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Previously i had worked on a mobile app product Tweelerts (tweelerts.com) and now i am working on a Parse like service which let you share you static data ( text, json, XML, files or any other data) over API. No coding required you just need few click to set up and server data over API
You simply don't understand the scale of the water we use.

> At home one can cut showers from 15 mins down to 5 or two. On the farm it means not planting x acres that year.

Urban direct water usage (ie., showers, watering lawns, flushing the toilet, etc) only accounts for 4% of the State water budget. FOUR PERCENT. [0] Cutting your shower from 15 mins to 5 is utterly meaningless compared to agricultural use.

[0] PDF warning: http://pacinst.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/21/2013/02/ca_ft...
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You're absolutely right. Those are the right reasons to like Poetry. Which is why I tell people that the stuff that the "Poetry Society of America" has been plastering NYC subways with is not poetry (none of them care about any of the beautiful traits of a Poem that you enumerated).

(Chase Twichell, Jim Moore, Seamus Heaney, Tracy K. Smith, see them here: http://web.mta.info/mta/aft/poetry/poetry.html)
I think that was sarcasm, but to respond... I've seen key legitimate concerns mixed with misinformation and whipped into a frothy public spectacle.

Whether or not the final proposal is worth passing when it comes to vote, I would rather not encourage the use of such tactics, lest they backfire some day.

The focus upon "secrecy" also risks obscuring more pertinent criticism, especially when the final text is released (if the process isn't derailed first), in which case people might wonder what the fuss was about.
Did you watch all the intro to L5 videos [1] on laracasts? I also recently started using laravel and found those videos to be a huge help. Also the community on there and laravel.io/forums is really helpful.

[1] https://laracasts.com/series/laravel-5-fundamentals
The biggest problem is many farmer's do not have an economic incentive to be more efficient. They have open drilling rights . They pay a fee pump, but it's not tied to how much they use.

Further, if there's a national interest in sustaining CA agriculture it's time for the rest of the nation to devise a plan to get CA agriculture the water it needs. The state can produce plenty of produce for local consumption while using much, much less water.

Driving away the urban centered industries would be disastrous for the state and for the nation on a much larger scale.
Neither of those work in general.

W.r.t. 1, the compiler's definition of no optimization today is not the same thing as it was last version, or will be next version. For instance, on IA-64 there are things the compiler has to do that are typically considered optimizations.

W.r.t. 2, you have to make sure there is no link-time optimization happening.
It does both. There is no "as opposed to" here.
True but the state well knew this was coming _some day_ but did not institute policies allowing farmers to slowly adapt to a new reality. That's bad leadership.
It would indeed increase the cost of California-grown food, which would encourage the other 49 states to eat a bit more locally. This would reduce California's agricultural export volume, and thus, save a huge amount of water.
Yeah, I accept that.
Uh, why? We already meter usage, so apply the tiered rates the same way we tier electricity.
> I'm presuming there will be a whole ecosystem of games designed with the Rift in mind.

I think developers should not bother developing for Rift then. There are alternatives which are cross platform and not beholden to MS walled gardens.

Stronger competition will make them change this stupid attitude.
If the people immigrating are buying or renting the homes they will be living in (and are otherwise obeying laws), how can it be anyone else's business that they live there?

If you don't like immigrants, convince your neighbors not to sell to them. Also, you're a dumb asshole.
At the start of this year, I tried to install various Linux distros on my laptop using a USB drive. Only Ubuntu and OpenSUSE worked. Why is this? Is the desktop really that irrelevant? This is not a bug report. I'm wondering what the institutional reasons are.
Huh? Why don't you just say tier 1 is n litres per day (enough for a large family to drink, cook, and wash. After that the price rises by x%.
Are you making a joke? The tiered water system would be implemented on the billing and invoicing side of things, not two separate water delivery mechanisms.
The irony is that we're also too lazy to read the article.
LOL, that's funny. I'll admit I saw a few articles on this survey and the Daily Mail's was first on my results list. Does cringing while posting it lend forgiveness? ;)
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Why is that a comparison that makes sense? If we doubled the water available to tech companies, that wouldn't make them any more productive.
A 30-year-old computer that has run day and night for decades...

I know its a "ha-ha look at that antique" piece but seriously, how many computers could you buy at BigBox store today that will run for 30 years non-stop? The Amiga was just an off the shelf consumer PC.
Ideally, farmer's should be charged for water usage instead of water access. Many of the water rights mentioned in the article are access rights. Meaning they can pump and use as much as they want. Make inefficiency come with a cost and watch an entire new industry spring up around water efficiency.

Water is a limited and precious resource. Prices should reflect that. Anything less is a subsidy padding the profits of industrial agriculture.
I was under the impression that California had tiers in place for urban use of all utilities. But I only observed the tier in place for electricity while I lived in San Francisco, so I realize this must not be the case for other utilities if you are suggesting it.
Hmm, how is the GPL a problem? Are you considering modifying the project and need to keep it closed?
True, but that's false logic.

Psychopaths can't empathize, but it doesn't mean that those who can't empathize are psychopaths.

Claiming that everyone who doesn't empathize is psychopathic is fallacious.

Humans can only empathize with those people who exist within their "monkeysphere" (Dunbar's Number). Those who claim otherwise aren't really empathizing, they're just lying to themselves so they can feel they are socially just.
Re Re card counting: The vast, vast majority of advantage when counting is the choice to change your bet size depending on the count. When a deck starts you are at some initial count and then it goes up or down as the deck goes along. While the count is at or below a certain point (low counts are considered bad and high counts are considered good), you usually just bet the table minimum as you do not have an advantage over the house. Once the count reaches a certain level you start betting more aggresively. There is usually a spread to counts where for example if the count is 1 you bet 2x table minimum if it is 3 you bet 4x table minimum etc. This is how you take advantage of the fact that the odds are in your favor - if you just bet the same amount all the time you are not really doing anything different (assuming you are following Basic Strategy at all times).

The rub here is that this type of betting can be seen by the house. If you are of enough interest to the casino (something you can get playing $100 hands let along $100K hands) they will watch you bet and try and look for this pattern. Most casinos employ former counters or have people on staff you can, after a little bit of time, determine if you are counting or not and politely ask you to leave. In fact most counters will specifically give away some of their advantage by going against the recommended bet at a given count to try and make it look less like they are counting. One such practice would be to never go from a minimum bet to a max bet, as it is most likely not something a regular counter would do (aka bet $100 one hand then bet $1K the next hand).

You are correct however that some advantage can be gained by just "tracking whether you've seen a lot of high cards". Players use indexes which will change their play depending on the count, and use this skill to augment their changes in betting amounts to better take advantage of their current position. You can see the effect of using indexes vs. no indexes here: https://www.qfit.com/cardcountingindexes.htm
Groovy makes a good scripting language for Java, like Bash does for Linux, and this article gives a good example of such use. When people try to build systems in Groovy, as has been promoted by the Groovy backers especially since v 2.0, they run into trouble, as they would if they tried to write a system using Bash.
Yes, I read that, but I don't have any particular reason to think the Dali Lama would provide insight. Should I?

Right now I hold him somewhat (perhaps unfairly which is why I'm asking) in the same regard as Deepak Chopra. Deepak often provides "deepities," things that may sound profound, but are intellectually hollow.
I see your points here, but these are trickier than you're making them out to be.

Using the numbers you're putting out here, if you put 20% down on a $500,000 home ($100,000 while borrowing $400,000) there's a couple of discrepancies.

First, paying off the mortgage early. You're right, once it's paid off you will be earning 0% interest. Assuming you don't pay it off early and go with the full 30 year schedule and I'm going to assume a 4% interest rate here, your total payment price will be about $875,000. By paying off early you're eliminating those losses. It's not that you're earning 0%, it's that you're not losing over -100%.

If your home goes up 10%, regardless of whether it's paid off or leverage you actually didn't make anything. You don't make anything on real estate until you sell it to cash out. Until then, any gains in a home that's paid off or mortgaged are identical. The only difference is if you didn't put 20% down and were also paying extra for PMI then the increase in value could get you out of PMI.

Yes, the money on your loan could have been earning interest. Instead it's losing interest so you need to find a guaranteed return higher than your mortgage rate. Guaranteed is the trick there. If you can pull it off with a whole life policy, then great. Without the guarantee market volatility comes into play. If you're a person who is comfortable taking out a loan to invest in something else, your perspective will clearly differ here though.

#4 is admittedly a very good an interesting point that I had not considered at all.

Regarding the mortgage interest being tax deductible, that only gets you back the equivalent you would have paid in income tax. 80% of it is still full interest.

I'll definitely look into the videos and whole life policies though. Anytime I talk about putting money into paying off a mortgage early I always have an equity line open on the house so that I can pull most if it back out for emergencies, including making the actual mortgage payments in the event of a lapse in income for some reason.

With that, available it makes it easier to avoid the foreclosure because you've got a way to use the equity to avoid default and by yourself time. You just have to open the line of credit when you aren't having bad luck.
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Sometimes I can right click -> inspect element, and get rid of the paywall and see the content
It is a interesting question whether you have a right to a relationship or if it is at least desirable to have a policy that makes it more likely that everyone can find one. I never thought about it.

My views regarding wealth distribution and the like would easily be associated with socialism and communism by many (Americans at least). But here my first reaction is more like sorry for you if you can not find a partner because of your social status. This worries me a bit because you could easily argue that a relationship and having children is in some sense more important for humans than being wealthy. I really have to think about it for some time.

The only thing I am already pretty sure is that there is nothing that justifies a right to have a relationship, i.e. there is no justification to force someone into a relationship with someone if for example this person is simply a really unpleasant person. But is it desirable to level the playing field as good as possible? I can't say ad hoc, but my intuition is no.
My district already does this, but there's more than 2 tiers:

http://www.sandiego.gov/water/rates/rates/
It used to, but that meant you had to scp the generated dvsni cert to your server[1], which is more complex than asking the user to start serving a string over a specific url (which is what the SimpleHTTP challenge requires).

[1]: https://github.com/diafygi/letsencrypt-nosudo/blob/9607deb7b...
Great! A book I recommend to explain how thoroughly screwed up water policy in the West is Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner. Water policy has been run largely as corporate welfare for large agricultural growers at the expense of taxpayers and the environment.
The primary contribution of agriculture is feeding people, not GDP. What does watering one's lawn contribute to?
That site was beautiful, most of the time. The looping GIFs made it hard to read, cause you'd have to wait for them to restart to continue. The header that fades in/out when you scroll only made scrolling more frustrating. (If I'm scrolling up, I'm trying to read something, which you promptly cover up with your fading in header.)
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Very good point. I believe (please correct me if I'm wrong!) that every trade deal in recent history required this type of authority. It basically doesn't allow folks to see the sausage as it's being made. I believe (again, please correct me if I'm wrong) that our constitution was negotiated behind closed doors for similar reasons.
This isn't really the best place for the question, and besides that you'd need to provide a hell of a lot more information for anyone to help you.
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I was under the impression that standard casino blackjack shoes were 8 decks (machine shuffled).

In Las Vegas, shoe games are usually 6-deck http://wizardofvegas.com/guides/blackjack-survey/.

And whether a game is machine-shuffled or hand-shuffled will usually depend on the min bet. The higher the minimum, the more likely the table is to be hand-shuffled, and the lower tier the casino, the lower that minimum is likely to be. For example: the Wynn Las Vegas' $100 min table is machine-shuffled, while Harrah's Lake Tahoe $100 min table is hand-shuffled.
This article feels good to read, but I have my doubts about it's actual utility. Most profoundly, he leaves the question unanswered about what the Dalai Lama actually does with the information he consumes. How does he act on it? Does he ever seek to contact someone that he reads about? Does it inspire writing about compassion? Does he ever get angry about the things that he reads, or sad? Does he get overwhelmed or frustrated?
This is a great topic.

I like to split my interview to the following steps:

- introduction, small talk about the company or the candidate
- level 1
write a function that flips a bit that is represented as a single digit integer: (0 -> 1, 1 -> 0)
flip two variables (int) without a third one: (a,b -> b,a)

- level 2
what is the runtime complexity of a nested loop (assuming n == m)
lease write a function that returns the list of numbers (in a string representation) that are permutation of N digits, where digits are 0..9.
(1 -> 0..9, 2 -> 00 01....98 99 etc.)
please explain recursion

- level 3 99% of the candidates do not make it to here
I guess I should just make them flip that binary tree over the phone. :)

This is basics I think, so most of the software engineers should be able to solve these, even with a little hint.

On the top of these artificial tasks I usually ask them what is the biggest system they contributed code to, what was the contribution. What tools are they using. What is the favorite language and why. How do you to performance profiling for your code. What was the last problem that you solved in production, what was the problem and what is the solution.

And few others.
I suspect the reality goes more like, farmers defended their water rights with absolutely rabid ferocity, and it was utter political suicide until now to make any cuts or regulation at all.

The agrilobby is incredibly powerful, and lobbies are famously uncompromising even to the point of working against their own best interests.

Hell, it might still wind up ruining several political careers.
Seems a lot more practical to have a stick of rebar that a multi-axis robot can cut and spot weld then to create each member from scratch.
I noticed both on their website, their article, and their video that they're using two industrial robots for the task. Why could this not be scaled up with additional robots working in cooperation for larger jobs? You're limited only to how quickly the material cures so you can begin using it to further advance, and the complexity of adding additional workers in the space constrained 3 dimensional workspace.
Unfortunately, I do not. I would try contacting the author, you never know.
Paywall, meet back button. The issue is that stuff on the web has basically always been free (ad supported). Trying to switch to subscription models is going to be difficult unless every media company decided to switch to that model, and they were as effective as the MPAA at giving a distribution channel like netflix.
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> use node to handle web requests and offload "heavier" work to c/rust/go if needed

Go's "net.http" package is fairly good for web requests.
Have you played with this number at all? 10 phrases per day seems awfully low in my mind. If I was to download this extension, I would want to use it for a day or two before paying for an upgrade. I imagine you hit 10 phrases quite quickly, and this might turn some people off of the product before they fall in love.
What a nightmare. Makes me glad I live on the east coast.
Increased product prices would likely lead to reduced demand and in turn smaller farm output and water usage. Same is true for industry that also uses enormous amounts of water.
I recently read East of Eden, and even though it was written about 19th century California, some topics resonated very well today. This quote, in particular:

"And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way."
We're literally running out of water [1]. As in no more.

There are entire counties who get nothing when they turn on their faucets. Nothing. No more.

Not to mention the ground is sinking.

[1] http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-famiglietti-droug...
Fun fact: you're muddling the position and the person in your comment
True. Hardware, though, does get old.
Why not generate random data then read it? Or even a constant, then read it?
I don't want help. I'm just curious why some hardware only works on some distros and more importantly, the anthropological reasons these things are not fixed.
There's a bias here. Most of the users of this site likely use a keyboard as part of their daily jobs. Proficiency in touch-typing is essentially part of our jobs descriptions.

Can the same be said for all potential users?
Yes.

There is, quite literally, no way to ensure data is not leaked (namely, that data is zeroed / etc) in portable C / C++.
Yes, but you have always a duality problem between tempo and beat, i.e. are they two eight notes at that tempo, or two quarter notes at twice quicker tempo...

You can assume that the most prevalent duration is a quarter note, but it is not always what would be on the score.

But it's more a problem related to transcription than to DJing (where the representation of the beat as a whole note, a quarter note, or anything else is eventually not important, I think).
@tedu writes:

> There was a PGP usability study conducted a few years ago where a group of technical people were placed in a room with a computer and asked to set up PGP. Two hours later, they were never seen or heard from again.

This argument doesn't hold ground. If "technical people" can not setup a new GnuPG key in 20 minutes, they are obviously not "technical" in this context. I'm 100% sure OpenBSD is absolutely NOT fit for people who find GnuPG confusing enough to avoid usage.

> Or as Prof. Green put it, "Can someone who built GnuPG 2.1.1 on Debian/Ubuntu give me a hint on which libgpg-error you used?" If he doesn't which libgpg-error to use, I doubt I'm going to pick the right one.

I can, here:

$ pkg info|grep libgpg-error
libgpg-error-1.19_1 Common error values for all GnuPG components

Given that this is @tedu, I'm sure I missed the point/joke.

The only real argument here is that it's at least 10 times easier to write code than to read another mans code. So I give him that... Which one is more secure, GPG or signify remains to be seen.
Agreed. The whole system needs to be updated and optimized differently, at least optimized towards efficient water usage, relative to the crop. My objection is the vilification of farmers. I.e. Farmers use 80%! Yet we urbanites are the ones first asked to conserve! The framing is very questionable.
> The primary contribution of agriculture is feeding people, not GDP.

The primary value to California of exporting food (which is what most California agriculture is) is the economic activity produced.

(Given a global food market with largely equivalent substitute goods, one could argue that the same is true of agriculture that is used for local consumption, as well.)
What an inane comparison. You can't eat apps.

Well, actually we can, in the same way we can "grow cars in Iowa" (to borrow an example from economist Steven Landsburg). But do we want to?
But hurricanes, earthquakes, blizzards, humidity, and mosquitos.
Running docker clusters on AWS seems a little foolish to me unless your trying to save money. Instead of manage containers why not just manage instances?
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Because the compiler will optimize it out. Even if you return the random data / constant the compiler will optimize out the store to the variable and just pass it through directly.
Most people in LA-city and the myriad of others don't pay for their water, their landlord does, and by law, it can only be added to rent (updating once a year at the earliest). This was originally a measure to help families out in dire times of drought to begin with, and is going to be used as such again here. The rent is supposed to reflect the usage of water included, much like garbage or power surcharges negotiated in the lease or rental contract. Additionally, most place will not update the rent yearly as is.

It is then obvious that since no-one in SoCal is incentivized to save water by the market on a timely basis, this scheme to have people pay more as they use is not a good way to keep thirst down. If you listen to radio/TV you see a lot of ads trying to get people to use less voluntarily. This is because it is very difficult for people to even know how much water they are using in the first place.