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Sins of software development
Wow that's disgusting.
Your example is an exception to the rule, though. Usually, two adjectives don't modify each other.

In fact, I find your second example a bit ambiguous because of that very fact -- it could mean that the varnish is blistered or that the wood is blistered. The first seems to make more sense in terms of semantics, and the second seems to make more sense in terms of grammar.
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This is ~500 users so its shitty value and it cripples productivity because it's terribly designed and put together. Probably a net loss of £4m IMHO.

Glad I don't work for them directly. We provide some software that integrates with it.
Danger: the front page says the child will always be able to call "first responders," but the FAQ reveals that 911 is the only built-in one which the child cannot change. If you live outside the US, 911 may not work, leaving your child unable to dial emergency services.

Adding 112 and 999 to the list would help, but perhaps it's better to just let the kid call whomever they like, and just block "fun" things like texting and other apps. After all, if your kid is out with friends and gets a bit lost, the best person to call will be one of those friends, not the police.
I would engage but not assume it will last very long. In fact I would do a three pronged approach early on.
1) I would identify a particularly nasty corner of the code base that could be sectioned off and improved in such a way that everything that touches it will be easier to deal with. This prong is your short-term easy win "we did something to make life better."

2)Develop a reasonably detailed plan for complete update and refactor within .NET environment. This preserves the legacy, skills and domain knowledge of the current staff.

3)Develop a broader plan for a green-field rewrite in a modern environment with great developer tools, training and support.

My guess is that they will not take either of the more radical approaches but you will have delivered consulting on what they can do to speed up their development process. They might not like the implications of the answers and at that point you can probably just walk away.
WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN, YOUNG MAN? WHY WERE YOU IGNORING MY CALLS?

checks GPS log, sees school

does child's homework for him

applies to college for him

goes on job interviews for him
I don't think anyone saw the open source version coming. Development had totally halted for several years before that happened.
Best novel for 'Ancillary Justice'? Neat. I finished it two days ago, quite enjoyed it.
Well, whether you like or not, your main meta-goal seems to be "efficiency" from what you've written, so that seems to be your subconscious "ultimate goal" or "prime principle". This is why knowing about various philosophical currents is very important, because whether you are aware of it or not, you are making philosophical choices, and many of those were already made by people before you.
There is no $500/month price tag. The course is completely free.
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Hell, uninstalling is mild. Set the parent phone to a child phone and vice versa, all you need is to guess that password. I wonder if it's the same as their email account?
danah boyd has a (free) book on the responses of teens to network parenting, http://www.danah.org/itscomplicated/

Edit: corrected name capitalization
It`s the down vote pigeon, hitting randomly and savagely.
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I started to write an ORM(yeah! reinventing). It was suppose to parse a table structure from database and create an object on its own which can be queried in Django style ORM operations. Its been a long time, I am not sure if it works or not

https://github.com/shabinesh/Tabject
For a very accessible and practical guide to Seneca (and other stoic philosophers), check out "A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy" by William Irvine

The title is a little cheesy, but the content is gold. It's one of the books I re-read (or re-listen to via Audible) multiple times a year. I find the repetition is really valuable since I can slip so easily back into my old thought patterns.

When I count books that have been most helpful to me, this one is at the top of the list (followed by "War of Art" by Pressfield).

For a synopsis, check out Derek Sivers book notes on it: https://sivers.org/book/StoicJoy

Derek's intro to the notes: "Rating: 10/10. Almost too personal for me to give an objective review, because I found when reading it that the quirky philosophy I've been living my life by since 17 matches up exactly with a 2000-year-old philosophy called Stoicism. Mine was self-developed haphazardly, so it was fascinating to read the refined developed original. Really resonated."
Agreed. I'm not familiar with the US versions of the relevant laws but in the UK this would be very illegal.
The perfect app for helicopter parenting, be sure to tell your child you don't trust them as they leave the door.

I'm sure this would be a good product commercially.

The FAQ is a bit jarring, most of it seems to be self praise.
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I don't know—there's a big gap between asking "how do you measure this philosophical-sounding quantity?" and actually coming up with a concrete means of doing so. I could ask here "how do you define consciousness for machines?", but (even if I were the first to do so) it wouldn't be fair to say that I'd anticipated Sharmach's landmark 2098 paper solving the problem.
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Huh, I have never seen this, thanks!

(OT nitpick: her name is actually 'danah boyd' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danah_Boyd#Early_life)
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I haven't tried it, but isn't this trivial to disable by just booting into safe mode and uninstalling the app?
You are correct. That was what I was referring to. I didn't even realize there were an option to use the "classic" view. On Windows + Chrome my mouse wheel scrolling does not work very well.
Hi. First of all, best of luck with your startup. I'm all for better nuclear technology.

However, I'm related to a nuclear engineer (who is currently in a senior position at IAEA, thus the anonymous account), and I understood that both steps you're currently undertaking were commonly know to be viable and efficient, BUT contravened most non-proliferation agreements (note: I'm not a nuclear engineer or physicist. Just interested).

So, you're "disrupting" an industry in dire need of disruption (due to the massive amounts of red tape), but you're also walking a tightrope.

I believe what you're doing is safe and needed, but if public opinion or perception turns against you (any article hinting at terrorist use, for example, or concerns over breaking the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty), it might end your company.

You probably have taken all of this into account, and I hope you have a strategy in place on how to deal with this :) .

Once again, I wish you best of luck and I hope to use your generators in the future !! :)

EDIT: I haven't talked with my relative yet, all what I wrote above is my (probably misinformed) opinion.

Second edit: It seems several others have already raised most of my concerns, and better than I have. I've also

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8195589 (regulatory concerns)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8195642 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8196075(the tech being commonly known)

and, most important, the "dirty bomb" factor

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8195495
Sounds interesting. From the looks of it, it should probably be required to read for anyone in government or becoming a parent. The government here loves pandering to helicopter parents, unfortunately, and wasting huge amounts of taxpayer money on schemes with poor uptake and even worse effectiveness instead of spending less money on education that would actually prove effective with a sensible outcome.

Edit: Free on her site, taking a look now.
"but apart from that I can’t really think of anything that may or may not be missing"

* Hygienic macro system.
* Pattern matching.
* Strong generic type system.
* Persistent containers.
* Lockless data structures.
* Memory-safety.
* Null-safety.
* Reflection.
* Dynamic/variant types.
* Modules.
* ...
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Perhaps it comes down to what 'best story' means, though. I've often felt that one of the characteristics of a truly ground-breaking story (or work of art—or work of science, even) is how obvious it feels in retrospect, but I wouldn't want that to disqualify the creativity embodied in such stories from being rewarded. I think that there is ample room for awards both for stories that stand the re-read test, and stories that deliver a one-shot 'big bang'.
The app is only available in the US appstore for now.
Why Genius may struggle to annotate the world
A large or well-known company merely using a programming language, and maybe even contributing back to it and its community, isn't the same as the company truly supporting or championing it.

What you describe is very different from, say, how Sun pushed Java, or Microsoft pushed C#, or how Apple will likely push Swift, or how a huge portion of the entire software industry pushed C and C++.

Facebook's Hack language is probably a much better example than D is of a language that they're actively supporting. It's a creation of theirs, rather than just a creation of somebody else's that they find useful in some limited cases.
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From their FAQ, looks like that would need you to deregister and reregister the phone. Still, as in my experience most parents (mine and others I'm familiar with) leave their phones lying around without a password so much of the time (or else likely use weak ones such as their date of birth or similar), that isn't exactly hard.

I've also accidentally shoulder surfed dozens of random people's (patterns on android are particularly easy as by default it shows the full trace; ios7 is also easy as the buttons are very high contrast) where I had zero intention to just because they aren't careful about who can see the screen when they unlock.

Of course, given the poor security of so many mobile apps, I wouldn't be surprised if there's a way to reverse engineer the protocol to lock a 'parent' phone. Then, of course, the child can feign ignorance with "but I thought that wasn't possible".
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Consider going with a specialized managed hosting service for minecraft; they're fairly affordable and tend to scale in price based on amount of RAM the machine has. For reference, example of hosting companies are beastnode, creeperhost, and 'redstone host'.

While I myself can appreciate maintaining a linux VPS and installing things from scratch (erm, that's precisely how I do minecraft hosting), managed hosting 'just works' without a maintenance overhead, and there are easy to use web control panels for plugin installation and configuration.

Most servers that kids like to play on aren't standard - they are 3rd party modifications (ex: bukkit). Such 3rd party servers have plugins that make the gameplay more usable. Example of some useful plugins are essentials, worldedit, worldguard. The headaches you will typically get is upgrading the server (after a minecraft update) and installing plugins. The hosting services mentioned above make it incredibly easy.
Hilariously, there's actually nothing stopping the kid phoning whoever they want. It's controlled by a contact group on the phone, that the child device can edit at will. Step 1 would be to add all friends to that group.
A dom object for every character probably makes it forever an uphill battle.
Yep. With root, you can even just disable administrators without allowing them to hijack the attempt.

Actually, letting apps hijack the normal disabling of their administrative functions is a massive vuln, as then any piece of malware can do that to prevent it from being removed.

The funny thing is, Android's safe mode isn't that well publicised (I knew it existed, but would have to look up how to enter it), but if apps like this ever proliferated, it definitely would become well known. See how in the UK, since TPB got censored, there are now literally hundreds of reverse proxies available, and since the government pushed 'opt-out' censorship, there are now dozens of proxies explicitly marketed for defeating them, and more and more sites are switching to use TLS.
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I wonder why nuclear radiation can only be harnessed indirectly through heat. Couldn't things like the photoelectric effect be used for something similar to photovoltaic cells?
Here's a tip: instead of changing your objects, you can create a new object with the same values except the ones you want to change.

Another option is to use builders (that are mutable), to build/copy your immutable business (?) objects.
Zero-users: Devops and SysAdmins will love this
From (https://github.com/limetext/lime/wiki/Goals) it is largely aiming to be a drop in replacement :

- Compatible with Textmate color schemes (which is what ST is using)
- Compatible with Textmate syntax definitions (which again is what ST is using)
- Compatible with Textmate snippets
- Compatible with Sublime Text’s python plugin API. I’ll probably never implement this 100%, only the api bits I need for the plugins I use.
- Compatible with Sublime Text’s keybindings and settings (think most of it is working)
- Compatible with Sublime Text snippets
- Sublime Text’s Goto anything panel
Just get a native compiler, plenty to choose from.
“Just think about it deeply, then forget it…then an idea will jump up in your face." - Mad Men.
And that JEP basically already exists in Guava https://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/wiki/ImmutableColl...

`ImmutableList.of("a", "b", "c")` is not as concise as e.g. Python, but it's not bad.
Stoicism is a personal philosophy. It doesn't concern itself with the whole of human kind but with you. That much is clear in that stoicism advise you against the temptation for fame, power, money, vice.

It's a philosophy that embraces fatalism and keep you on the path of finding your nature and then keeping on that path, just being yourself, without regards for external influences.

The notion of duty is however very strong in stoicism: social duty is part of your nature. You have to accept your obligations and perform them the best you can, without search for external rewards.

All in all, stoicism is a search for personal tranquillity, inner peace. It's not even a philosophy of efficiency, at least I've never seen it described as such.

Stoicism doesn't rely on "tools" either. You can be a milkman and still adopt stoicism as your personal philosophy of life.

Duty is a very big part of stoicism: it acknowledges that we live in a social world and that our nature, our role, requires that we perform our duties to the best of our abilities. This is the only way to achieve some sort of peace, by removing the fact that you need something eternal to yourself to find satisfaction about what you do.

So, you can be a janitor, collect rubbish, be a developer, a manager, an office worker, a CEO, it doesn't matter. You'll only achieve peace if you find your own way to derive satisfaction in whatever fortune you find yourself in at a given instant. In short: accept what fate threw at you, don't sweat what you can't control, and learn to make the best of it.

I'd say it's a perfect philosophy for today.
> The big issue is that a lot of java was created when we still hadn't figured out how to properly do Object Oriented Programming.

Bollocks, there were already plenty of OO languages when Java appeared on the block.
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In my experience many adults (meaning everyone over 35 at this point) seem to have an irrational attachment to phone calls, when texting or email would suffice or be better. This is just a manifestation of that mentality. If you encourage your kid to text you it's much more likely they'll communicate, largely because it can be done quickly and discreetly.

Given the problems I've heard about with app store purchases from parents in this target market there's zero chance of this actually working, and I'd be surprised if any parent in the target group even believes it would work either.
Because restricting to GeoIP really works well, right? Oh wait, even many users know how to use a proxy to get Iplayer/Pandora/Netflix from another country - there are even dedicated products for this purpose.
Any work of literature includes the medium and delivery as well as the literal content (words and drawings). There is no such thing as disembodied content, no matter how much we might like to think of a webcomic merely as a collection of timeless propositions and vector graphics.

If a musician had performed a marvelous work in a unique context that can never be repeated by any other performer nor even by the artist himself (e.g. the cellist of Sarajevo), should that make his work any less valuable? You also mentioned translating into other media. If the best novel of the year happens to be extremely difficult to turn into a feature film or Broadway musical, is that a fault of the novel? (e.g. Lovecraft's novels have often been considered "unfilmable".)

"Time" was more like a musical performance than a typical webcomic, despite the fact that it was delivered in the form of a webcomic. You had to be in the virtual concert hall at the right time in order to get the most intellectual stimulation out of it. Once it's over, it's over, and playing an MP3 recording of the concert just doesn't compare to the real thing. Moreover, the next time you hear the same orchestra play the same song, it just won't feel the same. It happens all the time in the performing arts.

We who live in a world where anything can be easily mass-produced tend to under-appreciate things that cannot be reproduced. Somehow we're supposed to multiply the value of a thing by the number of times it can be used as well as the number of people who can use it. This is OK for most goods and services, but I'm not sure if it's an appropriate way to judge works of art. After all, reproducible works of fiction are a relatively recent invention. Before the printing press gave rise to the modern novel, almost all good stories used to be performances of one kind or another.
You can use it on linux! It's really fine on my setup.
> your main meta-goal seems to be "efficiency"

No I didn't say that. I said stoicism seems concerned about efficiency.

> you are making philosophical choices, and many of those were already made by people before you

That's true. My criticism though isn't about philosophy as a whole - just about stoicism because it seems to be contradictory.
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That's a huge assumption, that one can only use Sublime for code.

Personally, I pick a single text editor and use it for all my plain text editing needs.

I don't print very often, but when I do, I do it for a reason. Just the other day, I was creating some offline study information for my child. Printing was my only option.

I was editing away in Sublime and then when I went to print, I opened up the File menu and looked a second before I remembered... "Oh yeah, this application knows better than I do about my need to print". Muttering to myself, I copy/pasted the document into Word and continued on my way.
I don't understand why there's a "See also" link to the "23 enigma" which as far as I can tell is not related at all to this 24th problem.

I'm also not sure it's really worthwhile to post a stub of a wikipedia article on HN without any commentary or context... What is the relevance of this 24th problem? Why is it interesting?
This will help in soooo many ways. This will reduce the following dangers: 1)broken and splintered bat shards 2)bats flying out of a hitter's hand and endangering fans, player, and coaches 3)potential to reduce hammett bone injuries.

If the power and accuracy claims hold up then it could also help level out the current status of the game being tilted in favor of pitching since the end of the steroid era. There had been talk of lowering the mound in the MLB to help level the playing field, mind the pun :)

It is definitely an interesting concept. I'm not sure how well the bat will hold up over time vs a traditional bat since you are hitting the ball the on the same side every time. This is going to slightly flatten the face of the bat over time and it will be interesting to see how that plays out.
RCUK allows a six-month delay before results are made available to the public. This is too long.

http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/openaccess/policy/
Coincidentally (!), Microsoft is moving their German HQ to Munich in a years time.
One core part of C++'s philosophy where it's very consistent is that you only pay for what you use and the performance guarantees (e.g., STL) are explicit.

Another consistent part of C++ is that it gives you absolute control over memory, both allocation and layout. It's really this control that makes C++ unbeatable in performance. The good VMs can JIT their languages to match CPU performance on small routines, but they can't match C++ when it comes to manipulating big, complicated data structures.
If the assumptions behind GDP are valid, government spending may also be considered "productive".
PostgreSQL count_distinct improvements
> Exceptions are not "most of C++ capabilities".

To add to this point: There are C++ frameworks such as Qt who don't use exceptions at all! And what impressed most: When writing a Qt application, you don't even miss exceptions. You don't have to resort to C-style return value checking all over your code. How is that? It took me some time to figure this out, but I believe it is because Qt applies the "Null Object" pattern consequently - down to the deepest depth of their framework,
Me too. Even though I'm an die hard fan of the Emacs ideas on extensiblity (which is more similar to Github's Atom) speed and good defaults have to come first, the this Sublime has excelled.
Note that the owner still has a chance to respond to the rejection. So the process has not yet terminated for good. It is just beginning the process.
OP's site is free. I was answering to the ad for the thinkful.com site posted above - which asks $500/m.
I added it to the list of candidates :)
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I can give you my source code and allow you to change it, but if you want to execute a compiled result of that source code I can still ask you to pay me for it. And while there is no physical thing stopping you from executing the binary without my permission, I think you would still be unlikely to do so, if you know how much work I've put into it and you know that I would like you to give me a few bucks. I'd trust you that far even without knowing you. That's what I want to say.
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Big time, but it also depends on the area of the country you live in. Pay in the midwest is a lot lower for example, but the cost of living is a lot lower as well, whereas in Silicon Valley, it is not unheard of for people to make close to $100/hour (although that is somewhat rarer).
Skip to Chapter XIV, if you must.

"Of all men they alone are at leisure who take time for philosophy, they alone really live; for they are not content to be good guardians of their own lifetime only".
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