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Please understand that some of us are not native speakers and try really hard to understand your comments. Particularily in this place, making the effort seems to be obliged, as most of the community produce high-quality comments. What you want to convey with "mmry" is very opaque. I am still not sure of what you mean with it (I believe is "Am I right", but the reference is lost with me, and I don't think I'm the only one).
These few examples don't need to make the case that "most of the world's programs can be replaced by programs of no more than one screenful", because again that's your strawman, and not my argument. People pay millions of dollars for kx's database so it's not by any reasonable definition mere "exercises", and it's certainly not "vastly larger than a screenful".

I'm writing this way; I'm finding value writing this way, and at the moment I'm making no other claims other than the shortness of a program is the single best indicator of correctness, performance, and "reasonableness". It's certainly more important than a "types" argument.

While your best counterargument against short programs is inertia, suggesting we shouldn't leave the trees isn't helpful. You should try it. You might like it.
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This is really frightening. Honestly, what are these people supposed to do now? I'm not even really sure how to vet insurance companies' data privacy, since most get their insurance through their employer.
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I was surprised when they started an actual investigation when some idiot slashed my and my neighbors tires.

Apparently my neighbor heard the guy shouting "Fucking foreigner" (we both had foreign registration plates at the time) or something similar and reported it. Apparently, that moves the crime into the hate crime category and warrant extra police work. So even though I didn't report the slashing, the police came to my place to gather my version.

Overall same result though and I wasn't really expecting any result to be fair.
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But you still can't use structurally shared data, which you need when you want to share large data-structures between threads.
Do you think that Disney is the only company who should be able to tell stories involving Mickey Mouse?
I'm going to focus on your last line...

"out-sourcing the slow/painful bits"

Which is exactly why I don't get the obsession with side projects or work samples. There is no guarantee that the person showing the work actually did the work. At best, it means they have access to people that can do the work, which I suppose is something.

Not that I am accusing you of cheating or lying or anything, just pointing out that in a world where outsourcing is easy and common that you can't take these things at face value.
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A father's gift to his daughter - MinecraftLANProxy to help her play Minecraft with her friends.

https://github.com/WonderfulVoid/MinecraftLANProxy

"I wrote this little hack because my daughter wanted her friends to be able to join her Minecraft worlds even when not on the same LAN."
Boy it sure does fill me with confidence to know that I am hearing about my personal information having been compromised through a news website rather than through the incompetent organization that allowed my information to be leaked in the first place...
Since this is mostly undecipherable for me, I'll just quote:

«A common method of uniformly distributing fine particles in a matrix is to make the best use of highly potent nucleation sites for inducing the precipitation of the particles. In this study, potential nucleation sites for B2 during annealing of wrought sheet steel include (1) grain boundaries or edges of recrystallized austenite crystals and (2) deformation shear bands, which are common in hot- or cold-worked low-density steel. To expand the stability domain of B2 above the recrystallization temperature (normally, 800–900 °C) of deformed austenite, the alloying recipe of an austenitic low-density steel was modified by adding 5 weight per cent nickel (Ni), which is one of the most effective elements for forming B2 with aluminium. The addition of Ni to low-density steel may appear to conflict with the collective wisdom of ferrous alloy design; Ni has been regarded merely as a well-known austenite stabilizer like Mn and C; and Ni has been little noticed in low-density steel design, mainly because it is not a critical determinant of the density in ferrous alloys.» (citations omitted)
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And when your professor assigns you homework based on the $235 book, and the tests align with the chapters in that book, what are you supposed to do, exactly?
Hardly a justification for cooperating with torturers, more of an excuse.
One of the biggest potential uses of something like Google Glass I see is automatically pulling up information about things you're looking at and there's no way to do that without a camera. Now, as far as I know the Glass didn't have enough horsepower to do that usefully but theoretical future versions might. It's just too bad their advertising focused on people making recordings of what they were seeing.
Actually about half of that:

"For the full fiscal year, Apple generated $182.8 billion in sales, a new record for the firm, with $38.5 billion in net income."

$105MM, not $200MM.
The emacs interface is very nice as well, using flycheck
To clarify: I mean all possible 2-word combinations. Domain squatters are using dictionaries and just registering anything available.
To the end user, sure. To the school district they are very expensive.
I'm actually the kid's friend so how about doing something with your time other than looking for something to bitch about on the Internet
Cool, fun, but I would do it with click & hold & drag to pan, rather than requiring keyboard control, if you can.
These agreements are supposed to reduce barriers in both directions, so there is an interest for businesses on both sides to reduce friction and allow greater access to foreign markets.

Unfortunately, this laudable process has been more and more hijacked by special interest groups, to the point where international treaties are used as backdoors to impose legislation that would otherwise be very unpopular at home. An MP voting in, say, New Zealand to extend copyright terms, would get a lot of stick; but now he can say "hey, there is some good with the bad, less barriers are good for the economy blablabla" and vote for the whole bundle with significant political cover; he can then collect his copyright-lobby cheque AND keep his seat, win-win.

In a way, this is natural; this sort of dealmaking was commonplace at local and national level at most times in history, and it took a lot of effort to make it fairly transparent through the democratic process; now it gets done at a global level, where there isn't a democratic process yet -- we don't vote for a "world parliament" where this sort of issues could be thrashed out in public, we rely on ambassadors and special envoys with wide negotiating powers and no accountability, which naturally results in corruption.
That's funny, I'm currently writing a Canvas visualization, the code base is getting bigger than anticipated, hence messier than I'd like. When I saw this article I thought "damn, I bet this would be way easier managed in Scala, if I only knew Scala".
This is obviously an issue with Google Glass, but MAC address filtering is a waste of time. It offers absolutely no protection against a determined adversary. It is a perfect example of security theater.
Of course! PowerShell definitely has a lot of brilliant ideas. Sadly it is overenginnered and has quite some design mistakes. Nevertheless it has served as a great source of inspiration for me - I have actually gone through several PowerShell manuals before I started elvish.
That tends to be one of the challenges with credentialism and inflation. In the 1960s or 1970s (at least in the USA), the mindset among employers tended to be "you've got a degree? you're HIRED!" - they just needed reasonably smart people and university acted as a filter.

The parents of Millennials were among this cohort and internalized this mindset (along with the society at large). The idea of "more education = better job opportunity" has lasted for the past 40-50 years and even been escalated.
"Anything worth keeping will be translated into English."

The things that are "worth keeping" are always translated in more than one language. As for the "cultural protectionism" link, someone tries to sell the progress along with English in one package. But neither English, nor any other language for that matter, owns the progress.
I think this is fairly typical of large companies. For example, Facebook also has a framework called Javelin that predates React by a few years and had it's own take on functional reactive programming. It's best to think of a large company as several small companies pursuing their own agendas.
Yeah but 185,000 grandmothers?

No one bombed anyone.
You could say the same thing about perl5 then :)

$ perl -E "use bignum; say .1 + .2 - .3"
0

$ perl -E "use bigrat; say .1 + .2 - .3"
0

$ perl -E "use bigrat; say 3.1415927 / 1"
31415927/10000000

ref: http://perldoc.perl.org/bignum.html | http://perldoc.perl.org/bigrat.html
I wonder how these compare with bcrypt and scrypt. Anyone have any insight?
Assange is wanted for questioning on allegations of sexual assault. Assange is a powerful and connected person, with strong support from a considerable percentage of the population. I am glad that that does not affect the legal process, and I would never want to live in a society where it did.

EDIT: The article says "He has been in a cell, under house arrest, or effectively detained at the Ecuadorian Embassy since December 2010."

This is patently a lie. He chooses to stay in the embassay of his own volition. How can anyone take this article seriously?
Sadly, home-schooling continues to be illegal in Germany, a law which was first instituted in the 1930s as the government wanted more control over education.

The police will literally show up at your door and escort your kids to school if you attempt to home-school.
There's a strong argument you can't really learn it without first learning the math, and it really needs to be in the order of math, physics, chemistry and biology. If you can't reason about it, don't have the foundation of that order of topics, can't do problem sets, is it really anything more than "a rote memorization of facts"?

Really, in the normal US curriculum biology is exactly that, because it doesn't require any math to speak of, then comes general chemistry because you can get by with algebra, but you don't have any real understanding of atoms etc. because you haven't done physics, critically E&M, but also classical mechanics. Then normally algebra based physics, since the US math track is so slow calculus comes too late.

But that's cargo cult physics, no one in the real world does it without the calculus. Heck, Newton invented his calculus to do the physics for which he's even more famous for, right?

As I mention in my other comment in this sub-thread, I consider myself lucky that my high school physics class was an automatic A class where the teacher just talked with us for the whole period. I learned a lot of useful things without doing stuff I'd have to unlearn in college.
Great! How old it's your daughter? I also want mine to play with minecraft, but she's only 7...
There's an honest-enough looking uninstall procedure on the site itself:

http://download-for-mac.com/uninstall.php?name=Skype#how_to_...
> Something to add: This cycle not happened only once in a programmer life.
IS RECURSIVE!

I was going to say that this was nothing like my experience of learning to program, but it does quite accurately represent the process of adding new skills these days.
I don't see why copyright terms need to be empirically justified. Land is passed down from generation to generation, and few people ask: "what's the empirically justifiable duration of land rights?" If we're going to have inheritance of property,[1] I see no reason to extend stronger protections to dirt peoples' ancestors stole from native Americans than to creative works they brought into the universe through their own ingenuity.

[1] Which is a controversial issue, but a separate one.
Yes, I used a video display terminal for the first time in a computer lab full of strange gear at MIT 40 years ago. The computer had to have its initial boot loader loaded from a strip of perforated paper tape. The terminal had characters "drawn" by the crt tube's electron beam. If there were a lot of characters on the screen the first few lines would start to fade before the e-beam was able to back to the top of the screen. By keeping the overhead room lights off, we could see almost a full 24 lines of 40 character. It seemed so advanced compared to the punch cards that I'd used for years before. Those were the days!
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I think that might overall be a better strategy than a really half-assed digitization plan. Paper records aren't that high security, but they are moderately resistant to bulk theft: leaking 20,000 paper patient records takes a lot of physical effort.
Given the purpose of copyright (to increase the public domain), experience with "lifetime+N" indicates subtle bad effects. That is, without a lot of research, you can't tell if something is in copyright or has entered the public domain. Finding the author is the first obstacle, then finding out if and when the author died is next. The ultimate effect is to keep people from re-using things that almost, but not quite certainly, have entered the public domain.

A fixed term, with required notices, would be a lot better for our purposes in the USA.
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So here's my question, how come no browser has a way for a java applet to manipulate the DOM? We've got GWT compiling java to JS, we've got this compiling scala to JS.. and the JVM was originally built to run inside of a browser. Why can't we just close the circle? I guess people don't want their website visitors to see a "you must upgrade java" popup first thing?
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As far as I understand the type providers evaluate the samples at compile time. This means that you have at that point of a time a correct version of the data samples. If at compile time everything is ok there is no security or corruption issue for the runtime.

I also think it won't be a good idea to just pull in arbitrary code (or resources) through http(s) during compilation. I think what you really should do is download the files, review them, add them as resources to your project and use those as input for the type providers.
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Relatively small, yes. But I'd guess somewhere between 1 in 100 and 1 in 1000 people are criminal?

1 in 185,000? That's not criminal it's targeted.
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This is generally quite nice. To add to some of the other feedback, I felt it could do with more verbose help text and more importantly for my brief play with it, more focus bringing basic staples to the top of results for food search.

I tried to add just bacon and it took rewatching the demo video and some guesswork to figure out searching for 'bacon raw' would get to basic bacon.
Trying just 'bacon' or 'pork' only gets lots of babyfood and soup related answers in the generated dropdown.
Sweden simply can't guarantee he won't be extradited. Under international law all extradition requests must be dealt with on their merits. To guarantee to ignore that potential future extradition request (the US currently hasn't asked either country to extradite) would be a meaningless lie, and Assange certainly knows it.
"Too slow for its memory usage" means that that in order to use large amounts of memory, it becomes impractically slow.

One of the non-finalists (Centrifuge) was criticised for byte-grained random memory accesses.
A random access to main memory causes a row activation delay of roughly 50ns, so one should access many nearby bytes to make up for that.
Can you point to any stories of users of localbitcoins being busted in this manner?
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I don't know - it seems to make sense to me. The copyright holder is paying a tax so that the state protects the monopoly that's granted with copyright. Seems fair to me. Otherwise, we've got the current situation where some corporations get a huge benefit by getting free monopoly-enforcement from the state.
So how much money do the US+UK spend on propaganda against Assange? Honest question. Are there any estimates on the order of magnitude?
With this current infamous case as an example: https://www.google.com/search?q=german+homeschooling+family+...

Gleichschaltung is still a thing, even if it's relaxed and focused on a different ethos.
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The life + x years (with x a significant number) is a European thing and has a different origin than copyright: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors%27_rights

Since the Berne Convention mandates life + 50 for a large class of publications, it's hard to go below that (both for the EU and the US)
The question is not whether it will be efficient but whether it will happen.

It will mean licenses and certifications to have the right to store personal data, regulations to comply with in term of system architecture with audits and penalties for breaches. More bureaucracy and processes. You won't create a website over a week end.

Currently any idiot can create a database and store sensitive information without even knowing what a SQL injection or a rainbow table is.

Most professions are regulated: architects, doctors, pilots, farmers, bankers, even restaurants! And each time regulations come as a result of fk ups: banks or homes collapsing, conmen selling snake oil, food poisoning, etc. IT is the only sector where mild amateurism is not only acceptable but rather the norm more than the exception.
If the general, constitutionally-enshrined idea is to increase the public domain, then don't we have an implied obligation to figure out what term actually does increase the public domain? As copyright stands in the USA, little to nothing enters the public domain. That's definitely not increasing.
The original US Copyright law extended protection for 14 years with the availability of renewal for another 14. I think that's reasonable and allows the expiration of copyright after 14 years if the owner doesn't take the time to renew.
Yescrypt is derived from scrypt with extra tunable parameters.

As for security margins? That remains to be seen.
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The problem then is that even the estimation of your accuracy ('99.99+%') becomes baseless if only looked at closely enough.
Interesting. I feel that "intellectual property" already penalizes people for innovating. It supports the original creator directly, but it prevents all the other innovators from creating more work in the same direction that is inspired by the first. Perhaps the tax helps balance this value?
And anastrazole. However you would have to stop taking exogenous testosterone and take these meds and it still potentially may not work and you could require surgery for extraction. They would raise testosterone levels, but you would not see the same "physical benefits" as a testosterone gel would provide.
There was - it was called LiveConnect - but like most things to do with Java and the browser(s), it languished in a half-supported state, and really isn't worth thinking about any more.

As are applets - a great idea, implemented poorly, and now essentially lost to the annals of history.
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The ZeBu [1] backend team, working on compiler for the ZeBu emulator, is expanding fast.
The routing team is looking for people excited by challenges: routing is NP-hard, and performance is king.
Improving routing quality and compile time by proposing new ideas, implementing them, constitutes the bulk of the work.

We are looking for people with creativity, very strong in algorithms and data-structures, excellent communication skills (team is global).
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> Assange is wanted for questioning on allegations of sexual assault.

These questions can evidently not be asked within the embassy. (Ignoring the various, and I concede very loaded, discussions around the validity of the allegations.)

> Assange is a powerful and connected person, with strong support from a considerable percentage of the population.

Substitute 'American intelligence agencies' for 'Assange' in that sentence, and perhaps stick a 'tacit' in front of the word support, while you're at it.

To be clear, my point here is that Assange is nowhere near as powerful as any or all of the Swedish, UK, or US governments (or any of their agencies). However, world+dog understands that it's a bit more complicated than 'come and talk to us in our country about these dubious claims, oh and we can't guarantee that we haven't already arranged for you to be flown into Central America to not face charges for the rest of your life'.

> I am glad that that does not affect the legal process, and I would never want to live in a society where it did.

I am genuinely concerned about your understanding of the society/ies that you believe you're living in now.
It seems to me your adjusted for inflation price is talking about currency inflation and not the deflation in tech prices. $1500 is quite a bit of money for such tech in my opinion. This is especially so in light of Google's legendary poor customer service.
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A watch and power bars wrapped in a PVC pipe. Not related to his case, but that is just hilarious. I mean if you wanted to simulate a time bomb, is there really a better way? Well you would want metal instead of PVC, but still.
Cool, but I wonder about stiffness. When I was an aero engineer, we tended to use aluminum because most of our designs were limited by stiffness, not strength. Since aluminum is lighter than either steel or titanium, you can take advantage of geometry (which greatly impacts stiffness) without sacrificing weight. Strength was only rarely the bottleneck. Interestingly, the stiffness to weight ratio of aluminum, steel and titanium are all approximately equal.

We did occasionally use titanium, but usually some sort of steel was a better choice when strength was the issue. It's just the way it works out. It's also worth noting that for the work I did, cost was never an issue (NASA) - material costs were basically insignificant. We could use whatever we wanted.
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