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Does anyone enjoy programming while high on cannabis? I don't think I actually accomplish that much, but I do tend to enjoy it and have solved some nasty bugs with a fresh look. I've heard mixed feelings on the subject though.
I wish I had the permissions to downvote your comment.
Who says they justified the distinction?
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This is an old article, and so wrong and vague in so many aspects of digital colors. It contains not much more than simple device-dependent RGB/HSV colors.

To use colors correctly (not many programmers can do this, in fact Chrome/Firefox/Safari don't show the same color for same RGB value on my machine), programmer needs to consider color profiles, gamma correction, white point etc. The sad truth is that RGB is mostly misunderstood from intuition, and most graphic libraries don't deal with device-dependencies at all. Luckily, most engineers don't have to deal with colors outside sRGB.

The absolute best place to read about digital colors (or image processing in general) is efg's references: http://www.efg2.com/Lab/Library/Color/Science.htm. It contains overwhelmingly large amount of info, but they are good info and quite essential for professional work.
Its rare, but actually good health insurance exists here. I'm young/healthy enough that I haven't hit the limit of coverage, but I understand that's pretty hard to do, and deductibles/co-pays/drug costs are all reimbursable.

That said, I understand its a fairly unique situation.
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And if there were no licenses, we wouldn't have this troubling situation where the licenses are secret.
the thing that has got me excited about learning go some day is that it's supposed to be really good at cross-compiling code into small, standalone binaries for the three major platforms (linux, windows, osx). haxe is another language on my radar for much the same write-once-deploy-all-over-the-place reason.
As a C++ programmer, I'm waiting for C++ZZ where ZZ is the version that has a sane module system. Something like Cargo isn't even on the radar for C++ developers for a lot of reasons, but many of them can be traced back to textual inclusion.
Unlike other languages that are "done" at 1.0, Rust will still be improving and iterating. 1.0 defines a backwards-compatible release that you can depend on but the language won't be "done".

"It’s important to be clear about what we mean by stable. We don’t mean that Rust will stop evolving. We will release new versions of Rust on a regular, frequent basis, and we hope that people will upgrade just as regularly. But for that to happen, those upgrades need to be painless." [0]

[0]: http://blog.rust-lang.org/2014/10/30/Stability.html
So why are you in vancouver when seattle is realllllly close.
IMO a question all blogs and media sites need to ask is kind of like: "Am I creating a community or a television channel?"

I grew up on the web, and the multi-directionality of it as a medium (including blog comments) has set my standards for the way I want to consume information (and interact with it). I don't trust information flowing to me that can't be annotated, corrected, and augmented by the wisdom of the crowd it's reaching.

It's Reuters' perogative to do this, but I think it just makes Reuters.com exactly like Reuters TV, it gives them a lot more control, but they're leaving a lot of opportunity on the table. That's usually what I expect from $30b companies though.

I look forward to having plenty of interactive communities to learn the same stuff on for the rest of humanity, even if Reuters is no longer one of them.
IMO a question all blogs and media sites need to ask is kind of like: "Am I creating a community or a television channel?"

I grew up on the web, and the multi-directionality of it as a medium (including blog comments) has set my standards for the way I want to consume information (and interact with it). I don't trust information flowing to me that can't be annotated, corrected, and augmented by the wisdom of the crowd it's reaching.

It's Reuters' perogative to do this, but I think it just makes Reuters.com exactly like Reuters TV, it gives them a lot more control, but they're leaving a lot of opportunity on the table. That's usually what I expect from $30b companies though.
> "Master" is the actual name that is going to be conflicting...

Yes, but... Just like in git, "master" points to one and only one commit, but the pointed-to commit might be different in the future. The name of each commit is a guaranteed-unique-for-the-forseeable-future hash of the contents of each commit. That name never, ever changes.

If you want a particular commit, you use its unique, non-human-friendly name. If you just want a particular branch and don't care too much about any particular commit, you use its collision-prone human-friendly name. Naming of branches and/or projects is still going to be "hard". Naming of particular releases/versions of code is not.
By what measure does Silicon Valley have good final results to show? Simply GDP per capita or something of that sort?

I lived in the SF Bay Area for years, and I left in part because it was such a bad place to live, which to me does not seem like a very good showing. I now live in Copenhagen, and if you want to talk about results to show for an economy, Copenhagen is better in every way I can think of. It's just a nicer place to live. It has less poverty, lower crime, lower incarceration, better transit, better healthcare, sidewalks are not covered in human feces, homeless rate is massively lower, housing is more affordable, there is a more experimental startup culture, offices are more affordable, unemployment is low, etc.

I can believe that SF is richer numerically, but walking around Copenhagen subjectively feels like a much more economically successful city. SF's is a weird kind of segregated wealth: there are some very rich people, driving expensive cars and living in penthouses, but the area overall has a lot of poverty and a ton of social problems, and does not subjectively feel wealthy to me. If I have to worry about stepping in feces or being mugged, to me that is not a mark of a particularly successful economic system, or the mark of an area that is desirable to live in.
Yes, 'frequent' can be a relative term, but I see it down once every few days.
I suppose you've noticed it returns high scores for spurious replies to hiring ads, or at least it did for me. Nevertheless I adore the idea. Hang in there!
What org? Never heard of this rule.
I think the target audience is not the people who are in the industry, rather the ones that are still in the 20th century. I know several oldtimer business owner who just don't get how you could even possibly think of something like agile, non-planned work hours or similar stuff.
I think http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/09/17/ramit-sethi-and-patrick-... and http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/09/21/ramit-sethi-and-patrick-... are good places to start. If you have specific questions about your circumstances, you can probably act on the invitation here: http://www.kalzumeus.com/standing-invitation/.
Also try the iOS port. https://github.com/iziz/libPhoneNumber-iOS

Really nice.
Yes, I think Europe has us beat on so many levels. I get
hammered for admitting this, but living in the U.S. is stressful, and unrewarding on so many levels. There are
many things to like about living here; political freedom, religious freedom, a system that eventually catches corrupt
individuals, it's great for the wealthy. Now the negative;
absolute slavery to your career/job, and making money/paper!
I have seen people do horrendous things in order to get ahead financially. No, most people don't break the law in
order to make money, but they break many moral laws. I have
a successful sister who has literally lied and backstabed
family members/friends in order to live in a good neighborhood in Los Angeles. Why do Americans work
themselfs to death? Because there's a reality that's all to
real here, and it's Homelessness. I am a proud American, but my list of our good traits is getting smaller each decade. I watch that program on T.V. about the Amish, and
I literally tear up at how materialistic/evil Westerners have become. (Yes--I want to eventually live somewhere in Europe). Start the down voting--
There's countervailing inefficiencies in America. Just to touch on a few:

We don't train people; they're expected to self-finance virtually all training. This often leads to a severely undertrained workforce, partially masked by immigration. When potential employees self-direct training, it also leads to mismatches between employer needs and employee training.

Following the lead of employers, employees have discovered theres no loyalty at all and hence treat employment as an adversarial relationship. Witness, eg, the bullshit from asshole Mark Suster. Your employer retains the right to drop you for any reason, or no reason at all, with no termination pay or help... but you better not go down the street for a better offer. Loyalty flows upwards only!

It's an enormous risk to develop very deep skills in a tiny niche: that niche may go out of need, and as an employee, you're just fucked. No serious assistance retraining. Zero assurance that, after your one year of unemployment benefits are up, society won't shrug and say, "Tough fucking luck; welcome to poverty."

The incredible overpriced mess that is us healthcare. We spend roughly 2x as much as anyone else in the developed world, for mostly worse outcomes. With way more friction.

The debacle of US infrastructure, particularly in a place like the valley. Poor and overpriced telecommunications. Incredibly high housing costs. Terrible transportation. No real attempt to address any of the above. Endless whining that there aren't enough engineers, but an unwillingness to pay trained engineers from the midwest or west or south enough money to afford anything like an equivalent life. Contrast to tokyo: if an engineer were paid $50k to live in the valley, they'd be living in their car. In tokyo, there's developed enough transportation systems this is manageable.

Lack of support for parents: from very modest time off for parents, to expensive daycare ($300-$500 per week for an under-two year old child), to a dozen other issues. One parent takes a huge productivity cut or the parents hire a nanny for $25k+/year.
I've dealt with more than a few designers handling solicited corporate website redesigns and one of the most critical issues I see back are "That looks really great, but where is our logo?" Yours looks like a fine example of a pretty design but you've trampled all over their brand in favour of your own palette and taste. Different Y, different spacing, different colours. You've designed something for a different company.

That #FFF-on-#F60 Y is their brand. It's what they have all over their offices, on their business cards, on their main website... Unless the client is looking to rebrand (for which I can see no reason), you need to use their existing trademarks. Branding is as important to the client as UX is to the user.

(And on a UX tack, there's a severe lack of contrast in various places. You appear to have faded out the most important text on the entire page (the content) with no explanation why. Telling me "Because I want it to fade in on mouseover" is a fireable offence.)
Econ 101 quiz:

1. As a commodity becomes scarcer it's price tends to go in which direction?

a. up

b. down

As this is an open internet test you may wish to refer to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_and_demand for the answer.
Or workplace safety laws. You take away the "choice" of people to work for employers who cut-corners in terms of safety, to reduce the pressure on desperate people to take such jobs.
Because there are benefits to this way of doing things, and not all of Japan is like this.

As the link points out being incredibly careful with practices, and really ensuring the quality of a product is exactly the right thing in many situations. When building, say, cars. Huge amounts of training, careful procedures, and lots of time with senior engineers to help is often very useful. Further while a lot of the sales stuff seems completely ridiculous, there is benefit in having very personal interactions and understanding. Again, look at the link to see why. Japanese corporations are actually very innovative in a lot of ways, and often build extraordinarily impressive products, if often ones that are hampered by terrible design.

Secondly, not all of Japan is like this. Japanese productivity is pretty weirdly bifurcated: For office work, Japan is terrible (well below the USA, Europe), for manufacturing Japan is world-class. Japanese companies build things really really well, with very few workers, quickly. They just can;t organize paperwork in any reasonable way.

Here's a link to a nice brief summary of this stuff by an economist in the US whose worked on Japan before: http://neojaponisme.com/2014/01/15/japanese-economic-mythbus...
This sounds great but without the formal concept of an apprenticeship like the Germans have I'm not sure how I see it working out for you in the long term.

Given current market forces your interns will leave you in 4-6 months. At that point you will have spent the most resources in training them up and not reaped the benefit of cheap labor.

In Germany, apprenticeships last for over 2 years, with your employer responsible for your schooling (which the SC program is doing), in coordination with the unions and the government. It's a system of checks and balances. You can't go out and get work unless you finish your apprenticeship. Finishing your apprenticeship is cultural as well.

I'd definitely like to hear more about your program and what you are doing to address turnover.
How well does the optimizer perform? And do you often encounter nasty, hard to trace, bugs in the compiler output?
This is correct. I tried Erlang with ProjectEuler and creating prime number via sieves with Erlang takes forever compare to C++.

Erlang is not something you want to do for numerical crunching.

Erlang is for a very specific set of problems and it's concurrency.

For any numerical stuff you can off load it to other languages...
For 1-way communications link to be viable, you can adjust a variety of parameters.
There is the transmitter and receiver antenna gains (which are usually proportionate to antenna size), there's the datarate, and the transmit power.

If you want a voice link, that means your datarate will be ion the order of ~10kbps

If you want a cell phone as your transmitter, that means your antenna gain is very low, and your transmit power is also very low. The remaining free variable is the receive antenna gain. So if you put up a satellite with a large receiver antenna, then this sort of thing can work.

For an example, take a look at terrestar networks' phone and satellite (http://www.terrestarnetworks.com/) . They've gone bankrupt (I think over spectrum allocation issues?) but the did functional demonstrations of their technology before going under.

They had the worlds largest space-based phased array antenna system deployed.
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The beginning of this article reads eerily similar to the beginning of Greg Egan's Diaspora, though in a much more limited context.
Developer in Ohio here, I feel the pain.
About colour temperature:

Subjectively (or maybe culturally?), red tones are warm and blue tones are cool.

There's another definition of "colour temperature" (derived from a physical property, rated in Kelvin), in which blue-ish tones are warmer than red, white being the hottest. This is based on the light emission of very hot bodies (you can tell the temperature by the color it glows).

This second definition of "colour temperature" might be counter-intuitive but is used to rate light sources and in photography, so you have to know the context the term is used.
Not so obvious. A lot of the reason power has aggregated in the federal government here in the U.S. is because smaller governmental entities are incapable of addressing "race to the bottom" problems. Whether you're talking about gun control, environmental protection, welfare, health insurance, etc, it's hard to effectuate those laws if they can be easily subverted by moving 100 miles away.
A truly awful automated translation of the Japanese at the beginning of the post seems to say that he's in the process of doing the translation but welcomes help from someone who could do it faster. So I would assume it doesn't exist yet but will.
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Fair enough. This makes sense.
I think the concept of giving something away that someone did on the clock seems utterly stupid to them (on the surface it does sound dumb). Even though a solid library that's really useful can take on a life of its own and require less work in the future - just getting a port to a different language for free could make it well worth while if you ever needed it. Then there's licensing and lawyering around releasing something. I understand it, but also wish this would happen more often.
> I'm not just talking about the presidency...

Neither am I. In fact, I'm mostly talking about legislative elections, where the use of the first-past-the-post elections in single-member districts produces both duopoly and about as unrepresentative of a legislature as you can get in a system which is even superficially democratically accountable.

People like to focus on the electoral college, but that's not really the main problem in the electoral system in the US.
That's for you. For the offenders these words are as cheap as any other. They just got a good weapon on you.
One small nitpick - the satellites mentioned are much larger than cubesats - they're talking about a 250 kg satellite - or about 50 times larger than a large 3u cubesat. We're talking mini-fridge sized satellites here, which are much more capable beasts.
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Totally different angle, gender, and underling life experience here, but I also despise the rise of the brogrammer. I can easily be accused of jumping on the very same programming bandwagon, but (if so) I don't get along with my fellow passengers.

The lionization of programming as the only intellectual pursuit requiring grit, insight, or technical ability, combined with an complete ignorance of anything outside their tiny subset of experience, makes for a uniquely toxic and repellant combination (and don't even get me started on the straight-up fellatio of LEAN/AGILE methodologies). Throw in the money and entitlement and you've got a perfect storm of jackassery.
The former. I'm not arguing that I have extensive experience or had multiple use cases (I had neither), but I am saying these very serious issues started to pop up just a couple of hours in. I'm surprised there is nothing here about these seemingly oft-occurring issues in this article, and makes me feel like the author hasn't used the language enough (again, not that I have).
It's embarrassing to realize that racial discrimination was happening in the USA even 20 years after WW2/Holocaust. Didn't the world learn that being racist = bad??
> That said: is racism a bigger problem in Japan than e.g. in the United States? Oh, yes. Unquestionably.

This is totally ridiculous. I lived in Japan for a year and as a white male, it was the first time I experienced being on the receiving end of racism. It sucked, but was a good lesson into how it feels.

That said, I'm pretty sure minorities in America have to deal with the same experience on a daily basis often with far more tragic results: http://www.vox.com/michael-brown-shooting-ferguson-mo/2014/8...
The short lifespan in LEO is because there is still a tiny amount of air resistance so the satellites eventually slow down and fall back to earth. This means that space junk can still be a problem in LEO, but only a temporary one and I would not be concerned with a few thousand small boxes in a very large sky.
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Switching to open office plan killed more than productivity
Regarding point #2, I've found it usually balances it a bit more and while keeping the same values, makes it more colorful. If working with a limited palette, a neutral grey can be used dually with warm or cool colors on the object to cast an opposite cool/warm shadow - which usually looks quite complementary, although I can't recall seeing a warm shadow cast from a cool-colored object very often - seems unnatural as shadows are generally cooler.

http://androidarts.com/art_tut.htm - this link touches a bit on color theory from a digital-painting standpoint, though it's pretty applicable. Color and Light for the Realist Painter by James Gurney is also a good book that has some info about creating unified palettes.
At a minimum, one could start an American company, which could at some point start a Japanese office (with all the accordant overhead in terms of paperwork and politicking, including the usual risk of immigration taking a dim view or otherwise filing your paperwork in the "do not pass go" column).

How closely that approximates the desired scenario with regards to e.g. hiring and social signalling is another question. It would presumably be bounded by the status of e.g. Microsoft Japan, which is in turn bounded by Sony. Which is to say, not as good, but possibly good enough for most intents which don't involve hiring new grads shoulder-to-shoulder with Sony.
What I actually haven't understood yet, is why people insist on using TexSecure, when it's in no way superior to XMPP (+OTR, if you want privacy), and is also centralized.

You even seem to be aware of the existance of XMPP, so why do you choose this new, inferior alternative?
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Someone on HN previously posted "Which of the 11 American nations do you live in?" And while I don't agree with all of these -- Dallas and Austin are certainly not "Greater Appalachia" and probably deserve some kind of Texas "nation" of their own like "Tidewater" -- it's certainly true that "American Society" has many distinct parts. (Moving from Colorado to Connecticut to Mississippi felt like living abroad in three separate countries.)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2013/11/08/wh...
It's really worth thinking about this: why do we prosecute crimes at all? Is it the deterrence effect of the potential for getting caught? In that case, why do we bother prosecuting, e.g. murders that are so circumstance-specific there is little danger of reoffending (e.g. wife killing her abusive husband)?
> Are there any good secure messengers out there that truly works cross platform (iOS, Android and Web/Win/OSX)? It's a shame that something like Telegram seems to be the best right now, considering its dodgy security model.

XMPP+OTR has been supported on major platforms for years (and for decades without OTR). It offers all the features the above Telegram/TextSecure/etc offer, and is descentralized, so you don't rely on some arbitrary third-party.
I just tested it. It looks like I was incorrect. People told me that Reddit shadowbans you if you create a new account using Tor. Maybe that was the case for awhile, or maybe it's true for a certain subreddit, but it doesn't seem to be true anymore. Thank you for fact checking me.
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If it takes the guy just a month to get the job done, it should be a competitive method here in Sweden too. I'd love to se a more detailed analysis of the costs involved in both methods.
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>no meetings before 11 pseudo-policy

Not in osg they don't.
Actually, the number of CS and Engineering degrees as a percentage of all awarded degrees hasn't appreciably changed -- 8.1%, slightly up over the past several years but still significantly below the ~9% average of the 1990s and 1985's high-water mark of 14.1%. With CS-related employment growing at twice the projected job growth average, I don't see the modest number of CS grads negatively affecting sector wage growth.
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