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> a more experienced developer knows when to make the trade-off and solve the problem in-house with a much smaller body of code that's far easier to maintain

Indeed, but this is hopefully obvious to all of us. My point is that the cost of maintenance is vastly higher than is ever really understood. Most code is written in the context of delivering a project, and here the highest cost is considered to be getting functional code out of the door (even the first set of bugs is often overlooked).

I'd propose the counterintuitive and unpopular view that the cost of development is the tiniest fraction of the lifecycle cost of lines of code when you factor in things like bugs, keeping up with security, adapting to environment changes, modifications due to new requirements, and probably most importantly the multiplying effect of adding new moving parts which makes each piece of code in a solution more expensive to write and maintain than the last.

I'm perfectly aware that this will seem ridiculous and in some ways it is a little aggressive to make the point, but as evidence I would consider how many work years are spent on libraries which contain a tiny part of the functionality that is contained in useful software.

Therefore the trade-off, while being about the right things, is very rarely correctly sized.
The ETF files for bankruptcy and the creditors and shareholders divvy up the remaining assets (which will be practically nothing).
well i guess i have some sort of OCD when it comes to bookmarking. It took me lots of time to organise them and i kinda remember most of them. However the reason for this extension is to make my life easier :)
Firstly, great idea for an app -- I often tell myself I need to take the time to enjoy the wins but there is always the next thing to move on to. Being reminded of them at a later date makes perfect sense, and I'll download the app to give it a try when I'm next on my ipad.

In terms of advice -- everyone's already said it: don't rewrite now, just fix the important bugs and give it a push.

Good luck!
conversely puts the fastidiously litigious on trial too. No investment in either side, i think it's all pretty grim.
This is true and was one of my motivating factors.
It is easier to buy / sell an exchange traded fund than bitcoin. You can use an existing brokerage account to buy it.
Are there any resources you recommend on maintaining a .ssh folder? I've done a little reading, but I've never really needed to worry about working with multiple servers before, but I'm going to need to learn soon for a project at work.
For one, there's less worry that you'll forget your private keys or have them stolen.
Especially nothing for shareholders, since creditors get paid first.
You can already do it at BitFinex with 3:1 leverage.
I wonder if market dynamics will force an artificial increase in the value of bitcoin. If the bitcoin market is operating properly, a bitcoin ETF existing should not increase the price of bitcoins. If it does, can we assume bitcoins are overvalued?

In the housing boom people built houses and sold mortgages because they were a good investment, not because people actually needed the houses. If the bitcoin ETFs make speculative buying of bitcoins so easy for the average joe, we could see a huge bitcoin price increase, followed by a crash a while later.
Are these issues reported to LO devs, or they have to look it up themselves?
It's the same reason why you don't buy and own steel, but rather you buy stock in a mining conglomerate or a refinery. Owning a piece of a business in the long-run may be more less volatile than the commodity itself. Though the two can't necessarily be separated in terms of future outlook.
I love how so many of these comments revolve around the term "postmodern." This article's argument is not its title. It's the idea represented by a particular school of thinking.

Call it what you want: there is a school of thought which embraces the idea that the universe is senseless, and they claim the mind creates artificial order. You can see it in artistic work.

Obviously, this article is about that school of thought.

(which, I think you could make a very reasonable case is decidedly "post-modern." Not every representative of the school has to live in the same time frame, just like Beethoven could be called a Romantic artist, but he was a century earlier than Tchaikovsky. Nietzsche preceded the postmodernists, but his ideas fit squarely with theirs.).
>"Every copy of his wife’s memoir seemed to have disappeared. Even the copy at the New York Public Library had vanished sometime in the 1970s. I eventually tracked down what seems to be the only remaining copy, in the Library of Congress, ..."

Assuming it hasn't already been digitized, this seems like a minor historical emergency.
click on haskell, click compile, get error.
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At one time, I read a post about "creative examples of using the medium layout/framework". I think it was on Medium...I can't find it. Anybody remember it? If so, URL?
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As other commenters wrote, you want drivers to always follow the speed limits. Moreover, I can tell you how things look when drivers know where cameras are placed. In Poland, we have an actual Android app that will tell you not only where stationary cameras are but also where the police currently is monitoring the traffic. It's a hit among drivers, and people use it to look like law-abiding citizens next to a camera, while not giving a fuck about road safety and speeding like crazy the moment they're sure they're not being monitored.

Seriously, the more drivers I know, the more I want linear speed tracking and ALPRs to be deployed everywhere, on every single damn road.
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This is like complaining about too much biodiversity.

Accept that computing is a vast and complex topic, and that there are far too many ways of doing even basic things than you will be able to learn completely.

This does mean giving up the idea that you will be the master of the topic with all of the answers. It also means that you need to practice humility in the face of different customs. What can you learn from this strange distro? What does it do better than the tools you have?

Remember that your way is not the only way, and that it is statistically unlikely to be the best way. No matter how clever you are.
I'm in the process of reading this book, and am well past the excerpted part. I think this headline is very misleading.

Rothstein didn't start anything -- he responded to a situation created by Harry Anslinger. Anslinger created the situation out of a need to secure funding for his operation, and what appears, to my reading, to be a healthy dose of both racism and religious fervor.
1) You copied the wrong definition for cooperative.

It's "a farm, business, or other organization that is owned and run jointly by its members, who share the profits or benefits."

2) The article mentions John Dewey, but doesn't really get into who he is. I strongly recommend reading his book, "Democracy and Education".

As a taste:

"A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. The extension in space of the number of individuals who participate in an interest so that each has to refer his own action to that of others, and to consider the action of others to give point and direction to his own, is equivalent to the breaking down of those barriers of class, race, and national territory which kept men from perceiving the full import of their activity."

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=DewDemo....
Chronology's a bitch. Talk about authoritarian structure.
The thing is the dad thought it wasn't just a gortesque mediocre movie, it was one of the top of his favourites. So to the parent, it seemed like they were showing them a masterpiece. Also by the discussion that ensued afterwards the kids could see a lot of cliches and parallels. "She is like Snow White". If they can make those kind of references, they can handle a few aliens jumping out of the shaddows.
Fixing open source JITs to support Windows x64 SEH properly is on my wishlist for MS Open Tech.
Remember the gorilla arm.

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/G/gorilla-arm.html
I think there are two reasons not to post the salary range right away.

1. There is always flexibility in the budget for the right people.

I'm hiring engineers to my team right now and I have a clear number I got from my CEO. I am confident that budget will fit the ideal candidate that I'm trying to hire. But on the other hand, if someone more senior, or junior blows my mind, I'm willing to push for the extra numbers for the more senior, or the extra rack for the junior to get on my team.

2. Salary is not everything.

I do believe salary is important, but not everything. There are a good number of people who are willing to take a job with less salary if they feel they can grow there more, the culture fits them better and the potential of company is bigger there.

I do understand though it is frustrating doing multiple interviews without knowing if the salary range is close to the expectations or not. If a candidate asks me on the initial phone screening about the numbers I am happy to talk about it openly.
Well, I used this story as a general example. I guess many kids have similar birthday parties everywhere in the U.S. And if kids watch screens (movie and video games) when they are together, I can safely guess they do it even more when they're back after school. And I'm sharing here to say that it doesn't have to be like that. Books, outdoor games, Lego, etc are much better. (I'm sceptical about sport, it's too brutal and dangerous)
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Seems like it would be especially important for jobs where the pay is scaled for a market such as Bloomington, Indiana but remote is okay.

As someone who has lived in San Diego for 14 years it is really easy to forget that lots of people can afford to live comfortably* on $60-80k when they don't live here or in the SF Bay Area, etc.

(* or, for that matter, extremely well, depending upon where they do actually live).
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OT: Do you have any recommendations for elderly users? Any resources would be great, too. I've looked around but it's hard to find current, reliable information on a somewhat unusual topic.

The specs I find myself dealing with are the following, which I think are typical:

* Very little knowledge of mobile computer conventions, or any computer conventions: Icon literacy, swiping, tapping, home screens, etc. Some don't understand what a web host is, or the difference between a browser's search field and its address bar.

* Constrained physical abilities: Vision to see small print, dexterity to swipe correctly, etc.

* Limited ability/motivation to learn more
I hope Mozilla puts Servo into Firefox OS sooner rather than later. Same for rebuilding the whole thing in Rust, although that will probably last 3+ years.
> You have to have a plan if

This is a moot argument. Of course s/he has to have a plan if s/he wants to be in business. What was asked was suggestions, not detailed strategy deliverables.
I would assume by "hard mode" they meant the last 3 difficulties you unlock by beating the first 3. And the challenge at that point is chasing even higher times and doing leaderboard chasing (though good luck cracking the top 200 at this point, my 250+ is only 317th last I looked).
I agree. Tickets tied to income would be much better. Also, tickets IMO should be tied to insurance. As you do stupid things on the road, your insurance rate should rise (again, maybe proportionally to income), until you just can't afford to drive anymore. From my experience, poor middle-class drivers are actually very wary of insurance costs. My very close friend attributes insurance premiums as her primary reason for always driving safely.
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I also love how some people think this article is a defense of anti-structuralism, while others think it's a dismissal.

As to chronology, I'm afraid history isn't on your side. One era does not end sharply as another begins. There's significant chronological overlap between schools of thought and movements in general.
The source distributions don't have any such restrictions, as far as I'm aware, being wholly covered by a BSD-like license.

The "community", "business" and "enterprise" distinctions, and their respective costs/restrictions, refer solely to ActiveState's particular distributions.
Ironically, I need to stop doing my to-do list (ActiveInbox for me.) I've actually found it's become somewhat addictive. I think it's the unconscious feeling that I'm being productive and it actually keeps me from doing things I might enjoy. I've started to time box my to-do listing. I wouldn't be surprised if this is not an uncommon situation.
That's not at all what happened. (Disclaimer: I was at Sun at the time and was deposed in the case.) Sun didn't "go after NetApp" -- NetApp tried to buy some StorageTek patents via a third-party intermediary, and when they were rebuffed, they came after ZFS.[1] And, it should be said, NetApp didn't particularly care about Sun -- they cared about the fact that ZFS was open source. NetApp wanted Sun to "close" ZFS or otherwise "restrict its use"[2]. As for the case itself, it was moved back to California (NetApp had initiated it in East Texas, the patent troll capital of the universe) where it became a massive case, and was then slimmed down by order of the magistrate to three patents on the NetApp side and four patents on the Sun countersuit side. At the same time, thanks to a community outpouring of prior art, Sun was able to pursue invalidating the claims of the NetApp patents with the US Patent Office.[3] These efforts were wildly successful, and all three NetApp patents were rejected on all claims. Amazingly, the case wasn't thrown out at that point (though any damages would obviously be very limited), but every turn in the case had gone Sun's way.

Then, Oracle acquired Sun, and for reasons that haven't been disclosed, Oracle and NetApp dismissed their respective cases.[4] While I can't disclose the reasons behind this, I can say that both Oracle and NetApp would have jumped at the chance to cross-license ZFS and WAFL patents in a way that extended only to Oracle and not to CDDL licensees. (That is, prohibited open source ZFS.) Because the CDDL is airtight with respect to patents, such cross-licensing was impossible, and by dismissing their suits (instead of settling), the findings of fact from the trial essentially disappear -- which is enormously to NetApp's advantage. Point is: ZFS actually has about as much patent security as one can find in an open source system, as it has withstood a direct, full-frontal assault by attorneys seeking to find a way around its patent grants.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20070423001711/http://blogs.sun....

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20080625023043/http://blogs.sun....

[3] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/07/sun_gets_netapp_pate...

[4] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/09/oracle_netapp_zfs_di...
>being regularly murdered by officers of the state for no legal reason.

Citation for that?
> Every time I use the Play store

Try F-Droid, a repository of FOSS apps with a focus on user confidentiality. They offer some security assurance by building and signing the apps from the orginal source, and offer nice functionality such as automatic updates (which you can disable, of course). Their store and related app is a fork of Aptoide. I often can find good solutions on F-Droid, but the repository is small.

https://f-droid.org/
I think in the beach example we can take for granted that having a hammock is better than not. The question is whether having the hammock is worth giving up some time to set it up.
No, you didn't learn to kill. You were selected because of your trust in authority and lack of responsibility. Soldiers shouldn't ask for permission to shoot, especially not "snipers". The whole thing is just a charade to enable diffusion of responsibility.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_responsibility
Very cool look at how human computer interactions may look like. I especially liked to "co working" segment in which the woman walked into a studio, and transformed a blank drafting table into her personal environment.

I would personally feel better if future computing environments used open standards and be open source.

I know that companies like Microsoft, Apple, etc. have the resources to do the R&D and produce products, but I don't want to see competing incompatible systems slow progress.

I know it is a stretch to hope for, but this is why I favor open web standards to apps, even on small devices.
Some medical phenomena are not diseases, they're collective terms for symptoms with an unclear cause. "CFS", among others, is such a term. As underlying causes are identified, groups of patients ideally get moved off the label and categorized more appropriately according to what they are actually suffering from.

CFS is not a diagnosis, it's a label for a syndrome which should only be applied after a medical practitioner has exhausted all her diagnostic capabilities without conclusive results. CFS is not something that should ever be on top of the list, it's only a fallback for when you reach the end of the list, and it has to be this way by definition.

However, these syndromes sometimes develop a life of their own. It can be because our diagnostic means still have glaring weaknesses. Or because doctors don't want to explore something any further. Or because a syndrome becomes a cultural phenomenon. This is parodied pretty well in an animated Dilbert episode with "Chronic Cubicle Syndrome".

Because of this cultural baggage (which affects physicians as well) it might be better to move away from a syndrome-based nomenclature for these things. Idiopathic Chronic Fatigue would be a much better term.

That's why I think studies on groups of patients labeled with a syndrome are net-beneficial while every patient actually "diagnosed" with CFS is a medical defeat.
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As the fund tracks the price of bitcoin, this isn't a reason that applies in this case. It's not a fund that tracks the value of Coinbase and Bitpay etc, there are barely any public bitcoin companies anyway (maybe 1 or 2 as far as I know, and they're not big players either.)

It's interesting because it interfaces with existing investment infrastructure, culture, protocols etc. Trying to buy, store securely and apply proper accounting rules to a not fully defined (by law) digital currency concept, is not something investment firms want to bother with unless they specialize in bitcoin. (like SecondMarket).

Instead, they'd just want to pull up a vetted fund on an exchange they're familiar with, on their bloomberg terminal they're familiar with, purchase a financial product whose structure they're familiar with, and apply the same accounting standards as they would normally, and deal with the normal legal ramifications of shares of ETFs.

This essentially means anyone can now get exposure to the price of bitcoin without any extra understanding or investment necessary on the technical bits of storage, accounting etc.

And that could be very interesting. Bitcoin makes for a great opportunity. It can go to 0, or it can do 100x or even 500x value growth in the next 20 years. And I'd say the odds of the latter are greater than 10%. That's why it's not such a crazy idea for billion dollar funds to put $10m into bitcoin, as they'd have a chance of making billions at the cost of losing millions. I wouldn't be surprised if, now that it's easy for any pension fund, hedge fund, family fund or university endowment fund to buy in, that we'll see quite a few of them do.

At least, that's always been the story. "If pension funds dedicated only 0.1% to bitcoin, the price would go up one or two orders of magnitude this decade" or something to that effect.

We'll see how this one plays out.
I can't explain how to perform an appendectomy. When I can't explain something, I rely on the knowledge of experts:

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"...it may be worth-while for you to remember that you have as much time as anyone else — twenty-four hours a day".

I don't think this is fair. If you are poor and uneducated, you have to spend more time working just to provide basic needs. So you don't have as much time available as those who are better off.
True, but Blade Runner had a different story. The producers forced the Director to add the voice-over for the final cut of the movie before release because they would be worried the audience would not "get it" otherwise (if I remember correctly). The Director's Cut was the true version of the movie originally planned for theaters.
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A lot of those games involve hardware the children do not have access to.

I guess that's one theory.