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Yes, many smart people saw the writing on the wall, but pretty much all other magazines had covers like this at that time: http://www.tradersnarrative.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/h...
The solution is "don't spawn a huge number of tasks in a tight loop". Rust tasks are optimized for maximum performance once you spin them up, at the cost of some overhead once you spawn them. That was a deliberate choice, because not having segmented stacks makes many much more important things far faster, such as calling into C and performing tight sequential computations without thrashing on stack boundaries or using a garbage collector to move stacks around and rewrite all the pointers. Rust is about making costs explicit: when every function call could turn into a huge malloc(), you lose a lot of predictability over performance (and Go found this out too from what I gather).

Calling into C is a big one: we concluded it was basically impossible to make Rust calling into C as cheap as C calling into C in a segmented stack implementation. In practical usage, we found that the ability to call into C cheaply was much more important than the benefits of small stacks, which mostly help microbenchmarks like this at the expense of real-world code.
I have an iTunes library of a million bajillion tracks, a habit I picked up back in the 00s when downloading an entire album (or every album!) of an artist you liked was a novel thing and turned everyone into the digital equivalent of hoarders.

And guess what? I pretty much listen to none of it anymore.
My daily music dose now comes from Soundcloud, where active artists are putting up new tracks / mixes and giving the equivalent of Facebook likes to tracks that they personally enjoyed. It is a fun way of listening to music, and I often go and buy tracks on iTunes even if they are already free to download (which is the case a lot of the time).

This site has me really excited. The player is slick, the presentation is cool. Kim Dotcom's album itself is competently generic club music, which is more than can be said for a lot of club music.

Exciting!
Was the industrial revolution the beginning of a race to the bottom, or the first step from agrarian poverty to modern prosperity?
> “He may well have. We don’t know at this stage.”

I find it completely unacceptable that our representatives continue to make blaming statements. You can't say he did and then say you don't know. Diane Feinstein needs to go away. Vote accordingly.
So it's basically LambdaNative for a lesser lisp.

Nice?
Why would one use "git add -p" instead of "git add -i"?
They also could disappear from that market because they will find something else to do. If (in my mind, when) Robots and software drive the price of labor to the equivalent electrical cost (kind of like bit coin mining), I think people will do that which only people can: Arts, entertainment, atheletics, science and the like. We will let the automated work force do the dangerous work, the menial work, the boring work and will only do that which we want to do.
My idea for the future Discover page was that you'd be able to filter the results by location, distance, elevation etc. I'm already using Google's jsapi to zoom the map into your location, but I've seen mixed results with it.

AirBnB is a great example of categories done right. I'll look into that.
The effects crypto currencies have on this particular type of marketing approach will be interesting, at the very least.
I guess I'd ask how you got a house without a microwave. I've never lived without a microwave, but I have never purchased a microwave either.

An oven, a microwave, and a fridge are the three appliances I have been able to count on always being present when I move in somewhere. Typically the microwave is build into the cabinetry.
I think it's a bit strong saying it's "actively hostile" to power users. The developer takes a very specific view about why he has the limits set-up that way: I think a lot of people would like a different level but he makes sense over the fact that most people don't go that far back on RSS. And in fairness he's added a lot of other power user features like keyboard shortcuts.

Personally, I really like Newsblur. It's available on all the clients I care about, it's pretty fast and it's Open Source with a sane business model. I'd really like it to have search as that's the main thing that stops me finding good trends in my RSS feeds.
Can you be more specific? I know that reification can bloat runtime memory requirements, but I'd like to know about other disadvantages.
I did not read the article, but in my opinion, sentences as "inequality is sign of health" is nothing else than capitalistic propaganda.

There is no evidence in my opinion, that given, that common wealth all over the world has grown (what I even would doubt a little), that it is because of our capitalistic way of thinking and exploitation.

I agree, that some degree of inequality might be inevitable, but that degree of inequality we have today is ill in my opinion.

If (and I mean "if") common wealth has risen, than it might be more likely because of state of technology today. To what degree our capitalistic system does contribute to it is just unclear. Our world might be more wealthy without it. But nobody can prove either side, since we only have one world! And comparing roman times to our days today is just ill thinking.
"Vote accordingly [in four years]." Mike Rogers is a representative and could be out this year if Lansing voters pull heads out of asses.

Edited to add: The quote from Feinstein was in response to a question - she didn't bring it up. It's probably overstating things, but it's dramatically more cautious and less damning (of the utterer) than any of the quotes from Rogers (who the article focuses on much more). Rallying against Feinstein over this particular piece seems horrifically misguided for both these reasons and that I alluded to in my initial post - and I say this as someone who has voted against Feinstein every single chance I have had.
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What's with the low contrast? #7f8c8d is insufficiently dark to easily read on a white background.
We may have the technology to fully automate babysitting, dog walking, or sunset watching, but should we?

This goes beyond simple pleasure... Independence and interdependence also have value.
And an improved (real) extension: http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/CrecordExtension
I think your scale is a bit off; you're looking at how far you or others are from a cushy life near the top, but you really should be looking at the distance from the bottom.

Take, for only a small example, stop and frisk, and disparate prosecution and sentencing. It should really go without saying that there is a racial element to this -- police officers don't know how much money you make or how much class privilege you can truly bring to bear when they decide to stop you, pull you over, search you, or arrest you. Being black or brown in a predominately affluent (and chances are, predominately white) neighborhood doesn't make you exempt from being bothered - in fact, it makes you look more "out of place" and more likely to be stopped, and I say that both from a casual review of literature but also my personal experiences. And of course, just about every day we hear about all sorts of wealthy black people (Forrest Whittaker comes to mind as a relatively recent high-profile example) who get treated like criminals at stores because overzealous security guards have unconscious (or sometimes even conscious!) biases.

The fact that black & brown people are disproportionately stopped, searched, arrested, convicted, and sentenced means that white people are disproportionately not stopped, not searched, not arrested, acquitted, or given lenient sentences. It means that a lot of white kids have been given second chances / have had their illegal habits or decisions overlooked and gone on to still get financial aid (drug convictions can permanently disqualify you for federal financial aid), not be a felon, and get decent jobs in decent neighborhoods when the exact same doors are closed for many people of color who didn't do anything differently.

Yes, there is a class component to all of this - being wealthy may make it easier to get off after your arrest - but the biases in the criminal justice pipeline at and before arrest are really more race-based than anything.

I don't think that anyone thinks that being white affords white people the kinds of privileges that a $500k/year salary gives you. That's really a pretty absurd suggestion and I think most reasonable people who are not completely ignorant should be aware of all of the white poverty that exists to know that. But, even after controlling for everything else - including crimes committed - it does help to keep you out of prison and the criminal justice system.

That's not the only privilege, either. But in our overly incarcerated society, it's an important one.
have you considered integrating with freebase or perhaps populating theBigDB from freebase?

http://www.freebase.com/
I'm really curious what you mean by "fully concurrent" and how you accomplish it. I've been deliberating over how to write a game loop for my pet project [1] that allows multiple threads to concurrently update the world state without causing inconsistencies.

For example, let's take the age-old problem of two people in the game (potentially both AI-controlled) both deciding to pick up an item. If two separate threads are handling the logic, both having a view of the world with the item on the ground, and both of them end up trying to update the world state such that the item ends up in somebody's inventory, what is a clean and elegant way to resolve that?

I've considered using STM, having a ref to each entity in the game, and wrapping each bit of game logic in a transaction, thus rolling back entity updates that conflict with previously committed entity updates. I'm concerned about the performance implications of this, though. I keep imagining it becoming way too contentious and having more rollbacks than completed transactions.

[1] https://github.com/willismichael/terra-incognita
I am comfortable with the Git command line and SSH into my development environment.
Retail workers very often have little advance notice of what their shifts will be. This is bad for everyone, and results in people being idle when they would rather not be. People with kids, especially, need to have schedules that they can predict ahead of time. In addition, a lot of people would very much be willing to work two jobs, but without a guaranteed schedule, you have no way of avoiding conflicts.

I don't think shift workers are much better off, as it currently stands, as a result of cost-saving tech. We'll have to see what happens, I guess.
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For those interested in the learning more about single language web applications the Links project (http://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/links/) has been going for some time with quite a few research publications.
There is a tape of the prime minister at the time saying that "salaries are to high and that's why the krona needs to be devalued."

Yes, it happens all the time and in many countries - it's called Keynesian economics and it's the dominant paradigm of modern economics. (Namely, inflate the real value of sticky nominal wages away to make hiring people more attractive.)

I have no idea why you believe this is some conspiracy to increase inequality. It's true that recessions reduce inequality, and ending a recession will increase it. But is it maybe possible that proponents of stimulus have ending the recession as their goal and increased inequality is merely a side effect?
The pudding here is that young healthy people will be footing the bill for other demographics. It's great how they tricked people into doing this. They young and stupid are vulnerable and will always be an easy target to pick on. Just like the military recruits them for pennies on the dollar, and sends them out into battle. If anyone should be skeptical of the government, it should be young people. In reality, the skeptics seem to be the middle age, who have witnessed over the years how the system works. The dilemma is that the middle age doesn't have the time to have a big voice, but the younger stupid demographic has so much free time to spout their non-wisdom to the rest of the world through the internet like I am doing right now.
systemd does exactly that.
Here the overarching problem with these statements. They are trying to pass judgment on a race based on certain statistics about them. Is it racist to say that black students on average score lower on the SATs? No, it is a statistical fact. Is it racist to proclaim these students as stupid because of that? Yes, extremely, because you are judging their intelligence base on race without understanding why that statistic might be true.

Instead of being so heavily concerned with what you "can" and "can not" say without being racist, its important to focus on why these statistics do exist and understand why they are true.

Your statement implies that the student is stupid because they are black. That is racist and strictly false. So why do these students score lower? Probably due the incredibly high level of institutionalized racism that they experience every day of their life.

We need to work towards building a better society together, and eliminating societal constraints based on characteristics beyond their control characteristics. By focusing on how you can't say racists things (and if you didn't know it would be racist, then not bothering to understand why), and how that is unfair to you takes focus away from the real issues. Black students are scoring lower on the SATs, and its because as a society, we have institutionalized racism towards them. That is the great injustice here, not the lose of anyone's right to remain ignorant.
Cool, but please make sure you torrent safely: http://www.greycoder.com/?p=5799
Republicans and Democrats 'may have been shooting at the messenger'
Embezzling from the Party would seem to be a career-limiting move, no? There must be more to it. As in, the Party or power members thereof must have been in on it.
(Synference cofounder here)

It has successfully increased Wikipedia's donation revenue; however, some fundamental assumptions baked into the AB-testing approach are all wrong; this leaves a lot of money on the table.

Instead of trying to find a single best version for everyone, people should realise that different segments of their users are going to have different preferences. Machine learning can find these in an automated way, and there's a lot of value to be gained - but people need to see past the standard 'one size fits all' AB-testing approach to take advantage of it.
Looking forward to see this in Gruber's 'claim chowder' in six months...
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For a great many people a 'race to the bottom' scenario can easily be posited. Especially for those who are exploited to make the super cheap products (particularly electronics) everyone prosperous is supposed to enjoy. Someone is always going to be getting screwed in the name of ever increasing growth/profits and ever declining costs.

That is until we reach a sweet Sci-Fi robots doing all the work scenario! :)
Thats the reason, the rich countries need drones, robots and also computers to control the first two. Since the top 1% must defend against the others.
Interested in getting in touch, although I may not be able to give you exactly what you're looking for. I grew up in Paris and am currently looking to start a company in SV, so I'm curious about what prompts you to do the opposite journey.
One could also argue that split shifts increase the value of irregular (possibly part) time workers to their employers, thus increasing their working hours, thus increasing their earnings potential. I have no evidence to support this, but increasing the availability of any service usually increases utilization of it.
I don't expect much if any of a performance difference. Both M:N and 1:1 threading use non-segmented stacks in Rust, and that is the source of the performance issues.
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Depends on your objectives and situation.

1) gamedev => MonoGame
2) business (SQL DBs) => NHibernate
3) web => SignalR

I personally never learned by participating in OSS but times change.
I think you're in a circular loop. Once those "just wanna drink a beer" people have their jobs automated away, they will never again have money to participate in the economy again. At which point they will have to take up barter or crime. They might trade home grown weed for someones home brewed beer, but one thing I know is they won't be part of the monetary economy buying a beer anymore.
> On the numbers, I think more businesses accept dogecoin than bitcoin. And the volume of dogecoin transactions exceeded bitcoin transactions the other day. The transactions and businesses are smaller.

Any chance the business plans for these businesses is "Make doge jokes on reddit, collect dogecoin donations"?
Do a YouTube search on afrotechmods. The person who makes those videos is simply amazing. I have learned a tremendous amount.

I'd also recommend getting an Arduino and building projects with it.
I still do not understand what problem upstart or systemd are trying to solve. Slow boot times? Have you ever even booted an HP DL360? Or any server? Of the entire 8 minute or so process, sysv init only takes up 10 seconds. So what is the problem?

Containers of Debian 7 (openvz) start in seconds, with sysv init. My laptop dito.

What am I missing? Android? That takes forever to boot and I have no idea why. Could be that systemd fixes that problem.

To me, Systemd and upstart come across as modern-for-the-sake-of-being-modern.
> This fails to address for countless nuances and by default simply stating "You're white, ergo you're instantly privileged." is just false and dishonest.

That’s not what modern (that is intersectional) feminism says. It says that whiteness gives you privilege over colored people. It says that being male gives you privilege over people who are female. And being rich gives you privilege over people who are poor. An interaction between a middle-class black man and a rich white woman can be a fascinating minefield, where either of them can be the „oppressed” side depending on the context. In fact it’s getting more popular to use the word „kyriarchy” to avoid the overly-specific „patriarchy”.

Of course yes, many feminists actively hate intersectionality, and others don’t completely grasp the context. But ignoring its existence in modern feminism shows certain amount of ignorance or bad will. The radical thought goes against the dominance-obsessed behavior in general.
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Well done. A brilliant and ballsy display of civil disobedience. Godspeed.
Unlike Apple and its team of "insiders" and their "leaks", which coincidentally seems to always be people who get free goods from Apple's marketing department.

This is a complete sham!
Interesting. What about including a second column showing the back correlation? An example: 'WPF' appears 6% of the time for 'C#' questions, while 46% of 'WPF' questions include the 'C#' tag. Would be interesting use this to identify ontological hierarchy trends.
Same here, I was thinking of that anecdote about the catch 22 author being at some party. Some banker says "that 25 year old over there made more money last year than you have in your whole writing career"

and the author replies back "I have something he'll never have - enough"

Except when the banker wisens up and has the "epiphany" that his tens of millions are enough and lives a paradise of a life ever after.
Maybe improved scheduling software would benefit workers and employers; employers would have access to the labor of workers who are not currently able to work because of the problems you describe, and workers would be more able to manage their schedules. This is not cost-saving, but it might be value-creating.
Cool! I have two questions: does this support watching files to regenerate them?

Second, one of the main features from my similar project (npm install webapp-builder) is appending a socket.io connection to generated HTML to force a browser refresh when files have finished building. I view webapp-builder as too monolithic, so I'm curious how difficult it would be to implement a similar feature in Fez?
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Exactly. Why the need for "stealth" if what they are doing is "normal"? It's because they're trying to make people believe Xbox One is more popular than it really is, and that the comments are really "natural" (when they aren't).

I find it that quite unethical. It's no different than paying Reddit commenters for mentioning it.
"will only do that which we want to do."

That would be awesome if food, water, housing, entertainment, clothing, and health care were free. Those are only available now to people still in the rapidly shrinking money based economic system.

A more likely outcome than doing what they want to do, is death or revolution (or both, historically they usually work as a team)
Bravo.

What females need to realize is that they have the same God-given talents as anybody else (i.e. men).

I know many girls who are great coders and can stand toe-to-toe with men in a coding throwdown. But they don't make their sex a thing that everybody else needs to recognize, they just get on with the job. You don't read/hear them blogging and whining about how hard they have it because they use their talent to overcome obstacles, not complain about them.
I noticed a couple of commits regarding btrfs. Can anybody summarize them to someone that doesn't know anything about kernels and very little about file systems?
Looks interesting. A note to the author: that post is very difficult to read on mobile. Setting a width on your container will go a long way to improve readability (e.g. .wrapper { max-width: 90%; margin: 0 auto; }).
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I loved how it displayed code in functions in separate tiles, instead of all concatenated together in a long file. And it shows the code for the other functions being called, in their own tiles.

The video in the linked article is a good short explanation of how the tool works. You can skip the hype in the article.

I think this concept could represent a significant advance in IDEs. I don't care if it's a new idea or not, it's a gorgeous implementation of the concept.
I've been writing on and off about my engine design on my blog http://morgawr.github.io/ but it's mostly just the introduction, I wanted to finish the actual engine (or, rather, make it usable) and make a small game as a demo in it (so far I only have a pong clone).

I don't know how feasible my design is, but my idea is to use Clojure's principles of values/identities and reftypes, every entity in the game is an agent with its own thread (scheduled in a thread pool), inside the agent there are refs (I intended to use atom but for race conditions and synchronized updating, the example you mentioned, I decided to go with refs). Entities can query a global database of entities (tagged, component based) and retrieve their state by dereferencing. If they want to update the state of other entities they can either send a message via the agent (ordered asynchronous update) or act directly onto the inner ref (via transaction) for a synchronized/concurrent update.

It's tricky to explain, and it's probably going to give me a lot of troubles along the way but it's mostly a fun experiment for a private project.