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For sure - it's got lots of promise and we are by no means bound to what we've bought into - we'll use whatever's best, at the moment that's Gitlab.

To clarify I didn't mean that it would be nice to have packages that are maintained by or in the default Debian repo - but an apt repo for the project would be nice.

I've found Go a pain to read and hack with - Ruby and Python however are a lot more readable and any of our ops or devs would feel confident in finding / reporting bugs in either.
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If you were using old generation instances (t1 m1 c1 etc.) your experience would have been VERY different to current generation instances (c3 c4 m3 t2). Did you try network optimized instances with (very) low latency networking?
The source[1] is of course bias. Would be interested in seeming someone else reproduce the results.

[1] http://magazine.odroid.com/assets/201503/pdf/ODROID-Magazine...
Of course! Many of our users use it internally. All plans have an option to make documentation internal: either by inviting collaborators, or a site-wide password.
This. Even if torture worked, we still shouldn't use it, just like we don't use the other things you mentioned.
Re: Debian -- I see that the notabug.org gogs repo[r] contains a debian-folder, and the package build-depends on gccgo (and gccgo-go, which doesn't appear to be in Debian at all, but is in Ubuntu[g]). My initial attempt to build it under plain Debian 7.0 Wheezy (without gccgo-go, just with a "-d"-override) failed -- but perhaps it works on Ubuntu 14.04.

I don't have any idea about the quality/approach taken wrt Debian packaging, just thought it might be a point of interest.

[r] https://notabug.org/hp/gogs/

[g] http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=gccgo-go&searchon...
Further, there are often conventions as to which symbols are used in which context.

For example, \phi and \psi (with subscripts) are commonly used as a basis/frame for a vector space, \delta commonly represents a difference of two quantities, \rho is typically a density and \gamma is a decay rate. (These examples are fairly physics-specific, but other fields have similar conventions.) So if notation is well chosen, the reader doesn't need to remember as much unique notation as one might expect.
In the meantime you can watch the github repo and get notified of updates.
I agree with this actually - the whole public Gitlab CE vs EE repos and management is a bit of a mess - it seems to be getting better though.
Please do not insult the reader. Honestly, your comment offends me. I know you're making a joke but it's so condescending I can't stand it.
No it doesn't. The "use strict" declaration must occur before any other statements, allowing the parser to look specifically for those bytes, and treat it as a separate token instead of as a string. It doesn't have to inspect the contents of all strings.
School isn't for everyone. If only more people realized that, and stopped confusing education with schooling, the world would be better off!!

I'd check out both stuff that Mike Rowe has written/talked about. Also, James Altucher. You have LOTS of options.

I am a college graduate. I think it was/is largely a waste of time and money. I regret the nearly $50K of debt I incurred to get that degree. If I had it to do over, I'd have done it VERY differently.
This article perfectly summed up my experience at MIT.

As the article hints, the competitive nature of the student body is a double-edged sword - it helps push you further than you think you're capable of, but it can also push you beyond your breaking point. In a lot of cases, it's a fine line.

To any MIT students reading this:

1) You deserve to be there. Really.

2) You are not alone (read Pepper White's "The Idea Factory" if you don't believe me).

3) Asking for help is not a sign of weakness. It's a sign of strength.

4) Failing is not the end of the world.

5) Unless you are going to war or face a diagnosis of a terminal disease, everything else after MIT is easy. It gets better.

Please take care of yourselves. Take a break, decompress, have a little fun. The world is a better place with you all in it.

RIP Fes-Mike http://tech.mit.edu/V113/N3/martinez.03o.html
By the standards you've asked, a great many crimes could never be proven. Anyone tortured or raped would never have any evidence other than their word that they had been assaulted. Should they be ignored then?

It seems far fetched to think that the UAE would take a sudden interest in the security of Portland, Oregon but perhaps that's possible. What IS impossible is that a country that's a client of the US would dare to hold, let alone torture a US citizen for a 106 days without the explicit approval of the US.

You think the guy's story is far fetched because he just happened to be in the UAE. Not so much, really. They keep track of the movements of many people (1.5m according to Citizenfour) so they would have known that he was in the UAE. At that point it would only have required one bright bulb at the FBI to come with the idea "hey, why not we get our buddies in the UAE to have a chat with him?"
An explicit and anecdotal rent control inefficiency I was made aware of firsthand in SF:

A young man lived in a rent controlled apartment for many years. He eventually met a lovely woman and they began dating seriously. They moved into the apartment together and enjoyed several years there together.

Eventually, they were ready to have children and moved to the East Bay, but they decided to keep the rent controlled apartment for occasional weekends in the city. At this point, between both of their incomes, it was a drop in the bucket. That apartment to this day sits mostly empty, while a housing crisis dwells around us and rents keep going higher.

We talk about pushing people out of neighborhoods — this literally has taken a home away from someone that could be living and working in the city. No story is the same, but the inefficiency is clear.
Much of SF's urban planning and restrictionist attitude toward change is Jane Jacobs' work taken to its illogical extreme. (That's the book you just cited in [0]).

Jacobs led a reaction toward Modernist top-down planning practices and urban renewal, which eradicated vibrant and lively communities in places like her home neighborhood of West Village. She celebrated the chaos and the street ballet cultivated by a mix of building, business and resident types that organically layers in a complex ecosystem of behaviors over many, many decades. But today, many of the neighborhood she would have been proud to call home are exorbitantly expensive. What is West Village today, if not, another insanely expensive neighborhood gentrified many, many times over? What middle or lower-income family could call it home?

Likewise, the progressive left thought leadership here has taken Jacobs' ideas to such a protectionist extreme that it has exacerbated a pre-existing housing shortage over the past 40 years. Not more than a decade after her book was published, there were the Freeway and urban renewal resistance movements of the mid-1960s. They later evolved into a Skyscraper revolt of the 1970s and 1980s. In the late 1970s, the entire city passed strict rezoning laws to preserve existing residential densities and architectural styles.

There's a decent history here: http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/local/san_francisco.htm...
> 93 percent of U.S. respondents agreed
> another study reported that more than 95 percent of the Canadian economists polled agreed with the statement.

Well yeah, that's about as reliable as asking the members of the Supreme Soviet if socialism is a perfect society model.

Maybe we could do this study again and include the numbers for people which are not part of the "free market will save you"-propaganda group? Or add a few reasons why the answers should be correct besides "I want it!"? Come on ... american and canadian economists .. you can do better.
It's not really that simple. For people that already do it - managing servers is easy and doesn't take much time at all. One of the main reasons to run your own code repo is that you're in control of your data and you're not limited by the performance or features of the upstream vendor. Not to mention how much faster having your code repo running internally is - when you have 100 people commit code to and from git all day along with using other 'cloud' products you end up eating up a lot of bandwidth - and in many countries that's really expensive (Australia being one of them).

Remember companies that sell cloud services have a vested interest in making you believe that it always makes financial sense to use a cloud hosted product which as those of us that have experience in both cloud hosted and on site deployments will tell you is not always the case.
If it gives the exact correct answer, who are you to say it's not accurate?
Working longer hours increases your skill compared to someone working shorter hours. She'd have to work more retroactively.
What benefit does Moltin offer over CMS backed ecommerce service such as Drupal commerce and Woocommerce? Your website seem to emphasize rapid application development yet this is not too different from the CMS backed alternatives.
This is why "bucket of bolts" competitions are better.

"The task is X. Here is the bucket of parts you are allowed to use. Build the best solution you can."

Given the current state of robotics, an alternative is: "Here is the robot. The task is X. Write the program to pull that off."

However, those kinds of competitions require way more work on the part of the organizers.
Actually, I was wrong (also in my sibling comment):

http://gogs.io/docs/installation/install_from_packages.md

(Linked from the github page). So there are debs available of gogs. Trying to figure out how to build a deb from the git repo, but if all you want is upstream binary debs, you appear to be covered.
Why doesn't someone raise a VC fund to build another Silicon Valley somewhere else? I personally don't think it involves that much magic. Just build a brand new giant university in a relatively cheap place where you've bought up a ridiculous amount of land. Hire a bunch of Ivy League professors to teach there and establish departments. Market heavily. Around the university, build tons of housing for students. Further out, mixed office parks and all the goodies that people like about SF... lots of selection of food, drink, culture, etc. and pay up front so that a reasonable percentage of this is there before anybody shows up. Throw in some partnerships with big name companies and some VC firms to locate some startups there.

Expensive, yes. Profitable, I would think so. Sign me up to live there when it's built. I'd love to work for a similar salary and save a good 30% of it per year (while still leaving healthy profit margins for the investors).

Note to downvoters: You do realize that the US government essentially provided this sort of start to Silicon Valley right, and that after that there were a couple now-billionaire real estate investors who provided a lot of the office space?
School maybe not for you, but you better start learning somethings.
I can assure you that it's a joke.

The argument is not particularly novel, but it's an important one.

I'm honestly confused by the level of downvoting on it.
Agreed. The biggest drawback IMHO is you defer errors that could have been caught at compile time to runtime if you had a saner interface.
> A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the highbrow periodicals.

Still true today, as is the observation that it is intellectuals who are most hostile to heterodox ideas.

The preface to the preface(not by Orwell, but by the webmaster) whining about how mean people were to leftists--who all went strangely quiet for a decade or more after the Soviet empire collapsed and the true extent of the horrors perpetrated could be fully exposed without a constant barrage of propaganda attempting to bury the details--is a nice illustration of how "truly unpopular" democratic capitalism and the Enlightenment values that underpin it remain.

Socialists still steadfastly believe they have the moral high ground, even after they and those almost all of them actively or passively supported had piled up tens of millions of innocent dead. And their support went on for decades after the truth had been thoroughly documented by people like Robert Conquest and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

Orwell stands today, still, as one of the very, very few voices on the Left who called out the Soviets for what they were. He did so early. Decades later most Western leftists were still quietly accepting Soviet hegemony, or actively defending the Soviet regime.

So Orwell's voice is notable not just because of his insight and eloquence, but because so few of his comrades had the courage to follow his lead and condemn the Soviets or their puppets in other nations.

The fact of his uniqueness is a far deeper condemnation of 20th century socialists than anything he actually wrote, and that's saying something.
This would be great material for a GitBook: https://www.gitbook.com/
A lot of companies, especially smaller ones (like mine) will have a clause like that not to be jerks, but to protect themselves. We have a clause like this in our contract. Do I care if our devs spend time on Facebook, or whatever? Not really - I am interested in their output and productivity, and however they are comfortable in producing their output is fine by me.

I did have an administrative employee recently that spent all her time on Facebook, and didn't produce any useful output at all, and clearly had to be let go - we tried to work with her to improve, but she just didn't care.

Under the employment laws of the country where we operate, it is very hard to fire somebody. Performance related dismissals take forever, and are very expensive in terms of administrative, legal and opportunity costs. Larger companies can probably afford that, but small companies like ours cannot. Our choices are simple: Either spend a lot of time, money and effort in trying to get the person fired on the basis of insufficient performance, where the outcome isn't certain, and where we likely have to end up paying a few more months salary even if we are successful, or pull her up for provably excessive use of company computers during work time for private purposes, and fire her on the spot.

Does that make us jerks? I don't think so.
> To be honest, I'm completely in the strict camp

Can you explain why? Are you using PHP in a web context? Because everything from the web is a string.

So wouldn't it make the most sense to let the functions using the web data coerce to integer, and just work?

How does putting (int) before the arguments to function help anything?

I actually liked Ze'ev's proposal because it let you be weak while making sure you did not coerce obviously bad data.

Anyway, as a member of the strong camp, can you explain?
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If by "expensive" you mean "billions"... with profitability not nearly so assured.

You cannot simply build some of those things. Culture and good schools take decades to build.
Indeed - I've heard it referred to as 'ingroup/outgroup behaviour' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingroups_and_outgroups)
Certificate Patrol should also be sufficient. However, it's implemented very poorly. It should remember all certificates previously served by a site and only show you new ones. But it's constantly warning about changes that are false positives.

There is a real need for software that makes this "just work".
Perhaps he's talking about compilers optimizing code?
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The problem is the whole bay area is averse to build up.

Mostly true. However, that somewhat diminishes the degree by which SF especially is averse to construction, and more worryingly is averse to outsiders of all kinds - not just culturally misplaced Midwestern-ers - which is quite telling. Its a special brand of NIMBYism not found elsewhere.

The following comment is also from the Economist piece and sheds light on the kind of jaundiced eyes - I don't know what else one would call it - that long time SF residents view outsiders with. This sentiment is something I highly identify with and is rarely talked about, when the issue of SF housing is hotly debated.

The author is a Kansas City native who has moved to SF to wait tables :

2) San Francisco can be elitist and exclusionary towards outsiders. Some
San Francisco residents look any non-Brooklyn part of the country with dismissal
and/or disdain, creating a distinct form of self-defeating snobbery.

I also felt this elitism when I would look at all the row houses in the Richmond
and Sunset and how few where being torn down to build more efficient apartment
buildings. The message was, and is,- we have ours and we don't care about your
struggles.

I also felt this excluding elitism when I would learn about legacy apartment
dwellers who live in great locations and pay a fraction of the market price
because of government controls. The government kept rental prices artificially
low for established renters and rental prices artificially high for outsiders
looking to move in and rent.

The casual snobbery, the lack of new construction, and a preference for
established renters made the city feel unwelcoming to outsiders. Which is ironic,
because most people I met in San Francisco were born and raised elsewhere.

[1] The rest of his comment is eminently readable too; I've truncated it
because I felt I've hijacked this thread enough.

http://www.economist.com/comment/2360736#comment-2360736
Also went to a tech school with similar problems. Depression is an infection of the student's motivation and reason; it's a fixation with the thesis that one is destined to doom. I think the main problem here is that school admins often want to yank problem students for everybody's safety rather than effect policy change that improves livelihood. The latter requires being good at politics, and the leaders who are good at politics usually spend most their time raising money and opening opportunities for the students who aren't struggling. When the chancellor gets involved like this, the admins have failed horribly.

My senior year I took fewer classes and exercised 5x more than ever. I was the happiest I had ever been and had my only straight-A year. I'd advocate tech school admins adopt at least two changes:

1. Professors rarely share stories of their own failures as well as stories of students who failed. The classes should cover not only the consequences of doing well (i.e the key ideas and contributors to the topic) but also the consequences of doing poorly. Evidence and analysis of failure helps debunk convictions to hopelessness

2. "Work-life" balance can be very difficult to achieve in college for a variety of reasons. MIT requires students to pass a swim test, but this is hardly a mandate that students maintain a reliably supportive extracurricular (e.g. sports, art, community involvement etc). Pass-fail should be replaced and/or complimented with a requirement to commit weekly hours to an alternate activity so that students diversify themselves.

Pass-fail can help, but there's a ton of value in having brutally rigorous courses (even if they inspire inordinate competition). It's not useful to make the programs softer but rather make students aware of the realistic (and certainly non-gloomy) consequences of not getting As.
> While building in SF proper would decrease rents there

I'm not sure that's a given. Building lots of luxury housing in SF might actually decrease rent in Oakland and other parts of the Bay Area but not have an appreciable effect on rent in SF proper, at least in the short term. In fact, you could even argue that because of network effects and gentrification, building more luxury housing in SF would actually increase rents locally, even as it decreased rents regionally.

And that actually could explain why it's rational for some low-income residents of SF to oppose (or impose conditions on) new construction in SF itself. Increasing the geographic segregation between rich and poor can impact tax revenue, crime, education, transit, and regional politics in ways that particularly hurt the poor.
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There are a lot of reasons why suppliers might not match demand.

Let's say you have a factory that runs at 90% utilization and somebody crawls out of the woodwork who wants to order 3 factory-months worth of widgets, delivered next week.

Well first of all, you cannot meet that schedule, so you turn away the order in the instant case.

Now the question is: if we were to scale up production, what is the chance that some new person will crawl out of the woodwork with a similar instant order once the factories are ready? Because if we judge what has happened a one-off case, then we will refuse to meet the demand, whether it is real or not.

(Of course we're also making a lot of simplifying assumptions here like that you have access to capital, that there is no regulatory issue with scaling up production, that increased production does not open you to new lines of attack from your competitors, etc. Which are not good assumptions in general.)

It is our judgment of the demand, rather than the real demand, that controls production. If we are manufacturing, say, kevlar vests in 2001, we may very well interpret a large order as representing an underlying demand shift. On the other hand, if our widgets are luxury cars in 2008, we may interpret a similar set of facts as a one-off order.

The insight here is that real demand is not known at the time that supply is trying to meet it; it is estimated. The extent to which the market clears depends on how good the estimation is. With something like oil we understand demand fairly well, but in markets like consumer electronics the demand predictions are poor. That is why on the one hand Apple is chronically short of iPhones and simultaneously Amazon cannot give its phones away: all the estimates were off.

In short, the more your widget is impacted by technological or cultural shocks, the more likely it is that suppliers won't adjust to meet demand.
I think of it as parochialism, but there may be a better word.
It's not just MIT, it's pretty much any college with a 4 year engineering program. Almost everyone of my classmates took at least an extra semester or summer classes. 2/3 of the Freshman class dropped out (most of them to business school). A few schools have switched over to 5 year programs. Not everyone is cut out for an engineering degree and that's perfectly fine. Yes it's hard, but when you find that one thing you fall in love with you never give it up... That's when you graduate.
In other news, applying SI prefixes to atypical units is really fun. It reminds me of how civil engineers use kilo-pounds aka "kips."