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Python will still be used 20 years from now. The clear advantage of Python is the enormous ecosystem that is available, the millions of questions on SO giving solutions to every problem you can run into, the books and learning materials etc, programmers and corporations having invested loads of time and effort in building, maintaining and battle-testing libraries.

Don't get me wrong, i think Julia is an amazing language, but being an amazing language is neither necessary or sufficient to succeed. R shows how you can succeed just fine with a kinda weird language.
Till somebody acquires Spotify, the question is who will? Easily could see Microsoft doing so.

Me personally, I wont be buying into Spotify, I tried it years back (2008 ~ or the early days) and it didn't convince me. The All Music Access option that Google has is the best option for paid music so far.

Anybody making their podcasts exclusive to a platform will have to produce really enticing content or I will not go out of my way to add a new subscription to Spotify. I have my doubts I ever will join Spotify just because of a particular podcast.
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I think they confused origin with practice.

GenAm is the most common accent (probably 50-65% of speakers), and was originally (1900-1930s) associated with the migration path through Pennsylvania/Western Mass/Upstate NY as far west as the Upper Midwest.

That pattern has changed though, and there are some shifts in these regions.
I know about Touch Designer, but it is not a game engine and to my knowledge does not really specialize in fully real-time high-resolution detailed 3D rendering.
>Is the alternative to bank robbing a top-down central-managed solution? No, we simply penalize the behavior.

Penalizing the behavior sounds like a top-down solution to me. Government decides it's bad, then government sends the police to come get you if you do it.
Not really, I have a stationery that is pretty much an expensive gaming console, and I paid around $115 to get a Windows version on it. So it’s really sort of disgusting when it pre-installs various free-to-play installers or uses the start search menu for advertisements.

Hell, after years of having used *nix as my primary OS on my personal development laptop, I switched it to a surface pro 6 last year. I’m fairly certain these things is going to push me back to a Linux laptop.
The only thing native really gives you is notifications and performance (and better sensor access) at the cost of high coupling and having to use a specific OS for development.

Church-Turing yadda yadda
There are more around the country. It's very successful model in certain sectors like agriculture.
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I'm not sure what you mean by "sound" but it does cover a number of topics broadly which is usually what you get with a CS education.

Be aware though that you will get a vastly different CS education depending on which school you go to. It's a very broad field and different approaches pick from different branches of mathematics along the way.

If general ability is what you'd like to improve I'd add a bit of the more general mathematics to your repertoire: set theory, logic and predicate calculus, discrete mathematics, category theory, and type theory. Dip into calculus, linear and abstract algebra, information theory, semantics, and other specialized fields when you find a subject and specialization that tickles your fancy.

My reasoning there is that while the languages and technologies change, the foundations of math don't change as much, and it will help you reason about the problem you're looking at.

Information theory, for example, will help you understand the limits of compression and transmission. If you're working in networking or file storage this is useful stuff to know as there are lots of people who will make wild claims about a new compression algorithm that sounds way too good to me true. If you have a decent understanding of information theory there's a good chance you won't even need to see the code to debunk the claim. And it's also useful if you're working on some code and it's not performing up to your expectations: you know, because of the theory, that the transmission rate isn't what it could be and that gives a good start for debugging your algorithms points you to the design of your system.

Mathematics is your candle. It'll help light the way in a dark room where the dark room is your lack of knowledge and experience in a particular problem domain.
That's funny I kind of developed to writing in Ausgangsschrift naturally having been taught the more florid US style of US cursive. It's basically just connecting the normal print version of the characters so you don't have to lift the pen. Mine's more of a mutt though since it basically came out of just writing in print without lifting my pen as school demanded faster note taking.
Whistleblower payoffs in the US can be up to 30% of collected money https://www.sec.gov/whistleblower

> The Commission is authorized by Congress to provide monetary awards to eligible individuals who come forward with high-quality original information that leads to a Commission enforcement action in which over $1,000,000 in sanctions is ordered. The range for awards is between 10% and 30% of the money collected.

If the government started paying off employees who report data violations, there would be a lot of retired engineers on Hacker News!
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Key points:

On Jan 23, the Ministry of Health reported the first case of coronavirus in Singapore. As of Feb 10, there have been a total of 45 cases, of which 23 are locally transmitted.

The early patients were tourists from Wuhan. In the past week, local transmissions started appearing and now exceed imported ones.

As of Feb 10, seven patients have been discharged – six China nationals and one Singaporean, who had been evacuated from Wuhan. But seven patients are in critical care.
While I do have a strong soft spot for the dreamy leftist ideal of worker cooperatives (and I'm happy and impressed that an example as big and long-living as Mondragon exists), I've recently started to find the much less anticapitalistic concept of b2b buyer cooperatives far more interesting. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DATEV for example is doing just fine and feels as corporate as it gets (interviewed there once).

What's so interesting about b2b cooperatives? Recently we have seen the rise of market/directory platforms in fields where the network effect is so strong that it's impossible to sustain real competition for long and once they are effectively monopolistic they can squeeze entire industries dry at will, degenerating into pure rent seeking. Poster child example: there cannot be a second booking.com, the closest they have to competition is airbnb.

A buyer cooperative with the explicitly defined mission to just run the platform at low cost would be the perfect antidote and a massive improvement for everybody in the buying sector (those that purchase directory listings) and their customer base. It wouldn't even be an impediment to innovation because frontends could still be a multitude of conventional for-profits, they'd just not compete in listing breadth (they'd all get the same offers from the coop backend). Works roughly like that in the airline industries, despite multiple competing backends. The big difference: those backends are (were?) owned by airlines, not by outsiders trying to maximise value extraction.
I guess I don't find it terribly surprising given that a majority of immigrants to America didn't speak English and picked it up (sometimes several generations) later.
All rubber soled shoes store and release energy. It is physically impossible to build a perfect energy damper. So the question is: how much should be allowed to preserve the sport and how do authorities enforce it?
Do you see a likely scenario where Spotify will be even 50% of podcast listeners when they are the default app on the dominant platform for listening to podcast and Apple’s podcast directory is the Google of podcasts. It’s used by third parties via a free API.
The project timeline for the 737 MAX was at least 6 years. It was announced in 2011 and entered service in 2017. So you can run into this problem even when thinking 5+ years ahead.
Nobody is forcing profits. If you want to start a non-profit aerospace company, nobody is stopping you.
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Thanks! That leaves me thinking, though. I'm also using Unraid, and the main gpu is exclusively used for my vm passthrough (it's a Radeon). I thought that the bios won't free it once it has been claimed by the bios for passthrough, hence the Geforce GT710 for the bios. If I could free that, I could host another gaming setup.
What is that reason then?
>I struggled with the incompatibilities of evolution and the literal Christian creationist model I was taught.

I had the opposite problem, with parochial school teachers well versed in shifting back and forth between "it was a metaphor" when evidence contradicted it, to biblical literalism when there wasn't clear contrary evidence. So it was right when right, and meant to show us what is right when it was false.

I thought C&E was a philosophical question, like the ship of Theseus, it can't have a reductive answer because it represents ideals rather than logic.

To be devil's advocate for your stance, the '... an egg that was a mutation from non-chicken parents' were themselves derived first from an egg, which could be said to be the origin of the chicken, but itself laid by antecedent.... So eventually it must go back to the first entity that laid the first egg, and whenceforth they, etc...hence a philosophical perspective.
Fun fact: political messages are explicitly exempt under Israeli law that bans unsolicited SMS spam
No the solution is to drop the price by an order of magnitude. Every domain will be squatted, but due to naturally intense competition, they will cost $2. Make squatting unprofitable again.

(There is nothing inherently wrong with squatting)
Not sure why the downvotes. Outside of my cousin, who did a lot of serious ballet as a younger lady, I can't think of anyone who does dancing on a pro or semi-pro level without allusions to champagne rooms.
Spaniards would never do that, promoting Spanish products cause they are Spanish? now way... https://www.mapa.gob.es/es/alimentacion/temas/nacidos_en_esp...

Motto is: "Born in Spain, admired through the world"
(that is an official Spanish government site, for the record"

edit: site motto translated.
Windows 10 home is an active attack on the user and the enterprise version isn’t much better. I’m constantly shocked at how popular the OS continues to be.
Thanks for the hint - I always thought it's the bios grabbing the gpu, and not releasing it again for the vm. I might need to read into some stuff.
NFSv3 is very dead.

I like Kerberos a good bit and I think the complexity of running an LDAP/Kerberos infrastructure is greatly over estimated, but it is disappointing that none of the theorized alternatives ever really appeared. Last I read, LIPKEY was the only serious contender and there were some security concerns that got it nixed.
Please tell me you're being sarcastic because I'm only 90% sure you are.
We're currently using a combination of Intercooler, Stimulus, and React components in our MPA depending on the interactivity and complexity needs of each component in question - so we're certainly not in the SPA camp.

However having listened to the Full Stack Radio episode and trying Alpine out, I'm not convinced on writing interdependent JS fragments in HTML attributes.

For our team Stimulus feels more robust - store state in the DOM, which then calls full JS/TS classes to do the computation - keeping the separation of concerns intact. We can also make use of Typescript typing, linting, and bundling of our Stimulus controllers, and test the behaviour more easily.

Exciting to see more options in the non-SPA world tho!
That's not a novel observation. Ronald Coase addressed this more than 80 years ago in the context of neo-liberal economics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_firm
On iOS Apple would just not allow Firefox and be done with it.
Microsoft doing shady stuff again. It's really a shame. The engineering that the teams at Microsoft put to the kernel and the actual operating system at large is amazing.

This has been Microsoft forever. They have always made some good things, but from a business perspective, they've always been parasitoids. They infect you, then eventually consume you from the inside-out.

THAT is their DNA. And so far, I have seen zero indication they've changed.
Gradually, by word of mouth
It's not clear what the dealer thought they were buying from Tesla nor how the dealer represented the car to the buyer. The brand new sticker is generally not used in a pre-owned sale. There would be a new sticker.
Justice Dept. charge China-backed hackers over Equifax breach
Handwriting education is sorely lacking for left-handed people. Most often they are left to figure out things for themselves.

Things you -- or other left-handed people -- could try:

- Rotate your writing surface. The more you rotate your writing surface the more it changes the writing direction from left-to-right to top-to-bottom which solves a lot common issues. It may take some getting used to but it's a lot better than using a claw grip to bend your wrist out of the way of your writing.

- There are "left-handed-inks" for fountain pens available these days. They generally dry quickly and resist smudging. Combine this with a pen that has a round tip: it won't give a hoot about which direction you're applying force in since it won't dig into the paper like a square or chisel tip will.

- Use a calligraphers grip. Place the pen in your hand, the body of the pen resting in the web between your index finger and thumb. Rest the grip of the pen on your middle finger in a comfortable spot, some people rest it on the side of the fingertip but moving it up till past the knuckle places it in an area with more padding. This does necessitate rotating your paper to avoid smudging but it does make applying less force to your pen a lot easier. If you still have pressure problems with this grip you can try modifying it by resting the pen on your index finger instead and holding it with your thumb.

- I'd consider this somewhat of a last resort since it's not quite the best writing technique but you can try holding the pen some ways above the grip. The extra distance from your writing can be just enough to avoid smudging.

The world sure isn't built for left handed people, but it seems to me that a lot of suffering could be avoided by including specifics for lefties in writing education.
I would say accents in the UK are a combination of social status and location.
Very risky to be a developer for a walked garden.

If Apple does Apple things, they might make it harder and more expensive to develop. You might be a great programmer, but your company may not want to build native iOS apps.
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depose: 1. to remove from office or position, especially high office 2. to testify or affirm under oath, especially in a written statement

I think the article talks about (2) but chose 'depose' to make it ambiguous.
I think left-handers almost universally pick up that trait. I assume because letters are easier to form in that plane, either from top or bottom.

(But also, I have no evidence to back that up other than that's how I've always done it)
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Quite a few puzzle games came out in the late 80's and early 90's, probably hoping to be the next Tetris, but most of them are pretty forgettable. Nothing else ever really captured that same feeling, and certainly not its broad appeal. It's just so elegantly simple.

I think the ones that have stood the test of time the best are:

Puyo Puyo:

Somewhat similar to the versus mode of Dr. Mario, but a lot faster and with a much higher skill cap. Simple mechanics, but very deep gameplay. Sadly never got a huge following outside of Asia.

Magical Drop III:

Moreso than any other game, this one makes me feel like I'm a machine performing a sorting algorithm. I mean that in the best possible way. Money Puzzle Exchanger is a very similar game that requires more advanced planning.

Puzzle Bobble:

I never got into this series but it frequently shows up on these kinds of recommendation lists.

Tetris Attack:

The name is misleading, it has nothing to do with Tetris and plays nothing like it, but a great puzzle game nonetheless.

Devil Dice is a personal favorite, but never reached the popularity of any of the above.

Some other honorable mentions that I don't know enough to comment on:

Meteos

Landmaker

Cleopatra Fortune

Klax

Columns

The list could go on and on though.
That's certainly compelling, but it still comes with huge downsides like lack of space, having to live with roommates, not having any family nearby, not being able to work fully remotely, likely not having a healthy work-life balance, etc.

If I weren't working remotely, this would be more compelling I think.
If I may ask, why are you parsing SQL in the client?
related also from Feb 10 https://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/ny-coronavirus-cases-...

key points:

The number of coronavirus cases aboard a quarantined cruise ship off the coast of Japan nearly doubled on Monday, when officials announced that 65 new patients have been diagnosed with the deadly infection.

The new figures bring the total number of cases on the Diamond Princess vessel to 135, including at least 14 Americans, Japanese media reported on Monday. The ship, which has been under quarantine since Tuesday, was already the largest center of infections outside of mainland China.

Passengers diagnosed with the pneumonia-like illness will be taken to area hospitals for treatment while the vessel remains quarantined through at least Feb. 19, according to NHK, Japan’s national broadcasting service.

The Diamond Princess is anchored at Yokohoma, just south of Tokyo.
In my experience, this is a common misconception. In the union contracts I've worked with and under (entertainment industry), seniority is not a factor in compensation. More senior work roles generally earn more, but individual employees do not earn more by being in the job longer. It can be hard to restructure, demote or terminate employees in senior roles, but there is always a mechanism to do so. The one place where longer-serving employees generally cost the company more is severance obligations, but from a management perspective this is usually a good thing. The presence of a severance clause generally gives management the ability to terminate the employee under more permissive terms.
It would appear that they do: https://twitter.com/mxwllt/status/882190696224083968 (the picture shows a desktop notification "Try the new Safari – Fast, energy efficient, and with a beautiful new design." with "Later" and "Try Now" as possible actions, and apparently popped up when the tweet's author opened Chrome), see also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22289499
For Bandcamp it’s at least 85% based on the fact that their cut is 15 to 10%. Less than half looks pretty bad in comparison I would say.

The _only thing_ Spotify is doing here is distribution. That is some brutal split if you ask me. The only thing holding them back from converting their user numbers into a more silly-level profit margin, like a proper Silicon Valley SaaS, is the power of a handful of major record labels, which in turn hold the artists by the balls.

As in most online industries nowadays, the ones doing the real work get the smallest piece of the pie. The best course of action for them would be to decentralize, which is entirely possible, but deep pockets need to kickstart that process and there is zero incentive for them to do that.
> especial from the view from Chomsky's academic ivory tower

"I don't like Erik Satie or any of that stuffy, high falutin' classical stuff."

In both cases, the writer is unwittingly saying very little about the subject and very much about their ignorance.
I have a collection of short Julia code snippets that do non numeric things like text processing, semantic web clients, etc.

But in general I agree. Fir me, Lisp languages, Haskell, and Python are more general purpose.
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No. A negative externality is a cost to a transaction that's not borne by one of the parties to the transaction (and thus cannot be priced into the transaction). "This job really sucks" is not an externality -- that fact is priced into what the worker demands in payment for performing that job. "Building this factory will incerase the risk of Terry down the street getting cancer" is an externality -- Terry is not a party to the transaction and cannot demand payment as compensation for the increased risk.
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> Nobody is forcing profits.

Shareholders?

> If you want to start a non-profit aerospace company, nobody is stopping you.

Yeah, just found an aerospace company. You don't need anything beyond hard-work and a can-do attitude. Definitely don't need decades worth of relationships, unimaginable capital, or readily hirable talent. You just gotta believe in yourself.
That in 2014, there were 74,117 employees and in 2015, there were 74,335 employees.

Given the size of the company, I imagine this data exists in a tabular format and someone was just converting to a (maybe imperfect) natural language representation of the data.
A doctorate surely isn't about going through a specific bureaucratic process but rather an institutionalized acknowledgment that a person is capable of acting as an individual contributor in his or her field. I'm sure Mr. Peyton-Jones more than matches this description.
> Obviously things got better, and in hindsight the hardware keyboard and trackball were silly dead ends.

Not dead ends, just a bit too expensive for the cut-throat competitive market. I loved the keyboard and trackball and I still miss them in modern phones.
"I'm pretty sure there would have been competing Linux enabled smart devices in one way or another without Android"

I wish that was the case. We'd probably have nicer Linux as a result and no extra Java bloat/performance hit on the devices that can do without it.
Because everyone has their own priorities.

My main priority is to give my family technical solutions they could manage if I were to kick the bucket, and to ultimately own their data they need.

Between my wife and I we have 1tb of photos and videos. We could store it all in the cloud, but then if they shut her account down for whatever reason we would lose them all. Maybe I'm paranoid, but I don't find this acceptable. I do seem to be in the minority here, everyone I know just hosts all their files at a single cloud provide. It seems nuts to me.

And I haven't found an off-site backup solution that works with Linux. CrashPlan used to offer family plans but they got rid of them. Backblaze only has B2 for Linux - not really acceptable given my requirements.

So my family runs Windows. I run Linux.