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> Good programmers document their code. The equivalent goes for doctors, too.

The information is there; there is simply too much of it to go over with the next person in the limited time available. I understand your point about commenting code - I meticulously document all my own code.

> Also if you don't have enough doctors? Maybe you should start training more of them

The training itself requires a huge amount of time and exposure to a large variety of situations. There are only so many opportunities for learning, and only so many hospitals which both can provide an appropriately varied case load, have attendings willing to teach, and can afford it.

I'm sorry to hear you had a bad experience. I don't shout at my patients, or leave them for 12 hours without any information.

> policies leading to killing or crippling patients is something that should be prevented

It's not clear to those of us actually doing the work that this is actually true, when we examine our own personal experience.
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Was just about to post this.
Also, IB is great and constraints are easy to manage once you realize that it's a calculated ruleset that enforces unambiguous constraints.
The iOS framework is beautiful, and the author favored Android mostly due to his inexperience with both platforms.
Maybe I am missing the point - but this style of 3d I have never really found visually impressive or fun. I think it is because of the limited range of movement on display. Half the fun of this kind of 3d would be to find things initially hidden in the opening view. I can imagine my sun tilting his ipad to see behind things. But the affect only shifts very slightly. I know that masses more information would be needed for such an affect but to me at least this is what this 3d hints at and why i guess ultimately i find it disappointing.
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What kind of weird thinking is that? "(ie outside of vacations, holidays and RTT days)."

RTT days are specifically extra days off to get you down to 35hours/week. Hours/year would be a useful metric - hours / week, but filtering out weeks you have your time off isn't, unless you are somehow trying to argue that French working hours aren't sweet.

I worked in a few different positions in France, I saw different contracts like 35h week, no RTT, 38h week,12RTT, 40h week, 24RTT.

Arguing that the working week is longer for the guys who were working 40h/week, but had 49 days / year off (25 days of vacation + 24 RTTs) seems like using a metric intended to push an agenda. Someone on that schedule could literally take 1 day off every day of the week, should they so wish (if you include the bank holidays, which would amount to another 10 days or so / year, depending on how they fall).
I see a lot of "yes, that's how it worked/works" answers from Australians and people from the UK.

Maybe to add a little bit of diversity:

At least in Germany, I don't recall this ever working.
The problem I have with the CI approach is that it means you have to push a lot more of your program's integration to runtime, which is a worse place to detect failures. When adding a new feature ideally one writes the use case, which won't compile, and then implements the things it calls, which won't compile, and so on - if you're using types properly, then once you've added the front of a new feature your code won't compile until the entire feature implementation is correct. This is a wonderful way to code, eliminating huge classes of potential bugs, but CI seems fundamentally incompatible with it.
Light is energy, so yes.

A slightly better question might be whether EIT could store energy in amounts large enough to make it useful as a capacitor. At present, this is not likely. This technology is striving towards optical RAM, not caps.
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I would add also this http://json.parser.online.fr/ to the discussion, quite useful and nice too.
I always knew that thinking a lot made me hungry. And tired. Mental work is quite as tiring to the mind as physical work is to the body and muscles. The article is well written, but I found nothing particularly new in that viewpoint.
Pity every photo you upload to that service gets made public.
I don't know about industrial jobs, but everyone I know in IT, in marketing, ... Never really worked 35h, instead my contract says 39h (35h + 4h overtime) - for reference the worktime before 35h was 40h. And people who work even longer hours, have more overtime hours. What the law changed is not how long you can work, but where the overtime hours threshold is.

This article, which claims the 35h worktime is fading, obviously doesn't know what it talks about, it has never been the norm in the "real world", outside of some specific areas such as public jobs. Which probably why they don't have any graph to show the actual worked hours change over the years, as that would go against what they claim.
Not if you're rebasing your branch on every change in master.
Yes, I think so. IIUC, with this construction, the difficulty only increases linearly with the length of the output, rather than exponentially, as one might expect.

I don't think there's a generically secure way to extend short hash functions to get an exponential difficulty increase. Otherwise, we could just construct arbitrary-length hash functions using small (e.g. 32-bit) building blocks without needing to cryptanalyze the result.

But then again, I haven't been paying attention to the literature lately.
From my observation the work time is getting longer mainly because of influx of people desperate enough to do unpaid overtime. My wife's management is doing 7hrs/day. She's feeling quite insecure, so she's doing 9hrs/day, still being paid for the 7.
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We don't have a complete physical picture of what each individual macro feature (e.g. nerve ending, molecule of dopamine) of the brain is doing at any given instant. We are starting to understand neuronal topology. It's really like a program binary for which you don't have a disassembler, but maybe you have limited symbol information that you can look at in a debugger.
For those unfamiliar with planes, you can buy a used ultralite plane for under $10,000 in working condition. Something that has been proven to fly reliably.
I'm sorry but we have too many vacations and it's hurting business. Very often we can't reach a person because he's off and the proxy has no clue. This is very true at big corp. We wasted a lot of time that way.

Employees may have trouble to take all their vacations (around 32 days a year + holidays) and this increases costs greatly, because sorry, but it's always more efficient to keep the head count as low as possible.

Last but not least, this affected salaries negatively. What we were forced to give as vacations we didn't give as salary (although we try to be as generous as possible).

edit: It seems unclear when I talk about "we can't reach a person" that I'm talking about our customers/vendors who have people sometimes away for a whole month (generally May).
I also feel somehow guilty now, because I enjoyed that article too much..

That's crazy how much more power and impact a scene member can have on the life of someone. And it's so easy to do that..

Reminds me to a situation I was in: While coding during midnight and while important political and prominent people came to town, I felt some weird vibrations on my window. After touching it, it felt like something was making it vibrate very strong. Then came the shock, when I saw a drone targeting my window, unaware of it being armed or not.. I hid and waited until it moved to scan other buildings.

unfortunately I didn't make a photo, but it had a large triangular red thing on it's nose (infrared?) and was able to stay at one position.

I imagined that they could have thought that this is the highest building and having a perfect view to the scene from that window, it would be a preferred sniper position. But ordering heroin to a whitehat and spoofing calls from the neighbours to police..wow..

Getting threatened by the Government for whatever reason is seriously no more fun.
The thing about develop is that only one (or two) people have the requisite skill in a large codebase to move stuff from develop to master.

Transferring that knowledge is time-intensive and expensive.

Scripts don't solve that problem because it isn't a technical problem; it's a social one.

If everyone feels responsible for being able to move stuff from develop to master, then the quality of the stuff sitting in the various develops goes up, and then you find you just don't need develop anymore.
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tbh in the internet troll community, all it takes is one to start. A whole horde of trolling sheep will follow 'for teh lulz'.
Your business is being hurt because it is mismanaged, not because there are people taking too many vacations.
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I was interested in providing entropy as a service, but I couldn't validate the proposition with the obvious customer segment (i.e. cloud HVM operators, whether public or private).

Essentially, the trust bar for entropy is set so high that no-one who understood the product enough to want it, was willing to trust it enough to actually use it.

(It's not just for SSH keys; random values are required for e.g. SSL connection setup, too)
This law allowed very positive changes, even if they aren't the officially intended ones. In exchange for a 10% work time reduction, largely compensated by years of near-zero salary rises, it lead unions to accept a lot of flexibility improvements, which are usually impossible to get through in France.

(there's as much flexibility as anywhere else in France, but very poorly distributed: indeterminate work contracts are ridiculously stable, and everyone else is exceedingly precarious)

As for the 35h week, most professionals such as engineers never wanted it nor got it. Instead, we keep contracts in fixed number of days per year, rather than hours per week, and we get an extra 10 days or so of paid vacations called "RTT". Extra vacations are more affordable in France than in many other countries: being a very touristic place, French people spend a lot of their vacation time in France, hence a lot of their vacation money back into French economy.
This is why I like Xamarin Studio. You can reuse like 50% of your code base for both Android and iOS [1] (if you strictly keep the view separated from business/logic).

Yes the Android emulator can be very slow but testing on a real device is very quick without the hassle of certificates.

[1] Windows and Blackberry as well
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Don't be daft, people don't stop developing in an area just because it has been approached before and besides, this stuff is way ahead of the tech in Autodesk 123D.

You might as well complain that people are still developing video compression techniques.
> some story about a politician and bananas

Here in Italy, politicians have been saying all kinds of hideous, racist things about Italy's first black minister:

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/28/world/europe/italy-politic...

That kind of thing makes my blood boil and I think that, objectively, it's a more important story than the new Bootstrap or most other tech news.
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When I use IDE like XCode,Eclipse etc，I just click few buttons to build and run my app or web app.What happened behind this?
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In the United States, the restrictions on an "ultralight" are rather severe:

> The governing regulation in the United States is FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles, which specifies a powered "ultralight" as a single seat vehicle of less than 5 US gallons (19 L) fuel capacity, empty weight of less than 254 pounds (115 kg), a top speed of 55 knots (102 km/h or 64 mph), and a maximum stall speed not exceeding 24 knots (45 km/h or 27.6 mph). Restrictions include flying only during daylight hours and over unpopulated areas.
I do a 35 hour week religiously. I do not get paid for overtime, therefore I do not do overtime.

We're not here to prop up these businesses with poor efficiency and mismanagement; we're there to get paid for our time.

The more people who bend on this, the worse it will get, resulting in an Americanesque slavery system where 80 hours a week and a 3 hour commute every day is considered acceptable.
Ah, feature flags. The "hack up your own substitute for version control" model of version control.
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> In the end you could probably build an ultralight for the cost of a pilots license.

...but not know how to fly it.
i'm sure there are many talented .NET programmers who could quickly pick up assembly and become much more productive than you in that language... if they had a good reason to learn it.
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Wow tough crowd, this is actually extremely impressive if you're interested in the subject. The fineness and complexity of the reconstructed depth field is unparalleled.
TDD is test-centric development, i.e when you write test first then code. Unit tests are needed, other tests are needed too, the question is it worth to make testing the core of development process. From my practice, no
You have to be a DBA to properly use SQL Server too.

Yes you can stumble your way through wizards and SSMS, but you will get tripped up eventually if you don't spend some serious time hitting the books and blogs. (Recovery model, what's a recovery model? Why's my disk space gone?)
>I'm sorry but we have too many vacations and it's hurting business. Very often we can't reach a person because he's off and the proxy has no clue. This is very true at big corp. We wasted a lot of time that way.

If you have that problem, then your management and the way the company is run is BS.

It's not about persons not being there a mere few hours less per week.
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My point was, the biggest barrier to flying is not the price of the plane, but the desire to jump through all the hoops to get the license, to spend time/money on maintenance, to spend time on driving to the airport.
> [Inefficiencies] This is very true at big corp.

Among inefficiencies in a big corp., vacation times are a _very_ secondary issue. For instance, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that you're spending more than 5% of your work time goofing on Internet, including commenting on Hacker News. 5% is what RTT typically represent (~10 days a year out of 200).

Then there's poor management, poor execution, poor motivation, lack of vision... If you can't get reach anyone, it's a matter of poor planning and poor skills redundancy, not a matter with the amount of vacations.

> Last but not least, this affected salaries negatively.

Most people would derive more marginal gain, in terms of happiness, from extra time than from extra money. Would you want to become Warren Buffet, with his wealth and his age? Probably not, because he's so much poorer in time (life expectancy) than you that no amount of money can make up for it.
I think that was the easiest to understand/intro to quantam information handling that I have read.

I also enjoyed how they went from:
Heinze, Hubrich, and Halfmann -> H and H and H -> the three H's. I kind of expected it to go to "triple H"
Well, MtGox monthly volume is over 1 million BTC [1] or $100 million at current prices. I think you should be able to take out at least a few million without raising suspicion

In case of SHA2 compromise in particular, generating, say 20% of daily blocks would hardly be noticed (and can be easily explained as a new shipment of ASICs). This is about 720 BTC or $72000 daily.

[1] http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/mtgoxUSD.html
Damnit, Tinder. At a friend's insistence, I tried you out while drunk, and have the following to say:

1) Don't rip photos. You know a lot of the women on there aren't on there, you just snagged their pic from Facebook. My friend, who works in social networking, confirmed this happens in his industry.

2) Don't match me with people I didn't pick. I was suddenly getting all these matches with girls I hadn't approved of. You had one job, Tinder! Match them if both liked each other.

3) Markov bots. I could tell, the day after, the girl (who had legitimately matched to me) was some sort of Markov fembot because none of the shit she said made much sense. I looked at her end of conversation (and Tinder's policies, see points 1 and 2) and figured out they're sending out fembots.

I hope now that Tinder has its precious "traction" that it doesn't pull things like this any more, but I wouldn't count on it.
But in that case you can come over to my place and repeat your 2C experiment in front of me. Since we can both directly observe what's going on it's possible to reach objective agreement. But we can't observe the brain. It's like speculating about the source code of a program for which you only have inputs and outputs. At least this is true for this level of sophistication; in other experiments we can observe dopamine and associate it with pleasure.
Just as an anecdote, I have a team that is split London/Paris and I've not noticed any appreciable difference in hours worked between the two locations.
Me and my friends laugh at Twitter and Facebook people and their constant need for approval and attention.

Just putting it out here in case it helps you see that there is plenty of people who is not on those networks for the very reasons you describe in your blog.

There is something very sick about this whole thing.
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In the video, they address that you would still need a rocket both to circularize your orbit, and possibly recover kinetic energy lost in the atmosphere.
Even though most of my code is in Python and JavaScript, and probably is going to remain that in the near future, and by far the majority of my Lisp coding is and will remain in ELisp, Scheme is, and most likely will remain, my favourite programming language.

I don't use it for any practical reason, on any code that others might pick up on and build on top. I use it purely as a hobbyist language, and for that it's awesome. Scheme is how I learned Computer Science (even though I learned how to program in Python). Scheme is awesome for multiple reasons, more reasons than other languages in my opinion, and popularity is not one of theme. And that is perfectly fine.
Almost nobody I know works 80 hours/week. It's only acceptable in some industries like finance.

Whenever a company mentioned long hours (even well paid ones), I immediately stopped interviewing for them. That kind of life isn't worth the money.
The implication from your post is that Weev is bad and therefore deserves to be locked up. No-one (I think) wants to free Weev because they're sympathetic to him and think he's a great guy. They want to free him because the legal and social precedent set by his incarceration is dangerous to everyone. It's not enough to say that so-and-so is bad and should be clearly locked up. You (should) need to prove that he contravened an already-stated law, wilfully. The minute that slips from the standard, everyone is exposed.
Other option:

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Companies will take advantage of EVERY available way available to them to have employess work more for less pay.

If modern Western companies were allowed to use slavery or child labour, they would jump at the chance. It's a "competitive advantage", after all.

That's what they do when they outsource to the third world anyway, take advantage of people in need to exploit them more than what a "westerner" would tolerate -- including children, and, in some cases, including beating them or even killing them if they attempt to demand better conditions (see Coca Cola in Latin America, Shell in Nigeria, etc).

Just as they did in the West during the 19th century, early 20th century etc -- it's not that they changed their mind, it's just that labour laws now prevent them.
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It's called spread-spectrum. The two types are frequency hopping and direct-sequence. GPS uses direct sequence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spread_spectrum
> being in a very touristic place, French people spend a lot of their vacation time in France.

Also, many companies mandate that RTT days are taken regularly (to avoid having the company effectively closed for the whole summer, as well as half of december), which means no more than one or two days at once. This means many short vacations rather than few long ones, also improving the incentive to spend locally.
Polite, yet still extremely useful. Is Linus getting old?
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Quick question, have you ever personally experienced this work on a team, or is this just theory?

I'm genuinely interested in collecting good examples of it working. The other article about flickr doing this with feature toggles seemed to be a good fit.

<Rant>

The reason I ask is that earlier this year, I was working with a client who spent upwards of $3 million USD on a content managed website with a huge consultancy that I can neither confirm nor deny is heavily affiliated with the author of the article you may or may not have posted a link to.

They were left with a config-driven feature-toggle system that can only be described as a Rube-Goldberg monstrosity. If statements from old feature toggles littering the codebase and different features toggled on or off in environments that no one knew the meaning of. My favourite was when we discovered after days of trawling through the code that a feature toggle was being used to switch a feature off rather than on.

There was also a team-wide ban on branching of any kind, including local branching. This belies a misunderstanding of how git works more than anything else. I went ahead and kept as many local branches as I bloody well felt like, because there's no way they'd know the difference.

</Rant>
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Most Innovative Gadgets of ALL TIME and the Kinetic is first on the list? Changed gaming? The Nest, whats so innovative about a thermostat? Flexible displays, they are not commercially available yet so how do we even know its going to be as cool and as useful as they say? It's clear that high schoolers are writing these articles, since the interns that usually write for BI are on vacation.
I think the EU Single Market stuff only applies to laws that governments make. As someone from a small EU member state (Ireland) that's close to a large EU member state (UK), I can tell you that lots of companies, big and small, will happily sell you to the UK but not Ireland.
Do you work on topic branches?
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If you really are a capitalist; your reward is the growth in capital. If you are an agent working for some capitalists then you get whatever you bargained for. This question implies that capitalist collude or that some elite U. grads are unionized to set wages. Which is essentially what both groups are are trying to do; but view the status quo with this lense.
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> It's too bad because there's a lot of value that
> disappears in the process because no financing model
> exists/works for the moderately successful startup.

I disagree: I think Angel funding, coupled with a "bootstrap-hustle-your-arse-off" plan can mean that moderate success makes everyone involved a decent chunk of change.

While some people use "Lifestyle business" derogatorily, personally it's exactly what I'm aiming for with my new business. A few mil in revenue each year, costs and personnel low, and I'll be a happy camper, working on what I want to work on :)
Is that therefore a failing in the apple documentation, or perhaps not meeting the conventions with other frameworks and languages out there?
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