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I planned a tool to combine both timeline and map to be a tool for history exploration. With geography layer and time together, history can be shown in a clearer and impressive way. If one set of those by one user can be called a set. When grouping multiple related sets from different users, it must be amazing. It could be a game changer tool for history research and education. Moving those "meta" data to layers we can easily understand is a dream. Hopefully, I'm able to see it happens soon:)
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I'd suggest (almost) exactly the opposite, actually...

Charge $5/mo to be a 'helper' and keep it free for blind users. I suspect there are enough folks out there who would be happy to pay $5 for the opportunity to help others (maybe I'm too much of an optimist though... who knows...)

That way you cover costs, and filter out a lot of potential trolls.
Looks like this has been developed using the famo.us framework? I only say this because the parallax effect in the video is very reminiscent of a famo.us demo that was there yesterday but gone today.
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What makes you think from an organizational perspective that there is a difference between them? It is far more likely that the engineers are viewed as having similar fungibility as the janitors than management is viewed as having similar fungibility (for example).
Yup, agreed! Precisely my point above - for a bunch of companies who pride themselves on engineering efficiency and see progress as a result, it would seem very odd that they would chose to actively defy an irrefutable claim on productivity...
The author is incredulous that any of these companies get any work done. Yet. All of these companies are tremendously successful and produce great software. Obviously there is quite a bit of disconnect between what the author thinks and what happens in reality.

Personally I think it's because none of these places are about productivity. In fact I think it's the exact opposite. Take Google for instance. If you think about working on improving Google search what kinds of things do you think are important? Productivity? Or Creativity? My bet is on creativity which I think is where these kinds of workspaces excel.

You are in a room full of smart people who are all collaborating on the same set of problems. Innovative solutions are more likely to occur in that environment than closed off in a personal office. Personally, I like the trend of offering both kinds of workspaces. Private offices for when you just need some time to think. Public workspaces for collaboration and creativity. Conference rooms for meetings. Leave it up to the individual to determine when they need to work in each space.
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A lawyer can't apply chemistry skills every day. They can apply computing skills, including basic programming to automate some tasks. This is true in almost every profession. Architects write AutoCAD Lisp, and graphic designers write Photoshop scripts. Basic programming is as essential as math for a productive workforce.

Even in other STEM fields, programming is very helpful. It's very common for physicists to write programs to analyze their own data. Physics as a field is ahead of the curve here, but economics, chemistry, and all the engineering fields are catching up.
Just another example of things we have mercifully forgotten. See Isaac Asimov's "Forget It" essay http://www.kkbooks.net/ScienceFiction/Asimov37/27283.html (on a similarly antiquated math textbook).
ね is the colloquial way of turning a statement into a question.
I'm using MyFitnessPal and for the first time in years I'm losing weight. I've known I need to lose weight, but the number just kept going up instead. I second what you say. Exercise helps, but ultimately restricting calories by eating less and eating more correctly is the only way to "stay in the green".

It is amazing and absurd to me how many calories some things have. I had no idea! For example, ketchup is loaded with calories. Same with cheese. I used to load down all my food with tons of ketchup and snack on cheese slices. Way too "expensive"!
> See OpenBSD's refusal to add a MAC framework for an example of this. Jails also don't exist for similar reasons, though they are useful for reasons other than security.

I think you've incorrectly interpreted OpenBSD's intentions. OpenBSD doesn't support a MAC framework because they believe the best approach to security is correctness, rather than trying to achieve security by adding features which results in more complexity, making it more difficult to ensure correctness. A common mistake people make is thinking that OpenBSD's primary goal is security; their primary goal is correctness. This just happens to result in better security more often than not.
>There are not many people that have an immediate need for...

There are not many people that have an immediate need for any one particular item in a dry goods store on any particular day. The same is true for other stores and was always true for nearly every item RS carried.

I think the arguments ITT boil down to: did the internet kill RS, or did RS finally succumb to its own poor management.
You can donate to keep software bug-free by funding research into safer programming languages (e.g., Rust), tools for formal verification and static analysis, testing frameworks, software engineering methodology, etc. Sure, someone could always ignore all the research advances and just write unsafe, untested C code. But for the most part, people want to eliminate bugs, so as the techniques for doing so mature, they will tend to become adopted in practice and certain types of bugs will become much less frequent.

Similarly, there are technical research questions related to how to design an intelligent agent that is "controllable", in that it acts to achieve its given goals but not to such an extent that it would resist being switched off or reprogrammed with new goals. Making progress on answering these questions doesn't guarantee that any given developer will use whatever techniques are discovered. But insofar as pretty much everyone, even evil masterminds, wants to maintain control over their AIs, the availability of techniques for 'safe' AI will at least decrease the likelihood that a powerful AI is built without any safeguards.
Firearms (along with sewing machines) were one of the earliest products to be mass produced with interchangeable parts. There wasn't a modern assembly line yet, but firearms weren't hand-made in the sense they were during the 1700s, where one gunsmith would forge every part down to the screws. That is probably one of the major causes of the declining prices noted in the article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interchangeable_parts#Late_19t...
Cost efficient.
Thanks, really, for showing hope for humanity.
Coincidentally I just yesterday bought an Arduino Yun, starter kit, and sensors. They were located near the 3D printer that was on sale. Maybe part of their problem is marketing.
I used Remarq when it was in pre-release mode, and it is super slick. Basically it lets you write in markdown, but easily convert that to good looking PDFs. Perfect for sending reports to clients/bosses/etc. I'm sure there are lots of other good uses for it too.
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Higher productivity does not always translate into higher profitability.
This resonates with me so much. I currently work in a 'creative' and 'collaborative' open office and I just don't enjoy it. It's loud, distracting, frustrating and worst of all, it makes me a hypocrite. I hate the noise, but I am just as much a part of the problem as everyone else. I talk to teammates and make jokes when other people are working, just as they do when I'm working. I can't keep count of how many times per day I'm deep in thought and then get startlingly pulled out of it when I notice my line-of-sight goes right through someone and they're looking at me.

I find myself coming up with reasons to work from home, where I am much more productive, much more comfortable and (I think) much more creative. I can take the time I need, I can think out loud, I can pace, I can drop to the floor and do some pushups (which I find helps reset my brain state and get a new line of thoughts flowing) without distracting other people.

A private or semi private office wouldn't fix all these issues, but it would go a long way in making me want to come into the office.
they could also follow you non stop on the street and enter every store you go and take note of all your purchases by looking over your shoulder. and i don't think much of it is illegal unless you can prove it distress you
but I'm not a layer (I'm a productive member of society :)
This is about better software not new capabilites. Think GMail vs Hotmail not Tesla vs GM.
I bought my first Arduino mega2560 at RS for $59.95.

Now i order them direct from dx.com at $15 for a clone that is exactly the same.
_Absolutely_ love the insight of news being "the short tail of a very long string of events".
Along with the promising execution this could well be one of those tremendously successful ideas that look trivially logical in hindsight.
It's not about individual productivity - it's about team and company productivity.

I doubt anyone questions whether individual effectiveness suffers from an open layout. However open layouts have several benefits that more than compensate:
- Impromptu conversations are easy. The barrier to ask someone a question is lower - it's faster to get unblocked.
- Shared context. With conversations happening in the open, others will often overhear, sometimes learn, and often will choose to participate.
- Impromptu socialization leads to better morale. Someone drops by to chat socially, others join in, people build personal relationships.
- Function-specific spaces. The space saved by having a denser desk layout is allocated to having everything from kitchens to massage chair rooms to ping-pong tables. At the same cost per employee, an open space layout has more 'perks'.

I've worked in both offices and open spaces and I far prefer open spaces with a good etiquette about when to interrupt someone.
Schools (at least in the UK) already teach chemistry, physics , biology and some electronics / woodwork. Why not add some CS/programming to that?
There's always an exception. You have two choices.

First: you might split it into three strings and trust the translator to handle it.

For example, you might pick:

"Your query matched %(filecount)s in %(directorycount)s"?
"%g files"
"%g directories"

with appropriate plurals for the %g ones.

Another translator might pick:

"Your query %(filecount)s %(directorycount)s"?
"matched %g files"
"in %g directories"

to get the flexibility they need.

You only hit a problem there when you get one word that is requires declination dependent on both numbers in a way that you can't fit to be contiguous with the numbers. It's not foolproof, but it's certainly enough flexibility if you're willing to re-word things slightly.

Alternatively, and this is my favoured way, you can have the result of a plural lookup be a second msgid, for example:

msgid "files_found_by_n_directories"
msgstr[0] "files_found_directory_0"
msgstr[1] "files_found_directory_1"
msgstr[2] "files_found_directory_2"

msgid "files_found_directory_0"
msgstr[0] "Your query didn't match any files"
msgstr[1] "Your query matched a file in no directories"
msgstr[2] "Your query matched %(file)g files in no directories"

msgid "files_found_directory_1"
msgstr[0] "Your query didn't match any files in a directory"
msgstr[1] "Your query matched %(file)g file in a directory"
msgstr[2] "Your query matched %(file)g files in a directory"

msgid "files_found_directory_2"
msgstr[0] "Your query didn't match any files in %(directories)g directories"
msgstr[1] "Your query matched %(file)g file in %(directories)g directories"
msgstr[2] "Your query matched %(file)g files in %(directories)g directories"
Don't forget monolingual managers that just don't care though. I've done so many last-minute string translations... "Oh shit, we forgot French, this was supposed to launch last week, you have 1 hour." And then insert the types of cases from the original article here where you need grammatical logic in a fixed string. Ugh.
Shouldn't there be more of a narrative to this?

What is the goal? I could see kids clicking on stuff for a few minutes, lose interest and close it.
Thanks for being an early tester!
(Unrelated)

As someone who grew up in Oakdale, I'm positively shocked to hear there's a tech-related meetup there. Wow!
I live in Toronto, Canada where there are a bunch of independent stores that sell hobbyist electronics and seem to make a good profit doing so, so the market isn't dead. I like to buy stuff online but there have been plenty of times where I've been stuck needing a sensor, resistor, or things of that sort, and don't want to wait for 2 weeks for it to ship from China. It's a false premise to say that electronic component sales moved online when these isn't much in the way of a flagship brick and mortar location to purchase these goods. RS made a choice to move away from a potentially growing market, a market that they owned and could have expanded, and inevitably pushed their customers online.

Just my 2c, but I'm amazed that they thought they would move in on BestBuy (and FutureShop in Canada) territory and be able to compete.
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Good point, sorry for the mistake.
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The reason (in my view) is, that nobody, but speculators and certain breed of VCs care about it. As with any bubble, without a steady inflow of fools, you can't keep it stable. It just fell into the wrong hands and went totally against its original promises.
Condescending to the media coverage. If the climbers do an interview and announce, as CNN did, that they have completed the "First assent of El Capitan" then I will have a very condescending comment for them too.

Ego is part of climbing, much more so when you have cameras following you. There is something innately gratifying in climbing to a place normal people cannot go. These guys aren't Buddhist monks humbly surmounting a climb as an exercise in meditation. It certainly isn't all ego, but to say that ego isn't part of the equation is disingenuous.
It turns out that devs are great at a lot of ops type tasks.

Basically what you get is developers' innate tendencies towards laziness and over-automation yield really good ops solutions.

Where your typical sysadmin will be perfectly comfortable running a hodgepodge of shell scripts and byzantine commands through the terminal every time he wants a server push, your typical developer just wants the fucking code up on the server so he can get back to work he finds less objectionable.

This is absolutely how you want to approach ops. Just get the shit running with as little human interaction as possible.
The author thanks you. Your website (Office Snapshots) is awesome.
My point is that we distinguish species based upon their features, not timescale. So you cannot use this timescale-based differentiation to make a good argument to counter a feature-based differentiation.

How many generations would it take for some evolved feature to become part of homo sapiens has nothing to do with how many features are needed to not be homo sapiens anymore. Other than the fact that they both take time and are statements about evolution, there is no relation between the two.
From the age of 18 to 25 I was registered for the Selective Service. I have been paying taxes my entire life. Don't I deserve to reap the benefits of the society I maintain more than someone who hasn't done so?

And if I don't, I may just stop maintaining it. There's an alternative to Voice and Exit: Disengagement.
I think this is a good idea. The subscription could potentially be done similarly to Humble Bundle where a decent percentage could be ring fenced for charitable/non-profit organisations. In this case you'd expect it to go to organisations helping the bodily impaired.
This seems like a good thread to ask: are there more featureful languages that derive from Awk (edit: i.e., can work in a data driven mode) but don't
diverge as much as much as Perl did in terms of syntax?
> The only chance they had to stay relevant was to challenge the Best Buy's of the world, but they failed to do that.

They tried -- back when what is now RadioShack was Tandy Corp. and Radio Shack was one of its units, it tried with the Incredible Universe stores -- but gave up because at the time their boutique Radio Shack stores were more profitable than their big-box Incredible Universe stores.

Of course, for widely-held, publicly traded corporations, there's a strong and often hard to resist incentive to do what maximizes results for the next earnings report rather than long-term resilience (if nothing else, because what will do the former is often much more clear than what will do the latter.)
This looks pretty slick.
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I've been playing with using Ubuntu phone as a brain for drones and robotics. People have been doing the same with Android for a while. There are lots of Arduino boards that communicate with Android either over bluetooth or OTG USB.
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It's funny that "gel", which you hear pretty often in Austria (and probably South Germany), means the same as well.

It's approximately the same as "nicht wahr?", or "oder?", which can't really be translated, but suggest wanting some kind of verification for what was said.
Prison bars are dumber than a bacterium and they work just fine.

Still, the idea that AI is suddenly X smarter than people is ridiculously naive. Intelligence does not fit on a linear scale. And being smarter does not change the correct answer.
I think private offices are better for collaboration too. When I don't worry about distracting everyone around me I feel much freer to engage in a long discussion with one or two other developers in my office.
I uploaded a markdown file with cyrillic characters and got a pdf with plenty of whitespace.
You are awesome. That's seriously the easiest bit of technical reading I've ever done. I tip my hat to you!
No elegant solutions, but give this a try: https://github.com/bliker/cmder
It's your ad/privacy blocker, FYI.
Definitely wait atleast until the elections in Greece are over.
It's obvious that many subjects would release the AI, if only because they don't really know why it's in a box in the first place. Furthermore, the experiment grants AI capabilities it would probably not have, such as read/write access to its own source code. It assumes the first AI we box will be thousands of times smarter than we are, which is bizarre, since we should already have access to a whole continuum of AI dumber and smarter than us. It deprives the gatekeeper from a lot of tools they would probably have access to in a real situation, for instance raw computing power that far exceeds the AI's and runs powerful analytics on the AI's brain, or the ability to take snapshots of the AI's state and run many conversation paths.
Yes, but that relies on Bitcoin holding water over the long term. This is not so sure.
IMHO ad blocking is good security practice. There have and continue to be plenty of instances of malware being served up via ad networks. "Malvertising" even has its own Wikipedia page.
> Should we encourage "pair accounting" and have accountants share a laptop screen to get their work done?

Have you ever seen finance people work? That happens all of the time.
I'm curious how this handles the very common case of passing functions as parameters in JavaScript. I know it's possible in C# but it's much more difficult to do. JavaScript is a much more functional language than C# and the design patterns are quite different.
I'm not even so opposed to ads. I resent and avoid being followed and targeted mercilessly and stupidly[1].

[1] - Seeing and increase in ads for lawn mowers after purchasing a lawn mower, as if I needed another one.
I remembered a website with a visual illustration of how much the walking range of children has declined in Britain during four generations of a family living in the same town. The map, based on where the great-grandfather, grandfather, mother, and son in the same family walked, shows a stark narrowing in how far children walk on their own.[1] In my town, in Minnesota in the United States, I walked regularly on the city trail system with my children to the county library branch (about a mile away, in one direction from our home) or to the shopping district (about a mile away in the other direction on our same city trail system). All of my children have been able to do those walks on their own, or with an older sibling accompanying a younger sibling, for a long time. My children can be out and about in our neighborhood without anyone hassling them. It should be that way for more children. Most cities in the United States these days are objectively safe enough for children to walk outdoors alone at the ages described in the article kindly submitted here (I don't know specifically about that part of greater DC in suburban Maryland,[2] but I would guess it is safe enough too), and children are better off walking and exploring more rather than being confined indoors or in cars on parental drives to other buildings all day.

AFTER EDIT: Many comments posted after mine here was posted are bemoaning the lack of freedom children have to roam outside today, but that remains to be proven. I think the most astute comments here point out that we really don't know whether there are a lot of external pressures on parents to keep their children from walking outside alone, or just a change in parenting practices that makes that less common. I can testify that here in Minnesota, my children are far from the only children who walk outside by themselves at the ages reported in the news anecdote here. Compared to my childhood growing up not far from where I live now, I think children spend too much time indoors in general, and not enough time outside, but I have no fear of the police or the child protection authorities here when my children are outside. We are homeschoolers, so my children have spent a lot of time outdoors during normal school hours. That has never been a problem here, as everyone knows that homeschooling is legal in Minnesota. My children have often walked to the public library by themselves during school hours. New parents (some of the commenters on this thread) need not be afraid of bringing up their children to take walks by themselves outdoors.

[1] http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/571-the-great-indoors-or-ch...

[2] https://www.google.com/maps/place/Woodside+Park,+Silver+Spri...