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Some people don't give a shit, and are perfectly happy to go through life this way.

Case in point, my boss at the moment does something I've noticed quite often in stupid people. As soon as the train of thought requires more than about 10 or 15 seconds of quiet thinking and analysis, he immediately changes the subject. He either changes the subject to something that (to my mind) is completely unrelated, or he makes some vague self-affirming statement.

On the one hand, this is annoying as fuck. On the other hand, if I look at it objectively, his brain is just wired that way. He doesn't have the capacity to break down an argument or situation to its atomic level, so his brain compensates by changing the subject and continuing the analysis, albeit on another topic.

It's really just another manifestation of the idea that our brains are constantly analysing things, but it just so happens that this manifestation is incredibly frustrating to anybody who enjoys getting to the bottom of and solving problems.
Based on your response, I can't tell if you are one of those obnoxious alpha types that just hasn't been able to use it to get money out of an investor, or if you really are just some guy on the internet trying to humble brag about being around so few people in life that you've never met an obnoxious, alpha male in the tech industry.
How does Julia work in this space? What's it lacking?
Oh yeah, silly me!
Overanalyzing happens when there seem to be a right answer between several competing answers. But this is the point where you need to stop thinking and start feeling.

Your intuition is as important an analytical tool and the best executioners have a natural balance between analyzing and intuition.

So if you know you are overanalyzing stop thinking and start feeling.
Porting a Ray Tracer to Rust, Part 3: Path Tracing the Rust Logo
I would not be surprised if the next car I buy is the last car I buy. Personally, I think it will change humanity for the better, we just do not quite grasp how or what yet.
Nice! It's like a proven list of good sites and methods that actually pay their users. I like it! :D
I read the language log pretty regularly and they tend to have quality content. Then you got a post like this which says the book is bad and everything about it is bad after skimming it in a book store. An entire review based on skimming and a few out of context quotes does not make a well researched and thought out position on a book. At no point does the author say they actually read the book cover to cover. This is just a rant against being prescriptive in your writing since it is not "the one true way".

I have read On Writing Well and there is a lot of material covered in this book. I recommend the chapters on editing as that was Zinsser's day job.
Curious mind
sceptic mind
positive mind
etc.
or like Akinator: http://en.akinator.com/
Whites are actually unaffected by affirmative action. The transfer is from Asians to blacks/Hispanics. Here's some hard data: http://www.princeton.edu/~tje/files/Opportunity%20Cost%20of%...

"White applicants would benefit very little by removing racial and ethnic preferences; the white acceptance rate would increase by roughly 0.5 percentage points."
Interesting rant. Actually in 1990 people were complaining that SunOS took up too much disk space (well they always complained but whatever). And C (and unix) always had something of a naming / packaging problem.

Of course long after the size of disks were "big enough" to hold everything in / putting things on different drives gave you more disk I/O's to play with and improved overall system performance. If you could get small drives today you could play with that yourself but it seems silly to have a 500GB disk mounted on /var/log :-).

But more importantly for me over the years was putting the "OS" required user land stuff in one place and the "rest" of it in another place meant I could replace the kernel and userland code independently of restoring home directories and what not. These days I do that by mounting "my" stuff via NFS and making my servers basically completely replaceable with a re-imaging.
Your software-writing fingers are controlled by a neural network - a pretty complicated one, but it is still a physical process. I am sure an artificial neural network will be able to approximately do the same within a few decades. Not soon, but even we, software developers, are not safe. Well, we are today, and we will be among the last ones, but it will not last forever.

I think the key to save ourselves is to create artificial brains that are hardwired to _like_ taking care of us humans. I see flaws in every other solution. And even this one is not totally safe, just my best shot.
I think your second paragraph has the effect backwards. If you spend $10, then you have $10 less, and someone else has $10 more, no change in money supply. If you put $10 in the bank, the bank loans out $9 of it, so you "have" $10, someone else has $9, and the money supply has grown.
First of all I should say that it's really a good thing!

But please fix a bug with fullscreen mode — It resizes incorrectly when I press F11 (Chromium 42.0.2311.90).

It's also worth to add more photos! Or just change them periodically — every week, for instance.
Agreed. The copy-on-substring behavior is a real pain, and I don't know if there's any workaround.
Manual switching? Ouch.

So that means by default high battery drain, heat issues, and having to manually switch on the discrete graphics card by hand every time you visit a 3D-utilising website.

People have been complaining about no auto-switch in Windows on Macbooks for years, yet they haven't fixed it. Tons of other laptops already support it (inc. Thinkpads).

Apple keep Windows "bad" on Macbooks on purpose. It is the only explanation for all the driver issues they have (but no other laptop manufacturer has).
"I'm having a hard time coming up with a space-SF universe which has a submarine analoG"

Klingons in Star Trek have cloaking devices that allow ships to operate slowly and invisibly, but require them to reveal their position to fire weapons.

That's fairly close to a submarine, I would say (the match would be better if they could do, say, warp 1, instead of no warp at all)
>> "Call it a "Citizen's Dividend..."

This definitely needs to be called the "America Permanent Fund," and be explicitly marketed as a scaled-up Alaska Permanent Fund[0], which is a hilariously popular basic (small) income program that literally no one has opposed ever, no matter what.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Permanent_Fund#Dividends...
http://alistapart.com/blog/post/choosing-vanilla-javascript
The way they are normally referenced glosses over the fact that the Luddites were a group of people with actual, real concerns about their future. The industrial revolution was good overall, in net, but it was not a pareto improvement and people did suffer. While it's very likely that the continuation of automation will increase global wealth, some efforts to identify the winners and losers and redistribute will be necessary to minimise societal disruption. I'd say the US hasn't done spectacularly on this front in the past.
It's a commit message, not the docs though ;).
If the rich can delay that moment for long enough, they will not only own automated truck drivers, but also automated armies. The poor will be in a strong disadvantage.
As tel mentioned (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9556393), this strange choice of list is why I said that combining `head` with an explicit (and, I think, misleading) use of the `Option` monad seemed like teasing.
"The kid who just missed getting into Harvard because of their race is probably going to an awesome school and statistically is more likely to come from a pretty good place in the world. They'll be fine."

Or they kill themselves because their life goal is over or become bitter and hateful of others. Really hard to tell when you shatter someones dreams arbitrarily.
An analytical mind is not what makes people millionaires, its not what makes the musician great at playing, the artist great at painting or the programmer great at programming, its not even what makes the investor great at investing.

An analytical mind is itself a hinder for making decisions so you need to strike a balance.
Then try this one on for size. Very similar, ... but not quite :

package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
// Create a slice of length 1 and capacity 2. Note: try changing this to make([]int, 1, 1) ...
a := make([]int, 1, 2)

// b "aliases" a
b := a
fmt.Printf("%v %v\n", a, b)

a = append(a, 2)
fmt.Printf("%v %v\n", a, b)

b = append(b, 5)
// Question : what does a contain now ?
fmt.Printf("%v %v\n", a, b)
}

http://play.golang.org/p/Hf2noTyNrp

Run the program, change the capacity in the make call to 1, and re-run.

If they were values, a and b should simply diverge, so the last line should output [0 2] [0 5].

If they were references, then the last line should output [0 2 5] [0 2 5].

So slices (and maps) are neither values nor references. They're "half-references". Their length is passed as a value, their contents as a reference. Sort of like the linux kernel iovec structures, but completely hidden.

I would say this is a bug, as it violates both ways to think about these values. But it can't be changed without changing the complexity of lists in Go ... so this isn't going to change, and therefore will be declared "not a bug".
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Finding that resistance in the grid of resistors involves performing a computation. That computation is a proof.

You have it in your mind that proofs are something that you don't like and completely distinct from computations. You don't have a clear distinction in your mind between what you like and you don't. It seems to me that some mathematics is just unfamiliar to you, and when that happens, you call it "proofs".
This article[0] shows exactly this problem; and it links to patches that handle this issue. The article is 4.5 years old, not sure if the patches have been upstreamed.

[0] http://www.credativ.co.uk/credativ-blog/2010/07/postgresql-t...
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So now Google is the Uber of Amazon...?
Can you please make a favicon, so people can delete the title of the bookmark so that it takes up less space
From the next week, photos and sounds will be changed every day or two, thanks
Prototyping a 3D light field display video projector array
Tencent Leads $750K Investment in Wound-Care Startup, Tissue Analytics
I get the feeling that you're just arguing for the sake of arguing. You can't in one comment say that it's hard to move things around and then in the other comment say that of course it's not hard to move things around.
Who's stopping you from putting your jsx in a seperate file?
Now Rust is 1.0 does anyone have a feature complete syntax highlight file for Sublime Text 3? (and a build system would be nice also!)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-15
you don't need to know a man's exact weight to know he is fat

it's about thresholds. the assumption is that ever-finer measurements (analysis) won't suddenly blowup into huge changes in weight (outcome)
Median wages went down right after the luddites lost to manufacturing. Its going to be hard to employ people who have been driving their whole lives and now need to learn a new skill.
In addition to ignoring the big picture economics, it makes rather silly claims such as "And with that [the elimination of the need to own cars], the elimination of entire industries built up around the existence of car ownership like: mechanics, car washes, parking..."

I think he's confusing eliminating the need to buy a whole car (dubious in the first place even if/ especially if they're automated) with the elimination of cars in general (???) Or he somehow thinks that part of "self-driving" means also self-fixing, self-washing, and cars that never park... roaming the streets in packs I suppose, ganging up on people when the cops aren't looking and stealing their jobs...
A "right answer between competing answers" just sounds like a high-entropy belief state over the correct action to take. This doesn't mean you're overanalyzing, it means you don't have enough information to be sure of your decision. If that's the case, you won't get anywhere by analyzing more (although more research may help); "feeling" will just let you be overconfident in whatever you come up with, because you won't understand or question how you came up with it.
Yeah. Last review I read Windows 8.1 was getting 1/2 the battery life of OS X on Macbook. From what people can tell this is because Apple's Windows drivers lack the ability to put components into lower power states and graphics card switching remains broken.

Apple wants Windows to be worse than OS X on Apple's hardware. That's what it really boils down to. They're either apathetic or want people to believe that OS X is inherently better.
I agree, Minecraft worlds unlike some other sandbox games are backwards compatible mostly. You can create a world with the custom presets that is wild, all hills, all diamonds, massive floating islands in the sky, you name it then go back and play them whenever or as often as you like. Single Player still rocks!
You are just throwing unrelated links around. Parent's point was that in this case, logic and representation are one and the same concern. What you're doing is similar to using SoC to defend having to split up class definitions into .h and .cpp files.
Sometimes there are misunderstandings of economics involved, but just as often that kind of resistance stems from factors that "basic economics" glosses over or abstracts away. There's a lot of economic friction involved in shifts like this, and the pain tends to fall on people who have less power to do anything about it -- it's not trivial for a truck driver to go get a new job in a different industry, and our economic system is not very well set-up to encourage that kind of retraining and shifting, nor to support the basic needs of people who don't have much to contribute to "the economy". (All that's vaguely related to the fact that we've been (in the US) working more and more hours collectively despite higher and higher productivity, so that Keynes's prediction of a 15-hour workweek looks crazy even though his estimation of productivity increases was basically on point...)
> More simply, if the SAT is the perfect determinate for intelligence and energy

Nobody, including the College Board, has ever made a claim remotely close to this.
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Describing it as "just a mod" rather downplays the significant development effort that OS X has undergone since its inception. The code originally borrowed from Mach and BSD only applies to some parts of the kernel, and a few userspace programs.
Some application protocols require ICMP and another TCP or UDP port and won't send their TCP or UDP packets until the ICMP ping packet has successfully been responded to.
> The game, said the researchers, becomes "less about open-ended play and more about working to complete the never-ending stacks of buildings."

Spoken like someone who hasn't spent much time with kids playing Minecraft. I've run a MC server for my niece since January of 2014. There are around 15 of her friends who play regularly on the server. "Never-ending stacks of buildings," would bore them to tears.

In addition to stacking blocks, Minecraft has:

Redstone: A set of blocks and items that can be used to create (electrical-like) circuits.

Server Commands: A complex set of commands that can be used to manipulate the environment, spawn creatures, and move the player around.

Command Blocks: Special blocks that can have commands stored in them, and are triggered by Redstone.

The Minecraft server I run also supports something called mods, which extend the standard functionality of the game, and in the case of my server, allow the kids to create multiple worlds within which they can transport themselves and create different types of play environments.

There are two world types that go far beyond stacks of blocks. The simpler of the two are arenas. They've built an arena with a community-established set of gameplay rules. You can compete alone or as a team. The arena master controls the spawning of enemies and the difficulty of the game. It is fascinating to watch a new arena master learn how to balance difficulty. Make the arena too hard and no one wants you to be arena master (a job that is appointed in impromptu elections). Make it too easy, and everyone gets bored and moves on to other areas of the game. There are complex social dynamics at play. As the sole adult on the server, I've spent plenty of time counseling 7 to 12 year olds on the subtleties of not abusing your friends when the opportunity presents itself. They learn quickly.

The most advanced world type, and the one that really blows my mind, are the "adventure" worlds. They combine structures they build with command blocks to create interactive adventures. You press a button and you're transported to the inside of a cottage. From there, a stream of messages orient you, and you're tasked with some objective: solve a puzzle to escape the house, locate an item hidden near by, find tools to fight off an incoming wave of zombies, survive long enough to reach a far away destination. The possibilities are endless, and the kids exhaust them all.

Minecraft is so open-ended that the types of play are no more bounded by the game than outdoors play is bounded by the laws of physics.
Playing on PC mitigates a lot of that, IME. Also, co-op. Left 4 Dead is still fantastic.
Wolfram's Image Recognition Reflects a Big Shift in AI
I'd rather have hundred of packages in a well sorted flat directory than the same number of packages in an "Alice In Wonderland"-style rabbit hole.
http://www.vandyke.com/products/vshell/faq/015.html
To the question of why, Harvard believes that standardized tests are simply one of many factors that should be taken into account when deciding on who to admit. In building a student class, they value diversity not of race but of backgrounds and experiences. Perhaps that correlates closely with race since much of our country's socio-economic divisions also fall along racial lines in many places.

As an Asian myself, perhaps the question that needs to be asked is if there is enough diversity in our upbringing to be well-rounded candidates for admissions to "elite" schools?
amazing, shame it didn't get more upvotes
Be careful with Chocolatey, it will install the software without unchecking those nastly tools: search bars, etc. To be honest, it makes Chocolatey absolutely unuseful.
I don't think autonomous driving will kill recreational driving. Enthusiasts will still buy motorcycles and drive the open road. I'm not a rider, but have many friends who do and I understand the appeal. Those types are not going to give up that lifestyle. The industry around recreational driving may shrink a little, but will still be there to provide vehicles for those who want them.
There's a huge difference between the Alaska Permanent Fund that was established primarily with oil revenue windfalls and augmented with surpluses in boom years and a basic income program that would be funded by increased taxes.
If not getting into Harvard is something that would cause someone to kill themself, then that's probably a good sign that they should not have been admitted. I'm not trying to be mean but someone who can't handle rejection or have confidence in their ability to do well without getting into Harvard is not Harvard material.
Everyone here is talking about that it's it the specification.

If that's the case, and it does seem to be, then the problem is with the specification. Inconsistent behavior is nasty at the best of times, and this is no exception. I can easily see bugs coming out of this.

It's like C and undefined behavior. (Null checks in the linux kernel, anyone?) Even the best developers get bitten by it occasionally. It's one more subtle thing to remember, and everyone can only remember so much.
Thanks but obviously I already know all these things because I've spent hours thinking about it:) The question remains how do I stop?
In retrospect though, I think it's more surprising that it wasn't thought of as a children's game to begin with, and I say that as someone who played it off and on in alpha.

It's not hard to draw the analogy that Minecraft is essentially "advanced Legos", and the prevailing view certainly is that Legos are primarily for children.

Why that's the case is a separate question, but I don't think it's contentious to say that most people assume Legos primary audience is children.
As long as the time spent thinking about something is small compared to the time spent doing it, you're fine.

Since you will probably spend on the order of tens of thousands of hours analysing things in your life, spending about twenty minutes analysing your thinking process is no big deal (referring to "I know I'm doing it right now")

Now sometimes you want to spend even more time analysing then the above rule suggests. When to do that is harder and requires a good intuition of the potential gains you could get by thinking a little bit more.
‘Elon Musk,’ by Ashlee Vance
Usually analytical minds are opposed to synthetic minds (i.e. good ability synthesize/abstract).

Of course most people can do both, but often people are better at one or the other.

(Although usually, only people with analytical minds waste their time thinking about it.:)
It would actually be a very interesting experiment to try running Servo Emscriptenified (with SharedArrayBuffer, of course). I wouldn't want to write a browser in the full JS language, but that's precisely what asm.js is for.

"You should abandon Rust and write in JS" presupposes exactly the kind of strawman I've been arguing against. You don't have to abandon your favorite language!
I think I already told you when we met at strange loop, Kovas introduced us. :-)

Was going to type up something here for onlookers, but on mobile at the moment.
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As a developer for one open source project:

In my case, I am doing it because the users are happy about it.

The users satisfaction with how the product works is my pay for spending all my weekends coding – and it’s definitely worth it.
Bizarre YouTube video alleges that Uber was a stolen idea
Separation of concerns and separation of technologies are a different thing. It would appear you haven't done your research. See Pete Hunt's famous talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7cQ3mrcKaY
That's impressive. I've not tried Windows 10 yet but I hear nothing but good things about it. Keep up the good work!
I see. Did they re-implement it from scratch?
libraries are fine of course. in higher profile and more competitive hackathons, i've seen quite a few teams who complete the whole project (or re-use the same project from another hackathon).
right, that's the deal, if you make a interesting comments I check your other comments, if you make a stupid one why would I bothered?

your comment was stupid,I didn't check your comments, just copy-pasted your name, and really.

anyway believe what you want, I don't need any "charitable" explanations
Ghostery should be blocking that sort of content (that's the point), but I really like NoScript and RequestPolicy in conjunction with each other for the control it gives me. Configure firefox to ask to allow flash, and you've got a pretty complete privacy toolset.
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