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A very vulgar response. I've heard it put in less stupid terms by other rightists. Although I've never heard a native New Yorker complain about rent control, regardless if they're rich or poor
Just remember that many of the early Sierra games you can end up in a no-win situation without a game-over screen.
Yeah, we could at least give Guam residents the right to vote. Them not having that right has a lot to do with racist legislators in a previous era feeling like votes by "alien races" (e.g., Asians) would be detrimental.
Good film adaptations of novels, especially books as rich in backstory as LOTR, almost always have to be simplified even if it does drive a lot of fans crazy. And, of course, even well-regarded and popular novels might well have benefited from tighter editing. Not saying this is the case with Tom Bombadil in LOTR, but it's probably true of back half of Return of the King. Even with the scouring of the Shire cut, the film version of Return of the King really went on too long after the climax.
What I mean is that I'd love to see a scheme where ISPs only count any of your bandwidth that traverses their backbone. Or perhaps charged incrementally less per hop in the ISP architecture.

It seems like that would be neutral, simple, and sensible, though I'm not quite sure how peering and colocated caches would be treated. Probably the same as bandwidth for the end user since it's up to ISPs and content providers to do that.
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/13099...

posts like this one is why it went off the rails a long time ago. there is also the one where he suggested a libav dev should commit suicide and later labeled it as "Austrian humour"
> The term "opinionated" tends to have an aggressive and negative connotation/association that you might be better off avoiding.

Opinionated in software is not negative to me. You know going in the author designed the ___ to fit his preferred workflow/goal/stack. For example, opinionated might mean: Doctrime ORM, LESS, and Bootstrap. If he left out the opinionated part I would assume it works with many various things where I could pick Doctrine, Eloquent, Propel etc and choose between LESS or SASS and Foundation vs Bootstrap.

This is much like yeoman: http://yeoman.io/

> Through our official Generators, we promote the "Yeoman workflow". This workflow is a robust and opinionated client-side stack, comprising tools and frameworks that can help developers quickly build beautiful web applications. We take care of providing everything needed to get started without any of the normal headaches associated with a manual setup.
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Using the same code for the backend is not realistic since Clojure leverages JVM libraries. A new ClojureScript backend ecosystem would need to start wrapping Node libraris to reach Clojure parity
personally, the most shocking part in the write up was the 40GB data limit. Isn't New Zealand supposed to a first world, developed country?
tl;dr - No change in language, one minor consistency oversight fixed. Big changes on implementation, including compiler being bootstrapped.
True, I was mostly referring to ZF-style set theories (which is what the thread is mainly about). Your point could even be extended by saying that there are proofs for a paraconsistent ZF with a universal set.

Your [3] link doesn't work by the way, I'm interested in reading Forster!
Swedish economist (and socialist) Assar Lindbeck asserted, “In many cases rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city—except for bombing.”

Cat got your tongue, comrade?
please find a mailing list post where Michael is being attacked like that.
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Am I crazy for thinking it seems naive to not anticipate that current employees may not take kindly to people who earn half as much as them getting bumped up to their salaries?
They want to preserve the culture of people who have less money. Yes, the market would be more efficient with no price controls but at the cost of replacing low income tenants with higher income tenants. I think a better solution is reasonably priced public housing distributed throughout the city.
You need to lift a 10KG weight about 2 kilometres to get a teaspoon of kerosene's energy, so it's not a great replacement on that front, and having 10KG weights dangling around at variable points between ceiling and floor sounds if anything even more of a liability than a lamp with a naked flame, which does at least stay where its put. Sorry to be negative but it's difficult to conceive of a realistic scenario where decent battery plus solar doesn't knock this into a cocked hat.
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Are you offering a rockstar salary? I understand true rockstars earn at least seven figures.
But, the Hobbits did have rhymes about Tom Bombadil, so someone among the Hobbits knew about him. Not that it really detracts from the article, he was just having a bit of fun.
They automatically translated C code to Go code. The objective was to produce correct Go code, speed was not an immediate concern - the auto-translated code mostly is very bad Go code, speed wise. Optimizing the Go code base of the compiler is the next step, planned to happen in subsequent releases.
The title from the article is somewhat less clickbait: "A Company Copes With Backlash Against the Raise That Roared"
Thanks for the radix tree reference!

On the other hand, stating "they could still maintain similar performance" for immutable dictionaries is misleading at best (you are right for dictionary sizes approaching 0). Anyone can look up benchmarks on the Internet showing real-world performance of immutable data structures and make their mind up if they actually can deliver in their particular use cases.

Mutability could be always used to boost performance on Von Neumann architecture if you know what you are doing. It's just becoming impractical due to increased complexity, pervasive security paranoia and the fact that there are very few people that can get things done right. If you want to contribute to advance your case, please create a competing computer architecture as fast as Von Neumann's, physically possible, but based on immutability.
Doesn't seem to be that he didn't anticipate problems, just that he was willing to work through them.
I would love to see a more in depth case study of this.

I also wonder how much of the issue is because it was in some respects a publicity stunt. If instead it had been quietly phased in over two years, I doubt there'd be as many negative ramifications.
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How many New Yorkers have you talked to?

Not everyone is happy paying several times the rent of their neighbors, just because they were there first.

We're also not really happy that a lot of the housing is slum-quality, since landlords generally want their tenants to move out and the law obliges them to make sure the guy paying $3000 and the guy paying $500 are equally miserable.
Well heres my single data point. 20 years ago, young me had to pick a nickname for the first online adventures. All the popular LotR characters were already taken, except Tom Bombadil, so I begrudgingly used that.
Sorry, there are just too many factually incorrect claims in your hyperbolic hysteria.....

> Distributing Windows 10 as a drive-by install that takes over your machine and turns it into a spamming node is really sleazy.

You only get the Windows 10 download if you have requested it. This means it is not actually a drive-by install, even if you are determined to use the term to smear Microsoft. (Drive-by installs are not requested and are usually from websites.)

> Microsoft is giving away Windows 10.

This isn't true, and I'm frankly amazed you don't realize that it it's not true.

Microsoft is giving consumers a free upgrade to Windows 10 if they have already paid for Windows 7 or 8. This is no different from Apple or Google giving away OS upgrades to people who have already paid for the product in the same way as Windows users (bundled with hardware).

> It's not a compelling product they can get people to
> pay for, unlike all previous versions of Windows.

Yeah, and by the same pretend "logic", Apple and Google don't have operating systems they could get people to pay for either.

> Microsoft, for the first time, has to claw its revenue out of the user some other way.

The business model hasn't changed. OEMs pay to install Windows 10, exactly like every other version of Windows. Microsoft is still in the software business, not, like Google, the surveillance-and-advertising business.

You're welcome to your conspiracy theories, of course. However, perhaps it would be better if you didn't try to support them with facts, because you don't appear to be able to get them correct ;-)
I think the real problem here is pedagogy.

I don't begin teaching someone programming by explaining objects and types.

I generally start by introducing three fundamental concepts: variables, conditionals, and loops. And I keep it simple to begin with:

a = 1
print(a) # 1
a = 2
print(a) # can you guess what it will print?

Then I add conditionals:

if a == 2:
print("it is two!")
else:
print("it is not two...")

And I only really cover 'for' at first:

groceries = ["ham", "cheese", "eggs"]
for item in groceries:
print(item)

Along the way I explain some of the primitive data types: string, integer, float; and containers such as list and dictionary. And that is usually enough to get started with simple tasks. I tend to elide what functions are and just call them "commands" until later on so that I can demonstrate why looping is so cool:

import turtle

turtle.setup()

for amount in range(100):
turtle.forward(amount)
turtle.left(75)

And that usually drives home the point: grouping commands together to repeat them as many times as we wish using loops; variables hold data; and conditionals let us do different things depending on whether something is True or False.

I haven't had much trouble with this approach for years. I don't even get to explain iterables to newbies most of the time! Once in a while someone tries something like:

a = "foo"
a + 1

And they get TypeError or they pass in an object of the wrong type to a function and get ValueError. Early on this usually isn't a problem because some things just don't make sense like adding numbers and strings. However it can get confusing when learning how to look up functions and use them because we can only informally document what kinds of things a given function will take in its signature... it's an advantage and disadvantage of the duck-typing philosophy. It's a wart but one that I haven't really encountered with anyone I've taught until they're pretty far along and able to help themselves.
The original OLPC attempted to ship a pull-cord generator. Trevor Bayliss, of Freeplay radio fame, proposed a generator based on hoisting a weight on a branch of a tree. The principle is sound.
As for taking money from locals, I would be surprised if kerosene was produced locally... and even if it was, this is a one-time expense, versus an ongoing outlay.
The basic idea here is actually a very old approach -- clocks have been powered this way for centuries. But it's very cool and refreshing to see a modern electrical spin on it.
I think an article outlining the details behind the non-trivial example, specifically on configuring how library names are resolved and how it can be modified dynamically, would be instructive.
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That's a very nifty alternative/hack to expensive and sometimes inaccurate or nonexistant credit reports :)

Especially in the third world, there's a LOT of people that don't have credit cards, and lots of informal credit with outrageous interest rates and the good ol' mafia-style debt collectors.

PD: I've worked for the biggest credit report company in Latin America, and one thing I noticed is that low-income people generally DON'T default on their credit, especially mothers or low-income workers.

The credit report company is a VERY big boogieman though (it wrecks a person's life for at least 10 years if they default), maybe they see this option as easier to default on.
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Crab Mentality[0]: Not just for people earning slightly-above minimum wage anymore.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_mentality
Although that might be true, battery powered flashlights/torches suffer from the problem of leaky batteries. I've tried to use many flashlights that don't work, only to find the batteries have started to leak acid and ruined the flashlight. Sure, one should check the batteries every year or so, but who really does that? I'm not saying the gravitylight is a good replacement, just that battery powered flashlights do have some drawbacks.
How about some examples of the site, some text about how it works or what it does before signing up?

Sure, sharing my thoughts is great. Who am I sharing them with? What sorts of thoughts? Is it all public? Private? Who else is sharing, and why?

Putting this behind a sign-up wall is seriously hurting any opportunity this may have for you to get users, or even get people interested.
They have some samples that you could use: https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps/Network-Informat...
No, not at all. I think it would have made more sense to give each employee a raise based on a percentage of their income. That way, everyone gets a pay raise, and you can give more money to the lower earners without offending employees because it is an equal percentage increase.
This is one of those things that people imply when they talk about "rockstar developers". Those who get so much stuff (of relatively significant achievement) done and have time to blog about it, and have time to speak publicly about it, and have time to further engage the community around them.

...and eat and sleep, of course.
I would say Cosmic Rift is more the successor.
Interesting. He would have done well to have read The Hard Thing about Hard Things by Ben Horowitz, which conveys nicely that much of being a CEO is realizing that when you think you're talking to person X (about their salary, etc), you're also sending messages to everyone else in the company. You have to keep everyone in mind, all the time.
The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. In it, Wittgenstein touts his logical atomism. I don't put much stock in the Tractatus, but some people build entire academic careers on it.

So who knows, maybe I'm missing something.
Rent stabilization != rent control - this is confusing for people in other parts of the country where there is only one category of housing price regulation.

60% of all NYC housing units are under some form of rent regulation - either rent control, rent stabilization, or some other form of rent protection. Only about 40% of the housing stock is market-rate.
I know what you're saying, but I've never understood this logic personally. How does someone else earning more money hurt you? It's not like a person doing better than you is taking your money.
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NYC has several kinds of rent control. Some are called "rent control" by the city, others are called "rent stabilization".

Economically, they are all rent control. And 60% of the city is subject to it.
>Why is rent stabilization bad?

It means that you've removed the incentive owners typically have to keep the place looking nice, repairing damages, etc.

Why invest anything if you know your rate of return will be low or negative?

I know liberals like to try to make unicorns exist but economics cuts through most of the lies and bullshit of politics.
This is very useful, but you need to make sure you have very, VERY strong privacy agreements.

Your biggest competitors may be the banks themselves and the fact that a customer may trust their bank (who already knows what they're buying anyway), over you.
Since we're playing the "if you read" game, I did. I also bothered to research the claim [0].

The article's explanation for why Daesh is insulting is wrong (has nothing to do with conjugation) and the reason the filth gets so upset by the name could just as easily occur by calling filth "filth" as it would by calling filth "Daesh".

[0] https://www.freewordcentre.com/blog/2015/02/daesh-isis-media...
It's hard to imagine how an acetone spill on the craft exterior (or even interior) would survive the launch.
You would disregard a non-native PROGRAMMER because on the front page of his side-project says"Sing" instead of "Sing". That's extremely harsh. I might even consider it stupid.

I think he is applying as a developer, not as an English teacher.

ps. I've read a lot of comments like this one, in various threads here and on reddit. I really wonder if the people who make those remarks are equally austere with themselves.
Controlling is not really a matter of point of view. It's a matter of patrolling, and sending boats away if they are not allowed in the area, etc. Japan inherited this control from the US, and China is perfectly allowed to dispute ownership of the islands. But claiming that Japan is not -at present- controlling the islands is simply not correct.

The Liancourt Rocks case is interesting, because it is so asymmetric: all the Korean people I know feel so strongly about it, but none of the Japanese people I know either know or care about it. If I were in Japan I would try to give up all claims on Dokdo as part of a wider friendship treaty with Korea, and try to prop up the relations between the two countries. But Japanese politicians are questionable at best, and Korean politicians seem to enjoy Japan bashing, so I doubt it will happen in the foreseeable future...
I actually started working on one using Emscripten. Got as far as being able to fly a ship around in the original maps.

Maybe I should resurrect that attempt.
You can fix the Russel's Paradox in ZF as well.
I'm a rent-controlled tenant in a beautiful apartment building on West 55th Street. My rent is low, but not obscenely so.

I lived here through the hard times when the neighborhood was shitty and filled with derelicts, winos and prostitutes.

We all kept the building clean and nice. We lived in the building when _nobody wanted to live here_. We chased out the crooks who used to try to mug people in our elevator and kick open doors. The landlord made improvements to the building because the way the rent control law is designed, _they have to_ to get rent increases.

And we're still here and a great tenant and great neighbors.

Oh and of course the landlord has been trying all sorts of illegal means to get us (and the single-digit handful of other controlled tenants, 100+ unit building) out - and regularly gets verbally slapped around by a judge in housing court. It's a good thing we held on to hold on to _all of our records related to being in this apartment all the way back to 1970_...because we had to.
If I'm not mistaken, the obtuse fast inverse square root algorithm came from early lighting engines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root
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I just installed Win 10 Pro, and my default was to get updates from Microsoft, not peer-to-peer
> Actually, if I remember right, it was discussed (briefly) giving the ring to Tom. But Gandalf said the ring would eventually consume Tom in the end.

You don't remember right. :)

I think what you are remembering is when the Council discusses leaving the Ring with Bombadil, at the end of which they conclude that it wouldn't work; even if you could make him accept, he would lose it, or forget the necessity and importance of it, and even if he didn't, then all of Middle-Earth would fall to Sauron (who can torture even the hills), last of all Tom: Last as he was First. There is no suggestion that the Ring would ever afflict Tom.

> "Could [Sauron's] power be defied by Bombadil alone? I think not. I think that in the end, if all else is conquered, Bombadil will fall, Last as he was First; and then Night will come."
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that's actually what I ended up going with : )
I know quite a lof of Germans that want them to be closed.

Local politicians are usually not among them for the reasons you stated but instances of US military are not exactly admired these days and tolerated at best.

There is also a group of people that considers Germany not sovereign and still US-occupied territory.
Googling for "Deutschland Souveräner Staat" brings up some 75k hits and the top 10 are all related to this very question. I doubt these people are in favor of "US occupation"
Regarding efficiency.. I'm noticing more homeless wandering the east village pandering for money these days. With the rents approaching 4k/mo for a 1bdrm, people will probably not tolerate being harassed for money (was called an asshole the other day for ignoring a request for donation by a dude, who I can only assume is homeless). That said, I kinda miss the edginess of the East Village from years gone by...
are the entwives the trees that are under his control? is that what happened to them?
The room is decorated with flowers and balloons, rather than being a "boring classroom" and they do fun things like cupcake tasting or yoga during the day.

I suppose that could attract a certain audience but I think a number of girls could feel a bit uncomfortable being pigeon-holed as liking all things "girly".

When I was in High School I would have been aghast if someone held a "guy's programming workshop" with weight-lifting and sports-talk.
I assume using some form of copy-on-write.
tl;dr Possibly tongue in cheek please for general sanity in the world. This time projected at the genius de jour. Your favorite and mine.

I feel like I've read this kind of thing before... Rich white guy saves the world. Oh yea, Dances with wolves. No, wait, Avatar. No, wait, lots of other stuff.

Yes, these things need fixing. No, I don't think one person can fix them. Yes, Elon Musk is hella cool. No, these problems won't be solved in our lifetime.
Oh, I don't live in NYC, but we have rent stabilization here and the landlord is allowed to increase the rent by a percentage of the current rent plus a percentage of the amount spent on repairs and renovations. If NYC doesn't compensate landlords for repairs, which in turn means they don't want to do them, I agree that is horrible.
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Your circular argument did not move my LGBT supporters at Mozilla, or negate my record of good conduct and relations over the years with all non-Jacobins.

And of course Mozilla did not fire me because of anything like your bigoted imputation of "hate". Such noise amounted to a non-issue.

Being in an echo chamber is not good for one's hearing. Step outside and listen.
You are giving corporations way too much credit..not sure how you arrived to that conclusion..things do not work that way..companies with financial interest in linux hire people to do what like (or sometimes, it is even better..to do what they passionate about) so these individuals can in some ways have limited influence in the direction of a particular project.
Think it like "hoarding cats" not as "we are all an all powerful entity that can dictate at will".
Price controls are generally considered to be inefficient purely from an economic perspective.

However, the free market has generally been a terrible provider of low-income housing solutions. There's a long, long history to this from shanty towns to tenements. That's why basically all developed countries have some type of social housing component from demand-side subsidies to public housing or regulated stock.

When we lose permanently affordable units, it is invariably extraordinarily expensive to replace them given land costs and the size of subsidies that are needed. Contemporary homelessness emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s in both San Francisco and New York as both cities started to lose single-room occupancy hotels or SROs.