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Lots of compression techniques use variations of this idea. For example, all wavelet tree codecs (eg JPEG2000) effectively do this.

As to why it wasn't done for JPEG, etc.? Mostly the cost of hardware implementations in compute and memory. Think of all the cheap cameras etc. that used JPEG, the 8x8 block coding and integer representation of the discrete cosine transform coding made this possible.
I agree. I've tried to get into Clojure several times. The thing is I actually like the first code example. It's more explicit to me about what is happening.
I copy and paste code all the time, but almost only for tests. I don't think tests should be abstracted too much. I don't appreciate having to work to understand what a test is doing, and when the test gets too long it's a sign you're testing at the wrong level.
Oh really? Let's examine the text of this post, and one other in this same branch of the thread:

>> I am curious why you think a 22 year old on near minimum wage cares more about engaging with your daughter

>> I am still surprised that rainier thinks that a 22 year old paid to look after his daughter cares more about her than him and his wife.

Maybe that's what you thought, but that's not what you wrote.
Because http://www.xkcd.com/1526/ made me look it up…
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Play might just be the natural (path of least resistance) way for children to learn. Play is not something that is overly scheduled. We don't have to make a curriculum for it. We don't have to track their play-progress. It's just something that kids tend to do.

Then well-meaning adults think to themselves, "how can I optimize this child's development? How can I make every hour spent with him be at least 70% utilized in order for him to develop fully? What can I do to make him better than my friends kids, and especially to avoid becoming an underachiever?"

Maybe children know best how to play. And indirectly know what's the path of least resistance for them to learn about themselves and the world.

Disclaimer: IANAP
That is not a good font. Very hard to read on my screen (non-retina).
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According to the date it would be almost 2 years ago, not exactly a current event...

There's plenty of others with the same name as her (58k according to Google), that file is now 404, and archive.org doesn't have it (due to its mention in the robots.txt), so whatever information in it that could've been useful for a stalker is long gone.
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This is... this is awful. I had no idea this was a thing.
Even when childcare is heavily subsidised it use will still be dominated by the middle classes. If you are unemployed why go to the effort to cart the children you love down to some strangers even if you don't have to pay anything.
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Nice guy, shoddy interview.
Even on a retina screen : the font need to be bolder since the background is darker. And a bit small too.
Seems like a great idea, and the last couple pages sound like they were making good progress toward commercializing it. But the document's from 2010. I wonder if they're still working on it.
Thanks, but "Sorry, something went wrong." :(
Writing also wasn't your only means of communication...
I just leased a small office in an older high rise. Its like twelve stories. Other businesses are already in the building so I have neighbors on each side. I'm sure I'll meet some people coming and going in the elevator and such.

It was not terribly expensive (more than I would prefer to pay of course) It does seem like a waste because I already have an office at home. I'll have to get a second internet connection as well (power is included). But having a place to get up and go to at the same time every day and people around I think will lead to benefits that are worth the cost.
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Malarky.

>> With multiple repos... having to split a project because it’s too big or has too much history for your VCS is not optimal... With a monorepo, projects can be organized and grouped together in whatever way you find to be most logically consistent, and not just because your version control system forces you to organize things in a particular way.

Uuuuh, if your one project has to be split because it's too big for your VCS, then you aren't going to make that thing smaller by putting multiple projects in with it.

>> A side effect of the simplified organization is that it’s easier to navigate projects.

That's a UI issue. Build a better UI, don't use a dirty hack, especially one that has other implications.

>> A side effect of that side effect is that, with monorepos, it’s often the case that it’s very easy to get a dev environment set up to run builds and tests.

With the growing trend of package managers being able to install dependencies straight from a git repository, I don't see this being an issue much longer. Again, this is a UI issue.

>> This probably goes without saying, but with multiple repos, you need to have some way of specifying and versioning dependencies between them.

Yeah, no shit, that's just good software development. The argument here is that a monorepo lets you be lazy.
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There are no pathogen instructions. Can I just clone it into bundle directory? Will this work?

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Do you realize how little sense your post makes?

You say maternal mortality was pretty common and still is in the US. It's actually quite rare in the US. Maybe slightly higher than other countries, but still incredibly rare. 28 our of 100,000. So where are you getting your numbers?

You also say that women get killed in wars and "having babies." Like I already showed you, women do not generally get killed having babies. And FAR more men die in service to their respective countries than women do. Laughably, ridiculously, far more men. Sure, an equal number of women and men die in bombings and civilian gunfire, but that's not the result of social or biological norms, that's just the result of random bombs and gunfire.

Finally, you say that men are exposed to violence in the street, and women at home? Actually, both men and women are exposed to violence in the street, and both men and women are exposed to violence at home.

You need to think more critically.
To a certain degree this is true, but to a much greater degree how other people feel is largely outside of your control.

Yes, being kind is one of the cornerstones of empathetic reciprocity (i.e. the Golden Rule), and being kind as a matter of personal principle is sane; but being kind because you believe you are responsible for the feelings of others... that way lies madness. It leads you into the morass of having to please all of the people all of the time (or else someone's feelings will get hurt), which simply isn't possible (nor should it be).

I find the author's tone to be matter-of-fact, and respectful of the dignity of the person being hired and fired. I know I would prefer this method of being fired, should that day ever come for me.
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> Few months ago, I came across a new paradigm (to me, at least) called functional programming.

You can never go back, at least from the perspective of someone two months into learning it.
You were talking about low wage mothers, I responded to that. They are anyway more numerous than unemployed-for-reasons-unrelated-to-parenting mothers. (This can also make financial sense to subsidize, as otherwise they'll have a larger probability to go unemployed and permanently fall out of workfroce later when kids go to school)
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Define modifies the prototype, so `cat define 'x' x` should apply to every cat (the docs have an example for making it a local property instead.) I think the larger barrier is that most libraries have functions with optional arguments so you would need to consider how to wrap each one.

But I really don't get the "for JavaScript" mentions. Without at least a pre-transpiled script to download and use as you would any JS, it is "for JavaScript" much like it is "for x86-64 assembly."
It's advantageous to have both environments pumping out new technologies, obviously.

The environment at Google and MS is that they have near unlimited resources (legal, monetary, intelligence, computing, patents) to create a working product that can be mass-produced quickly if it's a success.

A large company might have some red-tape to go through, but it will also already have all of the HR and management systems setup so that project managers can focus on creating the product.

The Project Tango device for example went from concept to thousands of 100% working devices in developers hands in just 1.5 years. The low-level drivers are integrated with Android in a way that no 3rd-party startup would be able to do. The talent they acquired (former DARPA director, Kinect engineers) would have not been possible without large company resources.

Ideas are not what is important, we all have brilliant ideas that millions of other people have had. You have to be able to take those ideas and actually create a product or service that people can use.
Are there any studies on working father's impact on children? (A quick google returns a few studies on father's impact but not working ones specifically.)

Damned if you do, damned if you don't. If you work, you're a neglectful parent. If you don't, you're sucking off the state. (UK stereotypes)

I have done the 3 main variants of parent-work balance (staying at home, working at home, working out of the home) with my 2 children and I'm not convinced that any one is better than the other, personally. But what does one little anecdote mean in the grand scheme of things...
Actually, I got everything working, and can build and include an ipfs project in the iOS bundle .. I just don't have a UI to wire it up to the Go-side functionality. But in case you're interested you can have a look here:

https://github.com/seclorum/ios-go-ipfs.git

Might have to change a few paths in the build-script, but it'll give you an idea (if you're interested) how to go about building Go apps on iOS. Turns out its not that hard! :)

>Sharing bandwidth

Yes, I see the same sort of conclusion from my perspective of wanting to put ipfs on iOS - its really only as a way of committing content to the mesh when the User wants to serve - i.e. idle times connected/charging on local Wifi .. I think my next step will be to wire up the camera and a few fields to be used to create a publishable set of content ..

Anyway, pull requests welcome!
Their high risk internal projects are billion-dollar gambles like virtual reality and self-driving cars that need their scale and resources. They don't typically experiment with anonymous chat apps, photo apps that change the image to make it look like it's from the '70s, etc.
I graduated a 3 year college in 4 years. I was working as a freelancer during that time, which also contributed to problem.

I wasn't an academic person, I was struggling with most of the courses.

At some point I started earning enough money to sustain myself. The thought of quitting was constantly tempting me.

One thing I kept telling myself: I started this, I'm gonna finish it.

There was a lot of pain and agony, but in the end I pushed myself hard enough to finish it. This was something that had a profound effect on me and helped me endure though times after college.

I would recommend taking some time out and then regroup and revaluate your situation, it might not be all that dire and impossible as it seems.
Google's vision of the future, right there.
I wonder how much of this was stipulated in written contract, or if it's just employer's whim.

Would a contract be legal if it made you subservient to an app?
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While Haskell is undoubtedly better suited to writing concise implementations of sorting algorithms, the C++ versions given could have been written in a much shorter and clearer fashion.
Abstract till you drop. Going beyond 'extract till you drop'
I believe this was more about "how to make it scale for the masses", and not so much about "how to make it work for one more person with less technical knowledge".
Micromanaging your children's lives is not doing them any good. They need alone free time and boredom to truly thrive and develop creativity. I think someone who has their life constantly guided by a parent will probably develop anxiety once the parent isn't there to guide them through life.

http://www.bbc.com/news/education-21895704
We have a statement from rainier that a 22 year paid to look after his daughter is more engaged with her than either him or his wife. What motivation does this 22 year old have for being more engaged than him and his wife? This is what I mean by cares.
Let's say I view it as the inevitable next big disruption, even if five years seems quite optimistic. What would be a good way to invest in this as a modest individual ?
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> I wonder though - when your son says, "I catched the ball" do you purposely not correct him because that's the school's job?

Not thread parent, but parent nonetheless :) I'd say the ideal response would be ignoring that error but instead replying with "I caught the ball" in an appropriate situation. Kids learn languages by example, all we have to do is give good examples. Correcting "catched/ caught" puts focus on the error, not on the dozens of cases where grammar was fine. If done too often (e.g. not what you described), that can actually impede learning, as the kid could develop a self-perception of being constantly wrong.

In general the pedagogical ideal is creating a setting where learning can take place by itself. The role of the teacher is reduced to designing the setting. Your ball game example can be seen as such a setting: You two are just having fun together and talk about that, and the desired learning of the language just emerges out of the situation.

(I'm an eduactional scientist, so maybe at risk of over-theorizing trivial examples :) )
To each his own as they say.

I fully understand that this is your baby, but to me, as someone with a strong liking for good industrial design, the product looks like it wasn't pushed all the way through. This is, basically, not a Nest- or Lacie-level design. It lacks polish. This is Home Depot, it merely doesn't look ugly.

To be concrete with the nitpicks [1] -

* Multiple grooves in the top/black part that add nothing to the design and only fracture the overall look. They would've been a bit less intrusive if the camera lens had a bit of vertical padding around it, but that too is missing. The whole top part looks like something that was driven entirely by the engineering constraints. It just completely neglects rudimentary visual balance.

* Rounded vertical edges. Very large radius has no chance of stylistically matching anything on or near a typical door. It would've been less of an issue if the horizontal edges too were rounded, but they aren't, so the design is not even self-consistent. You have an exaggerated smoothness on the sides and blade-sharp edges at the top and bottom.

* Rounded edges wrap behind the device. This implicitly detaches the gadget from the surface it sits on and makes it stick out that much more. This is probably my biggest gripe with how the whole thing looks when mounted.

* Thin black ledge at the bottom that doesn't stretch the full width. It's also missing on other images, meaning probably that some of them are renderings.

* The logo. How would you like to have a branded door or even a door handle? Same here. If you feel like doing some cross-promotion, put the logo on the top side of the device. Those who are interested in learning what the device is will find it.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/42pd44j.png
I wanted to hear what HN has to say about this, because to me it reads like a parody, but maybe I'm the ignorant one, and can learn something.
So it's smooth but doesn't do synch properly? That's kind of a deal breaker – keeping in synch is (or should be) a higher priority than not skipping frames.
> "Updating all server lists for every yum command was very annoying."

This isn't the case. It updates information when the cache expires, so this will only happen about every 30 minutes or slow. It should also only take (usually) way less than a minute.

> BTW ansible sucks for this aspect

Yep, it's not meant to understand how to remove resources it doesn't know about. That being said, it feels like I've created PHP at times, and I don't mind people not liking it. Many of the ways we have to automate Linux systems (due to lack of structure and API) are kludgy at times, but removal of packages not present in a master manifest seems dangerous to me for various reasons (group installs, tools self-bootstrapping, work happening out of band). Fair enough.

> is not the only valid way to do things

This was not the argument for immutable systems (though I like them), but rather that you need a good disaster recovery strategy and this is likely the best way to handle a major distribution version upgrade.

Minor versions? Continue to do what you do. Major upgrades between EL versions are full of all sorts of fun.

I've typically seem them done with upgrade kickstarts and the like, and you don't get good error reporting there at all when things go wrong. There were some advances in pre-downloading and then doing upgrades but... yeah... not a fan of doing them in automated context.

> " I can confidently say "

Trying to drive it programatically, yum seems much better engineered to me than apt. One example recently (and maybe there's a way in apt to do this) was to be able to select just one repo to use during an update to grab packages from, and I was missing --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=X. But there are a lot of things like that. Config files also seem a lot more capable. My opinion there too of course.
IIUIC, the example they give of recursively calculating the Fibonacci series is pretty much _the_ textbook example of how not to use recursion --- it's O(2^n) and doesn't use tail calls, which means it's slow and will gobble memory.

Actually calculating the Fibonacci series efficiently in a non-lazy functional language looks surprisingly non-trivial. In Haskell it's pretty simple:

http://blog.srinivasan.biz/software/fibonacci-numbers-the-sl...
In the example in question, the author compares apples to oranges: an imperative iterative Fibonacci print-first-n-fibs vs. a functional recursive Fibonacci return-nth-fib. An imperative recursive Fibonacci return-nth-fib would be far closer to classical mathematical notation.

A good way to cut through the ideological BS is to look at how mathematicians write pseudo-code. It's almost always either pure imperative, or imperative with a tiny smattering of OOP/FP stuff (no thicker than you'd see in a sophisticated C project).
For me, not using childcare == not working, which means I'd probably lose my home. I'm not sure that risk is worth it.
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No that's not a fair way to do it if you take info account the fact that the employee has to sign away not just their rights to sue, but their right to full unemployment benefits.

He's not actually firing people, he's pressuring and bribing them into resigning voluntarily.

It's basically a nasty way of breaking the social contract of the employer - employee relationship, shifting what should be the entrepreneurial risk of the employer to the employee, without any upside for the latter.

I take back what I said about the legality however: it's fully legal and very common in the EU, it just isn't firing people.

I've seen it used in practice. There's nothing nice about it, and almost always the result of bad hiring. Only employees that wanted to get out anyway or are easily intimidated go along with it. And it can seriously bite you in the ass if the employee tells you to shove it and forces you to take it to court instead. (Because they don't really need to sue, any firing after that conversation will be illegal.)
Why would I defend him on the quote? To repeat and expand, soundbite quotes like this are the empty calories of politics -- incredibly delicious and good for getting you a quick jolt of energy!!! but ultimately not good for the overall health of critical thinking in the electorate at large, or even in your own brain, a shallow exercise in confirmation bias. I feel one should be particularly careful about this, especially where your own political enemies (or policies you don't like) are involved.

So skip the soundbites and the Two Minutes' Hate, as a rule; surely there's plenty to indict him with otherwise.
This is likely above the 95th percentile writing skills for neurotypical twelve-year-olds, and uses anachronistic language to boot. When's the last time you heard a twelve-year-olds using words like "I am weary", or" for causing so much hardship.", or idiomatic abstracts like "another way of being".

If you took a neurotypical kid and duct-taped their mouth shut up to age 12, you would be robbing them of the vast majority of reinforcement learning on grammar and wording that we receive as children, and it would knock them down several standard deviations in skill level relative to their peers in constructing sentences, paragraphs, and essays.

On top of all this is the blatant wish-fulfillment. Socialized kids, at least, have a some degree of ego, and don't often express sincere thanks for their parents, their disorders, that their "school values them", or describe their behavior as "Then I would have meltdowns.". These are forced reflections that just don't occur naturally.

On top of all this is the core of autism: Deficits in the theory of mind. Normal kids start to master deception, pretending, prediction of behavior, and empathizing somewhere between 2 and 5, and get gradually better at it as they get older. Autistics have marked problems in these areas. What they don't do is clearly model their audience, model their audience's ignorance of their own mind, then tell their audience to walk a mile in their own shoes, and describe the novel aspects of their mind from the perspective of a neurotypical outsider. There are recursive layers of social intrigue in this paragraph that people with autism would have a great deal of trouble understanding, much less writing:

"Let’s pretend you are like me. You can’t talk, but you have a well-functioning mind and can understand people. Imagine you answer everyone who says something to you, but only you can hear it. Others hear your voice saying things you don’t necessarily mean. They think that’s all you are capable of thinking. People see your repetitive flapping or tapping and they think it serves no purpose. They don’t understand that the minute you stop, the moment is flooded with lights that hum, loud sounds that echo, kids moving too fast for you to keep up with and people trying to engage with you. It is hard on me to put my stimming away, but I try."
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