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Thank you for the consumeconsume link, great material to illustrate slides.
Really? In a thread about the excessive protections given to cops, by their unions, all you can do is come up with some conspiracy theory? Please back up your statement. Explain to us how the officers bill of rights, pushed through by unions, has nothing to do with unions.
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Not if it were introduced with the original bytecode interpreter. The first few iterations of the Java Virtual Machine were horrifically slow, but it got better.

So if the Java language and VM were released today in their current state, complete with lambdas, streams, annotations, and HotSpot, then yeah, I think it would take off.
Liberals can make concessions about Union bargaining power, but what can conservatives concede? Investigating and trying cops by the same rules as citizens for assault/battery/manslaughter/murder seems like a non-starter, but I can't think of what else to suggest.
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I use vertical mice exclusively. Have since probably 2006 maybe. I get no wrist pain and as I recall it took about 2 days for the vertical style form factor to feel as normal as a traditional mouse. I can go to regular mice, but I get wrist pain after a few hours or day of work. Observing your bones and your wrist twists using a normal mouse which creates strain on it. So the Evoluent Vertical Mouse 4 which isn't cheap, but has been great is my mainstay at my desk. Also the Microsoft Sculpt Ergo Mouse I have in mmy bag as a portable. Note that's Sculpt ERGO because there are a couple sculpt mice by Microsoft. And if you want really cheap, you can get the Lugu Lake vertical mouse wired for like $10 USD. That's cheap enough to try out and then if you don't like it, you could just give it away. Anker makes a couple vertical mice too on the affordable side IMO. other than Anker, Every mouse I've listed here is both one I've used for a good period of time. All are rated pretty well.
Whenever you privatize a social need, you thrust the logic of capitalism upon it. However, the incentives of capitalism aren't always well paired with achieving that social need.

Privatization can incorrectly incentivize an industry - look at the recent Corinthian college or the red light cameras where they reduced the duration of the yellow lights in order to induce more tickets (and thus create more accidents).

In both cases, these companies totally won at the game of capitalism but totally failed at addressing the social need that society expected of them.

The problem is that structuring these as capitalism encourages these types of activities. If we then ban the current offences but keep the profit incentives in place, the problems will only manifest in other ways. The problem IS the incompatibility of privatization with addressing a particular problem - not mitigating the natural obvious consequences and deluding ourselves into thinking it will still work.

It's also why open-source community linux has done better than privatized commercial unix: Keeping the incentives of software-making aligned with making good software ( as opposed to an artifact of monetary profit ) produces better solutions. You get better results without the neo-classical logic of capitalism in play - there's no incentive for closed ecosystems, planned obsolescense, forced horizontal integration, crippleware, releases timed with the market, information siloing, etc. All those problems just magically dissappear.
There may be a growing awareness that police unions are not like other unions.

Historically, American cops were used to violently break up strikes, so their fraternal orders have never been seen by other unions as trusted members of the same cause. Quite the contrary. And while the resulting animosity may have diminished in recent decades, police unions are still viewed by other unions as a thing apart. Given the increasingly visible role of police unions in backstopping egregious behavior, current events are extending this view to a broader segment of the public.

Indeed, what's becoming clear is that while the standard concerns of unions are shared by police unions (working conditions, pay, etc.), they also serve a more fundamental purpose that's unique to law enforcement; shielding their members from legal accountability for acts of violence committed against the public.

Unfortunately, this is not an entirely unreasonable thing for them to demand. In essence, they're expected to do a lot of the dirty work demanded by those in power. And by "dirty" I mean fundamentally disrespectful of people's basic rights. To the extent that an establishment is supported by the general public, special protections for the heavies are unnecessary. But the moment sentiment turns against them, the cops know full well that they'll be hung out to dry - even if their abuses were an unavoidable result of following specific orders (e.g., meeting quotas for arrests, prosecuting the drug war, growing department budgets via dubious asset forfeitures, etc.)

This use 'em and abuse 'em approach to outsourcing violence is not a new phenomena. In fact, the situation that police unions exist to protect their members against was detailed by Niccolo Machiavelli in 16th century, when he provided an account of Cesare Borgia, who was unburdened by heavy scruples, and Remirro de Orco, a brutal but useful man for whom things ended very badly.

http://faculty.cua.edu/pennington/churchhistory220/Lecture13...
The idea that attack police unions is a negative seems pretty bizarre to me.

In Europe, the left generally ranges from broadly accepting of (social democrats), to wholeheartedly embracing (many anarchist or other anti-authoritarian groups), the generally very strict limits on the powers granted to police unions vs. other unions, on the basis that large parts of the European left see police as a potential threat to democratic society if their power is left unchecked (whether or not said group have a positive or negative view of police in general), and not insignificant numbers have relatively regular direct run-ins with police in the context of demonstrations etc.

E.g. in the UK police has been denied the right to strike is the 1919 Police Act. In Norway police may strike, but only subject to very strict limits on when and how, and with the caveat that the government may at any time declare a continued strike illegal - only a few other groups (military, essential hospital staff and similar) are subject to similarly strict regulation of strikes.

The limited strike right is often used as an invitation to substantially limit these unions influence.
I don't think it's entirely unfair. I'd venture that in the US, black people (and likely other minorities) are much more likely to have heard about and clearly understand what's in store for them if they get arrested. Most probably have a family member or close friend that has dealt with this injustice.

Almost none of my white friends understand the terrible truths in the system beyond reading accounts like this in the media. I include myself among them. Part of it is probably population realities - when a minority segment of the population suffers the majority of indignities, it's more likely to hit close to home.

Yeah, I'd like to remove black and white from many conversations. White guilt feels almost vogue, I have to hear about it so often from white friends and colleagues. But when it comes to the criminal justice system...
Because curiosity and web development are synonyms.
The system is shitty for everybody and an appeal to a common humanity is absolutely critical for any reasonable expectation of humane social structures.

However, to suggest that the experience of the system is the same for everybody is naive at best. I read task_queue's comment more as the following:

"Societal structures do not change until those with more (social, political, economic, etc) power experience the inconvenience and injustice that people without the power to effect change experience on a more regular basis. That this is true is unfortunate."
I've only worked in shops where they licensed AutoCAD LT, which (at least the versions I used) doesn't unlock access to AutoLISP.
Do you have a test case? What in particular were you doing?
What in particular were you doing?
How could it be slower than a mutex? Is it from compiling all your increments to use LOCK? What exactly were you timing? That sounds really strange..
Also matplotlib recently added stylesheets

http://matplotlib.org/users/style_sheets.html

which gets you ~75% of the way there to ggplot style plots. I've found a number of edge cases where the plots don't turn out right when using the ggplot sheet. BUT the important part is you can set your own default plotting style with a single line of code and keep everything nice and pythonic (well kind of pythonic since you're using matplotlib...)
It's not impossible, but I don't know why you'd want to use V8.
> the victors are not those who best solved the problem but those who made the most profit.

I would argue that most of the time those go hand in hand. If the most people freely gave you there money for a problem, then you accomplished that problem best.

> red light cameras

Hah! This has nothing to do with capitalism! The only reason people pay tickets is because they want their license and they don't want the government to lock them up. If a truly private institution came to you and told you to pay a ticket because they claim you did something wrong, you would tell them to pound sand. This goes for "private prisons" too. Neither of these things are capitalist at all.

I'm not familiar with the Corinthian college case, but I am willing to bet they benefited from government student loans, federal education grants, and a public school system that warns children of a life of failure if they don't go to college. The higher education system in this country is propped up chiefly by government, so I hesitate to call a college failure a failure of capitalism. In fact, after reading the Wikipedia article, it looks like that college was improperly accredited. Isn't this a failure of the department of education?
The section of this article that discussed a "potential downside" of anti-retroviral treatments being that they prevent human evolution seemed downright offensive to me. I don't think the author realizes it but what he is suggesting is basically eugenics.

Evolution against pathogens works by killing off most everyone who isn't naturally immune. The fact that we can halt this process with drugs and technology isn't a "potential downside" - it's the goal.
I could be wrong, as I'm a bit rusty on this topic as well, but I was under the impression that the electric field was only distorted by relativistic effects if one of the electrons is actually accelerating. If it is just zipping along constantly at its high-fraction-of-c then I believe its corresponding field appears to be doing the same thing _for all observers within the radius of the radiated EM field that was created by the acceleration of the electron[1]_

Or have I made a relativity-noob mistake and what I said is only true in the frame of reference of the moving electron?

[1] Sorry for not having a better way to describe this concept. If it has a name (maybe light cone? Not sure) I'd love to know.
I was an apnea baby, and died on my parents a number of times as a child due to it. Thankfully these days it's a million times better: the only time I have issues is when I sleep on my back.
I find it odd that there is all these hate for cops (we can't trust them, etc)..yet, allowing citizens to own guns for their own protection is frowned upon by those same people.
No, I don't. At fist blush it seems dystopian, but any other system brings in 'judgement' which is imperfect. It's more a mental exercise.
Keep leaning in.
To me, it seems best either not to have a black bar at all or not to worry about black bars at all. Probably the former because having _anyone_ decide whether someone was 'important' in the emotionally difficult time of death just doesn't feel easy and positive, affirming, etc.
This was the first time I had heard of code aware libraries. I can see them being very beneficial.

With resharper, I love going through all the little warnings and fix suggestions on old code that people that had written. I think I can have some fun with the analyzers while improving the quality of code.
> I've never had to solve a difficult problem in 15 minutes while someone who knew the solution watched over my shoulder and did their best to answer my questions without answering them too well. Ohh yeah and the results of my performance had potentially life changing consequences.

So you've never taken an exam in your entire life?

I don't mean to be snarky. I just don't understand this extreme disdain for coding interviews, even when they're very forgiving and flexible. Yes, exams aren't fun, but they're necessary.

Even if you can look up whatever you want, use whatever language you want, take as long as you want, do it right on a real desktop (not a whiteboard), and if you're asked a reasonable, real-world problem, not an algorithmic brainteaser, you'll still have people say it's a horrible process and it's unfair. And that's already way more forgiving than any exam I ever took in school.

I mean, are programmers expected to not be able to do anything at all in an interview setting? Like you can't be expected to produce any code of any kind, as if you don't know how to program at all? I think it is a bad sign if someone who is a talented programmer utterly buckles under a little bit of pressure. To me, that means they either really aren't nearly as talented as they think they are, or they won't be able to deal with the pressure of the job anyway.

So what, if I hire you and at some point need you to hotfix something in, is that unfair? Maybe I do know how to do it myself but don't have time because I'm busy with something else. That situation doesn't seem all that different from the interview, except it would actually be higher pressure because there's a real problem, not a fake one.
> I have thought of the police tactics shown in e.g. NCIS (shouting at people until they confess, tricking them into confessions, ...) as typical Hollywood exaggerations, but apparently I was blatantly wrong.

If anything, what you see on shows like NCIS are a romanticized, sanitized, whitewashed version of what really happens.
Agreed. I studied law although I didn't graduate, and estate law has so many little twists and turns that it's worth paying a lawyer to tackle it; I can't think of much worse than my death causing even more stress and fighting between those left behind due to an ill-defined will.
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Why did the industry switch away from Ada? I thought they preferred Ada because it was such a 'safe' language?
Context is vary important in problem solving. If your coding a quick fix for something and there is a code frease in 20 minutes your not grasping at straws wondering do they mean 100 numbers list or a 100 gigabyte list etc.
When you are on the job for the government, you are acting as a government representative and not a private person. You can be fired for what you say while on the job.

However, the police unions would never allow such a thing.
The military forbids its members from making political statements while in uniform. The police should probably have the same rule. If you want to campaign for/against someone, do it out of uniform.
Agreed, but it's worth trying to do well. You get a lot of information out of how someone handles programming live vs. what you get in a homework assignment.
Presumably the ~5 mSv radiation exposure is worth the benefits?
What a cool domain
As is yes, as was would sink without trace.
I don't understand the lack of accountability issue, but perhaps it is because I live in Ontario. Sure, there are any number of abuses, but as soon as anything crosses a certain threshold, it is investigated by the provincial SIU (Special Investigations Unit). I may be very much mistaken, but fire a gun in the line, the SIU investigates. Someone dies in custody, the SIU investigates.

Perhaps it is because Canadian municipalities - and their police services - are subordinate to the provinces - and to the provincial service. (The SIU is part of the OPP, the Ontario Provincial Police.)

I'd be very curious to learn more from those more in the know.
Remember when they stopped making arrests for a little while after that incident... and everything was fine?
Why would those who oppose war embrace the agents of war? You cannot separate soldiers from the wars that they volunteer to participate in.
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Since when does the first amendment keep you from being fired when you publicly insult the ceo?
Speaking of taking things out of context, did you read the rest of my paragraph, which talks about private speech versus official capacity, and matches the context surrounding my quote from the article?

in his official governmental capacity were the words - the funeral/protesting police were not on the clock on active duty, and as I said, no-one sane would confuse their message with a governmental message, official or unofficial.

Are you a lawyer?

?

It's clear neither of us are. So what? You're still misreading the second article re: private vs offical personage. That article is not saying what you're claiming it says. And as a result, the first link you provided is also not supporting your claims. The lawyer you linked to says absolutely nothing about uniforms - the term (and concept) 'uniform' appears nowhere in the article, but it does talk about the loss of freedom of speech when speaking in an official capacity.

And no, 'in uniform' is not the same as 'official capacity'. In none of these cases are they equivalent: the district attorney doesn't wear a uniform; Novara's phone call was about abusing his official capacity, and he could have been in the nude when he called, for all it mattered; the police turning their backs at the funeral are clearly not acting as a government voice and couldn't be confused to be doing so.
Well, awesome that to be the case, that conservation does not hold at time less than Thup.

That leaves an awful lot of interesting physics happening to cause conservation to emerge at macroscopic scale.

HC SVNT DRACONES, no?
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I've used desks with motorized faders! (and spent a couple days a week in high school running, maintaining, and programming a small half million dollar lighting setup for a big theater. ) Recently I've done some firmware programming on for theatrical/stage LEDs.

All this to say, did you ever consider writing a test sequence of various position and rate changes, and then analyze the actual vs commanded data offline to get an equation for the response? I've had some success doing that for a similar control problem.
I always think candidates seem smarter when they ask questions to clarify the interview questions, even if they're just disambiguation questions like, "did you say 'infinity' or 'infinitely'?"
Euler addicts.

Although some function decomposition of the problem would have been nice to see!
It's not really about the technology, it's about the hook. I also started using Java when it came out, and there were two main hooks for us C/C++ coders:

- write once, run anywhere.

- write programs that run on web browsers (applets).

Today, it could be: "I want to write an Android app, and Google just released this new Java language/platform that I have to use."

In other words, any new language can make it if a large corporation creates a compelling reason for large numbers of programmers to use it.
But he is not just sharing his opinion, he's using it as a propaganda vehicle and trying to further a campaign. If he gets support by doing this, it's a net loss.
Google pre-emptively blocked DNS requests of the A record for sportship.org. I was curious to see how sportship was going to handle the load, but Google says they know better than all of us.

OpenDNS is not censoring this content.

Friends don't let friends use Google public resolvers.
I just went to the HBO Go site and the only subscription options I found is either through TV provider or through HBO now, the latter is for Apple iOS platforms only. So I'm still not sure how I could get HBO in 2015 not through designated provider. Though I know how I could get any HBO shows in approximately 3 clicks, for free and without any hassle, if I wanted to go this way. So it's still hard to understand what they're trying to do there.
I don't know about make it, but Microsoft Stack (C#/VB/.NET) would have a stronger dominance nowadays considering that it would grow without Java on it's back.
Nowhere in the court order does it state that wireless access point operators must monitor their users. Concerns about the legality of effectively shutting down a website aside, the order deals primarily with service providers that enable the services mentioned, not those who would be attempting to access the content. While the phrase "providers of computer and network resources through which video transits" could be interpreted as access point operators, it seems unlikely that any court would interpret it that way.
First of all, we aren't even talking about the police saying anything out loud. We're talking about them turning their backs on the mayor while at a funeral which, while not verbal speech, is clearly a form of expression that would fall under the 1st amendment.

Second, I suspect that a majority of the officers in question were not on the job while attending that funeral.
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Well, the thing is that guns aren't a very effective means of protection -- especially not from cops, who have more guns, more manpower, and tend to frown upon being shot at.

And considering that one of the few times I'd consider lethal force justified would be when someone actually pulls a gun on a cop, that makes them especially useless.

I mean, what scenarios do you see guns being a good solution for, compared to nonlethal self defense tools like pepper spray?
An interview that forces you to do something that is otherwise not part of your daily routine and measures how good you are based on that is bad. I understand that you need to get insight into the skill of the candidate but forcing her to work on an editor she does not know, giving limited time etc. is probably not the best way to get that. I used to interview software engineers for a big company and we usually gave them a problem that they could solve in 48 hours using anything they want (internet, library etc.) and we just asked them to explain their solution in person during the final round of interviews. You are interested in how good the candidate is not how fast she can fail a synthetic test that has nothing to do with the actual work you are doing.
If our position cannot withstand some attention being given to the opposition, then it's not worth defending in the first place.

Censorship solves nothing. If he gets support by doing this, then we need to counter that by providing a better argument, not by trying to silence the opposition.