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> You're making a false equivalency between the State and other market actors.

This is a meaningless objection: no two things are exactly the same, but it can be useful to consider how they're similar.

> You may not be using the US government's services, but you're probably using your own government's.

Yes, and then I pay for them.

> Forcing a service on people (say the War on Drugs) and then demanding payment through taxation is different from competing in the market.

No it's not. Many companies take the money I paid for their service and use it in ways I don't like. I get far less say in their use of this money than I do in my country's government.

(My government doesn't have a monopoly on road building - I had to pay for the road up to my house - so I don't know what that refers to)

> You must follow things back to the origin.

Not really. While it may be interesting to find out the origin of certain rules and customs, it makes little difference to the way they are now.

> For a price, and then only to enter another country.

True, nothing in life is free; that's why it's a good general rule that poor people shouldn't pay taxes. But there are countries without governments and there are unclaimed territories around the world - they're just not very nice places to live.
I also appreciate how the public unquestioningly believes that the Mars rover was in fact really on Mars. Especially, if one is to ask "qui bono", the answer that you'll get is that the administration is trying to direct attention from its police surveillance of Someone1234. I'm not saying that the Mars rover landing was faked, I'm just asking questions.
Even though PostgreSQL may be better. MySQL is still significantly more popular. That's why.
...and it looks like one's in the works: https://aws.amazon.com/codecommit/
> if I compile gcc, compile the Linux kernel, and compile python all on a system with this "rootkit" installed, and put the newly built kernel and toolchains on a new system, that system is clean.

Umm, not necessarily. Instances of "World!" in your compiled kernel, toolchain and python have been replaced with "Mrrgan".
It's a veritable book.
Those two don't seem to be the same thing. Tessel runs javascript on the micro so you can write your programs in js instead of C and compile it.

What you've linked to is a js library for connecting to Spark cloud.

Overall I think the Spark is much better bang for your buck.
The claim was that you need to know category theory. Your post is still there, we can still read it. It does not make much sense to pretend it says something other than what it says.
"For years we Americans have been fed the convenient lie: study hard, work hard in your chosen field ... and you will be in control of your life and your destiny."

Surely a nice idea, and maybe I'm a cynic, but what rational adult actually believes this? Some fields are inherently more stable and well-paying than others.

"Now, in this new gilded age, where profit takes precedence over people, and commerce takes precedence over art"

When in the history of the United States has this not been the case?
> One does not, in fact, start Powershell from inside cmd

I'm talking about the Command Prompt, that window with which you get access to a shell. I really don't know what you're talking about.

> Apple is a fucking joke when it comes to systems and software engineering

That's not an argument I can reply to.

> msbuild.exe and PowerShell

MsBuild.exe is Ant. PowerShell is, well, a shell language. This combination is not a substitute for Maven, hence my argument that it felt like going back to the nineties.

> You'd prefer makefiles?

No, I'd prefer something like Maven.

> Because when we're hacking we want to stop and read somebody else's code

Yes, precisely.

> It seems like you're trolling or you've never worked on a project outside of your bubble.

Note that I never resorted to ad-hominems. That's very unprofessional and very unlike the HN attitude. Chill.

And if you do feel the need for personal attacks, I'm also public about my identity, it's not much, but here you have my resume and my GitHub profile, no need to guess - https://www.bionicspirit.com/pages/about.html
Perhaps you should amend your post to say

"1. Most Germans wish to be useful...."

The German culture tends to value hard work for the sake of hard work higher than other cultures. Even Americans don't glorify hard work for it's own sake. It's all part of the "American dream" to end up well-off, to climb the ladder.
Nice :) We currently focus on the US market with both retailer as well as publisher integrations, we should make that clearer perhaps.

Stay tuned though, we'll have news on this.
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Releasing IE for free did not kill Netscape, because Netscape was negotiating with computer OEM manufacturers for them to buy bulk licenses and factory-install Netscape.

This is exactly how Windows is sold through OEMs, and like Windows, the effect is that the consumer gets the software "for free" (since it is included in the total price of the computer). So: Netscape and IE would have both come with every new computer.

Microsoft told OEMs that, in effect, they could not buy Windows if they intended to install Netscape on it. That is illegal tying, and is what killed Netscape, as it cut off a major potential source of new revenue.
The point is more that she exhausted her other opportunities and The Container Store was a last resort.
Who pays for that basic income? The guy that's working 60 hours at a job he hates because he's trying to be personally responsible. If we had 'basic income' what would be the incentive to work at all? High unemployment is correlated to higher basic income availability. The EU unemployment rate is almost double that if the US. Even progressive Sweeden has an 8% rate. China, incidentally has a 4% rate.

Incentives are powerful things and the law of unintended consequences ought to ignored at our own peril.
Nice to see WiredTiger getting some love. LevelDB gets all the credit these days (and LMDB to a [much] lesser extent).
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Hey, at least they aren't FP8s (no, I'm not kidding -- I had to get a shader demo working 6 or 7 years ago and I encountered some verrry strange rounding behavior on an intel GPU that I eventually traced back to this fantastic little "feature").
> There are thousands of us here who have each spent hundreds of hours struggling with IE compatibility when we could have been building cool stuff.

This is the issue that pisses me off more than anything. There must be hundreds of man-years of development effort wasted on stupid things Microsoft did. Not because they didn't know better, that's forgivable, but they did to screw over the competition. It goes back to MS-DOS intentionally trying to screw over DR-DOS and continues up to now with document format standards.
I have to agree with what others said. This is most likely targeted at the several GB + crowd.
An intriguing concept in its day. The real core of it was the Dallas Semiconductor iButton http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Wire
Either that, or there is something about this theory that is usually the sociopaths who end up in top managerial positions.
Just an update: the harpoons did fail, but the engineers were very concerned about marked fluctuations in the telemetry. There was a suggestion that the lander might actually be tumbling, but those fears seem to have been allayed by the fact that the oscillations seem to have stopped. The engineers will comb through the data over the coming hours, in anticipation of the next downlink, which should be around 4:30am CET (13th Nov). It seems like there might have been bit of a bounce, and the lander might have landed twice! So long as the downlink is available during the next pass, it seems like the lander has weathered the worst of the landing.

Science data has been downlinked, so fingers crossed we'll get some nice images from the surface pretty soon! There's a nice shot of the lander on the way down released already [3].

Sources:

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30031531

[2] Personal communication from ESOC, Darmstadt, Germany

[3] https://blog.flickr.net/en/2014/11/12/rosettas-philae-probe-...
So it's confusing, but Counterparty doesn't exactly require new currency. There's a few ways to think of Counterparty's XCP, but in all of those ways it augments Bitcoin. XCP is used to store 'value in escrow', fight spam (such as in the case of asset name declarations), and now to control of execution times. There may be some other uses in there.

The 12 second blocktimes of Ethereum will be considerably longer than the instantaneous times of Bip70 insured (or let's see what medici comes up with maybe) Bitcoin/Counterparty transaction times. Further the chain will almost certainly be less secure, but since this chain doesn't exist even in theory yet, it's hard to say.

As for the rest of Ethereum's promises, yep, they're tackling just about everything that could ever be included in a protocol. As to whether any of this will scale down to a mobile device, it's just a marketing claim right now, they have way to much work to do in the base platform to care at all about mobile yet.
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Only if you learn ancient dead languages, I suppose. Religious texts are seldom updated (because, well, they are sacred) and full of anachronisms.

I mean, if you're learning English, would you want to start with this?

> Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife: And knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name JESUS.
> I also find Visual Studio to be worse than IntelliJ IDEA

I guess it's personal opinion...but I can't imagine how or why you would think this. Unless you enjoy long GC pauses in the middle of writing code?
I don't have any personal experience with the Twiddler. But I have read a lot about computer-based repetitive strain injury and how to avoid it. Dr. Pascarelli's book is a really good resource here.

Normally the advice to "minimize finger movement" is really intended to protect your wrists, not your fingers. If you need to hit a key, but you avoid moving your hand and instead move your fingers, you will be stretching your wrist. If you consistently bend your wrist to the left or right (radial deviation or ulnar deviation) to reach notes, you may get carpal tunnel syndrome. This is basically an inflammation of the soft tissue surrounding the nerve that passes through the "carpal tunnel," a circle of bone in your wrist. The same thing happens when using a flat computer keyboard, and for the same reasons. This is why the correct keyboard posture is the V-shaped one, and the correct way to reach keys is to move your hand, not stretch your wrist.

There are keyboard designs that can (almost) completely avoid ulnar and radial deviation. For example, the SafeType, a vertical keyboard, is a lot easier on the wrists. It's shaped roughly like an accordion, with the keys on both sides. This eliminates the temptation to bend your wrists to reach a key on the other side of the keyboard. The vertical "handshake" position is also a lot less stressful on the wrist than the flat keyboard one.

There are finger issues that can come up if you strike the keys with too much force. These are especially a problem on the ultra-shallow (low travel) keyboards that Apple and other manufacturers are pushing now. In general, though, I would expect a design that only required finger movement to be much easier on the body than a traditional design, PROVIDED that the keys used were good quality, high travel keys. (This is a very important "provided" since a lot of keyboards nowadays are absolute garbage!)

I'm curious if any research has been done on the ergonomics of chording keyboards. If not, perhaps research on RSI issues with trumpets would be a good proxy? In general, trumpet players don't have to move their hands, but only their fingers while playing. On the other hand, trumpets have a lot of vibration, which tends to exacerbate RSI issues.
Here's the original blog post, although the Dropbox image on there seems to be low-res.

http://www.windytan.com/2012/11/the-sound-of-dialup-pictured...
Let's talk about that in 2016.
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I've become a huge fan of Webstorm since focusing on developing MEAN-stack apps. 30 day trial, and $50 for a license. Not too bad if your dev activities are generating income.
Controlshift is amazing. Their founder, Nathan, is one of the smartest (and kindest!) people in the business. I highly recommend checking them out.
I agree with this analysis. You'd need concrete proof of threat. Otherwise, any employer facing an ADA claim based on mental illness could use the excuse "We're afraid he'll murder us all in a depressed rage" to win.

Reading the post in question, I think the addiction issues are another possible cause of the employer's actions.

Addiction can also be considered an actionable disability, but you have to be treating it or otherwise on the wagon to file suit. I don't have a citation to that on hand, but it's out there.
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> What are Wallabies doing in Ireland?

Why warming up for their test match of course:
http://www.rugby.com.au/wallabies/GameDay/2014Fixtures.aspx
Those guys do (did) some great things. However, I wasn't asking about who was a cool developer or great OSS personality (Or a crazy person or obnoxius mailing list asshat for that matter :) )

I meant, when it comes to choosing a platform/language/IDE for enterprise dev or mobile/cloud dev, there are lots of options but most of the "big" ones also come from megacorps (Oracle, Google...)

What scared people most about .NET is usually the closed nature (will they continue to develop it? will they charge more tomorrow?) and the fact that it only runs on windows which makes it more expensive. When it's open sourced and available for other platforms, it's no worse than the alternatives in that respect.
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I never will understand how this spying stuff always is allowed to happen. I know every government does is, but I find it unbelievably dishonest. What kind of relationship is that? I would intuitively see any spying as an act of war, especially if supposedly friendly countries do it.
I was think more about Server-side speed(Dart vs NodeJS in server-side performance). Dart has already proven that its faster than hand-written JS with dart2js in client-side.
As HN seems to be designed to prevent conversations, I can not reply frequently enough to be wasting my posts on someone who simply does not read them. I do not know how to make my post any clearer. The participation of women in other STEM fields reinforces my argument. Women are a minority across the board. This is why the discussion is always about needing more women in STEM, not just CS specifically. As I said, if you wish to steal away the minority of women interested in STEM fields from other STEM fields, I suggest tackling the problem of feminists loudly proclaiming CS to be sexist all the time. I do not believe that is an effective way to market CS to women.
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Is that 200 WPM counting expanded words or the raw steno notation?

It counts expanded words. In steno, the typist's chord (known as a "stroke") is a phonetic abbreviation that is automatically expanded into a word or phrase by software with a lookup table. Some steno software does slightly more complex expansion, but the vast majority of it is pure dictionary lookup.

in ordinary English-language typing tests, you type full sentences. Mistakes in spelling and punctuation subtract from your WPM score.

I see what you mean. It looks like WPM in steno is measured at sub-100% accuracy rates, whereas on a QWERTY keyboard it's measured at 100% accuracy. I'm not sure how to precisely compare steno speeds to QWERTY, but no QWERTY typist has ever come close to the speed of the fastest stenographers. For example, according to http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/3000/faste..., "Mark Kislingbury of Houston, Texas, USA is the National Court Reporters Association speed and real-time champion, achieving 360 words per minute with 97.23% accuracy, at the NCRA 2004 summer convention on 30 July 2004."
Does anything use OCB? It seems GCM "won".

The patents may have killed it. Even "free for open source" can be troublesome if you're worried about putting free software into an appliance and getting trapped. Easier to avoid patented algos entirely.
That isn't quite right. Many vendors provided them with XML feeds of their products just as they do with Amazon.
http://szabo.best.vwh.net/jointstock.html

"The modern joint-stock corporation has many sources in medieval Europe. First among these was corporate law itself. Although the era is commonly referred to as "feudalism," for the hierarchy of individually owned "fiefs" of land and control of serfs as fixtures of that land, large amounts of wealth in Europe were actually controlled by corporate entities. Chief among these were church lands, the corporate entities being dioceses, religious orders and the Roman Church itself. These entities controlled a substantial fraction of the land in Western Europe. Furthermore cities (with varying degrees of political independence), merchant guilds, craft guilds, and many charitable entities (such as hospitals) were legal "corporations," i.e. artificial and perpetual legal persons under law. Some basic issues in corporate law (for example, when are officers individually liable for acts of the corporation, and when the corporation is liable for acts of its agents) had already been solved in canon law and urban law long before the joint-stock corporation."

and more on the "Origins of the Joint-Stock Company"
I've said this before, but it's always funny to me how many proposed fixes end up sounding a lot like /.'s metamoderation system.

Slashdot was far from perfect, but I still think the system of temporary moderators followed up by temporary metamoderators is pretty elegant compared to most of the alternatives I've seen.
I built a CJ scraper for a deals website that is now defunct. What a pain it was to maintain. All the different retailers dump their data into CJ in different ways. I might just put it on github if anyone's interested. Python + chromedriver + beautifulsoup + mechanize
We simulate what a shopper would do. We first go through your affiliate link (which drops a cookie) and then go on the retailer website to place the order.

All the commissioning, connecting/talking to retailers, receiving the money, is directly between you and the affiliate network. We're plug and play :)

We do have a stats backend where you can see all the purchases that went through Two Tap. And you can also use CJs dashboard just like you are probably doing right now.
Single-payer isn't the only way to achieve this goal.

How about medical insurance that isn't tied to employers?
I'm not at risk of losing my car insurance just because I lost my job.
Anybody that ever edited a MSBuild file without Visual Studio, step forward.
<i>Everyone should pay the exact same tax rate. The confiscatory, class-envy based taxation is unfair and unjust.</i>

Not that current taxation policy is anything but ridiculous, but flat tax isn't particularly "fair", for many values of fair. For example, the burden of paying, say, 20% of gross income is wildly different for someone making 20k/yr vs someone making 100k/yr.
How many proxy nodes do you have?
I dunno growing up in the 80's I always heard

'Get a job do that work for 40 years (with only a couple of company changes) and retire'.

'Changing a job more often than every 5 years is job hopping and that's a bad thing.'

'Most people only have a couple of jobs over their working lives.'

Basically all kinds of baby boomer propaganda that was considered 'conventional wisdom'.

And I pretty much believed it until I actually started working in the private sector.
Hi, I checked your site out. It's a useful resource. However, it appears you are making it by yourself mainly. When you get a lot of users on your wiki you will have to make a lot of rules, or ban a lot of users. I used to run my site on MediaWiki too and moved to WordPress. I don't know if that would work for your content though.
Needless to say, a lot of people, based off one story that I haven't yet finished,
now think I'm just another halfwit gamble-my-savings-away day trader.

The closest thing to a thesis of this post is that he is not a halfwit gambler as critics on Hacker News (including practicing market makers and quantitative traders) believe him to be.

On some days, I feel the same way about myself [that he is in fact a
halfwit gambler].

Not looking good.

You have no idea how much I've read up on financial history, probability, and
behavioral finance. You have no idea the number of profitable
traders (whose track records I get to see or witness in real time) I've spoken
to whom use a variety or combination of different methodologies.

Because you don't know what he knows, you can't be certain that he doesn't know anything. True. But, he doesn't record any specific knowledge here, so we still don't know whether he knows anything.

Looking worse now.

He then sets up several straw man arguments against him. But, amazingly, does not refute them.

Okay, I give up.
I looked at the site before asking my question. It looks like cloud orchestration 101. How is it different from, say, Terraform?
Are you sure that is true for all retailers of those products?

I deal with a high return rate industry [specialty products many customers can't size correctly] and I only see return rates of 3-7% depending on the product. 40% seems very high.
> is it possible to reuse markup from one place in another without copy-paste?

sure, you can just place the markup in a hidden div and clone the node. or you can pass a string as the view name:

new Controller({ view: 'node-id' })

and the framework will do that for you: document.getElementById('node-id').cloneNode(true) and cache the node as well

we typically have a hidden div which contains all re-usable nodes that the app needs

> how would you hook a third party library

you can do anything you want in the init() method, just like backbone. this.view is the view node, and you also have access to this.ref[node-name]. you're not forced to user the render sugar the framework provides at all, eg the List class doesn't use it and updates the DOM imperatively.

> is it possible to render things on the fly

you can always fetch html from the server and do createElement() to generate a node from that, or inject the html/template into the page body. if you prefer to have html templates separate, you can just have your build script inject the templates into the body which makes the app much faster anyway in my experience.
Yeah, Mono was at least realistic in the last year(s), but it was always a bit of a guessing game whether something was going to work or not.

Having an official linux/mac os ASP.NET will be huge, even if the functinoal difference is minor compared to Mono. Just knowing it will work tomorrow, and after the next major release is huge.

Yesterday I would rather have chosen Node.js than a .NET solution for a small service on Linux, simply because it's safer. Tomorrow I'll be back to rather having pineapples shoved up my nose than write JS.
And don't use US hardware.. Best of luck with that.
Still...that's probably not something to put on a Container Store application, for exactly the reasons cited.
Thanks, just figured out how huge this event actually is.

Any chance that VPC will support broadcast? The FAQ page is quite dry on details.
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