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This really depends on the presentation. Of course, you should be in control of the presentation, and let your audience know wether or not they can ask questions at any time, or at the end, or, if you've designed a well structured presentation, take questions at the end of each 'part' of your presentation.

The reason why it depends is if you're presenting something complex, say A and B and C, and if understanding B requires understanding A, and understanding C requires understanding A and B there is nothing worse than reaching the end of the presentation and the first question is 'What exactly did you mean by A?' and a lot of nodding heads. That means no one got two thirds of your presentation.

I've been teaching presentation skills for about a decade, and I've seen the above scenario plenty of times, mainly in legal presentations, but also in tech and sales presentations.
All my datasource where csv and mdb files. So, I directly imported them to PostgreSQL. Very little code was written to clean the data. 99% of the cleaning was done with SQL queries.

The code is mostly used to display the data. Cleaning the data with SQL queries is much faster than writing code.
On one hand, this seems almost like a Spinal Tap sort of situation. If you want to make it illegal to evade the reporting requirements by withdrawing $8,000 repeatedly, then write the law to require reporting $8,000, or whatever amount you're after.

On the other hand, the law is written such that it only applies to people who are aware of the law and intended to circumvent reporting. It seems like an easy case that withdrawing $1.7 million in increments under $10,000 is intentional, and that the guy who was Speaker of the House at the time that the law was updated by Congress would know that the law exists.

As is often the case, it seems like a bad person violating a bad law and it's hard to get worked up over either.
I'm not having any problem and not feeling ashamed at all defending the Red Cross instead.

If you just give poor people any money in Port au Prince after the earthquake, you simply atract predators that will beat and steal those people living in the streets easily, collecting all this money in the blink of an eye. Rich people in Haiti did not seem to care much for the bad luck of the poor people either.
I don't see us ever getting to a point where human drivers are prohibited—at least not in the time span where we'd need to worry about converting existing vehicles. In the USA at least, driving is so closely associated with the idea of "freedom" that such a move would be politically untenable, no matter the potential for lives saved. Also, I think that once the majority of vehicles are autonomous, the remaining human drivers become less of a danger—I'd argue that most accidents involve two parties making mistakes (even the "not-at-fault" driver wasn't driving as defensively as they could have been).

It will be interesting to see how insurance rates change for autonomous vehicles—a vehicle with no potential for manual control should in theory be much cheaper to insure.
Part of the purpose of laws is to act as a deterrent. This can't happen if people are ignorant of them.
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This bug report is not really clear. Does the submitter consider it bloat, or a privacy violation, or what? It should be obvious that the way it appears in Developer Edition (two releases ahead of "release") is not the way it will appear in the final version. This report should be about the way the feature is explained to the user, or about how hard it is to disable the feature, so that it can be improved.
So you don't like PHP and Eclipse. Sure. Neither do I. I write Scala in IntelliJ, or Ruby in Sublime Text, or even C# deployed on Linux with CoreCLR or Mono. And you're not "DevOps" when you have a little Linux experience, and mixing Ubuntu and CentOS without thinking about the consequences thereof is...well, it's your own bad decision. Historical reasons drive the behaviors of one versus the other. (You should know about historical reasons for things. They're much of why Windows is incoherent, too.)

But, more to my original point: I like .NET. I've been using it since 2005. I have Visual Studio open in Parallels right now. But I do recognize that the environment is a trash fire the moment you consider doing anything remotely outside the lines, and the lack of a serious, user-focused glue system (PowerShell ain't it, it's obviously not designed as a REPL language from the jump) is crippling. Peter Bright over at Ars has suggested reviving the subsystem model for Windows and incorporating a FreeBSD layer, and I'm all for that. Because I don't dislike Windows. I just can't get things done in it.
Wait, are you saying that soup kitchens are ineffective at combating malaria (which goes without saying)? Or are they simply ineffective at the problem they are trying to solve, hunger?
Well then what is the point? If you're eating one or two balanced real meals a day, eating something ready-made for the calories is very easy and cheap. There's no need for anything like soylent. Have a coke and a pickled egg for lunch everyday.
Crossrail, I can understand - it overtly benefits London alone.

However, given that one of HS2's main objectives is to free up freight capacity on the WCML which benefits most places from London up through to the North West and beyond, I'm struggling to see parent post's perspective.
I'm sure the beer helps "tidy" it up. =)
A great many people (rightly or wrongly) think the unions have done a lot of damage to US heavy industry (auto and steel, mostly) by demanding unreasonably high wages and benefits.

Labor-management relations in the US seem to be more contentious than in other countries. When the company is on top it uses labor arbitraging to keep the union from having any power at all. When the union gets the upper hand you end up with crazy work rules and benefits, sometimes forcing the company out of business altogether.

From what I can tell there are countries where the unions think about the health of the golden goose, and where the management tries to work with the union instead of breaking it. The US isn't one of them.
I think claiming that the "disaster" has been "realized" is premature. They're repairing the tunnel boring machine now. If they are able to restart the machine and complete the tunnel, then is it a disaster? Heck, even if they end up completing the tunnel several years late and a billion dollars over-budget, it still wouldn't be a disaster.
Not all web browsers support CSS, but that doesn't mean that web pages shouldn't contain CSS.
Hm, this seems discouraging. Brendan Eich, Andreas Gal and Graydon Hoare are all gone and Mozilla's leadership and public messaging seems to be getting more and more marketing-dominated.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines it more generally: "An instance of ‘starting up’; spec. the action or process of starting up a series of operations, a piece of machinery, a business, etc."
One way to get your story on record might be to see if the reporters for this piece are interested in your story. Here's one of them:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9665838
I'd also like to point out that even as a Java or C++ programmer you can easily fall behind. I've had the pleasure of working with a "dark matter" Java programmer who had been doing practically the same thing for ten years. He was contemplating reading into some "new technologies" -- none of which was any younger than five years and even so there was no viable upgrade path from where he was.
I thought that was the whole point. The movie wasn't about easy answers.

In many ways they were right and he was the inferior human, but this led to horrible discrimination, relegating "natural" humans to second class status (but horrible discrimination built from a series of perfectly reasonable business decisions). It was also a movie about the power of the human will, but it wasn't about will conquering all, it was an exploration of a possible world where our notions of fairness and someone with sufficient drive surely overcoming all obstacles may be completely upended.
You can make a case for CSV because it's text editor friendly, and tabs because it conceptually maps to typewriters, but we don't even have the option to use these characters. And arguing that typing escape sequences to represent common characters is better is pretty difficult to swallow.
Well, it's probably fair to say inmates haven't got much purchasing power for the things that would be advertised on Facebook. Yeah, non-zero, but hardly a large segment of the market Facebook's going to go chasing down....
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Betting so much of one's soul into a consumer play is a risky decision. The pay-outs are huge, but the odds are enormous, as bad as a lottery. Consumers decide to use a product based on intangibles; brand recognition, emotions, entertainment. These are fleeting, like fashion, and for an entrepreneur, hard to pin down what works and doesn't. There is no repeatable model for us to experiment and learn from.

Businesses on the other hand are considerably more rational. B2B decisions are made based on value. Even when a deal doesn't go through, you get tangible data to see why. But make yet another photo-sharing app and no one uses it? That's a lot more harder.
nthing the request for you to write it. The more you write the more you will remember. A great approach for this if you're not ready to do in public is write emails to each other, then organize the content periodically.
7 years at any organization is a long time, and with so few rungs above him on the ladder, it is only reasonable that he'd move on to something else.
I'm typing this on a core duo laptop manufactured in March 2010. It has 2Gb RAM, an SSD that I fitted myself, Intel integrated graphics and wifi. It runs any Linux OS fine, and can run quite demanding applications. Gnome 3 remains responsive with 10 windows from 4 applications open. CPU usage is relatively low, peaking at 60 to 70% from around 15% when I move or resize Firefox windows with a lot of javascript content.

What do you think is shitty about the donated PC?
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> Reading time: ~15 minutes.

842 words including code.

Average adult reading speed: 300 words/minute.

Does not compute.
The last time I had such an issue was because I hadn't installed them when installing the OS of the machine... that being said, it was win95, so I have no idea.
> More constructively, I wonder if recent Linux distros and desktop environments actually run better on 10-year-old hardware than Windows 7.

This depends entirely on the desktop environment / window manager.

The machine described in the article uses Xfce. As a real-world example of its low requirements, I very recently setup an old Dell laptop running openSUSE 13.2 with Xfce; said laptop has a single-core processor and somewhere between 512 and 1024 megabytes of RAM (I forget the exact number). Runs like a champ, while a "modern" version of Windows would - in my experience - choke even with much more resources at its disposal. I've also run Xfce-based setups on even weaker hardware, though at that point you start to run more heavily into performance issues.

You can go even lighter than this, of course, by switching to a plain window manager instead of a full-fledged desktop environment. Tiny Core Linux, for example, uses FLWM (a lightweight FLTK-based window manager); combined with its use of busybox instead of the GNU userland, it's able to run on as little as an i486 and 42MB RAM. That's a bit on the extreme end, though, but going a bit bigger than that, I've had good experiences with Openbox (and similarly lightweight window managers) on a full GNU/Linux system running on systems with Pentium II processors and less than 256MB RAM.

Heavier desktop environments like GNOME, Unity, and KDE certainly have additional performance impacts, especially due to their heavy reliance on compositor effects. However, in most circumstances, a system with 1-2GB RAM and a mid-200x single or dual core processor will handle these fine. In the case of KDE, you can also turn off desktop effects, thus reducing computational overhead even further.

In the Windows world, you can generally get a system comfortably to the same realm by turning of Aero (in the case of Windows 7). I'm not sure what the customization options are for Windows 8/8.1/10, but I expect the option for a "Windows Classic" look/feel still exists, and I further suspect that it would allow some additional usability. However, in my experience, Windows is quite prone to slowing down over time; even with routine maintenance (defragging non-solid-state drives, running CCleaner, etc.), performance will typically degrade over several months to a year after installation. For newer hardware, this isn't a huge problem, but for older hardware, this becomes a significant obstacle to usability that GNU/Linux and BSD systems don't typically have.
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> "YAY! JSON is wastefully large. I'd love to replace it." Is this true? I'm confused why JSON would be seen as a wasteful as a format.

It transmits type and field names. Depending on how complex your data is those strings could be a large part of the data.

{ "person": { "age": 30, "shoesize": 10 } }

The above is what, 4-5 bytes of protobuf? I'm not sure what the gzipped-json data is but likely a lot more. If you were to send a list of 100 such person objects, the difference would be smaller.
Problem is that many of these majors used to offer a career path in the past, but presently face outrageous competition.
There has to be too little room to perform an evasive maneuver. The road has to be too crowded or too small to perform an evasive maneuver. The pedestrians would have to be deaf or suffer from "deer fright". The car would have to be travelling too quickly to brake and would have had to fail to notice the pedestrians about to cross.

The scenario is one that requires so many worst-case-scenario events to be happening simultaneously as to say the scenario is likely avoidable altogether in one of numerous ways. So yes, I'm calling your hypothetical scenario a little contrived.

To answer the hypothetical with the answer you're expecting; people have already made this choice in the past for disaster scenarios:

"Women and children first."

The algorithm would choose to hit the elderly person over the child in your scenario. The ethical choice becomes more complex if the pedestrians in question are both children or both women. I don't think humans have made an ethical decision on such a choice.
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New England during a bad winter... During the bad ice storms a few years ago that left many areas, including mine, without power for a week+, things like generators, kerosene lamps and heaters, etc.. ranged from several times more expensive than usual to unavailable.

During this past winter when ice dams were a massive issue in MA, national chain hardware stores were trucking in roof rakes and selling them for $150+ (normal prices of around $25-30).
> From the looks of it, he'll not make it, but how can I possibly tell him that?

You just should tell him that - "I think this is going nowhere and you will likely burn out and have a crisis." And then when in few weeks/months he will start having doubts, he will have a reference and hopefully it will help him to bury the project faster and move on to other things. At the very least he'll have an option of coming back to you and asking why did you say what you said and you two can go on from there.
Agreed. I've been in that position multiple times and I know that each time I tried to give it all that I could.
But it wasn't enough. So I can only speak from my experience.
Looking back, it was good technology, with a bit of luck I could have made it.
So yeah, even though it looks hopeless, you never know.
Life is mysterious and totally improbable things do happen.

There's a thin line between the drive to get things done and obsession, sometimes they're the same thing, only the outcome can differentiate between the two.
While it never provides as much information as one might like, I've found it extremely instructive to look up the 'form 990' of any nonprofit I deal with (including if I am considering applying for a grant or something). You can find out how much the executives are paid, and something about their major relationships with both donors and receivers.

You can also learn about relationships with other nonprofits, which can be particularly interesting in the political sphere. For example, if you look up the 990s of some conservative immigration organizations, you quickly find that what seem like 10 or 12 independent advocacy groups representing a broad swell of public opinion are actually all financed and managed by the same small set of people. Or that quite a few nonprofits don't actually do very much beyond draw down the bequest left by some dead rich person who cared about a particular issue. It'll make you view the charitable tax deduction ver y differently - there's a lot of people making a nice living and effectively getting a 20% subsidy from taxpayers.
I'll counter that with an anecdote. My wife's previous employer, a boutique consulting firm in DC, hires liberal arts majors almost exclusively. Very smart young adults... Dean's list, multiple languages (rare in the US), etc. And at pretty good salaries ($70k+ if I'm remembering correctly).

Contrast that with a string of recent CS graduates I've interviewed this year. 80% or more have been woefully unprepared for work in the field. I'm not sure what they're being taught, but it certainly isn't anything remotely like computer science in the business world.

Point being, if you're a mediocre student, your job prospects aren't that great, regardless of major. And if you're actually smart, the jobs are out there.
There's a wealth of knowledge in there, it just turns out it's incredibly complicated and everything is interrelated (exactly as you'd expect from a system that evolved). The problem is that the media has been selling this idea of personalized medicine for decades now on the premise that we'll find a single gene for every malady and physical advantage and be able to then tweak them at will.
I got something else out of it. I thought the guy was a dirty cheat, risking billions in exploration costs just so he could personally be on the mission. What if he'd had a heart attack during the flight? The main plot of the movie torpedoed the big question of discrimination entirely.

And then there was the matter of wearing business suits on a space mission. Just weird.
This is a major problem, with quite an easy solution - make 2 documents, one for presenting, one for reading.

If you try and compromise you get slides behind you on stage with too much text, and documents that don't go into enough detail - not enough text per printed (or PDF) page.

I hate that most conferences ask for a slide deck in advance which they will print up for the audience.
Never had any problems with BitBucket over a few years. Using Mercurial though, which helps.
I think the single behemoth is a bit of stable state for computing, especially in those days. So you would end up with just a different behemoth and it could have been worse.
I've recently become a Soylent convert. I originally got it just as a quick breakfast replacement. It's not life changing, but here's what I think of it and why I use it:

- It's quick and cheap. About $3 a meal, and I prepare a whole pouch at a time (just make sure to drink it all within 48 hours). Meal prep and clean-up time amortized across 3 meals is something like 20 seconds per meal. Even microwaves taquitos aren't that fast.

- It's almost guaranteed to be better for me than anything else that's quick and cheap. I personally think it's probably about as good as food science can get in terms of providing complete nutrition. There may some kind of micro-nutrients or some such that it may not be the best for. But considering the garbage I would normally eat on the run, I'm pretty sure I'm coming out on the positive side of things.

- I stay satiated on a solo cup full of it for about 2-3 hours longer than I do even with a gut splitting meal. I sometimes skip lunch entirely.

- When I get around to eating a regular meal, but appetite is about 50% of what it is normally. This is an amazing side-effect that's zero effort on my part.

- I can mix it with other ingredients/foods have it as part of a meal or an entire meal.

- my blood sugar feels more evened out during the day, so I don't go through sugar highs and sleepy lows as much

Downsides:

- a fully prepared container goes bad super fast, even in the fridge. I chalk this up to being full of nutrients, it's kind of like the opposite of McDonald's French Fries -- which will stay in good shape for months, even away from refrigeration.

- if I go above 50% Soylent for my meals, I get ultra-intense dreams -- often about eating meat. They aren't nightmares, but they're unpleasant.

- the satiation can sometimes feel a little like bloating

I'm considering also switching most of my lunches to it, but I also enjoy regular foodstuffs so much, and I actually do like the mid-day downtime during lunch.
Gordon Eubanks worked with Kildall during this time period, he talks about the events surrounding the deal with IBM in this oral history. Fascinating stuff:

http://www.cwhonors.org/archives/histories/Eubanks.pdf
Microsoft also open sourced .NET, released Visual Studio Code text editor on all platforms and even allowed users to select open formats (.odt and similar) as defaults in the web version of their Office 365. It all happened in one year.

They're definitely making more than one step in the right direction.
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Yes, like the GP said, plenty of survivor bias. It's easy to say stuff like that after you have succeeded. But succeeding takes a lot more than dropping out of school and following your dreams™. Above all, it takes hard work, and it takes plenty of luck.
Once the whole world was living in mud huts. Whole countries must have pulled themselves up "by their boostraps".
Think of it from the point of view of the (often for-profit) prison: The less of a chance of re-integrating with society the inmate leaves with, the greater chance he'll be back, which means more $$$ for the prison.
> a whole host of products whose names are just footnotes today

Don't forget BeOS!