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I fail to see this doing anything besides turning the syntax backwards!? Maybe it's useful for those of us who are used to write from right to left, like in Arabic, but I would still use var foo = bar[0] over var[foo] = bar any day. It gets even stupider with objects: var foo = bar.a, vs, var {a: foo} = bar.

JavaScript is a good language because it's so simple and easy to learn, adding stuff like destructor's just make it more confusing! Making a language more confusing just because of strong preference with syntactic sugars is a mistake.
I would like to see a forking of the language before this goes mainstream. Maybe called CJS, where C stands for Clean or Classic JavaScript.
It's also hugely beneficial for Google if all apps/sites get sucked into looking the same, so their platform becomes a platform, rather than a gateway to individual companies.

Beneficial for them, and dangerous for others I fear.
Why? Is tax evasion not relevant?
yes, we do not support overlayfs yet, but will. overlayfs is the future of unionfs, and aufs is the current. :)
Yeah, I'm not sure where this reference comes from. γεώμηλα is a Modern Greek word for potato (literally 'earth apple', presumably a calque from French pomme de terre). It might be a sensible way to refer to potatoes in Ancient Greek too, but it wouldn't be sensible to suggest they were eaten in Ancient Greece!
FWIW, I couldn't quite piece together what happened from that post, since he never actually gives a chronology, just a list of how Airbnb responded at some stage of the controversy.

Before your post, my best guest was that they damaged his apartment, costing him money that he couldn't recover, and when he tried to get Airbnb's help, they sent out word that he was uncooperative and got him blacklisted.
Actually both of you are right.
You need a break from what you have been doing from a long time. Perhaps exchanging your jobs with one another might help. :)
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In this particular case it is also against the law of NYC, which prohibits short-term rentals like AirBnB.
No fixed / hard-coded information; everything reacts adapts, is fluid, interacts with other parts. Compared to how things were done in the past it seems improvised and free. Not far from jazz.
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While this is a pretty epic listing (well done!), it's still not even close to complete. My personal pet peeve omission is Okinawa soba, which despite the name is very much in the ramen family:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okinawa_soba

And if the god of ramen is Hakata-style tonkotsu, its temple is Ichiran:

http://blog.gaijinpot.com/ichiran-ramen-without-word/

And while it's a tourist trap, Yokohama's Ramen Museum is still a good way to sample many of these:

http://www.raumen.co.jp/english/
A key thing missing from the blog post about the article is that to raise money instead of taking on debt companies would have more reason to issue equity instead or various types of convertible notes.
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In general... It depends.

In your specific case I would lean towards putting in extra effort on work projects. You know the domain already and probably have a lot of interesting contributions to make. But a word of advice: don't tell your manager etc that you are working more hours lest it become an expectation.

With 15 years experience nobody is going to pay you more for having a basic side project.
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I can't believe this didn't occur to me earlier, but when you think about it, docker containers are like ... "aaS"-aaS!
That you need spread your "eternal thanks" to a wider group than David P. Reed.
Can you also make use of other non-GPL libraries on your website then? I would assume this would realistically only affect the portion of your code that interacts with Tremula
I think you missed the part where I said that I don't buy it as a justification for our adventures in Iraq.
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Nowhere near the same but android does support multiple accounts - might be worth looking into whether they're sandboxed enough to stop apps looking beyond the account they're installed on.
How many people do you know who think that Git and GitHub are the same thing?
We don't have group like that in the US. I'm not sure it would matter even if we did.
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Having worked at a company in the throes of private equity management, I can affirm that such "improvement" is not a universal phenomenon. PE funds take baths too.
Most new Samsung devices (including all SmartTV and SmartWatch) already use Tizen (based on an evolution of Samsung's Bada). Samsung could switch to Tizen anytime given it features a compatibility layer. People don't buy "Android" devices, they buy by the brand name of the manufacturer e.g. "Samsung".
Tax avoidance, perfectly legal and one of the duties of company management.

Tax evasion is illegal. This isn't it.
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Yes indeed, and while it's not "practically every lease" it's obviously highly relevant. It's worth noting that subletting a room is legal in NYC providing the actual resident is present in the apartment too, so it's certainly possible to have legal AirBnB in NYC.
He was renting an apartment and he listed it on AirBNB, which was almost certainly a violation of his lease agreement (and poor judgement on his part). The blacklisting, if it exists as he says it does, is entirely his own fault.
First thing you should do is optimize data structures IMO.

This is the advantage Python has over lower level languages - easy way to implement complicated things.

Kind of like Linus's quote:
"Bad programmers worry about the code.
Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships."
Stripe is going to make boatloads of money. They're now going to be powering both Apple Pay and Android Pay? Wow. Let me get some stock on that sucker when they go public.
Really smooth and fast way to browse lots of images easily. Definitely play around with the "config it if you dig it" options to see what else is possible. Kudos to the author for the work and making it available to everyone. Have to dig a little deeper to see if I can make a way to have images enlarge when clicked.

Great to see high quality options for sharing photos outside of putting them all on dropbox/google/flickr/etc. Does anybody know of any similar functionality from other packages? I haven't seen anything close but haven't looked hard lately.
Absolutely correct, but there is also room for criticism of AirBnb. The business model is largely based on that kind of recklessness with other people's property.
I feel like the real problem here is the same problem that exists in all of these situations where the law hasn't caught up to technology: someone is being made an example of.

When a few people pay a huge price for something that "everyone" is doing, it is simply unfair. The people who have been sued for downloading music are a similar example.

In my opinion, AirBNB should fix this situation because they can. It isn't fair for one renter to bear the brunt of the pushback while the company continues to make huge profit.

It isn't about blame, it's about each side's ability to right what is an unfair situation.
The guests may have triggered the eviction, but their bad actions were not the cause, it was the fact that the room was rented at all.

The XXX Freak Fest is not the problem, and AirBnB already compensated for that, which is why the post is not entirely obvious.

That and the... interesting writing style.
Austin Allred, this tracks with my experience. I too earn a high integer multiple of what I would have made had I not taken my self-education seriously.

My case may be different from others, because I am self taught at both business and programming. I have always treated professional literature as my "college education", except that unless most CS courses it has always applied directly to my own professional development.

As well as what you said, I give myself permission to study only what's relevant. If I learn just one useful thing from a $50 book there's a very high chance it will pay for the book many, many times over. I do not torture myself by treating every book as if I have some kind of obligation to read it cover to cover.
As far as I can tell, the tax avoidance is a bonus, but not the primary driver of this deal or most any deal that gets accused of being such.
The reason to do the same in the corporate world is that the debt bubble is not only a retail debt bubble. Companies and states are also overusing debt.

LBOs are essentially leveraged tax arbitrage structures because tax deductibility gives a strong incentive to leverage, a large part of the economy is now overleveraged because of these structures. And we need to stop with this idea that more debt is a hammer for every problem.
a big reason is that you actually need to test whether the newest version works well. Even the jump from 4.4 to 5 has some performance hits. Not to mention when we get beyond vanilla android, custom home screens and stuff are extremely sensitive to base OS changes.

Also, the phone companies themselves need to put out the updates, which isn't happening a lot of the time (or with 6 month+ delays).
Let black Police deal with black Culprits;

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/08/05/t...
There used to be a chain in LA called "Chin-ma-ya" that served a variety called "tantanmen" that I haven't found elsewhere. Both the torrance and little tokyo location closed and now I only have vague memories of their terrible looping music to satiate me. You can get tankotsu anywhere but only they had the delicious tantanmen with the golden fried shrimp and the curry-side-dish-thingy. I barely appreciated them when they were here and now I crave what I cannot have.
"It would be in the interest of US-Soviet relations" - in 2005?!
where did marcoperaza even hint at that?
No, I saw that. My point was that, even if you did justify the war by how it provided energy security, there were far cheaper ways to obtain that security.
I wouldn't call this satire in the first place. Part of what makes satire noble is that it isn't merely personal.
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I think it's criminally malicious to
lock knowledge away behind a paywall.
Free is a good start.

Fapjacks, you sound very generous with the fruits of other people's labor. I assume you make your housing, transportation, computer hardware, clothing, and other possessions you earned freely available to others--please publish your address so we can take advantage of your largesse. Here in the States, many of the Framers agreed with you regarding intellectual property (I think Jefferson was one.)

I am not that giving. The USA decided to balance the incentive to create against the public interest, so they decided to create a "paywall" in the form of patent and copyright protection (said protection having gone way, way overboard in the last 30 years, IMHO). I support this balance (and yes, I have given away much IP as well as charged for other IP I developed).

I am perfectly willing to support those who work hard enough at something that they are willing to take a chance on the open market by charging for it. No one forces me to buy it, and like Austen Allred, I feel grateful for the opportunity.
Banks are the only industry where tax deductibility actually makes sense, because a bank is essentially a wholesale broker of debt. You lend to the bank with your current and saving account, it lends to the economy. Tax deductibility will not really result in the bank leveraging less, as the bank is not the ultimate payer of the interest. It will only make it more expensive to borrow from a bank. And the tax will be paid twice (first by the bank, then by the ultimate payer of the interest).
It is about triangles. The idea that sine is the solution of this ODE for f(0)=0 and f'(0)=1 is quite modern.

I would say a course on trigonometry usually covers (my experience):
trigonometric functions
exact value of them for the angles 30, 45, 60, 90 ... degrees
Trigonometric formulas for the sum and difference of angles. A formuka for the double and the half angle.
Law of sine and law of cosine
Lots of relations derived from the Pythagoras theorem (sin^2+cos^=1)
how to solve trigonometric equations

With all this, you are equipped to completely determine a triangle, knowing some of its and the length of some its sides. As as application, I was taught, how to measure heights and distances provided you can measure angles.

Thus, without trigonometry, it would be fairly hard to take a course on analytic geometry.

Now, how would the course be enhanced by introducing sine as the solution of an ODE?
Anyone who googles him (or does a background check) will see a ton of red flags, including being involved in several lawsuits over the last few years. I'm not shocked no one will let him rent a place - I sure wouldn't.

http://nypost.com/2014/11/11/embattled-manhattan-doc-faces-a...

http://nypost.com/2014/03/28/comedian-outs-pr-execs-affair-a...

http://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2012/03/23/the-strange-tal...

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/airbnb-orgy-victim-sues-...
Tinder is a (generally free) 'meet a person' app, not an 'invite a person into your house' service that charges fees, and AirBnB is acting more like a broker than a matchmaker. There isn't an explicit expectation that the person you're joined up with on Tinder must be allowed into your house.

edit: clarification
Classifying your code is something you might do when it's finished. But while most code bases are constantly changing, classes does not make any sense! They will just make it harder to re-factor the code, and you will end up with a bunch of unused code just because you decided to classify early on instead of just prototyping.

Import is another concept that will eventually make your code base unable to manage. You'll end up with imports everywhere, with a weird spaghetti, where it would be much better to use the modular pattern of breaking up the code in separate reusable modules.
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Right, ok. I recall something about this - ü can be represented either by a single code point or by the letter 'u' preceded by the modifier.

As the user of unicode I don't really care about that. If I slice characters I expect a slice of characters. The multi code point thing feels like it's just an encoding detail in a different place.

I guess you need some operations to get to those details if you need. Man, what was the drive behind adding that extra complexity to life?!

Thanks for explaining. That was the piece I was missing.
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If you search AirBnB for rentals in New York City where you have the whole place to yourself, you'll find thousands of listings for unquestionably illegal rentals. I wonder whether it's legal for AirBnB to do this, and I have mixed feelings about whether it should be. By taking a commission and providing insurance, they're involving themselves intimately in clearly illegal transactions. I'm guessing it would hinge on the exact way NYC law is written and on jurisdictional issues. Either way, this doesn't absolve people violating their leases by subletting on AirBnB. You're responsible for abiding by your contracts the same way that you're responsible for abiding by the law. The fact that someone helped you carry out your malfeasance doesn't change that.
Yeah, caching works OK when your total thread count is relatively constant, but most thread spawning benchmarks do things like spawn 100000 threads, synchronize, and then shut them all down, in which case the thread high-water-mark is constantly increasing and your stack cache always misses.
This is a great write-up. I had the fortune of visiting a national Ramen festival in Japan (and the privilege of being on national Japanese television as the novel white-person!) and I really enjoyed sampling the various regional varieties all in one place. There's an astounding degree of variation that I wouldn't have predicted, a priori.
Other languages have this too, eg. Ruby:

a, b = [1, 2]
a, b = {:a => 1, :b => 2}

Similarly in Python, at least for the array example (there's probably some way of destructuring a dictionary in Python, but I don't know it myself).

PHP also has `list()`...
Hmm, Java 8 is actually supported in Android Studio. That support however will not make device Dalvik/ART VMs magically support Java 8 bytecode :)

Retrolambda is rather useful to get a subset of J8 features.
I can't tell if it's a 'grass is greener' thing, but after buying a Moto G in order to enjoy Lollipop/Material thinking the iOS flat redesign was lame. After a year of usage, I think lollipop isn't an improvement over KitKat, and worse than iOS (I do believe Apple knows some dark magic when it comes to user interfaces desktop or mobile).

More and more I'm thinking there are 3 levels of usage for a mobile device.

- Fixed and instant: calling/answering/taking a picture
- Semi instant: finding directions (often less urgent than the previous)
- Complex: browsing, reading

the ~iPhone displaced the first level, which was the norm of dumbphone, fixed hardware interfaces. More and more OSes are aiming at making everything as the third. I can't get the lollipop phone interface in my mind, I'm even jealous of my mother's Bada based samsung.
The precise wording is crucial here. It is "the self" - the notion of persistent, continuous "I am" is this "grand illusion". Some ancient Indian and later Tibetan scholars have written about it since 7th century's "doctrine boom" and following "age of the great translation" (of Indian texts into Tibetan language), which resulted in all that plurality of Tibetan sects, while "the realization" of the illusory nature of what we call "I" goes back to the times of Upanishads, long before the Buddha himself.

In modern words, what we call "consciousness" is mere a set of processes, which could be switched on and off.)
Unfortunately no, I don't have an iOS device.
Maybe I'll get one by the time you issue the final version.
What I cannot really understand in the first place is why it is legal for the companies in the US to make (Black-)Lists of citizens.

Isn't it any law that regulates that?
More specifically, their algorithm seems to design linear optical systems (multiplexing,demultiplexing,phase shifting,etc are among them: actually any LT given by a complex matrix of phasors wich is at most unitary can be realized). This matrix can be generalized to the continuous case with a self-adjoint operator but I suppose you get size restrictions to reproduce precisely a complicated operator.

Switching of course is nonlinear.
> and don't mind a locked box with an always-on and encrypted connection to who-knows-where in your house

Do you fear hidden microphones, cameras and other sensors? If not, then what's the harm?
> You have an advantage to learn on others mistakes (e.g. made by those Java guys) and practice.

And the lesson learnt from studying other languages is "Don't add generics unless it's right for the language, even if that means choosing, on balance, to _NOT_ implement them at all".
I don't understand this sentiment, why do you need those components? There's bunch of 3rd party libraries to implement the UI patterns. Do you go annoy Safari/Chrome/Firefox developers that they don't provide you with components for carousels in browsers as well?
I think they expect you to be familiar with the Material Design spec and the Colors page: http://www.google.com/design/spec/style/color.html
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Historical and geographical context of Japanese ramen from a Chinese cultural perspective: ra part is derived from 拉 (Mandarin la) which means pulled and refers to the process of making the noodles, the men part is derived from 麺 (Mandarin mian) which is the traditional Chinese character for noodles (面 is the simplified form). In modern China, this 麺/面 normally describes long-form wheat noodles however other types of wheat noodles (such as knife-cut noodles), egg noodles, various bean noodles and rice noodles are also popular and some of them are described with the same character. However, many are produced using alternate methods such as squashing through a press or manually slicing a large, pancake-like, thin, often doubled-over piece of noodle material in to noodle-like strands, or by cutting chunks off a block of dough. China has a lot of noodle traditions, probably (logically for its size and population) far more than Japan. Personally I'm a fan of 米干 or mi gan which is a Tai-style broad flat fresh rice noodle normally prepared in the southwest and 刀削面 (dao xue mian) or knife-cut noodles which hail from north-western China. Modern mainland China's instant noodle tradition, probably partly re-inspired by Japan's (possibly via Hong Kong) is known as 方便面 (fangbian mian) or 'convenience noodles'. A Taiwanese academic take on this whole thing would be interesting.

Note that the Wikipedia page for Ramen[1] is laughable in claiming the origin of ramen is unclear. It's clearly Chinese. Interestingly however, it claims the Japanese only began to use the term ramen after the 1950s, ie. after they invaded China, Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam (all but Korea being huge noodle consumers). Previously the Japanese used other terms which directly attributed the tradition to China. While there is apparently no clear evidence, one could reliably assume that Buddhist monks and other travelers around the Nara period[2] would have brought knowledge of Chinese and Central Asian foodstuffs back to Japan from post Silk Road China.

As a postscript to be fair (borrowing happens in many directions!), so-called Chinese baozi (包子) or steamed buns are actually Turkic in origin, as attributed by surviving Yuan Dynasty cookbooks (see also Jewish, Polish, Russian, Tibetan traditions). The same sources include an early recipe for baklavah which has since died out in China... probably in the anti-foreign repression following the Mongol Yuan Dynasty at the dawn of the Ming, which incidentally was when Zhenghe sailed his great Chinese fleet to Southeast Asia and Africa. Also, some people claim Italy's noodle tradition is a post-Marco Polo thing (who, some credible evidence attests, was actually from the now Croatian island of Dubrovnik, under the sway of the piratical Venetian empire but not 'Italian' per-se).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramen#History

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanto_Rikush%C5%AB
Please please tell me how to get anyone "directed to" me via airbnb... I always thought it's a marketplace where two parties meet and service has no role of "directing". Why is everyone repeating this bullshit Telman wrote!?
If you haven’t seen them, I recommend the Clojure guys’ talks about the subject of simplicity. They reached into the etymological history of the word “simple” to pull out its early definition, which is quite precise and IMO tremendously useful in this context, unlike the confused muddle of modern definitions.

Rich Hickey, “Simple Made Easy”: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy

Stu Halloway, “Simplicity Ain’t Easy”:
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Consciousness has bee a philosophical topic for centuries. She is a psychologist and obviously unaware of it.
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> '$1,000,000 Guarantee' (that only happens to cover property damage)

Well is there a problem with that? What would you do with the guarantee to improve things? Even if they gave him some extra money as an apology it wouldn't help his being blacklisted.
See also this guy's reaction (around 1:20):

https://youtu.be/Odax7F3tWhM?t=1m20s
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