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Think about where you would use CLJS - my use cases would not have an issue with extra 100kb of code - you don't use CLJS to do jQuery animations on your web page - you would use it to build complex single page apps or write server side code/scripts.

You don't use clojure for performance anyway, it's going to be slower by default (because of immutability/persistent data structures, and yeah I know about react benefits with immutability that's not my point - you're still going trough a lot more memory and stressing GC) - you use it to help you deal with your code because of it's semantics.

But in reality last time I tried CLJS I didn't really feel like it delivers on the productivity part and it's mostly because of implementation issues. IMO the decision to implement CLJS on top of Closure compiler and in Clojure (instead of going for a self hosting compiler) was a mistake - you can't overstate the value of REPL and fast iteration in a language like Clojure - and my last attempt to use CLJS the compiler/REPL environment far from what I would consider fast iteration : compiler took forever to start because of JVM and while it could run as a service it needed to be restarted frequently enough that it mattered, REPL was very unstable it would just die randomly - sometimes you'd need to refresh the page, sometimes you'd need to restart the server process. Oh and don't even get me started on the voodoo needed to get the damn thing running - install piggieback, then install austin and then add this weasel thingy then configure the server process all so you can get a halfworking repl and pray it doesn't break because good luck figuring out what's actually going on. Compare this to JS where I just go in to the devtools panel and test my code.
> it's a constantly growing amount.

If they're still pumping coolant into the reactors, why aren't they reusing the water that's already radioactive for that purpose?
http://www.rpi.edu/dept/phys/Dept2/APPhys1/optics/optics/nod...

Speed of light in vacuum > speed of light in optical fiber. Same reason high frequency traders are using microwave between Chicago and New York instead of a fiber connection.
How far did you get? What went wrong? What sort of latency/bandwidth did you expect to achieve? Was it relaying via geosynch/higher orbit 'hubs' or peer to peer sideways routing?
MONEY. There.
How will devices on the ground communicate with the satellites? i.e. do we still need fixed dishes, or are we looking at something new so an iPhone can get signal right from the satellite?
Alexandria, VA seems perfect for FiOS: highly educated people in the middle to upper class, living in dense suburbs. The city government even asked Verizon to bring FiOS. We never got it.

Verizon does not even offer DSL to my address anymore, despite the fact that I already have DSL over Verizon lines via an old independent CLEC.

It's ridiculous, and the city is stuck with a Comcast broadband monopoly that underperforms. As a result the city council is now looking at municipal fiber.
>> But having read some C files from 1996 (I .. didn't work at that company at that time), reciting the product's API every evening after dinner and being intimately familiar with the current .Net code base is time invested in this job and this job only.

I disagree with this, you gain something working closely with a legacy code base. After you've done it once, it becomes easier when you have to it again, although if you do it more than a few times, it gets REALLY old. I distinguished myself at my last two jobs by jumping into and becoming proficient with the legacy code in short order.
As another comment mentioned, .unwrap() is really useful for testing things out, but any legitimate (read: with intent to be used for some practical purpose) library or program is going to handle most errors. One edge case may be calling unwrap() in a thread that should die if the unwrapped operation doesn't succeed.
ADP says it's never integrated with Zenefits – and Zenefits fires back
The speed of light in an optical fibre is about 35% slower than in vacuum -- it depends on the index of refraction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_light

The same is true for light traveling through water, air, and so forth.
It sounds like you are fine then.
This is for network connection code in apps, not in the web browser.
I've casually abused all kinds of drugs, including alcohol, pot, MDMA, LSD, etc and never had issues walking away at all. After going through one (prescribed) bottle of Xanax at the lowest dose I had personality changes, addictive drug seeking behavior and about 24 hours of agonizing withdrawal with my skin feeling like it was on fire.

Medically I think they have a place for very short term acute emergency treatment and long-term palliative care, but otherwise healthy people really need to stay away from them.

And they're nothing like Alcohol, even though they both act on GABA, from experience I can tell you that its a huge mistake to put them in the same class and think that you can treat them the same way.
Agree re: the rate limiter--totally irrelevant in the case of OP.
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This is not the kind of problem it's being made out to be here.

First of all, Tritium is an beta emitter, blocked by a piece of paper or the skin. It's not dangerous in the environment unless it's consumed. Even better, it does not bio-accumulate, because it's water.

Second, the half life of Tritium is 12.4 years.

Consider this excerpt:

"""
The World Health Organization’s standard for tritium in drinking water is 10,000 becquerels per liter (34 ounces). According to Mayumi Yoshida, a TEPCO communications officer, Fukushima’s stored water contains between 1 and 5 million becquerels per liter.
"""

So our radioactive waste is acceptable as Drinking Water at 10K.

Lets do the math

5000000/(2^9) = 9765.625

9*12.4 = 111.6 years

No one knows what do about the Radioactive Water?

How's about we wait few generations, and drink it!

This is child's play next to the real problems posed by long lived (400K+ year long half life) bio-accumulating isotope disposal.

I wouldn't mind if they dumped it in the ocean TBH.
The half life is 12.3 years. If the amount of water was not growing it wouldn't be a huge problem. The tanks they are building will probably last at least 40+ years before having to be replaced, at which point we're talking about water that is not all that dangerous. If you release a tiny bit at a time it shouldn't be a problem.

However the water keeps accumulating. I don't think that part is sustainable. Until they fix the root cause of a seemingly endless amount of water that needs to be stored, this is going to be a problem.
Good question. The vast majority of satellite communications today are conducted via geostationary orbit, 35,786 km above the earth. This is the distance at which a satellite orbiting around the equator moves with the same velocity as the surface of the earth, keeping the satellite in a fixed position. This is good for communicating via the ground, since you can just set up your dish pointing in the direction of the satellite. Additionally, such a satellite can cover a wide swath of the earth since it is so far away; see, for example, the coverage of AsiaSat-8 (http://www.spaceflightinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08...). The disadvantage (especially for internet) is that the round-trip time of a signal at the speed of light is on the order of 250 ms.

As described in this article, the SpaceX constellation would be in a much lower orbit. The advantage is a much faster ping time (say, around 10 ms). The disadvantage is you need a large number of satellites to provide continuous coverage for the entire earth...but that's less of a disadvantage if your company also launches rockets.
I wouldn't say Lisp-like syntax is necessary for a macro system. It helps a bit... but all things considered, I believe pattern matching is a bigger boon to macro writing than syntax per se.

For those it may interest, I have made a language with mostly conventional syntax which supports macros: http://breuleux.github.io/earl-grey/

The macro system is modular, so you can easily write and publish macro libraries. I have written some for testing, gulp, and react. It's not super mature but it's getting there.
... or carbon dioxide.
> What if browsers were designed for the lots-of-tabs use case?

My browser bookmarks just fine. Why do I need all these pages currently loaded into memory?

"problem exists between chair and keyboard"
Alright, should be pretty much taken care of in version 1.0.1.
I wonder how it would compare to Exede Satellite service. I have Exede, it's the only thing available here in High Desert :( The speed is very good for what it is, I am getting 16-20 mbps down and 3mbps up. But, the latency is a huge issue for me. Most servers, even once in US, ping at 800ms, this makes it such a pain to do any kind of SSH server admin!

With low orbit devices I would imagine the latency should be better, I am guessing, but how much better.
Sounds like a really expensive way to make radioactive steam. :)
What I learned during the Fukushima disaster and ongoing clean up is that the human race literally has no plan or technology to deal with things when nuclear plants go bad.

I'm not anti-nuclear by any stretch, but it boggles my mind that we just stood around and said "well, shit. We don't have a backup plan, and we're stuck with this for a very, very long time".
Metal for OS X is so huge, I no longer need a Mac Pro
http://www.thuraya.com/SatSleeve
Agreed. If it saves you ~30 minutes of time, it's likely worth the $30 unless you're undercharging.
AppFormix fixes the “noisy neighbor” problem of cloud hosting
and solves the other problem of Big High internet, which is latency. At 1000km you could have single-hop round-trips in <10ms.
I guess I can't get to her conclusion that freemium = music has no value.
My favorite kind of application. Small, lean, close to the metal, and built like a brick house. :)
Does it work with tests written in other programming languages apart from Ruby?
I'm always been curious what it would be like if hospitals would ask surgeons to just come in and do a weeks worth or surgeries just because they were too lazy to look at their resumes.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go send my college transcript off to a company to see if than can land me a interview where I can learn about any job openings they may have.
The half-life of Tritium is 12.3 years. So as long as substantially everything with longer half-life has been removed, storage for a century or so would suffice.

Maybe put it in a bunch of large bags and tow it to Antarctica. But you'd need to avoid the bits that are already collapsing.
That's what I meant; curse my ambigious "it."
If you want to handle 1M connections, you can tune this. It will probably be the easiest thing to tune of many. Note that 1M connections terminated stud/hitch is actually 3M sockets: 1M inbound to stud, 1M initiated by stud and 1M terminated by your underlying server. That's a lot of connections on localhost (on the plus side, 127.0.0.1 is a /8)
> With low orbit devices I would imagine the latency should be better, I am guessing, but how much better.

Your satellite's 22,000 miles above the earth. If you were directly under it, round trip latency would be 236ms.

If these satellites are 684 miles up, and you were directly under one, round trip latency would be just 7ms.

The distance between satellites, and between the satellites and whatever ground stations actually connect them to the 'net, will all be smaller because of the lower orbits. Latency should be much better.
Ah, the age old dumbasses that think the world nuclear is bad. At the current contamination level of the water, dump it in the ocean. No one will notice. It is water and alpha decay.
Coincidentally, R on Spark (SparkR) is also announced today: http://databricks.com/blog/2015/06/09/announcing-sparkr-r-on...

It will appear in Spark 1.4 to use R on a cluster of machines, or a single machine with multicores.
I think you may have a floating point bug or two:http://imgur.com/zmOCoY0
Same here! I argue constantly for wind and solar instead of nuclear not because nuclear is a bad technology, but we are bad as a species at managing it.

EDIT: It takes 10-20 years to get a nuclear generation plant built, starting at $1 billion USD, and I've never seen a wind turbine or solar panel need to be kept cool for days after having moderator rods dropped to prevent fuel rods from melting down and hydrogen gas destroying a pressured containment vessel.

Don't talk to me about thorium, MSRs, breeders, or whatever new fangled reactor is being pushed this year unless you're willing to guarantee with incredibly steep financial penalties that if you start building a reactor today, you will be done on time, and within your budget.

Otherwise, move out of the way while we build out solar, wind, and utility-scale battery storage, all proven to work with existing tech, needing no liability waivers from the government nor permanent spent fuel storage that doesn't (and won't ever) exist.
Presumably, Digia is following the money with their emphasis on Javascript smartphone stuff. Qt taken as a whole is profitable for Digia, I have heard.

However, it's very clear that the effort directed towards Javascript on smartphones is effort not directed towards long-pressing desktop C++ Qt issues. Lack of QPainter OpenGL core profile support, for example. Because OS X GL compatibility profile supports almost nothing beyond OpenGL 2.1 and QPainter can only work in compatibility profile, a cross platform application that wants to draw into the same OpenGL context with straight OpenGL calls and QPainter is limited to OpenGL 2.1.

This absolutely sucks. Of course, the javascript stuff works with GL core profile - because the effort that should have gone into QPainter instead went into stuff relevant to the javascript-land. Digia is well aware of the issue: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-33535 WONTFIX, because out-of-scope. It's out of scope because anything that isn't directly and urgently required by the Javascript adventure is out of scope, I worry.

The changes required are not so complex as the WONTFIX excuse would imply. Almost all of the shader code that has to be updated to replace/remove legacy calls is contained in one file: https://github.com/qtproject/qtbase/blob/dev/src/gui/opengl/... Most of that file is not GLSL. The GLSL that is there is mostly boilerplate.

It turns out that QPainter GLSL drawing is actually elegantly implemented and quite straightforward, especially in comparison to how Windows did "GPU accelerated" drawing last I looked (during the Vista days). I made decent progress with my first hack-and-slash attempt to implement core profile support in just an hour.

How about a Metal backend? And a Vulkan backend? Will QtWidgets ever have either? I have been getting a lot of signals that, indeed, QtWidgets is the past, and "NO, why don't you try javascript? How about Javascript? In addition, Javascript. It's Javascript you're looking for, friend." Never mind that Qt Quick Controls are currently extremely limited...

If Digia is not, in fact, making money on the Javascript side and is making money from the desktop and enterprise C++ side, I would gently suggest that more consideration should be made of the needs of existing paying customers. If Javascript really is paying the bills, then great. I'll continue not liking it, but at least the decision to go all-in on Javascript would be rational.

PS, I would welcome any tips for getting a GL 4.1 context texture into a GL 2.1 context on OS X without passing the texture through main memory...
The point that there's an instacommunity because you're all making the same recipe together is pretty awesome. Maybe broadcasting isn't dead? (See: Beats 1.)
The Iridium constellation is 485 miles above. I've used it for both voice and data at sea via a motorola handset. Voice was very responsive with no delay, though the compression was very apparent. Data is painfully slow at 2.4 kbps. We needed to use a specialized email client that compressed email, handled the duplex connection, and recovered from errors very gracefully.

I'm curious the reason for such slow data too. Looks like the design was optimized to maximize the number of voice connections for a minimal number of satellites. Combined with the age of the design (first launched in '97) gives pretty poor data connections.
Many ailments have a stress-related component, as the purpose of our stress response is to handle an immediate threat, diverting energy away from long-term tasks like healing, fighting infection etc.

A placebo is a reassurance, that we don't need to worry, we are being looked after, protected, safe, and everything will be ok.

Thus, the immune system gets its resources back, and gets on with its job. We heal.

sorry, no references, just seems a simple explanation of the observed evidence (eg so strong that double-blind experimental design is required to prevent it confounding drug test results).
Who would have thought that the only totally effective treatment for mental illness, Coming Out Therapy, could cure another whole class of crazy people overnight? </snark>
Although they are significant, they are mind-numbingly boring. Compensation being remotely equal, would you rather work at a techy company like Tesla or Google... or the most boring part of the finance world.

It's like being the amtrack bathroom cleaner. Important, but shitty.
Cheaper Dell Ubuntu Developer Edition Now Available for Consumers in US
It's hard not to agree with the advice, I like to think of his observations about humility in terms of not being so ego attached, both in terms of how much I know, and in terms of ownership
For a fraction of a second, part of me really hoped it could somehow be a pause button for life itself.
Just because something is being built with other people's money does not make something a success. None of the companies Elon has been involved with have ever actually generated a profit -- they have largely just taken advantage of speculative investors and their willingness to buy into his ideas.
Private securitizations were inflating the subprime bubble well before Fannie and Freddie jumped in. If there's any data on, e.g., Countrywide/IndyMac it'd be valuable to add.
Comparison of Attic vs. Bup vs. Obnam
I think you might be right. I didn't think about them being stupid enough to actually say that in official circles.
Not to say that a taste test wouldn't be interesting, but "someone who knows how to cook" is not something that everyone has access to. The intersection of that demographic and one wealthy enough to buy a new $3000 appliance, well, we'll see.
Hmm, interesting. Well, I have Exede Satellite service as my ISP (best I can get) and my best latency, to any server, is 800ms. The way I figure it, 35,786 km / 300 miles per ms would be 120ms up * 4 for the round trip. So that's 480ms, plus another 20ms-100ms to a google or another large server. So that's theoretical latency of 600ms, so where are the other 200ms of latency coming from! :(

I am wondering because I maintain some linux servers for some of my projects, and any time I need to do something serious, I have to drive to a coffee shop and borrow their connection. SSH over 800ms latency is frustrating, to say the least.
I typed that I would be very productive today, and I was more productive than I've been in weeks.
This article has some pretty good info on the different approaches to satellite internet:

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2015-01-22/global-inter...
Old Android browsers will eventually disappear.

That leaves us with it just not being supported by Internet Explorer.

There is clearly more than just that driving this decision, because Chrome pushes ahead with plenty of things that IE is publicly opposed to. In fact, wasn't that Chrome's original reason for existing? To implement the web platform that Microsoft was unwilling to.
They pump in freshwater to the cooling circuit of the reactor, like from the tap. The water that comes back out of the discharge has gained temperature but has no tritium. They probably just return this water to the sewer system for now.

Just the water from the leaks has be retained at present.

If they mixed the water from the tanks, they'd have to retain 100% of the flow of the water.

Now if they built a big cooling pond and stuff they could reuse the water 'forever'. But the last thing you want is a big pond of slightly radioactive water than all kinds of wildlife can come live in.
Things are progressing and I encourage you to have another look.

$ lein new figwheel myproject
$ cd myproject
$ rlwrap lein figwheel

Browse to http://localhost:3449

If you return to the terminal, you should have a connected REPL now running. Along with live code reloading on save of your cljs files.
Maybe useful for truly suicidal anxiety disorders as well -- however benzos here are going to be a solution in much the same way as regular expressions -- now you have two problems.
Manage it, we barely understand it! The Strong and Weak fields are Klingon Poetry next to the scripture that describes Gravity and Electromagnetism.
Hyman Rickover designed a very clever reactor for nuclear subs. But scaling it up 100x was naive at best. So was doing that with the graphite core design. Maybe there are inherently safe designs.
>The only reason US doesn't switch is inertia (i.e. habit), and not concerns like "how it can improve things"

You say that like they're two different things. No one does anything just because. The benefits of switching have to outweigh the benefits of staying the same, one of which is always going to be "it's already done". Why bother reversing inertia and switching unless it improves things? You aren't articulating why the change should be made, you're just asserting that it should.

And just saying "It's simpler" means nothing, because being simple isn't a benefit all on it's own. Does it being simpler mean X number of increased work hours because we aren't wasting time converting? Does it being simpler mean Y fewer accidents on the road or in the workplace? These are reasons, not just "it's simpler".
They must by law provide you a copy of your records but they may charge you a processing fee for retrieving hard copies and sending them to you.
Former Disney Contractor (in 2012) here. I was working for a Disney Contractor in the Disney Offices in Celebration, FL (about 1.5 miles from the Magic Kingdom Gate). I knew of the Disney Contractor rule from Day One, and was reminded of it almost every week. I would have co-contractors leave, to be replaced by another contractor the next month. It was pretty commonplace in our little department.

They did mention that there were ways around Disney's rules, but the 18 Months on, 1 year off rule was something Disney has had for years.
Naturally, this thread is filled with crickets.
Am I the only one reading these texts?
This guy gets it. great notes and things to work toward for the author and contributors.