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Considering that SpaceX is superior in virtually every facet of the game and is a much younger company, I'm not so sure.
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Didn't you already delete your comment that said the same thing?

"One of" is not all, but there is a bunch of people who do make up the "type" of people Trader Joe's targets who are Anti-Establishment, Anti-BigCompany, Anti-Pharma. Those are the people who are likely to opt out of Adult Vaccines.
In Europe the correlation is rather in the other direction. Greeks work the most hours/year on average, and Belgians work the fewest [edit: oops, actually Dutch [1]].

Here in prosperous Denmark, the official workweek is 37 hours, not 40, and the limit is taken seriously. When we do joint projects with Southern Europeans, they seem to regularly be working weekends and evenings, and get paid less than us for it.

[1] http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DatasetCode=ANHRS
Shannon was an electrical engineer by training and while all of his works have applications in computer science, their origins were solutions to engineering or math problems.
You're starting from a false premise, which is that Boost is good. In reality, Boost is stuff that either couldn't make the cut to get into the C++ standard library, or is so new that nobody knows whether it's any good or not.
For polls, please auto-include "Number of respondents" at the bottom of the poll.

This is not perfect, since users have the option to pick multiple poll choices, but it helps to know how large the sample pool is in a measurement.
Ask HN: Unsolicited snail mail?
i've done the obvious--written to the DMA, clearinghouses, etc... and seen a temporary lull in crap clouding my physical mailbox, but then it seems to spike as i, like any person, buys shit, which seems to be an ok to resell my contact info all over again.

PaperKarma makes me feel better (not sure how well it works), but this seems to be a recursive loop/Sisyphean task.

Of particular concern are local circulars published by RedPlum.com and others. Often they have "current occupant" with all apartments in my building or similar or worse--no address block at all, which means what--the Safeway circulars show up in bulk at my local USPS sorting center and get stuffed into bags for distro?

I have taped notices in my mailbox notifying the postman I wish to not receive any unsolicited mail, but that doesn't do anything (in an ongoing loop with my mailman where I put unaddressed circulars into the mail drop in our building and they magically appear back in my mailbox).

Obviously the consumer (or one could say environmental or sanity) protection laws aren't meaningful for PRINT materials; they are actually more impactful for electronic media.

I do know that bulk mail gets discounted rate by accepting all returned mail, which also means I could attach a brick/lead weight to every piece of crap mail and it would be returned to sender, and sender charged. That's impactful if millions of americans do so, but i'm not looking to make a grass roots "send a tire to Safeway" campaign.

On first amendment grounds, do I not have negative freedoms (freedom FROM this kind of crap)? Other countries, like Holland, have sound solutions but no way that reasonableness will work here.
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>I'm interested in why you'd be so keen to move there.

I am not the OP, but I'm very interested in moving to Mars at the first chance I get. Why? It certainly isn't about comfort, as you've pointed out. However, to many people, life is about a lot more than creature comforts. The chance to be among the first group of humans to leave our planet and live elsewhere is a unique opportunity that literally only comes once in the history of Earth. It is the first step to securing the universal survival of our species and genesis. It's about meeting new challenges, pushing limits, and proving that we are more than above-average apes beating each other with sticks and sharp objects.

This is very much a philosophical journey as well as a physical one. It's about bringing terrestrial life into the greater universe. It's about realizing the best aspects of humanity, while hoping to discard many of our flaws. It's a new beginning, a new chance. Plus, being a founder of a new society is a chance few people will ever have.

If having all of this means that I will have to live without as many baths, I am all for it.
I can't speak for cryptoz, but here are some reasons why people might want to move to Mars:

1. It sure does sound like a lot of fun! And dangerous! And thrilling!

2. Fame and glory

3. The chance to explore and directly experience a place no other human has ever been.

4. The opportunity to stake a claim on some new land (and find out what that means). Maybe form a new government! Make new laws... I can see this being quite attractive for groups that feel stifled by Earth (e.g. religious groups, the far left, the far right).

5. The chance to spread humanity to a self-sustained place beyond Earth, as a backup (albeit a fragile one at first).

You're right that Mars would not be a nice place to live, especially in the early days, but that's not why people would go!
A quick comment concerning Haskell. I've been learning it on and off, with some help from my roommate who's a Haskell genius. The way he writes Haskell always amazes me. He starts with a very straightforward verbose version, then constantly refactors it (on the fly, it's not a separate step), abstracting stuff out in typeclasses and monads until it seems that most of the code is just monads and typeclasses definitions, and only a couple lines that seem to actually do something.

I always joke around saying that if your Haskell code doesn't have typeclasses and monads, you're doing something wrong. By which I mean that unlike other languages, there's a huge, huge, huge gap between writing great haskell, and regular haskell, with a very steep learning curve.
Quote: "I’m really excited about coding. There are so many cool things happening in tech, and I love the idea of being able to work with smart people no matter where I am. My goal is to learn enough to be able to find a job that would allow me to reunite with my love in Zurich… but the journey there suddenly seems really fun, too."

I should tell you that if you actually become a programmer, in the real sense of that expression, your priorities will completely change and your goal will become more programming, not more relationships.

For a normal person, programming is a means to an end, which is meaningful relationships. For a programmer, relationships are a means to an end, which is meaningful programming.
And we can start talking about the real worked hours and not the official ones
Solution: starve the beast to reduce the scale. Ex:

1) Banks:
a. don't use any of the banks that are primary dealers
b. use cash whenever possible
c. save then spend rather than taking out loans
d. don't buy shit you don't need
e. don't put more than $250K in any one bank

2) Food & groceries:
a. buy stuff on sale
b. alternate between big stores to promote competition
c. shop at less popular stores for lower prices
d. don't buy more than you need and throw it away
e. save leftovers
f. be flexible on brands
g. don't buy shit you don't need at all
h. if they jack up the price on something, substitute
i. watch for quantity vs price tricks
j. buy from the value menu
k. shop at several stores, buy what is cheap at each

3. Gadgets and gimmicks
a. don't buy shit you don't need
b. cancel your cable; watch HDTV over the air
c. cancel your land line
d. use cheap phones instead of smart phones
e. use cheap prepaid phones from the dollar store: $15/mo
f. don't buy Internet "higher speed" packages
g. get on someone's cell family plan
h. buy the cheapest plan, not the "best"

4. Big stuff
a. don't buy a new car just because rates are low
b. or a house
c. verify your home tax assessment every time
d. protest every assessment that isn't justified
e. payoff your loan as soon as possible
f. don't keep a (big) loan just to keep the exemption
g. buy only what you need
h. buy only what you can afford
i. use rubbers
j. is college still worth it, really? learn a trade

5. Eating out
a. it's a treat, not a lifestyle
b. order water to drink
c. order lunch portions
d. order less food: most Americans overeat
e. save leftovers
f. find cheap restaurants with good food
g. split large orders
h. tip 20%+ with your savings: you'll feel better

6. Don't recycle: reuse
a. first, don't buy shit you don't need
b. sell old stuff on eBay or craigslist, even if $5
c. force yourself to sell old stuff = buy less new junk
d. donate anything reusable rather than tossing it
e. take care of your shit so you don't have to buy more

IMO, we will never "fix" our governments. They are screwed up at the local, state, and federal level, because they are not spending their own money: they are spending ours. The only thing we can do is starve them until they can't afford to do all the crazy shit they are doing today.
It's important to have equal bin sizes as they are called. When you produce a visual representation of the data, unequal bin sizes produces visual bias.
I'm living amongst a few Spaniards at the moment. And they are literally the laziest people I have ever met.

They DO, in fact, sleep whenever they get the chance. 12+ hours a day at least once a week.
They have a poisonous victimised mentality second only to the Greeks.

The economy they have is the economy they deserve; and this goes for all Mediterraneans.
I'm Spanish and I've software company. Here is my schedule:

9-14 morning work

14-15 lunch

15-18 evening work

18-20 (aprox) partners-only work

Dunno in construction or other sectors, in consultancy we work more hours and I've never seen anybody taking siesta on labor days. Some people make siesta when 2 of the following 3 things are true: Summer + Old people + Sunday.
Except they won't be dead, they'll just be living very badly, and end up costing more to society due to using services (some study showed that a homeless person in new york costs around $40k extra in services compared to "median" people... why not just hand the guy $40k?).

People living on the edge end up costing more to society, it's an externality not taken enough into account in the labor market.
More like a bunch of upper middle class white people who are anti vaccine nutters. I worked at Whole Foods as a cashier for 4 years I know the type.
Depends on what you're looking at. If it's public-facing, then, yes, but only because demand at those times is very low.

Otherwise, for office work, lunch breaks are short. European style.
This was America, or my home country - Australia - about 200 years ago.

Its not Antarctica because Antarctica is very heavily claimed at this point. But Mars? You'd be amongst the first colonists of a new planet. You'd be helping build something which may outlast Earthbound habitation, and moves us out of the current resource paradigm (exactly 1 planet).

And unlike LEO you'd have the possibility of the local resources to set up something permanent.

But I mean hey, its not perfect - I'd move to the Asteroid belt or Jupiter system if I could. Though my real enthusiasm would be diverting comets to add water to Venus - since get the atmosphere well, out of the atmosphere and you're looking at Earth 2.
No. If you want to paint me as a Racist. Let me make an analogy that does hold.

A lot of nice cars get vandalized in Hunter's Point, I don't want my nice car vandalize so I'm not going to park it in Hunter's Point. That doesn't say that everyone in HP is a vandal, just that more of them are than in say Santana Row.
what's so condescending about the work "quirk"? as far as i'm concerned, the word has never been known to be used in a derogatory manner.
Lunch as the primary meal of the day is a staple of Mediterranean cultures. Italy, Spain, Greece, et. al., all have large lunches and small dinners. Latin America is also in many ways a Mediterranean culture so many Latin and Hispanic countries share in that trait.
"A fundamental weakness in the free software argument is that it lacks a solid, broadly applicable proposal for remunerating the effort of software engineers."

Quick counterexample: the many thousands of programmers whose job is to adapt or maintain free software for the organizations that use it. That includes people working for small companies, large companies, the government (civilian and military), non-profits, political campaigns, etc., etc., etc. It is almost never the case that any software package meets all its intended users' needs, and someone needs to adapt the software when that happens.

"without a clear mechanism for producing free software it's little more than a letter to santa claus"

Clearly such a mechanism exists, as free software is very important and widely used.

"My impression is that FSF tends to focus on volunteerism and heroics"

Hm...

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html
> I don't get this. At all. The guy is in Macedonia, which might be his core problem. switching to the bay area, the situation is vastly different.

Switching to the bay area is NOT an easy thing to do for someone that is not from the USA. There are a lot of open positions across Europe as well, but, most of the countries have really tight immigration rules (visas, work permits, etc). To move from a third world country to an advanced country (USA, Germany, UK, whatever) you have to be exceptionally good. Not Average Joe.
For those of you who are unaware, it got pulled the same day it was put on the play store. It did not exist long enough to do any serious damage.
Timezones were introduced exactly to prevent the very thing that you propose: need to adjust clocks a few seconds each day. It was just too annoying.
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Update video to show g+ example and results no more no less about 20 secs tops - the video on main site takes to long to show the meat of what you do...

bar that, not a bad product we just built something not to dissimilar in house for our needs, this would have saved a ton of time...

Good luck with the product.

-Scott
So testing double(mocking) in Go is still a big headache
in version 1.2?

I'm confused by your meaning. Mocking hasn't ever been a headache in Go. You just tease apart your functional components by using interfaces, and then test at the boundaries with mock implementations.
> Daniel Markovitz is the president of TimeBack Management
Standard ruby is not utf8-only and not likely to be any time soon, because converting text into unicode is lossy due to han unification. So like it or not, you're going to need to deal with non-unicode text for a while yet.
Well, my college degree was in music and I always had a knack for theory, testing out of college courses etc. But you don't have to have university level music theory knowledge to study jazz theory. I'd say the prerequisites for the more complex jazz deck of mine are knowledge of scales (major, melodic minor, major bebop, minor bebop), chord qualities (M7, 7, m7, m7b5), chord inversions, and treble clef notation.

For the people reading this that do jazz, it's based off of Randy Halberstadt's concepts of planets and harmony. Scale choices differ from the classic guideline of being simply chord based. For instance, dmi7 does not necessarily imply a d dorian scale. If it's in the key of C at that point, then you'd instead play C major bebop.
What about the higher productivity of Scandinavians? They shift back and forth on "time-zones"

What? We have summer time (DST) and regular time - just like most other European countries. If you're talking about Scandinavia's location relative to its time zone, most of Scandinavia is within its "natural" time zone [1].

And your "very hard winter" and "as few as 3 hours of light" comments mostly apply to the very Northern (and sparsely populated) parts of Norway and Sweden. The Danish climate is more like the UK's.

The distance from the northernmost part of Scandinavia to the southernmost part is like the distance from Minnesota to Texas, so obviously the climate varies a lot.

1) http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/images/world_t...
Time to move to low cost areas such as Texas.
> As a sidenote, I find this obnoxious:
> "I hate Quora, so I'll just steal their content and post it here."

It's not Quora's content. Quora's TOS explicitly states that users retain ownership over their contributions. Quora only gets a non-exclusive license.

Scott Hanselman works for Microsoft. Nade Waddoups works for Microsoft, wrote an internal document at Microsoft, and then posted part of it to Quora as an answer.

Therefore: The copyright is held not by Quora, or even by Nate Waddoups -- but by Microsoft. And since Scott Hanselman is performing a PR function at Microsoft through his blogging, he has the right to post that content on his blog.
Indeed, it seems like an incomplete explanation at the very least.

France largely overlaps Spain in terms of [latitude] longitude, is in the same time zone, shares some of the traditions cited in the article (long lunch break, midddle-of-the-morning and middle-of-the-afternoon coffee breaks, dinner at 8pm), and has one of the highest productivities in the world, in line with the US, Japan or the UK (above if you count it per hour worked).

So maybe they should look for an explanation somewhere else

Edit : fixed latitude instead of longitude
Rent controls decrease supply. They help the few (mostly old) people who get in early on them, but raise prices for everyone else. Highly paid municipal workers require high taxes to support their salaries and pensions. Housing prices and taxes are key reasons people cite for moving out of the cities into the suburbs.
My GF and I pay 1150 a month for a 3-bed house in Bow. Commute by scooter to Camden is about 12 minutes without traffic, 18 minutes with.

Rush hour public transport takes about an hour. Unless you have a serious podcast addiction or an enormous reading list, it's not worth it. Two wheels - motorized or not - are the way to go in London.
That's using real worked hours (well, estimates of them by the OECD). In Greece's case the official hours are actually not particularly high for people with regular jobs, just the usual 40 hours/week. But the actual worked hours are quite high, because of the prevalence of unpaid overtime in the private sector, and the large number of mom-and-pop shops that can't afford to hire employees, so work the shop themselves from open 'til close. This contrasts with Northern European work culture, which tends to work exactly the official workweek and not a minute more.

I misremembered Belgium, though; it was the Netherlands that's the lowest in the OECD. Here is the list: http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DatasetCode=ANHRS
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Depends on how open the staffs want the CEO to be.
If you use stream-safe normalization rules, then you have a worst-case limit of 30 combining code points in a row. You could even make an array of 128 byte single-character-strings if you wanted.
This is very close to reality. Looking at tech news today, just after this story, my next tab was a report on businessinsider.com [1] that Google is now making bonuses partly dependent on the success of Google's social netowrk effort - and encouraging employees to use G+ and recruit friends and family to it.

Clearly we have a minority of the population concerned about the erosion of privacy, colliding with a culture of sharing everything (openly with friends and family, invisibly with the online services and governments). The story and the news article (like previous hints that employers are suspicious of anyone who's not on Facebook) point up an additional new element of "soft" coercion.

1. http://www.businessinsider.com/larry-page-just-tied-employee...
Only just now. Wait, what is this YouTube thing? :-)
Let's not forget the high risk of cancer from the solar radiations. Also an almost one-year travel can't be done in a ship that's like a crowded airplane. We'd go crazy without some more space and intimacy (and work to do).

Not that it's impossible but escaping the Earth's gravity cheaply isn't the only challenge.
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It is a serious burden if you work in an office which is air conditioned anyway. The most serious problem being that the long (and it was generally 3 hours in the south where I was staying) break is intended for sleeping.

Problem is, most people now don't live 5 minutes walk from their place of work, so there isn't time to get home and sleep before returning to the office.
But there is nothing else to do. Everyone else is on the same break. You can't run your errands for the day because everywhere else is shut as well.

As a student living 5 minutes from my classes, I found the dual sleep (usually about 4am til 8am and 1pm til 3pm) with the main meal in the middle of the day to be fantastic, but for modern working conditions and commuters it is a serious problem.
> Greeks work the most hours/year on average, and Belgians work the fewest.

Also taking into account GDP divided by population, that implies Greeks get less done per hour than Belgians. To call Southern Europeans ‘lazy’ would be a bit much, but I do think the numbers support that they have a different work ethic from Northern Europeans.

I live in the Netherlands, where people work 30 hours a week on average. Yet, the Netherlands is one of the most productive countries in the world, if GDP (PPP) is to be believed[1]. (Then again, on that chart, Greece is placed only one spot lower, so that may not be the best source.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_...
Richmond is a great part of town, my friends used to live there and I enjoyed visiting them. But the transit accessibility is terrible. Even with express busing it takes up to 40 minutes to get downtown. If they put in better mass transit options, it would be a much more suitable place to live and I think you would see this map even out more.

That said, the people that live there tend to be older families that have been in SF for a long time, and to them that's probably not a high priority (they often live under rent control and probably don't work downtown in tech). If you change the status quo, you threaten their ability to live there by raising prices.

I don't think this is going to go away until the exorbitant valuations on tech startups does. It's the main force that's driving these price increases, just like it was during the first bubble.
In Phoenix the carts "self Clean" pretty well 110 Degree parking lot, lots of UV from the sun...

But point taken a shop in Half Moon Bay where there is no sun and lots of water is going to be pretty gross.

I don't know how many of the Apples are handled by other people in the store. And I know "3 second rule is a myth" but it there is the longer contact with one person, and that the one person is likely to interact with 100s of buyers makes the individual risk likely the same, but the resulting outcome 100x worse.

At the store one person might infect 2, but is unlikely to infect 200. A single delivery person could infect 200.
Google's style guide is written so that mediocre programmers don't get too trapped by C++ nuances.
have you ever considered the reason your deals/clients fall through because you're not dedicating enough time and energy to each one? i've had significant experience working with freelance developers and it's very obvious which ones are working with multiple clients and which one is working with only 1 or 2.
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I'm using rememberthemilk, so far it has been work well with me, 1577 tasks completed and counting...
Unfortunately, the length of the Venusian day means that Earth-like conditions are almost certainly never going to arise on Venus. Plants don't take very kindly to baking in the sun for 116 days and then having a 116 day absence of light. Could this be overcome with some large-scale engineering? Perhaps, but there will never be open, lush fields on the surface there.