0

But its number one problem is lack of range. Solid-state batteries with better energy density will solve that problem, but those batteries aren't here yet.
Range means less time messing around looking for charging, and less planning and waiting during long trips.
Let's call out Jack Dorsey for not being as progressive as he claims.
Every electric car slated to arrive has been called a Tesla killer in article after article, sometimes individually, often as a collective.

Several of them are targeting Tesla owners with discounts, ads at superchargers, etc... The companies clearly think they are competing with Tesla, especially since they don't want to compete with themselves (ICE models).

As for doing their own thing, most have a battery shortage and are confined to small cars with relatively small battery packs for now until more batteries are available (none of whom are vertically integrating production).
Esperanto would have had a good chance of becoming a useful language had the League of Nations adopted it as its official language. However the French veto prevented this and essentially killed the movement.
I don't think it's necessarily like that. The error could make the theorem wrong in all cases.

I think it's more that the mathematician has a top-down way of reasoning, where they can see things like "I want to get from New York City to Los Angeles, so I have to board the bus, take a flight, and then take the bus from the airport at LA". There are certain parts where you basically know that a proof will be possible, because it seems true, like "I can get to LA's airport with public transit", so usually a specific hiccup, like a bus being delayed, won't prevent you from getting there.
Incidentally, a lot of Chinese twitter "bots" (or rather accounts that spread Chinese propaganda, whether they're manually run by actual humans or not) reply to tweets about the Hong Kong protests with sensationalist articles about the yellow vests and how France is "collapsing".

That said, there are interesting takes on the yellow vests that are still critical of them without simply painting them as vandals. For example one article pointed out that the yellow vests are overwhelmingly white and their treatment is noticeably tamer than that of equally or less violent protesters in previous years who were predominantly people of color.

As an outsider the yellow vests movement (especially now that it has been copied internationally) seems like it has a few legitimate concerns but they are swamped in a confusing mix of everything from anarchocommunists to ecofascists. It doesn't help that some of the international copycats are obviously far-right (because nazis seem to love co-opting populist movements for their own purposes).
There's difference between fancy formatting and applying good design. Good design will make your resume more readable and draw focus to the key points the reader would be initially scanning for.

30 seconds is about the time you have to grab someone's attention. If they don't see something that ticks a few boxes in that time, they'll move on to the next resume.

I've had to sort through a lot of resumes over the years and when you have a stack to go
through and project deadlines approaching - you need to go through them fairly fast.

Basically, I'm not going to try and read a long description of achievements and skills gained. Not even dot points. I'm looking for where you've worked and for how long to gauge overall experience, how long you stayed in roles and the kinds of companies worked at. Knowing someone worked at a particular company gives a lot of info about their potential exposure to tools and technologies.

So, if your resume can get that across in those first 30 seconds, it will get read in full later once you're down to a handful of potential candidates.

Those info-graphic style resumes are appalling and not what you want to try and parse unless the person's job role will be creating info-graphics.
It's hard to fill balloons with liquid nitrogen since it freezes them solid.
Google wins when users see ads, that's their whole reason to exist. They're not on your side in this battle as those ad impressions are cash in the bank.
Range/MPG can certainly be a determining factor for many. Many people might even narrow their focus to certain models based on range/mpg and not even look at those that don't check their marks.

That's my experience anyway, maybe you can provide a source that says otherwise?
> Google is what, a 3/4 TRILLION dollar company, based on market cap!

Their market cap is about 800 billion...I don't think 3 trillion dollar companies exist yet
The kindle version apparently used to be a shoddy PDF scan. Any idea if amazon's been updated to the 2018 reissue and if that's any better?

All of the reviews claim it's crud.
Interesting home application.
I like this Pollan reference
XMLs "predecessor" is full-blown SGML, and since XML is just a proper subset of SGML, XML is no improvement. The one thing it brought was DTD-less, canonical angle-bracket markup where documents can be parsed without grammar rules eg DTDs (this was also incorporated into SGML via the WebSGML adaptations, so that XML could remain a proper subset of SGML). But this also means XML is useless for parsing HTML, the most important markup language (XML was started to supersede HTML as XHTML, but that failed).
My wife is Japanese, I thought at first like that, that our son should have a taste of the education system as I'd like him to have both cultures. I am starting to revise that judgement. The culture of obedience and resignation seems diametrically opposed to some notions of the French culture.

Indeed, you need to get the Japanese culture completely and uncompromisingly to see what the schools here "teach" in a positive way. However the Japanese culture is about more than just submission and obedience, the other parts, I am fine with, but I am not going to leave my son in a system that considers imagination and critical thinking like deviance.
> who complains about how loud a Tesla is?

People who have driven in a Mercedes EQC.
"Software engineering is the distilling of ambiguity"

I hope he meant separating out the ambiguity rather than concentrating it. :)
Really? I haven't seen one yet.
> Yes everyone should be rich enough to buy a 1000 dollar Apple phone.

I bought an iPhone 7 from Net10 about 5 months ago for $220 shipped. It requires a minimum $20 a month plan for 12 months before I can unlock it. About 2 years ago I got my mom an iPhone SE for $140 with similar plan/unlock. Both brand new.

They’re not everyday prices and not the newest model but it is possible to go iOS without breaking the bank.
You left out the most important group.
> Having worked with GObject extensively, including through PyGObject, I can say the experience is infinitely better than trying to make C++ interoperate with e.g. Python.

Have you tried SWIG?

http://www.swig.org/
You may be grossly overestimating ad prices. A datum is damn near worthless, but data in the aggregate is valuable because of the scale of these companies.
You are right, but if we shrink the scope to CommonMark the problems still exists.

And what is assembler, may I ask? Is it for YAML or Markdown?
It only got used for short experiments. More of just one-shot use.
This difference does not negate the similarities that I listed which make them of the same kind. The French state doesn't get a free pass on its human rights abuses and propaganda because its figurehead negotiated with the other side.
I personally like that my phone has expandable memory and iPhone features 3 years before the iPhone.
CO2 is safer since our bodies have receptors that notice CO2 buildup in the bloodstream, but no receptors that notice lack of oxygen. Breathing pure nitrogen is a very gentle way of killing yourself. You just fall unconscious and die.
My current favourite is pybind11. I wouldn't wish SWIG on my greatest enemy :)
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> I am not sure how old you are but everything seemed to change when abducted children were put on milk cartons in the mid 1980s. Before that, kids roamed free.

That actually started in the early 1980s, and kids roamed free well into the 1990s.
Can we just get a proper Linux phone already? I could whip up a (rough) GUI for a WiFi phone in no time and all the software I want to use is already there - or could be developed relatively easily. Hell, Ubuntu's Gnome is almost a tablet OS anyway at this point, has relatively good drivers, stability, etc.

The WiPhone is so unbelievably close to what I want [1] (+). I really wish it had a web browser though (which would likely require a beefier processor). I think the Pi compute module is asking to become a mobile device with the possibility of a good upgrade path too [2] (++).

(+) Still waiting to ship it seems although I think they are acting in good faith.

(++) The idea of using the DDR2 laptop RAM connector is genius IMO. They can also borrow the DDR3 and DDR4 connectors when the time comes for more pins.

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2103809433/wiphone-a-ph...

[2] https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-compute-module...
> For much of this, we have over-involved, over-concerned mothers to thank (and a bunch of dads that think like moms).

What a hateful, sexist notion to put in the middle of an otherwise articulate comment.