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Are you by chance in your early twenties?

The core message is that animal years map very badly to human years.

During the first twenty years, we are busy with development. The fertility part is gender specific, and lasts about 25 to 30 years in women and much longer in men. Conflating active years with fertility is a problematic idea. Maturity is a very fuzzy concept, but cortical development is commonly not considered complete until the mid-twenties. The variance in energy is probably higher compared across different individuals than across different age groups. Health problems also vary greatly from person to person, but it's fair to say that crossing 40 risk factors for everything go up dramatically.

How many active years humans get out of their life is subject to great individual variation. Some get zero. Others are highly productive for 60+ years. But I agree it's not enough - that's why we need transhuman advances in science. Less than a Guard of Terra, maybe more like a Space Marine ;)
i found it a bit jarring that pg has bought into the idea of "known boring ideas" - there is little that is not interesting to somebody. i would cheerfully read books on literary theory, for instance, and i'm sure that doing middle management cleanly and efficiently involves challenges that are interesting to people who are intrinsically interested in group dynamics and effort-to-result optimisation.
Angry Birds maker Rovio lays off 130 staff and tries to 'reignite growth'
Mailing list discussion https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/django-developers/Te...
Nice keyboard, too. Must sound like a machine gun going off when you're "in the zone."
Cavium sponsors FreeBSD's ARMv8 implementation
Posting this here because I have the same issue with my 3 day old iPhone 6.
Could Netflix start offering discounts to customers of more reasonable ISPs?
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Some of the things I've learned at university are pretty interesting and fun to play with. Now, notice the "fun to play" with part. Some thing require a lot of investment (both money and time) in order to be learned. So, I believe it's not unfeasible to want to start a company so that you can fund your curiosity and learn the new things. The company itself might fail, or might not, but I believe as long as the purpose was to learn something new, failing is not as bad. If you start a company thinking this is the future, and you put value in making money as opposed to learning, then failing is losing.
Is there a Chrome plugin that automatically converts feet, miles,pounds, gallons and quarts(??) into metric units on the currently open page? I really enjoy these articles but having to look up how much "3500 quarts" is in litres is super annoying.
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Does continuous deployment mean not bothering to test your work anymore?
Is It Time for a DBMS Mass Extinction?
Deep Habits: Don’t Web Surf During the Work Day
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Uhm for example because office/onenote on android/iphone works great and are completely cross-platform (with Linux you are confined to the browser but oh well)?
Interesting point. Genuine question: you don't feel that basically free degree courses are, with some individual cases to the contrary, sure, still a massive net benefit to social mobility?
Is the borders around it necessary? Because personally I think that it would look great without the borders. Or is it to simulate the roundness of the monitor?
Is finding a different company an option for you? If you feel you are qualified enough, it might be worth taking a look at slightly bigger companies that have the resources to provide more structure.
You cannot simply brush aside this issue. Even if we have 100% safe reactors, generating waste that is deadly in a thousand years is simply not a good idea, no paranoia involved.

Besides: nuclear had its chance - they blew it because of greed and sloppiness, the usual thing that happens when large organizations deal with complex issues. I am 100% sure that even with novel reactor designs the same "human factor" would generate accidents like we have seen with the old designs.
Unfixable. Use ninja instead.
I got voted down for my answer funny. While no doubt the olden days are romanticized I agree. No one is saying hormones have changed. The cultural stigma, parental control, and other factors kept them in check more. This is undeniable.
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My question is: Where did you learn more?
I think the fuzziness is a problem to assess treatment, and such a test would help sort different clinical realities behind that admittedly vague behavioural claim. Right now, the choice between the several treatment options (diet, exercice, talk-therapy, drugs; electro-choc and neurosurgery for the worst cases) are given based on more patient's consent than on scientific distinction between the possible issue with the underlying mechanism. It is great to give patient that choice: agency certainly helps for early on-sets. However, it's not enough.

Depression is the result of factors: live events, recreational drug use, bad habits, genetic conditions -- but just considering those is still too vague. Having biological tests (imaging, blood samples, genetic) would help a classification that could be a great help. It certainly was with cancer, a single word that covers entirely different diseases.
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> Still interesting though that silicon is so plentiful.

It makes sense if you look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_nucleosynthesis since carbon, silicon, oxygen and iron are some of the main results.

What's more odd is just how useful silicon-dioxide and iron is for building planets! Some of the most plentiful elements, just so happen to be perfect for making planets.

And carbon with its amazing array of compounds no other element can match is also plentiful.

Then you have iron which is the end result of this process, which just so happens to be perfect for building man-made things. It's strong, yet unlike the other strong elements, iron is also easy to work.

And water - oxygen and hydrogen, very common elements. And water expands when it freezes, if not for that small small, non-obvious thing, life could not exist.

The most abundant elements, the ones that don't need a supernova, just so happen to also be the most useful ones. Well, it's pretty obvious to me this universe was designed specifically for us.
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It depends a lot on the context. Richard Stallman defines hacking as "playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not". In the context of hacking, change for the sake of change is perfectly fine. You don't always have to move forward and get things done. Leave that for the corporate world where your goal is to make money. Many of us have learnt a lot just by switching programming languages many times and rewriting stuff. We're not losing time, we're learning in the process, and most importantly, we enjoy it, because that's what hacking is about.
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In an ideal world, that would be possible, yes. But a company does need to make some money, even if only to pay its founders for their time. That money can come from investments, but if you start a company just to learn new stuff you'll have a hard time finding those.
No real words? I just ran my script through a list of the most common english words, and it returned 4k .IO domains. I'll post them if anyone's interested.
Hank Green: Why am I using this shitty iPhone 4
Actually nicotine is apparently not the addictive part of smoking, rather other chemicals in tobacco are.

Anecdotally I can confirm I've smoked e-cigarettes quite heavily for a few months then stopped cold turkey and had zero withdrawal or cravings, but I occasionally feel a desire for smoking a cigar quite strongly despite having them at a rate averaging a few a year.

EDIT: Not majorly addictive, rather than not addictive at all.

[ref]:http://www.gwern.net/Nicotine
You're right that memSQL absoutely crawls when it is set to "fully-durable" mode where it has to sync write to the disk. But it was never built for the use-case, and I guess that's missing the point.

memSQL, AFAIK, was built for highly concurrent reads and writes. It uses lock-free in-memory data structures, couple that with an eventually-durable mode, in addition to optimizing queries by the way of re-compiling SQL to CPP (something similar to what HHVM does for PHP), I think it would result in performance gains in certain (and not all) use-cases.

memSQL, if we dare simplify, is really a high-throughput cache front-ending an eventually-durable datastore.

I wonder how would RocksDB + a disk-backed DB measure upto memSQL.

Ref: http://dom.as/2012/06/26/memsql-rage/
Bought by Apple Inc. for OS X. It predates OS X by a few years.
Learn something about project management. Just the fact you think agile and scrum are better than TODO lists is huge redflag.

Try to interact more with customers. Are they happy with our work?

Try to relax little bit and look at it from fun side. Read dilbert, thedailywtf and so on.

And finally perhaps consider to change profession. Programming is 'default' choice for many people, but you might be happier elsewhere.
Ham radio exams, algorithms, and scaling on the fly
One thing I never quite understood: in a home computing context, what is the advantage of having a system like CP/M, compared to, say, using a BASIC interpreter which includes the same commands?
Here's a link to the actual project:

https://github.com/krestenkrab/erlubi

And here's what it uses to do the graphs, which is pretty cool in its own right:

http://ubietylab.net/ubigraph/

Too bad it's not open source software, though.
I'd argue that the LG Prada beat the iPhone in terms of the first capacitive phone with a touch-centric UI. However I can't comment on how good it's browser was; but even the Prada aside, you make a very good point about how other handsets had terrible web browsers. In fact "terrible" is possibly being too kind.
Why next Windows is version 10 instead of 9
You can become psychologically dependent on it.

I would definitely consider myself being 'addicted' in that sense when I smoked pot.

I didn't get any joy out of recreational activities I was engaging in unless I was high first. I always felt like like the buzz wasn't as good as it could have been if I were high.

A few months after quitting that went away though.

Weed also made me lazy and paranoid after a while, so it was actively damaging to me.

I don't smoke anymore.
I was just butt-dialed this morning (2am) by a friend at a concert in Morocco. Something that never happened with clamshells.
* TL;DR from http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTgwMjE *

>> CUPS 2.0 has greater security around its scheduler, various OS X specific improvements, systemd support, support for TLS certificate validation and policy enforcement, updates to all Linux man pages, dropped OpenSSL in favor of GNU TLS, dropped support for AIX / HP-UX / OSF/1 architectures, and various other changes.
I wish printing was harder. I have piles of slides filling my desk. Slides on paper, printed by someone else, pages that have been barely read once, their information is already outdated and the contents could have been collectively read from a white screen in the meetings.

Using Linux since 1995 forced me into paperless thinking, because printing used to be hard. And these days, with all those smartphone, tablet, laptop, ereader etc. screen it should be virtually unnecessary in office environments. But still people just keep on printing everything.

I hope there is some terrible fault in CUPS that makes people to think, that trying to print this is not worth the trouble</semisarcasm>
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I wanted that program badly, there never was a linux port, never got a chance to give them money, now I don't need it.

Almost bought a mac just for that app :p

I'd still buy it if it were available on linux, it's still prettier than this, even though this is very very good.
Wonga to write off debts of £220m for 330,000 customers
There was also http://www.findsway.com/ , the failed Tinder wannabe that was available on Android before Tinder. The exclusivity of popular iOS apps (mainly this...all those doods hooking up tho) somewhat contributed to my 5s purchase. I was using Sway just before it came out and would find something like 10 people with the maximum search radius and age range xD Anyways, I have since deleted my accounts and uninstalled both of these apps.
No, Of course not :)
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That's what old monitors looked like. They had big thick plastic bezels all around the screen.
But what if you're targeting the browser? Is the strict mode supported?
Google Trends – “learn to code” vs. “learn to program” vs. “make apps”
Way to dodge the question...
Plenty of people on both sides really wanted to use them. Nobel Peace Prize winner, Kissinger, being one of them. Fortunately, cooler heads held the launch codes and we all prevailed.
the gains of coffeescript quite clear

As someone who has been writing JavaScript for 15 years and has never felt like writing it is a struggle I would ask... are they?

I don't know what it solves. Writing a language designed to be written by hand in another language and then transpiled to the first language you have to know in the first place to be any good at it has always seemed like a horrible non-solution. You don't know what you've actually written at that point.
JavaScript is a wonderful place to sow your wild oats and create your own object-orientation schemes, its prototypal inheritance is wonderfully powerful and fun to play with.

However when you get to building non-trivial systems with javascript you need to pick a style and stick with it. In that regard you can do much worse than CoffeeScript.
Excuse me, does eventually-durable means some time yes, some time no?)

To put in another way - does any bank would accept eventually-durable as its financial transaction storage?

More seriously, without error propagation to the client, such that it could "know immediately" which one of his transactions failed, there is no durability at all.

Ask all these telecom guys - without immediately returned ASK packets and timeouts a protocol cannot be called "reliable".
This kind of languages is extremely useful, since many problems maps nicely to a logical or relational model.

I'm using a PAIP-style embedded Prolog and an optimised Datalog for fast prototyping compiler passes - things like alias analysis, implementing type systems (e.g., Hindley-Milner maps to Prolog naturally), constant folding, DCE, Array-SSA, and many more.

Harlan is using cKanren for region inference and some other passes.

A nice motivational paper (on Datalog): http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aldrich/courses/654/tools/bierhoff-bd...
There are definitely more than those listed. Vela incident, for instance...

I know that this seems deep into tin-foil-hat territory, but do you recall Chelyabinsk? Lots of evidence to point to it being hit by an AMM (probably Gazelle) with a mini-nuke warhead.
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This is like a lot of "religious" language comparisons. It's written by someone who is intimately familiar with one and (appears to be) fleetingly familiar with the other.

The author makes some odd assumptions about CoffeeScript's intentions, ie language reduction and protecting against "evil code". All of this ignores the real main benefit, which is cleaner syntax, which means less finger typing and easier comprehension of a large and complex code base.

There was a time when JavaScript was the only real choice for browser-based web development. There were compilation tools like GWT, but they were heavyweight and generated the JavaScript equivalent of binary, completely detached from the source code. Now that the JavaScript++ languages are here (CoffeeScript, TypeScript) and well-supported in the browser thanks to source maps, I find it hard to imagine why people continue using raw JavaScript with all the bloated keywords, curly braces, etc (apart from legacy code bases). Usually it's because they haven't used anything else, and are content to focus on the negative of Coffee etc and stick to what they already know.
Surely you can (and should) 'use strict' in browser.
Most people throw away the cigar butt, I imagine cigar butt investing is picking up other people's leftovers.
Hmm. I wonder if there's something wrong with my config then. Does it not look like this [1] for you?

[1] https://imgur.com/PMBofq0
Go print a set of backup codes for google! It'll be 10 9-digit numbers, use them when you lose your phone.
Technically you could take a photo of it, process it then chuck it into a recycling bin :).
Sure. But isn't it up to Mozilla, rather than its partners, to announce the release of their Firefox OS?

I can see no release announcements in this blog, either.
From a couple of people I know who used to be alcoholics none of them touches alcohol any more. It’s like they’re afraid that if they drink even a glass of wine they might roll back to old habits.

As a side note, most alcoholics I’ve met advised me never to drink while at home. I never had any problem with drinking in my life, actually I can’t even understand how people get addicted to it in the first place since if I drink a lot I can’t function in a proper way, but I’ve followed that advice like it’s a small pearl of wisdom.

On the other hand, as someone who was addicted to nicotine I totally concur with the article. One morning I decided to quit it cold turkey and aside from the fact that the withdrawal phase was quite severe, I never looked back after it. I’m 8 years now free from cigarettes and I don’t miss them at all.
The sources for MS DOS 1.1 and 2.0 are available as well, if you'd like to compare them: http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/microsoft-ms-dos-early-...
Forbes: Google Deliberately Weakens Open Source Android
I wonder if it's more subtle than that - if your paper has associated source code, then it's likely that people reading it might try it out, and the ideas that you've presented will stick around more than a short paper with no follow up material.

In other words, papers are only a short glimpse into your research, presenting code allows an interested reader to look deeper, and means that they're more likely to remember what you've done, and cite it later.
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thx.

how about this icon https://twitter.com/krzyzanowskim/status/517604674074341376 ;-) it's not mine, not mine.
Given that they're both open source, built to the same open standard, and (at least nominally) completely interoperable, I'd say "complement" would be a better word than "rival."
>There is no important gains in sight that justify moving to js.

Getting rid of a dubious build step that doesn't get any real advantage in this project, but makes it slightly more obscure for people unfamiliar with CoffeeScript (and a lot of new developers don't bother to learn it now that ES6 is quite tolerable)?
To be fair the number of HP-UX and AIX machines that need to be connected to printers can probably be counted on one hand.
That's a remarkably sharp display and clean keyboard you've got there, it looks like it was unboxed yesterday!
>the United States unofficially used small nuclear warheads in the post-911 invasion

I find that unlikely. Do you have any source for this statement?
The splash page is pretty enough in a generic sort of way, but nothing works with JavaScript disabled, which is quite unfortunate.
We just transitioned our code base to "use strict". If you use it in combination with a module system it works painlessly, and indeed prevents some classes of bugs.
There are also adjustable eye glasses which you can focus yourself:

https://www.adlens.com/

https://www.eyejusters.com/home/

Unfortunately in the US they cannot sell nearsighted glasses without a prescription.
Is this why Microsoft named it Windows 10?
What I usually do is to use this website http://www.vidtomp3.com to convert the youtube video to audio. Works flawlessly.
Tracy Morgan: ‘I Can’t Believe Walmart Is Blaming Me’ for Accident Injuries
OK, a long read, but at the end it seems that she was actually even older than the equivalent of 200 human years? :)
Thanks for that. I hadn't realised that most (large) commodity systems these days had a NUMA setup. I thought it was relegated to the more esoteric end of things (super computer setup, single-system-image clusters).

Thanks - I can see that blindly treating NUMA memory as "uniform random access" is going to hurt.
Is Code Complete the planned or actual date when Firefox OS reaches this stage? I didn't see any news regarding 2.0 around September, 1.

Is the release model significantly different from Android, where Google publicly announces the release of each version, even if it will still take some time for phone manufacturers to incorporate this version into their releases?
Why don't you volunteer to improve the design of the webpages of the OSS projects that you think would need it?
Two points with regards to that: 1) Parallel construction has nothing to do with the iPhone encryption issue. 2) People tend to overlook a few key points from the original Reuters article[1] that introduced the concept of parallel construction:

(emphasis mine)

"...Today, the SOD offers at least three services to federal, state and local law enforcement agents: coordinating international investigations such as the Bout case; distributing tips from overseas NSA intercepts, informants, foreign law enforcement partners and domestic wiretaps; and circulating tips from a massive database known as DICE. ...

...Wiretap tips forwarded by the SOD usually come from foreign governments, U.S. intelligence agencies or court-authorized domestic phone recordings. Because warrantless eavesdropping on Americans is illegal, tips from intelligence agencies are generally not forwarded to the SOD until a caller's citizenship can be verified, according to one senior law enforcement official and one former U.S. military intelligence analyst."

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/05/us-dea-sod-idUSBRE....
Why did Microsoft skip Windows 9?
Opponents argue that it is of a small net benefit to the middle classes and those who do well at school first time round.

They suggest that those who require to use college to gain entrance to university and those who cannot afford to be supported through four years of higher education (grants and loans being unable to cover living costs) are left out (along with young people who simply want to learn a trade) in favour of those that can afford it.

I, however, was very careful to not bring personal politics into this ;-)