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I consider developer productivity and code maintainability to be features. Sure, there are performance tradeoffs, but there are some obvious benefits.
Someone actually built that, it's called ProducTind :)

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/productind/id891384124?ls=1&...
I believe you'll have a lot of collisions that way, as two URLs with the same 7-byte suffix in base64 will have the same key. The Scala version uses 7 random characters, which I think will lead to a collision after about sqrt(36^7) entries due to the birthday paradox (62^7 if alphanumeric includes both uppercase and lowercase). That's better, but I'd recommend just using something autoincrementing instead, which in theory makes collisions impossible.
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That sounds pretty self-conscious and fake, like a teenager trying to dress like a nonconformist. Altered states of consciousness do exist, and extreme isolation is known to produce them.
I totally hear you. As a quantitative analyst, I did something similar for years (I personally cherish the experience. I became very good at hacking together stuff fast =p).

Would you be interested in leveraging your skills AND learning about distributed systems and databases in a highly concurrent setting? If so, drop me a line (my email is on my profile).
> When I run something on my machine I want it to do exactly what it is supposed to, nothing more and nothing less.

So you're running on seL4 right now? How's that going? Did you program the userspace yourself?

I'm impressed.
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I disagree. The people making the videos are not in the US or UK. Furthermore, the people making the video are already breaking US and UK laws -- murder. The simple act of making a video (of some kind), posting it, linking to it, nor viewing it are illegal in themselves. However, if the government of the US or UK deem the video content to be "extremist" content, now it becomes illegal to link-to, or view the video? That seems bad to me (censorship). (again, murder is already illegal). Where does it draw the line? What about extremist videos that don't include murder but talk poorly about the US and UK governments and people? Will be deem those to be illegal to view too?

Police can already arrest the people making the videos (if they were in the UK or US) without having to make it a crime to simply view the video.

I don't buy the argument that these videos are propaganda to recruit -- they are there to stir fear and incite the idea that no one will save you if you are captured. The goal of the videos are to bend the public opinion.

The video will only sicken the majority of US and UK citizens -- which will in turn demand direct military action. This is, what both administrations (US and UK) have been trying to avoid recently as both have campaigned in large to avoid any direct use of the military (aka, boots-on-the-ground). It would be bad, politically, to then renege on that and send troops in.
I really liked God Emperor of Dune, and consider it to be the logical ending point of the series. Heretics and Chapterhouse are a very interesting continuation, but feel more like the beginning of a new series based in the same universe (and an incomplete one, at that).
Isn't "Jasper" the pretty well-established name for a Java report library? That's certainly the first thing that comes to mind for me.
It's not about heroes and villains. It's about right and wrong. You're more than welcome to fill in the blanks between right and wrong with mushy grey area, however, some of us have higher moral standards and don't deem actions less wrong if the aggressor was "angered", or "ill".

"What does it say to you that the father of the innocent
victim blames the system first and the killer second?"

It gives credence to my points. It shows the level to which people have been brainwashed/tricked into thinking that violence is "ok as long as there is some reason". This individual was able to justify and excuse a person violently murdering their loved one due to whatever circumstance. Rather than just calling it senseless violence and coincidence, and holding the violent individual at fault.

At the end of the day. Someone chose to take another person's life. And all these people are pretending that's okay, or "less wrong". Circumstance, or not, this person made a willing choice and decision to take another person's life, to end it, forever. I hope everyone here let's that sink in, before they try talk about "mitigating factors".
The token from the Registration Authority seems to defeat coercion-resistance and receipt-freeness. Unless it was handled using strong crypto primitives (and how long do those last?) that would preclude looking up how this one user voted, it would result in a rather evil system.

Otherwise I like it.
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You can skip. I get that front end stuff can be intimidating. My recommendation is to learn the basics and when it comes to libraries fight the intimidation and take a few minutes to try out new technology when you encounter it. If you find it too hard in those few minutes of actually trying it, don't use it. You can still use script tags if you want. Your site will run just fine. Do what feels comfortable. These tools are supposed to make your life easier, not harder.

Having said that grunt is very bad because it is intimidating even for seasoned front-end programmers, it probably scared a lot of new developers away from even looking at front-end build systems. That's probably a good reason why it should fall off the radar. Thankfully gulp is much easier and I bet if you try it you will find it useful. If you don't, that's OK.
I discussed that below, i.e., in an earlier response here. A big part of that old scam was that there is a big ozone hole over the Antarctic. Wow! Nearly all the CFCs were released in the northern hemisphere, but somehow the ozone hole the CFCs caused was in the southern hemisphere, the Antarctic, without mention of the Arctic. Easy conclusion: For whatever reason, and not CFCs, there is and long has been a huge ozone hole over the Antarctic in the Antarctic winter when there are months with no sunlight at all. Thus, maybe there is more UV in winter in Patagonia, Sidney, Johannesburg? How about Skull Island?

But, what about a winter ozone hole over the Arctic and, then, more winter UV in, say, Maine? I haven't heard about that.

As I discussed, if we are going to talk about ozone holes, then let's have some comparisons, different times of year, different years, different locations, etc. Let's know how the measurements were done, by whom, when, etc. Let's have the data peer reviewed. Indeed, let's have some evidence that is at least a notch or two above just raw, smelly dead fish, manipulative, flim-flam, fraud, scam propaganda.

We don't have such evidence? Then I conclude propaganda. Sorry 'bout that. To me, the ozone hole alarmists just didn't make their case.
I'm curious why you think that. Or did you mean the doctors that helped save them?
Is this just poor writing, or poor representation of the science? This article contradicts itself.

> said in a statement that she was free of the virus but was significantly weakened.

> There is no cure for Ebola, ...

> But both Dr Brantly and Mrs Writebol received an experimental treatment known as ZMapp.

> ...it remains unclear if [ZMapp] is responsible for their recovery.

Is the virus in remission, or has it been eradicated from Writebol? If there is no cure, then it cannot have been eradicated. Maybe there's no _proven_ cure, in the sense of full medical trials?

In the 'poor writing' department (but unrelated to the above), the article also doesn't tell us who Franklin Graham is. This appears to be the only reference to the name:

> ...Franklin Graham said in a statement.
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Based on your wall of text I have to assume that you're serious. I'm also going to venture a guess that you haven't looked into the literature on ozone depletion at all, or you're not well versed in the science and you don't understand it. Not only are there a plethora of papers out there from a variety of different sources, with different funding, spread over decades, (here's a simple search[1]), but this was actually a problem that garnered international collaboration. That is phenomenally rare on environmental topics, particularly those where local emissions collectively lead to global impacts.

Here's a straight review[2] for you to read through and perhaps understand this issue a little better.

[1] http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=ozone+depletion&bt...

[2] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/1999RG900008/full
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Survivors are believed to be more resistant but I think immunity is unlikely. Surely if he returns to risky areas he'll take the same precautions that anyone else would, it's not worth the risk and I'm sure those precautions are meant to protect from a number of tropical illnesses that are a risk in addition to Ebola.
Or maybe they just have to wake up to pee.
I develop with Sencha frameworks full time. The learning curve is on the same level as Ember, while not easy but still manageable, unlike many people want you to believe.

ExtJS component life cycle changed a lot form 4.0 to 4.2 and they refactored the code to be more like Sencha Touch. I guess this is the preamble to ExtJS 5, and it confuses a lot of people.

Sencha delivers on cross browser compatibility, since their layouts are all done by JavaScript. Trying to add CSS layout on top of that will break a lot of things. This is the so called "fighting the framework" people in Sencha community calls it. ExtJS 5 lets you develop desktop/touch hybrid apps for touch laptops. With smooth scrolling driven by touch event and transition, they work on Android as well (where it doesn't have WebKit overflow scroll touch)
The previous comparison of Angular vs Ember back in May included a lot of interesting discussion, such as which companies were using which framework and a lot of anecdotes from developers with experience with both:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7679116
When I first read the Dune series in High School, Messiah seemed dreadfully boring - almost enough to quit reading it. After re-reading the series about 15 years later, I was very surprised by how much my opinion of Messiah improved - to the point that it's almost my favorite of the series. It really provides a stark (but satisfying) 3rd act and ending to Paul's story. I almost feel like it's Dune Part 2, rather than a separate novel.
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You do realize a 100k salary in Manhattan would likely be more around 55 - 60k in Atlanta, right?
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From the 70's I would rather wish that the mix would be Lisp, Smalltalk, Cedar and CLU. No need for C.
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I don't remember which newspaper I read this in (I believe New York Times?) but apparently there are ~5 known varieties of Ebola, and recovering from an infection only grants immunity to that one variety.

So, in general, no, but if this outbreak involves only one strain they might be immune to that particular one.
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I agree. It was a short pseudo implementation.
What would be the minimum path size in the shortened url to ensure a large enough capability of storage without letting users guess other urls easily?
Which is exactly why you should choose it.
That's actually an interesting question- were you to theoretically be able to initial effect of Ebola infection, would the immune system eventually be able to create effective antibodies for it? I don't know if it would work the same way if you're introducing antibodies for treatment.
I had the same experience. Gulp is simple and beautiful once you get it. And it's so much faster than Grunt.

Alas, at this point, my build needs are also being handled by Webpack. And, if I'm faced with something weird, I'd first try to solve it with a Webpack plugin. It's nowhere near as pretty as Gulp but it's the simplest to configure and most comprehensive.

It's been a tumultuous few years for JS build systems...
There is not cure for Ebola like there is for other diseases. Ebola is a acute infection, meaning that if the body can fight it off, it leaves the body. Think of it like influenza. There is no cure, but once you get over it, there is no more influenza virus in your system.

They were given ZMapp, but they can't tell if that worked or not. Perhaps they would have overcome their illness without it.

They likely didn't say that the male was free of the virus because it has been shown that Ebola can be transmitted through semen of men for up to 7 weeks.
For everyone here who says "Backbone is great except..." I'd encourage you to try Apmersand.js from the great folks at &yet. It's nearly idential to Backbone, fixes some of the oddities (like wrapping divs and needing to call model.set/get) They've also worked to make it more modular and extensible.

http://ampersandjs.com/
I do ExtJS allll-daaay long, because my company built every back-office we made upon that framework.
Pro: It looks and feels like a desktop application. B2B loves that! (And that's why we use it)
Cons: It requires you to write gigantic blocks of code to get something up and running. + Many times you will say to yourself "they can't have forgotten THAT feature", and well, they did and you have to DIY
Reading the article, it's interesting that it doesn't seem to match up well with the Economist article from last year:
http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21583245-china-worlds...
TheEconomist seems to show CO2 (and coal consumption) tripling and rising steadily over a period where the article shows it slowing down in 2007-11. I don't know which is correct, but now I don't particularly trust either of these.
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I don't think his principles were to terrify people and intimidate journalists from reporting the news. If people like him weren't risking his life there all you'd have would be official government propaganda.
While I understand point people are making, I think understanding the problem is part of the debugging process, and should be a part of the puzzle and timer.

I remember entering programming competitions in high school and college. The first 5 minutes, when everyone is ripping open the envelope of their problem packet and trying to find the easiest problems was always very intense, and fun! Sometimes you would read through it too quickly, and miss a small detail that would render all the code you wrote completely useless. That's part of the challenge!
My respect for use the java stack, I like it. Here another guy to tried to build his own whiteboard a few years ago http://notephy.com , I'm just searching a solid support to audio recording with webrtc to improve it.
According to the mashable article [1] linked in the comments one component of the serum had some extended protection in a series of tests:

"A November 2013 Defyrus study showed that ZMAb offered extended protection against the virus. Scientists reinfected surviving monkeys 10 weeks after their first infection, and 100% survived. What's more, four out of the six monkeys reinfected 13 weeks after initial exposure survived."

[1] http://mashable.com/2014/08/17/ebola-serum-zmapp/
And, lest you think I'm daft, my _guess_ is that they mean the son of Billy Graham, but then perhaps the author should mention his tie to Samaritan's Purse.
IMO Backbone is overly complex and it's a lot harder to pervasively use data binding to templates. Didn't really feel like I realized huge productivity gains with that technique until I met Angular.
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How do you plan to make all of this data easily accessible? Seems like a lot?

Looking forward to checking it out
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I'm a bit annoyed with the title--I take great offense that somehow I'm not an "adult" because I'm not wearing some bullshit costume when not in a customer-facing position.

Seriously, software is eating the world (lol), and it's still funny to treat developers as infantile? Christ.

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"RELOCATION EXPENSES WILL NOT BE PAID"

Fuck you, Fedland.
I'm sorry, but I have to challenge such a broad statement. The classification of literature is an awful game but Dune is hardly a default candidate for serious study, and I feel a view of literature with it near the top is unfortunately stunted. Just speaking as someone who has taken many of the courses you mention, although not an expert.
I'm thinking you're right in the theoretical sense, but I'm right in the practical sense. Every time I've looked at hygienic macro systems, it just seems like now I'm jumping through extra hoops to overcome a more restrictive way of doing things. Is that extra information you cite typically useful for anything besides safety? Can you give an example?
> like a teenager trying to dress like a nonconformist

Precisely my point. True freedom is never is a reaction to something.
I like Jiddu K's take on freedom

http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/krishnamurti-teachings/view-tex...
Because this is a test of ones ability to code; not the speed at which they can read English.

As I said earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8207116
But how big is its community?
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If he was a doctor in AIDS ward, and got infected with HIV while caring for other sick patients, wouldn't he be considered a hero? He is a missionary doctor oversea, working in some of the poorest countries in the world, clearly not doing for the money. Believe it or not, people have been called heroes for doing a lot less than that.
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it?
i liked fan gating...this will be a game changer
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cool feature, it is a long time coming :)
If you were a God, you could stay a storm.
Good article but the title makes it sounded a lot more exciting.

Basically the government is compromising on a few perks.
It's probably the "travel overseas to treat a deadly disease that has a history of killing lots of healthcare workers in shitty conditions" part.
RacketCon is being held in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA the day following the Strange Loop 2014 conference (also in Saint Louis):

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I hope to see some of you there!
I did follow the arguments when the ozone hole stuff was making a big stink. As I already wrote here, I know a guy got a Nobel prize in chemistry for his work on CFCs and ozone.

But I also know that for "garnered international collaboration", a much better explanation is follow the money to flow to the chemical industry for outlawing cheap, commodity Freon, ruining a lot of refrigeration capex, and selling new refrigeration working fluid, at high prices, and capex.

Ozone? Surely you are joking. Money and politics? Now for the real cause, that's believable.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5293748

I am neither a jerk nor an American nor incorrect.
Sometimes I feel like a Roman after the Empire downfall.

So many choices for systems programming gone thanks to UNIX, and now kids think C is the only way.
Did you consider Brtfs? Are there missing feature you don't have compared to ZFS-on-linux?
What the hell is with that title? Is Wired now in the camp where "nerd" is something shameful and scary?
http://simplynoise.com is what I use.
Must have been V6; I recall V7 had patches to prevent this, at least to the extent that it wouldn't crater the whole machine. I haven't thought about using ncheck & icheck since fsdb showed up about BSD4.2 or thereabouts. I remember using adb as well to fix buggered filesystems back in the ancient days.

I remember well the day one of the elder neckbeards handed me my own photocopy of the Lions books. It was enlightenment in pure form.
I wonder whether his open mindedness with regard to styles of dress extends to software developers who would be happier wearing informal attire (especially in the West Wing of the White House of all places).
First time page load is heavy, yes. Then after that, it's much faster, as all the server has to hand over is JSON, which can turn a 150-500ms page load to a 15-90ms page load.

Furthermore, it allows for easier data portability- when you can 'collect' data as you go and have API calls that much faster, it's okay to make more expressive UI decisions.

Not to mention, at the end of the day I like having a separation between my frontend and backend. Frontend testing from Rails or Django always feels a little dirty, a little off, and in many cases is even a discouraged practice("If you need to test your view, you should be using a helper" logic). I also like not ever having to make model method choices based on what my frontend desires might be- the concerns can be completely separate.

And lastly, I frankly can do a lot more interesting things much faster in Ember than I can in Rails from a UI standpoint. Ember turned my favorite part of software development, UI design, into the joy it used to be when I was just using pad and paper.
That's a pretty condescending title.

It doesn't seem like it comes from an attitude too far removed from congressmen being proud of not understanding tech issues because it's all nerd stuff.

Edit: A facebook comment on the article really showcases the sentiment, just more explicitly: "So keep them in the basement, feed them pizza and Redbull and let them wear what they need. Does the gardener wear a tux and bowtie?"
To me, out of all of those, React looks most impressive and interesting.
A shame there were no Highlander sequels in any shape or form.

Imagine if they had decided to be inconsistent and that there were, after all, more immortals after MacLeod won the prize. Or something cheesy like immortals actually being aliens, I dunno. Thankfully this didn't happen in Earth-1, where I live.
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A 4S supports iOS 7 and 8. Are you still running iOS 6? I think that's a very small group of people at this point.
Also, "stay one's hand". Still rare and a bit antiquated, but occurs more frequently than "stay" in this sense more generally (... is my impression).

For some data:
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=stay+my+hand+%...
> If you're just getting started with frameworks, I'd recommend Backbone.

Backbone only is not enough to do any serious kind of work today.One always end up with tons of plugins making it as complicated as EmberJS or AngularJS.
There is no serious view layer,so one has to use React,Vue,or Ractive.
The router sucks,frankly,so one has to replace it.
The model layer doesnt handle relationships between model,so one ends up using something else...

There is nothing good in Backbone today frankly.It was one of the first successfull "clientside" framework ,yet refused to evolve(like underscore or coffeescript today),refused to incorporate good ideas from third parties that would have made it still relevant today.

There is no future in Backbone.Maybe there is still a place for a Backbone like framework that would still be based on jQuery and would incorporate a better view layer. But Backbone itself is dead.

I personally prefer AngularJS ,not because of its directives but because I strongly believe in IoC containers over any other way to build and wire objects. But I think EmberJS is as good.
We could use crows or pigeons. Smarter, and already well studied. Or rats.
Which would be to keep the storm at bay - but the article is talking about how old people DO keep sleep at bay, they DO "stay sleep"