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As a lifetime Oregonian, I enjoy Bend and get out there a couple times a year. My family even considered moving there a few years ago in search of a place with more sun. But in deciding between Boulder and Bend, we ended up choosing Boulder, well actually Broomfield, but Boulder was the draw, because as you found Boulder housing prices were too high.

Which leads me to the question, did you consider living outside of Boulder to still get most of the things on your checklist, but not face the high housing prices or difficult political climate?

The problem with Bend, as we came to decide, was there is no "outside of Bend", it's an island with not much of any other place to go for jobs, housing, diversity. Add in the fact that the jobs that are there don't support the house prices. With Boulder, you can always fall back to Denver or one of the many suburbs if your independent business or remote job falls through.

We ultimately moved back to the Portland area for other reasons, but would still choose Boulder/Denver over Bend if we had to do it again.
Is Crowdfunding Leveling The Playing Field for Female Entrepreneurs
Television interviews aren't read, they're watched (and more relevantly, heard). Transcriptions of television interviews aren't verbatim unless they're made for the purpose of research.
I think you miss a couple things.

* An increase in hardware for an AI wouldn't require an increase in theoretical capacity of hardware. It would just require more stuff to be put on the machine running the AI. Even if the AI was running on the world's largest supercomputer, the amount of RAM, processors, etc on the machine could still be upped substantially with the resources available.

* What a hypothetical general AI would be emulating is not simply more machines. It would, theoretically, be able to quickly emulate many people working with many dumb machines over a long period of time.

The only thing your argument proves is current machines can't improve themselves - which I think everyone agrees with.
It works now. Thanks.
Even tried cross-compilation, works too.
> It inherits it from Windows. As far as I know, most GUIs have a dispatcher because <technical reasons>.

This is a kind of lame elision. The classical Windows UI threading model is that every window has an owning thread [the thread it was created on], and that owning thread is supposed to drain its message queue periodically. You can send messages to another thread's object [either in blocking, via SendMessage, or enqueue without blocking for result, via PostMessage].
I'm using a brand new LG G4 as my daily driver, and I own two Nexus 7s. You're going to have a hard time convincing me that the Android widgets I can set up on my G4 [1] compare in any way to the live tiles on a Windows Phone [2]. I recognize that this is all subjective, though.

[1]: http://i.imgur.com/jimMDvp.png

[2]: http://i.imgur.com/vMjhP9b.jpg
You're right, I phrased that poorly. I'm aware that most posts are links to other sites, what I meant was:

- Some of the "flagship" subreddits, and AMA in particular, only work because of constant effort from admins/mods, with the bulk of community contributions ranging from useless to toxic.

- What differentiates Reddit from, say, 4chan is having some semblance of community, coherence and civility. This is partly due to the karma system, but mods play a big part in this too. "Content" was the wrong word to use, but good moderation is (IMO) as important as good submissions in many cases.
Those are the JavaScript 1.8 (FF-only) "expression closures" the author mentions. JavaScript 1.8 introduces a succinct syntax for anonymous functions:

function (a, b, c) a + b * c;

which is the same as

function (a, b, c) { return a + b * c; }

Of course, this syntax breaks down if you want to return an object literal from your anonymous function. Curly braces are too overloaded in JS! Adding parentheses disambiguates between the new and the old function syntax.
I have a similar experience with family members buying Android phones. For a long time I was the go-to guy for support issues, mostly Android related. Most of the time, it's simply because they didn't find it intuitive enough (I cannot say Android at least on the Samsung devices) is very user friendly.

After a long struggle I got most of them over to iOS and now the less-computer-literate appears to figure out their own issues. I'd reckon the experience would be similar with Windows phones, as I've heard good things about it in terms of user friendliness.
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Sabre, still runs all their reservations through ztpf... If you know anyone there ask them about how they get the data off the mainframe. The story I heard sounds like the process was designed by Rube Goldberg.
This would suck for people who like to use their own cards to build rewards points and then get reimbursed.
Rambling and self contradictory (presumably even after editing).

"We did not anticipate or intend for other communities to follow our lead as part of a protest."

"The secondary purpose of shutting down was to communicate to the relatively tone-deaf company leaders that ..."

Own up to one or the other.
Basecamp's performance widget
Name a business that has not had a 30 second outage in the past year?

How about services you use a lot. How many hours has hacker News been down in 2015 (yet you are still on it right now)? How many hours has netflix been down in 2015? How many hours has entire chunks of AWS been down in 2015?

Every business is a spectrum. A HFT trading shop may decide that 1 second downtime per day is their max outage. A webpage advertising a pet adoption event may decide that 6 hours of downtime per day is the most they can tolerate. You have to make this decision for each product, and even better -each part of each product.

The entire point of this post thread was the idea behind "I can not use DO for serious stuff until they implement load balancing"... which is silly for most businesses. And even those businesses that need high uptime, I offered (and still believe) that DNS round robin is a decent way to get HA for almost no money.

You link to an article about it, but miss the boat. What other solution can I implement in a few minutes to provide available load balancing between any two servers in the world (same or different host provider, same or different datacenter, same or different continent).

Sometimes the relatively simple solution is "good enough". Sure you can find a wikipedia page saying where it is not perfect. I would not DNS round robin a HFT trading app. I have no problems on it for 99.99% of the web though. So much of the web has NO failover of any kind, stupid simple DNS round robin would be a vast improvement for most websites.
Perhaps average consumers don't care about processor architecture, but they do care about what programs will run. Surface RT was "that tablet that kinda has a desktop but can only run Office" versus "that tablet that can run any Windows program from 1995 onwards".
>How (or, better, why) should I discriminate between the thousands of strains of cannabis?

Well thats why people like going to a dispensary and talking to the staff, even other customers are very helpful in this area. Usually the staff are incredibly knowledgable (this is just in my own personal experience from researching this).

>Why not try out a variety of claimed high quality strains?

Most dispensaries do offer various levels of quality usually you can tell by price, but like I said theres not a huge amount of variety. Its seems this company is going with the sustainable/ethical route, but I really don't know how most indoor grown hydroponics is not sustainable or ethical.

I'd really be concerned with the credit card processing. I would guess even if they were just a middle man to other dispensaries its still likely to get shut down or I have heard of high risk credit card processors, but I really don't have many details on that.
This seems guilty of a willful misreading. It's true that there are business books that tell men they are doing x wrong. But the comparison is with other men who are doing it right. Whereas the type of article this piece highlights is telling women that they are doing it wrong by not being like men.
Maybe they do agree? We don't really know because they are the "non-vocal majority". I'm willing to bet a large portion have no interest in reddit's internal politics or the mods struggle. They just want their cat pics. I do agree that they find value in the content or they wouldn't keep coming back and that the content comes from the minority. Reddit is really walking the edge. Things like this are why a bunch of users switched to reddit from digg in the first place. I don't think they will hesitate to do it again. They will follow the content submitters.

Most social sites seem pretty similar as far as user interaction other than click through. I got 60k page views from one top HN post, a couple hundred upvotes, and probably less than 100 comments on the thread and my blog.
They don't necessarily have to have strong feelings about the community, but if you annoy the 9 + 1% of content creators (curators, submitters, whatever), there's nothing left for the 90% to do, and they'll move on to the next big thing out of a lack of interest.

The people who are complaining the loudest about the site's failures aren't members of the 90% of lurkers - they're members of the 9% of occasional contributors or the 1% of prolific contributors. And they're the ones that will make or break the site, so blowing them off as "not the majority" seems like a really awful idea.
At what point do I stop being offended that you are saying my comments are fake?!
While I agree this is pocket change, at least these companies are putting in something. And Microsoft has become a top Linux kernel contributor, and Google, Facebook do hire full time programmers that work on Linux as well (and possibly BSD).

My question is, where's Apple?
Is there a description of how react avoids event listeners?
How does it observe changes in a model?
I've never heard that aspect associated with react before.
Establishing the Rust-Python FFI
> did you consider living outside of Boulder to still get most of the things on your checklist, but not face the high housing prices or difficult political climate?

Yeah, but at that point, you're back to the whole car commute thing, or a really long bike ride. And you're significantly farther from the mountains by bike, too.

Fort Collins was something else that looked pretty interesting, but I didn't see many jobs there.

> there is no "outside of Bend"

Yeah, that's something we're nervous about, and definitely a point in favor of Boulder. OTOH, Bend does seem to be growing - they're building the new university now, which should help a little bit.

> the jobs that are there don't support the house prices

I got lucky from that point of view, I guess.

Speaking of stopping by, I'd be happy to meet up with people for beer or whatever as soon as we're slightly more settled in.
I haven't seen many other companies try contact-to-perm. I wonder if there is a systemic reason, as it otherwise seems like a good idea.
Several celebrities and scientists complained on twitter because their IAMAs were abruptly interrupted or cancelled.
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There are smart ways to do high-density housing while preserving the character of cities like Boulder. The rail line from Denver to Boulder is going to help a lot of people justify not having cars in Boulder, and traffic congestion is probably the most harmful effect of squeezing lots of people into a small space. There are lots of places east of downtown/CU that you could build clusters of high-density, 4-5 story, mixed-use residential that wouldn't obstruct mountain views for the most powerful (i.e. richest) homeowners in Boulder. It would look ugly if you did something like the Denver Tech Center where 15-25 story buildings are placed on a ridge on the plains with no trees, but you could conceal quite a bit with the right placement of native trees around smaller 4-5 story buildings.
Denver isn't exactly great at the moment either. However, we've taken a more proactive approach by building more housing instead of trying to keep people out.
FYI: the Nokia Here map is now on Android as well. Including free offline maps:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.here.app.m...
Yeah, the idea is similar, but I really meant to show how similar FP was to ImP by starting from what's familiar to non FP programmers.
That's a helpful reference. I definitely see it on a 2014 rMBP.
joesdatacenter.com

I do not work for joes or have any affiliation. It's a very "non-automated" setup. You file a ticket with a rep to get new servers and describe what you want (I need 5 more servers just like X), no forms online to automate it or any of that. The plus side of that is you never get a canned response or ignored. Very quick and professional.
I always wanted these sort of services in India. But can't find one. Nice idea by the way.
Oh, that's a perfectly valid complaint, and it's one I agree with.

But there are a large amount of people treating Victoria as a saint. I've seen a lot of posts going "They fired the one admin everyone actually liked!", and I'm worried there's going to be a huge backlash when the reason she got fired leaks out.
I would agree withdavismwfl "So I don't think in today's environment that you need to say one database is the end all".

If your data is relational, that is what relational DBs are for - if you hdata is text search, that is what elastic search tools are for.

The key is to identify how the data will be used.

Good luck on the project.
Many people I know (UK) prefer smoking it for couple of reasons, some of which I can agree with and others not.
Many people I know (UK) prefer smoking cannabis for couple of reasons even though it is less efficent than vaping and cannabis is very expensive here. I am told by some that they "just like rolling". I imagine thats similar reasoning to why people buy viynals over CD's, they prefer what they know or like the feel of them. I can only speculate here because I do not understand either prefence myself. Others claim they don't get as high with a vape, the only one they have used is mine, a MFLB and admittidly the batteries are a bit worn out. It takes a bit of getting used too and they might just have been "using it wrong". I find it easier to get higher with my vape compared with smoking. A vape is also quite expensive, and of course many people when considering the investment think of how much cannabis they could buy for the price of the vape.

Edibals are too much work for a daily smoker and hard to dose. They are not sold widely at all in the UK.
Do you know Clojure? I'm curious of what do you think about Clojure error stacktraces. Even though the languages seems to be designed very well - one thing that is underwhelming is how hard understanding errors may be for Clojure beginners.
I have yet to see anything that looks like disregard for reddit's business. On the contrary, everything I have seen has implied that reddit is trying to monetize the community, and the community does not like it.

Of course, I don't have any inside information, so I could be wrong on all counts, but the rumor is that Victoria was fired for resisting turning AMAs into a revenue stream. I have seen other moderators complaining that they have been feeling a push to monetize their work, and have been strongly resisting it as it would hinder free speech.

While the moderators are probably correct, it points more to a basic disagreement about what the site is. Most redditors feel that the site is all about community, and maintaining said community is the #1 goal. But the actual management team of the business surely needs to be looking at monetization.

That is the core disagreement - it is not about recent events, it is about the fact that one side wants to monetize reddit, and the other side does not.

Again, not actually knowing anything, this could be way off base... it is just my perspective as an outside observer.
The conclusions from the article seemed a bit rushed. NYC and the Bay Area are pretty different when it comes to NIMBY policies and commutes from low income areas to high income.
No, one would not be better off making these arguments in court.

> Cannabis has demonstrated medicinal value, directly contradicting statute. Statue provides no evidence of, nor ability to verify, its claim that there is a lack of evidence of medical value.

Please cite a case of a law overturned in the US judicial system because of medical value.

> Individual prohibition requires a constitutional amendment a la amendment 18.

Again, please cite case law. I'm pretty sure you don't need a constitutional amendment to outlaw possession of a type of good.

> Founding leaders of US grew hectares of cannabis. System is in gross hypocrisy.

Seriously? It wasn't outlawed until the modern era. By your logic, should slavery still be legal since founding fathers owned slaves?
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Docker > Chef
How do you have "multiple backups" of a full-time, paid staff position at a company you don't work for?

Perhaps the AMA mods shouldn't have let Victoria take on so much work and responsibility, but she was explicitly put in that position by Reddit-the-company. Removing her from that position without warning was a disservice to Reddit-the-community, even if the AMA mods should have been better prepared.

And no, I'm not a Reddit mod, I wouldn't even really call myself a Reddit user. I prefer HN and other niche forums for coherent discussion and imageboards for "internet culture" (and shitposting), and personally find Reddit to be an awkward hybrid of the two.

That said, this situation has the potential to bring important lessons about online communities into the mainstream, so I think it's worth correcting folks who are blaming the wrong people.

EDIT: and to clarify the dig at Digg, the Reddit mods are not the only ones getting upset. The userbase has rallied behind the mods because of their own long-standing issues, mostly regarding Reddit-the-company censoring Reddit-the-community to appeal to advertisers.
if you can live in Fresno and work in SF with a half hour commute, expect huge changes here.
There are a lot of vegetables and fruits that I do not buy due to the air miles. For instance those nice peas in pods from Kenya. Those things don't get here (the UK) by boat whereas bananas from the Caribbean do get here by boat. Boat is acceptable to me, good for trade and enough arrives by boat for a decent meal to be made.

In theory these lights change everything, why grow peas in Kenya, put them on a plane and send them 1/4 the way around the world when a greenhouse in the Home Counties will do nicely?

The cannabis angle is pretty good too. As things stand growing those plants takes a stupendous amount of energy with all the problems of ventilation, mould growth, noise from the ventilation and the need to 'not get caught'. With this technology those that can hold down a job can get growing their own without having to have the huge 'leccy bill or having to be friends with dealers.

I like the lateral thinking of tuning the light to suit photosynthesis by using phosphors, I am surprised that has not been possible before. One day this will seem so obvious yet it wasn't until this product came along.
Your boss don't really need to see every commit to know what you are doing. It should be visible/understandable from the product. And most people who are beating the drums talking about what they are doing at micro level are more focused on making themselves look good than doing the work. So its a bad thing to rely upon.

And you should be fired first from your managerial post if you fire someone yet not know what kind of work they do and what they are responsible for. For that matter you should be blacklisted from holding any managerial position moving forward.
I know that for sales, contract to perm doesn't make much sense as compensation is largely commission based, and sales cycles are often longer than typical contract periods.
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That would be deadpan sarcasm there, without the <sarcasm>tags</sarcasm>

Well maybe sarcasm is not _exactly_ the right sentiment but you get my drift.
That's already an issue for anyone who has a corporate card today. It's much easier for the company to handle expenses via a corporate card bill than someone's personal card, and it's also much easier to avoid abuse.
While I agree with this, Adobe does have the knowledge and skills to hook a fuzzer into their Flash source on sandboxes and vm's, and basically let a fuzzer rip. When you build one of the most installed pieces of software in the world, you should take that responsibility.
NSA spied on the German government for decades, according to WikiLeaks (German)
OpenBSD on Digital Ocean
That's a good categorization, but it's not a definition. For example, the distance between Haskell and Clojure when it comes to allowing (or discouraging) mutation, is bigger than the distance between Clojure and Java. Which, BTW, I think is true. Imperative "FP" languages have more in common with other impure languages that are not commonly categorized as FP, than with PFP. Clojure, Erlang and even ML really are closer to Java than they are to Haskell. I'd argue that the line is between using the continuation abstraction (or the thread abstraction) vs. monadic composition to achieve side-effects (and it is ironic that more people -- probably orders of magnitude more -- use monads in Java than in Haskell :)).

Favoring immutability is a great property, but it is not a hard dividing line. The Java community started encouraging immutability no later than 2001, and Scheme was called functional long before anyone categorized its main features as "restricting mutation".
Housing is an input to productive, primary industries, and local politics conspire to keep the housing supply low and price high. This makes operating the productive industries more expensive. Similar to energy prices on manufacturing industries - high input cost -> lower productivity.

Best read about this: http://smile.amazon.com/The-Rent-Too-Damn-High-ebook/dp/B007...
If I expect this code to be relevant to my job and their evaluation of it: Sure. Why wouldn't I?
Cute, but just turn the darwinian crank: the mother that didn't abandon it would then have super-puppy offspring that would be able to secure far more resources for themselves and their offspring.

The obvious advantages of not sleeping indicates to me that there is a deep connection between sleep and our waking performance. If there weren't why the hell would it have persisted across so many creatures for so long.

I am confused by the fact that human young keep parents awake so much: it seems like a delicate time to be introducing poor cognitive performance into the mix.

But then a lot of things confuse me when I apply straight forward darwinian thinking.
It should be noted that this concerns only the regular NYSE and NYSE MKT (formerly known as AMEX). Their ECN NYSE Arca is working properly. So, this is really not that big of a deal for the market.
Customer opinion too. I have old data on SliceHost (http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/company/25/slicehost/) versus Linode (http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/company/24/linode). Linode seemed to have the better rep and then SliceHost got dismantled. Tables seemed turned a bit now though with Digital Ocean (http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/company/101/digitalocean) having a marginal lead over Linode. But DO's opinion has been slightly downward over the years and getting closer to Linode.
Basecamp/SignalvsNoise/37signals had an article up on how they used Dyn.coms DNS service to achieve something like this, but I can't seem to find it. They had some nice graphs for when they tested it out.

Edit: My Google skills are poor, but I found it here: https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3857-when-disaster-strikes