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Former TM engineering manager here...

> TM owns this market and frankly, the issue has nothing to do with tech, and everything to do with the way professional sports and concert marketing works from a biz perspective.

Props to you for realizing the complexity of the business side. Most folks don't realize how complicated the world of ticketing is.

I do think you underestimate the value of technology. Ticketmaster effectively figured how to solve some really hard problems, similar to how we solve inside Google today.

The difference is TM did it with VAX assembler and for very focused use cases.
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Well, I apologize, because I obviously failed to get myself understood.

My post had nothing to do with agreeing or not with you. I expressed no opinion on the issue. I was just trying to explain why I think the "why don't you move to Somalia?" is a bad argument.
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> Yes you can. You can typically deposit without fees at airtime resellers and cell network retail outlets. Faster and cheaper than traveling to a bank branch.

That's quite true. Even in developer (but not first-world) countries like Argentina, lots of stores and supermarkets allow you to push cash into your mobile phone. There's probably about 3 such places less than two blocks from home.

Personally, I just use online banking. But I feel that the newer generation (eg: those under 22) don't.
What's that thing again about European taxes being high?

I just find it funny that people go on about regulation and taxes in Europe then you get a tax bill from the "Best state to have a Business in" oh but if you do this "weird trick" then it's only 175x less.
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And with the first hard Left government in Europe since WW2, Russia looks forward to an enhanced presence in southern Europe and the Mediterranean. “Russian-Greek relations have very deep roots in history,” says Tsipras.
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But that is a false dichotomy. There are lots of farms in the US that grow their products naturally and without processing. They don't have increased risk of diseases (probably just the opposite since they aren't keeping their animals packed inside enclosed spaces and pumping them full of antibiotics), and the food tastes amazing.
Land of the loopholes and tax regulation that favors the wealthy.
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> That guy was batshit crazy, pardon my French.

Pretty weak to call a brilliant man "batshit crazy" simply because his politics differ from your politics.
I agree. "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
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Sort of - ARC's behavior will vary based on the architecture, and in some cases how the emitted code behaves will vary based on other parameters, but the code emitted will be consistent.

ARC is not really about when to call retain and release at the correct time though - it's more about managing object lifetimes and the guarantees related, it actually goes to a lot of trouble to avoid calling retain and release.

You are right though - this post focuses more on the fundamentals of how retain/release is implemented, and made efficient, but since this is only really used in ARC and not in manual reference counting, it's applicable to understanding ARC.

The second half of this will include details around how ARC uses these optimized retain implementations to actually perform the reference counting operations, how it determines things to remove vs keep, etc.
I actually wrote an article for Gamasutra about this when they were first launching: http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DaleBeermann/20090327/83618/G.... Still, when I first tried it in their demo booth I was really impressed. But the data center was only 60 miles away. As soon as you get too far from the data center, there are actual physical limitations of being able to accomplish this effectively.
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It's probably things like resolution. I mean, we now have 5K screens in homes. Gaming on a high res (not 5k, but at least full hd) has become the norm, and internet speeds did not grow as quickly.

I think at some point the timing will be better because the growth speeds will reverse. i.e., the human eye cannot see the difference between refresh rates and pixel per inch density once it becomes too large. I doubt after 5k we really need more pixels.

Of course by then we'll come up with new stuff to use bandwidth capacity for instead so it's hard to tell. But with everything moving to the cloud & wireless, the notion that we'll wirelessly be outputting video to a monitor, or running graphics software in the cloud, it's not far fetched.
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Not sure about Inc but Delaware LLCs are $250/yr plus agent fees from $49/yr or so for the cheapest.
If you are doing business in CA or have employees there, you have to pay the $800 CA franchise tax fee in addition to the Delaware tax. So it's cheaper to incorporate in CA from that perspective.
Now thats a big font ;)
Interesting, didn't know that you have to pay the CA franchise even if you are a Delaware Inc. How do they enforce this?
across the network to a non-coreos container? ;)
Well, for copyright, it doesn't actually matter anyway.
> Bitcoin allows people who are unbanked, especially in developing countries, to hold and transmit money across the world at practically zero cost.

I'm from a developing country (Pakistan). The people you are referring to are the least likely candidates for using Bitcoin. To use Bitcoin you need to, at minimum, be able to read and write, and own a device with an internet connection. To actually use Bitcoin securely, you need to be a -lot- more technically proficient. The unbanked people are the least likely to fit this description.

Also, I think its quite unethical to consider putting the unbanked people at risk of losing 40-70% of their money by putting it in a volatile currency like Bitcoin.
This is actually 100% my experience, wow.

I started with Rails many years ago, had absolutely no idea what I was doing. Was just googling for gems and snippets from Stack Overflow, if anything ever broke I was done.

A few years later I decided I was going to really dig deep into the meat of it and wrote my own framework in Clojure that we are still using to this day in production. It was incredibly liberating to know every nook and cranny of the framework because I had written it myself. I also figured out why so many decision had been made in other frameworks, it was a phenomenal learning experience.

I eventually realized that our super small team and I simply couldn't sustain keeping this super-custom framework maintained and updated, not with all the other work that needs to be done at the company. We moved most of our work to Haskell's Yesod framework, which has years of community work and incredible craftsmanship behind it. It's now pretty trivial to spin up a new application and have it reuse all of the components written for other apps in the same framework. I don't even bother with docs at this point, it's a lot more effective to stare at the source.
And that's a justification for changing the way non-mobile devices handled skype?
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Both projects are still pretty nice so plenty of optimization work left to be done.

Spark is starting to amass all the heavy hitters in big data so no doubt it will get much faster over time.
I wondered if a temporary glue could fix a thin flexible tube in the urethra, containing a carefully folded sealed bag. Full sensitivity, no cum.
if you haven't seen it yet this is an absolute gem
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https://xkcd.com/123/
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>It can't be, because all the people spending their time on bespoke solutions are solving the same problems over and over again separately, whereas the people working on shared solutions keep building off each other. Over the long-run it gives a massive quality advantage to the shared solutions.

In theory, yes.

In the real world, "the people working on shared solutions" get distracted too easily, follow latest BS fads, change course and rewrite everything for no good reason (too numerous projects to mention). And some of them are just plain mediocre framework designers in an industry that embraces mediocrity a lot more than it should...

What's even worse most frameworks are not that extendable without going out of your way when you need some custom functionality. So as soon as your problem becomes interesting, and you could really use some help from a framework, it's when they tend to break and you have to work around them...
I'm not confused about how bitcoin works.

Saying "write code and persuade everyone to replace the current code with your new code" does not refute my original point that bitcoin is undemocratic.

Democracy isn't based on "build a new system and then persuade 100% of the populace to adopt it".

When I try to come up with analogous situations to what you're describing, I can't think of anything else, either, that would at all resemble a democratic process.

I can't think of a single example of the political process where you could replace a voting citizenry with a "build a new system and persuade 100% of the populace to accept it" model, and still have that resemble, in any way, the original one of a voting citizenry.

I also don't know why anyone in this day and age would be comfortable with promoting such obviously undemocratic functions of society. What next, calling for kings to make a comeback?
Bitcoin's transaction rate is also 3 transactions per second. That's laughably low for using up the same amount of power as an entire small country. Something running on a Pentium 3 could have a higher TPS.
Startssl give free certificates, and letsencrypt will be joining the party this year as well.
Ah, you're right. Then it really is stupid. I misunderstood what it was doing.
This is a good read.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation
always wondered about performance if these apps are scanning every image for this pattenrn
I'm curious.
Can you please point us to some of the online grad certs from top US unis that you've mentioned? URLs .
Thanks.
I voted for the guy who pushed a lousy healthcare bill through the system, because if the other guy had won, I still wouldn't be able to afford health insurance as a freelancer.

I also voted for the guy who's been pushing, feebly, for better conditions for workers, rather than the guy who joked, "I like to be able to fire people. Hey, nice ponchos, you garbage-bag-wearing peasants!"

Did I get everything I wanted? No, of course not. Is any politician perfect? No, of course not. Is there a difference between the two major US parties? Oh yes.
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Myself:
I meditate at least once a day, for about 15 mins. I tried few guided meditations and then learnt a technique that requires no external guidance/input. Along with breathing techniques and a bit of Yoga, I found the combination to be deeply relaxing and energizing.

Few times a year, I volunteer in high schools and teach these techniques (Yoga, breathing and meditation) to teenagers. It's mostly in schools that are low income and a bit rough neighborhoods. I have personally seen kids get a lot out of meditation.

Method:
There are many meditation methods (mindfulness being one). The one that I practice loosely follows these principles:
1) The art of not _doing_ anything is meditation. There is no control over which thought enters our mind. But we can choose not to chase those thoughts. Catch ourselves if we do and drop it.
2) There is continuous input to the mind (through senses) throughout the day. This has happened, may be, since we were a kid. Meditation is giving rest to all these senses. That in itself saves lot of energy. Initially, it not easy. Hence, a guided meditation helps. But after some practice, one can learn a technique.

Benefits:
1) Meditation is deeply relaxing experience. After a long day and tiring day, 10-15 mins of meditation makes me fresh and ready for next set of tasks.
2) Minor health niggles (headaches, body pains etc) have all reduced or gone after 15 mins meditation. When body gets deep rest, it has capacity to recover/heal.

Time/Location:
- I did meditation in airport lounge, in my car (parked), city bus and almost all places where I can sit upright.

Resources:
- If you live in SF Bay Area, I recommend this: http://calmeditates.org/
- Try this app. My friends highly recommend it: http://www.sattva.life/
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That's a horrible description. The best people with "software architect" in their title that I have worked with have focused on total system quality through striving towards simplicity mainly by focusing on development and tooling and using their position as the arbiter of technical decisions to guide the system under development to coherent whole that fullfills the business requirements in a technically sound way.

The most complex design tool outside of an IDE I've seen these guys use is plaintext and simple diagrams. They grok the thing that is being built in their heads from the CPU caches to the end-user abstraction.

The most horrible architects I've observed deliver UML:s, search for the most complex technical thing their mind can think of to solve a problem and then after saving the UML to disk think their job is "done" and hand-wave through the rest of the development pointing to the UML boxes.

The mediocre architects are a mix of these two.

An architect who is not participating in hands-on coding is a serious red-flag about the quality of the development organization in most instances to me. I'm sure there are counter-examples :)
I hope SeatGeek doesn't get picked up by eBay. That's a sure-fire way to halt all future product development.
>I eventually realized that our super small team and I simply couldn't sustain keeping this super-custom framework maintained and updated, not with all the other work that needs to be done at the company. We moved most of our work to Haskell's Yesod framework, which has years of community work and incredible craftsmanship behind it.

And then Haskell's Yesod gets abandoned when the core devs move to shinier things and nobody else is bothered, like several Clojure web frameworks that were touted back in the day...

And you realise that maybe updating your own framework when and were you needed it, was not that big of a deal actually....
This is not what the article says. Please refrain from adding noise to the discussion.
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ok, but what specifically made it so much better?
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Yeah, I get that he was teaching out of a book that told him (and probably every science teacher in existence) to teach this way - it just never made any sense. Anybody who has ever ridden a tilt-a-whirl instinctively knows there is a force pushing you out (otherwise you would go falling to the ground when it went vertical).

Why science instructors are so focussed on the inwards force (in the case of a tilt-a-whirl, it's the outer frame, in the case of orbiting a planet/spinning neutron star, it's gravity) to the exclusion of everything else never made any sense to me, and caused me know end of distress.

It probably came from the same place that suggested a charged item can attract a neutral object, but that a neutral object cannot attract a charged item. That made even less sense to me, but was right out of the book.

Needless to say, my high school physics instructor and I never really got along very well.
The word 'architecture' formally means "the art or practice of designing structures". So a 'Software Architect' is one who identifies (or defines) the structure of a software system based on various rules and constraints. In this context, the design of the structure could be the identification (or definition) of various components that make the system and how they interact with one another to achieve the intended result.
Well if you have to write a piece of advice not to buy a new bike because it's dirty... I think you're so far off the normal world that I can't even comprehend.

That the author didn't even know how to clean it. There is the old Sheldon website there is even a stackexchange for it http://bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/692/what-to-use-....

Secondly indeed it's hard to buy a used bike if you don't even know how to clean one. And because you personally can't take the 5 minutes to learn some easy bike essentials doesn't mean it's a lemon market.

This reads like hey I learned about lemon markets. Let's write an essay to show I understand it. Well you didn't.

Sorry to be a bit harsh.
Good. I wonder who will follow next.
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I just love this quote: "Ideal Toy Company stated on the package of the original Rubik cube that there were more than three billion possible states the cube could attain. It's analogous to Mac Donald's proudly announcing that they've sold more than 120 hamburgers."

And then a few lines below that they compute the actual size of the Rubiks cube state-space.
Wow. Pretty me too product from Intel. They even priced and sized it to not clash with Samsung, because it has nothing to make you pick it over SM951.

Not to mention you can cram SM951 into a laptop.
Well, youtube slaps a lot of ads on me. And esp. the american public is trained to get music for 'free', on the radio.
There are large areas biology that depend crucially on calculus and other math. Genetics as a field is extremely quantitative. Ecology and evolution also rely heavily on mathematical models. You can get by in some parts of molecular biology and field biology without a great understanding of calculus, but even in those subfields its important to have an undergraduate-level understanding of genetics, ecology, and evolution.
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I'd guess it's because many fiscally right wing parties support "austerity" programs that cut social services even in normal times.

Note that the article claims that the recent deal was deemed problematic because the government wanted to give more power to unions and larger pensions to poor people. Basically the IMF enforces right-wing policies via "disaster capitalism".
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True, but picking is only one pass of rendering (and a pretty fast one as you can see here: https://github.com/aout/SAGE/tree/Multipass/Sage3D/Resources...).
Citizen science FTW!
>OnLive had some of the best tech for cloud gaming that I've experienced

and it was still NOT GOOD ENOUGH for current state of the internet (latency)

>The idea behind cloud gaming has many advantages

like being a slave to content owners, borrowing for the rest of your life
'“We are a Left-wing government. If we have to choose between a default to the IMF or a default to our own people, it is a no-brainer,” said a senior official.'

Wow, what an incredibly entitled attitude to hold.
Yeah it used to be under $100 before Delaware decided to bump it up by 5x.
This is just speculation, but since as you rightly point out the space is optional in many programming languages, I suspect the existence of the no-space convention simply reflects that a majority of programmers, over the last however many decades, have preferred to read and write code that way.

There are two factors involved: I reckon most people (a) see a function call as a single logical unit and write it as such and (b) feel compelled to follow conventions. The result is that once there's a clear majority, most code will converge on that style. Clearly you do neither :)

Personally I just try to adopt the conventions of the language or ecosystem I'm working in as closely as possible and try not to let my personal leanings get in the way. The most important thing is that others can easily read my code.

I would love to write Python like this, but sadly for me PEP8 and society frown upon it:

some_dict = {'a_key': an_expression,
'another_key': another_expression}
> No developed country has ever defaulted to the Bretton Woods institutions.

How is this different to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_Shock?
He's not entirely wrong.
The thing with centrifugal force is that by picking a different frame of reference, it completely disappears and the reason it arises is due to your frame of reference being different. Interestingly, however, is that it is possible to pick a frame of reference such that gravity disappears, so it too is a fictitious force in a way.
It's a getting caught premise.

If you're a foreign corporation operating in California, you're of course supposed to register as such and pay the franchise tax.

If you generate physical sales there, have local employees, or do just about anything, you'll probably file something in the state eventually that will give away that you're operating there (and or someone else you do business with in CA will). I haven't looked up the specific consequences in CA, but I would assume they have penalties for not paying the tax (eg what you were supposed to pay might get amplified).
Ok, so I want to "learn architecture." How do I do that?
Colour schemes aren't part of the text itself. However, if your IDE could automatically display your code formatted as you like while keeping the underlying text file aligned with some convention, and make that not a nightmare while editing...well, I think you're onto something there.
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What's so entitled about it? The IMF is a creditor just like any other, and assumes risks when it makes loans. The duty of the Greek government is—without question—to its people. While you can certainly argue that default is not in the people's best interest, if the leaders honestly think that's the best option then that's what they should do.
> Good companies

Good companies want both good coders AND coders with experience in the language or the plateform they use.
yes, shooters with >70ms latency BEFORE data even starts going out of your box into the display, plus additional 20-50ms before keypresses are even registered on the game code running hardware is the way of the future
Yeah, it's not so much a left-wing government as it is an anti-EU governments. I can completely understand why and how it came to be, given the hard measures that were expected of Greece, but boy it is not going to be pretty to watch this unfold.

It is essentially a nightmare scenario, since Greece is doing what the rest of the EU was trying to avoid by borrowing money to Greece, which is having Greece having to default. So now we both get Greece to default and lose a lot of money on top of that.

I wonder what the long-term effects will be for Greece.
Everyone can decide to not pay back lent money and it's his or her right to do so.

It does make getting contracts in the future much more difficult though.