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People don't like controversial opinions. It's easier to go with the flow.

Im not sure the cost is such a huge deal compared to 3 concurrent programs that make cheaper planes, due to the program cost. itd probably be about the same granted that all 3 program would have been decently successful.

comparing to 1 program doesnt work if the plane fullfill 3 roles - IMO
Someone I met recently said this (in rough words): "When I'm writing rough code in lua, it's completely acceptable to do a couple of for loops here and there without a disaster in speed. With python, this was a complete meltdown"

I'm not saying it all boils down to just this quote, but I thought it was interesting and wanted to replay it here.
At least 15 years ago when I was going to school in rural Iowa I heard similar murmurings, but I never recall really seeing it either. For all the cheap laughs at the expense of "flyover country" the problems here are more realistically described as a microcosm of the rest of the country - whatever the topic: jobs, immigration, gun control, drugs, whatever - we got it, and it is more in your face because the population is small and isolated. Poverty is really at the root of nearly every problem - sure, it is "first world" level poverty, but that can be a lot bleaker than government statistics would lead one to believe.
First, don't call people "monkeys". Second, just enjoy programming and tinkering for its own sake. There is no rush to gain membership into some kind of mythical elite crowd. In fact, that label itself, "elite", is derogatory, and ascribing it to your would-be mentors might just turn them off.

C is not hard. You will probably have harder time understanding the vocabulary, than the concepts themselves. Read Beej's C and network programming guides. Get a Free UNIX, download the source for simple utilities and tinker.

http://beej.us/guide/bgc/

http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/

Don't confuse C programming with Unix systems/network programming. You can write C to write anything, but it excels at low-level stuff. Also, don't scoff at higher-level languages; you can cover a lot more ground and learn more using higher abstraction. Go and Rust should be preferred to C at this stage. Clojure and Scala are yet higher level and support more paradigms. Hadoop and Spark and domain-specific tools, not really programming languages. Node is probably good for something, but I have no experience with it.
>For starters most real C coders do in fact know all other languages. your typical python coder (cause yeah, PHP is kinda dead) can't do that. he can't fix the server software thats in C either.

You must know very different "typical python coders" than I do. Almost every Pythonista I know or look up to knows at least some C, at least enough to write Cython, and usually enough to write idiomatic C. As you allude to, we often have to when we need to optimize CPU-bound code.

Almost the only exception to this are the coders I know who are just starting to program. But almost anyone who stays active in Python will eventually learn some C, if they don't already know it.
Can anyone suggest a less baity title?

Edit: we took out "it will conquer the 1%" and added "intelligence" to make it clear that he's not talking about software.
Thanks for the reminder. I had come across cppitertools before and wanted to explore it and then totally forgot. Not sure why you got downvoted here, have tried to compensate.

BTW your handle rung a bell. I was wracking my brain to remember where have I heard of it before, then finally, oh yes MacSTL. It really deserves more love. Have not used it, but sure browsed the code.
I flew non-military drones for 10 years and I dont see how thats possible to lose orientation (unless you lost signal/video/etc.) honestly.
If for any reason you were blind or stupid (I never, ever confused ground/sky on clear video), the avionics are extremely clear and do not depend on video quality.
Hrrm. 'Digital cash' meets 'browser scale attack surface' and 'endpoint security'. What could possibly go wrong?
hopefully you rarely get in that situation - but.. itll work fine as long as its in radar view.
>Cooperative businesses exist today, and prove there is an alternative model.

Does the dominance of non-cooperative businesses today suggest that cooperative business are less efficient? I mean, there aren't laws preventing the creation and operation of cooperative businesses, so if they're not less efficient then why aren't there any in the Fortune 500? If they are less efficient, this would mean that in a free society businesses formed in the traditional way would come to dominate.

If anarchism doesn't propose to "make things illegal", then how would it prevent people who wished to from selling their labour to employers in the traditional business model?

>A mutually agreeable exchange does not leave one person with a fraction of the value of their labor, and another with unearned profit.

That depends on how value is determined. The judgement you're making relies on the labour theory of value, that value is determined by the amount of labour a person put into something. Morality is however an inherently subjective thing: there's no objective way to say that the labour theory of value is superior to any other theory of value.

If value is subjective, then the value of an action depends on how other people value it. In which case the value of a person's work can be inferred from what other people are willing to give them for it; the more they are willing to give/pay the person, the more valuable that person's work must be to them.

If the worker was able to produce a given amount of value without the aid of capitalists, there's nothing to stop him doing so. The fact that he chooses to work for capitalists hence implies that access to the capitalist's capital allows him to produce more value than he could otherwise produce.

How is the capitalist's profit from this unearned? If they had not accumulated the capital in the first place, had not saved instead of consuming, had not invested their money and taken the risks that that entails, then the worker wouldn't have access to the capital that allows him to produce more and would necessarily be producing less (as if he could produce the same amount without access to the capitalist's capital, he wouldn't be working for the capitalist in the first place).
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These lanes allow the biker to cross intersections with ped traffic so no problem with appearing out of nowhere unless you are running a light.
The problem here is that they used stupid secondary metrics rather than a single primary one. As you note, there is an obvious primary metric to use - how much profit you made. It certainly appears measurable, based on the fact that you know you didn't improve it.
Sounds like he expected it to end.
So, if more people are on bikes, less lanes are needed for cars.
Bikes are not a viable replacement for cars for most people in most cities.
This is gold. I would add that - to lessen the shock to the other employees when excusing yourself, freel free to cite health-related, personal or simply other commitments. Clearly, a hike up a mountain or a beer in the sun for peace of mind is well overdue, and it's perfectly understandable to describe it under these banners. Just try not to stir others up more than necessary, while following a path you are content with.
If you want a somewhat rural community with great outdoor recreation, weather, and a vibrant entrepreneurial scene, try Bend, Oregon. I'm there about once a month or so and very impressed with the talent, capital, and overall community that is developing. Fair number of silicon valley escapees have moved there for lower cost of living, skiing, biking, etc. Bend is what Walla Walla should be aiming to be in another 10-20 years. In the past decade, the community in Bend realized they were way too dependent on real estate and tourism alone, and started diversifying. Walla Walla is too focused on wine and tourism, which are great industries - we shouldn't leave them behind, but we need to build a three-legged stool of industry that isn't dependent strictly on industries that only thrive when people have disposable income in their pockets.
Not unless the class sizes get that much larger at the top schools. In reality they'd just be displacing the weaker male students at admission time.

Edit: Downvoted for a tautology? This site is going the way of reddit.
If they already have a deal with Epic MyChart, are there many others they really need to play nice with? Every hospital in my area uses Epic already.
My girlfriend, who is an iOS and OS X programmer, described this as "highly offensive."

The program-some-jewelry-without-typing did not go over well with her.
So his solution for cyclists feeling uncomfortable is to take away a lane of traffic at every intersection? And he wants a special light for cyclists to proceed while all the cars are stopped? This would be a traffic nightmare.
They actually neutered the Blockly environment here. Try not following the instructions at https://www.madewithcode.com/project/bracelet

You can't! It tells you to use a diameter of "18"; if you try to make it "6", the environment will forcefully change it.

Is this even programming? You can't do anything here but click the buttons it tells you to. Half the fun of programming is doing oddball things your environment and its designers didn't expect. Some people call this "hacking", but it doesn't look like Google expects girls to want to hack.

Yeah, maybe "it's just a tutorial", but since when do tutorials acutally stop you from going off the rails and experimenting?
Please don't tell people to run the development PHP server in a production environment.
>> And you start at zero reputation and connections at a new company.

As an employee, so true. It takes me about a year after switching and I'm 50.

>> Unfortunately, the interview skills required to get into the top tech companies is biased against older software engineers.

Also true, I have a recent story that proves this, can't share it though.
Piggybacking this, Coca Cola is the king of marketing prowess, in part because the product stays the exact same (or 99.8% the same). It's part of their "moat." Tech can't do that, in my opinion almost by definition due to expected and continuous innovation -- you can't stay the same. You do see it sometimes in short bursts -- such as with the Thinkpad brand (but even that line will be short lived vs. Coke).

With Coke, they can then use that consistency on anything from Santa Claus to the Olympics to feed on nostalgia of that recurring same-ness -- they're investing in a lifetime of feelings, not a few years or months of popularity. Hershey's, Disney (high repeat visits), and McDonald's to some extent are other great examples of being able to leverage long term marketing on consistent or nostalgic products -- something difficult for tech to do.
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Question on stow that you might have knowledge on.

Could I say have stow manage separate or conflicting files?

An example is in order, say for work I have a .gitconfig that has a separate email address etc... and for home I have basically the same but not quite. Would there be any easy-ish way to say something akin to: ok this is the base of things, these are the generalized components that override?

I have a jacky way of doing this now but any way to eliminate the nonsense would be helpful. xstow looks interesting however.
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I been using this one -> https://github.com/abimaelmartell/system_monitor

I tried yours, but i was to buggy when i tried it, also insecure. I saw some exec($COOKIE).

Hope you improved it. I will give a second try!
The reason people don't ride bikes in the US is not because unprotected bike lanes are scary. It's because our cities have been laid out with the premise in mind that everyone will have cars. We have disparate clusters/districts related to activities like 'work', 'play', 'shop', and 'sleep', rather than having these constructs evenly interspersed. We have supermarkets instead of markets. Monoliths instead of distributed systems.
Although the relation to HealthKit was somewhat tangential, this post did an excellent job of relaying the status of and problems with digitized healthcare. HL7 is absolutely horrendous, and Meaningful Use has no interoperability requirements and weak prospects for getting good ones.

I think the Continuity of Care Document (CCD), though, is a bigger deal than he realizes. The View Download Transmit (VDT) requirement that requires the CCD is, in practice, making a HL7 3.x XML document available electronically. This opens a great opportunity to build real interoperability between EHRs.

Shameless plug: PicnicHealth (picnichealth.com) is working on taking advantage of precisely this opportunity. We're rolling out our alpha product. If you're interesting in what we're doing please reach out.
Huh? Samsung pays kickbacks to sales people and carriers. At least with regards to their top of the line phones, that's how they have muscled out all their Android competitors. It's a vicious cycle that you can't sustain unless you're a huge company that can subsidize the strategy with cash from profitable businesses.

When the minimum-wage salesperson at the carrier store or mall kiosk gets $25 in their pocket for selling the top line Samsung phone and $0 for any other phone, the "choice" is clear: customers will be walking out with Samsung phones. That is a majority of their marketing budget, though they go through great lengths to bury the lead in what little numbers they release.

Part of the reason Apple gets so much organic press is they're the only one to release actual hard numbers on a regular basis, though they are certainly coy in some areas.
I can't tell if this is ironic, or if the scene has been so watered down by hipsters that knowing C is like being a magician? I mean, having worked with people like this (outside of the crude stereotypes), these people aren't that hard to find. The addendum makes me think it's more about valuing real experience with timeless technology over fads, which I guess I agree with, but I find the point of the article to be a bit opaque.
Not sure of your familiarity with biking in major metro's, but separated bike lanes are getting more and more common. These bike lanes put you on the right side of the road and cars often times turn right into the path of the bike lane without looking for bikers.
my biggest annoyance with LuaJIT is the lack of 64-bit addressing, and there's no easy fix for this. Mike Pall said he'd fix it in LuaJIT 3.0 (with an overhaul of the GC), whenever that'll be.

http://hacksoflife.blogspot.com/2012/12/integrating-luajit-w...

Edit: to clarify, this does not mean torch cant use more than 2GB, but native lua allocations cant be more than 2GB, so ffi-based or C based allocations (which is how torch tensors are allocated) have no such limits.
>> I've been a software developer for 27 years and have encountered none of the "incredibly cruel" discriminations you suggest. It's definitely true and I see this often that many as they age don't bother to stay current,

It happened to me. I did and do stay current, there is a perception among management, especially in UI development that only college grads get the new stuff. The old folks only know how to do back-end well is their perception. This is why enterprises fail, clueless management.
I think the Dutch example the video cites is more a roundabout like this: http://thisoldcity.com/sites/default/files/images/netherland... which also incorporates the typical roundabout center island, and of course, no confusing light signaling system.

Edit: as a note, some people are concerned about losing lanes, but if the lanes are (almost) always moving, and there is no redundant middle left-turn lane, you don't need as many lanes, freeing up the space for sidewalks and bike paths.
Arguably, it's both. And to make cities more livable, infrastructure change would be a good thing.
Yes, a language specification is just a prerequisite for standardization. However, it's also useful for people who want to write their own implementation or tools. It also makes issue handling a bit smoother, because you can always check what the spec says if two bits of the ecosystem disagree with each other.
In the US, at least, there is a legal requirement for them to interface with their competition. That's what HIEs are supposed to be for. Whether they actually meet that requirement is another story, of course.
There may be some initiatives by some groups, but in the popular consciousness (mainstream media outlets) it's simply not true that there is a focus on "where are all the men in childcare?" of even 1% of the focus on "we need more women programmers stat!"

But yes, it is strictly true that 'a drive' exists. A single person crusading for it would make it true.
Which lane of traffic has been taken away?
They are in the major east coast cities and some west coast cities. I'm sure they aren't currently viable in plenty of cities, but that doesn't mean the infrastructure shouldn't be built to allow for bikes.
> How can an open free Q&A site be concentrated on something?

Very easily. For instance, if there was one toolset that either had worse user-facing documentation or a higher proportion of users who were bad at extracting solutions to specific challenges from general purpose documentation (perhaps because of mandatory use at the kind of places that employ such users), then one would expect that an open, free Q&A site with no deliberate focus would disproportionately end up serving that toolset.

There's a multitude of other ways such a Q&A site could end up with a skewed pool compared to overall use, too, that's just one example.
>Coding is much safer, comfortable, low-stress, well-paying, flexible (esp. for mothers), and employable than those jobs.

So we're back to the good ol' days of "women shouldn't do hard labor"?
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The curb lane in every direction.
It's the same way with http://💩.la/ it gets turned into the following using IDNA: xn--ls8h.la.

That is a valid domain name and should be treated as such.
Perhaps adrianN has this sentiment because there is never, ever, any mention of these agencies on hacker news or other news outlets that I frequent.

These organizations may exist, but no one seems to care about them. Perhaps adrianN really meant to ask why this was the case.
I agree that the taking away the lane would likely be a problem for traffic, the special light for cyclists works very well over here in The Netherlands. Once every few minutes the green light turns on for all cyclists and is red for all cars -- cyclists can manage having a "free for all" while crossing the intersection where cars cannot.

Before you say "but that means that there is less time for cars to cross the intersection", consider the fact that a lot of the people using bikes would otherwise have to use other means of transportation, resulting (at least partially) in reduced traffic.
Since I don't happen to have a source of nitric acid, I'm going to have to look up the nitric acid copper raction on youtube now ...
Agreed. I guess I was responding to the part in the video where it said 'We know that protected bike lanes are the key to getting the average person to consider travelling by bike.'
Are we finally deciding to learn from the Dutch? The Netherlands has been doing this for a long time. I honestly don't know how long, but I'd expect someone from NL to read this, and have a yawn - you don't say?! kind of reaction. :)

I remember when Portland was called one of the most bike-friendly cities in the US, and its transit was also one of the top-rated.

After I spent ~2 years in Amsterdam, I think both biking and transit in Portland are a joke, in comparison.

EDIT: changed wording for clarity
To paraphrase the Bhagavad_Gita "you are not guaranteed the fruits of your labor, but you are guaranteed your labor."

For me flow is achieved most effortlessly when the problem is interesting and I have the tools necessary to attack it.

Extrinsic motivation is simply a non - factor in this case. To the degree that it may or may not exist and is immaterial to the labor at hand.

On the purpose of a tight feedback loop. The magic of the repl is a perfect implementation of a flow like feedback loop. Unfortunately my language of choice doesn't utilize it.
How do you do right hand turns on red in this? Oh, it's actually worse -- it basically means every 2 lane road is now a one lane road. Also, you're going to slow down every intersection for cars and pedestrians by a minute or two per cycle?

Seems highly unlikely to be something people support unless bikes are >25% of all traffic in an area. I don't know anywhere in the US where that's the case. (Maybe on a university campus or something?)
Looks like a death trap to me. My problem when cycling is the j-hook when cars pass me and then turn right. That's killed at least two cyclists in the bay area in the past couple years. This intersection makes the problem worse -- it moves cyclists where they are less likely to be seen. Better to add a handful of "right turn must merge to bike lane" signs which is the law but poorly followed.

(Other states may vary from CA)
Are you going to take your kids to school on a bike? Ride in your business suit? Go to Ikea or Costco? Going to ride in from the suburbs?

Bikes work as primary transportation for active 20-somethings who live in cities near work. They do not work for the vast majority of people, and never will. Wanting to make cities bike-friendly is fine. Wanting to do so at the expense of the 80% of the population that needs a car is addle-brained.
No lane is taken away. This image is showing two cross roads with separated bike lanes. So the curb stop is in the lane where parking exists. If anything, the additional bike infrastructure would keep cars within the box and stop them from cutting it really close to the corner.

Regarding the lights - sure. Cars have a special light, pedestrians have a special light. Why wouldn't bikes? Having a usable bike infrastructure that doesn't make bikers feel like they're going to die at every intersection would promote safer biking. I'll run a red light on my bike because I can see the cars coming from my left and right, but I can't see the car coming from behind and turning right into me.
The curb lane looks like a dedicated parking lane.
>Our data sharing agreements allow us to sidestep
the intermediate metrics that are often used.

I've looked through the paper and this bit showed some inadequacy of the research process. I may agree that branding campaigns are really hard to track and the study conclusions may apply to them. Running branding campaigns without a clear conversion event is dumb though.

On the other side of the spectrum performance-driven(cost per action, cost per lead, cost per sale) campaigns that include monitoring of all parts of customer journey* offer precise ROI data that doesn't need inference.

This study is limited in its scope and doesn't take into consideration the best methods for tracking ROI for digital ads, concentrating on still popular but outdated method of branded advertising.

*Stimulus-Visit-Lead-Repeat visit-Sale-Repeat sale-Recommendation
Someone should conduct a study asking what most people are doing with their cars in a series of given cities. I'd imagine most people could replace their vehicle with a bicycle but I'm not sure.
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