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Not going to dig up a cite right now, but I'm pretty sure that females of one species have successfully gestated embryos of another species, if they are reasonably closely related.

The distinction being that in surrogacy, there is no requirement to mix DNA to make viable offspring. There are likely immunological compatibility concerns at the placental boundary.

Ok, here's the cite http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interspecific_pregnancy
> The benefit of remote work is that you can have much more choice in the company you work for

That would be true if most companies allowed remote work. In my experience, only a few do. Even fewer have a "remote first" culture, where you don't miss important discussions if you're not in the office.
Finding [Ramsey numbers](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsey%27s_theorem) is one. They are hard to calculate even for small values. Most open problems are either to prove something because we can make a good guess to what the answer should be.
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You know what else goes beyond Mozilla? The work they do, the open internet they've spent over 15 years fighting for. The problem in this case is the LGBT community apparently feels like the most special of the snowflakes with the most important problems. Be honest, forcing Eich out didn't do anything for the LGBT community outside of a hollow victory and a blatant showing of power to intimidate its enemies.

Solidarity used to mean that you look at the bigger picture and don't torpedo groups who are on the same side as you over personal feelings. For 16 years Eich fulfilled his own and his employees' contracts. For 16 years he was completely in line with Mozilla's inclusivity policy. For 16 years he fought for one of the most important social causes and he had that taken away from him because he felt that in supporting the personal beliefs of others he deserved personal beliefs of his own. Not only that, those of us who care about what he fought for had him taken away from us and I am yet to hear one good reason why.
But it's natural of wolves hunt their prey to extinction and as a result, starve themselves into extinction?

Animals killing animals is still "natural" predator:prey survival. Humans killing an entire species by shooting them isn't any less natural than wolves hunting their primary food source to extinction.

The difference is humans don't go extinct when we kill a species - because we aren't dependent on them as a primary source of survival.

Most animals are foragers (eg. squirrels) or hunters (eg. lions) and some can be both (eg. bears) but very, very few animals are creators of their own food.

I cannot think of any other animal that aids another species in breeding for the sole purpose of consumption for survival. Although I can think of a few bacterium examples or even symbiotic relationships. It's not quite the same level I'm arguing for here.
It's the saddest thing.
Interesting to see the 808 as the foundation of their final kick, but the final result is far from the natural 808 sound. (808 is still a sexy beast tho).

The 909 has been the standard kick for house, techno, et al for a long time with little need for modification.

In the hands of an expert, almost any drum machine can be amazing. For example, I never understood / liked old Alesis drum machines, but wow:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDkjNb7XKsI
We didn't ask, and they didn't mention it. When we did ask (only 2-3 days after we booked it) they made it clear that there was no chance of a refund.
Maybe instead of calling it technical debt, we should call it scar tissue if you want to focus on the agility aspect.
> There's no benefit to anybody from a baseball bat to the head.

Sure it is. It's good for the people being employed to operate the baseball bats. It's also good for the people being employed to make the baseball bats.
Looks like a pretty neat idea. Would've been nicer if I could actually scroll the webpage..
I believe the reason is that exchanging public keys is, unfortunatly, to much work for the average user.
If, as per your profile, you are someone "who really just wants us all to get along", I would recommend against picking stupid fights like this.
Then maybe we're irony-impaired. The head of this chain was making a point ironically. It in fact took me a moment to fully appreciate the fact.
Hardly a worthy comparison. How about this comparison instead? If I were to transport my 25 lb kettle-bell, you can bet it will go in the trunk, legislation or not.
"FPS Doug" instantly comes to mind.

"Sometimes I think maybe I want to join the army. I mean, it's basically like FPS, except better graphics. But, what happens if I get lag out there? I'm dead! I mean, I even heard there aren't any respawn points in RL." [0]

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A good down to earth mathematician will always look ahead and try to solve more problems, do more math, etc. It's not surprising that he wanted to create new math despite already doing so.
Is this why so many games have some muscle-bound guy/gal in near skin-tight clothing be the lead? I never knew cloth simulation was such a difficult problem. I remember Lucas talking about this stuff when he was making the prequels, but I assumed everything has been long solved by now.

That said, I was pleasantly surprised in GTAV that when your character gets wet, his clothing and hair look wet and stay wet for a bit. I don't think I've seen that before.
Eich was actively coerced into leaving under threat of boycotts and continued disruption of his business by the "social justice" community.

You don't get to hold a witch-hunt and then shrug your shoulders when the witch you were hunting fled town.
The process we use to accomplish that is called "zoning law".
The subject being discussed is improving wafer fab yield. That's a very proprietary area, which is probably why the article is so vague.
Part of the reason that they can be controlled in Alberta is that they can't survive the winter outside of human structures. Combined with the fact that the border areas are relatively sparsely populated farmland, it is more a case of eradicating small isolated populations than controlling rats en masse. The rats can do a bit of "island hopping" in the summers, so an active campaign has to be maintained to keep them out.

The other reason that it is possible to maintain, of course, is the fact that the decision was made BEFORE rats invaded.
But why would anyone not be willing to leave their family, friends, and life behind and move to one of the most expensive cities in the world in order to work at Google? Isn't work important to you?
What if I plug a pendrive in one of these devices and install an app that reads every network activity? If I have the same sequence of packages required to authenticate, I'm in?
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If you're on the LES and enjoyed the article, you might also enjoy Robert Sullivan's Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants (Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/Rats-Observations-History-Unwanted-Inh...).
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I don't believe that, even in the short run, taking shortcuts actually saves you time. It's much like working 12 hour days - you feel more productive, but you're not actually getting any more done on a larger scale. There's an obsession with 'hurry up and get it done' that contributes little on a larger scale.

I also don't believe it's possible to pick the 'important' areas of code a priori and make only those areas free of technical debt. Doing good work is an attitude, a mind set, and something to practice - if you practice making poor quality code, it's going to affect you across your work, not just in the places that you do it.

I think that, by being professionals and putting aside the 'hack it out' mentality, we can improve not just the code that we're working on, but our mindset towards it. How many codebases have 'that scary part' that adds background anxiety to the people that work on it? Is that something you want to invite into your life on an ongoing basis?

Especially for things as important as integrations into external APIs - sure, they may not change much, but in my experience you really want to make sure they're done right when they're how you deliver your product to customers. Given how error-and-failure-prone many external APIs are, I expect a lot of work there just to robustly handle the other end of your integration being flaky.

I think that quality is something you can't 'bolt on' later. It has to be built in, top to bottom, throughout your organization, code base, and personal skills.
Is there a reason for yet another syntax for upserts?

There's an ANSI SQL syntax: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merge_%28SQL%29

And MySQL has its own syntax: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/insert-on-duplicate.h...

This is a pain for those of us who are trying to maintain cross-database libraries. (https://github.com/dieselpoint/norm)
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And the irony is that it's humans who are directly responsible for the rat scourge.
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He still does.
Systems take too long to get to market, which causes
marketing efforts to stall or become irrelevant, and
competitors beat out the startup to an offering.

I disagree. Well, maybe I agree in part, but I feel like this misses the forest for the trees. Getting to market fast helps you get in front of users (and prospective users) faster, which—assuming you're listening to them and iterating—helps you achieve product/market fit before you run out of capital or a competitor does the same.

Wikipedia has a bunch of great links to more on the topic if you're unfamiliar with it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product/market_fit
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Do they, though? They expect everyone else to put their product in their datacenters. I'm sure they'd like it if others also put their company data in (more revenue, after all), but I wouldn't say that anything they have offered is really pushing for the corporate data in the cloud aspect. I'd say Amazon is more aggressive on that side with things like WorkSpaces and WorkDocs.
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The article applies mostly to short-lived webcrap and appcrap, where time to market matters. There's software where reliability matters more than features - databases, for example. Source code repositories. Banking systems.
Soon, automatic driving. (The coming "Internet of Crappy Things" is a real worry.)
Are minutes/hours/days really enough for a defense counsel? Many times not... the time it takes to get to trial isn't only a matter of the government letting you rot. Not to mention that a given backlog and limited number of judges, the formation of juries, etc.
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Yeah. I mean, just look at this graph!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/Operating...

See how no one uses Windows anymore on supercomputers?

Seriously though, the only reason Windows 7 lost market share is because Windows 8.1 came out, according to http://www.statista.com/statistics/272667/market-share-held-...
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Sometimes, yes. But which times? As ever, therein lies the rub
That's missing the point. The journey is often more important than the destination (i.e., learning how to explore a problem space, learning how to deal with failure, etc)
Who cares? These are hypothetical problems. Don't fix what ain't broke.
Craziest for me was that the population of the world has doubled since I was born.
A Russian speaking friend of mine was really happy with the language. Apparently they nailed the "Russian thug" sound, unlike a lot of shows/movies that cop out with "eh, as long as it's in Russian it sounds like a bad guy."
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My goodness, so much rambling (excuse my bluntness). I really tried to find a single thought of value in the piece; I failed. It is literally void of content, except for the names of some games in which you can die.
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it's cool. the leap from prototype to production-ready is always a big one.
But often the choice is: do I implement this in an hour, or do I spend a week making a nice well-though-out framework for this, complete with test-suite (which may take multiple iterations to reach perfection).

And you may pick the latter, but what if management wants to make a quick prototype and turn that into a product later? At that point you'll still be having the "technical debt" talk with your manager.
There needs to be some international treaty which declares poachers to be subhuman, such that they can be hunted for sport, without prosecution for murder: immunity in the country where the hunting takes place, as well as immunity back home, or in any state which is a signatory to the treaty.

After that, to be a poacher will mean taking a tremendous risk: simultaneously becoming not only hunter, but hunted.
Hunted by a group of psychopaths who appear wherever poachers appear, anywhere in the world, to take advantage of the treaty.

And, of course, many of those psychopaths will be none other than ... competing poachers. All traces of cooperation among poachers will be gone, replaced by paranoid mistrust of the purest kind.

A poacher won't even be able to sell an elephant tusk to anyone without fear. If you're approached by someone offering a tusk, he can be defined by the treaty as a poacher, which means you can legally kill him and take the tusk (and the same risk upon yourself as you try to do with that tusk what he just did).
Hey, Skullum! I'm the one of the team behind Thanksly. We think some studios are more likely to adapt if they'll see money pledged while we are opening early summer.
I think that quality matters even in 'short lived webcrap and appcrap' - you only get one chance to convince your customers to trust you, and if your application even so much as behaves subtly wrong they're gone. I think that's the class of error that 'hack it out' most causes - it's not an application error, it's an error of logic or off-by-one or floating-point-math-where-it-should-be-exact.
Confidence is quite important in mathematics. You would usually go further if you are confident than if you are not. That said, most unsolved problems in mathematics require more knowledge to state than these simple problems.

I think for most people, not knowing a problem is unsolved will lead them to try out many more approaches than if they knew. The problem is that most of the approaches will be approaches that have already been tried before and the rest will be useless. This does nothing for the solving of the problem but greatly aids your own understanding.
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There have been tons of studies on sleep and how much you need is pretty well understood:
- Most people need ~8 hrs of sleep a day.
- Any less than what your body needs and you'll be cognitively impaired from sleep deprivation.
- Sleep deprivation will cause health problems and early death.
- 20 minute naps will give you a boost but never get you fully rested since you don't go into deep or REM sleep (for which you need a full ~90 minute sleep cycle).
- High levels of caffeine intake will disrupt sleep in most people, leading to sleep deprivation.
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No, because I'm respectful of others. But I definitely know people who have the attitude of "well I'll never see these people again!".

Also, when I stay in a real hotel, there have been many times when folks were noisy and disrespectful.
This essay is... confused. (Or maybe I'm the one who's confused; I admit I have no training in philosophy.)

Goodman juggles vastly different concepts of what a "meme" is without consistently distinguishing between them. He seems to dismiss memetics as an abstract model based on a lack of evidence for memes as physical entities, which, depending on how it's constructed, seems like either fringe absurdity (an idea particle) or a logical conclusion of materialism. And his question of whether an idea or its proponent "wins" is a poorly-defined non-sequitur.

The original question is bad, in my opinion. Assuming you acknowledge the existence of ideas, a better question would be "is meme theory a useful or accurate model of how ideas behave?"
The problem is that uptake is growing exponentially. I've seen the math where if all /8s were returned for immediate reallocation, that would delay the IPocalypse by like 3 months. It's just not worth the extraordinary legal hassle required to pry those netblocks away from their owners (many of whom are probably actually using them in some capacity and have zero interest in willfully migrating out of them).
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Probably. I recently discovered that my Verizon iPhone is now connecting to my home NAS via IPv6.
I think that's a straw man argument - the choice isn't between an hour and a week, it's a choice between an hour and two or three hours. I don't think that making a framework for every change is a good idea, but I do think that, if you've only got an hour to work on something, you'd better make some quality tests for it, because under time pressure you're even more likely to make the sorts of errors that tests catch.

That said, I'm not implying that you should slow down, just do the best possible work at all times. Don't do a crappy job just because you're time-limited - we all only have 24 hours a day, and there's always more work than can reasonably fit in. The moment you start going "I am going to lower my standards right now", you've started a trend.

I think it's interesting that people are always saying "hire the best possible people you can", and then saying "but don't ask them to do the best possible work they can do".
To be fair, this is more an exercise in taking "future-proofing" to a logical extreme than something practical (or even possible).

With that context I (arbitrarily) chose plank time to be the smallest possibly-ever usable (maybe not practical) time scale for timekeeping.

That's a good point about location. If we're going for extremes, we should put it in one of the especially large spaces between galaxy clusters: supervoids[0]! If there were a clock made at plank time frequency, I wonder how much of an effect structures would have on it at interstellar, intergalactic, and void space distances. At this accuracy (and these distances) I imagine the clock's own gravity would be a major source of time dilation.

Perhaps the best setup would be an extremely small (think the size of a virus) clock with a small support station that provides energy to it and reads ticks back, kept a few hundred thousand light-years away to avoid gravitational influence.

Another thing. 10^100 years is a long time. So long that if the time from the big bang to the heat death of the universe were one second long, the universe isn't even 1 plank time old yet. 10^100 years is so long it starts making sense to talk about the half-lives of elements that are considered perfectly stable. To make any clock that is designed to operate continuously for that long would be a crazy undertaking even for an interstellar civilization.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Void_(astronomy)
Yeah, I could easily believe that; when you share a wall, your neighbors' behavior matters a lot more than when you have an air gap and good soundproofing. (One of many reasons I prefer the suburbs.)
Until $RESOURCE is discovered on Mars. Then we just repeat the first half of American history.
Note that some do. I have native IPv6 on my DigitalOcean VPS.
Yes, more or less.
Every operation must be written, that the type is obvious for the compiler. And you have one array, the heap with some special index rules. For example:
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The >>2 and |0 is necessary.
The author seemingly misses an important way in which this can be looked at as "real".

Some subsystems don't change much because they already do what is needed and aren't broken. Sure, the code could be improved, but it's not important enough to do (or at least, to do now).

Other subsystems don't change much because they are scary to change. If the system is brittle and poorly designed, engineers may have very good reason to be hesitant about changing it, and instead it is worked around.

So this latter case behaves very much like "technical debt" . This system costs you engineering time every time you even think about touching it. It's hard to reason about, it's hard to change, and over time these problems get worse if you introduce workarounds in other parts of the system, because now they are worse and harder to work with.

This is a very real cost.
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Funnily enough up and down both work - "what are you up for" and "what are you down for" can be synonyms. "What are you down for" can also be an enquiry in to what you signed up for ... isn't English great?!? Where I am we're more likely to ask "are you up for it"; though there's a slight connotation of meeting a challenge in that phrase.

Did you do any market research - perhaps ask people in the right demographic to write a tweet/text [ie SMS message] as if to invite you to an informal impromptu event and take your inspiration from there.

"Happening"? is all I got right now.

That bit you said about what Down does better - why isn't that on your landing page?

tl;dr sorry I don't really have any ideas what's better - if it resonates well with you then perhaps you're best to stick with it.
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A problem with comparing the metaphorical debt of technical debt to the financial one is that interest rates can be negative.

In addition, the term "debt" also applies to moral aspects, and not just financial ones. A builder may come back and improve something not because it's good for the employer or has financial benefits, but because of a belief that quality is good for the soul of the builder. That is also an aspect of technical debt.

Regarding the original article, it says tech companies are "successful because they got a product to market fast and at the right time". The "fast" is incorrect. Companies are successful if they are at the right time. If a company (like GO Corporation with pen-based computing) is fast but too early, they they are not successful. If a company (like Microsoft with Excel) is slow but eventually gets there, then they are successful.

"Fast" is therefore irrelevant in the face of "the right time." It can be that the right time is "as soon as possible", but that's not intrinsic to success.
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You can teach them. I personally had a lot less attention to detail before studying math. Good work ethic and perseverance can be taught as part of reaching a bigger goal, for example in sports.
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