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First, game titles were using assembly long after C came out. Even into the 90s (2 decades after you claim everyone recognized the virtues of C!) some were written in assembly. They were also using C long after C++ came out. They might have their reasons, but they have a track record showing they don't care about it as much as other domains might - even in the face of obviousness you claim was there.

It also depends upon your use case.

I have a project that requires high concurrency that could be resolved with consistent-but-stale data. A large amount of our C++ code is around achieving that sort of thing and there's always bugs to be found. But its basically free in FP and a bug in this means a bug in the core implementation of the language (not likely).

But, we also have webapps. The mutability of this data is not dissimilar to how it would work in FPs, despite working in Java. We fetch data from a shared DB into memory that is not shared, manipulate them, and write them to the DB. Adopting FP would do little because our environment is mostly the same as that of the FP environment.

That said, the best tool for the job is the usually tool you know.
That really echoes the response by Ellen Pao herself in the New York Times article [1]:

> But Ms. Pao says that the most virulent detractors on the site are a vocal minority, and that most of Reddit users were not interested in what unfolded over the past 48 hours.

That may be true as the "lurkers" main interest is to consume the information made available by voluntary work of the contributors and moderators) and they, of course, don't benefit in the short term from the blackout.

But it is important to remember that this "vocal minority" is the part of the audience that contribute the most to the success of the site, and they > do it for free.

And, being charitable and assuming that the demands of these volunteers are valid, the shut down was a minor inconvenience to the passive audience but one that can bring change and improvement in the long term.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/04/technology/reddit-moderato...
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Actually it was a reaction by the Reddit community to management idiocy.

As such, it was entirely justified.

You don't seem to understand how this works. Reddit does not own the community. Reddit hosts the community, and in return the community provides content for Reddit.

The community has already moved from another provider, and if Reddit carries on with more management idiocy, it will move again.

Social is littered with the crumbling ruins of corps that believed they were too big to fail, but which fell off the world after Doing Stupid Shit for too long.
Literally none of these are specific or concrete.
It's just another advertising campaign for Mr. Robot.
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Here's a random template I made with react in middleman that uses coffeescript with no jsx if anyones curious, https://github.com/jbhatab/middleman-backbone-react-template. I love the syntax and think it's really clean. The view code reminds me of slime.
It's fascinating to me because I've never come across such a fan of Windows Phone. The Windows Phone users I have come across have gotten them through work (at MS or related contractors).
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Expressing disagreement is expressly an acceptable basis for downvoting, and given the more general purpose of voting (expressing whether or not a contribution is valuable), while not all disagreement involves perception that the thing disagreed with isn't valuable, that something is inaccurate or wrong certainly can be a reason to conclude that is not a valuable contribution to a discussion.
If 160km is considered "really high" then what is a geo-statoionary satellite? Super really mega ultra high?
Ignorance more than callousness appears to be the sin here. From snippets of communications posted with the mods it looks like they weren't really aware of what Victoria did for the mods.

Since the community is their "product" I find it disconcerting that they're not more familiar with the details of how these relationships work and what Victoria actually did. I would actually find it more comforting if they were aware of all of this and made a rational business decision that may have been seen as callous, but they appear to have had very little clue as to what was actually going on. That doesn't bode well for future business decisions if they really don't understand their product.
Or retaliation for 2007-08 financial crisis. If I remember correctly, some Chinese quant gave the disastrous formula that caused it.
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"Bad communication" - they fire Victoria without telling IAMA moderators

"Mods feel like they are volunteering for a for-profit company yet treated poorly." is very concrete and specific

"Recent top-down decisions that aren't the "reddit way"". - banning of "hateful" subreddits such as /r/FatPeopleHate

"A temporary(?) CEO who doesn't seem to "get" reddit, or at least is not the right person for the job." - that is very specific and concrete

What else are you looking for?
NYSE says trading ‘temporarily suspended’ after technical glitch
Any other digital ocean server in the same datacenter can hit your private IP.
"Automation error" rings a funny bell in my head, since I'm currently re-reading "A Fire Upon The Deep".
Also I've been having real trouble getting HBO Now to stream consistently. That's triply suspicious! Or a total coincidence.
The compilation time is slower, not the resulting compiled binary.

> On average the programs in the Go 1 benchmark suite run a few percent faster in Go 1.5 than they did in Go 1.4, while as mentioned above the garbage collector's pauses are dramatically shorter, and almost always under 10 milliseconds.
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> What are the odds of two high profile failures happening at the same time?

Asymptotically close to 100%, given a little time.
They are super easy tools for any social media manager who needs to build quick polls & quizzes - definitely worth checking out!
Yes, some strategies are highly exchange-specific.
~No, no, no. That's not what ancestor post was saying at all.~

~Watching Game of Thrones leads to playing Grand Theft Auto, and doing that will make you a murderer. When you're sliding down the slippery slope, you have to hit every rock on the way down.~

The theory reverses the arrow of causality.

If the Army uses simulation and gaming as part of its psychological conditioning program to not only get its soldiers to fire their weapons, but also aim at and kill the enemy, that does not imply that those games or simulations, used in isolation, will necessarily result in desensitization to violence.

I seriously want to design a contagion that imparts to individuals an intuitive understanding of conditional probabilities, and how to reverse one.

If you know that 99% of child abusers viewed images of child abuse prior to engaging in that activity themselves, you only know P(A|B), where A is viewing photos, and B is taking action. You do not know P(B|A), which is the likelihood that someone that someone who has viewed photos has done abuse, unless you also know the unconditional probabilities for P(A) and P(B). You can probably infer those two from crime statistics and investigative activities like those described in the article. But given the existing legal prohibitions and resultant secretive behaviors, I doubt you could determine either with a great deal of precision.

If (hypothetically) P(A|B)=1.0, P(A)=0.001 and P(B)=0.0001, then P(B|A)=0.1 . That means that even if you know that everyone who did A also did B, you can't assume that everyone who has done B has necessarily done A.

We could more easily calculate for the Game of Thrones and murder hypothesis.

Let's say A is "committed murder in 2014" and B is "watched GoT in 2014". From crime statistics, I estimate that P(A)=0.000045 . From ratings estimates, P(B)=0.063 . Now, I'm not entirely certain how many new murderers in 2014 had watched GoT, but I'll guess that P(B|A) = 0.063 . That makes P(A|B)=0.000045 . Huh. It looks like I assumed they were independent events....

If you went and did an actual survey of 2014's murderers, and discovered that P(B|A) was actually 0.12, that's a great find, but it still only means that P(A|B)=0.000086 . That's not a convincing argument that watching GoT causes actual murder. It just means that 0.0086% of GoT watchers committed murder. That might be explained by GoT inducing violent behavior in its viewers, but from the numbers, it's not bloody likely.
Its really not important at all. Just a lot of people use it and its kinda going down in flames. Pretty funny to watch honestly. The AMA section was a great advertising tool for Reddit IMO, they def should take better care of that one area.
My statement about "happiness" was not part of the previous paragraph. I'm happy they are contributing to OpenBSD.

I'm cautiously optimistic about their sudden benevolence towards open source in general.
Devils advocate, that is partly Victoria's fault. If your managers don't know what you do all day, I don't think it is surprising that you are fired. Yes, it is a sign off bad management, but it is also a sign off an employee not communicating up to management.

EDIT: The downvotes seem to indicate I wasn't clear. I'm not saying the Reddit management team thought Victoria wasn't doing any work. However, it was clear that Victoria was spending time doing things that management didn't know about. From the sound of it, Victoria saw work that needed to be done and did it. Her job responsibilities likely continued to expanded as IAMA grew. However if management truly didn't know how involved she was in that, that is a failing of both management for not staying involved in the process and her for not communicating up the extra work she was doing.
The way I took this statement was roughly "I will enjoy watching this drama unfold, but I won't do anything other than watch". Is that inaccurate?
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> Besides, what is reddit corporate supposed to do when they want to fire an employee?

Reduce single points of failure, broadcast schedules and meetings.

Before the termination is complete have the replacement with an action plan.
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> LRT: Don't think Perl or Python gets off the hook for the tooling that @avdi
> talks about.

https://twitter.com/brianwisti/status/618815261580263425
The original repo hasn't been updated for over a year... Please look at the MAME repo:

https://github.com/mamedev/mame/tree/master/src/emu/cpu/m680...

It emulates many more processors from the 68k series, such as 030 and 040. The original library only did 000, 010 and 020.

Note: also correctly BSD3-relicensed
I took the implication to be that NYSE (like some other companies) makes disproportionate use of H1B and similar. One purpose of making very heavy use of H1B is to get workers who are more desperate and likely to accept worse pay, conditions, and longer hours. This is an open secret at at least one of the major companies like the ones you cited. The "prevailing wage" requirement is not hard to work around.

Hacker News might not like or expect this, but if you run a sweat shop with little regard for the welfare of your employees, you should expect more mistakes and lower quality output. This is not a comment on the racial ability of people whose ancestors were on the Indian subcontinent. There is no evidence I ever heard of for any inherent difference of ability by race. But sweatshops, that is another story.
Hah, that sounds very much like something I used to do when I was younger. I would focus on one muscle at a time intentionally making each relax as much as possible. Start at the top of my head and work my way down to my toes. Once I was fully relaxed I would focus on clearing my mind, emptying it of thoughts. See nothing, hear nothing (except maybe my breathing/heart beat).

I haven't had to do that in years. I really don't have trouble falling asleep anymore (much to my wife's dismay).
This actually reminds me of when Unidan was shadowbanned.

Unidan was a super-popular redditor who loved educating people about science, and he would pop up everywhere and deliver useful information written in a way most laymen can understand. People loved him.

He got banned right after getting in an argument with somebody, where he was being really aggressive and heavy-handed. A lot of people flipped out and claimed he was banned just for getting into a heated argument. They attacked the admins, and then they proceeded to stalk and harass the girl he got into an argument with. They followed her around, downvoted all her comments into the negative triple digits, and effectively made her account useless.

A day later, it turns out that for his entire history as a redditor, he had been using five sockpuppets to upvote his posts and downvote all the posts around him so his posts could become more visible, and that was why he was banned.

So the community turned against him. All his posts on his new account were being aggressively downvoted, the word "Unidan" entered popular use as a slang term for someone who uses vote bots to puff up their karma, and he ended up pretty much disappearing from reddit after a while (he tried to come back a few times, but nobody wanted to hear what he had to say anymore).

As for the girl who got stalked, the admins removed the limits on her accounts placed by the downvotes, the community followed her around upvoting her for a while to restore her karma, and the devs introduced new anti-brigading measures to make sure an organized downvote brigade like that can never fuck somebody's account up again.

I have a feeling that when we find out why Victoria was fired, the community will turn on her and start apologizing to the admins, because this sounds like the exact same situation.
That's my point, though. It's very hard to compete year after year in the flagship space. One company that is doing arguably the second best job of making flagship Android phones is HTC, and even they can't make money at it. If the 2nd place flagship maker of the top platform can't make money, how will even the first tier flagship maker of the distant 3rd platform have any room for profit?
Judging by the general implosion of the PaaS industry, not enough to make it worthwhile.

It's a much more complex problem than most people think.
This is pretty specific, but Ruby has pretty terrible support for parsing Ruby. Libraries are either unmaintained or broken or for old versions. Python is great for parsing ('import ast'), compiling ('compile(...)') and executing ('exec(...)'). So it's much easier to write code generators, write linters and autocompletion tools and such.
James Altucher (or/and his wife) recommend coming up with 10 ideas a day to train your creative muscle. I have found this technique to be very valuable in times of creative drought.
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Actually, the FB IPO open fiasco was on Nasdaq not BATS. Nasdaq, has had way more serious issues in the last 2 or 3 years that I can recall compared to NYSE.

[EDIT] The BATS issue you may have been referring to is BATS IPO when they tried to list on their own exchange. The technology failed miserably that day, so much so that they decided to pull the IPO altogether. One of the biggest fails I can think of.
I understand the Apple/iOS part but is there any reason why Samsung couldn't make a deal with MS to make Windows phones ?
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I believe it was the opposite, people got outraged because they got the exact meaning of the joke.

People were expressing loud and clear their grievances and one admin response was in the lines of "we know about it, let's do nothing and watch the drama unfold, it will die down".
I don't think poster knows for sure but you can assume based on traffic levels to comments and just general web stats. A majority of users don't comment on anything. Most people don't even create an account to vote. They probably don't even know what was going on.
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This article is falling on me as tone deaf. Most people who frequent the site dont care at all about the plight of the moderators. Moderators are not elected, they arent forcefully drafted, they dont step down when the community dislikes them. They are landowners who got there first, followed by a lot of cronyism/nepotism. It's an old boys club. They do a lot of hard work for the site, but they would be easily replaceable if the site rules didnt protect them. The moderators think they are special, the admins see them as interchangeable. Moderators are largely faceless human spam filters. It is a task that could be crowdsourced better so more people are doing less work. Slashdot had better moderation tools than reddit. When I see the moderators throw tantrums demanding more respect, it reminds me of Reagan firing every air traffic controller who went on strike, people who thought they were above being replaced. The reddit admins should fear the power they have given the moderators, and are probably brainstorming ways to reduce it.

The "woe is me" cry of the moderators doesnt resonate with the majority of the userbase, because the moderators volunteered. The apathetic majority doesnt comment in situations like this, so you wont hear their voices. In the immortal words of southpark, if you dont like America, then you can get out. But everyone knows they wont actually step down, because they crave the power they have accumulated, and are using the veneer of "we do this because we love the community" to generate a populous outcry that they know will gain them even more power. Theyre not fooling me.

https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/3cbo4m/we_ap...
OK, $FamousPerson shows up at reception asking for an employee who has recently been escorted off the premises with their possessions in a black plastic bag (been there, got the video and t-shirt). You sort of know that random $FamousPeople showing up is part of $BusinessAsUsual. You have just realised that you have apparently no procedures whatsoever for booking appointments for personal visits to the building (e.g. popping something on a corporate Google calendar or Outlook).

So, you get $HighRankingPerson - preferably one with good empathy and small talk skills - to meet $FamousPerson, explain that, unfortunately, there has had to be a change of plan today. Meanwhile $TrustedPersonalAssistant has Googled $FamousPerson, worked out likely food preferences and made contact with $FamousPerson's PR people/publisher/agent/whatever. Nice restaurant booked for lunch. $FuturePlans discussed over (rather good wine | excellent smoothies | extremely expensive vintage cheese and crackers | exceptional artisian toast). Limousine booked to get $FamousPerson back to airport in time for trip home.

Not rocket science is it really? (I speak as one who has been told to F$$k Off by Royalty).
I'm referring to compilation speed. In Python and Ruby, for example, there is no compile stage. This makes them attractive for rapid iteration.
"If you were the CEO of Reddit it would go the way of Digg."

If I ran Reddit, it would be just as popular and much more profitable. The mass Digg exodus happened because their decisions ruined the content and the average user got tired of the bullshit. This has nothing to do with moderators.

"The community is what makes the site successful, and the moderators shape the community, in addition to being the chief content creators."

Are you a moderator? Do you really think the moderators create content?

Here is an example:

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics

Everything on the front-page is taken from other sites. The moderators created nothing. The users even posted the links..so they didn't even do that.

"but to years of serious issues and mismanagement."

Why no protests before this incident then? and why are there so many people protesting her firing?

"The first subreddit to shut down did so because it literally couldn't keep functioning without Victoria, and the rest saw an opportunity to finally voice their complaints and be heard."

Well, you shouldn't base your entire success on 1 person. A smart moderator would have multiple backups.
Re: the aQuantive deal, Microsoft was never in a great position to leverage the assets that they purchased (ad serving platform Atlas, digital ad buying and creative agency Avenue A | Razorfish, and DrivePM (performance retargeting platform).

Atlas was really all Microsoft wanted since Google had bought DoubleClick and Atlas was at the time one of the few other large ad serving platforms. The ad serving business basically consisted of a way to track campaigns, impressions, clicks, conversions for large media buys for Fortune 500 companies. There was also synergy with the Avenue A | Razorfish business since clients like Nike, Best Buy, Hawaiian Airlines, and MSN would use Atlas to track their large campaigns across the web. The expectation from Microsoft at the time was that they could build a large display network across the internet using data from users that visited MSN or Bing just like Google does with it's search.

AA|RF was a bad fit because Microsoft was not in the advertising agency business so they quickly dumped that to Publicis. I worked at AA|RF in client services for a few years and were growing quickly at the time. We were doing things like multi-channel attribution and tackling view-based conversions years before they became a mainstream topic in the display ad world. A lot of those folks have gone on to lead at other places like Bob Lord, President of AOL, who previously led AA|RF!

DrivePM was a retargeting business that leveraged custom cookie pools that could be created based on both user's ad viewing/clicking behavior and tracked behavior on a client's website. So for example, you could say I wanted to target only people who viewed my ad in the last 2 days and visited my checkout page but did not complete their purchase. I think with investment, this business could have grown to take advantage of the surge in RTB and programmatic buying. One of the most interesting programs they had was a "recyling" product that basically took wasted impressions and resold them to other advertisers to reduce media costs. This involved doing a study to see what the optimal number of impressions was per user and the conversion rate dropoff curve per additional impression. Once you had that number, you would set a rule that said if this user has already seen the maximum number of ads from one advertiser in a given time frame, don't show the ad and instead show an ad from the recycler network.

Hope that helps!
It is now owned by Intercontinental Exchange[0]

[0]http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/09/business/dealbook/new-york...
"Why is DNS failover not recommended?" http://serverfault.com/questions/60553/why-is-dns-failover-n...

Among other things, IE7 will pin IPs for 30 minutes, non-browser clients may have serious issues, etc.
Candy Japan looks very cool.
Yeah! Who is Ross, OP.
> If your managers don't know what you do all day

If your managers can't tell what you do all day when they merely need to go to reddit.com/r/IamA and see dozens of upvoted posts from celebrities whose top comment says, "Victoria is here helping me...", then I don't think you can really blame her for that.