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> My pet theory is that money supply and inflation no longer have much of a correlation. In fact, they might never have.

They have stronger correlations in small country economies. The US economy is sort of uniquely positioned in the world and that makes its exception and more complex. I think that with the US economy is that the repercussions of actions are delayed because the interconnections slow reactions down -- although this also lets things get unsustainable before the correction actually takes place.
That was quite interesting. The only thing that doesn't fit well with my life experience is the "high libido" part. The high dopamine crowd seems to be less interested in sex than the average male, in my impression.
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Counterpoints to show that it is just a compromise: The complexity of unicode, collation, encoding, translation, language.

However you're 100% right!

Our application actually used text files on a network share with an indexer over the top as the database engine a long time ago. It worked really well and integrated with NT security and file locking for concurrency control, plus it was very easy to back up. A work of genius. However, NTFS doesn't scale well with lots of small files as it stores them in the MFT so it fell off a cliff eventually.
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interesting project - thanks for pointing it out. I havent much experience with Node but ill have a oplay around with it tonight.

Those ideas are definitely part of what I want to incorporate into 'something' and build on it.

Would be interested in hearing what his use case is for building this, if you can?
> getting under a doorway is an old wives’ tale and

Really? I hadn't heard that before. What are you supposed to do? Sturdy desks/tables would probably be my first inclination, but if that's not available?

> sprinting out of a building onto the sidewalk is probably the worst possible thing you can do.)

Yeah, you just don't have enough time for that.
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Maybe do something about the hate challenges?
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I think most people have that saying the wrong way round. 'The market can temporarily look like it is rational', would seem more accurate.
I think that given the right incentives, people will learn something even if it is dismal and boring, like economics is for a lot of people. I'm sure you can think of some examples. However, as I said in the post above, there is no incentive to understand economics, because there is no penalty for having a stupid political opinion, and really no reward for having a well-informed opinion.
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Each to their own. I find it depressing to watch yet another clueless director desperately trying to make his reputation as a 'fresh talent in opera' with a stage littered with the paraphernalia of modern life and a cast dressed in track and business suits. We can look forward to space suits I suppose or maybe no clothes at all. Are we too dumb to look beyond our own era?
1) I actually think self-driving cars are moving faster than expected. Ten years is still a pretty reasonable guess, considering the pace of governments and the auto industry, but we're closer than I thought we'd be by now.

2) Uber will use self-driving cars, probably exclusively as soon as it's legal.

Uber wants to be the internet of the physical world. With the internet, information could travel anywhere with the tap of a finger. Uber wants the same reduction of friction for objects and people.

The problem for Uber is it's already easy to poach drivers from Uber. Drivers don't care if they drive for Lyft or Uber because the payouts are pretty similar. I've met drivers who switched between both.

When cars drive themselves, Uber will have to become even more competitive to stay on top. The cost of building an Uber-like fleet will be no more than buying the hardware.

Remember how hosting companies proliferated in the 90s and early 00s? Until AWS and similar PaaS options, the hosting space was incredibly fragmented, and the margins were awful. That's what Uber has on the horizon.
Your friend is not well-informed.

If he is a European citizen as you indicate (more exactly, if he is a European resident, as for outside Europe, I have no clue), he will be able to transfer his annuity to his country of residence.

As far as I know, he can do it now or he can do it a few years before going into retirement.

Source : I'm exactly in the same situation and asked at the services of my current country of residence (France)
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In Poland you can use "eee?" which is like "eh" without h, but it's very rarely used as "retransmit" word, I don't remember using it ever. The most common is "co?" meaning "what?". It sounds like "tso?" in english.
Walking distance -- huge asset, even if a lot of spaniards still try to take their air conditioned car (it can get hot out there.)

Neighbors as an asset... not so much. Some neighbors are nice, some are noisy, don't pay the communal expenses, quarrel a lot or fry sardines under your laundry lines. But crime is not a big issue, so in general you don't have to be afraid of your neighbors.
He seemed to have said: "I worked entirely on Plan 9, which I still believe does a pretty good job of solving those fundamental problems."

I would like to hear what exactly was done better in Plan 9 in regards to IPC. If I recall correctly Plan 9 is open source now - is there more development going on now or is it stalled?
Google are working on some kernel help for userspace threads there was an article on lwn.net a while ago. Someone told me yesterday he was seeing a lot of spurious wakeups but hadn't debugged them yet. So I think there is room for improvement.
A warning to OP. Be careful writing chrome extensions that alter Facebook functionality. It's against their ToS. Extension authors have actually had their accounts revoked for producing these.
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(addressed to startup founders who have not yet raised a Series A) What stage are you in with your product ? Can you share the following about your startup..

1. What are your top (upto ten) concerns or problems today ?

2. Can you list them in the order of:

--- i) impact

--- ii) priority timewise (what needs to be taken care of earlier)

3. If you could get a meeting with anyone you wanted, then who would you meet to help you solve each of these problems ?
It got attention before it was associated with Google. It was created by a googler, but it wasn't a Google project from the beginning.
Neovim is a fantastic project, even if you're not interested in vim. They are a model example of how a FOSS kickstarter should be run.
The title of this is "0 most creative 404 pages", so I thought I'd click on it and get a 404 page.

Alas. It was a typo and not a terrible joke. Love creative 404s though!
They did at least used to have a discussion/comments section on each documentation page, which I often found at least as useful as the actual docs.

And then they removed them, because, umm, maybe they were too useful, who knows! :(
The title here is a canard. The article does not explore the question of Beethoven's impact on his successors, it is taken for granted. This piece reviews a bunch of recent books about Beethoven (mostly concerning his personal, political and artistic life, not his legacy).
First of all, thanks for your time.

I would like to build a single page application for one of my customer. Application is not very complex (nothing like a financial or manufacturing applications). It will be public application and possible traffic/load is completely unknown.

I choose that stack because of fashion. I would like to learn another way to develop. I am quite happy with my existing stack. If i use my stack, project can be also scale-able and asynchronous enough to create modern app.

My plan is also continue with the hybrid stack, so back-end is going to be a REST Api with ASP.Net Web Api secured with OWIN/Katana. I am planning to use new stack only for presentation layer so far.

I slightly disagree your find an existing framework and continue approach. Because in my opinion if i code everything i will learn more(i know with pain). Choosing framework/package will also take tremendous time for beginner of the stack.

Do you think learning a new stack because of a fashion is valid reason ?
> we need real-world examples of systems being upgraded into which only minimal tweaking of the init system has gone

I am in that group (having a bunch of debian servers, ranging from "~5 years old upgraded one release at a time" to "~6 months old and installed from scratch"); converted them all to systemd; have found it to work fine and I am enjoying the extra features :)
high valuation comes from people paying high prices, mainly from China. if these people were to default or sell mode it would push the real estate valuation down significantly.
I consider Mooz's Keysnail Firefox add-on to be the most impressive keyboard oriented browsing tool. It's endlessly configurable, dotfiles in javascript--really nice to work with.

For Chrome, the Vimium extension is very good, but recently I've been having a lot of fun with a similar, more configurable alternative called chromium-vim.

Keysnail: https://github.com/mooz/keysnail/wiki
Vimium: http://vimium.github.io/
chromium-vim: https://github.com/1995eaton/chromium-vim
He is a writer. He writes articles. That's an honourable profession.
Neutral mouth state in your language. That distinction is kind of the point. It also begins with an aspiration which some languages do not have.
I had the same feeling, but after 6 months is seems more natural than jQuery. It's kind of like git. You have to change your mindset coming from SVN.
We can say fashion and learning. Code doesn't contain any logic.

TS is only way of writing JavaScript. Which doesn't affect on architecture.

So I would like to hear your comment about, can i use this project as a seed project for my future projects ?
The one advantage of video tutorials is that they keep the viewer's attention more easily, particularly for viewers that aren't proficient with text searching and making mental summaries. Some people will get through the text, but without varied sensorial anchors getting stored in their memory they are left feeling confused, like they failed to grasp it as a whole (even if they actually did.)
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The French do not say "huh".
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It's not dumb, it's just low level. Just like theads. Applications should be programmined in application level programming languages providing higher level notions such as monitors or actors, not threads and fork(2). A forking operation, at the appplication level, is a semantic operation that must be processed explicitely and specifically by the application (by each object having underlying threads).

The proof that the problem vs. forking is not threads, is that the worse example given in the article referenced, that of file I/O, occurs as well in processes without threads (or "single-thread" processes if you want): if you write to a file from both the parent and the child, you must take precautions at the application level. This has nothing to do with threads.
Yeah, they just learned a valuable manufacturer lesson: YOU do the QA, not the manufacturer

"The test procedure correctly tested the Microview’s functionality (display graphics, toggled GPIOs, etc) but did not test the upload functionality (minor detail...)"

True, but they can test for the presence of the bootloader ;)

I'm not blaming them really, manufacturing something and shipping is hard
Only related insofar there is a common cause. QE isn't the cause of the easy money in SV. Demand in the economy is still low, which means there is no sensible place for people to park their money. So SV looks more attractive because startups aren't affected much by the general state of economy. The low interest rates and QE certainly don't hurt, though.
I would like to see a map showing where all this money is going by office location, coded for number of employees, as one thing that does seem odd for many of us outside a few very select areas is that we are hearing about this mega-splooge of massive quantities of cash, but very little of it seems to be filtering through to the wider economy. As far as I can tell it is being spent in very concentrated regions on relatively small amounts of people, largely on businesses that are trying to target the pockets of a rapidly shrinking middle class, which doesn't particularly bode well.
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Also as the suggestion was for a learning/experience exercise, running into someone like that is a useful life lesson especially if things turn out well in the end.

Being able to work around such problems (often it is a matter of carefully controlling your tone & presentation, including being aware that the person on the other end knows nothing about you and has no body language cues to gauge your behaviour from so you have to be more careful to be very clear in your intent than you would in real life) and find the common ground needed to cooperate is a very useful life skill.
"Oh my GAWD MOM! YOU ALWAYS DO THIS! squeals hysterically"
> The one advantage of video tutorials is that they keep the viewer's attention more easily

Not mine. The information per unit of time is so low so my mind start to drift or I start doing something else and forget about the video. Much prefer text that I can skim and find the parts that are relevant to what I need to do and simply skip the sections that seems to be most fluff.
Here is this seasons concert line up for the 2 operas[1] (Garnier and Bastille) in Paris:

Rachmaninov, Schubert, Schonberg, Brahms, Beethoven (x6!), Mahler, Herrman, Barber, Mozart, Rota, Dvorak, Lekeu, Chausson, DeBussy

I'm not familiar with some of the names. I think Rota is a modern composer. But most of those names are composers who have been buried.

[1] http://www.operadeparis.fr/en
I felt the same, and then I found Vue: http://vuejs.org/
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You catch a good spot, thanks ! In future i will create multiple controllers, sure depends with the logical concern.

I will read read style guide and ng-annotate.

Unit testing is crucial you are right. I need to add to seed project.

By the way what do you think about this article ?
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Indeed - ASCII is not "universal". It's just common.

Hand someone who's no knowledge of ASCII some ASCII bytes, and no compliant editors, and see how hard it is to figure out they're dealing with the English alphabet.

ASCII mostly benefits from being a single-byte format - if a tool parses ASCII, then it's very easy for humans to go "right, that's English" looking at the output.

But this would be just as true if we had tools which handled Unicode (and most editors do exactly that now). Or it we had some other type of common binary standard which also encoded units.

It's all about the metadata - which isn't necessarily always in-band.
slash to view source is what lynx uses.
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You are right - ajuc, lmm, ObviousScience - text as digital form is most convenient form of communication. Also - thanks to all kind of text tools You were able to understand all those messages, and to be honest - I also used Google Translate to make them. Medium is important. My point is the text itselft, each letter, is kind of picture. We learned that particular pictures can be placed together and they will represent some words. We make tools which can write in those pictures allowing us to communicate. Author of this post make difference between pictures and text. And of course - on simple level - there is obvious difference. But using more metathinking about communication - text, letters, signs like in japanese or jidish, are in fact simplified images. We just made them usable at different way than paintings or ilustrations and called it "text".
I don't even start the video. They are almost always just marketing and hyperbole anyway. I assume that if they went through all the troubles of creating a video they must also have the information in much-easier-to-produce text form. This has come back to bite me only a few times when somebody points out information in an introduction video that is not covered in the "Introduction" page of the manual, but I consider the win of not having to sit through boring hour-long sales pitches much greater than the abysmal information loss.
Maybe this is the right place to ask something that really confuses me: Why hasn't anyone really challenged Google at their core business (Adsense/Adwords)?

For all the menacing Whatsapp can pose to FB, advertisement is a much larger market, with a clear path to profitability. The problem is not simple, but not outlandish either.

Yet, candidates such as Bing and, at one time, Yahoo, continuously fail to properly serve this market.
Do they say anywhere what exactly it means for a country to have 'net neutrality', 'safe harbours' etc?
I aggree. Konqueror is no niche browse, it's the grandfather of half the mainline browsers.
>One of the surprising features of Isaacson’s latest book, coming, as it does, after his biography of Steve Jobs—who is generally, though not entirely correctly, understood to be the model of the radical (and congenitally irascible) American —is that it is a paean to cooperation, to the idea of force-multiplication through collective effort and, in particular, to the transformative power of the diamond triangle of industry, academia and government.

I read the article till I encountered this. I guess some people may be able to parse this in one pass. So just wanted to ask: does anyone feel any enjoyment when he/she encounters such a statement?
I see you are being down voted. I do understand your view point, but I don’t see where politics comes in and unfortunately this story is far from mainstream. Now maybe if this happened to Kim or Miley then it would be mainstream, off topic, and something would change.
I also recommend documentary shown on National Geographic about this flight. I believe it's one of the Air Crash Investigation series.
I don't know why you're getting so heavily downvoted for this, because every question you raise is absolutely right.

There's a lot of western, programmer central specific quirks being raised which don't necessarily translate across time or culture.
Indeed! At one point a "computer" was a person, and this was also a field where women were relatively well represented (when compared to other fields during the same time periods).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_computer
> I don't think my brain interprets letters individually, but my eyes mostly catch word by word, hence a picture.

That's a normal thing. You read words based on their outline rather than individual letters, what with the bits that stick upwards (ascenders) and downwards (descenders). Which is why ALL CAPS TEXT IS A LOT HARDER TO READ QUICKLY, and why if you jmuble some lettres in a few wrods you can still read them with relative ease.

So the way humans read text is still kind of image based - you match a word based on a preexisting idea of what they should look like. It's just they're coincidentally easy to read by computers, too.
Don't we already have Nachos for students?

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they take words too seriously
Just a thought, but before that crash, I wasn't actually using ANY of the websites that were valued so high. And I think not a lot of people really were?

I read about the big investments back then, but to me, they never became more than a headline. Never a place to visit. More like "a place that I should visit, sometime in the future". It was full of promise, not of value.

Though now, I use and actually pay for many services. I feel like they add a certain value that, back then, nothing did.

Now, a billion dollar is a lot. But A billion people is too.
How do you propose "must function as C++ does" happens if not through understading C++'s uses?

As I said, it can also be done unintentionally (you create a new language without studing how C++ is used, and it gets adoption in place of C++), but this is far less likely and quite random.

If one really wants to create a replacement for a language, he should very much study the language he wants to replace, and find what he needs to provide in his new language and what he can improve.

The thing you added that, "no, he can just create a replacement" (without needing to study the previous language), might very well be possible in theory but it's very much improbable.

If you want adoption from C++ users and from projects C++ is used and for the kinds of stuff C++ excels, you pragmatically need to study C++ and how it's used, period. That was the case for Rust, for D, for Java and C# earlier, and of course C++ (who studies C with that intent). That was also not the case for Go, and that's one reason why Go (by Pike's own admission) failed to gain traction from C++ users.

Of course success is not guaranteed, but merely making a "superior language" is not a way to get C++ users off C++ (or any other language).
Someone should tell them that the names "XFS" and "APL" are already taken.
Agreed. I actually run all my 'speech' (e.g. presentation, tutorial etc) videos at 1.5x or 2x. Cutting a 30 minute video down to 15 is really, really awesome. Particularly when the guy speaks slowly, when he already speaks fast I'll do 1.25x or 1.5x.

I do this on youtube and things like treehouse. The reason I tend to watch youtube on my tablet in the browser and not the app is because the app doesn't allow this and my brain goes numb.

That having been said, I really love video for some things. For example, I'd much rather listen to Greenwald's speech at Brown on civil liberties than read the equivalent article. I tend to clean my room or play Pro Evolution Soccer while doing so and somehow that works brilliantly. I can't quite keep the same concentration when I read for 30 minutes.

But it really depends. If I want to look up some code documentation, that format is a billion times better in text than video. If I'm somewhat familiar with the topic, know what I'm looking for, the ability to easily skip over introductions, side topics and history and just Ctrl+F for e.g. a piece of code, it can save an order of magnitude of time. I tend to like videos for things I'm wholly unfamiliar with and want to listen to from start to finish, which frankly is pretty limited.
All that will happen is people will no longer be able to make a living being a musician in a big name orchestra. Classical music will go on, musicians who love playing will keep playing, and audiences will keep listening. The only thing missing will be the money.
If you need to carry "seizable" amounts of money around, you should put that in an envelope along with a written statement that describes the purpose. And if possible, the envelope should be sealed by a solicitor.

I like to see what happens then. It should be a sufficient hurdle.
Even here graphics can help. You're probably familiar with this: http://almy.us/image/dungeon.jpg Drawing maps - visualizing what is conveyed in text in other ways in general - can be rewarding and useful.
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