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You have to keep in mind that for all they've done these guys are still company men, effectively. All of their glories and all of their accomplishments have taken place within the bosom of the government. From their armed forces service, to being military test pilots, to being astronauts, it has all been done within that structure. And for 5 decades that is also the way that manned spaceflight has been done, period.

They cannot conceive of a way to do it otherwise. And they are comparatively blind to the problems of government run spaceflight and the potential advantages of commercial spaceflight. But perhaps after some of those advantages are more readily apparent and after a bit of history has been laid down establishing another way to do it that really is a perfectly fine way o do it then maybe even they will come around.
>Wealth is a store of value to the person who owns it

Which is presently accurately measured by our fiat system? Were the Dutch crazy to base their early stock market on tulip bulbs? Considering a historical perspective I don't see what's so different about choosing 'how many trees I have in my forest' vs. 'how much gold I have'. There are perfectly measurable elements in a human/humane society to base wealth off, especially as measuring technology improves. Maybe I should get better interest returns if I go for a decent 20 minute jog every day? I don't see why our future can't be one of measuring wealth on something else entirely (and yes I am being glib about using forests and jogging as an example but I think we're all clever enough to figure something out).
How would you call foreign functions in C or C++ from Go? Is there something like a foreign function interface?
That's including PC and web games, and I expect that these sectors skew older and more casual (implies less technical) than the console market. So the Xbox demographics are likely to be quite different to the smartphone demographic.
I do not care who wrote the code -- It should be shown to me using my formatting preferences, just as I can use my own visual theme in the editor. Those themes do not affect the code as it is saved into the file, and those formatting preferences should not either.
You won't see progress with weekly as you're use to that's the point of Go 1. We are hoping to spend some time actually using Go, rather than building it.
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The nature of our industry (our customers' industry, to be precise) is that you need to have fresh products/offerings up every other day or so. So the process of adding content is time-consuming. But the same can be said for our competitors. This is one aspect that is very difficult to abstract away.

We have tried: letting them create copies of content, letting them create drafts, and also letting them appoint other users to create content on their behalf.
What do you mean ? I you don't use synchronization protection when you access your structures from different threads, you'll have the same inconsistency in your data. Using the explicit Mutex of Go doesn't seem so different than creating an object on which synchronizing your blocks as you do in Java.

Or do I miss something in your comment ?

EDIT : In my opinion, a program that doesn't crash and goes on running with inconsistent data structures is mainly hiding a failure which will appear in a worse way later (for example when those data will be used). To fail fast is often more secure. But my opinion may be based on the fact that I see too many java programs which seem to work but that nobody can touch because they're just in the lucky state where bugs don't surface too much.
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Her writing it comes across as "wow, I can't believe I just heard that", to me. She quotes it with no indication she was agreeing, but as something interesting, shocked someone would say that. (Probably because it is exactly NOT something people would generally say.)

I understand if you think they should filter certain words from being promoted, there's a conversion to be had there, but how could you possibly think she was advocating rape in any way?
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Why the downvotes? It's one thing to say that NASA should have more money than it does. However, the idea that $10 billion isn't enough is ridiculous. That's a crap-ton of money, and the ROI of NASA manned spaceflight in recent years has been abysmal.
Wow, it’s great to see someone with an appreciation of soccer tactics on HN!
Here's what wikipedia has to say:

"The domain COM was installed as one of the first set of top-level domains when the Domain Name System was first implemented for use on the Internet in January 1985. The domain was administered by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), however the department contracted the domain maintenance to SRI International. SRI created DDN-NIC, also known as SRI-NIC, or simply the NIC (Network Information Center),[3] then accessible online with the domain name nic.ddn.mil. Beginning October 1, 1991, an operations contract was awarded to Government Systems Inc. (GSI), which sub-contracted it to Network Solutions Inc. (NSI).[4]"

> And how come there is a ".us" TLD?

Because every country gets a two letter country code TLD.

> It may seem that way from where you sit (USA by any chance?), but I think you'll find the rest of the world sees com/net/org as transcending countries, hence their value.

Just because you see certain TLDs as transcending countries doesn't mean that they actually do.

Besides, having jursdiction over a TLD is necessary to deal with sites that have servers in multiple countries. How else do you handle jurisdiction for a website with multiple servers in multiple countries and that advertises to multiple countries, some of which don't have a server inside that country's border?
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It's hard to deal with the fact that heroes can be human beings too. Even Elon is just a human, with many flaws. As are Aldrin and Armstrong. And Tyson and Sagan.

It's good to draw inspiration from the inspirational, but ultimately you have to be your own man regardless.
I don't understand why this post has anything to do with encouraging young girls to enter science and engineering fields. Rather, I read this as the musings of someone who doesn't like their current job and doesn't feel very comfortable around the stereotypical engineer type. To that end, nothing in this blog post is specific about why you [the author] feel it's necessary to discourage leveling the gender ratios in our field. I understand that [male] engineers more often than not make disparaging remarks, talk non-stop about the latest (or sometimes the oldest) technology, and are overwhelmingly socially inept, but this is not a reason to stop trying to get more women into STEM. In fact, I strongly believe in the contrary: having more women in the tech industry will greatly improve working environments, reduce the social awkwardness about being a woman in this field, and make the field that much more interesting.

In the end, my take away from this post is exactly opposite from the purported thesis. The author's experience leads me to believe that we should absolutely be encouraging young girls to enter tech. Yes, it might be painful and lonely now, but if you start scaring girls instead of encouraging them, nothing will ever get better.

We're engineers; our jobs revolve around building efficient systems by finding the weak points and fixing them. A major weak point in the engineering system itself is a lack of women. This needs to be fixed.

[Edit for typos]
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You cannot produce accurate records without PayPal's reporting, as there is no other way to know what exchange rate was used on a particular transaction, what fees were assessed, what chargeback and dispute fees and reversals occurred, etc.
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This is just based on changing definitions of "poor" and "low-income". Wages are still around all-time highs for every quintile.
Nobody deserves it more than Elon. After PayPal the guy could have just done what so many others do, lay down and casually invest, chill on a beach, and let others do the hard work.

Instead he's killing himself running multiple ground breaking companies, directly challenging near government monopolies in GM / Ford / Boeing / Lockheed (protected by massive lobbying, deep political ties going back decades, and regulation designed to protect them from competition).

If America could get a few more Elon Musks, we might start to get our mojo back. Hey there immigration policy.
As, indeed, they should. If you don't track something, how do you know if it's effective? Measure everything you can.
Sorry about that. I felt like a wet blanket asking about the consequences of disaster when this seems like a time for celebration, so I deleted my question.

Thank you for the time you spent crafting such a thoroughly amazing answer. I hope that most people will still feel as you do even after the first true commercial manned spaceflight disaster.
This isn't true at all. Working "for" someone else goes back to the earliest governments and religions. Corporations only took off much later, after the end of mercantilism.
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Now you're just trolling me.
Thanks for this, before I read the article I thought it would be about Dubai - where there are hundreds of thousands of wage slaves.
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Very cool.

With httpfox I got

html:after {
padding-left: 5px;
content: 'Can you view my source from Firefox or Opera?';
}

Edit:
It's also possible to view the source with Firefox JSview, Web Developer addons and curl.
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No, the people in Duabi are not wage slaves, they are indentured servants.

People really need to stop using the term wage slave. Combining those two words causes a contradiction that is rarely accurate.
":=" is type-inferred variable declaration and assignment, while "=" is just assignment.
I concur about arrays. Each time I make computations in java and I have to either pass offsets and lengths or make arraycopy I regret not to code in Go.
I"m not in any way involved with the OP but:

Thanks for being awesome Patrick. :)
I'm sure this is possible. The fixed costs are lower than people think. Though you cheated a bit because you scaled down salary but not medical benefits (although for your hypothetical $160k example it's not a huge difference).
'view source' for me has been command + option + j (dev console) for a while now. It will always show you the live element tree.

That said, pretty neat trick.
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we are taxed at consumption as well, I'm assuming you mean you want even higher sales tax than we currently have but no income tax? I have felt that the current sales tax of up to 10% in some places is already fairly high as is
Some companies don't necessarily put top premium for nice UI or super simple easy and friendly software.

Aren't these companies more vulnerable to disruption? If there productivity is very low, and they don't provide digital solutions. This means they can't go bankrupt by competitive and high-tech competition (like Netflix did)

The question is "when they will go away?" It's very likely when the cost of implementing the technology is cheaper than hiring many workers.
To my knowledge there are more slaves today than there have ever been before, but in numbers - not in percentages. Some years ago an ambassador had to leave Germany because his house maids were slaves.
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FYI: There is an app for Android doing the same (works great): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.proj.wifij...

I printed Marvin the Paranoid Android pointing to a fat QR code with extra text saying sth like 'internets r here... and ur emailz, too.'

One of the best QR code use cases, I believe.

edit: User must have app installed on her phone.
SpaceX's launch prices are already much lower than its competitors. Things will become even more interesting in a few years when SpaceX starts reusing its rockets. Launching stuff to orbit will become so cheap, it's difficult to fully comprehend the impact SpaceX will have. The imagination runs wild. Massive spaceships anyone?
When people say "NASA should get more", they generally mean a relative "more" to... Well, just about everything. "If we're going to give money to Welfare..." "Is we're going to give money to fight in Iraq..." etc. I agree with you in that they could do more with what they get, but I certainly have more interest in it than many other things we fund. I think that's the justification of people wanting "more".
Jonathan Shapiro is not a traditional PL researcher. He is the architect and lead developer of EROS (www.eros-os.org) and CapROS (http://www.capros.org), and the author of a vast number of papers on secure and high-performance reliable real-time operating systems. The confinement mechanism in EROS was provably secure (i.e. provably impossible for applications to leak permissions) by Shapiro, and AFAIK is still the only meaningful and practical security mechanism demonstrated to do so, which is a pretty significant contribution in the field of computer science.

(Although having been a voyeur of his work for over a decade now, I'm sure he would be quick to point out that much of EROS was based on formalising ideas from GNOSIS and KeyKOS, and the work of Hardy, Franz, Landau et al. over 20-30 years earlier.)

BitC evolved out of a need to prove that the implementation of the confinement mechanism (prototyped in EROS) matched the model (proven in his PhD thesis), and so the CapROS system (built in BitC) was born (well that plus some architectural changes based on lessons learned from EROS). From that perspective it's much more than just another systems programming language - it has a definitive purpose to advance the state of the art in practical and theoretical computer science. (FWIW, they never did accomplish this goal [http://www.bitc-lang.org/docs/bitc/bitc-origins.html]).
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Back in March 13, 2008 Gladwell claims his story is not true.

See the end of his blog post where he write:

There is a disclaimer at the end of the This American Life broadcast, to the effect that the Moth is a place where "people come to tell both true stories and occasional tall tales." As I think should be obvious if you listen to it, my story definitely belongs to the "tall tale" category. I hope you enjoy it. But please do so with a rather large grain of salt.

http://gladwell.typepad.com/gladwellcom/2008/03/tall-tales.h...
I assume you're doing business, selling goods or some kind of service. I do hope that you check beforehand whether someone pays for their goods/services before you give it to them right? At which point you have an accurate record for that client?
It's not that the deposit department supports a loss-making lending division; it's that the two are inseparable.

That's the way things have been done, but I don't believe the two are inseparable.

You can eliminate much of the overhead you mention by not having branches and thus no need for tellers or armed guards. For ATMs, you could partner with something like the Allpoint ATM network (http://www.allpointnetwork.com) -- I believe Simple does this.

Because you are not lending money or making investments, you reduce your overall risk and requirements.

You're right though, it would be like a safety deposit box -- a digital safety deposit box that's linked to your debit card. A service like this would be disruptive.
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A semi-slavery, in a smaller isolated situation, still exists these days in some of the Arab countries and Malaysia where households will recruit servants (maid of the house) from a country such as Indonesia and pretty much did the usual drill:

- Ask the maid to work inhumanly

- Giving no vacation or "day out with friends"

- Held hostage the passport

- Occasionally raped or violent beating (sometime by using a very hot iron...)

Given the situation that the maids are just imported "resources", the law/judge didn't seem to give much thought or care until recently where there were several of the cases became high-profiled due to international news covering them.

These maids are typically treated like a slave.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11795356

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13860097

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13601362
I think this became inevitable. There is no point in losing energy to fight a lost battle, especially when in 10 years the patent will have expired and the codec will be free anyway.
"And that's even after America disposes of thousands of tons of crop and dairy just to keep market prices high."

is this true ? is it legal..
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I agree, its simply not possible to do this effectively in many situations, you can't just plug in a bunch of people for 2 days a week and expect to get the same output as the equivalent number of hours worked from a team of full-timers. I think companies could potentially adjust to this long-term, but projects and tasks have to become much more modular. With most companies I've worked with, their code base simply isn't set up for this sort of thing, theres often a lot of wasted time because of lack of documentation, refactoring that never was done, etc to where its often very hard to feel like you're working at maximum efficiency so IMO it would be hard to work in this sort of environment just 2 days a week, however on smaller scale projects, where its just one dev working on a new project, I think it would be more possible.
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Hi TPSReport - You realize that "gwf" is the Gary William Flake who has written an award winning complex book that is used in colleges worldwide as well as has run R&D for many companies like Microsoft, Yahoo, and Overture right? I'm sorry to say this but personally I'm finding your comments on this post as well other posts negative and lacking value. It would be great and helpful if you have any constructive/positive ideas, tips or experience to share to add value to the community. I'm sharing this in a positive constructive spirit. Thanks.
Mutating a hash map in Java while another thread reads it won't cause bad things like:

(a) memory you don't have access to to be read;

(b) other threads to crash;

(c) the VM state to be corrupted;

(d) the GC to crash;

and so on. The Java world is still in a consistent state. In a security-oriented world, this is important.

To the reply: It's a bit pedantic for me to say this, I know, but that's still "a consistent state". Basically, a Java program can't do anything it wouldn't otherwise be able to do by modifying a hashmap concurrently. Java programs can go into infinite loops. They can't access uninitialized memory.
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Rather than quibbling over syntax, I'd like to comment on a real concern I have about blogs, particularly ones that engage in hagiographies on things they don't appear to rightly understand.

Nota bene: I am a user of Flask and have been one for quite some time. I am incredibly fond of it and it has replaced Django for most things I do in web dev. I am very familiar with it and its limitations/ugly corners. Familiarity breeding contempt and all that. That said, little contempt has arisen from my familiarity with Flask. It's that good.

Do we upvote these blog posts because we think they're constructive? This is somewhere on the order of a press release in depth. The farthest this post gets is in describing an app that uses hard-coded credentials to log an administrator in.

This doesn't demonstrate the strengths of Flask, nor the weaknesses, nor why it's necessarily better than Sinatra, Bottle, or any other micro web-framework.

Since this post has failed to do so, I'll fill in that gap as quickly as I can.

Flask is great because it scales to your needs. It starts as painlessly as any other micro web-framework, but what makes it nice is that it's so easy and clean to graft disparate ways of doing a web-app.

In my particular case, I'm in the process of building a service on Flask and MongoDB. I'm in the process of making Flask, WTForms, and MongoEngine all play nice together and Flask has done a wonderful job of making this painless because it doesn't make any bizarre assumptions and it doesn't force any strange contortions in my code like Sinatra or raw Rack apps do.

Having hacked on some Rack and Sinatra code, I can tell you right now that the moment you want to make a "real" app with the typical complexity of a mature service, even the bare basics get painful really fast.

Flask hasn't done this to me yet, it's already breezed well past where I've taken raw Rack and Sinatra+Rack apps before.

This blog post, however, does not come from experience. It does not attempt to explain why Flask is better than the alternatives, it doesn't even demonstrate any interesting aspects of Flask.

This is blogspam.

Please reconsider your upvotes, please reconsider promoting content like this again.

Popularity for popularity's sake in the absence of knowledge, experience, and data is simply "pop culture". (cf. Node.js)

Edit: Worse, the author even explicitly appeals to the quality of Flask on the basis of "branding".

Engineering decisions shouldn't be made on the basis of pop culture.

Choose Flask because you know it suits the problem you're solving well, or because you know it suits your style of programming.

Don't choose it because somebody showed you a "hello, world!" example.
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