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> (it has largely been already designed).

Did you read one of his interviews? For the campus, he's personally designing new doorways and new hallways and prototyping 50 kinds of cafeteria seating and two dozen other things... kinda crazy, but perfection isn't going to make itself.
Patrick has been on record for quite some time that he is forgoing his maximum earnings in consulting to focus on his other businesses.

I won't speak for him, but is it really that hard to understand? Once you hit a certain income level, doing work that is interesting trumps maximizing paychecks by several orders of magnitude (at least I found that to be true).

Putting a nice little bow on a hobby project he's run for a decade and getting paid for it sound pretty good to me. Not to mention all the new learning he's just leveled up on.
yes thank you. don't want this history to disappear.
Move to Paraguay!
It is really hard to say, on the one hand we have:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/20/upshot/income-inequality-i...

But if you look at China or India, which are getting richer, I think you'll see a lot of people not really benefiting from it. So while the middle class reaches some parity with the rest of the world, there are many people getting left behind.
Not the author, but if you read the code of the library (~35 LOC) you will understand exactly what it does: it spawns a process (an Erlang process, not a system process) for each of the task, and then gather the results in an array.

Whether the code is executed on many cores or not is completely orthogonal to this library. Indeed it is a property of the Erlang VM: you can configure it to run on only one system process, or many.

That said, if you are looking for computing performances, Erlang/Elixir is probably not the language of choice: it is optimized for latency and fault tolerance, not to maximize raw cpu usage.
Are you able to start a donation campaign?
Mind boggling pricing for sure, but $0.065/hr is still greater than $0/hour:-)
Absolutely - you don't want laws to be enforced too completely, but you also don't want to have lots of laws on the books which nobody obeys and are usually not enforced, but can be enforced selectively.
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Keeping around BCC and not maintaining it means it continues to lose money and still nag at him. Easy to see how that alone could return positive value, let alone the non-financial implications of dealing it with once and for all compared to taking contracting work he may or may not actually enjoy doing.
I haven't heard from him in a while...is he even in the Spring festival gala anymore?
To be fair, when he first started writing about BCC it wasn't a web app. The web app came as part of the iterative process (not that this detracts from your argument).
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Direct links if you still want to participate. Just dd card, powerup, and forget.

http://parallellocalypse.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/...

http://parallellocalypse.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/...
He may charge $30k per week, but he doesn't get gigs 100% of his available time.
> Apple, in so many ways, is the exception not the rule.

I think Apple follows traditional device manufacturing rules pretty closely. It takes 3-7 years to get a new hardware product market ready. The exceptions are startups or crowdfunded doodads that are able to launch in 18 months.

Nobody's going to crowdfund on 3-7 year timescales though, so you end up with a lot of optimistic lies (even the creators lying to themselves about how quickly things can get made).
He's also said he doesn't want to.

You also seem to think 30k is the 100% bill rate. A successful consultancy looks to be closer to 70% (and successful in this case means that they don't actively seek customers). The other 30% doesn't come from vacation, it comes from overhead.

The Bingo Card Creator falls into the same spectrum of charge out as Patrick's posted consulting engagements. Whether it was more or less is largely immaterial because consulting engagements are things he's been actively avoiding for a long time, while being done with Bingo Card Creator is something he's actively engaged in.
They took on an industry in which existing players were poorly serving consumers and have been providing a good product. Other potential competitors avoided the market due to the regulatory environment in the industry. Uber dealt with this by stating that they are exempt from the existing regulations.
Yeah, if there's anywhere I don't want to see using six-sigma alpha, it's medicine. That's a death sentence for hundreds of millions of people, at a minimum.

(Alpha is only part of the tradeoff with power and sample size; since we're not going to get sample sizes boosted into the millions for medical trials, six-sigma could only be achieved by trashing power to the point where they never reach any positive result at all.)
Sorting will be a lot faster on PostgreSQL 9.5:

http://pgeoghegan.blogspot.com/2015/01/abbreviated-keys-expl...

http://pgeoghegan.blogspot.com/2015/04/abbreviated-keys-for-...

I wonder whether and to what extent Vitesse benefits from using this technique, which is fairly well known (e.g. it appears in a 1994 paper by Gray -- Alphasort).

As I go into in the second link there, someone reported an order of magnitude increase in sort performance in one case.

For what it's worth, I doubt that this fully accounts for why Vitesse is faster. I don't know that I'd trust my data to it, but I don't think it's snake oil, even if some of the figures shown are arguably a bit misleading.
Yeah, GM and Ford are hit and miss with their models. I really don't like the Malibu and the Korean products GM sells.

I currently own three euro sedans and a Toyota pickup. Probably should have gotten a K1500 instead of the yota. It would rust less, withstand more abuse, and I'd be able to find parts when it did break.
oh, my bad. yeah I remember the numerous news in the 80s that Japanese were snatching up properties in NYC and other places.

I visited Japan couple of times in recent years, beautiful place and amazing culture. If _majority_ of Chinese citizens can reach the current level of Japan's living standard in, say, three decades(am I a little pessimistic?) it will be a truly remarkable achievement of the country and humanity, imho. But it's the ride that's exciting. We are living in an interesting time.
"am in the market for a low-maintenance, profitable side project."

Aren't we all...
There are many startups with 1 or 2-person teams who fail to raise funding since investors are looking for companies that can become worth $20M+. They might be interested in a cheap sale to someone who would be happy with a solid long-term revenue stream.
ApplePay does a huge amount to mitigate the credit card fraud problem for it's users. The fact that it can be used to process cards stolen others is irrelevant.
As of May 2015, is Microsoft a more exciting place to work at than Google?
> All my immediate family runs Ubuntu too, and they are completely fine with it (they only need a browser and a file manager, anyway).

Honestly, as far as I can tell, Windows is _way_ harder to use for the completely non-tech-savvy than Linux is.

I switched my dad over to Ubuntu (his new comp has Linux Mint) in ~2008 because I couldn't stand getting biweekly phone calls asking for help doing X or dealing with perceived problem Y on Windows. I haven't gotten a single complaint since then. Mind you, this is someone whose level of desktop-UI savviness is low enough that he hasn't quite mastered copy and paste yet.
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I recommend Bulgakov - I've read "Master and Margarita" in Russian and then in English, and I think it was translated very well. Bulgakov is a favorite writer of many Russians, and probably is a top 5 Russian writer of the 20th century. I'd say there's a lineage: Gogol - Bulgakov - Pelevin.
> Can we determine ,by looking at papers if a research is replicated ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-analysis is not trivial but a fairly sophisticated field in its own right. It'll be a long time before Google Scholar can replace the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochrane_Collaboration
Nope. Stop trying to impute racism. The facts are that Android video players are hugely popular in Asia, but these aren't iPad competitors.
Same here in Australia - http://i.imgur.com/QcYRsoY.png
LOL

Funny. You are probably kinda correct about the reason though.

The article makes this extremely silly statement "Maybe it all comes down to the fact that, depending on our genes, for some of us, cheating just feels good".
Uhh no that doesn't ultimately explain anything. The most likely reason is quite obvious. To have the the genes of an alpha male (defined as one of the most biologically fit males) passed on to her offspring. Not exactly a surprise given the nature of female animals in general who tend to be monopolized by high ranking males in polygynous species, whether by choice or by force. http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2009/07/the_lens_of_hyp....
I do quite a lot of travelling and the iPad usage depends very much on locale.
Yeah, sort of like those "32 in 1" and "112 tele-games" Atari cartridges, where each "game" was a permutation on the number of players, how the players were organized into "teams" combined with difficulty levels, or some such modifier. In reality, it was just the same game, and maybe you passed the controller around differently.
He didn't though. For one, patio no longer does consulting work. For two, just because he is capable of earning $90k in 3 weeks doesn't mean that's how much that specific 3 week period of time is worth to him.

Imagine this scenario. I consult at $1000/h. On the weekend I need my lawn mowed which will take an hour. Should I do it myself, or pay someone $100 to do it? I guess you could make the argument that if I was consulting all weekend then I could pay someone else to do it. But the likely scenario is that I'm going to carve out an hour of personal time and do it myself.

If Bill Gates drops $1000 on the sidewalk it does make sense for him to pick it up (though whether or not he'd notice..). The 3 seconds it takes him to pick it up isn't actually costing him anything, even though his passive income/worth might be more than $1000/3-seconds.

Opportunity cost is only a cost if there is an opportunity foregone. And sometimes you might come out financially worse, but in a better position strategically, socially, or personally.
IIRC, that number is not copyrighted per se but instead considered a DMCA anti-circumvention device. A number is a device! How absurd.
I am not from the western world, but there is huge application to learning English, it is the lingua franca of the world.

I am thinking that these competitions are formed out of people's desire to teach their children to speak English well, by talking up kids who are good at speaking English.
...yeah. No offense, but that stuff doesn't "happen" organically like that except with lottery winner odds.

I've had to grow traffic for sites before. Generally, even if its good content, you have to put some effort into driving traffic to it. Which is marketing. At which point, you are doing it to market something. The first thought is marketing.
Agreed, not allowed to disclose anything further than this but close friend helped a client fight for some copyright issues...only to find out that said client had actually stolen works in the past. When karma bites you in the arse, it bites hard.
This. I rarely have issues with Uber Black, but with UberX, I routinely have to keep one eye on the road so the driver doesn't get lost. It's one thing when we are headed to my house, but when I'm going to SFO, I expect any for-hire driver to just know how to get there. Especially now that Uber has nav built into the app!
Without Steve Jobs, Jony Ive is just another designer. No doubt he's a very good one, but many others are just as good, if not better.

It's sad that Steve couldn't be there to tell Jony that the iOS 7 design sucked, big time, to tell him to do it over. It has ruined iOS for me, and not a few others I gather.
Most stuff people create ends up having little or no monetary value so copyright is never an issue for them whether they wanted to be covered by it or not. It's when something they create ends up having lots of value that they start caring about copyright.
I always feel like games like this die in the late-game. Once you've had fun with the exploring and are collecting resource units for the nth millionth time, the game kind of runs its course.

It would be far more interesting if, as you play, you can participate in a large economy, slowly growing your gameplay experience out from say, a single guy mining and selling minerals on a planet, to an galactic empire.

Even better if you could participate at just about any part of the virtual economy, buying, selling, crafting, shipping, policing, fighting, robbing, pirating. You could own a store on a space station or a repair shop, make enough and buy a ship, or buy a station. Now you're managing station ops.

Exploration is just one of the X's in 4x, and I feel like there's so much untapped potential in the genre.
Interesting new application of the phrase "deadhead trips" here...

In the 1970's, that would have meant something else entirely :)
Any reason why it SHOULDN'T be done? I fail to see any downsides to its existence.

"Why not?" is a perfectly good response to "why?", especially on a site called hacker news.
Are you ripping off this commenter?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9602282
He has said he could, if he wanted to.
Learning another language(preferably a popular one) is always a good investment.
Not the SEO, the talking about BCC.
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And they're in the process of ruining OS X with that ugly, flat iOS 7 look, too.

It's truly a shame what's become of Apple since Jobs passed.
Eh - no worries. Thanks for the CL suggestion.
Depending on what problems you're trying to solve I think you'll find developers have very little problem learning Go. People coming from Python or Ruby might have a difficult time at first but anyone coming from C or C++ will be able to jump in quickly.
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Perhaps this is the wrong way to phrase this question... but what's wrong with http://learnyouahaskell.com ? Personally I found it very approachable, but then I've never tried another way of learning Haskell. Just curious to hear what the common critiques of it are.
Few years back I had a side project start making $20-30k/yr passive from about an hour's worth of effort, total. I don't talk about it (or wouldn't talk about it further) to market it or me, but just because it's a novel story that people find interesting. From the early days of talking about BCC, I recognised the same wonder in patio11.
I hate this song.

Simple Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5gvSzbSMNg

Please give me a lobotomy. And can I suck yer dick?

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I heard a French guy on the radio very passionate, "Milk is for baby cows!"
I really don't understand this argument, sorry. People tell me I should clean my house, but if the cleaner charges $20/hr and I charge $50, and I don't enjoy cleaning more than twice as much as I enjoy my work, why would I clean my house myself?

This is an actual situation that happens to me, by the way. I don't understand why people suggest this, it makes no sense. Bill Gates also ostensibly enjoys picking up his money more than not, so it's no trouble for him.
Given how widely known LYAH is, it's totally a reasonable question to ask.

I've collated most of my thoughts on different Haskell learning resources and where the challenges are for learners in this post: http://bitemyapp.com/posts/2014-12-31-functional-education.h...

Please let me know if you have further questions.
No Man's Sky doesn't let you build much, if anything.
This isn't Minecraft. Or Civilization. The worlds are not just procedurally generated on first visit, they're procedurally regenerated on every visit, says "How does No Man's Sky Actually Work"[1] You apparently can't affect the worlds much, if at all. The interactive elements are mostly in space, from the trailers. Planets are basically backgrounds.

[1] http://www.gamespot.com/videos/reality-check-how-does-no-man...
Oh yes, the lack of viruses and general confidence this gives them that the computer won't break if they visit a random site makes Linux completely worth it.
I don't think copyright is a fiction (I'm not even sure what that means) but I'm pretty sure it is there to prop up industries, such as yours, that would be financially insolvent without it. sneak perhaps intended this with a negative connotation, but that connotation isn't necessary. Copyright is there to prop up industries, but whether that's a good or bad thing is still up for debate.

I agree with your argument within the economic context in which your work occurs, it's the only thing that makes many works of art possible. But copyright is a bad thing because the economic context is bad.

If you had all the money you needed, would you stop producing screenplays? I can't answer for you, but I know the answer for me: if I had all the money I needed, I wouldn't stop writing code or performing music. I think the idea that people need economic incentives to do things, especially creative things, is bogus. People don't need incentives to do things, they need their basic needs met so that they can do things. More often than not, the need to fulfill their basic needs gets in the way of people doing the things that they want, and which might prove the most beneficial. I've certainly written reams of useless code to pay the bills instead of open source work that I wanted to do to further humanity. And I'm sure you've spent time doing things to pay the bills when you could have been working on your screenplay.

Of course we don't live in a world where people's needs can simply be met without effort. But the time is coming when no human will have to lift a finger to survive. What incentive will exist then? The structures we have built around the need to earn our survival will prepare us poorly for the world that will be.

I see two futures: one where the robots and artificial intelligences that meet all our needs are owned by the people who bought them and the rest of us are beholden to them, and another where, in the absence of value derived by economic need, we derive value from our feelings, our experiences, our relationships, and our creations. Copyright lives in the former future: the future I want is the latter.
> There is a direct MARTA train connection from Atlanta airport to Sandy Springs.

Not on a Sunday night, there isn't. The trains run less often, and you need to transfer from the Gold Line to the Red Line, and then you can transfer to a cab. So on evenings I'd take Uber to the hotel ($35ish) and it'd take about half an hour (airport to hotel, door to door). Friday evenings, now, taking MARTA would take an hour and traffic will take an hour or more and there was a convenient workplace-to-MARTA shuttle, so why not?

(Yes, it was on an expense account, so saving money wasn't my primary object, but that doesn't mean no one leans on you to keep expenses down. The cab-driver-in-circles was more an episode in hilarity than an expense that impacted me, though the ride still came to like $70.)
Just letting a creation of mine die feels like letting a part of myself die. You can say it shouldn't but that's not important; preferences are preferences ;-) and people are weird.

For certain people, myself and perhaps patio11 included, it'd be worth that $30k of opportunity cost.
I agree with you, except I wouldn't call them boring. It is a skill, a very pragmatic one, to speak excellent English, although it is wasteful to over-spend so much time on it.

In this sense, it is the same, if not worse, than the competitions in math, physics, chemistry, etc. I refused to continue the intensive and monotonous trainings for these competitions after I had a taste of it in a summer camp when I was in high school. Don't get me wrong, I love math and science. I didn't like the info-dump and repetitious natures of the training. I want to take time to think and think deeper. Or I might simply be a slower thinker than the other kids. Anyway, I spent time in reading extensively, and played basketballs when my brain got tired.

Edit: BTW, I have utmost respect and admiration for Mr. Zhang Yitang.
I can recommend http://arpnetworks.com, and have used them for a long time (not VM but larger stuff).

They are nearly totally a BSD shop [pretty sure BSD comes before linux there], and extremely competent. The chatroom also has a lot of BSD users (open and free, maybe a net or two).

FreeBSD does run for VMs, and it's very good.
I had not, no. I'm not sure that was a particularly humble interview, but he's at least more down to earth than I've seen him otherwise.

The little voice in me still critiques his methodology of working with others: he may have been smart, but he didn't need to be such a dick. I don't say that so much to put him down, but as my own reference that I don't need to be a jerk to people to get good work from them. (I feel some people have different take aways)
it smells of multiple accounts :)
Intel has had good results with formal methods. This is pretty important to all of the rest of us.

Here are some slightly dated references to slides on the topic:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~jrh13/slides/nasa-14apr10/slides.pd...

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~jrh13/slides/kieburtz-05dec03/slide...
Have you tried the new keyboard and trackpad on the new macbook? the keyboard feels like buttons more than keys, and the trackpad is... not good.

but, still; matter of taste. there will always be lovers and haters, and you're certainly welcome to prefer one over the other.
I paid like $70.

Thank the regulators for protecting me from unscrupulous taxi drivers' scams!!! :b
That is also a driving theme behind Doctor Who, which is considered a children's show, even by the showrunners. You should be able to find many discussions on why they think this is a good idea.
I judged competitions like this a few times. It's a weird experience. Often the students/academic institutions have a bizarre and extreme view of what makes good language - speaking at 100 mph, emulating some kind of thick Amayreeecaaahn accent, choosing crazily complex topics to memorize... At the end of one horrific competition, a visiting professor from Xiamen University (a good Uni btw) told the crowd you could never speak a language well unless you could memorize 4 pages of A4 :/

Incidentally, years ago the national CCTV English competitions were broadcast live, but after my friend Justin completely forgot his speech and fluffed everything they changed it to a pre-recorded (or time delayed perhaps?) broadcast instead. He was the only person in that final stage who didn't grow up in America or have 100% international school upbringing.
Well, as long as we're hating on Uber a little too, I'll put under Full Disclosure that there've been a number of times when the driver accepts my hail then proceeded to drive in the opposite direction for ten minutes... that's my main complaint honestly. :b
When something like that happens to me, I pay with a credit card and dispute it afterwards. At the very least, the driver gets hit with a $15 charge for the dispute, regardless of whether he wins. At best, I win the dispute and get my money back.

Edit: also, if there are enough charge-backs/disputes on the driver/company's merchant account, they'll get dropped or have higher rates.