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I'd say it's not wrong, though the "providential man" idea is more closely linked to De Gaule than Napoleon. I think there is still some pride at the brilliant military successes he gave France, and his important reforms (like the Civil Code) but at the same time imperialism has really gotten out of fashion. So a mix of embarrassment and pride.

Paris still has a lot of Napoleonic traces (eg, the Arch of Triumph, the Vendome column, the Invalides, the ring of boulevards named after his marshals...).

Personally, I don't give a damn about nationalism. People taking pride from the actions of long-dead folks happening to be born roughly at the right location, or holding grudges because their country lost territory decades ago leave me cold.
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California does not consume most of what it produces agriculturally. Most of it is exported to the rest of the United States and beyond. If California were only producing enough food for its own residents, there would be no water shortage. Of course, you'd probably have no lettuce in your grocery store then (unless you live in California).

The point is that California is not overpopulated by the "enough water for its people" metric. Most of the water use in California is to grow crops that are sent out of state.
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The current president is from the socialist party. This party takes its roots in the III Republic. The first republic is the French Revolution. Their thinkings always refer to the Age of Enlightenment, the III Republic and a little bit to marxism. They are not comfortable with kings and emperors.

A lot of french people carry a kind of collective inconscious shame around the history of the country. It can be about the Kings, Napoleon, the colonization of Africa, or the collaboration of the french governement with the nazis.

It can also come from the failure against the Great-Britain during the carribean wars in the 16th century. France lost the battle, lost Haiti and Napoleon sold La Louisiane...

English is the new latin not french. France is an outsider.
Both rigidly defined and flexibly defined languages appear to have their issues. I'm not much of a historian of Lisp but my basic understanding is that it's great for lone developers, but a pain for larger teams, and the flexibility of the language is the reason behind both of these.

In the Go language the tool gofmt formats the source code to certain standards. I haven't heard a single developer complain about gofmt, developers seem to appreciate that it takes away the bikeshedding over style, there's one established way to lay out your Go code and that's to use gofmt.

Now if bikeshedding can happen over something as trivial as code layout, imagine what's going to happen if you make it trivial to change the language. Someone didn't design a regex library the way you like it? Code your own. So will everyone else. You end up with thousands of developers reinventing the wheel, all building their own versions of the same thing, that aren't necessarily compatible.

CL now has its own package manager (Quicklisp), I'd be curious to know if this has had an impact on fragmentation, that's CL's best bet for reestablishing itself as a language that's growing in use.
Software implementations of a new codec are generally available earlier, but the first implementations shipping to consumers (in STBs, phones, etc) are all going to be in hardware, because the computational cost of a new codec is typically high enough to justify that lead time. That hardware will be limited to a specific set of of run-time levels and profiles, VBV sizes, etc.

Of course hardware implementations have their benefits. But the knobs that software codecs offer are much more interesting.
He very much is, you can also see later in the article:

Yes, to solve the "drought" in a few short years, there are two basic tasks that California needs to undertake.

The argument made in the earlier part is clearly intended to be on-the-level as he assumes at this point that the reader is convinced by it enough to not call the current once-in-a-millenium drought a drought anymore.
Great list. Thanks for putting together. Wish the entries had some metadata around language, size, etc. just for kicks!
It doesn't seem like the study can be replicated with that little information, and the word "proprietary" is especially worrying on that account.
Despite the sentiments of "they just want to see how you think" or "you don't have to get it right", in my experience if you don't do fairly well on the whiteboard you've failed the interview.
> So it evens out somewhere I guess. Except healthcare situation

And higher education.
A company that seeks to maximize revenue and minimize cost would then do a cost analysis on that risk, and determine how much money it is worth. Risk, be that of lawsuits, fire or meteors, if you spend money on it it need to be legitimized by doing the math and showing how much money a company would expect to loose by distributing gplv3 instead of gplv2.

I would very much like to see such calculations so the market could evaluate if it is correct. Maybe see what a insurance company would ask in return for covering it, as that is their domain of expertise. So far there has not to my knowledge been a single lawsuit over GPLv3 specific requirements, which is something I think a insurance company would consider. Good money with a risk that has never ever occurred is something they might like in a deal.
You're right, that's the standard spin that is disproven by evidence. Still used though.

You can point to the exact policy failing: http://www.kansascity.com/opinion/editorials/article6514956....

But the spin is more effective than the facts, so who cares.
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It looks like the diet was ProLon: http://www.l-nutra.com/index.php/products/prolon
Thnks for sharing.
It was published on October 1998, I was wondering about that when I submitted but found it interesting nonetheless
No, it does include that fee. That 0.05% + $0.21 I referenced is the interchange fee charged by Visa. That fee was capped at that low level by the Durbin Amendment of the Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation in 2010. Stripe's pricing has been 95%+ markup when it comes to debit/check cards since then. Other card types don't have such an enormous fee spread, but unless all your customers are paying with corporate cards and AmEx, 2.9% flat rate is a real nice margin.
There is a mention of cutting spending towards the end:

>And because the best way to balance the budget and pay down government debt is to put Americans back to work, my plan would actually reduce the national debt by trillions of dollars over time when combined with my package of spending cuts.

Of course, anyone can claim their unworkable tax system is great when coupled with unspecified spending cuts.
It really shouldn't be allowed to publish science without the underlying data regarding what you did - barely any of that list gives much hint as to actual ingredients.

That said, this conforms to a lot of previous research regarding fasting, and so it's a reasonable assumption that if you did a once-monthly 5 day fast at 33% of normal calorie intake, composed of a mix of nutrient/vitamin-dense plants and herbs, you would see similar benefits.

In reality this should just be your normal diet - eat lots of plants, add a reasonable amount of healthy meat (i.e. not a kilo of red meat a day). Limit simple carbohydrates, especially sugar. Keep calories reasonably low (which will happen naturally because you'll feel full & satisfied).
I made the decision to buy my first house a year ago and just closed on it two weeks ago. For me it was less about the cost, although that was the genesis of the idea. I lived in Northern Virginia and paid $1,700 a month for a basic two bedrooom, 25 miles from DC. When my complex told me they would raise it soon to $1,800, I said enough. I moved to Atlanta and found rent in a better place, better amenities, etc. for only $1,100. I knew buying a house would be cheaper in the long term, but what really did it for me was the oppressive rental companies. My lease forbade people from staying at my apartment for more than 3 days without being added to the lease. Traffic and parking was horrible. Noise was horrible. What really pushed me over the edge was the constant having to be on guard from the ever present, ever spying leasing office.

I now pay only $130 more per month than I did living in an apartment, but it's the freedom that I think is the real benefit of buying a home. That and triple the space...
This seems like a super useful tool, especially if you want to do blue/green deploys where staging/production end up on the same physical machines and you want to run with artificial load as part of capacity planning/testing.
I absolutely agree with you, my problem is that if I bring these things up in an discussion about languages it results in "who are you kidding, we don't need that feature!" sort of comments. Personally I find it hard to do any sort of computation without the ability is inspect what is going inside.
Is it possible to do the same thing with cgroups or jails?
While I favor Ruby/Python syntax, I'm impartial about semicolons. There are bigger battles to fight! For example, heretics who use comma-first arrays.
Ah, this gets me extremely suspicious until there's independent verification.
Yes, it's a problem I call the Java Jungle - and it's something that happens (and will happen) to every successful language, I believe. Therefore it's not enough to ditch it and start again - devs need to figure out how to manage complex communities and library/architecture options. Although I'm not entirely convinced Java is going to be the one that really figures it out.

It's probably Node or Go or Rust that will finally get it right (they already get it right tacitly acknowledging that it's okay to couple to linux, therefore it's okay to be native, and that the correct unit of deployment is the whole damn server image.)
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Hehe I always get a kick off of showing my wife Uncanny Valley examples. The other day she was really creeped by the E3 FIFA footage. I on the other hand must have developed a way of adapting, or teaching my brain what to enjoy, because I loved 48fps Hobbit despite noticing the artificialness that everyone else complains about.
There are studies showing benefits to isocaloric intermittent fasting in rodents - enough to make it reasonable to think that some mechanisms are due to timing of feeding rather than just plain old calorie restriction in a different guise. I'm having trouble digging one up in a short enough time frame at the moment, though. It is proving hard to find the specific paper I'm recalling in amongst all the non-isocaloric intermittent fasting studies.
Just make sure that we drop it near a black smoker and accelerate evolution for the Europans. I doubt there is much background radiation on the bottom to stimulate random mutations.
Whiteboard or not, in any interview, you are judged relative to performance of other candidates. At very coveted places like FB, they don't have a dearth of candidates. i.e. Even if you did "good enough", very likely they'll find someone who "aced" the same question on the whiteboard. (We're not debating whether that's right judgment or not, but from their perspective, it's justifiable).

Having said that, I believe that your hunch is also correct viz. tech interviews for core roles at good companies these days, are more competitive than ever. Compared to say 10-15 years ago, the variety of interview problems is higher, complexity of software has increased, and the value of an engineer is understood to be higher ($Millions in equity). All that is contributing to moving of the goal post.

(Source: several years of doing this, now running an interview training course for a living http://InterviewKickstart.com).
Yes, 100 data model changes are schema changes (that can be one or more table structure change)
Gosh man, consider Atlanta. My taxes are $1,200 A YEAR. I put next to nothing down for an FHA loan. I was more interested in getting into a home before prices rose too high, than instant equity, but you make a good point. I specifically avoided HOA communities for the reasons you mentioned. I don't think they keep property values high, on the contrary I think they keep property values artificially high!
People missunderstand me a bit, I'm sorry if I wasn't clear. I liked stripe and still use it for some sites. I have no problem that our 1%+ chargeback was an issue for Stripe who have to keep Bank/VISA/MC happy. Also, it's ok that they didn't want us as a customer. Stripe has as much right as any other business to choose their rules and customers. I just told our story as a complement to the creator of this thread for other users of Stripe to know what could happen. Stripe is not a golden bullet for credit cards online as often told in the tech community.

Now, what did bother me enough to comment at all?:
1. We always send in detailed papperwork for each chargeback. Never heard back for any of these during our time as a customer. Not once!
2. We never got any indication that we were getting close to some limit resulting in being cut off, just the email saying byebye in 10days (or whatever it was, maybe 7?) just as everyone in the office went on a 4 day holiday (bad luck I guess). 10 days is not even close to enough to set up with a new processor for SaaS-products if you need an import of old customers and have any to speak of amount of charges going on. It triggers a lot of extra papper work.
3. Payment processors claim SaaS is high risk as there is no product for proof of delivery. Stripe has all our money for months and a full refund policy makes it low risk in my eyes. We pay extra for this hassle anyway.
If they say it's a risk, ok, Stripe knows better I hope. We had very long going ID identification so fraud was never the issue, just people trying to get money back and ashamed of asking it from us directly.
4. Stripe dealing with 1mil+ euro yearly of our money and refusing to speak on the phone even regarding major issues. Emails with "tough" questions always disappeared into thin air. It feels weird to not being able to contact someone that have your balls this way.

PS: Our "high" 1-2% chargeback spiked sometimes as customers that had made 10+ transactions during a year could start a chargeback for all transactions. Never spiked above 2%. Also, the product attracted many lazy and not-so-tech-savy-people, very far from the typical tarsnap user (which I'm a long term user of).
Not defending our chargeback-rate, just that we know why as we phone up each user after a chargeback to get an understanding.

Long comment, hopefully it clears out my thoughts for those interested.
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To amplify your comment, here's a web page with documents from the science definition team -- the panel that decides what exactly the mission will study:

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/europa/sdt2013.cfm

A key document is the very granular "Science Traceability Matrix" which is very focused on "can instruments be made to satisfy these science goals" (zoom in to notice a lot of requirements flow-down from science goals):

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/europa/docs/Clipper_Trace_Matri...

And regarding Europa, one particular item of concern has been, can markers of life be detected in a plume as sampled by an orbiter. Here's a recent workshop on the subject:

https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/calendar/europa-plume-workshop...

It's a colossal understatement to say that a standard design plus tailoring isn't really going to lift the burden of figuring out if detecting life in the plume is possible.

But that said, there are re-usable components. Some of the spectral radiometers ("take photos") are largely re-used, also communications devices, etc.
Eh...

Not a lot of people writing apps in Java, C, Ruby, or Python without using libraries, build tools, test runners, Makefile, frameworks, package managers, etc.

To use ES7 in production today, you need babel. And nothing is stopping you from writing a simple app in ES7, running it through babel, and shipping it. You could think of it as an updated compiler or switching to PyPy.

You probably do want a build step to lint, minify, and concatenate your code, and (if targeting the browser) to turn modules into something the browser can deal with. Which basically means webpack (or gulp+browserify), but much like a traditional Makefile (which is basically all it is), you write the webpack config once and then you're done.

And finally you probably want a framework, and probably a package manager to install it. Not a lot of people writing webapps in any language without frameworks. And downloading tarballs off sourceforge is very 1990s. So, a package manager. Does it matter if it's called gem, or npm? I don't think so.

All OP has done is listed some parts of his development environment that might just be implied with another language and framework. If someone talks about "a small app built on rails", by implication they're using a massive pile of bits. Just because you don't say "a small app built on ruby, gems, rails, rake, etc." doesn't mean they don't exist. (Hell, don't rails apps include coffeescript by default these days?)

If there's a problem, it's that "the browser as a runtime target doesn't lend itself to creating simple apps" (hence why you need all those libraries, frameworks, and elaborate build tools). But that's not really the fault of JS...and it's not like deskop apps or Android apps are any better. The last time I wrote a "simple" app (with no libraries or tooling) was in an intro to programming course in the 90s; I don't think that was a realistic example of how people wrote real applications even then.
RadioLab did an interesting story on how fasting (or living through famines) impacts your children and grandchildren with significant health boosts.

http://www.radiolab.org/story/251885-you-are-what-your-grand...
Gare d'Austerlitz.

I've read recently that Rome was the 131th french district at that time.

I've also seen on Arte a documentary with a positive point of view about the french administration in Germany during that time (maybe in Munich).
One more thing... I was quite adamant that my home not be in an HOA community. I'm worried less about artificially inflated property values, and more concerned with personal freedom. There are a lot of rules and laws on the books with the county and city as it is, not to mention the state. No one should have a bunch of nanny neighbors trying to control each other. Not living in an HOA gives me, the home owner, the most power and control.
Here is the data that I used, the author's is something rather similar:

http://www.laalmanac.com/weather/we13.htm

You can add the following values (from http://ggweather.com/ca2013rain.htm and similar URLS):
2012-2013: 5.85
2013-2014: 6.08

(I actually missed these in my original napkin math, but they make my argument even better, so...)

My point was that if in the original data set, the only way that you get those favorable numbers is if you start at the present and arbitrarily go back until you hit a very high number. Any other averaging of rainfall from the present to a year in the last 20 years looks absolutely horrendous.
Even if it’s not a desert, it’s also clearly not an environment suited to growing many of these crops without heavy irrigation.

If we priced water appropriately, low-value high-water-use crops like rice, cotton, and alfalfa, which really have no business being grown at the expense of draining our reservoirs and aquifers, would be priced out of production, and the land could be devoted to more valuable or less water intensive crops.
Might be interesting, although I've always liked the visuals* of psychedelica a lot more than the audio effects (which in my experience, mostly tends to make sounds be perceived really "loud" and "close", rather than "trippy"--unless that's what you associate with "trippy" audio, of course). Dunno if my experience is typical, obviously.

* also the particular mind-altering effects, which are hard to describe
The internal Commandos Level Editor had a bug where it computed twice the memory footprint for the level. When the boss found out, he ordered the tool programmer to NOT fix that bug or tell anyone about it.
Your statement about missions requiring different types of hardware isn't wrong, but having a generic platform for creating probes with different mission profiles isn't a bad idea. Think of it like a car platform which enables you to put on different bodies, interiors, etc. to suit the tastes and requirements of purchaser. If you had a standardized parts bin you could select whatever you needed to meet your mission objectives.

That said, usually you would do this to leverage economies of scale, and I think there probably isn't the budget or demand for enough space probes to make it viable. Who knows though, if the price of space launches continues to plummet, maybe it starts to make a lot of sense.
That's what I meant about being mature. Lisp literature spends a lot of time explaining when to or not to use macros. Don't be silly and write something that won't be a game changer just because you want regexes literals like expressed #r#.... instead of (rx ...). I'm pretty positive any seasoned lisper can sense when abstractions must be added.

Btw, large teams may exist because tools don't solve the problem easily.

ps: It would be interesting to ask the CL community about Quicklisp social effects.
It's already been answered why this isn't a good idea, but there is a working approach that works similarly: instead of all words within Levenshtein distance N, you store all words with exactly N characters deleted from them. So for each word in your dictionary, store all words that can appear when you delete N characters. That's a much more reasonable number, and there are tricks to make it manageable for long words. Then when you do queries, do the same with your query word and check if it's in the index.

This is actually a very fast technique, it's described here in more detail: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1008.1191v2.pdf
The start and test scripts are special, and can be called directly.

For an idiomatic node app, you'd clone the repo, then type `npm install` to get the dependencies, `npm test` to make sure the tests pass, and then `npm start` to run it.
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Got any examples of this? It seems interesting.
There is much more background info on Longo and his work on intermittent fasting if you go digging. More interesting than this particular piece, which is very short on context and science relating to the study of intermittent fasting, calorie restriction as adjuvant cancer therapy, immune regeneration via fasting, etc.

http://gero.usc.edu/faculty/longo/

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-06/uosc-fts06021...

http://michelsonmedical.org/2014/12/26/igf-1-fasting-discuss...

http://news.usc.edu/58074/wanted-a-recipe-for-longevity/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25498742

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25498743

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25549805
> It's hard to blame the HOA for enforcing rules that were available for your review at the time of purchase.

That's kind of an odd assertion. You can't blame the HOA for the HOA rules? Sure, you have some responsibility yourself if you didn't read over the rules, but that doesn't mean the HOA rules can't in themselves be terrible.