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Call me obsessed with my pinkies hitting all those semi-colons and curly braces. As if return and backspace weren't enough of a cruel joke.

In other words, why would anyone use Emacs?
Muhammad died in 632.
No.2 diesel oil consumption for a single 3.5MW genset is ~ 200 g/kW.h. Spot price for no.2 diesel oil is ~ $3 / US gallon ($3.50 for low sulphur). Density is ~ 920 kg/m^3, US gallon is 0.00378541 m^3, so running at rated capacity a single genset is:

700 kg / h
0.76 m^3 / h
201 US gallons / h (isn't that convenient?)
$703 / h running on the good stuff
$17k / day
$123M for 20 years at today's spot price

For a single genset. Call it $750M for a 20MW plant running continuously for 20 years. Feel free to factor in a prediction for rising cost of fuel oil. I pay over $9 per US gallon for premium diesel car fuel in the UK...
used to think more-or-less the same thing: antiviruses are unneeded resource hogs...

until I connected my laptop to the network at school.

I didn't notice anything strange until a month later when I reinstalled WinXP (was doing it regularly for speed).
My mistake was that I installed Winamp and other software from kits on a shared folder (full access for everybody) on my laptop, before installing the AV.
That's when all hell broke loose: the kits were injected by some virus and got activated only when were run

tl;dr: Thing is even "power-users" can get it wrong. Is it really worth it risk so much, for so little?

PS: referring here strictly to platforms that need AVs
Extremely boring. The executive branch has to work within the framework of existing laws (like the ECPA) and cannot do things like shielding private entities from liability. So where CISPA and Lieberman Collins had certification programs and information sharing, this EO says only that an "information exchange network" will be established to share "indicators and warnings".

The overwhelming majority of this document has to do with security inside the federal government, which is again the largest IT operation in the world.
I would love to write code outside.

I wish laptops with ebook reader like screens would exist.

It would not even bother me if they were only black and white.
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The vitamin A in liver may be bad for pregnant women and small children.
My favorite thought experiment that I think is relevant here is to try to pick a truly random number.

If you think about it, this is impossible, because the act of picking a number limits you to a finite set of numbers that you have considered.

Put another way, you can't pick numbers from an infinite sample space because you can't create an infinite sample space.

This has all sorts of odd implications, like the two envelope paradox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_envelopes_problem

Enjoy!
It was idiot/maniac... one of the few times George opted for a repeatable joke to children.
There are thousands packages on Hackage, http://hackage.haskell.org

Widely used web servers include http://snapframework.com/ and http://www.yesodweb.com/. There are widely available numbers and reviews of these systems. A new book by O'Reilly covers Yesod (http://www.yesodweb.com/book)
It really depends on (too) many factors. Out where I work and play, the problem is getting too much sun. An outdoor walk between my office and the lab at the other end of the building gets me plenty sun. Ditto the bike ride home (assuming I'm not working late on something). It also doesn't hurt that I get out to go hiking and climbing on a semi-regular basis. OTOH, if I worked for a startup in Seattle, yeah, I might need to up my intake of vitamin D (which I'm already taking in a multivitamin).

Of course, IANAMD, so the first thing I'd recommend is going to an actual MD if you have health issues - and mention your lifestyle.
Research that removes the human element from nuclear power operation? Like, AI and robot armies? Anything short of that and we can still fuck it up. The consequences of disregarding the safety and integrity of a nuclear power facility are well-understood. That is, the physical consequences are, as opposed to the legal consequences. The legal consequences, sadly, do not exist.

In the aftermath of the earthquake while the radiation scare was at a fever pitch, I could be found in various places around the Internet (including here) defending nuclear power. So it's been a long journey to arrive at this opinion. And it's had consequences beyond just what I think of fission.

Like, speaking of AI and robot armies, how are we going to handle that? We'll be able to build both eventually, and probably sooner rather than later. How will we react? I'm not talking about the Skynet scenario or whatever. Rather, when we build something that passes the Turing test easily and is, by all outward appearances, a sapient and sentient being, are we going to respect that creature's basic rights? I suspect not.

I think that nuclear power is merely the first in what will become a long chain of technologies that humans are incapable of wielding responsibly.
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> People you know will know it

Actually, not without going out and meeting new people. I'm a physician, so meeting anyone who knows anything about IT is quite challenging. And the helpdesk folks at the hospital usually aren't in the mood to troubleshoot those kinds of errors!
Let's say that you wanted a really good chef.

Let's say you wanted a chef and it's not necessary for the chef to be really good because you have objectively determined that the quality of your chef has no meaningful bearing on your business's bottom line beyond 'the food must not make me want to hurl'

Sounds like 99Chefs is good enough for this use case.
I was initially of the same opinion, but with time I came to understand that Go's error handling system is like vegetables; unpalatable, but good for you. Go's error handling works very well in practice, and my programs exhibit little to no unexpected behavior.
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> If devoting taxi service (and, I hope, someday a self-driving car service)

I think the idea is not to make disabled people go from point A to point B, but to integrate them into society. There is nothing worse for an injured/disabled person than to be isolated, they will get clinically depressed. It's not one of those "man up and tough it out, soldier" situations - societal acceptance is crucial to mental health. Yes, we should spend money responsibly and not spend more than needed to reach the goal, but the goal must be stated inclusively.

A self-driving car is the exact opposite of what is needed.
I'm guessing you should change the pricing page to not specifically mention what the budget for stock photos is.
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Both. Varnish defaults to caching jpg,gif,png,css,etc. but we also having it caching things that are pulled from the db and processed. So it leaves our cpu-intensive backend untouched for the vast majority of requests.
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Just to be clear, the handling of the Fukushima incident has been an absolute shit-show. The handling of the earthquake and the tsunami, in a broader sense, has been excellent.
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the gouging is done by contractors who've figured out how to exploit an antiquated (lowest-bidder wins) system.

As someone who works on transportation projects, I find this to be incredibly unfair. Yes, there are a few shady contractors out there, but there are a lot of things that can happen during design and construction that can increase costs through no fault of our own. For example: change orders. A project gets designed and approved, the contractor gets his contract and starts digging. Two weeks into excavation, the project engineer tells the contractor "oh, that tunnel needs to be built 20 feet deeper and moved 15 feet to the south." Why? It could be for any number of reasons, maybe construction uncovered a gas line that couldn't be moved, maybe some politician wanted the line moved further (or closer) to a friend's business, etc. There are also the inevitable lawsuits, environmental issues and so on.

One of my big beefs, and one of the factors that IME increases costs for architectural/engineering consultants like me are the hoops we have to jump through to demonstrate that we're not ripping off taxpayers. There are all sorts of audit requirements (including the dreaded DCAA audit), insurance requirements and so on that increase our costs and so we have pass on those costs to the taxpayers. Recently we had an issue when negotiating a contract for transit design project - my firm's is relatively new, and we don't have a revenue history with which to develop audited rates, so we intentionally set out rates low in an attempt to convince accountants that our lack of audited rates wouldn't be a problem. We spent a munch arguing with the prime's accountants who wanted our audited rates to we could demonstrate that our profit on the job wouldn't exceed 10% (they were obsessed with the 10% profit number), depsite the fact that our rates were 40-50% lower than other similar contractors. We had to get someone from the Federal government to step in and tell the prime that our rates were fine as-is.

Insurance requirements are the other big issue. General liability isn't so bad, but E&O can be costly for big engineering projects, even if you're exposure is low. However many projects have a "one size fits all" with respect to insurance requirements and require everyone to carry $10+ million in general liability and $5+ million in E&O. If you're the general contractor responsible for digging up streets which can have all sorts or negative effects, that's probably reasonable. If you're the graphic designer responsible for creating the signs for the project, that's probably a little excessive.
Seriously, "wobbing" is now becoming an internationally used term?

The word is derived from the acronym WOB, which stands for "Wet Openbaarheid Bestuur", a relatively recent Dutch law that obliges government institutes to make government documents available upon request. This law is systematically being sabotaged by all layers of government, to the point of intimidating people who dare to make such a request.
I'm gunna have to be one of those people that says "really? O_o" when presumably everyone else clearly grasps the concept.

I get that if you had an infinite number of rooms, and an infinite number of guests staying, you still have room for an infinite number more guests.

But in your example, surely "occupied" is, more than just an indicator of another guest, a state of the room. You have an infinite number of occupied rooms, but zero unoccupied rooms, so no space for more guests.
What's wrong with good old threads. It's not that hard. And threading in Java will blow away any pseudo concurrency setup in python. Been there done that. Love python but just couldn't get the performance we needed.
There is such a thing as underemployment, but I don't think it means what the gp and you are claiming. Actually I think that like unemployment, there are 2 forms of it...

1. voluntary - a person is capable of doing a job, that job is available and fits into that person's life, but (s)he chooses to work at a less demanding job not utilizing his/her skills. I don't see this as a problem, personal choice is OK.

2. involuntary - this is a case where a person or workforce has capacity to produce more, get higher wages, or otherwise be "better" employed, but market inefficencies[1] prevent the best employment. Again, this may not be a problem for the individuals - they may not be bothered by this, but it is a valuable measure for opportunity. If a company can employ these people for $fewer than the going rate, but $more than they are making and gain profit, they should, because it helps overall market efficiency - it helps lower the cost of employees overall, and helps raise the wages of the people who provide value. Everyone wins. Just like finding new sources of any raw material in demand, or using previously "too expensive" sources because the market price has shifted.

For a real example: company A had a systems office in my town employing some pretty good graybeards. A decided that they didn't want/need to be in that business anymore, and closed the office. For the large part, the graybeards were happy in town, and chose to stay and not work at as well paying jobs, for reasons outside of salary. The thing is - systems graybeards are in demand and expensive (usually). For a while they were underemployed, not making the money they should. But company B heard of this, and realized that they could pay cost-of-living adjusted salaries that saved them a lot of money on a pool of systems people with a proven track record. They opened an office hiring most of the underemployed graybeards and everything was in balance again.

Of course that example is almost the text-book ideal case of how efficiencies, indicators, and such should play out. There are harder cases of this. Finding ways to take advantage of the underemployed metric is more difficult.

Anyway -- that is the long way around of saying: underemployment may not be a good or even valid measure at a personal level, but at an aggregate level it is a good measure of where efficiency can be sought. Disbelieving it speaks more of personal/political biases than of a market understanding - probably because it is term associated often with jobs programs and other things many dislike.

[1] Like algorithms, just because a perfect theoretical algorithm has an efficiency of $X, a given implementation my only be able to achieve $Y efficiency (where $X > $Y).
i think you got lucky in not seeing it daily.. It's been that way here for 2 months or so.
The classic approach is to move all the existing guests from room n to n+1 and put the new party in room 1.
I dont think it's clear yet; changes to the network may only require a change in software to get this VoLTE function. The document suggests Verizon is testing this, but where did he get that info? There is no footnote about it. Also, would the phone even support it?
My work place must be fucked up. Me as the old guy is still baffled why the young guys implemented our API in SOAP. a few of us older guys are. And this was in the last couple years. Way after SOAP lost its cool.
Interesting

The two envelopes problem look like a "hard" Monty Hall problem, in the MH problem it's easy to see how swapping improves chances, since you're removing one bad option
FWIW, I spent some time researching the cost of tunnel-digging online, and off the top of my head, the costs were $30m/mile in India, $100m/mile in US, and $1b/mile in New York city.

The reason I dug through this was to explore possibility of building an entire city where all motorized transportation is under ground, and surface area is reserved for pedestrians, wheelchairs, and bicycles. IIRC, the cost of tunneling came out comparable to the cost of housing, so it's not a completely unreasonable idea. Imagine a 10km grid of 20-40 story residential buildings spaced out with trees and parks and bike/walk paths among them for miles on end? And an underground entrance every 1000 meters. No cars on the street, no noise, no traffic lights - go/ride where you please. Now if only I had the budget to build a brand-new city I would start now. :)
it's a slow, i/o operation. Perhaps it takes a second or two; maybe you're generating a PDF and the email is of non-negligible size, or your email provider is slow that day, or something of that nature. When a user clicks a button, and the response is just "ok, we sent you an email", you can just issue that response immediately, and then send the email. Otherwise, the user's browser just sits there and hangs until the entire process is done.
Yup. 2 anecdotes from a 3-year stint in town government:

1) Built a new town hall because they were double-desking at the old one. Lowest bid wins, realistic and competent bids lose. They lay the sidewalk outside while it's below freezing out. Official in town who's managing the project shows up, "What the hell are you doing! You can't lay concrete while it's freezing." "This is the only way we can do it on the budget, sue us if you don't like it." Cracked, shitty sidewalk, would be cheaper to rebuild it than sue. Shitty sidewalk persists.

Built a school, too. Lowest bid. HVAC system is so noisy that several classrooms are unusable, and the floors are all fucked up through half the school. $1.5 million in legal fees later, we settle for $500k in damages, not enough money to fix the defects.
You need to go and read up on the transfinite numbers. Swizec is talking about what happens when you deal with a certain sort of infinity (a countable infinity) where there's a one-to-one mapping between the hotel rooms and the numbers.

In the transfinite numbers things that at first seem unintuitive happen, e.g.:

1. There are the same number of integers as there are even numbers. And there are the same number of integers as there are odd numbers.

2. There are the same number of rational numbers (fractions) as there are integers.

3. There are more real numbers than integers.
I've tried using the NDK too, specifically to compile the Objective C framework ObjFW [1] on one of the few platforms where it's not yet confirmed working. Unfortunately, the gcc they include in the NDK has Objective C disabled for seemingly no reason, and bootstrapping your own gcc or clang toolchain is pretty tough. I'm sure you don't see as much of a need with C++, but have you ever tried replacing parts of the toolchain?

[1] https://webkeks.org/objfw/
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Yeah, but the issue is that due to the lowest-bid system, the govt is guaranteed to get a contract that doesn't properly plan for contingencies and most likely leads to disaster.

It's not that all or most contractors are bad, it's that the least honest tends to win the bid.
Generally, Git will be way too slow for that. Git is typically our bottleneck, since you're dealing with so much overhead and disk access to perform functions.

Databases are best for, well, performing relational queries. In the case of commenting on a commit, if you store them only in the repository it becomes non-trivial to ask "show me all of the comments by this user" unless you have an intermediary cache layer (in which case you're back where you started).
I prefer to keep away from political discussions but WTF! Have you heard of Israel?
a hotel with an infinite number of rooms, all of which are currently occupied

So you have an infinite number of occupied rooms. That is, you have a one-to-one mapping between rooms and parties.

Do you have room for more guests? I don't think so, because none of the rooms are unoccupied. You could try to free up some space by consolidating parties, though.
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Did you seriously refer to late twenties as 'old'?
Aren't there already guests in room n+1?
I'm not trying to pick a fight here, but the United States strongly rejects, on a cultural level, the notion of a professional class of government employees.

This is an excellent point. When the US Federal or a state government agency decides they need to link point A and point B with a transportation project, the agency typically only provides a basic outline of project requirements. Outside contractors are used to develop the more detailed requirements, and even the RFP for design and construction.

This creates a situation where big engineering firms try very hard (and often succeed) in creating RFPs that only they are qualified for. Yes, this really happens. In fact, whenever I read an RFP the number one question on my mind is "is this written so that only XXX firm can win it?" The answer tends to be "yes" in many cases and we don't bother bidding on it.

The obvious solution would be to prevent companies that write RFPs from bidding on the project. The problem is that no one (or at least no one good) would want to bid on the RFP prep work! If given the chance to win a $250,000 RFP preparation project, or a $500 million general engineering contract/$10 billion construction contract, the highly qualified firms will wait to take a shot at the larger work.
It's been my experience that there's quite a lot of folk in their late teens/early twenties who see 29/30/31 as "old" :-)
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There are a lot more Java libraries than Objective-C libraries. Especially at Google.

We write a lot of Java at Google, but I wouldn't call anyone a "Java programmer". We're just programmers. And like all programmers, if we can save time by writing a tool and letting the computer do some work, we will. Laziness, impatience, hubris, and all that.
I already take a basic multivitamin, but my concern is not that I'm trying to make a personal decision based on this article; I make my health decisions based on more research than that.

My concern is that the article makes a strong empirical claim that it does not back up:

>However, it also inhibits vitamin D receptors, and as such decreases the body’s uptake of this-much-needed-vitamin.

In fact, I can find a couple of studies sort of supporting this, but they have to do with a very specific vitamin D receptor in a very specific subpopulation (elderly women).

Some people are going to read this and they're going to assimilate into their "probably true facts" bank the idea that caffeine just generally keeps you from absorbing vitamin D, and then they're going to repeat that fact and it will spread, and we'll have a whole new common belief about caffeine which is probably false.
The £2 he mentioned is a single, so a return would be £4 (there are no returns on the underground, only singles and all-day passes)

Regarding Oyster vs. paper tickets, I believe the non-Oyster prices are deliberately inflated to coerce people into using Oyster, as it is much better for the system if they do (especially on buses, where Oyster payments make stops so much quicker).
The plumbers are all in the UK...
I find it odd to place the priority on having people in the car rather than people at the destination. Wouldn't you rather socialize with people of your choice at your party/book club/sewing group/whatever than with the weird and awkward people who happen to be on the bus? I know I would. Especially if the former situation is more efficient, so I get to go more places.

Put another way, the city I live in (Denver) has what is essentially a taxi service for disabled folks (http://www3.rtd-denver.com/elbert/accessARide). I know a couple of folks in wheel chairs -- and they use it a lot! I've never once heard them say they felt isolated because they weren't standard bus routes full of people. On the contrary, not being able to go where their friends were going is what would be isolating.
It's a far cry from a nitpick, because disparity between inertia and gravitational pull makes all the difference when trying to slow down or come to stop.

Suppose a moon explorer needs to slow down rapidy, for example upon encountering an obstacle.

On Earth, the 150 pounds of suit's inertia is countered by 150 pounds worth of gravity, which provides for some good traction, through friction.

On the Moon, however, the 150 pounds of suit's inertia is countered only by (apparent) 25 pounds of gravitational pull, which gives much lower friction.

Suddenly the haples moon explorer finds it much harder to come to hald -- the distinction between inertia and gravitational pull, while apparently a nitpick -- has real effects.

Every Earthian has an intuitive expectation of gravitational pull, and thus possible friction, in relation to mass, and so we tend to skip the distinction in casual conversation. On the Moon, this relation is much different and should be taken into account.