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If you had told me that ASMR was a real thing five years ago, I probably would not have understood, and thought it was a bunch of baloney.

About a year ago, gross as it is, I noticed I actually kind of enjoyed the sound of one of my coworkers chewing with their mouth open. Then somebody came in with a big mechanical keyboard several months later and started clonking away, and I enjoyed that, too. The unevenness of the clicks and clacks make little patters and pops in my head that are like tiny little itch bubbles that are scratchpopped the same moment they blip into existence.

These are sounds I used to find extremely annoying and I don't know why it changed. But when I started looking up mechanical keyboard sounds on youtube so that I could listen to them at home, I came across these ASMR videos and discovered that apparently, it's a thing.

For me, in-person sounds are always more satisfying. They are less predictable and less uniform. The videos some people try to make to capture the ASMR feeling have the idea right, but are not uneven enough. It's like when you ask someone to write 50 iterations of a coin flip and they end up having max substrings of the same character in a row that are only 2 characters long. Real randomness isn't like that - you'll have some 4's and 5's, and 1's with wide padding.

I think if you don't already feel this phenomenon yourself, watching some ASMR videos to discover what it's like will probably not give you the feeling. It's like eating a food you always hated, or jazz music - you don't like it until suddenly, one day sitting there, you realize that you probably would if you tried it again. And then you go, and you do. Before that, you don't really get the appeal. It's just the fermentation of the brain. After a certain amount of time, it just has a different taste.

For me, in these whisper videos, it's not the soft voice that triggers the feeling, but the clicks in the speech - the "sk" and "st" sounds, and simple pops of the tongue while it's being rearranged in the mouth between words. Those noises made by the water in the mouth and not the air.

Just thought I'd share.
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Is the ratings system really that useful even at lower levels? Is there not a lot of non-transitivity, where three players would consistently beat the next like A>B>C>A?
You can still get segfaults in Go.

"panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference"
When I am feeling good, I train a lot. When I feel bad, I don’t bother.

I can definitely relate to that when it comes to my studies, too bad it's not yielding any good results.
You shouldn't comment if you have no idea what you are talking about. A lot of really good content is free on youtube and it helps people relax and even "tingle". I say this because it has this effect on me and has helped me fall asleep during times of high stress.
I'm honestly curious: can you give some real examples of UI components that you customers blatantly refused when built in HTML/CSS/JS and praised when it was native?

What was that? Sliders, exotic buttons, reactive graphs?
What kind of applications are you selling?
> There are plenty of news aggregators (that generate revenue e.g., from advertising), and plenty of places that would be only too happy to step in and be the news-site-of-choice for the customers Google is leaving.

The consensus in Spain is that this law is very bad for ALL of the aggregators
the only sounds that give me a solid reaction are wet mouth sounds. everything else just feels like it doesn't quite work. the feeling is almost there, but the sense of satisfaction and relief doesn't complete.

its a very strange phenomenon to try to describe. but its unmistakeable and unprovoked by anything else.
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The one in Berlin Kreuzberg, in an "alternative" Bar looked nice. I think it's the only one in Germany atm. I don't think they have cameras.

And yes. I had similar thoughts. The only local seller I came up with in my area that would sell smaller ammounts wanted to meet in person. Which is...I don't know. I have a bad feeling about that.

Since I "only" want to pay an VPN with them (maybe some space also if that works out), I would probably take the mail-way you've described if it would have been aviable.

I now think about paying the VPN with vouchers I can buy in a local shop somewhere but no idea if that works with vouchers I buy here in Germany.
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This sounds almost exactly what the GEMA is doing in Germany in regards to music.
They get to collect money for songs being made public. Prime example in the digital age is now youtube.
And they also have something called the GEMA assumption. They do not even need to check if the author or general right holders to a particular song are represented by them. They do not even need to check if the song in question is public domain. They can just assume they are responsible and thus make youtube block basically all music on their site proactively. And then, an individual can come forward and proof that a particular song needs to be unblocked cause it is public domain or they hold the rights to it and they are not associated with GEMA to do their bill collecting.

In essence, if I were to write a song, record it and put it on youtube and it gets enough exposure, the GEMA will find it and make youtube to block it because they did not pay the GEMA for this use. Even though I am not a member of GEMA and have never told them to be my intellectual property rights enforcer.
How would communities around anything come to exist if everyone had the same attitude?
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LLVM IR isn't supposed to be target independent in any way. It's an internal representation for a compiler backend- it has to be able to represent target-specific semantics at some point.
If you're using C/C++ and need the performance, look at Rust. Fairly expressive, good type system (and they figured out generics), and C++ like or better performance. All the power of manual memory control, with none of the downsides.
Nice. Now all I need is for someone to turn https://github.com/jcla1/gisp into a slightly more complete LISP and I'll have a nice environment for all kinds of ARM systems.

Edit: typo/autocorrect
What makes Google News helpful is not only the language, it is the content and Latin American news are not very helpful to Spanish people
Have you actually observed the Go community and how Go has been developed over the last five years? What you are saying are fair concerns in the abstract, but I cannot reconcile them with the reality of how the Go project operates.

You also seem unusually hung up on its name. It's not like it's called Google Programming Language All Access.
Your definition of archive is somewhat eccentric. Lots of archives limit access, or remain entirely "dark", or cull their holdings when legal or budgetary limits are hit. They're still 'archives'.
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For a different perspective, have a look at this post. A statement posted by Team Vestas navigator Wouter Verbraak once they got back to civilization:

http://sailinganarchy.com/2014/12/04/walking-tall/

Wouters statement was since removed from his facebook-page
Microsoft's announcement says "You can’t use Bitcoin to purchase Microsoft products and services directly at this time." It's not clear exactly what you can purchase. In-game items?
Thats not a storm, this is a storm: http://earth.nullschool.net/#2014/12/11/0900Z/wind/surface/l...
Well, at least with Qt (which declares its own assembly atomics at compile time) this was a real issue. When going through the disassembled bitcode files we saw that all calls to q_atomic types went through inlined platform-dependent assembly.

Of course anything compiled on x64 failed to link on ARM.
oh my god. that is even worse!

so explain why 'dithering' was 'masking' the results?! it makes it extremely obvious that it is the lower resolution sample!
You can get static linking in C/C++ with `gcc -static`.
I'm generally in agreement, but it's hard to say what languages will be considered "company-specific" in the future.

Go back in time 35 years and C could have been called that "AT&T specific language" Or the opposite: Objective C looked like a hopeful contender to be a widely-used language but it just never caught much traction outside the NeXT/Apple (and NeXT ended up buying the developer) and today it's almost completely associated with a single company's ecosystem.

Maybe in 4 years we'll be talking about the new features coming in "ISO Go19" and complaining that VisualGo still doesn't support all of Go18 yet. Who knows?
<noscript> is basically designed for this, I'd favor it's use too.
Look at how the communities around languages like Basic, Pascal, C, Lisp and Python have developed.

They were, from the beginning, open with development, releasing early and often, and were explicit about readily accepting large contributions from outsiders (and really did so). The creators were always open to the possibility that they themselves might not be the eternal keepers of the language, which allowed competition when others developed the language further.

Contrast this with the development of the languages I mentioned. They have done the opposite of these things.
that is exactly what i implied.
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But you also get a stack trace without needing an IDE and debugger.
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It is still abused in many ways (for example Rossmann chain), not only in tech sector - you can always work through an agency).
I don't know where you get the "30%-35% real unemployment" figures, that to me seems absurd given that European economies are known to have large underground economies in the region of 15% of GDP... and in the case of Spain somewhat larger[0]. Albeit, unofficial, the number of jobs created by a shadow economy of €253bn is too large to ignore. Now, 25% of GDP is underground economy, and 25% unemployment seem to have something in common, don't you think? The problem to me seems to be a budget balance issue: how can Governments pay for services that a large number of the population uses, but doesn't pay. This, in my opinion is what is causing a collapse: lack of funds to pay for services, and obligations (debt), and loose cost/investment policies.

[0] http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jan/30/spain-black-...
If the non-company-specfic languages cannot keep up with the evolution company-specific languages show they will have a problem getting or keeping their users. I know it takes a lot of investment to build great tools, do marketing, evolve a language etc and currently some large companies seems to think that they get more of what they want by funding their own languages. If someone fund the free languages they same way they will probably evolve faster and get more users. There is also a problem of getting large groups of people and organizations to agree on something. This also slows down progress in some open/free projects. Sometimes it is easier to just decide for yourself.
True, but today Go is still specific to Google. If it really catches on in the way you describe, then it will be a viable language. But not today.
I'll have to check out A2-NewTech. It's awesome to know I've been wrong about my (new) home town.
This is an unfortunate situation currently, but better then the alternative. cargo doesn't tie into the rust compiler (just uses it as a program it calls), but it wants to be always available. Because of that, it builds with a known-good version of Rust to make sure `cargo` can be used in the most recent version on all (supported) platforms. This is due to the instability of Rust.

Before that, cargo was always broken, if you didn't have the correct version for building it.

This will certainly change once Rust stable released.

As all things Rust, the whole ecosystem still has a huge label "in construction". The things that are supported and intended to be kept stable are quite stable, though!
I'm also using the Postgres JSON type in 9.3, but my experience is different, perhaps because I come from the ZODB world and so am not under any illusions that it is a panacea!

I've ended up with a very generalised schema, all content is in JSON. I've not had to change the Postgres schema for over a year and it's easy to upgrade schemas inline while fetching from the app. We did write our own migration tools, but they're only a couple of pages of code.

I don't understand your complaint about lack of transactional DDL when using JSON. It's still there, though probably not as important as most of your upgrades will only touch data, giving you transactional upgrades (should you desire them) in any database.

DB queries of JSON data are definitely slow in 9.3 as the values need to be parsed every query, but the lack of JSON equality has not been a problem. You simply use the double chevron text extraction operators rather than the the json extraction operators in your query, col->foo->>bar rather than col->foo->bar. From there you can cast to any type and join to other tables.

For us, the big advantage of using a generalized schema has been simple support for recording versions of data. With over 30 different content types doing this with a traditional relational schema would have resulted in maybe 90 tables. Our generic schema has six.

I'm really looking forward to 9.4 as it will make ad-hoc queries across JSONB really fast using GIN indexes. I'd love to see the option of creating check / foreign-key constraints on JSON data in the future. Unfortunately it looks like the proposal for this is stalled as the implementation turned out to be rather tricky. http://blog.2ndquadrant.com/postgresql-9-3-development-array...
I first heard about this from an online friend of mine (from Norway, female), who described the feelings similarly. I don't experience it myself, but I can understand it to some degree. Funny that the BBC finally caught up though, lol
You basically buy credit to buy apps, games, dlc, music, etc. This a bit of relic from the days of Microsoft points that you needed to use on the Xbox 360. When I buy an app with my Windows phone it can directly charge my provider.
If you need fast prototyping and your team has experience with webdesign, you should go with something like Cordova / Ionic / ...

If you need a lot of native features, you could create the native app afterwards.

Ask your team what they think, do they have experience with Android / iOS?
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There's a subreddit for this: http://reddit.com/r/asmr

I watch some of these videos every now and then, it's just kinda relaxing.

I definitely wouldn't consider it as a viable alternative to therapy....
> require code to be as fast as possible

It's also pretty easy to write the performance critical parts of the code in C and call them from Go.
It would be easier if you explain what type of programs you develop today in C or C++. In general terms Go is probably an easier and more productive language but you might lose some performance.
I think this is a big part of it as well, though it's hardly unique. I don't think it's the whole story as what I'm describing does not only apply to drugs. In various times and places it has applied to music (jazz, rock, electronic at different times), dancing, sex, food, playing sports, and really just about any pleasurable activity. I think perhaps some of the Puritan roots are just all too alive and well. Also, it's not so much about thought but about feelings. That's why no one usually says it out loud. Also, I think the people that think in this way are aware of what they're thinking to some extent and in many cases, even realize the negative intent they're wishing upon others.
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What's the current roadmap for dynamic linking / shared library support?

Is this the current one? https://docs.google.com/document/d/16Y4IsnNRCN43Mx0NZc5YXZLo...
Can anyone say whether it would be hard to port it to Windows? Maybe there already is something for Windows that is as good as this ?
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There is a new range syntax[1]. The release notes say it's rarely used, but makes code cleaner. In which cases would the syntax be useful?

[1] https://golang.org/doc/go1.4#forrange
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Actually this phenomenon is very real. I experienced it all my life and didn't know others did as well, let alone have a name. I remember the first time I felt it - I was in the 6th grade (in the 80s), and a girl needed a table to write on while outdoors, but didn't have one, so she asked to use my back. I had an immense wash of tingles that felt like shocks and glitter traveling from the top of my head all the way down my spine. It was one of the most pleasurable things I had ever felt. It seemed really weird at the time. I also got the same feeling from the electric shaver on my neck at the barber, and the rhythmic strumming of train wheels on a track.

Anyway, this is very real, though not everyone experiences it. For those who don't, like yourself, it seems like a bunch of BS.
Better way to save tonnes of needless waste: intelligent consumer.

It really isn't difficult to inspect food to check if it's 'off'. Our innate senses are pretty good for that.
Let the horrors of MDBM not get to you. I've used it when I worked at Yahoo, and the client support for Java etc. sucks.
It's Go's simplicity that really struck a nerve with me. I've been coding for over 30 years now (Basic, ASM, C/C++, Java, Python, PHP, JS, Clojure) and with Go, I just love how everything is laid out for you: idiomatic Go, formatting, commenting, unit testing, concurrence, standard libraries etc. I don't have to research the basic tools. It keeps me focused on the task at hand. I'm very productive with Go. We have it in production and I'm super happy with it. (Btw, I never missed generics. If you pick a language based on its number of features, Go may not be for you.)
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Parent commenter definitely has got an idea what he's talking about: He isn't affected by these things. And then it's hard to tell if someone's getting something out of it or just being scammed.

However, there's no denying an effect on people in these videos. I can't listen to Mrs. GentleWhispering more than a couple seconds before feeling sick. And I mean that! My best guess is that I feel the video being deliberately manipulative and generate a shut off.
I can't help but wonder how much of those ~2,000 writes/sec are actually getting written to disk

Approximately zero would be my fairly confident guess, although I'm more familiar with the Linux page cache than OSX. For repeated writes to the same small file without an explicit sync, I don't think there should be any difference between a RAM disk and a regular drive. One way to test would be to measure the number of writes/sec to the the RAM disk, the SSD, and a slow spinning drive --- my theory says they should be very close to the same. But I'd love to learn by being shown otherwise.
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Yeah, just that: they're too busy. Most news articles are valid for just one edition of a newspaper, so about half a day or even less if the newspaper is published more than once a day. It's write it and move on, in a lot of cases. Investigative journalism probably has more use for a system like this, but even then I doubt they'd want to fill in XML forms when they could just write sentences. Besides, usually you can trust an editor to read an article and remove the bits that aren't relevant based on their own judgment, instead of a 'priority' hint by the original author.
Cancelled my flight from SEA to SFO, which was supposed to land at 9AM Thursday. Pretty sure whether indefinite delays or cancellation I wasn't gonna get on that plane.
Yea, 5 minutes before Sinde left office... Just saying.... Anyways, as someone who lives in spain since 20 years, im so tired of this right winged politicians that are removing all the socialist's advancements of the last 30 years. Healthcare: Crap. Education: Crap. And still people vote for the same right winged nuts. But i guess that is what you get when most of your population never learned any other language then Spanish. TV here is a horrible mess of crap programming (more less like the UK). I mean, our political leader refused to meet Media people directly, instead using a plasma screen to talk to them.

I wish Google would just block all their spanish services starting tomorrow. Also get MS and others to join in, and block all major internet services to Spain. I think it is even easier: block facebook and we have half the political party screaming because they actually have to work.

[Sorry for the rant. Just get so fed up with this BS...]
This is incorrect. YouTube were a bit naughty in blaming GEMA when the issue is that the two sides have not agreed on a price. Gema is asking for too much, but they are not specifically blocking the content. Google preemptively blocks anything that might be GEMA to avoid being retroactively assessed billions of euros in some future decision.

Performance royalties for music are quite standard, this is one of the primary business models for music. Broadcasters earn money through advertising and pay content producers for the use of the content.

The Spanish news situation is different, since these are just search results excerpts leading directly to the news website.
This doesn't explain the exact same behavior related to other pleasurable activities that people engage in like music, dancing, sex, food, etc. I don't think it has anything to do with drugs and everything to do with people's hate of others' pleasure.

Not to mention that that your claim that they don't work is unsubstantiated.
On python.org as well as where I published the survey: here, python-dev@python.org, comp.lang.python, /r/python and /r/programming
Another inane comment from the person who brushed over something he doesn't experience and goes ahead and dismisses it as some sort of a hoax or a way to scam money.

Here's a thing - there are thousands of people who experience ASMR (including myself) and I only recently found out that it is a thing. Previously I had assumed that everybody feel it, but simply don't talk about it. Apparently not. How am I being scammed out of money then? This is not something somebody imposed on me - I had it all my life.
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So this justifies hating others' pleasurable activities enough to send them to jail? I'm not seeing the connection.
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