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Yeah. I also don’t want to be too negative, but I skimmed through the posts so far, and it seems like we don’t actually have much graphics or linear algebra yet. Instead, we have a bunch of wordy prose preparing us to someday get to the graphical linear algebra.

To the author: you might want to lead off with something a bit more substantive, or many readers are going to get bored and leave before you ever get to teach them anything.
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Tales of the desktop dying are long in the tooth.
Microsoft moved further into Java territory; "Write Once, Run Anywhere"... literally, with an editor and the runtime.
Hahaha, good one!
Fascinating, and very similar to my own family. This is especially true:

"When faced with evidence of their children's true feelings about unwanted contact, parents minimize ("What have we been doing to him? Nothing but telling him we love him!"), deny ("She's saying that because her abusive husband ordered her to"), demand explanations ("Why should she be afraid of me? I'm a weak little old woman who wouldn't hurt a fly!"), assert that they are still doing the right thing ("How can this estrangement end if we don't talk about it?"), and dismiss their children's emotions. The dismissal is the hardest part to watch. The common attitude is that estranged adult children shouldn't feel the way they do, so their nonconforming emotions can be ignored. Even when estranged parents get direct, unvarnished information about how they affect their children, they refuse to believe anything that goes against their idea of how the relationship should be."
Spot on. I agree that the example you cited evinces abuse and not interesting, long-form journalism. It's writing ineptitude.
If the community as a whole doesn't like the content you post, could the problem perhaps instead be you rather than them?

It sounds like the moderation was working for the good of the community, even if it meant some individuals (such as yourself) suffered for it.
What do I need to do to prepare my Android app for heavy usage?
Traffic handling? Load balancing? Fault tolerance? Cloud computing? Map reduce? Database optimization?

I'm writing an Uber-for-X type of platform.

I'm overwhelmed with all of this stuff and I don't know what to start with or how to start it ...

Thanks
I wish I knew enough about Android USB to write a USB gadget driver that emulated FAT and Mass Storage - no reason it couldn't read/write sanely back to the host FS. Sure it wouldn't be as quick as native but it'd be enough to play MP3s on car stereos and the like.
That's precisely why "democracry" as it's being sold currently is utterly broken. You should vote for contracts, not for people, so that they can be enforced once approved.
No, you can use Linux without having to open source the stuff you run on Linux. That is not an accurate observation by any stretch of the imagination.
Hmm... interesting insight from the core network. I guess another reason to use a UDP (encrypted) protocol would be to prevent such middle-box shenanigans ;-)
Someone couldn't possibly answer this question without you giving insight into what it is your app does, what kind of traffic you're seeing now (if at all) or even what kind of traffic you reasonably expect to see.
So at the scale of Apple, I wonder if it would make sense to actually own 747s and sell the remaining space themselves.

I guess the problem is that they must have a large spike in demand around launch dates; perhaps not enough the rest of the time to make all the overhead of operating the fleet worthwhile.
After you add all that, what are you using Varnish for? Cache? Placing your cache at the load balancing instead of fetching pages from the network does actually save processing and memory.

If you use Varnish, it's almost certainly sitting at the best point for doing TLS termination.
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> For the same reason you might pay to use a typed language, when an untyped language is more general. Or why you might pay for encapsulation, when globals are more general. Or why you might pay for structured programming, when GOTOs are more general. Or why you might pay for a VM, when machine code is more general. And so on.

Not all abstractions are created equal, and while all the other ones you mention do have some costs, they are dwarfed by the benefits; they're bargains. This one? I'd say it's overpriced junk (though it's pretty junk). The expressiveness it buys on top of what's already there (threads) is negligible, and it's very pricey.

Not only do abstractions differ in benefits and costs in general, those costs differ considerably depending on the platform.

> We can think of it as just delaying and forcing function calls

Delaying a "plain IO" operation is no different (in fact, it's identical) to just using a thread. The abstraction is already built in. The laziness of Haskell is a dual to (blocking) threads, and threads are already well supported. There's no need to replace them, especially if doing so severely harms your ability for posthoc reasoning (I'd say that even Haskell sacrifices posthoc reasoning for apriori reasoning, which is a wrong choice for most uses; but that's doubly worse on the JVM, which already has a lot of powerful tooling in place for working imperatively).
Would that not be similar to a Union?
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> Did I say I never donated to mod authors? Did you ask?

What difference does it make? Even if you were a good citizen and donated, there aren't enough people donating for it to be a dependable income stream.

> it sounds like perhaps you are

133,000 people who claim to represent gamers signed a petition saying that modders should work for free, how dare they think they should get paid. I'm not a mod author. I'm not even a mod user. But I'm someone who believes in paying people who make the things I like, so that they can keep making more. This was an opportunity for a new marketplace, a new way for people to start making content for games—and for some, support themselves by making that content. An opportunity for anyone to use the IP of another company—which I don't think exists in any other industry. Can you imagine what it would take for Disney to allow anybody to legally make and sell their own Mickey Mouse cartoons? But no, it had to get shat on by entitled assholes who want people to make and make and make and give nothing back. You say it sounds like I'm pissy? Damn straight I'm pissy.
Depending on the amount, the medical creditor may not go as far as taking you to court; it might be too costly to pursue legally. At any rate, the parent said nothing about not showing up to court. (Not saying anything about the credit-score ramifications of not paying medical debts; I'm taking the parent at his word as I don't know the situation.)
The good news is that Apple certainly isn't just shipping iPhones and nothing else. It wouldn't surprise me (if we hold the assumption that Apple charters planes themselves for freight) that Apple also mixes their freight (i.e.: heavy iPhones and lighter 'other stuff') precisely to optimise this problem. That's Cook's bread and butter, after all.

For other operators of lower volume, of course outsourcing that problem represents a win-win for both customer and supplier. The customer gets overall lower costs of freight and the supplier leverages their breadth of sources to make a cut of the difference they can save. It's a good example of where outsourcing certain tasks can make sense for some parties but not others.
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The most horrifying thing is that not only do minimum wage jobs in the US barely get you above poverty, but that many people struggle even to get one of these jobs.

I'm willing to wager that many readers here have never looked for a minimum wage job. If you haven't, you may not realize how much competition there can be. It's really shocking. This is especially true in smaller towns, where there are very few jobs that aren't minimum wage. I remember, years ago when I was in high school, my dad was a local business owner in a small town and was connected with all the other business owners. On several occasions, a friend or family member needed a minimum wage job and literally couldn't get one due to scarcity; my dad had to approach the owners of other businesses and put in direct recommendations so someone could get on at, say, a Dairy Queen or a car wash.
>Airlines consolidate heavy freight with light freight to get the ideal mix that lets them charge the companies with heavy goods by weight and the companies with light freight by volume. The result is called “free margin,” and is one of the best kept secrets in the air cargo industry.

This assumes that the cost of fuel doesn't increase with the mass on the aircraft. It does. But the cost of fuel doesn't increase with the volume of the payload because the fuselage is statically sized. In other words, they aren't losing money if they are shipping around a bunch of lead bricks that only take up 15% of the available cargo space.
I've been developing for iOS since 2008, so much this! Swift is just not ready, I constantly run into "WTF" moments when I find something that's standard in most languages "has not been implemented yet" in Swift.
This is a shame...
>I automatically ignore resumes with 10 years tenures.

Yea, fuck people that want to establish a long-lasting and mutually beneficial relationship with their employer right? Every other company in the world is terrified that their employees are going to jump ship, but you apparently think loyalty is a bad thing.

This is an incredibly ignorant and short-sighted thing to do, but I guess if a person is drowning in resumes it always comes down to similar tactics so it doesn't really matter.

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding you. Are you opposed to people keeping the same job title for 10 years, or do you seriously think its a red flag when someone works for the same company for a decade?

Maybe my priorities are out of line, but I would like nothing more than to spend the rest of my career working at a single company that gives me interesting problems to solve, pays me what I'm worth, and lets me stick around long enough to forget what its like to worry about whether or not I'll be unemployed and unable to take care of my family next year.
I'm concerned about what Even's actual business model might be. It's hard to imagine that it doesn't involve somehow skimming a portion of the salaries they manage. Even if it's a tiny percentage, it seems like it would be an incredibly difficult tightrope walk to keep the portion "fair" and not veer off into taking advantage of the very people the app is purported to aid.
Well, I don't think you can conclude the judge's statement is impossible, since (at least in the story) it happened. So it had to be at least possible. (The judge doesn't claim that the hanging could happen any day and be a surprise, just that the day it happens it will be a surprise).
This is awesome story! She is indeed a rockstar and a role model for founding startups!

Good stuff right here:

too many people just accept the idea that their job is going to suck, or work is going be boring. It seems, she said, that the world wants people to fall in line and get a job just so they can make money to be able to go do something else that's actually enjoyable.

Yup that is the kindda CEO you want to have if you were to join a startup.
Many people even in higher-wage jobs only have a high-deductible health plan. Any unexpected medical cost can cause problems for people.
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That's what I thought when I read the headline, reading the comments it's clear it's just another programmer's text editor.

Eclipse is a full, powerful, customizable platform, mature with plugins for everything.
For each case like that, i bet there are 1000 where someone just steal a stereo or leave the room dirtier than you can imagine that airbnb does not reimburse the owner. and that the police will just ignore since it is not over the threshold of monetary damage that is there so they don't have to care about poor people like you.
Abilify, a medication for bipolar disorder, is $200 with insurance, over $1000 without. What do we expect people to do?
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And 20yrs later, they are still trying to serve me a flash video.

sigh.
There are a billion things called "code" already. Calling it 'Visual Studio' highlights two fairly important things:

1. It is an IDE

2. It is owned by Microsoft
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It's why I stopped recycling. The amount I contribute to the waste stream is insignificant. In fact I would wager that the fuel I use to drive to the recycling center more than offsets the environmental benefit. To say nothing of the wasted time, the hassle and low level stress caused by having bags of trash sitting around until there's enough to haul away.
I wonder what the lighter 'other stuff' would be from Apple. Store window displays and boxes of software? Do they still sell software in boxes?
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I believe he/she was referring to the actual PDF resume (as was I): http://www.hostmeinca.com/cv/Marek-Dlugos-CV.pdf
FYI: Inverse ETFs are horrible. They wind up buying high and selling low, due to the fact they continually rebalance. Someone did a study of inverse ETFs, and they performed poorly even when their target index tanked.

Even if you buy 1-2 year NASDAQ ETF (QQQQ) puts, there's no guarantee that the bubble won't pop in 1-2 years. You may wind up with a 100% loss.

The overall trend is for the stock market to go up, due to inflation. Short selling and put buying is betting against that trend.

There is no guarantee that the market will crash (even if it's overvalued right now). There might just be a couple years of 0%-5% returns, in which case put buying and short selling won't work.

Remember that, if the market does tank 10% or more, the Federal Reserve will probably increase their "quantitative easing" to try and re-inflate it.
you would be shocked by the amount of support calls they would get about "where is the internet? it was installed before" if they change the blue "e".
Actually, no it isn't. The runtime is based on Electron (formerly Atom Shell). But the code editor has been entirely built by MS and been used on their Azure console.
I've looked for minimum wage jobs. Never worked one: I'm too "over qualified."
A quick read of Wiki tells me that BCP 38 was introduced by RFC 2827 in May 2000. But it's still not a "solved problem" since many ISPs and companies don't implement it.

How do you get more widespread adoption? It's been 15 years.
Sorry. It's an Uber-for-X platform.
The reality is you can't. Dealing with more traffic than you expected is a good problem to have. You can lay down the ground work by using something like AWS (Amazon Web Services) and using auto scaling to increase resources when load increases. At the same time, premature optimisation can be a costly mistake. If you prematurely assume your app is going to be more popular than it is, you could end up with a massive hosting bill because you spun up 200 large Amazon instances and only get 100 users.

My advice would be to read this link: https://www.airpair.com/aws/posts/building-a-scalable-web-ap... - it details building a scalable web application and I know of one startup I worked with who found it useful.
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Precisely why they charter flights. In fact, if I recall correctly, there was a global lockup of all available freight flights out of China going to Apple and no one else during the last iPhone spike. Another competitive advantage for Apple.
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Wow .That link looks amazing, thank you!
> Your method doesn't follow the same format as the rest of Go's syntax (eg comma delimited lists) which could break any 3rd party pre-parsers or other such tooling. So there's the potential break backwards compatibility there.

The new slicing syntax could have broken 3rd party pre-parsers or other tooling. Yet that change was considered backwards-compatible.
Here's one to spin up some temporary EC2 instances: https://github.com/newsapps/beeswithmachineguns
I'd agree that a sales tax on Internet-based purchases will be imposed at some point, and that seemingly going industries can be remarkably unprofitable in the long term [1]. Don't know about the long term viability of Internet ads and do wish they'd die, but it'd be nice to see data.

But the rest of the article seems to be unquantified assertions -- the SST went broke, so of course the Internet will as well; data centers cost a lot of money to maintain. One could counter with other assertions-- Apple profits and Amazon revenues are huge, etc. Data would be nice.

[1]E.g. airlines have, over six decades of operation, not returned the cost of capital. http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2014/02/ec...
Frankly, the internet was pretty awesome pre-ads, so I'm not too concerned. :)
Little things like cables, headphones, and other accessories that don't take up a lot of weight but could be packaged voluminously to fill the remaining space.
At first, Amazon's data center products were huge money sinks. Startup costs. Missed cost estimates for opex. Extraordinary events. Lack of scale. It looked BAD.

Now AWS is profitable, and Amazon's management knows enough about how to run it to live with thin margins that will cause their competitors lots of pain.

Stuff is getting paid for, and stuff is getting cheaper and there is plenty of room for stuff to get even cheaper.
Do you have any evidence of that? Links, etc.? I've never heard of anything like that.
When Vista shipped, the problem with drivers was that many manufacturers chose not to update drivers for most legacy hardware to the new, more secure driver model. The other standard complaint was with its security popups. Part of that was rough edges on the user experience design, part was just that people weren't used to thinking about security on their machines...that's changed over the past few years. And of course a lot of the complaints were because Vista was a change.
They could operate their own aircraft for typical shipment volumes, then augment that by paying Fedex/UPS/etc during spikes.

I don't know what the margins are on air freight, but it seems like there's enough competition to keep them low. Also, Apple is big enough to negotiate better deals than typical customers. For those reasons, I don't think it's worthwhile for Apple to do it themselves.
Honestly, there's not really much content here.
Unless there's some evidence of this happening, this is pure conjecture and adds nothing to the discussion.
Does Airbnb pay you well?? I mean, a police officer in CALGARY said that he had never seen anything like that.

Note - Calgary is right in the middle of a highly prosperous oil patch and nobody can wreck a home quite like rig workers.
The article says they charge $3/week.
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"In other words, they aren't losing money if they are shipping around a bunch of lead bricks that only take up 15% of the available cargo space."

They may not be literally losing money, but it's a pretty clear-cut opportunity cost if there was anything they could do with that volume that produced profit meaningfully more than $0. I wouldn't care to stand in front of the airline's financial officer and try to make your argument.
you don't have $x million. The company you founded, and no longer wholly own has $x million. It's a rather different thing.

I mean, unless you are talking about the money for the personal shares the founders sold, the money, as it was said, that they "took off the table" - if that's the case, then I'm completely with you (but I didn't see any indication that they were giving that money back.)
http://www.mono-project.com/docs/about-mono/showcase/compani...

As much as it pangs me to say it, I'm playing some great games on Linux now because the Unity people built it on Mono.
According to their FAQ [1] they charge $3 a week.

[1] https://even.me/faq#how-even-makes-money
At moment they only open-sourced core that only useful for running backends on non-Windows platforms which is useless on Mac as nobody run servers on it.

Once their open source .Net would get most of Windows version features there may be some use for it with same drawbacks like you have with Java for example.
This is, of course, just The Knapsack Problem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knapsack_problem

It's proven to be NP-Hard, but with a well known "good enough" approximation ("the knapsack problem has a fully polynomial time approximation scheme (FPTAS)")
oddly, growing up in Vegas where some of the better jobs for people under 21 involved working in the hotels as wait staff or bell hops, it amazed me how inconsiderate people were of the place they were paying to stay in. Because of some of the horror stories I have never seriously considered being an AirBnB host where my own house was at risk.

But I think one thing that would be useful in this context would be to help 'out' the bad players. Children will be children, but we need to be able to work with the system to identify and neutralize people who are abusive. That saves further grief down the line.
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I used Cloud9 for a while. The lag from typing on my keyboard to showing up on my screen became pronounced that I stopped using the service. I was on the free tier. I can see the appeal, but the execution of this service was too poor for me to use. Perhaps in the future I'll try again.
FYI You probably don't want upload your secret keys in plaintext to GitHub: https://github.com/crobertsbmw/deckofcards/blob/687881c8408a...
Stuff is becoming monetarily cheaper, but I think we've also started to see other prices we pay: social price, ecological price, etc...
Take a look at this baby heart at 20 weeks.. and the 'ghost' heart
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Between moving out of your parent's home, going to college and getting a job, lack of sleep, drugs, and unrestricted access to alcohol, becoming an adult is fucking hard.

Wah. It's not. Unless you sit around obsessing about how hard it is, life generally works out.

Don't get me wrong, it's not always fun. And it's not always apparent until after the fact, but things tend to work out as long as you don't give up.
You seem really (REALLY) down on yourself because of the whole ordeal -- there's not much some random stranger on the internet can say to make you feel any better about it, but... I'm going to give it a shot.

Parts of your experience mirror mine pretty closely -- if you can, focus on the fact that you pulled through it, even if it was ugly for a while. Like you said, "things have settled down," so now you can focus less on arresting your death spiral and more on heading in a direction you want to go.

You dragged yourself through depression, stress, academic failure, and whatever else you had going on, and you made it out the other side. There are lots of folks like us who didn't.
Thanks, that's a fair point. However I've been surprised to see that in well-executed attacks, even the best of us can at least occasionally fall for password phishing.
Simpsons did it, of course:

"A half-ton of newspaper and all we get is 75 cents? That won't even cover the gas I used to go to the store to buy the twine to tie up the bundles."

I recycle a lot of stuff, but it's convenient for me, because my trash service picks it up weekly. I think we actually recycle more than we throw away at this point. But without people coming by regularly to pick it up for me, it's hard to see how it would be worthwhile.
I was under the impression that someone had decided to give the money back to the investors. That they had a choice, presumably, to do what they want with it. Is that not true? To what extent were they restricted?
Amen. Had so many fun evenings with Flash as a kid...