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Someone has to take the first step and break the cycle to get the chicken-egg problem undone. Arch has had Python 3 as the default Python interpreter for a couple of years now and it's been working pretty much fine. Many libraries now support Python 3, and I've done full sites in Py 3. Almost all Python scripts I write these days are Python 3. I don't think I've had to downgrade a script that started in 3 down to 2 for a couple of years now. It's as ready as it's going to get.

The groundwork is done, and I think everyone who is going to support Py 3 without any extra prodding has already done so. Now we need the distros to come through and give that extra nudge to the maintainers that are still slacking, or encourage people to replace those libraries that refuse to update.
An extremely popular use case for Redis' sorted sets is leaderboards. During the last GDC I was amazed how practically every game developer I talked with was using Redis just for that - here's the post I had published afterwards: http://redislabs.com/blog/the-top-3-game-changing-redis-use-...
Watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM4Xe6Dlp0Y
1.) Read up on the routine where you're going to be interviewing. If it's a better-known company there will be plenty available.

2.) Work through one of the popular coding interview books [1][2].

3.) Practice off-keyboard things like white-boarding and public speaking. Get up in front of your white board and work through a problem like you're teaching a class on the subject.

I recognize that 1 and 2 might feel like gaming the system a bit - they are, but as long as companies continue to practice contrived interviews targeted preparation will naturally follow.

As stated, you don't lack the ability to perform in general, just within the artificial confines of an interview.

1: http://www.amazon.com/dp/098478280X

2: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1479274836
it might not cause problems, but is not very concise

adding syntax to support new features always causes problems (python .. ^cough^)
honest question: is there any reason to add lazy evaluation to c++ other than to just add more features to the language?

lazy evaluation is one of those features where i have absolutely no idea what benefit it actually provides
I remember those binge drinking proclamations in college and reading a few years later that they basically didn't work at all. People construct their social norms based on the behavior of those they observe around them, and particularly the people they care most about: their friends and their friends' friends, not some vague model citizen they were told about in some quasi-propagandist fashion. And if I recall the article correctly, the average they quoted wasn't even real, so in effect it was propaganda.
You say "clients", which makes me think you started a services firm. That is about the worst business you could possibly start if you truly wanted freedom. You are always beholden to the customer.
How secure are passwords stored by Firefox and Chrome?
I installed Passware 12.3, a password recovery program and after testing it out found something interesting. I tried the website password recovery option and was instantly shown a list of every password I had saved using Firefox and the website it belonged to. No results showed up for Chrome however. As far as Internet Explorer goes well I haven't used it in about 10 years. Looks like Firefox will be uninstalled and never used again.
That is much more useful to me than the OP service. Thanks.
"Yo" app :) It took 8 hours to build it. Then someone invested $1M. I don't get the world.
That's the whole point of the article. He's showing that research can easily be twisted to support one conclusion or the other, and that the standards for what conclusions are acceptable to draw from social sciences research is far too low. It is not that the stuff listed there is in any way the "absolute truth".
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What about tell your friends/coworkers about your feelings? Maybe, together, you can make changes on your current work-style to make you happy.
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The author prefaces the six arguments by saying that "I think some of the arguments below will be completely correct, others correct only in certain senses and situations, and still others intriguing but wrong."
A lot of what he describes sounds a bit like Hyperfocus, which is not always a good thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperfocus
It seems like once people realized that the internet and computers were going to stick around for a long time and make serious money, reasonable decisions like this pretty much went out the window. Maybe all of those late-90s laws like the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act and the DMCA bound the judiciary's hands.
I think you are confusing O-levels and A-levels. O = Ordinary, A = Advanced, generally people going on to University would do A-levels, so leaving to get a job with only O-levels might be roughly equivalent to having a High School Diploma I think.
I think Best Buy and co. do that to prevent them having to make good on "price matching" promises - everyone sells a different model (that really only differs by the model number), so since no-one sells "the same" model they can SAY they price-match without ever actually having to. I believe they do this for TVs too.
Did this pretty quickly:
http://project-euler-solution.herokuapp.com/

Give it a shot? Don't have answers to all questions.
A point the article misses is that many people would use the features offered in HealthKit for preventive purposes and tracking fitness levels, more so than sharing with their providers.
Personally I'd be more interested in monitoring my health so I can stay out of the hospital or doctors office if possible.
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especially in the hosting industry, chargebacks are usually a HUGE pain in the butt for businesses to handle. In most cases where a chargeback would make sense I would go as far as to keep trying to talk to support to get the issue resolved. In 1&1's case.... no holds barred :P
You might imagine I'm familiar with the Bytemark system.

My own records hosted there are also under revision control.
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OR you open up a ticket with Mozilla and help them (in)directly to make the browser more secure. If you uninstall Firefox, it won't increase security for others :)
Yes, the best devs will generally make more than their mgr, however, the best mgrs will make far more than the the best devs.

And as you said, the target is really a VP/Director type position, using mgmt as a stepping stone.

It's like how a Sergeant makes more than an Lt in the Army, however, the progression in the officer core quickly outstrips the best an enlisted man can hope for.

The great thing about leadership roles is they're typically very transferable, there's not many orgs that don't need good leaders.
Being 'dirty' is a lot easier than being clean. The bands are typically not all that wide and to mess them up is easier than to be nice. A sawtooth modulator with a suitably high frequency modulating a carrier will disrupt a significant chunk of the spectrum with reasonably little power input. After all you only need to disrupt part of each packet to disrupt the packet. Jamming is a lot easier than getting a nicely modulated signal through.
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An O level is an obsolete English qualification. They got replaced by GCSEs.

The system used to be O levels ("ordinary") for high achievers, and CSE ("certificate of secondary education") for the rest. Both of those were replaced in about 1986/1987 with GCSEs. These are taken by school children at age 16 at the end of their secondary education.

They are followed by A (advanced) levels or other further education college course.
How weird is it to thank science journals to "reprint" your own work?
Same as you improve anything, practice. In this case that means do more technical interviews, apply for the jobs, even the ones you can't do/don't want to do. It's all experience and interview technique depends on that.
Apple have not been shy about implying they think it'll be "really big" and have an impact on the actual healthcare system.

This author is pointing the myriad of actual reasons why "your personal medical data" is stunningly uninteresting to healthcare providers and not at all a simple problem to solve.
Oops, you're right!

So change O -> A in the above, and O-Levels in the Potterverse correspond to OWLs.
Sorry to ask what are probably silly questions, but: how do I, uh, find these people? Like where do they gather? Should I look up local businesses in my area, call them, and talk about their problems?
From the footnotes:

"The personal fitness industry is another story, however. HealthKit is an excellent, well, fit there."
the strategy is sound and it works because normal human beings feel indebted and as a result feel a strong urge to reciprocate

this was used for many years very successfully by the Hare Krishnas who hung out at airports and handed people a small flower as a gift and goodwill gesture

invariably, people felt a strong urge to reciprocate and donated cash

http://www.evancarmichael.com/Marketing/79/The-Sales-Psychol...
Weirdest book title ever? "Nazis, Women and Molecular Biology"
https://techcrunch.com/ is probably not the site you are looking for
A simple game for smart phones.

Draw a pipe on the screen. First pipe is short and straight. They get longer and have more curves. "Drop" a ball into the pipe. The user tilts their phone clockwise or anti-clockwise to guide the ball through the pipe. That tilting is the only control the user has. Each pipe should be short enough to create the "I nearly did that; just one more go" effect.
This will help you understand the problem better: http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really...
I noticed this as well, but it just pushed me towards those kinds of companies that use reliable identifiers like Lenovo. I find that if a company is doing this kind of weird naming, they're probably not in the business of selling things based on quality.
Keep in mind software dev salaries often aren't as high in states outside of CA and NY, especially when working for smaller companies and companies that aren't tech-centered. Saving $2750 per month would be far too difficult for many software devs in other parts of the US.

I do agree that saving a lot early on is a good idea though.
Use a standard URI parser to break this problem into smaller parts. Let a modern URI library worry about arcane details like spaces, fragments, userinfo, IPv6 hosts, etc.

uri = URI.parse(target).normalize
uri.absolute? or raise 'URI not absolute'
%w[ http https ftp ].include?(uri.scheme) or raise 'Unsupported URI scheme'
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This is not it. To all intents and purposes bitcoins are a fictional currency with no relevance to the real world of getting food on the table. Do not pursue some displacement activity based on selling tulip bulbs!!!
Ouch. From Tokyo... That seems impossible for me in my current track. Thanks for the dose of reality. Time to think things over.
This. Be a consultant. Bill by the hour.
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I think it is used more than people perhaps realise - and if you are deep into clojure - you are probably already on the bleeding edge (at least as far as mainstream programmers are - remember there are a LOT of them) - thus would tend to come up against places that use erlang or clojure (self selecting?). (FYI I like both erlang and clojure, and have used both in anger).

I learned erlang before clojure - it I think the former helped me quickly pick up the latter, strangely.
Ummm... I love my MBP but it's no way 'the' Macbook Pro until next refresh. I got a choice of two form factors and multiple hard drive/SSD, processor and RAM configurations.

The build quality is great, but don't pretend for a moment Apple don't play the specs game.
> I don't see how depressive realism refutes the various correlations and observations in OP...?

The purpose of my message was not to refute any of the article's claims, but rather to challenge the unstated assumption that people who avoid cognitive biases are necessarily better off.

For example the article asks where there is a "hyper-rational elite." This is implying that people who avoid cognitive bias are better than everyone else. As I said before, I think that rationality has lots of obvious benefits, but there are also benefits to irrational optimism.
You could try contributing to some open source projects instead.

http://up-for-grabs.net/ has a list of projects with issues/tasks that are easy for new contributors to pick up.
I'm in an exit at the moment (key subcontractor). It's going smoother than I anticipated so far.
Wow, you are so wrong, and yet no one has corrected you!

We want to increase gate capacitance, not decrease it.
The higher the capacitance, the faster you can invert the channel, and therefore turn the transistor on.

Think of a transistor as a water tap (valve based). Gate capacitance is the sensitivity of the valve to the handle. In this analogy, higher capacitance is equivalent to less effort to turn the handle (to move the valve out of the way and let the water flow).

That's the reason we want to increase the area of the gate (the idea behind FinFET, and all-around gate), and increase its dielectric constant (the idea behind high-k materials).

You're also confused about RC model - perhaps you heard it in the context of a logic gate (as in NAND), and you try to apply it when talking about a transistor gate (as in FinFET). Nope.
It looks like a cool project and the interface pretty well done too. Good job.

Is there something particular you want to specifically mention that has happened since you last shared the app five months ago? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7125153

Anyways, as this is shared here on a developer oriented forum, it would be fitting to speak of the actual implementation too. Taking quick look at the source, it seems to have some security issues ranging from XSS to potential CE. These seem to arise from common bad practices.

I would advice going through the source code and making sure all values you echo as JSON are properly encoded and that you don't use anything as-is in a shell command.

Few examples:

- https://github.com/afaqurk/linux-dash/blob/7bd5dcb637f815702...
- https://github.com/afaqurk/linux-dash/blob/7bd5dcb637f815702...
- https://github.com/afaqurk/linux-dash/blob/7bd5dcb637f815702...
I just saw this reply, and I have to clarify: the moment the maintainer's key is compromised, it becomes possible for someone to MITM. It's not clear if that's what you were saying, but that's how it is, and that's absolutely a problem as soon as the key is compromised (particularly if he/she was targeted).
I might be wrong, but I strongly suspect the behavior you describe (the feeling of indebtedness and urge to reciprocate) is very much dependent on factors like receiving the gift in person, as well as the context/entity who is giving the gift.

In other words, yes, I'd feel somewhat indebted to give back to a religious or non-profit organization, especially if given a gift in person. The U.S. government sending me money in the mail and asking me to fill out a long survey, not so much.
This is what it looks like now: http://imgur.com/53KVWiu
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To add to the other replies, one type of purchase in the U.S. where sales tax / use tax is universally pursued, is auto purchases. Plentiful (ubiquitous), "big-ticket" items.

Try purchasing a car in a state having a lower sales tax rate than your own. You won't escape your local jurisdiction's tax rate.
I was one of the first few hundred users and it was entirely .net/C# questions around this. This was mostly due to Jeff Atwood (at the time) visibility in that community - so it had a vast headstart, things have changed since then but that is how it started (well both Joel and Jeff were slightly more visible in the MS communities).
Link to the twitter at the bottom of the page is broken; should be 'alerts' instead of 'alert'

Also, this kind of use of FIFA trademarks will almost certainly result in a DMCA takedown notice. Very unwise.
That's right. But they do not offer a better product, the flagship phones are all pretty much the same. And there is no reason why a higher margin should turn into a higher market share.
He is now - was a microsoft MVP earlier - he was actually forced to drop his "MVP" on joining Google (IIRC).
No one is suggesting that he sell them. I'm suggesting he earn them, from anyone around the globe, and then use them to pay for food at one of the many restaurants and/or groceries in Vancouver that accepts Bitcoin.
That's the best quote. I just love it. It was a Japanese marine officer, if anyone wonders.
I was pretty sad after reading this short novel.

SPOILER

In the real world there won't be a thoughtful entrepreneur who saves everybody. I can clearly see that bleak future happening and I am frightened how we are going to deal with the consequences.
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I didn't actually suggest causation either way, only that depression and realism tend to be strongly correlated. On the other hand you have suggested depression->rationality causation without any evidence.
This has really come a long way since I last used it however I wish it didn't have the php dependency (not so much php, but php+apache/nginx).

IMO something self contained like a static (go) binary or another language that could host its own servers (node, java, etc) would be much better
This is full of quotes that show the Dilbertesque nature of some of these metrics. It is true that they seem to be concentrated in the serving industry, but there are traces of them in the tech industry as well, which could conceivably increase a lot (after all, we just love the quantified self, don't we?).

"At a tech company, his company found, workers who sat at larger tables in the cafeteria, thus communicating more, were more productive than workers who sat at smaller tables."

Is this effect statistically significant? Was it validated by forcing the people at the larger tables to switch to smaller ones, and proving that their productivity decreased as a result? Maybe a larger percentage of disgruntled workers sat by themselves, along with a couple of really high performers?

Drawing broad strokes that appeal to higher management ("oh, they were communicating more, that's why they were more productive") is going to lead to decisions that are not fully thought through, and tend to club everyone into a single mould defined by broad conclusions from this data, ("Let's have two team meetings every day, just to ensure that everyone communicates and is on their toes all the time.")

So, If you are an employee or a manager, keep this in mind, and strongly resist any of these nonsensical monitoring devices. It will lead to less creative and disgruntled employees who are now trying to solve the problem of how to beat these metrics instead of whatever problem they were supposed to solve in the first place.

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"Servers, knowing they were being monitored, pushed customers to have that dessert or a second beer."

On a tangential note, seeing how popular chain restaurants and takeout places are in the US, this probably strongly contributes to the rising obesity percentage.
About to become homeless? I can advance you $3,000.

All you need to do to repay us is code my fraternity brothers idea its sort of an Uber for Instagram with Pinterest functionality. When can you start?
Yes, definitely. The unfortunate part is that it irrational optimism seems to be the fuel for a lot of good things that can happen in people's psyche. The book talks a lot about how people with irrational optimism tend to display fortitude that makes them ultimately more successful than people with more realistic perceptions.
I constantly hear high-pitched squeals in both my ears, but I'm led to believe this could just be those pitches giving their swan-song before I can no longer hear them.... :/
Ugh, these guys really are the worst. I had a credit card expire, and instead of letting me just update the card details, they sent it to a collection agency and when I called their customer support to just give them updated details they refused to help out. So you know what? I'm never going to pay them. Assholes.
Having worked for an EHR company at one point, the author misses the main reasons for a lack of interoperability: government regulations regarding "meaningful use" that allow physicians and hospital systems to receive financial incentives to offset the costs of the software. The regulations have been ill-defined and incredibly slow in being released.

http://www.healthaffairs.org/healthpolicybriefs/brief.php?br...

This page gives some background to the issues but basically, the federal government has held the process up, while many companies are champing at the bit to make a lot of money regardless of interoperability which everyone agrees will be a good thing.

This is not necessarily a criticism: I wouldn't expect a nurse/iOS dev to be familiar with the regulatory background governing EHR standards. It's unfortunate that they definitively lay the blame on profit motives or technical challenge. No offense to the author but there are some very intelligent people who have been working on this problem for some time.
One big life hack is to learn to balance salary with cost of living. It isn't always about pursuing the highest possible salary, because that might mean you're paying most of it in rent.

Consider a $75k salary in Texas. That's $4766/month net (or thereabout), due to lack of state income tax. Let's say you pay $1k/month in rent (very realistic for most of Texas). That leaves you with $3766. That $2750/month figure won't be too far off if you don't have any dependents and live frugally, especially if you take advantage of tax-advantaged savings (like a 401(k)).

The thing is, you can make more than $75k in Texas, especially once you've got a few years of experience under your belt. So while I completely agree that it's not going to be attainable for everybody, I think it's not so far off as many might think.
I get GP's result when using DuckDuckGo with g! (which should be the same as incognito), so there is that. However I don't see what's the big deal with that CPAN result - it's not like the useful results are drowning in these links here and you can always use quoted if you don't want that. In fact I think it's sometimes useful information that there are very similarly named things than the one we've searched for.
That's really annoying; the headline claims one thing and the later text clearly contradicts.

Regardless, both of you appear to be correct:

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I went to the movies on Friday, the guy in the seat ahead was looking at his (bright) phone ~ 5-10 times during the movie.. it was pretty annoying. I really hope this sort of thing doesn't become the norm to be honest!
From my humble experience, even the simplest implementations of BPF runtime are fast enough. Maybe just jitted interpreter in LUA would do for most use cases.

BPF is generally pretty fast.
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Hrm, you're right. I managed to miss seeing that while skimming the page.
Why use a regex? It's much simpler to write a URL validator by hand, speaking as someone who wrote a URL parser,[1] and fixed a bug in PHP's.[2]

Or, you know, use a robust existing validator or parser. Like PHP's, for instance.

[1] https://github.com/TazeTSchnitzel/Faucet-HTTP-Extension - granted, this deliberately limits the space of URLs it can parse, but it's not difficult to cover all valid cases if you need to

[2] https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/36b88d77f2a9d0ac74692a...