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Someone who writes bad code. I don't like the expression "bad programmer" I prefer to say someone who is programming badly. Because that makes it clear that it is the action that is bad and the badness isn't inherent in the character.

If your next question is "How do you know if someone writes bad code?" then it is fairly simple for an experienced programmer to see if a piece of code is bad, good or somewhere in between.
Ask HN: How can react's SEO argument hold up?
I have read in a lot of comparisons and tutorials that react has the advantage of being SEO friendly because you can better render the first page on the server.
How is that even an argument when the maker of angular is the absolute dominant leader of search engines?
Not, as the top scoring answer shows, in November 1977. Mundane question, interesting answer.
Steve, you're probably talking to a bot, designed to collect some karma points, to be used for upvoting/downvoting some important article or comment in the future.
pointing out that you don't understand a basic concept is not an ad hominem. It's just true, and is an important detail.
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> they could have sold one of the machines to a 'XXXX' based entrepreneur.

I hope this entrepreneur have a handy geiger counter next him/her when buying those machines. Just in case... better safe than sorry
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I think the redis convention would be required and -1 gives you everything.
amzn link http://www.amazon.com/Science-Ice-Cream-RSC/dp/1849731276/re...
This article (in older forms) has been floating around for a very, very long time on Dave Johnston's website. I remember it inspiring me to work harder on my own attempts at level design but also that there's a top tier skill (and level of commitment) that I eventually realized to never reach. It's mind-boggling to see how many considerations go into making a great (not good, great) map, even in much simpler times before true photorealism. Yet even then you can never predict how well it will work out in the end. It's a really interesting discipline between game design, architecture and understanding the technical details of the underlying engine.
hehe. That's fine. It all depends on the nature of the experiment. Typically you want to optimize a solution in a given deterministic domain. If you wish to, instead, create an open-ended evolutionary system for novelty in a non-deterministic solution space, go for it!

Although, to be fair, in nature you're also not dealing with a static fitness function, a high mutation rate, and there's a wide myriad of other variables that affect the overall dynamics of a population (like sexual vs asexual reproduction, migration, recessive genes, sexual selection, etc)
This seems like good advice. There's definitely a "valley" where low (but not "Founder-low") employee numbers get all the risk and disproportional reward. But, I wonder, really how much someone hired at Google, Twitter or Facebook a couple of years before IPO _really_ got. We're still probably talking "nice bonus" money rather than "life changing windfall" money. And, for "nice bonus" money, it makes more sense to go for the security of a public BigCorp.
Combining this with just a bit of programming loops could get you pretty far at automatically creating indexes. Basically take a query plan and then create all possibly indexes hypothetically until you get the most optimal query.
I agree with you, my point was to illustrate that at some point, everyone needs to place some trust (even if implicitly). I'm as paranoid as the next person, but this is just the reality.
> The problem is, there's no friction (as the article states) for the board.

Where'd you read that? All I read was that they are working on a friction-free car.

It uses super-conductivity to facilitate levitation. Flux pinning creates an 'on-rails' movement between the two components (the superconductor and the magnetics on the ground).

Defects in the magnets and gaps would create areas of resistance, much like they do in toy-scale versions of this same concept, but you'll still be pinned to the magnetics as long as that superconductor stays cold.

There will be no 'astronaut-in-space' movement, because the board will only be able to achieve quantum levitation over a bed of magnetics, which will be many pieces and not defect-free.

http://quantumlevitation.com/the-physics/

http://www.ted.com/talks/boaz_almog_levitates_a_superconduct...
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named dotfiles was a bug that snowballed: https://plus.google.com/+RobPikeTheHuman/posts/R58WgWwN9jp
You're talking about a country so insanely crowded that they actually manufacture land out of the sea just to squeeze themselves in. In fact, they're famous for it because it's so awful and crazy.

There's significant danger that rising oceans and a major storm could kill millions. That sounds like horror to just about everyone.

And Netherlands has adjacent countries not so dense as itself with forests and open space to adjourn to on weekends for sanity. Ireland is an island.
Options are deferred wages.

If you're lucky.
Ask HN: Who is todays inspirational tech kids, like Bill Gates when he started?
In the early days of computers it seemed that even kids had the chance to create amazing things.

Are there kids around today doing amazing things?

Any what are they building?
If they take 5% of every campaign,it means that in order for the investors to make back their money, Gofundme will have to raise $12.000 million in its lifetime, assuming that their costs are 0.

I couldn't find stats for GoFundme, but Kickstarter was able to raise $529 million in 2014. [0]

Personally, this buyout does not make sense.

[0] https://www.kickstarter.com/year/2014/data
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It did. The hydrogen fire burned for only about 35 seconds. And if you look at photos you see almost all the flame is high above the airship.
Employees should be wary of all employers. It's a dog eat dog capitalistic society out there, guys! That's hardly a clever insight.
If you're likely to hit AMT, the difference isn't as stark. It can be really easy to hit AMT especially if you've been at a firm long enough that your strike price is considerably lower than the current fair market value (latest valuation).

NSO also has a few other downsides. For employees, when you exercise an NSO, you actually have to pay tax at the time of exercise - the company withholds it and reports it as ordinary income tax (pay taxes in addition to the cost to exercise).

ISO grants can also have horrible tax implications, but you at least get a bit more flexibility as an employee -- this is also why November/December tend to have a disproportionally high number of exercises, as people get a full picture of their potential AMT liability caps.

When a company's valuation is skyrocketing and liquidation is highly likely (IPO or other M&A event), you'll often see companies offering early exercise, which can help avoid huge AMT hits, so employees are exercising when their strike price == the company's current fair market value.
One way to mitigate risk could be to only send the first/last half of the password and replace the rest with asterisks. It would reduce the number of people caring though.
Apart from the rhetorical strategy, the only other suggestion is just to be polite and edit out as much snark as you can do without, like for example that last paragraph. You may find that people here are more welcoming of (tactful) contrarian and minority viewpoints than your average internet place, although they do like a lively argument.
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Just to add a bit more perspective check out Google Trends: https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=kickstarter%2C%20gof...

Kickstarter's search volume is 2x-3x.
If you do N self-joins in a row, creating the index on the fly would be a good move, because they'd have to read through the same data multiple times. The real world example that springs to mind is comments that can nest up to e.g. 5 layers, where it kinda makes sense to grab it all in one query like that.

Obvious caveats: I would just have a 'top-level-post-id' so I could grab everything I need and use the foreign keys to arrange them in memory, not for discovering the rows I need, also wowzers doing _any_ joins without an index is silly, forget multiple in one query.
Err no the UK used to have very good pensions schemes.

BT has a FS scheme unfortunetly now closed to new entrants and its DC pension matches up to 8 or 10%

The shares you get from share saves are real shares none of this multiple share lasses with different voting powers.

And I certainly get the divi from mine. And yes this years BT is a v good one. And I did 400% roi from my REL shares a couple of years back and you can normaly mitigate any tax by sensible use of ISAs and using your CGT Alowance.

And there are share schemes for high performers on top of that I know people that got some the share save is what everyone gets.
Depends a lot on the kind of task at hand. For many things Lua is very fast, but not for implementing something like geocoding. On the other hand Dynamic Redis does not offer a proper API to Redis (I would be against plugins even if it was better in this regard, btw), so the assumption is that modules manipulate Redis internals in order to do anything remotely advanced, and you can't change a Redis internal without breaking modules, a constraint that we currently don't have at all: if the exported API is the same, we can improve Redis internals anytime without backward compatibility issues. This was crucial in the history of Redis.
Thanks for the reference! I've seen some implementations (https://github.com/asdofindia/python-whatsapp-bot) but usually Whatsapp bans accounts that do it.
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Is there a reason that GET requests are excluded from being usable here?
Yes though the changed to just BT for branding purposes a while back.
England and similarly dense countries like Bengala-Desh are horribly overcrowded. The locals are desperate to send home immigrants and refuse even to replace themselves by having enough babies.

And that's after concentrating a large population in Europe's largest city so that they can at least have a little open space elsewhere.
SQLite does this, autoindex[0].

"When no indices are available to aid the evaluation of a query, SQLite might create an automatic index that lasts only for the duration of a single SQL statement. Since the cost of constructing the automatic index is O(NlogN) (where N is the number of entries in the table) and the cost of doing a full table scan is only O(N), an automatic index will only be created if SQLite expects that the lookup will be run more than logN times during the course of the SQL statement."

[0] http://www.sqlite.org/optoverview.html#autoindex
PingBot for server health monitoring anyone? or we'll just spam chats with Elisa clones?
To work hard doesn't necessarily mean long hours.
I think being "all over the place" is what skeptics and "denialists" have a problem with. Let's get more data before making drastic changes to our regulations that may hurt hard-working people.
I really enjoyed the bit in the crash bandicoot blog that was posted recently where the author mentioned how the Japenese execs from Sony were completely against bringing crash to Japan. They tweaked the looks of the character slightly and the execs bought in right away.
gravity+water meaning hydroelectric? We're kinda maxed out on that, plus if you wanted to store energy pumped water storage is better than methane (but there are not a lot of suitable sites).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricit...
Plus, there was a donation button. A lot of companies are sure you are honestly better off with their services as well.
If you were at Google as a mid level engineer in 2002 (2 years before the IPO) you DEFINITELY made life changing windfall money. DEFINITELY. Take whatever guess you seem have in your head and multiply it by 10. Probably more than that.

(I started at Google in 2004 and did pretty well.)
Can't the strike price be set in the employment contract right now?
I think the point is that people give to charities as a proxy for "helping people." Massive research oriented charities probably won't be displaced by something like GoFundMe, but the idea is that average people can directly fund the needy on a case by case basis (i.e. instead of paying for the administrative fees of a charity that helps sponsor scholarships, you can directly fund the recipient?)
You assume the new buyers will want to take only 5% in the future.
I agree.

The type of asset doesn't matter. Could be vested 10% options in an apparently great startup or Van Gogh's Starry Night.

If you can't sell it when you want (because of restrictions or because nobody wants it or for whatever reason), its market worth is exactly zero.
This strategy is popular because it uses negative incentives to discourage pollution.

Collecting money is just a bonus.
I see lots of people on my Facebook feed asking for donations via GoFundMe. I think that might be their target market.

Because you get any money donated regardless of if you reach your goal, it's a bit different than KickStarter (?). Those same people are the people who I now write off as moochers, because it's always something to personally benefit them.

For example (and this is a sad one): someone was asking for donations to help her get her back fixed so she could live a normal life. Health insurance wasn't covering it. She claimed she was broke.

The last 6 months she's been going to every major music festival.
The problem with such thoroughly robust StackOverflow answers as this; when I stumble across one as I occasionally do, so taken aback am I by it's succinct completeness that it becomes irreversably embedded into my limited brain space.

I am afraid that one day I will come across an answer so comprehensive I will forget how to ride a bicycle.
And the dry-erase boards are never cleaned properly, leaving them coated with a weirdly-colored scrunge.
Which is an excellent point that I deleted because it felt off-topic. I'm to the point where I want to work hard from 10-6 then go be a human, instead of working from 10-9 with lots of Nerf gun fights and Reddit breaks.
I thought voltage, at a certain amperage, was a way of describing energy. Sorry for my confusion.
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Congratulate yourself, because you are, for sure, a fortunate outlier! I don't doubt that there exist engineers out there making $250K+, but they are definitely not the norm, big company or small. Check out a bigger sample of Bay Area companies on Glassdoor. My bet is you'll find the middle 90% to be between, say, $90K and $150K.
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there are 2 issues as far as i know:

- global warming - which beside increasing average temperature also causes increased amplitude of weather events, i.e. the drought is longer and drier, the storm is stronger and wetter (for example of weather machinery at work - http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/september/drought-climate... for the CA drought and the East US storms.)

- unsustainable water usage like with Aral sea - diversion of water for cotton production in the desert. As result this water just mostly evaporates into atmosphere without reaching the Aral sea.

>What's happening to all of the Earth's water?

Short answer - we're happening.
I scratch most of the stuff I do, allowing me to work on just the few apps, those that I personally found useful or fun, for a far longer time.

I also think it, might be useful to challenge yourself to make one simple yet very polished app, to get a feel for completion and architecture.
While there may be global impacts of increased greenhouse warming, these "water problems" are mostly just about regional mass balance. For example, various watersheds used to drain into Lake Urmia. But they have been diverted elsewhere, so the lake is drying up. Ditto for the Aral Sea and the Salton Sea. And for the Colorado River, except there "drying up" means not reaching the Pacific.

To the extent that there's increased evaporation, the water just ends up elsewhere, more or less randomly. Fresh water is a small part of the global water cycle.
We need to see the source so we know your code isn't malicious.
For security reasons. Nothing should be hidden from root.
Ergo: use a distribution like Arch Linux or Gentoo. Arch Linux has the advantage that you don't have to build everything from source yourself. Both have the advantage that the build scripts are easy to understand (Arch PKGBUILDs more so, IMHO).

In the end you will always arrive at a chicken and egg situation, you will ultimately need to trust the engineers who designed your CPU and chipset, the VLSI design software which they used, the developers who wrote the compiler and toolchain, the tools used to bootstrap it, external libraries, etc.

The world ultimately runs on trust, no matter how you slice it.
I think that's a good example of what I'm saying - just because you don't understand the details doesn't mean professional musicians and composers don't have much deeper insight into music than you do.

If you think music is [list of numbers] that can be made more "human" with a bit of timing randomisation, then of course it's all perfectly straightforward.

In reality there's rather more happening.

>What composition algorithms lack is not the ability to compose like humans but a life that will give them angels and a story.

No, the music basically sucks as music. The number of people willing to listen to it voluntarily without being paid to - usually as students or academics - is vanishingly small.

The story part only becomes relevant after that problem is solved.

And while it's true that music is formulaic, it's also true that computer music hasn't yet worked out how to copy all the details of the formulas - never mind produce original and memorable new formulas from scratch.

The best formula copier is probably Cope's EMI, and that sounds exactly like what it is - a slightly confused cut-and-paste cliche machine, not a human composer with a point to make.
I think indexing is ultimately a trade-off design; the end effect of it is a decision which belongs to a human - what do we make faster at the expense of what?

Probably the best thing a "machine" can do is to give tools to easily perform a reasonably accurate and extensive analysis, but I think any major RDBMS has "good enough" tools to do so.

Interestingly, I think it's important to think who is the target of such tools - the casual developer? the novice dba? the expert dba who works on large datasets?
I think even theoretically advanced tools would help only the first case; the other two need to know very well what they're working with.
this shouldn't be an issue when the clients share the private key.
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Fowler has it backwards, list comprehension is a subset of LINQ syntax which is full monadic comprehension (among other things)
Redis Geo commands are mainly intended to solve the specific problem of indexing points into the earth and querying by radius. In this setup, the error we have currently is around 0.5% because Earth is not actually a sphere, but the good news is that fixing it should be just a very simple matter of using a more accurate distance formula: http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong-vincenty.html

Since anyway the bounding boxes we calculate and the resulting areas we scan are larger than needed, so all the actual precision is in the filtering function that removes points outside the radius.

TLDR: It will be trivial to fix that later in a backward compatible way. Btw adding an item in my TODO in order to check if I can do it right now without compromising performances.
Well, OP does talk about missing out on seeing his friends, so that would imply working long hours.
Why can't the options have a strike price of 0.10 in option 2?

(I assume I should look up "409a", the magic keyword to answer my questions?)
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Giving out stock has potential tax implications for the employee. She could be on the line for taxes for that stock without actually having any increase in liquidity.
The map desperately need St. Pierre and Michelob.

Also we need to see how the illegal French occupied population of Clipperton Island is changing.
I think you are confusing state pension with employer pensions, employer pension contribution are only now being mandated by law, and most companies which use PAYE and are under 50 employees still do not have to do it, the dead line now is 2018 but it's been pushed back all the time.

The shares you got from Sharesave would be "real" shares only if you bought them at the end of the maturation period if you cashed out you wouldn't get to keep any shares, and you don't have voting rights or dividends for those shares while they are in Sharesave.

There are quite a few schemes for this
https://www.gov.uk/tax-employee-share-schemes/company-share-...

But any how, this again ins't the same thing as the equity most people get for startups, so again not really a good comparison.
That's not how company valuations work. A company doesn't have to bring in $1 million in profit for investors who valued the company at $1 million to break even.

At very late stages, a company valuation is usually a multiple of EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization). The valuation (which is different than market cap, but we'll conflate the two for sake of explanation) in very late stage, non-growing companies, during times of slow economic growth is around 5-7x. If a company is growing quickly at the later stages (read: exponential growth curve) its P/E ratio (price/earnings ratio) could be, we'll say, 100 on the public markets (100x). That's really high, and would rarely happen unless the economy has really low interest rates (meaning less good places to put your cash, and you need to invest it somewhere anyway).

So, in other words, we give the company the benefit of the doubt and say they'll be worth 30x EBITDA. That means they'd need to bring in about 20m in one year, which is about 400m in total donations. High for sure (the buyers must really believe in them), but not completely unreasonable. If, on the off chance, they start bringing in 1B in donations, and their take is 50m, the investors will earn a great multiple on their investment. That's probably what they're hoping for.
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