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So, your economist might be right, of course, and I am not an economist, just a former junior trader who didn't work out and changed careers. Nevertheless I am pretty sure that if you jack up your prices by 50% overnight, with the prospects of them continuing to rise year on year for decades, you're going to see some price sensitivity. I thus respectfully disagree with the idea that a sudden and large currency appreciation has no effect on a country's exports.

Switzerland can get away with it because there are few locations left which respect foreigner property rights so thoroughly (including against their own government, although this is weakening). Nevertheless they were worried by the prospects sufficiently to literally go and support a peg for years.
I think the main problem is that the open source model of software development doesn't really work when it comes to visual or interaction design. We've all heard that phrase 'design by commitee' but that's what you get when everyone wants a say in the way the UI works.

I can understand why this happens even though the outcome is often an unfriendly UI. Imagine you're a developer who's spent time and effort contributing to an open source project. Naturally you'll have an opinion on the UX and what suits your preferences. Everyone else using or contributing will also have a strong opinion. The moment you try and delgate visual and interaction design to a small, dedicated team is the moment the whole project generates enormous resentment from the "community".

Plus, any attempt to (sincerely) improve or simplify an interface will always be met at some point with the charge of "dumbing down".

Open source and design have never had a good relationship. I wish it were otherwise, but I don't know how it could be made better.
> The only part of the presentation layer that WordPress needs to concern itself with is the admin interface.

If only this were the case. WP's underlying processes and database structure are so unbelievably stunted and entirely coupled to the core WP application, that to do something as simple as pull rendered posts from the database generally involves performing a series of SQL gymnastics just to retrieve the relevant data. Not to mention all of the convoluted WP functions that are needed to render the final content snippet.
I started drinking in a student-life context, around the age of 23 (bit late, I guess). Everyone drank. I joined in, and it was a lot of fun.

Post-college, many of the people I knew just sort of grew out of it. Stopped getting drunk every weekend, and only drank a beer or two with a meal, or only with special meals/moments. But because I became an expat/freelancer/traveler, I kind of maintained a bar-centered, beer-centered life, and naturally ended up with friends who were the same.

It never occurred to me that this might not be 'normal' for everyone. The dynamics behind this are fascinating, but not so relevant at this point. Suffice it to say that most drinkers overestimate how much 'most people' drink.

All this was not a problem until it suddenly was. At some point I'd started drinking to relieve stress, or deal with depressive episodes, and one day I 'woke up' and realized that I'd been drinking to the point of 'being drunk' almost every single day. This was particularly shocking to me because I studied psychology and always had a fascination with addiction. So I knew about the dynamics. I was high-functioning, and doing pretty well all in all, but I didn't feel comfortable knowing that I had a 'dependency'.

It took me a full two years to actually properly get things under control again. There were four things that I believe were crucial:

1. I realized that simply thinking I might have a problematic relationship with alcohol was enough reason to treat it as one, and at the very least 'test' whether I had one. I now believe that if you're not entirely happy with your drinking habits, then that should be enough reason to try and remove that habit for a while, since there are no real downsides to sobriety, and there are definite downsides to drinking regularly.
2. I started frequenting /r/stopdrinking subreddit and #stopdrinking chat room.
3. I found for my 'down-time' drinking periods and drinking social circles: I started meditating and diving into zen buddhism, I started reading and actively doing things again that I knew made me happy in the past (without pulling significant energy and willpower, like programming does[1]), and I took time off from my drinking friends. Meditation was perhaps one of the most important things, all in all.
4. I actively looked into sources of unhappiness and stress, and did my utmost to cut them out or minimize the negative effects.

[1]: interestingly, while my 'craving' for getting drunk is almost entirely gone these days, one of the few times that I feel the pull is when get caught up in a programming project. After spending hours doing that, sometimes forgetting to eat or take a break, it's like my mind is exhausted beyond a healthy point. I'm starting to think my active coding life played a big role in my alcohol dependency issues.
Is there a legal website where one can download all the premium gpl themes?
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I was thinking more along the lines of: instead of daydreaming about planets > 1000 ly away, we might find a system nearby that we can study in detail...
Excel manages to process it in real time.
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GP made no such point.
It's also a thing "a lot" of today's people believe. Possibly to make our generation look and sound dumber.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_flat_Earth_societies
CMake works well if you're building typical user space applications or libraries with dependencies to popular and typical libraries that CMake can find or follow typical conventions. It completely falls apart if you need to do something unusual or automate non-build tasks with it. E.g. building bootable kernel images (where you need a linker script, etc) with CMake is quite painful (I've done it, will not do it again).

The best feature of CMake for me has been easy cross compiling so I can develop and remote debug Windows apps on my Linux box.
I agree. You need to take it to the next level, and don't just consider software and coding projects. We all love to hate on 'management' in companies of all sizes, but the world would be a better place for all of us if managers had your deep technical expertise. You'll be of more value to the company architecting the solution (or preventing the next $100k screwup), and matching people to the right places, than you were coding.
This is like one of my professors telling me "It's super easy to win a Booker! Just write a book with X, Y and Z themes! I can so easily do it!"

Except that he didn't. And he never would.
Care to explain why for the non design folks?
hi guys, thank you for your interest in our system of automatic generation of regex.

we are experiencing some trouble with connectivity due to the... unexpected popularity :)

we are working to solve this, but we are a very small research group with limited resources.

meanwhile, if you are interested in the details of our algorithm take a look at the source code hosted here: https://github.com/MaLeLabTs/RegexGenerator
Honestly I think it could be written in Javascript with better results than it currently has. I've never tried multiplayer as I found the single player laggy which is unacceptable for a game a "simple" as this. Just goes to show that language alone doesn't alway influence speed...
I think is incredibly fascinating research , but to me it seems extremely unlikely we as a species will ever leave earth.

Maybe we build some sentient AI who will be the next step in intelligence and colonise space but the distances and hostily of space, as well as our total dependence on the rest of the ecosystem on earth makes me think having a plan B for humanity outside earth is a just a folly.
In disruptive industries people wear many different hats, and it is common to simply ask the 'web design guy' to do a bit of growth hacking for the company. It doesn't mean they now become a full time growth hacker; it just means that visitors need to convert somehow, and some design skills can achieve that. What annoys me is when an employee is called a growth hacker on the company page or wears this title like a badge of honour. All employees can do a bit of GH on the side, but it should never be a full time position IMHO.
FP Library in Python: https://github.com/kachayev/fn.py
> (I think you got it from Neil Tyson or something)

Lol no, I haven't actually watched any stuff from him, I'm more of a Brian Cox guy.

My point wasn't "whenever we make predictions we get them wrong", it was that our accepted model of our universe is always in a state of flux - new revelations come about every so often that totally change this model. Hopefully the next revelation is that there is in fact a lot of life in the universe and we aren't alone.
I think many navies around the globe keep at least one sailing ship for training purposes. The Italian Navy, for example, keeps the Amerigo Vespucci veliero as a training ship for the Naval Academy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_training_ship_Amerigo_...
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> Unfortunately, the USA has a culture of binge drinking, which is the absolute WRONG way to drink.

Binge drinking does carry risks - mostly from impaired judgement and increased vulnerability to attack.

But long term drinking everyday drinking is probably more harmful, eapecially if people aren't keeping a close eye on quantities. Most people have no idea how much alcohol is in the portion they serve themselves.

> I actually think it's better to be introduced to alcohol as a child (as I was), in normal social situations

We don't have much research around this but what we do have suggests that giving alcohol to children, even dilute wine, is probably a bad idea. Allowing them to see adults using alcohol sensibly in social situations is probably okay.
Out of curiosity, I dug for info on you a little bit after reading your comment. Found your Github: https://github.com/rdegges?tab=repositories

Two things are clear:

1 - you have time to be prolific in open source

2 - you have significant Python skills

Seems like you fit the bill for what Wesnoth needs! Why not step in and help yourself? I don't want to come across as calling you out here - I'm genuinely interested in learning why, because I maintain many open source projects myself and I want to know some of the reasons why skilled programmers who appreciate projects don't contribute to them.
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Awesome project. I pitty the negativity here because I always think it's good to hack around with new ideas and techologies, as it will catch many bugs and give possibilities to fix them. Speaking of Wayland, is it stable enough yet? I heard Gnome now fully supports it, which is neat. I wish XMonad would be ported to wayland though.
What defines UI / UX design? I am not a KDE user (currently). Well I use it once in a while, but compared to Windows, Mac OS (old and new), Android and iOS, which I all have used the only two things I've seen working well, as in being easy to understand and still efficient to use are KDE and XFCE. Oh and Squeak/Pharo.

Both Android and iOS are horrible when it comes to easy of use and know what you are doing in my opinion. Everyone using those systems ends up just using a bunch of patterns of clicking and swiping that they repeat every time, because they don't know which of the things they just did actually causes the effect they wanted.

In my opinion UI/UX are huge research fields, which you can see when you look at how the paradigms and "dogmas" from two years ago are now known to be the exact opposite of what you want. I think the only reasons things appear easier these days is that people have been exposed to technical interfaces way longer and more intensely.

I am not saying that things don't get better, but I think there are a lot of misunderstandings. Users just get used to certain systems after time. They adapt. They adapt to their CLI-based interface, their Macbook (they need too, else they'd have spent thousands of USD for nothing), to new versions of Windows and do KDE/Plasma.

Show a completely new computer user (maybe generation 70+) various interfaces and they will learn each of them efficiently after a while. (yeah, I have done that with older people)

I think the main thing stopping people from using KDE and having troubles with it is that it's not the common thing that one usually starts out with. It used to be and people were happy until KDE4, which was something new to learn again.

This sounds way more defensive of KDE than I intend to. I am not a fan. I use it when I have to choose between Gnome/Unity or KDE (but would probably choose another option, if there is one), just because it feels way more intuitive and easier to use. I never managed to get along with Gnome, but I think that's all based on what I said above. If you are exposed to one thing you will probably stick to it.

However, I am happy about every alternative coming up, because it means there is a chance for them improving status quo.
Why will that violate the GPL? Because Unity is proprietary?
An awk implementation: https://github.com/ecmendenhall/fmj
Functional programming? In a language with no tail calls and no function expressions?

I mean sure, you can do it, but you'd have an easier time in a language which supports those.
Changing the file extension to epub or mobi works as well, btw.
Well, I object to the "principle of most surprise". The 64-bit builds are experimental for a reason (you wouldn't expect no 64-bit integers), and this issue really isn't PHP's fault.
Their website is a blatant copy of the http://spotify.com/us/ website.
I used to work at SpaceX. I firmly believe that Elon Musk will establish a colony on Mars within my lifetime, and I hope to be there. Everything SpaceX does is working towards that conclusion, and the plan is solid.
There are companies in the world that don't employ any Americans at all! (I heard China has a lot of them.)
Regarding documentation, while you're right, I'd like to point out that Kotlin intentionally has a minimal standard library. The Java standard library is Kotlin's standard library (modulo some minor additions), and Kotlin is designed to make using the same APIs a lot nicer -- not to replace them with Kotlin-specific APIs. The preferred approach for creating a "Kotlin wrapper" if one is necessary is simply adding extension methods to the Java class. So while more detailed Kotlin documentation would certainly help, it requires much thinner documentation than other JVM languages that package their own rich standard libraries.
Mostly OT, but I like the short form books oreilly and packt are producing. I never liked the trend in technical books where every single one had to have 6 chapters of language tutorial, etc.
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You have a point there. If the request body was weird and lacked the header somehow, I suppose CONTENT_LENGTH would still be there.
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> specifically factory farming, heavy industry and transportation

And how do you think the device you're using to read this was built and transported to you?
> One thing to do, and we should do it fast... is to make self replicating robotic probes that spread throughout the galaxy. I guess it should collect samples of life once it finds it and find ways to seed the universe with it.

This looks like a bad idea because is a planet has life and the probe seeds it with the life of the other planet, you may kill all the native population.

Anyway, the probes we send will have a few bacteria as free riders, so we will seed them with Earth bacterial life anyway.

There are some protocols to clean the probes that go to Mars (and other planets), so if find life there it will be Mars' life. (But this is very difficult, I think that bacteria are very sneaky and they probably will win.)
If you wanted to know how big of a mess WordPress is, just take a look at all the successful businesses that have been built just to explain how to use WordPress.

The WordPress UI hasn't changed in the 6 years that I've been using it. Everything about it feels "heavy".

Not a good experience, honestly.

Just that the free alternatives (Ghost, for example) are even more technically challenging.
I don't think non-human-created disasters are that much of a threat to civilization in the 100/1000 year time scales, so I don't think that's what is meant.
"the solar neighborhood within 33 light-years"

How tragic, that even if humanity were to receive signal from another intelligent species, we couldn't even close to possibly reach them with current technology. Intelligent species watch each other rise and fall from afar.
The front page is just a marketing thingie. Look at the video. It looks great.
Technically, you should be able to support both.
Pretty cool. Btw, how was your feeling when you spent your money for this? (Given the fact that those are your money you get from your job)
Imagine what they must have said 300 years ago about landing on the moon!
Why are you so negative? Why do you say they don't have a designer? Did you ask? This is a technology preview, and for a new development platform, it's quite nice already.
I've done money laundering and fraud investigations for financial firms. Never got to use Palantir, but I know a guy who did. He said it's basically for people who don't know how to query or code on any level. I'm not surprised either. I can count the people in my field who want to learn SAS / SQL / R / VBA / Whatever on one hand.
Clojure's Java interop is smoother than Scala's, but not as seamless as Kotlin's. Kotlin is modern syntax for the same Java APIs and programming philosophy. Scala and Clojure are radically different languages (from Java as well as each other), for better or worse.

Kotlin is a modern Java-replacement, while Clojure and Scala have different strengths and weaknesses. That's not to say that you can't write many applications in any of the four languages, but the "feel" of the codebase would be completely different in Clojure or in Scala, while Kotlin would feel the same (but would be leaner).
Any chance there's a recorded talk of this? It'd be awesome to have some of the detail filled in
Correct; the issue tracker is still on Gna.

A simpler way to get there is http://bugs.wesnoth.org
Are they? I'd probably argue just the opposite, that most python developers are very familiar with C++ or (most of them) Java.
> Life is an incredibly rare event

Precisely why I am so exited about exploration of Europa and Titan and others in our solar system. Imagine if we find life beneath the surface just in our system, then the probability of finding life outside our system would be much higher.
As annoying as it is, especially when updating function signatures, I kinda enjoy having separate header files. It clearly defines the public vs. private interface(s), it's a place to put your docstring comments in and a single file that can provide a quick glance to how a module works.

Although it is much less practical in C++ than in plain C, when you have to put the whole class definitions (including private member functions) in a header.

A good editor/tags system/ide should support jumping between definition and declaration quickly, this definitely makes it a bit less painful (e.g. vim + ctags + cscope work fine).
I agree - we won't make it. We are rapidly improving our means to kill each other and become extinct while space colonization is neglected. It's obvious where this will lead.
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Yep for all its faults it's an impressive program.
There has been some recent discussion with moving the art and music assets away from GPL into a CC or similar license. The developers understand GPL was never really designed for those media. (You’ll have to remember, Wesnoth started in 2003; back then, Wikipedia was using GNU FDL for everything.) The tricky thing would be contacting all the music and art contributors to get their permission first, which is not an easy task for a project of this size.
I just generally don't agree with the mentality / philosophy / culture of the KDE project.

Mind if I ask what do you dislike about it?

Or what is your perception of the mentality/culture?
> They create a lot of attention for barbell training where there previously was none.

This. As a powerlifter I used to hate everything about crossfit, but now I realize it's a great way to get people away from pseudo body building and into the rack / onto the platform. I think a lot of people find technical lifts like the squat or clean to be very intimidating, but crossfit helps people get over this fear in a group environment. Once this has been accomplished and someone gets comfortable, it's fairly easy to steer them towards olympic lifting or powerlifting.

> More places for me to train, suddenly people understand you why its fun

It's so nice to now be able to travel and not have to worry about being stuck in some crappy commercial gym where people yell at you for using chalk and making noise while deadlifting.
Looking forward to reading this because of how much Scandinavian minimalism has influenced the web as late.

But the blue... I have to work up to it. My morning eyes are not there yet.
This is actually what we were doing (on IRC), but it doesn't scale up to 5 or 6 people over IRC very well.
Just because they’re looking for programmers doesn’t mean you can’t contribute! Many of the games scenarios need maintainers, and Wesnoth has a friendly and budding add-on community that is always looking for new content.
I've no idea if it's related, but here is one I'm familiar with:

https://code.google.com/p/owlpopulous/
I think the KDE Visual Design Group is doing a great job and that Breeze and Plasma 5 look great.
I just tried to educate myself about the Chinese getting enslaved and fighting a war for independence, but unfortunately I failed. Which events are you referring to?
This is great. I really look forward to seeing where it goes.

As an aside, KRunner is the best, most powerful and useful launcher I have ever used.
>International investors are pulling out of China, fueling record outflows through the Shanghai-Hong Kong exchange link, amid a $2.8 trillion plunge in mainland equity values since June 12. They’ve plowed $705 million into India over the same period, sparking a world-beating 7 percent gain in the benchmark S&P BSE Sensex index.

$705m? I doubt that this amount would move the needle. Maybe $705B. As this is the central number in this article I'm now sceptical about the rest.
The problem is we don't know a lot about the probabilities of abiogenesis. We do know the basic components for life, such as complex hydrocarbons and amino acids, do occur in non-biological nature. The question is how likely they are to combine into something self-replicating.

> Essentially it was about how all species branch from DNA

That is not correct. Most models consider RNA as a precursor to DNA. Over time, RNA has come to fulfill more narrow intra-cellular roles, but at some point in time it was probably the dominant gene format. By the same token, it's likely that RNA as an information carrier was preceded by other molecules, and very early proto-organisms might not even have had a unified gene carrier system - they might have been just "running systems" that split in two every once in a while.

> (ii) we evolved into advanced technological species.

This is also doubtful. Humans do combine several fortunate intellectual capabilities, but the components making up our neuronal structure are not unique to us. What's more, we do find advanced capabilities in organisms that developed after we split from a common ancestor, suggesting that the building blocks of general intelligence might arise readily under different circumstances and using different biological implementations (albeit with the caveat that we share a common biochemical machinery, the details of which may or may not make general intelligence more likely).