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Because there is evidence that there were airborne strains of it in the past.
So you just copy/pasted Counterparty's code too? Do you have any plans on providing something of value, or only copycats?
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AdBlock seems to disable that button. I had to go to the bottom of the page to subscribe.
I totally agree. I actually started out using a coin, but I got too embarrassed walking around the store, standing in front of a bunch of choices, and flipping through options. The was one of the motivations to create the app, since it is much more socially acceptable and easier to use, than catching a quarter over and over.
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A 5 year old source consisting of some random blogger with the identical unsubstantiated "liberal media!!!1" canard used by Fox and the like is probably not the best source to use when trying to make a factual argument about media bias.
No, I get it. I was just extrapolating, since presumably devs are still checking if the name starts with "Windows 7", "Windows 8", etc. But maybe they're not. Either way, if it's the user's problem, it's Microsoft's problem.
That specific venue of religious exploitation has a market in the United States, and the religious patrons to take advantage of such things seem pleased/willing to buy-in.

Every research/teaching/college hospital I have ever been in has had a special shabbos elevator that automatically stopped at each floor to avoid the button presses during Shabbat (in California).

'Penn and Teller's: Bullshit', I believe, explore the industry itself in Israel while showing all sorts of kookie work-around 'hacks'.

Here's a similar video clip, which shows the 'Institute for Science and Halacha' which specializes in making devices to skirt the rules of shabbat,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVpCNKp9PD0
I recently joined a place that has unlimited vacation and I think there was reticence in the beginning but I got over it.

Most of my work is fairly project based with somewhat decent timelines so it's not so bad to plan time off. Sometimes I can delay until after the project is done. Other times the vacation time is immoveable, I took the time without any distress.

Some people take one big vacation a year. Others do like me and take a day or two here or there with an occasional week off.
Then I did not understand your reference to the 3rd point.

I'm not talking about fully standalone compiled DSLs (totally agree they're usually unmaintainable) - I was referring to the metaprogramming-based compiled eDSLs, implemented as macros on top of a host language (or a range of host languages). This way it's really easy to mix traits into your DSL design, including various type systems, not even necessarily directly compatible with the host language type system.

I found it very productive to have Prolog (or anything comparable) as one of the host languages, it's trivial then to map most of the practical type systems to it.
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It has nothing to do with regulation, it has to do with physics. Wireless is not nearly as good a communication channel as fiber or cable. Intuitively this is because of interference with other signals, reflections and obstructions, all of which are continuously changing.
> Did I really deserve what Danilo threw at me today?

> Twitter privilege

Goodness. If anything, you got off easy, bub. Even now, oblivious, invoking concepts like "privilege" you clearly don't understand.

You don't get to run your mouth about things you don't understand and then escape accountability. You don't get to excuse a terrible status quo as being acceptable because it serves to educate people at the expense of the marginalized.

You are exactly the problem. Not the bigots. Not the overt sexists. Not the children posing as grownups, too young to know their indecency. The problem is mealy-mouthed folks who mistake differences of power for differences opinion. And who forgive the unacceptable on that basis.

And feel so righteous doing so.

Sorry if that's not the sort of coddling you're used to. But I'm not here for you. I'm not here to make you comfortable and I'm certainly not here to persuade you. I'm here because what you said was wrong and dangerous.

I'm a lot more concerned with the feelings of people who are being driven out of this industry because of exactly the sort of chicanery you're excusing.

Working for you sounds damn crummy. If you don't want that sort of observation leveled in public in the future, I have one suggestion:

read some books

Do the right thing because it's the right thing. Not because someone was nice to you or not on Hacker News.

> threatening my livelihood

And where is the threat to your livelihood, exactly?

If what you said was as acceptable as you claim, you face no danger.

If what you said was problematic, then why did you say it? Publicly? Flying under the banner of "Lead Software Engineer for Everlaw."

And why would you expect a public wrong to pass with impunity?

You're arguing both that you were perfectly reasonable—and that I was unreasonable to call you out for saying something crummy.

Pick one.
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It's always seemed like a dark pattern to me, since 99/100 times it's combined with automatic renewal. Meaning you'll sign up for a few weeks/months at a decent price and suddenly find yourself with a multi-hundred-percent increase in cost out of nowhere. Hard to imagine they're not relying on that.
I wouldn't say "anyone" but I always like to detect is the conversation is only about the methodology itself, not the purpose of it.
I am glad that perspective helped, it has helped me tremendously. If you are more curious, I'd suggest investigating the book called A Course In Miracles. It clearly defines the addictive thinking patterns and the way through them.
Performance and readability are not tradeoffs.
Definitely agreeing with the others that "Kill you" is more bait than "Suicides", particularly given the actual story.

One of these implies an article about things that have actually happened, the other an article about things that might...

How about something like "The Downtown Project Suicides: The danger with pursuing happiness" or even just "The Downtown Project Suicides"
"Optimal teamwork" = filling your day with meetings meetings and more meetings!
What about class action consumer lawsuit for false advertisement? You are not selling me 1Gbps if you are deliberately congested at the LEC.
Similarly, one can use the compiler as a CASE [0] tool and write in a HLL using the compiler and optimizer to generate assembly which can then be modified by the programmer. There are many instructions that the compiler won't use that can lead to speedups.

I used the above technique for some bit rotation code years ago, I couldn't figure out how to do it in C, so I wrote the function signature, dumped the whole thing to assembly using the compiler, removed the function body with my own routine which was trivial to write in assembler.

It would be interesting to have an application for this, that could be called as part of an optimizing build step:

* given a set of compilers (gcc,clang,icc,open64)
* project the source to assembler as various optimization levels
* benchmark all of them using supplied data
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* programmer optimizes assembly, does a benchmark test with historical runs tests for correctness and speed

The tool would be a combo text editor, historical benchmark and compiler driver. This feedback loop step could be broadcast on a website for lots of organic agents to optimize... ;)

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Scoping is basically a way of mapping human-readable names to uniquely addressed code objects. When I say "foo" the compiler walks up the lexical scope until it finds a declaration for a variable called "foo" and replaces the human-readable name with the corresponding unique id.

Instead of having a set of rules to map the human-readable names, we generate unique ids for everything at edit time and tag them with the human-readable name. So when you type "foo", you get an intelligently sorted auto-complete box asking you which foo you mean.

This is one of the advantages of not directly editing the program text - we can insert all kinds of useful metadata directly into the AST.

> ...they make it easy for non-programmers to start with something, and add complexity to it until not only they can't maintain it...

Like most things, the problem can't be solved with technology alone. We can improve the tools to make it easier to organise code and to make it easier to understand other peoples code but we will also have to find ways to scale up the teaching aspect. It's the 'pit of success' - we have to design the experience so that people naturally end up doing the right thing. That includes building a community where people learn from each other and are exposed to better ways of structuring their thoughts.
Great job, both taiga and managing the peak so well. Any tips about the infraestructure you are running? Relaying on any PaSS or managing yourself?
Because it's stupid? Why peg millions of dollars to a currency with no security?
Yes, and "Windows 9" starts with "Windows 9". So the function will see that, "yep, the string's there" and throw it down the path of handling antique versions of windows.
Wow. That's a lot of down votes for a joke/movie reference that shouldn't have offended anyone. Maybe this community isn't for me!
Honestly, I'd be happy to see someone write a kanban javascript plugin / extension / webapp that wrapped any shitty PM tool with an API.
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As a billionaire? Hmm. It largely depends on where I end up on the zeppelin while extremely drunk.
There is little point in an argument for or against a supposed 10k rule. The point is about the balance between genetics and practice, and the article makes a cogent argument that the "10k camp" has overstated its case for 'practice' and understated the role of genes.
Indeed, it's a problem for any individual or community. You only need one malicious person to ruin FB's idea of pseudonymity.
I made a few programming tutorial videos for YT a while ago. Total time invested: ~30hours.

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1920x1200 landscape, same issue.
Thanks for clearing this up. It was not at all clear from the announcement. I would suggest that you update the original post so that others don't get the false impression that I did.

It would be a shame for that to be the case. The amount given was indeed much more than reasonably used up if it supported 3 people for 2.5 years (especially in SF).
It might not be. We are working VERY hard to make sure it doesn't turn into reddit.

So jokes are strongly discouraged (with a few rare exceptions), as are memes, clichés, image macros, or anything like that.
Yes, but it also reduces revenue from ads. I don't know if there are ads in the Times' apps, but even if so, web and in-app advertising prices generally have much lower profit margins than print advertising AFAIK.
> If you stop jerking your readers around and give them a good deal, you may be surprised by how many would be willing to subscribe.

If you don't think $450 is worth unlimited online access and home delivery for the Sunday edition, I'm not sure what to do for you. The main cost of reading the news is the time you lose. Why would you spend several hours per week reading something that you think isn't worth $8 per week? It's an inherently contradictory position.
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Why is it always the thing I needed yesterday is on HN today?

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While I agree that the normal connotation of addiction is something that is destructive, I've expanded my definition of addiction to something that is a "mood altering dependency".

Previously, if I didn't meditate regularly, I would get irritable and become less harmonious. I became addicted to meditation as a way to prevent myself from becoming moody. I have found that yoga, swimming, and other "healthy" activities have the same effect on me. Ultimately all they do is alter my mental state and I would become edgy if someone interfered with my practice.

While I realize this a logical stretch for most people, I can see the addictive quality in my need for many seemingly healthy activities in my life. I am saying this as a person whom for many years has identified most closely with Buddhism.
Do you have any prominent examples of PE employees doing that? Does this happen at premiere firms?
Spend some time reading The Old New Thing. Microsoft's ability to deal with buggy applications is world class. It's one of the core competencies of the Windows team. There are not too many libraries.
An other post mentioned http://www.getdonedone.com/ which promises GitHub, Basecamp, Harvest etc integration
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People definitely care about their ability to watch Netflix/Amazon Prime/HBO Go/Google Play video, but they don't care whether those companies have to pay their ISP for the privilege of reaching them, and they don't care about starting costs for hypothetical future internet businesses.
How about "Windows Nine"?
You sound a bit like this (fictional) psychiatrist:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dice_Man
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The 4% also shocked me, since even PayPal has much better fees. There's a couple of posts on GiveWell about that payment processor (Network for Good):

http://blog.givewell.org/2007/02/10/network-for-what-now/

http://blog.givewell.org/2007/02/17/quick-update/
It's only a win for that community in the sense of demonstrating that they can make FB blink. In all practical senses it is meaningless. So far their scheme for authenticating pseudonyms is vaporware.

Meanwhile, I know multiple people who have had their pseudonymous accounts suspended in the past day.
Actually though, no schools in the Ivy League give athletic scholarships [1], and most college sports are revenue neutral.

1: http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/information/psa/index
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Sigh. That's obnoxious - yet another example of software patents confusing proving that an idea is commercially valuable with inventing it in the first place. Anyone with the requisite skills in reverse engineering, compilers, etc. could have told you that hot patching functions in memory is possible and would take at most a few minutes to notice that this may be unsafe if some suspended thread is sitting in a function prolog. Yet "identifying a portion of executable code to be updated in a running computer program; and determining whether it is safe to modify the executable code of the running computer program without having to restart the running computer program" (an actual claim, not the abstract or title quotes that people tend to misconstrue) is now locked out for the next decade or so.
We don't really send any traffic there, so it would be a moot point.
You've been here for almost a year. Have you read the guidelines for HN? Specifically "Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."

In general, comments in this community move the discussion forward. I'd argue that your original comment added nothing to the discussion and was not intended to, which was the reason I downvoted it.
The Rare Earth hypothesis as explained in the book only mentions conditions required for past events leading up to the ascent of humans to occur, and of course this paper adds to the rarity required, but the hypothesis could also extend to conditions required for humans to colonize the galaxy. There's enough rocks out there with gravity large enough for humans to build sealed-city civilizations on, scattered at greater and greater distances away from earth so as to provide incrementally increasing challenges to get to them: the Moon, Mercury, Mars, the 4 Galilean moons of Jupiter, Saturn's Titan, and Neptune's Triton. Then there's the closest, Venus, which is uninhabitable even for sealed cities but provides the challenge of terraforming. When humans can successfully terraform Venus, they're ready for a one-way trip to the stars. And the paper suggests it will be outwards down the Orion spur.
I doubt that anyone was offended. But you will find a very strong negative reaction to jokes in the comments. I think there is a (very wise) desire to avoid a reddit type culture that rewards extended jokes and similar things.

This may well be the community for you, but just be aware that a lot of people are justifiably frightened of what can happen to online communities.

I think a good rule of thumb would be 'would be a waste of someone's time to read this comment'. People value the possibility that we can learn valuable things on Hacker News, but that becomes impossible if you have to wade through layers and layers of pointless jokes.

Not intending to be unwelcoming, but I think it can be a surprise.
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Well... Fortran sucks.
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Here's the wikipedia page for anyone curious: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corexit#Toxicity

There are plenty of links to reliable sources there. Which page were you looking at?
A possibly-related book I've been meaning to read is High Price by Carl Hart.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0062015893/

The thesis seems to be that the entire concept of "addiction" is misleading and inimical to efforts to reduce drug use.
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Huh? None of that hardware vendor gear ever made it to an actual end customer. It's 2014, and the highest connection you'll get in most places is what, 50 mbit? We had that 20 years ago.

Meanwhile, providers pocket the extra money from 20 years of Moores law while nobody on the last mile benefits. It's pretty clear that in the last decades, running an ISP can only have gotten ridiculously easier. And here they are not wanting to provide interconnect bandwidth.
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