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Grasping at straws is a strange way to say rolling in money. The Journals are relics for sure, but with the internet their costs went down, and they make a ton of money financed by tax-funded research.

They used it in the same sentence as the emote itself, so I'd imagine it's not meant to be taken too seriously. The Kappa face is not generally used in more reputable sites, but this is a internet subculture piece, so I think it fits.

If you are interested mainly in the functional language aspect of OCaml and use Windows, F# is very close to OCaml in syntax/semantics, but has really good support within Visual Studio (a really good debugger for example).

Once you want to use some of the more advanced features (Modules and Functors come to mind), you can switch back to OCaml relatively easily since they are so similar.

Not OP, but if you want faithfulness to the original languages, English Standard Version is really good. New American Standard Bible is also good.

I find it amusing that many places that will require "Strong" passwords with numbers, letters, and symbols, will use 9 digits as if it is secure, many even using just the last four!

I just read it as "Accepting higher variance investments". Start-ups are already high variance, but going outside of existing trends pushes it even higher.

Biking is supposed to be done on roads, not sidewalks.

What poor choices are revealed by writing a debugger in particular?

At this point, he compiles Jai to C, and the compiler isn't too gigantic yet, so there's not a huge surface area to look for compiler bugs.

Hearthstone (by Blizzard) is a Unity game, not that performance is a huge concern for card games. It's a pretty thin client mainly for displaying the animations/artwork while most of the logic runs serverside.

Still, it's a very profitable game by a triple A company.

"This is a huge challenge for successful founders: how does one ensure that a company's culture and values don't degrade long after the original team is gone?"

More than just a founder problem. This has been a defining problem for empires throughout history: how to make sure the next guy doesn't mess it up.

At least partially because stitching is still a prominent feature of certain types of fashion.

Interesting how they predict Programmers have a higher chance of automation than the other areas of engineering since programmers are the ones automating other things. I figure once programming is fully automated, pretty much everything else is automatable.

I think the Reddit execs see other aggregators just ripping off things that were popular on Reddit[0] and thinking that they are missing out on a potential revenue source.

Their user base seems to really dislike this move[1], but it seems to be more of an expansion to get users that don't normally use Reddit. I imagine users of Upvoted will be people that would normally use Buzzfeed or 9gag, probably largely disjoint from the actual Reddit community.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditSimMeta/comments/3fnkni/9g...

[1] 45% upvoted at time of posting: https://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/3npxm4/introducing_up...

Personally, I did not remember this capability until I saw this article, and I've followed the whole deal a lot closer than my circle of friends. People either don't know or don't care and don't know that they should care.

In the presidential debates and primary campaigns, how many times did you see someone say that this is a major issue? I can definitely point to presidential hopefuls making the opposite point, however.

In certain cases you would save a whole ton of money for exactly the same drug since India has much less patent protection (you can't patent the drug, only how you make it, and for a shorter period). According to their Wikipedia page, they have the 3rd largest pharmaceuticals industry, but only 14th in total value.

It seems like you could get some pretty good prices on drugs at comparable quality. Hopefully the TPP agreement doesn't interfere.

For most of the people I know that aren't in tech, patent reform isn't remotely on their radar. Congress isn't going to go against the money for an issue that doesn't have overwhelming popular support. Is there even a consensus on what would fix the problem? Banning software patents just covers one edge case, but there are plenty more issues in patent law.

Patents in all fields clearly slow down innovation by allowing the holder to slow down or stop derivative works. The common counter to removing patents altogether is big pharmacy. I don't know how much sympathy I can have for big pharmaceuticals either with how much they get away with: even with unpatented drugs we see anti-competitive behavior with companies like Turing. Clearly the innovation is profitable enough that funding it publicly and then reaping the benefit publicly shouldn't be a problem, right?

The other objection is that it promotes secrets over open innovation, but I'm not sure that is too valid either. The current status quo gags profitable utilization of research for 20 years. Surely there's an acceptable alternative.

Property owners already have the power to disallow short term rentals in their units, and won't need this law.

We already know this is funded/supported by Hotels, which are no doubt resenting lost income. The other beneficiaries are people who resent that what their neighbors are doing is legal.

We don't need housing in the Bay Area to be more scarce, and reducing property owner's rights in order to do it is even worse.

Well, in my university's intro programming class, there were a couple hundred people. Grade-wise, the unit tests said it all. You didn't get personal feedback unless you asked for it. The test framework would email you the test cases and what your output was versus the expected, so a lot of times you could figure out your mistake (or bad assumption) without asking the professor.

The professor would have the grading details on the whole class so if we missed a lot of points on a particular problem, they would concentrate on that for a bit.

If you needed personalized feedback, you could ask the professor questions after class, at office hours, at the discussions section to your TA, or at the TA's office hours. There just wasn't personalized feedback based on your assignments.

For the lazy:

"It is possible to limit the number of free articles that a Google News reader can access via First Click Free. A user coming from the domain [.google.] must be able to see a minimum of 3 articles per day."

https://support.google.com/news/publisher/answer/40543?hl=en

Yes, but I don't fill up my phone's storage during those activities.

The issue comes up if you use your phone solely as a camera without an accompanying connection for long enough to fill up internal storage without some way to offload it.

It's a situation that won't come up ever for most users of the phone, and as Wifi and Data coverage increases will become even more obscure.

Memory safety is compile-time guaranteed except in unsafe blocks.

It's a little less strong than your impression. Memory absolutely can be a problem, but instead of looking over the entire program to find it, you know the problem comes from a marked unsafe block.

That's pretty niche though. Even in that scenario, you could always offload to external storage.

It seems reasonable that their phones are expected to mostly behave as phones, and not as a large photo/video repository.

I'm always amused when I look at the Date/Time settings and see that the West Coast runs on Cupertino time

I wonder why this is... My first guess is that hardly anyone that works in SF can afford to own housing, my second is that real estate speculators are buying up and renting a lot of San Francisco property.

Quick exercise: What country worse represents human rights than Saudi Arabia? Their "Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice" is seriously 1984-esque.

It really seems like you can be executed for literally anything, and if the government doesn't want to get you, some vigilante could do it with impunity.

"At the heart of Gryffin is a deduplication engine that compares a new page with already seen pages. If the HTML structure of the new page is similar to those already seen, it is classified as a duplicate and not crawled further."

Does anyone know what definition they use to constitute "similar"? In particular I'm wondering if you have to do any sort of configuration on Single Page apps which could have remarkably similar markup but completely different behaviors/vulnerabilities.

That's why a strangely sound election strategy is to just vote no on every proposition. Most of them have heavy corporate sponsorship and are written to deceive the public.

I've been trying to think of a solution like this, but I'm not sure how to actually implement it. Do you know of any guides to do this?

You have to get away with it for a while first. Otherwise you get fired before you are the only one that knows what is going on.

Curious what demand based adjustment you would suggest. It seems hard to do since people set their own rates