JavaScript is a horrible language, as you can see. But PHP is also a horrible language. If you are writing a lot of JS for the client side, then node.js has the advantage that you only need to learn one horrible language.
H2O2 is not a particularly good way to store energy. It is a strong oxidizer, and can burn human flesh unless diluted down to about 3%. It will ignite many substances on contact. It is also thermodynamically unstable, and can explosively decompose if it gets too hot, or comes in contact with something flammable. When it decomposes, it produces concentrated oxygen, which can cause fires to burn out of control. It is nasty stuff.
The person doing 16 hour days is not turning out the same thing as two people doing 8 hour days. Even if they somehow sustain their level of effort, the quality of the code is going to be much worse.
That has not been my experience. I produce my best code late at night, when I can work without interruptions. The worst code comes from the 9-to-5ers that slap something together between meetings, skip the unit tests, and check-in uncompilable garbage before rushing out the door for Junior's soccer game, leaving me to work late cleaning up their mess.
I have rarely seen a programmer give an accurate estimate. Inexperienced programmers usually wildly underestimate how long a task will take. More experienced programmers will apply Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
The best way to estimate how long a programming task will take is to look at how long a similar task took for the same team in the past.
When I hear about a new startup, I drive by their office at 9pm on a Friday evening. If the parking lot is full, and the lights are on, then that company may be successful. But if everyone has already gone home, they will almost certainly fail.
When I noticed that IBM's parking lot was nearly empty by 6pm, I sold all my IBM stock. That turned out to be a smart move.
The assertion in the summary that a "balanced life" makes you a "better programmer" is not supported by any evidence that I have seen. I don't work long hours like I did when I was younger, but I am not as productive either. There is nothing wrong with living a balanced life, but don't kid yourself that there is no tradeoff.
Do you find the Echo/SmartThings combination effective?
No. There are a lot of problems and incompatibilities with various IoT devices. "Google Home" will supposedly have a built-in Z-Wave hub, so it will not need a separate bridge like the Amazon Echo does. You might want to wait a few months for it to be released. But Google Home is designed to mostly work with Nest devices (which are way over-priced) so I am not sure how well it will work with third party devices.
Home automation is still in the "early adopter" phase. So you should go ahead if you want some toys to play with, but not if you are looking for something that will actually save you time and money. Something that your mom would use is still a few years away.
Things like the side of the pool holding the shielding water. Which would then drain very rapidly.
No. The pools are below ground level. They would not "drain rapidly". If the pool was ruptured, the (non-radioactive) water would slowly seep out. Meanwhile, the pool could be kept topped off with a hose while the waste was transferred to another pool, or the pool could be repaired with hydraulic concrete.
B-but can the cloud be very small; on your own server in your own home?
Not unless you want to spend a lot of money, and hundreds of hours of your own time.
Look, the economics of this is simple: By producing data that can be monitized, the cloud companies can reduce the up-front price. Most people go with the cheapest option. This reduces costs even more, since NRE can be spread over more units. It would be very difficult for a non-cloud company to compete with that. People that care about their privacy, and are willing to pay extra to protect it, are a niche market.
My home automation system uses an Amazon Echo and a Samsung SmartThings hub. The Echo is cloud based. I would prefer a non-cloud solution, but to be honest, I would not be willing to pay much more for it. I don't really care that much if Amazon knows what time I turn off the lights.
There is no perfect solution for storing nuclear waste, but for the next few decades, the pools are our best option from a technical perspective, and our only option from a political perspective. Despite the alarmism in TFA, the water cannot simply be "drained out" by, say, pulling a cork at the bottom of the pool. To drain a pool takes several days of pumping, which a terrorist would be unable to do. The water itself is not radioactive. Maintenance workers go into the pools with scuba equipment, and we know this is okay because Randall Monroe said it is safe.
In the next few decades, we are likely to make a lot of progress in robots to handle radioactive materials much more inexpensively and more safely that we can do today. We are also likely to find uses for many of the isotopes, which will have economic value and no longer be considered "waste". A few decades hence, we will almost certainly be in a better position to make long term decisions about what to do with the spent fuel. In the meantime, the fuel rods are getting less and less radioactive every day.
you can't show the world what you can do if you never get HIRED.
The tech unemployment rate in Silicon Valley is 3%, just as low as at the height of the dot-com boom. I get unsolicited job offers several times a month. If you can't get hired in today's job market, the problem is with you.
you are perceived as 'too expensive, we wont insult you with our offer
Then put a "salary expectation" on your resume. That lets prospective employers know exactly what you are willing to accept. I see that on about 10% of the resumes that I read, especially with non-traditional candidates, that may be self-taught or have an unusual employment history.
can it detect whether somebody is black or white, in order to find out whether to shoot them at sight?
I have only seen these robo-cops at the Stanford Shopping Center, where there are no black people. Anyway, they are only armed with a camera. A group of unsupervised kids were randomly pushing the buttons on the front of the robot, which caused it to make beeping and whirring noises, but otherwise had no effect on its behavior.
at the end of the day there's a continent called Asia, if your ethnic background is from there then you're Asian.
By the logic of literalism, Azerbaijanis are "Caucasian" since the Caucasus mountains cut through Azerbaijan, while English people are not. People in the southern suburbs of Istanbul and the people in the northern suburbs speak the same language, worship the same God, have identical cultures, and are genetically indistinguishable. Nobody would consider them separate races or ethnicities just because they are on different continents. And only Frosty the Snowman is literally "white".
Indians are willing to live 4+ in a two-bedroom apartment; are you willing to compete with them on that?
I am white, and born in America. For my first 8 years in Silicon Valley, I lived in my office (and saved a ton of money doing so). I have never had any problem competing with Indians, or Chinese or anyone else. Here is my secret: Be worth what you are paid. You can do that by focusing on getting-shit-done instead of whining about how the world is oppressing highly educated American born white males.
How is this confusing? It said Asian American not Chinese American. India is part of Asia.
Because Indians are culturally and genetically closer to Europe than East Asia. Do you consider Jews to be Asians, since Judea was in Asia?
Nearly all race data in America, is based on how people self-identify, and many Indians (and Paks) self-identify as "white" when given a binary choice.
It will become more difficult to support life in certain parts of this planet, places that have had human civilization for quite a long time.
There is much more land on earth that is uninhabited because it is too cold than too hot. For every hectare that we lose in Rajasthan or Niger, we will gain many more in Siberia, Nanavut, and Greenland.
Why the fuck would they make a test of an air-breathing engine suborbital?
Because the author of TFA should be executed for journalistic malpractice. This was not a test of an air-breathing engine. It was a test of the non-air-breathing rocket booster that will be used to launch future tests. Scramjets only work at high speed, so they need a booster to get them started. Since we already know how to make fast rockets, this test was of no particular significance, other than laying the groundwork for future tests of the actual scramjet.
Yeah, but polio is on the rise in Islamic areas of Africa.
Hogwash. Polio is believed to be exterminated in Africa, and if there are no new cases in the next 2 years, Africa will be declared polio free. The only countries with active polio are Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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JS has become the absolute bane of the internet
JavaScript is a horrible language, as you can see. But PHP is also a horrible language. If you are writing a lot of JS for the client side, then node.js has the advantage that you only need to learn one horrible language.
14,000 x $907 = $12.7m So where do you join this gang of 1400 fantastically well coordinated thieves?
$907 is exactly 100,000 Yen, which is the transaction limit.
H2O2 is not a particularly good way to store energy. It is a strong oxidizer, and can burn human flesh unless diluted down to about 3%. It will ignite many substances on contact. It is also thermodynamically unstable, and can explosively decompose if it gets too hot, or comes in contact with something flammable. When it decomposes, it produces concentrated oxygen, which can cause fires to burn out of control. It is nasty stuff.
The person doing 16 hour days is not turning out the same thing as two people doing 8 hour days. Even if they somehow sustain their level of effort, the quality of the code is going to be much worse.
That has not been my experience. I produce my best code late at night, when I can work without interruptions. The worst code comes from the 9-to-5ers that slap something together between meetings, skip the unit tests, and check-in uncompilable garbage before rushing out the door for Junior's soccer game, leaving me to work late cleaning up their mess.
You can give an accurate estimate ...
I have rarely seen a programmer give an accurate estimate. Inexperienced programmers usually wildly underestimate how long a task will take. More experienced programmers will apply Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
The best way to estimate how long a programming task will take is to look at how long a similar task took for the same team in the past.
When I hear about a new startup, I drive by their office at 9pm on a Friday evening. If the parking lot is full, and the lights are on, then that company may be successful. But if everyone has already gone home, they will almost certainly fail.
When I noticed that IBM's parking lot was nearly empty by 6pm, I sold all my IBM stock. That turned out to be a smart move.
The assertion in the summary that a "balanced life" makes you a "better programmer" is not supported by any evidence that I have seen. I don't work long hours like I did when I was younger, but I am not as productive either. There is nothing wrong with living a balanced life, but don't kid yourself that there is no tradeoff.
Do you find the Echo/SmartThings combination effective?
No. There are a lot of problems and incompatibilities with various IoT devices. "Google Home" will supposedly have a built-in Z-Wave hub, so it will not need a separate bridge like the Amazon Echo does. You might want to wait a few months for it to be released. But Google Home is designed to mostly work with Nest devices (which are way over-priced) so I am not sure how well it will work with third party devices.
Home automation is still in the "early adopter" phase. So you should go ahead if you want some toys to play with, but not if you are looking for something that will actually save you time and money. Something that your mom would use is still a few years away.
Things like the side of the pool holding the shielding water. Which would then drain very rapidly.
No. The pools are below ground level. They would not "drain rapidly". If the pool was ruptured, the (non-radioactive) water would slowly seep out. Meanwhile, the pool could be kept topped off with a hose while the waste was transferred to another pool, or the pool could be repaired with hydraulic concrete.
B-but can the cloud be very small; on your own server in your own home?
Not unless you want to spend a lot of money, and hundreds of hours of your own time.
Look, the economics of this is simple: By producing data that can be monitized, the cloud companies can reduce the up-front price. Most people go with the cheapest option. This reduces costs even more, since NRE can be spread over more units. It would be very difficult for a non-cloud company to compete with that. People that care about their privacy, and are willing to pay extra to protect it, are a niche market.
My home automation system uses an Amazon Echo and a Samsung SmartThings hub. The Echo is cloud based. I would prefer a non-cloud solution, but to be honest, I would not be willing to pay much more for it. I don't really care that much if Amazon knows what time I turn off the lights.
There is no perfect solution for storing nuclear waste, but for the next few decades, the pools are our best option from a technical perspective, and our only option from a political perspective. Despite the alarmism in TFA, the water cannot simply be "drained out" by, say, pulling a cork at the bottom of the pool. To drain a pool takes several days of pumping, which a terrorist would be unable to do. The water itself is not radioactive. Maintenance workers go into the pools with scuba equipment, and we know this is okay because Randall Monroe said it is safe.
In the next few decades, we are likely to make a lot of progress in robots to handle radioactive materials much more inexpensively and more safely that we can do today. We are also likely to find uses for many of the isotopes, which will have economic value and no longer be considered "waste". A few decades hence, we will almost certainly be in a better position to make long term decisions about what to do with the spent fuel. In the meantime, the fuel rods are getting less and less radioactive every day.
From over here in Europe they both look like a water cooler would be the better candidate.
Irrelevant, since a water cooler won't be on the ballot.
you can't show the world what you can do if you never get HIRED.
The tech unemployment rate in Silicon Valley is 3%, just as low as at the height of the dot-com boom. I get unsolicited job offers several times a month. If you can't get hired in today's job market, the problem is with you.
you are perceived as 'too expensive, we wont insult you with our offer
Then put a "salary expectation" on your resume. That lets prospective employers know exactly what you are willing to accept. I see that on about 10% of the resumes that I read, especially with non-traditional candidates, that may be self-taught or have an unusual employment history.
can it detect whether somebody is black or white, in order to find out whether to shoot them at sight?
I have only seen these robo-cops at the Stanford Shopping Center, where there are no black people. Anyway, they are only armed with a camera. A group of unsupervised kids were randomly pushing the buttons on the front of the robot, which caused it to make beeping and whirring noises, but otherwise had no effect on its behavior.
You clearly have not met people who are albino.
Albinos are not white. They are pink.
at the end of the day there's a continent called Asia, if your ethnic background is from there then you're Asian.
By the logic of literalism, Azerbaijanis are "Caucasian" since the Caucasus mountains cut through Azerbaijan, while English people are not. People in the southern suburbs of Istanbul and the people in the northern suburbs speak the same language, worship the same God, have identical cultures, and are genetically indistinguishable. Nobody would consider them separate races or ethnicities just because they are on different continents. And only Frosty the Snowman is literally "white".
You should look at a globe some time, rather than rectangular world maps that exaggerate the size of land masses toward the poles.
Maybe you should look at a globe. Notice how the tropics are mostly OCEAN, and the northern latitudes are mostly LAND?
Indians are willing to live 4+ in a two-bedroom apartment; are you willing to compete with them on that?
I am white, and born in America. For my first 8 years in Silicon Valley, I lived in my office (and saved a ton of money doing so). I have never had any problem competing with Indians, or Chinese or anyone else. Here is my secret: Be worth what you are paid. You can do that by focusing on getting-shit-done instead of whining about how the world is oppressing highly educated American born white males.
How is this confusing? It said Asian American not Chinese American. India is part of Asia.
Because Indians are culturally and genetically closer to Europe than East Asia. Do you consider Jews to be Asians, since Judea was in Asia?
Nearly all race data in America, is based on how people self-identify, and many Indians (and Paks) self-identify as "white" when given a binary choice.
You're still thinking in Silicon. Intel isn't.
Ok, then the diameter of a carbon atom is 0.17 nm, so 0.1 nm would still be impossible. Even a hydrogen atom has a van der waals diameter of 0.12 nm.
It will become more difficult to support life in certain parts of this planet, places that have had human civilization for quite a long time.
There is much more land on earth that is uninhabited because it is too cold than too hot. For every hectare that we lose in Rajasthan or Niger, we will gain many more in Siberia, Nanavut, and Greenland.
keep innovating all the way to the 0.1nm process.
Since the diameter of a single silicon atom is 0.2nm, I don't think they will reach 0.1nm.
Why the fuck would they make a test of an air-breathing engine suborbital?
Because the author of TFA should be executed for journalistic malpractice. This was not a test of an air-breathing engine. It was a test of the non-air-breathing rocket booster that will be used to launch future tests. Scramjets only work at high speed, so they need a booster to get them started. Since we already know how to make fast rockets, this test was of no particular significance, other than laying the groundwork for future tests of the actual scramjet.
If the TSA could screen for stupidity, then there wouldn't be a TSA in the first place.
If there were no stupid people, there would be no market for vapers.
Smallpox vaccine is NOT made from smallpox. It is made from cowpox. In fact, the word "vaccine" is Latin for "from cows".
There may be good scientific reasons to keep the smallpox samples, but making vaccines is not one of them.
Yeah, but polio is on the rise in Islamic areas of Africa.
Hogwash. Polio is believed to be exterminated in Africa, and if there are no new cases in the next 2 years, Africa will be declared polio free. The only countries with active polio are Pakistan and Afghanistan.