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Well, I typed in a search, and instead of results, I got a popup that asked me to create a free account. No thanks. It's a bit disingenuous to say "Free to search!", let me type something in, and then make me sign up before going further.

It looked kinda interesting, but I guess I won't find out now.
A fair number of medical residents (doctors who are still training) take stimulants to stay awake/sharp
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watching it i thought the opposite would be better

playing the piano i would often struggle with not enough finger opening/movement.

i seeing how slow he 'typed' that code, i think the other way around would make more sense. i.e. learning the piano with a matrix keyboard.

We just need pressure sensitive switches. but after that, you would get much more agility. not to mention be able to play pieces that are impossible without 4 hands.
How much permission do you need from paypal to do this?

I suppose the main barrier is how annoying their UI is? And your ability to get a share of the interchange?
Because if you think about it, you paid in your taxes to build and maintain a parking place, and now some asshole sits there all day, waiting for someone to pay him to move his car. Even if it is not illegal, it is unethical.
Weird. I started in 2000, and I just went to the University of Pittsburgh, which isn't exactly an expensive city.
> The thought of people dying in the streets from preventable disease and injury sounds pretty horrendous.

Doesn't happen in the US unless the person intends to do so. But that's pretty good fear mongering on your behalf.
I've had a Nest thermo for about a year. For me the #1 thing about it was the smartphone app - in particular the ability to tell it to turn on the heat if we were coming home earlier than normal (or the opposite). Our radiators take a while to warm up the house and this allowed me to keep the house fairly cold when we weren't there w/o any discomfort when we came home.

That said I was disappointed with its learning capabilities in terms of our schedule. Sure, it picked up on trends but it just started slapping temperature change event on the schedule instead of adjusting things. So what happened was that it would get a couple of pinch points where it'd set to 65 at 10, 67 at 10:02, 66 at 10:05, 68 at 10:10, etc and I ended up cleaning it all out by hand anyways. It'd have been nice if it recognized we probably wanted it around 66-67 around 10:05 for instance.
Nice util. Just a suggestion for the encryption: You should consider using a password-based key derivation function (PBKDF) rather than just hashing the key once with SHA256. This could help deter brute-force attacks particularly if the chosen hashing function is computationally intensive; e.g. scrypt
Yes, that is a serious barrier to fixing the problem, though it does seem to affect younger US professionals as well.

From the outside, looking at the US labor market and the way those young professionals often describe their situation in on-line forums, it feels like everyone has Stockholm syndrome. They actually believe that the US is successful because of the appalling working conditions and not in spite of them, and even then they frequently overestimate how successful US business actually is by objective measures.

But no-one wants to speak up from the rank and file, because the cannon fodder who lead the charge rarely survive to enjoy the rewards for their bravery. And given the transparent corruption that seems pervasive in high level politics in the US today, it doesn't seem like the federal government will be doing much to help any time soon. Again, looking from the outside, it seems that a lot of the most promising developments in US politics begin as state-level movements, so perhaps we'll see some leadership from the more progressive states driving incremental improvements for employee conditions over time.
MS shouldn't forget to... threaten themselves with their own bogus patents ;)
I agree, in a similar situation. However I think it takes someone who is confident enough to take those days off. I'm sure there are people in both of our organizations who would take more if someone told them they have X numbers of days to take before they lose them.
Kyle, toootally dig what you're up to with this. Completely badass. If anyone can handle it, it's you.

Nothing but the best wishes!

-harry
I think we're operating on a different definition of "language". Unlike natural languages a programming language has extension points to define new vocabulary, it doesn't mean that all available words are part of the language. Otherwise it's like saying that everything that is in perl's CPAN is part of the language.

Usually there is a distinction that's made where the language is the syntax + the semantic defined by the compiler or the runtime. Then comes the standard library, then comes the user libraries. The "wolfram language" seem to mash everything together into a single thing.
Thanks for the response. To narrow down the scope of my question a bit: Do you have any plans to open up API endpoints that would afford us the privilege of choosing a gateway on our own?

I'm asking because our checkout is completely devoid of Checkout or Stripe.js, i.e. the "building the whole payment form" route you mention on the checkout page: https://stripe.com/docs/tutorials/forms.
I did use D a lot, though it was very long ago. I don't like Go, but I respect quite a bit of it.

I consider myself more of a PLT enthusiast than a language advocate. Is there anything about my summation that's incorrect?
airbnb makes money off private property and I cannot possibly see how renting your own house to someone would be called stealing. This app makes money of public property, and that is where the difference is - it's as if you were auctioning off your place in a homeless shelter, if you want to stick to the AirBnB reference.
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I'm curious what method they use for identifying the buyers as Chinese.
I quote the parent poster: "The US has lower generic prices that most of the EU"

Emphasis mine. Perhaps, if they were consistently "cheaper" than the US, fine. But your singular example doesn't quite contradict the person you're responding to. So it actually is the case, unless you prove your findings for other EU countries.

I have no idea if that's the case, just pointing out the obvious flaw in your logic. Perhaps a little too-quick to look for contradictions if you disagree with the general point?
In what way is anything in that example different than say, a DSL implemented in Lisp macros connected to a database?
Thats kind of the point, there's an idealized platonic form of a startup with 100 hour workweeks and open plan offices and pooled time off and no vacations ever.

Everything mentioned above has been researched and proven to be a dismal failure at actual financial productivity.

Therefore in a disruptive startup-py manner there are, on average, enormous fat stacks of cash to be earned by going against the idealized platonic form.

WRT successful, I think it unlikely there are many holders of BS degrees who didn't experimentally binge drink in college. I certainly did, till I outgrew that phase. That correlation does not imply successful earning of a degree, in fact the cause/effect relationship probably implies getting alcohol poisoning is anti-productive at the goal of successfully obtaining a credential.

So the battle is between the cargo cult crew, who think success is the result of better following the platonic form of the ideal startup even if its a dumb idea, vs the rebels who know based on research they'll on average make more money if they disruptively toss the idealized platonic form.
most experienced vim users would type dt<letter> or d5wd2w (so you don't have to count everything you go in increments)

and also by experience, one should know that everytime you press that many w, you WILL type a b or h :)
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This blog post seems like a good opportunity to bring up another essay I thought was very good by Andy Grove.

Andy Grove: How America Can Create Jobs

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_28/b41860483...

The part that really resonated with me here was the issue of scaling in manufacturing. Much of his essay takes on the notion that the US will be fine if innovation happens in silicon valley and manufacturing happens elsewhere (this is an oversimplification, I'd recommend you read the essay).

But what really resonated with me here is that scaling is innovation, and that by splitting the two and neglecting the second, the US has put itself at a disadvantage, not just in the jobs generated downstream from high end innovative work, but in the ability to do that innovative work itself...

"I believe the answer has to do with a general undervaluing of manufacturing—the idea that as long as "knowledge work" stays in the U.S., it doesn't matter what happens to factory jobs... I disagree. Not only did we lose an untold number of jobs, we broke the chain of experience that is so important in technological evolution. As happened with batteries, abandoning today's "commodity" manufacturing can lock you out of tomorrow's emerging industry."

One reason this resonates so heavily with me is that I actually got an MS in Industrial Engineering, and I, like almost all of my cohort, work in software now. The closes I came was writing software for manufacturing systems, and many of our clients were overseas. But I never did learn how to scale, and an entire generation of potential leaders in scaling up manufacturing the US pretty much had to find something else to do (perhaps using those stochastic processes to figure out how to get people to click on ads rather than reducing defect rates in the mass scale manufacting of solar panels).

When it's time to manufacture mass numbers of drones (per the discussion above, I could easily see the average US family owning quite a few drones). We may not make them in the US, but the reason might actually not be cost, it may be skill - we may simply not have the experience with scaling on physical systems - partly because we skipped a couple of generations and we just don't have the experience anymore.

Now (my own hobby horse), add in the fact that the US seems to be perfectly OK with watching the enrollment of US citizens in graduate engineering programs plummet (perhaps a rational decision at the individual level), and if high end work shifts along with production, we may find we can no longer wave the magic wand and get talented people to come here. Fix immigration all you like, the top talent may go elsewhere and no longer bother with the US.

I'm putting forth a bleak scenario, and I'll admit it contains a few slippery slopes, so this is meant as a call for concern, not a prediction. But I think that the US needs to pay a lot of attention to our future workforce in serious, large scale manufacturing engineering, and we're neglecting it, badly.
Tried a few searches but none of the results seem to be relevant to what I was searching, nor do they make sense.

I also didn't enjoy having to sign up to run a free search. Could you explain why I should even use this?
Wow this is awesome. I had to integrate Alipay into a checkout process in ~2010 and it was a complete nightmare - and not even as a result of the language barrier. The API was just so so bad. Glad this is in Stripe now.
If we don't use stripe checkout, would there still be a way to integrate this using the APIs?
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I'd be really worried about an exploit allowing someone to unlock my front doors and walk into my house.
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You can list to it without the interpretation or interpretation in a different language. It's below the video.
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I believe you are incorrect. The law is targeting mostly people in group health plans. Think employer provided plans. So if a person loses their job and then gets a job without a group plan they may be out of luck. It also requires people in individual plans to not be dropped for health related reasons provided they maintain their coverage. Rates can be increased.
There's so many good points in your post.

The one thing which benefited me the greatest when I came out of college is the ability to think critically. I was able to form my opinions, examine things in a scientific manner, and make conclusions based on research and a logical thinking process. Something I wasn't even close to handling when I was 18 years old - which goes to your point about teenagers taking time to find themselves. It took me at least 2 years before I actually realized the opportunity college gave me.

And yet, for all of the questionable classes and lackadaisical professors, I still came out with a much stronger set of tools to look at and examine the world around me and communicate those ideas in a coherent manner to my peers.

These are the kinds of tools you simply cannot put a price tag on.
Can your CPU affinity wrappers be used with plain old java threads? Or does it only work with your realtime threads? I briefly inspected Affinity.java and it looks like it just takes the OS's thread ID so this may be fairly straightforward. Have you tried this?
I'm not saying your employer would do something intentionally malicious either. That's just silly. If something happened to your identity, the breach would likely never be tracked back to your employer.

The point I'm trying to make isn't that you should go ahead and put your SSN in to random websites, but you need to realize your SSN goes a lot of places. Within the last hour I happened to find my parents' names, signatures, DoB, address, and SSNs in public documents from a county website. Keep track of your credit and watch for identity theft. Knowing that you are careful won't help as much as you think. Who knows who will end up using Checkr?
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Uh. Hope my boss doesn't read this. ;-)
Make your fantasy a (simulated) reality. With current trends you'd probably be best served by creating "win32js".
Hope springs eternal and there's always the gamble that one will be one of the minority outliers but statistically peoples paths in life are pretty predictable based on their background, family, and birth region.
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I think that's kind of why 'per capita' is used.
Overall Americans are not suffering from workaholism.

Americans are working less hours than they ever have as a whole.

The BLS reports the average is down to 34.5 hours per week:

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t18.htm

The hours per year are comparable to Japan, Italy, Canada, New Zealand, and only 1.4% greater than the OECD average:

http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=ANHRS

Meanwhile, a smaller percentage of Americans are working than at any other time than in the past 35 years:

http://i.imgur.com/c5iStWB.jpg
This looks like a really nicely designed API when compared to many others, good job team!

However, it doesn't appear anywhere near "fully" RESTful as described. The docs even link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer - but I can't see any HATEOAS style support in there (only looking at the docs, I haven't started actually using the API yet).

I realise this is a topic that gets brought up again and again, I have done this myself several times, but I don't think we're going to see a paradigm shift in ease of use of APIs, or in how consumers of APIs work, until lots of API providers are supporting HATEOAS.

Sure, it's not very well defined yet, but it will become better defined with each provider that implements it and builds on what others are doing.
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I think Americans are exceptional, which doesn't need to mean "the best at everything."

1) Americans are, historically, exceptionally willing to let immigrants integrate. My family is from Bangladesh, my wife's from Oregon, both going back many generations. She could never integrate into Bengali society the way I have been allowed to integrate into American society. She could live there her whole life, and she'd always be "bideshi" (foreigner).

2) Americans are exceptionally optimistic. At its best, Silicon Valley is uniquely American: too naive to know that you can't do that. This is a double-edged sword, of course. Most of the time, "you can't/shouldn't do that" is true.

3) Americans have an exceptional commitment to the rule of law. We're not at a high point in our history in this regard, but we're still a society where the great struggles of our day play out in front of courts, not in riots and mobs.

Now, we're not as exceptional as we used to be. But in large part because Europe spent the last couple of decades becoming more like us. They instituted market reforms, opened up to immigration, rooted out corruption. It's easy to say that America isn't exceptional if you pretend European history didn't happen prior to 1995.
Yeah, the UX branch.

indexOf and lastIndex of are only a few percent faster.

forEach is 1/4 the speed of lodash and native.

bind is 1/6 the speed of native (though 2x faster than lodash).

map is 1/4 the speed of lodash and native.

reduce is 1/7 as the speed of native, though faster than lodash.

concat is about half as fast as native.
The article is interesting, though the most amusing part for me was the description of the company itself (URX) and the word "deeplinking".

It's funny how in the past few years we've essentially invented both a problem that was already solved fifteen years ago and its solution.

Hyperlinks have been around as long as the web has existed - in fact, they could be considered the defining characteristic of the web. In contrast, most of these apps (e.g. news publications) really aren't doing anything that can't be done on a regular webpage on a mobile device, and yet we have to have an app for everyt site, which of course means breaking hyperlinks[0].

Of course, as always, Randall Munroe explains this more succintly and with much more wit[1].

[0] Android's "intents" are a sort-of solution to this, but it still raises the question of why this problem exists in the first place.

[1] https://xkcd.com/1367/
In part, that's because of the poor app ecosystem. I've been very interested in Windows Phone as a mobile platform, but there's just too much stuff I've come to rely on my phone for that a Windows Phone doesn't do because there aren't any apps.

And part of the reason for the poor app ecosystem is that they've actively discouraged developers from developing for their platform. Heck, there's a huge number Android and iOS apps that are written in C# using Xamarin, and are therefore theoretically very easy to port to Windows Phone, but haven't for reasons as basic as the developers not wanting to upgrade to Windows 8.
Let's again recap the "problem" this is "solving":

> "I have so many clothes but I still don't like any of them, ugh"

You honestly think this is addressing real frustrations and economic problems faced by women? You honestly think this has value because it adds to the "diversity" of our industry? You honestly think this is a problem worth big investment dollars, and multiple people spending years of their lives on?

I see startups pouring millions of dollars and many brilliant minds into solving first world problems so frequently, and I honestly try to cut them as much slack as I can. Maybe uber is a huge first world problem, but at least they are creating jobs for people that need them. Maybe airbnb is a first world problem, but at least they are connecting people and communities in a meaningful way, and spend a lot of time encouraging and highlighting stories about this.

I don't just go around being an asshole to any startup that isn't aiming to eliminate world hunger. But this particular description of the problem is so entitled and self-indulgent that it just makes me furious. Even you saying this is valid because it "addresses frustrations and economic problems faced by women" is absurd. I'm pretty sure 99% of women in the world would be overjoyed if they suddenly faced the problem of "having too many clothes and not knowing what to wear".

I think saying that I sneer at its right to exist would be an understatement. It actually makes me furious that people are dedicating their careers and pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars into solving "problems" like this. If that makes me mean, so be it, at least my view of the world extends at least a tiny bit outside the absolutely ridiculous first world bubble that this could only be accepted inside of.
Not for now. Part of the reason Alipay was comfortable with this new flow is because it's served as part of Checkout. If we were to provide Checkout-less APIs, we'd probably have to go back to the old redirect model, which (among other things) just doesn't work well on mobile. I expect we'll always offer APIs for "standardized" instruments, though (ACH, Bitcoin, cards, etc.).
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Oh, God. Those are huge. I see why you find them difficult to use
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Finding oil did make Norway prosperous. Have you ever looked at their economic condition prior to 1980?
You mean, this "lamotrigene":

http://www2.costco.com/Pharmacy/DrugInfo.aspx?p=1&SearchTerm...

The one that costs $17.22 for 50 100mg tablets? Sounds like you might be getting ripped off wherever you bought your medicine.
or create a Go version (which may be a nice future side project for me) hmm..
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I can't agree more with Kator's comment. Find a mentor - maybe pay for a business coach if you want but you would probably be able to find an experienced serial entrepreneur in your industry after one or two conferences.

I would however start today not with a book but a clean sheet of paper. Take a long hard look at you, your decisions and imagine explaining it all to a judge in five years time. What bits will you be proud of, which embarrassed by and which will land you in jail.

If I was to give five points I wish I had done more of:

- Always be hiring

- Always be filling the pipeline

- Always cut more out than you think is possible. Do less better.

- never ever lie, and stand up and speak the truth as needed

- know where the money is going
Scheme has forms that add bindings to the local scope -- local defines -- but they're similar in spirit to let. There aren't any such functions in standard Scheme, and I don't know of any major implementation that has any. It's not clear how they would interact with macros or macro hygiene, and they would do unpleasant things to lexical scope which is Scheme's original schtick.
They went the extra mile to create a fake search result page beneath the signup popup.

Will never visit again.
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You may rather have that, but then it breaks or it doesn't scale and you're up the creek. Which is why people pay people like me.

At Localytics, adding a new Play 2.x (our current standard) app into our new deployment infrastructure takes one command and about 120 seconds. The only part for which a developer needs devops input is the first production deploy, which require a signoff and some (automated, but privileged) IAM permissioning. Adding a new app on a framework we haven't incorporated yet (Rails is probably next) would take a few days, but needs only be done once for all developers at the company. And we know it works with our entire ecosystem.

You might have had bad experiences in the past, but you're extrapolating from them to the state of the world. It's not what you think.
This looks like yet more awesome stuff coming out of the Rust camp.

I'm pretty excited to see Teepee and Rust come together so I can really give it a spin doing what I'm currently doing daily for a job.