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This is awesome. Is there an Ubuntu PPA that keeps up with these releases?
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His use of "brilliant" has little to do with IQ. It's a conflation of (a) creativity (which correlates, as he observes, with manic-depressive patterns and unreasonable expectations of others) and (b) superficial charisma (which correlates with narcissism and substance abuse). Those are two types of "flashiness" that he makes the mistake of conflating.

I'm category (a): creative, prone to mood swings, basically reliable but bad at the superficial reliability contests that determine advancement in most organizations. Yes, someone like me can be detail-oriented and show business acumen. We can be reliable. We're just not as competitive at being reliable (especially in the superficial ways, which are important in customer service) as others. If you need +3 sigma reliability-- someone who can work 100-hour weeks and not miss details or break rules or even become annoying-- you don't want +3 sigma creativity.
Ah Netbeans! I remember using this IDE during my university time - and it still looks like shit after so many years :)

Take a good look at what JetBrains did.
There is something very ... problematic about the suggestion that ensuring the survival of the race is of greater importance than, or even of comparable importance to, prolonging and improving the lives of individual human beings, is there not?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf9iTZ433zs
How do you think personal and private property laws get enforced?

Don't be under the illusion that our system is built upon trust and volunteer acceptance. It's built upon overwhelming brute force.

>he military isn't going to take over a dealership with armed service personnel to keep Tesla from selling their cars.

Who do you think the car dealerships will call when Telsa refuses to shut his stores down? The police. They will confiscate the property, arrest the managers/owners and shut down the business.

That is overwhelming brute force whether you call it the military or the police.
I wonder if the tested models had systems that warm up the batteries.
You don't think that aiming to reduce fossil fuel usage in favor of solar power counts as "doing something about climate change"?
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It's his money and he has every right to do as he wishes but I don't agree with this school of thought.

>"if the company you work for is worthy of your time, why not your money as well?"

Because you're being compensated for your time? Giving money to public companies is giving money to shareholders, not to a cause or an ideology. What's to stop a corporate raider from stirring up a revolt for disbursement of the cash/share buybacks?

He can be philanthropic AND support Musk, false equivalence on his part. Set up a foundation for a specific cause that invests in Tesla stock and has a defined budget for every year based on stock performance, dividends etc. I'd like to read his full comments but on face value it seems like a very silly thing to say.
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I don't mean to make fun of you, but: http://badassprogrammers.com/ basically demolishes that line of argument (and in the bargain confirms that Poe's Law does apply in Zed's case).

Particularly poignant is the way they redacted "autistic idiots" to "socially awkward idiots": if you're going play the "politically incorrect" card, play it with panache instead of being hypocritical about it.
If we ever reach a point where we are capable of establishing a permanent, self-sufficient colony on another planet, it's difficult to imagine that such a civilization would be unable to deal with any potential calamities on Earth itself.

What event could possibly make Earth less hospitable than Mars? Even assuming nuclear Armageddon or an extinction-level asteroid impact, you're still left with an environment much closer to habitability than what you would find on Mars.
If you are serious about graphics never invest in Intel graphics cards.

They are the running joke from graphics programmers.
Oh please. I'm really sure this is completely based in fact, and doesn't involve anybody being oversensitive, judgmental, or self-righteous.
Great idea! Would require a bit of post-processing on the raw data from our API...
Here is an article my cofounder wrote giving some background and basic terminology: https://medium.com/devops-programming/7f5fd023158f
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Yes, it is, but the human species won't die..
He didn't have them estimate anything. They weighed things with a scale, then multiplied by 20.
As a DirectX developer who's tried out OpenGL a few times, I found it horrific and painful to program in. But then again, I'm sure OpenGL devs complain about DX in the same way.

I honestly think DirectX is a great API. And let's be honest, by the time this is release in "Holiday 2015", it'll be at least until mid 2016 before anything comes out that uses it. Combine that with the rule about every other MS OS being good, and we should have a fairly decent Windows 9 to run these games on.
It makes sense, but that's the danger of it in my opinion.

If you think this way, it's worth going back and examining the writings of people you admired. You might be surprised! Or not.
I think it's funny that this whole thread is based on the initial haphazard word choice of reikonomusha yet he is not even a participant in the debate.
"Expedia for..." sounds pretty weird. Think of something else. I can't remember what actual Expedia is for.
What benefit does going to mars have over say a series of deep bunkers? Building a metropolis on Antarctica is easier than going to mars and sustaining life, just by the virtue of Antartica being closer than mars and still having an atmosphere that earth life can live on. Same with deep bunkers. Even life on an impact winter earth sounds more viable than life on a clean mars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_winter#Survivability
what makes it a different breed?

Edit: I misread what you wrote. I thought you were saying there was something fundamentally different about the type checker, but more that reload experience is different then what you get with Yesod.
That's what I initially thought, but asteroid deflection technology is dual-use. It can push asteroids into collision paths, potentially increasing existential risk. Colonies outside Earth guard against many other extinction risks such as plagues and nuclear war; even unlikely events like rogue comets and runaway nanotech.

Practically speaking, both require similar improvements to today's technology: cheaper access to space, larger payloads, better shielding, etc.
LA's much rejected public transportation system is actually pretty good, at least in some areas. I lived in LA for a year and pretty much only used a bicycle or taxis. But the buses let you put your bike on front, and the subway system isn't bad. Not sure about that scary looking south central raised train system though... never game to try that one!
Who is this "we" you're talking about. Well-designed, well-constructed equipment that makes me more productive and lasts a lifetime is worth it.
> What event could possibly make Earth less hospitable than Mars?

If we reach such a point, lack of room on Earth might be a serious issue
I question why any one person should have billions of dollars left to their whims in the first place. It's not simply the "natural way" of things. Our system is built to reward financiers, founders, and executives at vast disproportion to employees. Don't get me wrong, those first three groups are really important. I just think that when we talk about individuals having 11-figure sums of wealth, maybe something is kind of out of whack.

And some of them simply inherited that wealth, which is a whole other level of absurd.
Medieval History is important for Christians to study to protect them from making the same mistakes (i.e., The Crusades).

Disclaimer: I'm a Christian.
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I’m a little confused: when Elon Musk skirts the law and dodges local concessions, most comments here argue that he is a pioneer, freeing us from evil; when AirBnB renters do, they are doing something illegal.

Prohibiting any rentals between one night and a month is the result of lobbying, just like automobile concessions: either Y Combinator participants considers that laws can be changed to adapt to new business models, and that the current one (in the US) are the result of business pressures or they are not. Yes, hotels are incredibly less dodgy than car salesmen -- but still ‘illegal’ shouldn’t have a different meaning on similar debate.
I'm not sure whether the survey is real or OP made it up, but I don't think it matters. The point is that "...investing in long-sighted, ill-defined, radical, impractical projects is not only valuable but essential."
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IntelliJ also looks like shit. It has its own toolkit and the same horrible font rendering as any other swing program. If you want your IDE to be pretty, try Eclipse.
I'm guessing it's tongue in cheek? Or at least, this is what I typically see for the Asana Android app.
I really need to work at this. I definitely have always fit the "genius but doesn't finish things" description. I've been working at this hard for 8 years because it really has negatively affected my life. I'm making some progress but it's really slow and if I slack off even a little I tend to lose everything.

It's hard.
There are not many people who's death I'd celebrate, but for this guy: yippee!
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>> On a separate note, I feel like this article series might better be titled "The Missing Parts of Our Knowledge of Basic Rails Features".

Agreed on so many level. I see so many new gems that does the exact same thing as what rails do by default. I've spent some times browsing Rails source. It took me a while and as a side effect, the number of gems I am using now is a fraction of what I used when I started.

You can't build libraries and abstraction on top of Rails if you don't understand rails to begin with.
How long before you need a G+ account to use Google Search?
I think it is much simpler than you described.

Investing in Musk would drive technology up. Technology is great multiplier, if you have infrastructure to multiply it with.

Investing in Gates would drive up quality of life and help to build infrastructure in the first place.

It is obvious that investing in both is optimal strategy as investment in one increases eventual value of other investment.
"Client" and "server" are overloaded words with multiple meanings. Let's break this down a little.

The important distinction is between "a machine that runs code you control" and "a machine that runs code controlled by someone else". In general, if the code is running on someone else's computer, you don't control it. This is very true for browser Javascript, which visitors can alter at will, but even signed iOS applications are vulnerable to determined attackers.

In practice, 99.9% of users won't do this. Especially if the only thing at stake is your dissertation. But in many cases the 0.1% would be enough to potentially bankrupt you. That simple "RESTful API" can be used to delete your database, or (far worse, in many cases) insert fraudulent data… unless the database is protected by authorization logic that you control.

(Authorization logic is no laughing matter. It's generally application-specific. Is it okay for an arbitrary user to add 1 to this database column? Depends on whether the column represents "number of visits per day" or "number of dogecoin paid out per second". Repeat this design exercise for every possible permutation of every transaction. Then watch what happens when you accidentally let user X publish unsanitized text to a column which will eventually be printed verbatim on HTML page Y containing script Z...)

To control a piece of code, you have to run it on a machine that is physically secure, and that nobody but you ever touches. If it is networked, the machine must sit at a documented, permanent location on that network (i.e. "have an SSL certificate vouching for its IP address"), and be behind a network firewall to keep the attack surface down. At which point, no matter what it looks like or what ports it listens on, this machine is going to be called "a server".

And once you've accepted a server into your system you may as well take advantage of it: You can use programming languages besides Javascript, runtimes other than a browser, APIs that browsers don't have, hardware that browsers can't access, and much richer interfaces to your data than REST.

It is also true that the boxes we call "servers" are designed to run 24/7, have more durable and redundant network connectivity, have redundant power, have fast pipes connecting them to other servers, and be rented by the hour for a few cents. But, compared to the issues of ownership and control, these are implementation details.
That amounts to Guy Steele quote about moving halfway to Lisp. Haskell is on that same road, just way further.
I can completely understand. Our initial motivation was to just conserve cash as we were still very early in the design/conception phase and weren't really ready to attempt to grow. Also being married, I couldn't imagine doing this anymore haha
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In my web shop, our first CMS (circa 2003) utilized a WYSIWYG editor which was a disaster. For all of the supposed benefits it brought to the editing / writing process for our clients, the reality is that upon hitting 'save', the style/formatting issues on the front-end were awful, having picked up junk from MS Word, or copied web pages, or massive embedded images, you name it. It threw our shop into perpetual customer-support mode as our clients struggled to get anything to look right, or consistent.

For our 2nd client CMS, we chucked the WYSIWYG, spent a little more time helping our clients understand Markdown (actually Textile - this took a few minutes of our and their time). There was a little squirming involved on the part of our clients, but after a day or so, they understood it. Best part, it just works. It ensures that our site renders perfect, semantically correct HTML!

WYSIWYG in RTEs has grown up a bit, as we can see in Guardian's latest attempt. However, its largest flaw, from our perspective, is that it outputs HTML! HTML is just not a proper end-format. It is too difficult to reverse engineer. Markdown, on the other hand, can be rendered into many format. It can be output as HTML, raw text, truncated text, etc. So, while I applaud Guardian for releasing this, it saddens me that we're still attempting to improve on browser-based, user-facing tools which output HTML.
Does "+3 sigma creativity" actually mean anything?

(I'm aware enough of the rough technical definition, I mean in the sense that if you think there are 500,000 super special people in the U.S. can you do anything useful to find them?)
Netbeans is actually my favorite IDE for PHP development.

JetBrains isn't free, and for PHP I do prefer Netbeans anyways.
...that said, I do like the idea - have a 3 year old, and trying to understand what is available out there is incredibly difficult and haphazard.
It's hard to logically argue about morality. I personally think that we have a moral responsibility for future generations. some people would say that we have a moral responsibility for preservation of plant species. In this sense of couse preservation of the human species is also a matter of morality. If you only count morality as something towards organisms that do live and can feel pain, then it makes no sense to eat meat. But actually most people eat meat. So you see there are many different moral standards.
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I don't have many businessmen I respect because I think most CEO's are sociopaths, but Elon Musk is probably the greatest businessman/engineer of the past 100 years.

I absolutely don't see a problem with Larry Page giving his money to Musk.

Edit: Watch the next thing I read is about how much of an asshole Musk is. And how he stomped on a bunch of good people to get to the top.
There is another solution as mentioned in this article http://arshadchowdhury.com/1485-what-happens-when-you-stand-...
Which is basically a flexible laptop holder that you place on top of the desk that is tall enough for you stand and type on. I believe the product is this one http://www.lapdawg.com/lapdawg-x4.html. Much more affordable solution.
People close to me used have told me on numerous occasions that I fall into the category of glib-talking, high-flying, never-finishing 'charmers' that the author mentioned in the prose.

It took me a while to understand that my going-off-on-tangents had nothing to do with impatience. It had more to do with me not realizing that the last mile is the hardest. I would start everything with gusto but as soon as I hit a road-block, I would dawdle and eventually lose interest as soon as something new came up.

I now decide a (feasible) finish line in my head before starting a new activity and consciously check myself whenever I feel like I'm about to give up on it. I force myself to look at the finish line until I re-convince myself that I need to cross it before I can even think of giving up.

I am not 'there' yet but I am beginning to see some results and that eggs me on further. :)
you are really mentioning Eclipse as a pretty IDE or is it a joke ? :P
Thanks for sharing this. Initially I found the video to be a bit dull but on reflection I think it's a brilliant demonstration on how companies tend to be managed in practise.
Think of life and humans as a chemical reaction, like fire.

We consume and process things to make other things.

A tree by itself has limited value to a human, but if you process it into a house, it has a lot more value to a human.

Lets say you need 100 trees to make a house. 100 trees is worth $10,000.

A person with the job of chopping trees (a lumberjack) can cut down 300 a year, so they make $30,000 a year in income.
Lets say the lumberjack wants to buy a house.

A house is worth $20,000 to him. He pays a firm to build him a house for $20,000. The firm buys 100 trees from someone for $10,000 and then turns them into a house for the lumberjack. That extra $10,000 they received is called "value add". They added value because humans (the employees of the firm) had to turn the wood into a house.

This is what the economy basically is, and you can be in two roles:

1: The resource extractor

2: The resource processor

Or in other words, you can be the wood or the flame.

How to do you make a big fire?

Get more and better resources (like wood and air)

Start fires in more places than one (parallel processing of the wood)

Start hotter fires (blowtorch vs a match)

Pretty much all of the above is controlled by laws and policy of the government. The citizenry are like the flame - they have innate, unfaltering properties. It is the role of the government (the person trying to build a big fire) to know these properties of the citizenry, and setup the right conditions so they burn their brightest.
1-45 is interesting when compared to 15. Others mentioned this may be a bug in data interpretation or a GOX account, but if you look at all of the high volume traders you can see horizontal striations that correlate with user15.
Probably the only one which actually exists.
I have to second AHK. Cube World was unplayable for me until I discovered it.

I've yet to find a reasonably good Linux clone of AHK, but then, most Linux games I've encountered tend to be quite configurable. Starbound comes to mind as problematic, but I haven't touched it in a few months.
But they shouldn't all be doing the "same" thing!
I'm pretty sure you and the parent were thinking of Haskell's `newtype` not `type`

λ> :{

Prelude| type Feet = Int

Prelude| type Metres = Int

Prelude| :}

λ> let a = 5 :: Feet

λ> let b = 4 :: Metres

λ> :t a

a :: Feet

λ> :t b

b :: Metres

λ> a + b

9

λ> let f = id :: Feet -> Feet

λ> f b

4
> Who do you think the car dealerships will call when Telsa refuses to shut his stores down? The police. They will confiscate the property, arrest the managers/owners and shut down the business.

I'm going with the court system.

Businesses for the most part don't comply with the law because they are worried about a gun being pointed to their head, they are worried about being sued and being put out of business, or being sent to jail for something criminal.
Very dated perceptions. We know now, for example, that those who stammer and struggle for words often simply possess brains that are more full of information, rather than possessing less efficient or organized ones.

In a knowledge economy built on creativity, I'll take Different Thinkers over Cogs of Constancy any day.
My problem with CanCan is that when you begin to have more complicated access logic ability.rb becomes a giant mess.

It's already a file where you just throw in all of your authorization logic anyways so it always feels a bit unruly once you get beyond basics.
I suppose I just have different blinders than it doesn't occur to me that people view the world that way. :/
> Anyone organizing for a larger group (weddings, sports teams, church trips, conferences, etc.) can't deal with a smattering of different housing providers.

It's funny because AirBnB was set-up (and I still see them mainly) as a convenient solution for such gatherings, when hotels are all booked. They are the reliable reference in that case.

Granted, conferences and weddings in the US have always stricken me as operated by control-freaks who can’t accept that people able to run team of 15 scientists, or parents with three children can find a way to book a room by themselves.
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Perhaps I am insufficiently familiar with the ventures of Elon Musk, but doesn't he mostly make advanced technology for rich people?
He's point is valid if you define brilliant men as famous/rockstar.

But let's not forget that he lived in different circumstances than today.
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Yeah I only realised that you were interpreting it differently when I saw your reply to jimhefferon. If you do figure out what bothers you about the sweets==crowd interpretation then do please reply - statistics is so slippery that it takes a lot for me to feel fully confident with any particular idea.
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If you really believe capitalism has the most power to affect positive change for humanity above philanthropic or charitable giving, shouldn't it stand to reason that markets will allocate the necessary capital to people like Musk for a return on investment anyway?
Let me introduce you to people who want more than ROI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_investing

There are a variety of ways you could structure things. A non-profit could take loans or sell bonds. I've heard talk of a pay-for-success model for public-good bonds. [1] The non-profit could create a for-profit subsidiary, like Mozilla does. A non-profit could enter into a joint venture (e.g., with an aerospace company).

I think the main barrier to approaches like this is attitudes like yours: for-profit people often have a hard time of steering by the public good. And, of course, the mirror attitude, where non-profit people are suspicious of anything that looks like capitalism. But there's no necessary conflict; the whole theory of capitalism is that companies are making the world better. And if you want to make the world better, the best way to do that is sustainably, and for-profit companies have done a lot of great thinking on how to stay in the black.

[1] http://nonprofitfinancefund.org/pay-for-success