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I love this in the FAQ:

> Why is the project named Bitrig?
>
> The name Bitrig is derived from the Latin "Bitrigus", the name of the software used by the Romans to conquer Europe. Sadly, not having zero among its numerals made traditional computer science difficult for the Romans and the project was put on hold indefinitely. Bitrigus faded into obscurity until it was recently rediscovered at a Viking archaeological site in the modern day country of Iceland.
>
> The Roman emperor Hadrian is rumored to have sent Bitrigus as far west as a boat could carry it to keep it from the then growing threat of religious fanaticism within the Roman Empire.
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The complexity of the .NET ecosystem as revealed in this article is baffling me.

And I don't even have the excuse of being in foreign territory here, I'm a C# dev since 2009.

The language itself is easy to learn, but understanding everything behind is quite a challenge (at least for me). I guess it's a feature of enterprise products.

Sometimes I wish I could leave work at work and not have to stay on top of my domain of expertise in my spare time.
It's not redundant. You wrote an awesome browser and many people, including me, a very eager to get their hands on the new version. Keep up with you awesome work! It's not just that competition like this is important, but this project is also something that you can show around and impress people with it (at e.g. job interviews).
Exactly what I love about France -- there (generally) when you need them, ghosts when you don't.
Not going to discuss with a a throwaway account. You can go back to /r/greatapes and have fun with your racist pals.
Probably not, unless the UI itself is rendered in a webview, and extension scripts can be injected into the page during runtime.
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One point to note. The more prestigious the school the more mathematics is thought in my experience. In my school the comp sci-major had more math lectures than the physics students (and better grades, as physics where becoming unpopular putting a higher bar on the comp. sci entry grades).

In my school you had a class for 6 months: introduction to programming, that's it! The rest of the 5 years where basically only math/algorithms (machine learning, statistics, probability, compiler algorithms and such).

I've heard that this is changing as the industry values practical programming experience, but boy would I've been pissed if I'd spent 5 years to learn ancient tech.

I'm quite pissed about people getting a comp. sci. degree from knowing some C++, HTML5 and bubble-sort nowadays from shabby universities. Get of my lawn!
It's great to see Amazon continue to push down bandwidth charges when they manage to get prices down. Bandwidth pricing can be incredibly expensive in some parts of the world. With AWS you basically get to take advantage of Amazon's negotiating team and clout while still being able to put nodes near the end-points.

(Basically bandwidth in Australia is ridiculously expensive and if you wanted to serve that continent it'd be a big headache, but now you can just spin up a machine on EC2 in that region and use Amazon's prices.)
Did not know of unheap.com, that's the stuff.
For those of us building real-world projects that are still going to be running in 15-20 years..

Anyone who chooses a build tool now on the assumption that they'll still be using it in 2029 isn't thinking properly. Develop code in a way that's as agnostic as to your tools possible. Expect to change what you use when something better comes along. People will have brilliant new ideas over the next decade and a half and deciding now that you don't want to benefit from them is frankly stupid.
Thanks for the feedback! The grid map generation was written without using any framework (pure python & c++)
LusyPOS: New Point-of-Sale Malware Puts Retailers at Risk
> Something like Python is not suitable.

This is a wild overgeneralization. Civ4 used Python as its embedded scripting layer to great success.

(Me, I just use C# as a scripting layer inside of a C# application. On desktops, the content C# is compiled or read from cache at runtime, but on other platforms I can include the scripting libraries as project references and have them incorporated into stuff like Mono's AOT linker. http://github.com/eropple/exor )
Compared to the ZX80 the apple ][ was fairly large - though I always wnted one of the perspex covers that showed off the expansion cards.

though back in the day it was the PET's that where big - though some of the CPM systems could be bulky
Very nice article. To be honest, I always review code from a architectural perspective, rather than just reviewing code quality, as getting that stuff wrong will hurt a project more so.
> I firmly stand against over-generalization and stereotyping.

Obviously you dont,if you find anything that guys says defensible, I tell you that from scientist to scientist.
Are you running Linux on a mac using uefi? I heard that was difficult
Wow!!! Your grid layout idea is really superb!
Chinese economy overtakes the U.S.’s to become the largest
It's irrelevant whether intelligence is an inheritable trait or not. You can not say 'all Asians are short' nor 'all Africans are black' as they simply aren't all, nor does the precise number or accuracy give you indication about the traits of any single person. Watson is under the blatantly false impression that his statement have statistical merit when they clearly don't. He was simply wrong and should not have spoken about a field clearly outside his expertise.

The interpretation of the adoption research in the article you linked is particularly infuriating as there is only one thing clearly dominating in the results, the upbringing of the child which accounts for a full 10 points, a number that would seem to point to an almost irrelevance of any genetic predisposition let alone one correlated with prehistoric ancestry, those 3 points could come from literally any uncontrolled for other environmental influence.
Footnote: this story is oddly similar to the top story on the first archive.org snapshot of SN:

https://web.archive.org/web/20070221033032/http://news.ycomb...
As someone who does not have unlimited SMS and also communicates with many international phone numbers, this is a step backwards. The unification of hangouts and SMS allowed me to control which medium my messages took, which saves me a lot of money and allows me to stay in touch wherever I am in the world. Before, I had to straddle two apps to make this happen. With Hangouts, it's all one interface and conversation threads are combined.
There is never anything to discuss with people who would rather close their eyes and ears and call others names than bother to read discomforting information.
The title "Leaving Academia" made me expect the author to have been in academia for some time, and not as a student, and to have decided to move on to something else. The article is not about leaving academia, but about not joining academia.
I remember this article the first time it was posted here. I remember I was not impressed. My opinion in in the interim has not improved. For a start, this should really be titled "Why I dropped out" as you cannot leave an institution to which you do not yet belong. Moreover, the article, then as now, seems as vapid as the comments it inspires; i.e. tall poppy bullshit.

Bah humbug.
>Maybe a handful, I said. And then I realized that there was no way I could work on that problem. Success in academia is measured in the number of citations your paper receives. What point is there in writing a paper that is only interesting to such a small audience?

I wanted to say at first that if he was in it for the sake of being a successful, high-impact researcher, he was in science for the wrong reasons. But really, unless you are one of those high-impact people, you aren't getting tenure. I don't feel like tenure is asking for much if you're a hard worker who's produced some novel results. I get that science is supposed to be about passion, but you can't support a family on passion alone.

> A career in academia would just require even more proving my worthiness...I'd constantly be evaluated. That's not what I was looking for.

He's in for a rude awakening. You're only as good as your last envelope.
> Functions are also like arrays, because at the compiler level, the function body is basically an array of statements.

"Being like an array" and "can be stored in an array" seems to be two different things.
How can I vote down this link?
Certainly the top mistake should be choosing Node.js for an unfitting task?
Thanks. Already done that. Didn't find anything. :-)
Yes, I suspect so, too.
This is interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIvtXDCP2CE

I really love how he talks about his work.
Code review checklist
"A 30-year slog to develop a useful quantum computer may finally be on the verge of paying dividends"

Hahaha... Define "useful"
By this account Chrome and Opera are also Safari with different UI. (Yes, I do know that engines are really the forks, not the same WebKit).
My point is, that we should be able to tell the difference between a browser and a rendering engine.
Did you install your addons before updating to Firefox 32? That's when the pinning was introduced.
Is Twitter becoming a write-only medium?
I never really checked how much traffic I get from Twitter. But since I see so many tweets about my pages (by searching on twitter), I was thinking Twitter is one of the main "look at this" hubs on the net.

Today I looked at my Google-Analytics stats and guess what! I get less visitors then there are tweets about my pages.

On average, 3 tweets bring in 2 visitors.

Many of the tweets are linking via buffer.ly. Doing some research, this seems to be some kind of automated "tweet stuff with just a click" content. These accounts regularly have more tweets then followers. Why are they doing that? Why are they posting several times a day if nobody is reading it?

Anybody here getting significant numbers of visitors from Twitter?
s/Mesos/Marathon and the comment still stands.
Maybe, but there are not 10 visitors that come from the same city according to Google Analytics.
Rovio lays off 110 people as Angry Birds hype fades
Strong incentive to dive in to CloudFront CDN it seems. Transfer from AWS to CloudFront 'edge' caches is now free, and outgoing from CloudFront to the internet is nearly 30% cheaper all of a sudden.
One (might) pay off and benefit the world, or it may flop and you have to move onto your next one.

One (might) be influential, or it may be relegated to the annals of some obscure journal, never to read or cared about.

Still, there might be a pay off for one (monetary). The other buys your "academia points". The pay-off is a little more suspect on the academic's side, I think.
wonder if he's seen the kids react to episode with the apple II?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF7EpEnglgk
Let's look at some Common Lisp example:

https://github.com/Wukix/LambdaLite/blob/master/lambdalite.l...

This is a recent tiny in-core database.

The code is using LOTS of macros. It also implements a few non-trivial macros. Half of the code is implemented as macros.

Code like that is not unusual in Lisp.
A pixel-perfect JavaScript library for drawing text underline
So interested in their work? Nah, it is luck and politics. Sadly, most of the selections are not for hard-core research chops.

The whole grant and annual weighing scales approach nowadays strongly dis-incentivizes risk-taking. Without risk-taking with great big brass genitalia, research results are pretty pedestrian.
Is the JVM designed to host other runtimes?
There is a difference between change mismanagement and not willing to invest in language development.
A maximum spanning tree might be misleading, as it's easy to interpret no vertex as no correlation. When building a tree, weak correlations may be included out of necessity, while stronger ones that lead to cycles are omitted.

If several dimensions are correlated just about equally strongly, you can get very different trees based on small random variation. There's no guarantee that all significant correlations are displayed, or that correlated dimensions are visually close to one another.
The thing I love about pricing from organizations like Amazon, is that there is zero pressure, incentive, or intent on their part to curb you from using their resources, or finding you in any way in violation of some implicit "Fair Use" restrictions.

For example, in Singapore, Bandwidth from EC2 to the Internet is $0.120 per GB for the first 10 TB. So, if I have a site that sends out 2 TB of data, my bandwidth charges are $240/month, and Amazon is 100% fine with me doing that every month, and I should have zero concern about any type of rate limiting, or restrictions.

On the other hand, Digital Ocean (who I do have a VPS with in Singapore) charges me $10/month for a VPS with 2 TB/Transfer. I have no idea what they would do if I actually started using all 2 TB every month, but I can't believe it would end well.

I'm curious though - has anyone played around with using the cheap bandwidth of these VPSs to do a "roll your own" CDN? I.E. for $500/month you could purchase 100 Digital Ocean VPS @$5/month and, in theory get 100 * 1 Terabyte, or 100 Terabytes of transfer to the internet a month.

I'm pretty sure Digital Ocean would frown on that, but I'm interested in whether anyone has done the obvious thing and tried.
Wow, quite amazed I must say. Looking forward to applying this to an idea of mine I just had.
I've found quite a variation in engagement. I have one account with ~4,000 followers that I'm always tweeting and talking to people from, and another account with ~15,000 followers that I rarely use. I've noticed that if I tweet something identical from each, I'll get much more engagement from the 4,000-follower account, even though it has only a quarter of the initial audience.

Overall, however, I think I have seen a drop in engagement since I first started regularly tweeting back in 2009.
Does Scala do something like Xamarin? Single code base => iPhone, Android, WP, mainstream game consoles, Mac, Linux? It's not about just language.
And the fact that web developers then actually can't develop just for one rendering engine and claim that "it's enough" is a very good thing for me. I refuse to use Chrome and I'm extremely hit by all the sites developed "for Chrome only" on the desktop. The web shouldn't be "what's on the developer's machine and not more."
glad i have the 840 pro, although the sample size of 1 of each drive essentially makes these tests meaningless
Sure. But this article was more from a technical perspective, after you chose it for a ("right") task.
Also, one thing to remember - jobs are not constant entities, you could have find them in this month but half of them would disappear for next month... i.e. timing matters.

In my experience, finding remote jobs for popular techs are quite easy (mobile apps dev, web dev). But it is a challenge to find some good remote job for non-web, e.g. C++/systems/desktop dev.
Omni's point is that they are "considered candidates for replacement" by companies with a vested interest in selling you replacements.

I'm sure that car makers consider a 3 year old car a "candidate for replacement" as well. Doesn't make it worthless or not worthy of continuing to run rather than investing in replacing...
Your version is out, their is not, it's whole lot of a difference. Thanks a lot and I'm installing it right away !
What does that "talking to people from" mean?

How are the engagement numbers? How many followers follow a link when you post to these accounts?

When I send out a mailing, about 3% of the receivers click on a link in it. If that would apply to twitter, an account with 1000 followers posting about my site would bring in 30 visitors. But as I said, on average it brings not even one.
> These calculations are based on a well-established and widely used economic measure known as purchasing-power parity (or PPP), which measures the actual output as opposed to fluctuations in exchange rates. So a Starbucks venti Frappucino served in Beijing counts the same as a venti Frappucino served in Minneapolis, regardless of what happens to be going on among foreign-exchange traders.

> PPP is the real way of comparing economies.

So, it's not entirely clear if China is really the biggest economy, or just by using an accounting trick called PPP GDP. Sure, maybe a Chinese middle-class person can buy more Beijing Frappucinos than a middle-class person in Minneapolis, but the disparity in foreign exchange rates still means that an American coming to China can buy more Frappucinos than a Chinese person coming to the USA.
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I think a lot of your comments are directed at JavaScript specifically and not the concept of generators in general.

Especially if you were to look around at other languages' implementations of generators :)
Linode is very clear, you get a certain pool amount and if you go over it is $0.10 for each GB over.
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There's some selection bias here. Github will promote languages that are classically open source friendly - or have a heritage in open source. Languages like Ruby, Javascript and Java will naturally feature higher in such popularity shootouts.

This may not be the case in the world of enterprise, closed-source software.
Does anybody know it all? It's almost as vast as the Java world. A friend of mine is a C# web dev, they didn't know what I was talking about when I did WPF. I used Xamarin, but I don't know a hoot about Sharepoint.
> On the other hand, Digital Ocean ... charges me $10/month for a VPS with 2 TB/Transfer. I have no idea what they would do if I actually started using all 2 TB every month...

What does your contract say? If you don't have a contract, then -because they're a US company- you go by the advertising, and take them to court if they don't deliver what they promised.
ES6 generators appear to lack some features of Python generators, which may account for the JS-specific leaning here.
I'd called that "lean and clean" instead of "boring". And I wish that more user facing apps would look like that, not just internal ones. Maybe it's just me, but all these flashy things, unnecessary effects, animations only clutters the screen and makes app harder and annoying to use. Functionality and ergonomics is all that usually matters. Well done, I'll give it a try.
Who buys something like that? Not that I don't like to see the money of a wealthy person going into science. Better than a stupid investment into (put here whatever multiplies money).
But to me its like eating the heart of your enemy to let his strength leap over to you. Thank god, it doesn't work.

Is it only me, or is it a weird purchase?
App Store Guidelines:

> 2.17 Apps that browse the web must use the iOS WebKit
> framework and WebKit Javascript

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/
Apparently if count numbers of cups of coffee,
okay. But if count number of Cadillac cars or
equivalent, number of three bedroom, two
bath houses or equivalent, etc. apparently
not. If compare GDPs at the present exchange
rate, the US remains way ahead.
(Interstitial advertisement: "[Wrist watch brand] values your time". Indeed.)

Nice piece. This is apparently the guy making things happen (at least) in the battery front, while Musk takes care of the public dog and pony show.

A few technical, rarely mentioned, tidbits thrown in, too.
These days, I find using MD5 absolutely inexcusable.
SHA-1 is available pretty much everywhere, SHA-2 algorithms are quite readily available too.
BLAKE2 (https://blake2.net) is slightly faster than MD5, and significantly more secure. It's based on the SHA-3 finalist BLAKE. Additionally, there are versions of the algorithm that parallelise using SIMD, and there are both 32-bit and 64-bit optimised versions too.
It also gives you the possibility of customising your hash, using it as an HMAC at no extra cost, salting it, or adding a personalisation key to effectively have different hash functions for different purposes.
As a nice extra, it also uses a third less RAM than SHA-2 or SHA-3.
If output length is a concern, truncating the output (with a corresponding increase in the likeliness of collisions) is perfectly fine with any good hash function.
This will probably last about as long as the attempt at NSA reform; i.e. not very :(
Many people, and I am one, regard grad school as a professional position. Nominally you are there to do your own research and make your own decisions, under advisement of a professor. (I can see some exceptions for a new graduate student who is still doing coursework, but in this case the student had passed the qualifying examination.)

As such, grad students don't really "drop out", just like employees don't really "drop out" of a job when they quit, nor unpaid elected officials don't "drop out" of office when they resign, nor volunteers drop out when they stop doing volunteer work.

Personally I think there was a mistake in the logic. Success as an academic may by related to the number of citations one gets, but it's not a factor which affects one's graduate career. Only the handful of people in your graduation committee needs to be convinced about the work, and once you have the PhD there's no continue on that topic, or stay in academia.
Maybe they should actually find people who know how to drive first. I'm getting sick of these ridershares and their terrible drivers. I'm strictly speaking in San Francisco. It's ridiculous how many times they randomly stop in the middle of the street to pick someone up causing traffic jams or even stopping at a stop sign to drop or pick someone up. Plus all the illegal U-turns and crossing double yellow lines when they're not supposed to. I don't recall having this issue with cabs. It's almost unbearable to drive in the city now.
That is very reasonable. With DigitalOcean, All I could find was:

"Policy

Do you charge for bandwidth?

Yes. Plans start with 1TB per month and increase incrementally. Once the monthly transfer limit has been exceeded, the cost of bandwidth is $0.02 per GB over the limit."

I'm sure they have restrictions somewhere on "pooling droplets" in getting around the $0.02/per GB limit (which is already very reasonable - I wonder how they feel about customers that make a lot of use of that $0.02/GB? Amazon, even when you get to the 5 PB/month tier, still charges $.06/GB in the Singapore Region)
Is Chrome on iOS Chrome? If it is, why Firefox cannot be Firefox?
Or should they ditch "Firefox" and just call everything Gecko, because you think that's the most important?
Height is highly heritable. North and South Koreans are genetically the same. The average South Korean is six inches taller than the average North Korean.

What does the assertion that intelligence is heritable mean to you?
Substitute Frappuccino for a burger and it is the Big Mac index.

http://www.economist.com/content/big-mac-index