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It is not how history is written, but how history is interpreted. Research and forming opinions is exactly what a history graduate should have learned while in school. This is why many lawyers study history in undergrad.
The people he's appealing to are the majority, SME's or not.
>I practice a variant of this where I have some small, well-defined task to do at the beginning of the next day

I start with some large task, with the intention of getting fully absorbed and in the zone. Then get interrupted to fix an excel upload error - users who insist on using excel also seem to be the ones who are incapable of reading error messages. Then someone asks me a question about something. Turns out a 2 line bug/change needs fixed. Might as well do that before I get into the zone. "Can you get a list of all projects with blah, blah". Might as well do that before I get in the zone as well.

Before I know the day is gone and I have achieved nothing satisfying.
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The dirty secret of 10x engineers is that you have to learn to prevent the other crabs from dragging you back down into the bucket (whether deliberately or out of ignorance).

Crap workspace? Leave. Crap cohabitants (not just in need of assistance, but willfully negligent or so far behind that you can't get your job done)? Find better people to be around.

The hard part: If you're a nice person, it can take a while to really learn and internalize this, and it can remain difficult to execute.

It's not about being "better than". It's about circumstances that hinder your own performance and leave you counter-productively frustrated. No situation is perfect, but there are points past which they become destructively counter-productive.
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> My bigger question is why Metric stuck with Celcius and Kelvin instead of factoring in the Gas Constant (R) into Kelvin so the math would be completely constant-free

That's a really good question. Another possibility would be to fix the calories/joules mismatch in heating water
We'd do it in Django.

Just kidding. I don't know, that's a pretty hypothetical question. We've heard nice stories about people who split up their frontend and backend into two projects, one completely Angular/Grunt, one completely Rails, where the Rails serves solely as a RESTful API and even user sign in and access checking is done through a remote service. It still sounds like a cool concept, but I'd want to have time to play around with it as a smaller experiment before really investing on a design like that. It would be a big shift in thinking, and again I don't know if it would make our lives easier or harder in the long run.
So the data will be handed over to the likes of Booz Allen Hamilton, who as Snowden showed have a stellar record at keeping secrets.

Bullcock.
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It is a cliche but a true statement. A lot of people bought and don't use their cameras because they are too lazy to carry them around. It is easier to leave your camera at home now that your smartphone can take a decent photo in most situations.

In the film days you had to carry a small compact or you wouldn't have any photos ;) In the early smart phone days ... same, a small digital compact or best you'd end up were some grainy VGA shots. Now ... most smartphone can produce a decent result.

I could never explain the explosion of DSLRs among the general public that left the mode dial on "Auto" the entire time. It was fashionable and I guess camera makers did a great marketing job.
I don't see any information about how they interfaced with the hvac system. Did they use a relay board or optoisolators?
Yep, even WAAS is only considered to be accurate to 3m, IIRC.
The Perl way is to declare minimum language version to execute a code file. E.g. use v5.12;

Then you can do extensions [even changing central functionality] in a sane way, with backward compatibility. (A language implementation need to implement deprecated features for older versions, of course.)

I agree with your point re APIs.
"Uncomfortably cold" is quite an understatement, when talking about allegedly "human" temperatures.

Sure, at 100, healthy humans can survive as long as their increased water needs are met. (Sun is another matter, but I'm just talking temperature.)

However, at 0F, permanent tissue damage onset is within 30 minutes, with almost any wind speed.
(http://www.nws.noaa.gov/os/windchill/images/windchillchart3....)
You're right. So I'm 28, no family, no commitments and no debt :) I like a lively spot alright. I'm a native English speaker, used to have decent French (which I could pick up again easily enough) and am willing to learn another if need be. I like the idea of the States or Canada though. I know America is tough to get into but I could probably take a chance applying for a position with my current MNC.

Edit: Basically I've never lived outside Ireland. I want to experience somewhere else tbh.
Thanks for this link. It's really fantastic to read some of the reasons for approval and denial.. Here's a good one that was really interesting to me for personal reasons since some of the facts are similar to mine:

"Applicant was born in Iran. He left Iran in 1985, was educated in the United States, married a native-born U.S. citizen, and became a U.S. citizen. He adopted an American name when he became a U.S. citizen, and he gave American names to his children. He has never returned to Iran. He held a public trust position for three years. His sister is a citizen and resident of Iran, but he has never visited her in Iran. His parents and two brothers are citizens and residents of the United States. His older brother held a security clearance for six years. Although his parents live in the United States, they spend about six months of each year visiting their daughter in Iran. Security concerns are mitigated by Applicant’s deep and longstanding relationships and loyalties in the United States. Clearance is granted. CASE NO: 12-11015.h1 "
This thread is weird if you're using the "Cloud to Butt Plus" chrome extension.

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> But it seems impossible to have a HN discussion on Golang without part of the thread getting hijacked with "But generics!!!"

Surely the exact same criticism could be leveraged at go proponents pointing out the exact same features they love every time, should discussions of Go simply stop until the next major release, and only new features (if any) be discussable?
Of course! Though I hope you want Windows Store apps, I've been wanting to build another one.
I'm not trolling, we're just talking around one another. There are a significant number of concepts that aren't easily explained in plain english required to get at the heart of "what is a monad?". Even that question itself is already making an interesting choice of definition and set of questions that can be confusing unless analyzed carefully (in particular "Monad" as a noun can mean something very different from monad as an adjective and both meanings are frequently used in descriptions of "what monads are").

I'm attempting to be strongly consistent in everything I'm saying, but it's not necessarily possible to both do that and keep speaking simply.

The why of monads is that they're a very nice API or Interface that allows you to write easily analyzed and easily refactored programs. Most of the other descriptions are the why of a particular type which happens to instantiate the API.
50,000 contractors may have clearances, but they don't all have access to those records. Remember, the whole point of Snowden going in with sysadmin access, and then stealing credentials and otherwise impersonating 20 other people, is precisely because the stuff Snowden wanted to leak was so compartmentalized.

Your 1) has already happened, AFAIK. Perhaps we need to have different (i.e. more active and intrusive) Congressmen on the subcommittee so that they don't act so shocked when details come out, but that's a different issue.

Another key note is that unlike almost every other subcommittee, these Congressional overseers don't get the ability for political patronage out of what they do. The Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, for instance, can be greatly influential in drawing massive DoD dollars to their district, but there's not much the Intelligence committees can do in the same vein, aside from random data centers perhaps.

Even then, I know there was a determination by Sen. Feinstein earlier that EO 12333 collection was not in their oversight bailiwick. That wasn't NSA refusing to discuss it, it was the subcommittee deciding it was out of their jurisdiction.

There are many Federal agencies and groups that do monitor EO 12333 (though it is certainly unclear what type of oversight they are providing across the totality of programs).

Beyond all that, I do agree that nothing going on within NSA should be out-of-scope for oversight (including Congressional oversight, if it comes to it). From the nuclear propulsion perspective, we had routine audits of essentially every major program, institutionalized. I don't know how the Congressional subcommittees do their business but it would be a good idea to institute the same there, and also ensure that NSA/IC staff (contractors too) can always feel comfortable coming to a staffer from that Congressional subcommittee with details of abuses.

I'd give the NSA some credit on security through obscurity because you're talking about intelligence programs, not computer code or algorithms. A rule of thumb from crypto research does not necessarily directly apply to anything with the word "communications" in it. ;)

In fact the only real problem I see in 3) is that (assuming you're talking about public discussion) the people who most need to care (the American public) are going to have their eyes glaze over immediately, the people who might actually be able to craft countermeasures would be intensely interested, and it wouldn't even prevent government abuse; how easy is it to craft a good system of access controls for public approval but then add workarounds as needed in practice?
I notice a definite sense of satisfaction if I finish the day with things working as opposed to not working (especially if I have been working on that feature for more than a day). Though the scope of my tasks varies so much it is difficult to "try and make the code work by the end of the day". I don't think I ever plan anything that I think should take more than a day, but more often than not downloading a new library and configuring it to work should be simple and takes as much time as any coding. (Still it will likely be quicker than me writing all the functionality and tests myself).
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It certainly is possible to split text into grapheme clusters without involving any font rendering, see: http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr29/ Most text manipulation isn't performance critical, and when it is, you can always implement a fast-path for mostly ascii text.
Ditto, my guess is they're just skimming for the top earners.
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They mean "Why do U.S. assigned radio-station FM frequencies end in an odd decimal"...
Find a pain and solve it. This can be applied to a college degree fairly easy. Do you want increase your value to potential employers after graduation? Be able to solve painful problems. Where are the painful problems? STEM.
I lived in DC for a while. You have to deal with motorcades, not just for the president, but anyone the SS thinks needs protection. As a pedestrian I've been forced to stop and wait on the sidewalk for ~20 minutes while the street was prepared for the motorcade, then while it passed by. This is part of life in DC. As a driver I've had a DC metro policeman, clearing the street for a motorcade, sideswipe my car in his motorcycle and just keep on going.

As to weapons, after DC vs. Heller some of the unconstitutional restrictions were nullified, but the prohibitions against carrying are still in place. It took decades of activism for DC residents to even regain basic civil rights, such as the right to keep handguns in the home.

If this had happened somewhere else (a place that allows concealed carry, I presume you're thinking), then I guess you would just be invited to leave the area before the president entered. Or maybe let an SS agent hold your gun for you.
Cool insights. I don't think the 'helicopter parent' syndrome was alive and well in the late 80s, but it seems to be a 'thing' now. :/

In this particular case, the instructor was doing this out of a passion for sinology - she was a librarian who did this part-time. Perhaps full-time teaching would have helped her develop a thicker skin over the years. That said, she was already in her late 50s or early 60s at this point - not sure she'd encountered too many outright hostile students up to that point.
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Like many, many sites with those features before and after it. I still think adoption is the only thing "special" about it.
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"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

The data shouldn't be collected in the first place.
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on the other hand wouldn't that imply that people can't innovate with other solutions in the same space (groups') because they are locked into it by the init system depending on it?
I agree that the smaller degrees, and lack of fractions, is more convenient for casual usage.

However, I'd argue that being water-based is hardly mystical: if water is boiling, or frozen, survival is more difficult.
It's also a pragmatic system for any nation that regularly drops below freezing. (Eg, could it snow today? Could there be ice to slide on?)
And thousands of developers would hate it. Sure, some things are ugly but the usage is too widespread in order to get rid of them. Look at the register_globals disaster and how long it took to throw that out. And it was only one little thing. Imagine tens or hundreds of them.
I can not count the number of college students I met while I was in college (2001-20010ish) who did not have a clear vision of how they would pay off debt and maintain a living after graduation. Following your dream, being passionate, etc were the proverbs being lived by.

Not a realistic analysis of how they would survive in non-minimum wage jobs.

It should not surprise anyone that following your dream without counting the cost results in very high costs for most people - the penniless genius and starving artist is still a proverb.
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They want the subject in focus and everything else blurry. Thus they also use a zoom lens on their DSLR instead of learning to set apperture.

Those dead simple film slrs taught people about optics and light in a way that isn't as easily available now.
At present I derive all my income from part-time work and side projects.

The first thing is to figure out what not to do. You can't work in a field where people routinely hire full-time employees with ease. So you can't do Java work part-time, for example. (Well I mean you can, but it's like saying you can be elected to Congress. Let's do something easy.)

So, you have to start in some field where 9-5ers can't be easily found to fill the position. iOS/Android dev are like that. Maybe there are web specialities that are like that. If you have some deep expertise like machine learning or computer vision or graph algorithms, maybe those specialties are like that. But the operative criteria is to find some field that full-time employees are not easily had.

The next step is to filter by projects where time is not the biggest criteria. Because in spite of Fred Brooks and his MMM, ordinary people still believe that if you work more hours the project will get done faster, and will pressure you to become full-time. So you have to find people who are unconcerned about delivery dates, or rather, who have overriding concerns. Quality concerns. Cost concerns. If you find someone who has a fixed budget for his project, for example, if that person can get a better developer at 20 hours/week than he can at 40 hours that starts to look like an attractive value proposition. Because not only does he get a better developer, but with a lower burn rate it's easier for him to get deep visibility into where the money and time is actually going. Those benefits outweigh the benefits of completing the project faster, but only for projects that have these sorts of overriding concerns.

There's more you can do, but those two steps are probably all you need to start consistently landing part-time gigs.

It's worth pointing out as well, there are a variety of near-part-time deal structures you can negotiate (for example rotating 1 week on, 1 week off). These might be worth exploring depending on your specific motivations for seeking part-time work.
This is great. Would be interesting to pull up the list of players from each county too.
I really like the ...$param syntax. When we first created NOLOH (http://www.noloh.com) back in 2005 we decided on $dotdotdot as a syntactic salt, but this is obviously much nicer. Also, by ref ... is really really nice. Very few cases where it's necessary, but having that is a pretty big deal.

Since PHP 5.3, PHP has gotten some really nice features, they've definitely been doing a pretty good job over the past few years.
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2008/06/revisiting-...

I miscalculated the average a bit: it's 56.5 per year, not 60 (I thought it is 7 year period but it was 8 years).

The growth of federal crimes continues unabated. The increase of 452 over the eight-year period between 2000 and 2007 averages 56.5 crimes per year-roughly the same rate at which Congress created new crimes in the 1980s and 1990s.
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You can't go wrong with bringing fika.
For the purposes of NSA surveillance, the U.S. is like the rest of the world; if you are legally inside the U.S., Fourth Amendment protections apply without regard to citizenship.

If you've so much as ever applied for a green card, you are now a "U.S. person" as far as NSA is concerned.

U.S. treatment of non-citizens outside of the U.S. is different in some (not all) ways, that much is true. But other countries take that tack as well. E.g. even privacy-friendly Germany allows their foreign intel agency, BND, to spy on the communications of non-Germans.
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> total freedom of action except perhaps what you bargain away.

Sovereignty and the lack of some treaty preventing some behavior X does nothing to prevent other sovereigns from becoming angry and or retaliating in kind. Doing something 'because we can' does not make it wise.
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Because it works with arrays.
If OP can't, I can :) My contact information is available in my profile if you're looking.
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There's a bigger mistake. If government keeps torturing until all volumes are discovered and unblocked (or until you're dead), than why your points when you have hidden partition are higher, when you don't? Considering this, it is no longer a strictly dominant strategy for you to have it.
Technically they obviously could, legally the Fourth Amendment does apply, but for that case the FISC is used to obtain warrants if needed, instead of the normal law enforcement warrant pipeline.

The larger concern is probably simply that as long as any party to a communication is a non-U.S. person outside the U.S., that communication is fair game for the NSA under EO 12333 authority alone.
I was doing CS at U of C same time he was. While I have a lot of respect for him in many areas, and found him entertaining to hang out with at times, there is just no way to overstate how abrasive and how much of an opinionated arrogant asshole he can be. (Something I don't think he'd disagree with.)
i think it's kind of hard to find specific people targeting part-time developers for a long period of time. they normally want contractors/free-lancers to help out on the project and then they'll cut you out.

I just randomly found one on elance out of nowhere. all i did was post that i did django web-dev for a year and bam, client received. I'm learning a lot though...like... what requirements to set for myself before I agree with the client.
>we built our own approximation of the Nest Learning Thermostat in one day — and we’ve open sourced everything. In this process, we’ve come to respect the incredible technical challenges that Nest has solved while also coming to understand how much the game has changed since they first started.

I missed the technical challenges - this seems trivial, and exactly how easy that I would imagine it to be. The only challenge that I see is figuring that people would want a thermostat controlled by a phone app.

Since that's been figured out, I'm going to be very surprised if within 2 years 10 vendors don't have $50 versions sold at Wal-Mart, and there aren't 2-3 different open source software stacks competing to support a few of them.
The text was most likely written by a civil service employee. Civil servants are not politicians.
the fact we can't quantify that harm is part of the problem, is it not?
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I find it interesting that there is no better word to describe "tiddlywinking", and that this obscure game has become part of our vocabulary for this very rare circumstance.
Some time ago, hypirion wrote about how persistent vectors are implemented in Clojure.

http://hypirion.com/musings/understanding-persistent-vector-...

There are actually several different implementations of the core data structures:

https://github.com/clojure/data.finger-tree

https://github.com/clojure/core.rrb-vector

Of course, the short answer is that Clojure isn't using classic linked lists, and that regular Java collections can be used and created pretty easily. [0] [1]

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4313505/converting-cloju...

[1] http://blog.raek.se/2011/01/24/executors-in-clojure/
Are you kidding? This place is 90% socialists.
I actually really disliked this. Too distracting for me. Maybe my tastes will change over time - but I stopped reading because I couldn't concentrate on the text.
Humans have developed clothing, which allows us to stay alive in cold weather. There’s very little we can do (short of going into a building with AC) to survive hot weather — 100 is tolerable (just), but heat gets deadly very quickly when you go above it. You don’t want to be outdoors for extended stretches in either condition (the analogy is imperfect; realistically my experience of 10F is subjectively similar to 100F, and 0F is more like 110F).
December/January are always the toughest month for me. Lots of companies are still working out their annual budget.

I usually just go on vacation.
A broken CD would make a fantastic shank not just a stab shank like a sharpened toothbrush but a slit somebodies throat kind of shank.
I believe that the reason the name Nimrod was picked was because according to the Bible Nimrod was the first king.

The fact that the word has a negative connotation in the US is a bad coincidence. It however seems too late to change the name now.

But is it really so bad? Many people use Git and in Britain 'git' has similar negative connotations, as Nimrod does in the US.