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As someone who has shipped both Erlang and Go in production, I feel I can somewhat answer this.

Teams. Go does "teams" better. Shipping an Erlang app to production was simultaneously one of the happiest and most depressing points in my career.

Happiest because it did exactly what we intended with minimal code and it was done early and under budget (yey!). The initial group liked Erlang, already knew Erlang and simply were able to bang it out -- delightful!

Depressing because of everything that happened after... trying to teach DevOps crew was a nightmare, they HATED us -- all that introspection you can get on an Erlang system only makes sense after lots of experience. Trying to hire people who already knew Erlang was borderline impossible. Worse still, hiring people who didn't know Erlang and trying to train them up was swimming upstream in multiple ways -- it just didn't work. Erlang is really a bit of its own thing -- and if you are absolutely new to it, very hard to get over the hump... it is a weird pragmatic FP actor system and lacks any sense of purity or type niftyness.

... For initial development, Go was less elegant than Erlang, but due to simplicity and really solid tooling probably slightly more productive, but not so much that I would favor it over Erlang. But the magic happened when we involved other people. Handing off to DevOps was a DREAM... it was just a binary that logged stuff. They didn't need to know anything about what was in the black box. Hiring people is already relatively easy for Go, and training up developers in it is a AMAZING. You can hire basically any competent developer and a week later you have a competent Go developer... 50 page spec and dead simple language works wonders. No debates about code formatting, builds static binaries in seconds, super-easy to experiment with from minute one (versus getting your head around OTP).

I consider myself a programming language geek, I program in dozens and dozens of languages, and love building my own little DSLs. Go is -- breathtakingly boring as a language, "exceptionally unexceptional". Honestly, it isn't much fun at all to program in, it is a bit of a grind. However, Go as a tool (when the language isn't the point, the product is, your customers are) is amazing... it is viciously focused on getting things done on teams, and so far, it has been an incredible asset to our team.

I still follow and toy with Elixir in hopes that it will hit critical mass, but wasn't willing to bet my livelihood on it as a founder.
Fossil fuels are not exactly immune to outside influence on price either, as long as you are importing.
>If someone has no fundamental drive to work,

The research shows this is an extremely tiny portion of the population. The vast majority of people will find some kind of productive enterprise.

It seems paradoxical but giving homeless people free housing with no strings attached tends to end with them getting a job and rejoining society. They almost never just lay around all day doing nothing.

It's one of the last great Victorian lies still infecting us today.
This leaves me wondering how you might a site like SO that incentivizes participation and quality answers, but disincentivizes poaching and incomplete first answers.

Could you build an incentive strategy and reputation system around collaborative answers?
Now for a little more background..you may not like to hear this...

The reason for all this is the NSA and CIA and DCI, etc can only brute force break 5% of the Elliptical keys used to encrypt messages.

No I will not explain the math behind this as it is very long and long-winded, suffice it to say that instead of the RSA style prime key being the one-way function some characteristics of the curve also become the the one-way function which is why its harder to brute force Elliptical keys than RSA keys..

That being said when dealing with real hard bad guys and gals its often the ugly parts of military that are used to meet the treat.

This 'torture' processes were approved under Reagan, including using black sites some what 40 years ago just after a brief rise in terrorism in the 1970s.
There is a lot of linking to other SO answers, so if someone asks a question about new information, you can still refer to closed questions and expound on them.

I'm not sure if that's the best way to do it, but it's an option.
I expect the fourth amendment to be a growing factor in SCOTUS cases related to privacy - at the time of inception, a person's self, house, papers and effects were tangible things - the idea that the other "digital effects" we all have in our "digital houses" didn't exist.

I think the argument that an email would be a "paper" under the fourth amendment is going to be the first test. I know that sort of thing has been challenged (users should've have an expectation of privacy, etc.) but it's my belief that the argument "users have no expectation of privacy when it comes to emails" is a misdirection. Our citizens have rights whether or not they expect those rights to be respected by those in power.
Regarding the pun, don't forget that the dead did pay a "toll" in ancient Greek religion/mythology (to Charon, the ferryman of Hades).
Stay on right, pass on left is true in many locations in the world for escalators. In some countries there is even automated voice reminder for that. However my personal anecdotal evidence shows that in Germany/Poland/US people are bound to walk on the right side mostly, while in London it's more chaotic, but still more on right.
I love it! Looks more interesting than most stuff I've seen people draw on acid. No surprise there were a lot of drug users interested in it lol. More professionally, great that we have so many ways of debugging them now which are visual and hence easier for developers to understand.
Crossing from Right-Hand-Drive Countries to Left-Hand-Drive Countries (2011)
Excellent translation. And your comment is a lesson in the value of brevity and clarity!
WebRTC being used on nytimes.com to report visitors' local IP addresses
It's a bit of an academic critique, but perfectly legible (if you know the jargon).

Rough translation:

Only people in privileged groups can comfortably claim to have nothing to hide, because they don't get persecuted for who they are. It's not just Jews who got persecuted, it's minorities everywhere, but only in that case is the persecution widely acknowledged. Otherwise we disavow individual acts (of bigotry/racism/sexism/etc) but we don't look for the root causes.

It's obvious that (the class of people labeled) white men have disproportionately benefited from exploitation all throughout history, and continue to benefit to this day. However, people who bring this up in thinkpieces or the media get screamed at or worse. Most writers understand this, and water down their critique so it's easier to swallow and the backlash will be minimal. This is cowardly.
If you are a real freedom fighter you should support the idea of destroying records full stop. There is no actual middle ground. It just needs to go, but of course it is very hard because it is obviously valuable user data.

It sucks and I am not sure what a good man should do.
>I personally respect freedom of speech, except hate.

How far are you willing to take that? You could potentially prohibit satire.
I wonder if habitual smoking always turns people into anti-social slobs, especially when they are outdoors? Social scientists, please get to work on this problem.
Okay then:

"I don't care about the freedom to bear arms because I have nothing to protect"

I agree that fending off a modern army with rifles is a pipe dream which causes political blindness (although this disparity just illustrates how thoroughly the second amendment has already been trampled). But there are plenty of smaller scale immediate situations where one might really wish they had a gun - eg bears while camping.

Also the whole premise around these sayings is ultimately flawed. When we are forced into coming up with justifications for natural rights (thought, communication, using tools, being left alone, etc), we're fighting a losing war.
I spend a lot of time on the road, and I see autoists running red lights far more frequently than cyclists. Cyclists are at a lot greater risk getting out into any intersection, it'd be suicide (literally) to put ourselves into the path of oncoming traffic.

I do see this remark ("you dumb kids on your bikes break all the traffic laws!!") on all the web forums for the local newspaper, whenever any article comes along about bike lanes or whatever. I just don't see people on bikes breaking traffic laws anywhere near as often as people in cars.

As for needing to avoid things, would you call traffic circles or pedestrians a "hazard" as well? Again, you're in a two-ton metal box, none of this stuff is going to do anything more than scratch your paint.
I think the objection to your point was sufficiently clear. Your implication is that Fukushima was so safe that it took the simultaneous occurrence two statistically unlikely events to cause it to fail catastrophically i.e. unlikely x unlikely.

The objection was that this was actually a single unlikely event, because one was very likely to follow from the other i.e. describing someone squeezing a trigger as an independent event to the bullet leaving the barrel is incorrect.

Two independent unlikely events occurring at the same time is extremely unlikely. Unlikely events themselves are common.
'Weiqi' actually works okay too. Or, honestly, just use the character/kanji: 围棋 / 囲碁
No, it's 100% local. Even ignoring the privacy concerns of uploading everything you say, it would simply use too much data.

You also need to opt-in: it's turned off by default and can be enabled by going to Settings > General > Siri > Allow "Hey Siri."
In many cases, they aren't: https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-red-cross-raised-...
That was the same article?! I was just reading that and though it was some kind of editorial followup.

That NewsDiff link seems like a case for Margaret Sullivan. I can already picture the appeasement article in my head.
There's no need to be rude about it. Your first statement would have sufficed to make your point.

Anyway, I didn't say that I don't use it because of the length of the spec. I said I don't use it because it's orders of magnitude more complex than JSON and I used the spec as an example of that. A bigger spec means a bigger parser and a higher probability that other people will not limit themselves to the parts that "you generally use".

To that, I added that JSON is everywhere already and YAML isn't. My point about the name seems a little silly, but my intuition has served me well over the years.
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From McEnroe's era to now, the biggest difference is the materials used to make the racquets, which allows them to be stiffer, lighter, and have a larger head all at the same time. All three of those things contribute to how much power you can generate on a serve.
then why block/replace the top-level page instead of the embedded content like an adblocker would?
Perhaps to avoid people figuring out how to evade it?
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I'm sure it's all of those, but also better players with better training. Most of the best athletes in history are probably currently playing in most sports, as a result of better training, better nutrition, and a larger population to select from.
I've both bought a gun and gotten married. It definitely took much more government paperwork and time to buy the gun.

However, I'm not sure the bureaucracy surrounding either really comes close to "persecution".
By then it would almost certainly be too late.
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Yes, thinking a little bit more, I agree with you. But in my case, just as it is, HN has so much good content that I can't read it all.
What I don't understand about it is that the right to bear arms was rooted in the desire to allow citizens to arm themselves against an oppressive government so they could organize an effective overthrow if the need ever arose again (after the revolutionary war). Today, the government's military is so advanced that they'd quickly squash any kind of uprising even if you somehow managed to obtain every legally purchased firearm in the country. The right to privacy and encrypted communication would go a lot farther in that respect than the right to bear arms, putting aside self defense arguments, yet you don't hear much about that from the right wing groups touting this argument in favor of gun rights.
If that's true, then why do Toyotas have radios?
If SO really feels these questions are unworthy, they should add a noindex tag to the result and give up the Google juice.

Something tells me that's never going to happen, though.
if they are constantly on edge because of coffee, I would.
The moderators feel any question that can have discussion should be closed. They just want one right answer, anything with multiple is bad by their definitions.

That's not very smart. Sometimes, even a technical problem's context can be complicated enough to merit several different "good" answers, depending on other factors.

Maybe someone should formulate a law -- over time, any site's moderation starts to suck. There are factors involved with this, such as depletion of low-hanging fruit, popularity drawing more attention from spammers, and increasing workload of moderators.
A person who has nothing to fear is dangerous, and that is then something to hide.
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Or when someone breaks into your apartment and the police have an average response time of, what, 10 minutes or so? How about when you pull over to assist a crashed motorcyclist and it turns out he's a DUI-case and attempts to car-jack you? How about when you see someone waltz into your neighbors backyard and kick in the door? All things that have happened to either myself, or a coworker in the past year. Is it unreasonable to have a firearm for those needs? I'm not Dirty Harry over here, and I'd rather not have to draw, let alone use a firearm, but I'm not also naive enough to think that the police can save me from all of the bad things that might happen. In a nation with as many firearms as people, the cat's out of the bag.
I agree, but the government can collect your data by force, and there's discussions to increase that force (banning of encryption), so in my mind that makes it a more pressing issue.
I've been thinking about this, and the more I do, the more it feels like there's some pretty bitter irony in the way things have gone. The internet became popular (at least the way I see it) by offering an alternative to mainstream content sources, and it's gradually become the very thing it seeked to get away from.

So let's say for the purposes of arguing, between the TPP, whois privacy potentially going away, and all the other crazy/terrible ideas out there right now, things get really bad? Are you guys okay with starting over from square one?
What if incomplete first answers could be "merged" with better, more complete, answers, with the better answer getting the karma from the incomplete one?
Publishers who wish to rein in the excesses of editors and journalists who abuse updates could establish a policy of linking to a change history which shows all the iterations of a specific article.

The temptation to make questionable edits would be curbed because evidence would be immediately available, enabling punishing critiques.
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That argument always presumes it is the entire military against civilians. One would think if things got that bad, there would be some manner of defections from the military into the rebelling side.
"According to you it is not a benefit, so they really shouldn't be all that concerned about keeping it."

What are you talking about? Of course it's a benefit. I just said that in the exact line you quoted.

"In other words you think I should believe you, random internet stranger, over the nuclear industry's own self assessments of the danger posed by their plants."

No, I think that if you're going to assert that nuclear power is not safe you should back it up directly with information about... oh, say... how many fatalities it causes in comparison to other generation methods, instead of convoluted backwards arguments about liability caps. Since you seem disinclined to do that, I think we're done here.
At this point, the only think keeping me on Chrome/Chromium is their dev tools. After the 'Ok Google' binary blob and now this shit, I've just about had it. At the very least, there should be an option to unblock sites permanently to fix this. There is absolutely no reason why I should have to turn off all Phishing & malware alerts just because Google suddenly got a paycheck from the MPAA/RIAA. Whatever their reason is, it doesn't matter, as it leads to unsafe browsing regardless. Way to go Google!
Working with Go (as a Rubyist)
They also are really insidious about how they get you to sign up more of your data.

View a YouTube link on a fresh Android phone it puts you on the sign-in screen, hit back the video plays, they make it look like you have to sign in to watch the video hence make it easier to follow what you watch.

Run Chrome for the first on an android phone, the sign-in button is bigger and clearer, the skip button is small and greyed out.

Chrome history can only be suspended, accidentally enable it and it's on forever again, no warning.

Login from one google account and then accidentally login in from another and it tries to join them (this is so bad I new hit incognito mode before signing into anything google makes).

All of these things in isolation seem relatively minor but the goal is clearly an all encompassing pervasive monitoring of everything you do (so much so that my next phone will not be Android, I'm seriously considering a dumb phone and using my tablet).

I don't trust Google and tbh as a company I don't like them very much.
From http://twentythree.fibreculturejournal.org/fcj-168-do-object...

".. Something strange happens however when objects acquire connectivity, semantic depth, and the powers of computation and memory – they immediately and drastically transgress the ontological borders assigned to them..

.. spimes actively enfold space and time because they have the capacity to carry around their entire existence as a semantic layer..

.. anthropomorphic metaphors are a way for humans to bridge the chasm between ourselves and objects. They create affective resonance between a human and a thing, thereby bringing us onto the same ontological plane."
Both of you: thanks for the correction.
Drop the sex life garbage, people go after men for their sex lives all the time. Bill Clinton, Anthony Weiner, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Bob Packwood, Brett Favre, Mark Hurd all spring to mind.

Pointing out someone, who happens to be a women, is a shitty person doesn't make criticism misogynistic, and, IMHO, it's sexist to excuse them from criticism / repercussions simply because they're women.

It's a bullshit tactic. "Hey, that women pushed a car full of kids into a lake!", "Why are you such a misogynist?"
>the ad networks those sites are using are rather sketchy. Many of the ads there try to trick you into believing they're the actual download link

If that's your definition of a sketchy ad network then there aren't many that aren't sketchy. Google serves ads that do that all the time. It only took me a few seconds to find this misleading fake download link ad being served by Google on one of the download pages of download.com: http://i.imgur.com/wYAfr7z.png

Would Google blacklist download.com for serving malicious google ads? Somehow I doubt it.
I agree that fending off a modern army with rifles is a pipe dream

Tell that to the mujahideen...
Prioritizing the latter over the former solves a large part of SO's overmodding problems.
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Incorrect, you can vote on closed questions. You just can't add new answers.
There is evidence to the contrary. The FBI, for example, recommends against torture. They say it is ineffective. I can't find a scholarly publication, but this news item can help: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ex-fbi-interrogator-torture-inef...
Several factors:

Rackets - they got more forgiving and powerful. I think even Mac now serves faster with a modern graphite racket than he did 30 years ago with a wooden one.

Strings - with the invention of polyester strings which snap back after "gripping" the ball during the stroke, the amount of top spin applied to the ball has gone through the roof. That means players can string their rackets at lower tensions, allowing even more power on their strokes (including the serve).

Overall physical fitness and training standards of pro tennis players - today's top tennis players are simply better athletes.
I was hoping someone would write about how bad this article was. (Shocked to see it's the same one as the pretty good piece from earlier.)

The worst part to me was the article quoting Mitch Kapor to back up its implicit support of internet censorship:

>...charges that bullying, harassment and cruel behavior are out of control on the web...

>Mitch Kapor, a co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, noted that Reddit users were predominantly male and 18 to 29 years old.

>“In my view, her job was made more difficult because as a woman, she was particularly subject to the abuse stemming from the pockets of toxic misogyny in the Reddit ecosystem,” said Mr. Kapor, now a partner at Kapor Capital.
That still leaves open the question about what qualifies as worth hiding and what doesn't - who gets to decide that and is that going to be a thing everyone lives by forever or will that be a function of time and other circumstances? (Spectacles - not worth hiding but think of the Pol Pot era and you had to hide them if you wanted to survive.)
And I'm sure parents of murdered or otherwise killed children would be offended by reddit's "pictures of dead kids". Yet it's not illegal to share such images.
LevelDB and Erlang's Mnesia
Are you familiar with Mercurial's Changeset Evolution? https://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ChangesetEvolution

It includes metadata that allows a changeset to be marked obsolete, and to provide successors.