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I was expecting an article like this to showcase some real advantages of Go over python, but the cornerstone of the argument is a reference to authority and a claim that it is faster. This is very disappointing, especially given the focus on concurrency and not performance.

The article never mentioned any of a number of interesting and relevant concepts like channels, goroutines or CSP. The specific problem of doing small amount of work in the background is easily solved using goroutines, but this isn't even mentioned and the Go code sample at the end is barely relevant to the rest of the discussion.

Also, I find the derision of Erlang to be out of place in an article on Go and concurrency since both Go and Erlang base their concurrency model on CSP (albeit with significant differences in interpretation).
This product is User friendly and gives a lot of information about all our servers, and volumes. Dashboard and deployment configuration is impressive with a drag and drop feature, It is very easy to launch a server. I was able to manage both AmazonAWS and Rackspace using this. Logs give me the clear idea of the status. Thanks a lot Xervmon it saved our time.
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Yeah, but searching for the actual word is much easier than searching the acronym. Take MAC for example (tried out with german google, so your experience may vary).

I get a cosmetics site, apple.com and store.apple.com, wikipedia article about the mac adress and a clothing site. Message Authentication Code is nowhere to be found.

Yes, I took one of the harder ones, AES is on the first position, but still it is nice to know the words behind an acronym.
If one of the modules can be a keyboard, then I know a fair few people who will buy one...
Wow, nounset or not, doing a `rm -rf` on a variable without any check is quite irresponsible. Especially if they expect the script to be run as sudo.
I wrote about this issue a bit here:

http://www.stefanom.org/2000000-systems-played/

It's a combination of (a) people straight up exploiting the fact that the server trusts that the data sent from the client is correct, (b) some truncation error that happens when the system is saved for replay may lead to a different final outcome when replayed (the systems may be highly chaotic), or (c) a bug that I haven't been able to reproduce yet.

(a) is something I struggle with coming up with a good solution. People can just enter the Javascript console and mess with the internals (change points, multipliers, etc.). When the data is sent to the server, the server cannot re-run the entire integration, it is too computationally expensive (almost 4,000,000 games played!). So what I do is do some basic checks on the server, loop over & reject systems that are clearly fake, ban IPs that are obviously trying to exploit the high score table, and call it a day since I cannot be monitoring the high-score table all the time. As I wrote in another comment, they are all fake internet points anyway, so I'm not too concerned. If anyone has a better idea, my email is stefano.meschiari@gmail.com -- drop me a line.

(b) is a feature inherent to the N-body problem, so not much can be done on that front.

(c) I still haven't come across a system that I created on my testing environment (that I save with some extra debug information), that behaves differently when replayed.
We had software engineers help 1 hour a day on support, myself included. It started out of necessity (tiny startup), but survived many years. Gave people great perspective.

Google has (had?) "20% time". This was more like "12% time".

Although developers' time is valuable, they're not "in the zone" all day; this came out of that not-in-the-zone time.
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This is one of the oldest tricks in the book, right up there with the 2600hz tone, finding passwords same as the username and dialing all the numbers in an area code.

It still gets em every time. Give my regards to the cap'n.
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I've read speculation that people peak later in quantitive fields, because a discovery requires a lot of work over many years - gathering and verifying data.

In math, I guess, advances are made by bright ideas - logical jumps, sudden realizations. The discoverer just needs to read to the edge of the field and then realize something no one else has before.

But I think that's a shallow model for inovation. Genuinely innovative companies like Tesla or Skybox mostly seem to be mixed age teams.
Me too. How long overdue now? 2 years? Crypto 1 was awesome, am impatient to do more!
One argument I've heard is that it keeps you aware of how much tax you're paying.
So, every time someone receives an abuse complaint, they should have to send checksums of every email on their list? What if it's a massive mailing list by a large company? What if it's a fraudulent abuse complaint, just designed to get the company to waste resources?
My 928 still suffers from intermittent, device-warming phantom battery drain, hoping 8.1 fixes it. Luckily the "Battery Saver" feature seems to be a so-so stop-gap if you don't mind missing email notifications.
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Just like our field.

You just need a mix of real experts, the ones dealing directly with the customer on site, with a blend of not so experts hacking along a few lines behind in the battlefield.

When one those "not so well experts" gets the next gig, they are themselves experts in the said technology. :)
What I get from the MV* frameworks
Going a little Abelson&Sussman, the utility of cons persists because it is a powerful abstraction. Fitting into registers was, as a scholastic might say, an as accidental feature as the input line voltage of a toaster [110 @ 60Hz makes things easier in this part of the world but isn't intrinsic to making crisp English muffins].

cons is useful for dealing with linked memory structures, including singlely linked lists and particularly singly linked lists where the stored value in each list element is a pointer because it abstracts over all the pointers. Writing code to process and manipulate and pass pointers is idiomatic in C. Using pointers is idiomatic Lisp.

Your barfing code shows why cdr and car persist. They are also powerful abstractions due to their rules of combination and probably because their rules of combination aren't constrained by a bias toward English language. There ain't no synonyms for "caddr" and "cdddr" in English or Python.

The idea that lists should be everywhere replaced by structs is assembly in any language thinking (also known as C). Lists provide a standard interface. Each struct definition creates a new data type.

It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures. Alan J. Perlis, Epigram 9.
Your children are not going to copy your skills and abilities, they're going to imitate your decisions, conscious and unconscious.

If you're an athletics coach that tells your athletes to run as fast as they can, and you personally half-ass it around the track and have a bit of a beer gut, then you're doing a bad job.
My battery experience was most often stellar. I have almost always been able to track it back to an app with a background process.

I haven't seen the mysterious warm and die thing happen in a really long time (since GDR2 certainly).
As mentioned earlier in this thread, eople who don't know now have some keywords to google with.
That's C-x o; C-x C-o in Emacs runs delete-blank-lines, and I'm not sure what it does in DrRacket.
The hyperbole of this line demeans the whole article, 'one of this century’s biggest corporate disasters '
14 years into the 21st Century? Come on.
You're confusing overall growth and market share. To keep things really simple if the overall number of smartphone users goes from 1 million to 1.5 million that's 50% growth of the market. If my particular flavor of OS grows 30% during that same year I'm actually losing market share even though I am crowing from the rooftop "Hey we grew 30% last year!" Here OP is saying just because there's a lot of love for Windows what it really needs to do to be the year of the Windows phone is take share from iOS and/or Android.
It shouldn't be godaddy handing the abuser the email for verification, it should be the abuser handing godaddy it's opt-in-list for verification. This way the reporters identity is never in danger... Of cource it's their fault.
I'm not sure what part of my comment you're responding to, but I don't think the Moto X is a good response to anything I said. It doesn't have removable storage. It doesn't have a removable battery. With a 4.7" screen, it's much bigger than an iPhone.
What's wrong with this? they say "Your contact information, like your email address, will not be disclosed". They just tell the person who's twitter account it is something like, "By the way, it's this tweet that was reported as abusive and they said it was abusive in this way" am I misunderstanding this?
Yeah, but aligning your organization with a political movement that's - let's say "divisive" - and largely has nothing to do with your core goals is also a good way to alienate a good portion of your base that doesn't agree with their politics. I've donated to the EFF in the past and I was shocked when I saw this.
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> heavier and uglier

I can give you bigger and thicker since I would expect those too. Neither is really a problem though. One of the benefits of the otterbox case for my Galaxy G3 is that it made the phone thicker, and it's already on the big side.

Heavier though will probably depend on the modules you choose, and ugly, well I thought what they were showing looked kind of good.

Personally, a lack of a SD card is one of the reasons I didn't get the Nexus or an iPhone. There are people that want these types of features and they win when comparing with alternatives.
Yup, I remember this from an article almost a year ago.
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And if you ever leave Sweden, your tax obligations to Sweden end there. Not so with the USA. Actually they become more complicated than ever unless you also renounce US citizenship. Renouncing is itself a bit of a feat tax-wise.
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Yeah, they're just pushing it back :( Crypto I was the only course I couldn't get enough of, I did all the exercises and all the extras and got 100% at the end, it was fantastic. Dan Boneh explained everything very very well.
Getting programmers to work on open source projects is pretty easy. Getting accountants and tax attorneys to do the same would be pretty difficult.
Hmm, you mean it's easier for inter-state businesses to have unified catalogs? I think local businesses wouldn't care much about that, since they're located in one state, no?

Or do you pay different amounts of tax based on where you live, rather than where the business is?
Than again, a lot of them do self-build. Even if this system is only good enough to attract techies and enthusiasts, that might be enough to give it a viable market.
But you would be using asymmetric only for exchanging keys for symmetric encryption.
After building UI's for the two major platforms, I love using the layout and binding engine that MS brought to devices. I have background with ASP.net which is only so far removed from XAML, but it was a very small step to get up to speed and helps me be more productive than the model Android uses and, definitely, less annoying than the tooling available for iOS.
Of course you don't sit them on some kind of 'watchtower' and wait for him to understand. You interact with them. You play with them, you cook with them, you build with them, you talk with them, and you read to them.

You never have to 'teach them things', they need to learn things from you. There's an enormous world of difference there.

Of course you should help him accomplish his objectives, and you should certainly do so with an eye toward the techniques or approaches he'll need to use to accomplish them on his own. There's a lot he doesn't know yet. But teaching technique and suggesting approaches is fundamentally different from attempting to impart characteristics and habits.
While reading your first two sentences, I thought: "Oh come on, TurboTax at least makes it easier to get through, and anyone with a simple tax situation can get through it within an hour..."

After reading how it's done in Sweden: "Wow, our system is horrible."
>but that's like $30 per user

was in response to:

>multiply your prices by 10
No, I wasn't. I was referring to all the many, many clear documented other things that leads me to believe that Jobs was a sociopath. This is just one more example. To then turn around and accuse Michelle Obama of being a sociopath because of school lunches is, frankly, absurd. The response to your comments was actually pretty measured, given the ridiculousness of your answer.
Also, their constant reminders that I can pay for their software out of my refund or get an extra 10% refund by having it all placed on an Amazon gift card. Really annoying to see (and have to click through) when I OWE money.
The religious references are a bigger red flag of the spammer's mental health I'd say.
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As someone finishing the final edits of a technical book (on Golang, at that) this is the kind of thing that horrifies me.

I want to go through every single chapter and rewrite it to stave off the imaginary critics in my head who will undoubtedly tear it apart.
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Summarizing previous points, a big criticism of studies like these is that they don't have a huge potential to unearth real understanding of real neural networks. The suggestion is to figure out the 302 neurons in [this little worm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caenorhabditis_elegans) before attacking problems orders of magitude more difficult, like mouse and human brains.
Given that they're advertising military applications, I wouldn't be surprised if there are export regulations on such components.
Here is a very effective german platform for not only contacting, but also making the answers to questions visible:

the site - http://www.abgeordnetenwatch.de/
the code - https://github.com/parliamentwatch/parliamentwatch

the site is in german, but you might guess the content with a little help from an online translator. It is very popular and linked to from the biggest german online media. It might be an indicator for it's success that several conservative politicians tried to fight this site with all kinds of tricks, but they still did not succeed :)

Unfortunately the code is drupal, it certainly would be much better to convert this to some more flexible framework like pyramid or django, but it works.

It might be a much better alternative to make questions to congressmen publicly visible than just sending stuff into spam-folders of people that do not have interest at all in being contacted by "the people".
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From Benedict Evans:

"Hugh Trevor-Roper is supposed to have said that 'history teaches us nothing except that something will happen', and this applies pretty well to tech: this is so young and so fast-changing an industry that drawing parallels is more misleading than helpful."

Feels about right to me.
Authentic actions by a stable individual are inherently consistent. Whereas forced behaviors that are intended to be consistent rarely are.
Wouldn't be possible (worth) to split a converstion and make it a first page post on it's own, if:
-it's not directly related to the thread (hijacking)
-a certain cuantity of upvotes are received,
-and a minimum converstion lenght is reached?
Some times very interesting topics or meaningful comments are lost on moderate or low (to first page standart) interest news.
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Disclosure: Only bother if you are American.

Next time you ask, make sure you specify who you are serving. Congress does not serve me as a foreigner (then again, does it serve everyday Americans either?).

New title:

"Dear US Web Developers: EFF Needs Your Help"
Sure, it also makes the prices look lower.
Yes, there are people whose needs are different. And I am much in favor of modular design (at least replaceable battery, SD card and USB OTG, but project Ara goes much further), but that does not seem to be the case with mainstream consumer.
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Intuit's argument generally is that if the government was allowed to create their own online filing system then that would create an imbalance of incentives, since the incentive of the people setting up the tax form would be to try to screw people into paying more if possible. Keeping it to a pure private market of tax preparation companies ensures that companies compete to make their returns as favorable to you as possible, thereby counterbalancing the IRS.

I still think the lack of easy government-provided online tax systems is insane, but that's how the other side justifies itself.
"When all else fails, read the instructions."

TurboTax specifically states that you only need to claim the tuition deduction if it benefits you.
> Between this and intentional complexity of the tax system that hinders

Can you give me an example of this "intentional complexity?"

The income tax is complex for two reasons: 1) it's inherently difficult to define "income" in a practical way; 2) it's a tool used to further all sorts of economic and political policies.

The best class I took in law school was Federal Income Tax (I'm not a tax lawyer). It really showed me that things which seem unnecessarily complex, like depreciation schedules or the treatment of capital assets, exist to solve theoretical problems that can be analyzed mathematically.

Finally, it's not like accounting, pursuant to GAAP, is simple. And it seems obvious, to me anyway, that tax law must be at least as complex as accounting.
What CEO doesn't review customer support? It seems strange not to.
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I think the key is the purchasing model. A "free phone" with contract every 2 years creates a situation where the consumer doesn't value repairing/upgrading their phone.

If you had to pay say $600-$800 for a phone upfront, one is upgradable/repairable and the other is not (but faster/sexier) I think some (maybe many) would choose the former.
I'm making shok (http://shok.io) as an alternative, but it's in its infancy (read: currently useless). The basics should be usable in a few months.

shok proposes that the solution to awkward-shell-syntax is to syntactically separate the programming language from program-invocation.
First, I wanted to say I saw this a while back and loved the idea. You've done an excellent job all around and should be proud of yourselves! I just installed it and I'll see how it goes. I bookmark a fair amount of coding/tech related bits...

Regarding the pitch, I'd say it's already pretty polished. You are good at pitching and execute on the basics: what the problem is, who has the problem, how you solve it, how you think you are going to make money, and what you want from the audience. If I have to give feedback, it would consist of suggesting removing any distracting content, including showing all the cluttered folders at the beginning and then speed up the fairly slow explanation and the speed up the demo of dragging and dropping things. You could probably trim 30 seconds from the pitch without losing the intent and still demo the feature: bookmarking small bits of information is currently difficult and TIME CONSUMING. Dragdis fixes that. FWIW, I see a (downvoted) post at the bottom of the comments mentioning Dragdis helps him make a cluttered mess faster. He may be right...

Second piece of feedback (because you asked!): stop moving around so much. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the two hands to the head movement, but coupled with the pacing and other arm movements, it's distracting and too much. Marketing is about raising interest in your product. Raising interest in something else (like, why is this guy pacing?) takes away interest in the audience. Practice and confidence usually remedies this.

Lastly, I have a feature request: A folder that auto Tweets things I drag to it.
> Then, instead of whining around on the internet writing blogposts and making money off those banner ads, the poster should have contacted local law enforcement authorities.

This and that are not exclusive.

> I don't see why she should defame GoDaddy.

Because they shared personal information with a complainee? If you go to the cops and make a complaint, would you find it normal that the cops go to that person and immediately give them your name and address?

> I would have the right to know which address considered my email as spam

Now consider that from the POV that your are a spammer and acting in bad faith, you've just been handed the keys to retribution, that sounds absolutely wonderful does it not?
The main reason I would want to get a Windows Phone is for the camera. Nokia still seems to be the closest one gets to getting a reasonable point and shoot camera in a smartphone.

I started with a blackberry, then moved to iPhone 4S. Bought a MacBook Air, Mac Mini, iPad and now I am using a Nexus 4 for my main phone. My main workstation is Windows 8.1. Note that I rooted both the iPhone 4S and Nexus.

At this point, the camera is not enough of a reason to switch over. I'm over the app love I used to have with the iPhone ("wow, all the cool apps!!") so the lack of apps doesn't mean much. I'm just platformed out. The thought of switching to yet another platform and going through all the hassle isn't worth it anymore.
Show me a language with >1 implementation where at least two are completely compatible. Common Lisp has one of the best track records in this aspect. C, C++ and JavaScript are all far worse.
DISCLAIMER: i know and have worked with kyle (the author).

while the factual content of tptacek's review may be spot on, his overall tone is very negative and smacks of "only experts allowed" logic. while he could have easily helped improve kyle's book and shared these comments privately, he instead chose to lambast kyle publicly, which doesn't really help anybody: tptacek looks like a total jerk and kyle now has a lot of negative attention on (this version of) his book.

this pervasive "experts only" attitude is a big part of why "secure" open source projects have hard times getting and keeping contributors. it is par for the course for people to be super rude and negative to new participants instead of trying to encourage them to improve and learn. this lack of contributors then has a whole array of negative secondary effects, like less people reading the code for the project.
And out broken political process remains because of everyone in the government doing everything they can to sustain their own livelihood. Reality is a result of human action; to change reality you pretty much have to convince people to act differently in some fashion.