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It's evidence to show people (family, doctors, etc... and yourself). It's harder evidence than flaky human memory or "impressions" of how I slept, in any event. You can literally see how crappy your sleep is, on a chart. It's rather eye-opening, and if you have a wife or girlfriend who wonders why you're a space cadet today who can't get anything done, you can always point to the "4 hours of good shuteye" chart from last night (if it exists) lol

This was interesting! Took a stab at it myself and got it to work but it wasn't as small as some of these!

They need to get the battery life above "1 day". I think that's what's stopping MANY people. In my case, I almost need sleep tracking (diagnosed with a sleep disorder).

IQ of 148 here (not that I put much stock in it). Ballmer is an idiot. What he lacks in idiocy, he more than makes up for with... lack of leadership, lack of charisma, lack of ethics, and just raw lack of coolness period.

Anyway, that's what I thought BEFORE I read the article. This article is actually pretty awesome! And points out some good things about the guy. I like him a little more now. Nice work, Medium!

One thing I would note is that sticking with 1 company for a long period of time is not necessarily great. You (and the companies you switch among) can learn a TON from each other if you move around a bit. There's even studies that show this (your value to a company is largely exhausted after 2 years).

Well, forcing gas to be cheaper had some unintended side effects in Venezuela:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014241278873240007045783867...

Anyway, I don't see how such a tax would single out the poor more than others.

The negative externalities of burning gas to move cars (not to mention weed whackers and lawnmowers etc., which are somehow exempt from emissions controls and pollute horribly) need to be accounted for somehow. See: The tragedy of the commons.

It only needs to release less than an equivalent ICE vehicle. Comparing it to "zero" is unfair.

tl;dr

Badly-written test, nothing to see here.

Correlations with eye color may also be _facts_, but this does not mean that they are important. And (hopefully by definition, since these are all just physical attributes), such correlations (as ridiculous as it sounds) should be no more, or less, important than racial, gender, age or other correlations. They're all just tools to oppress minorities and treat people as groups rather than individuals, which is good for a single brain trying to make sense of the world but bad for the individuals in the group.

Are you aware of the blue eyes/brown eyes experiment by teacher Jane Elliott? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Elliott

In any event, the problem, if any, is cultural and economic, NOT racial. I lived with a white Irish guy who grew up in an entirely black neighborhood, and if you closed your eyes you would have zero doubt he was black. One of the coolest (and most mind-blowing) guys I've ever met.

Have you read "Night" by Elie Wiesel? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_(book) The Nazis had plenty of correlations (I'm sorry, _FACTS_) to being Jewish, put it that way... and we all know how that ended up.

The only racial correlative that makes any sense to track, to me, is sickle-cell anemia, because it is helpful.

The problem is your brain (and my brain, and everyone's brain). As soon as you learn of an unfortunate correlation with race (or sex... did you know almost all rapists are men? Did you know most people interested in math and science are male? Etc.), you tend to lean on it too much to make judgments across ALL of the correlate, and therein lies the serious problem, because the outliers get _the_shaft_. The well-meaning black man experiences bias on a daily basis and gets worse jobs, the science-interested woman gets scoffed at and thus discouraged by male teachers, and the good gentleman never gets the girl because she crosses the street before actually meeting him out of fear.

So, fucking quit it, man. It's not helpful, in any way, shape, or form. It is disingenuous to all humans, to restrict a handful of them based on a correlation with a physical attribute. It's giving in to the laziness of your brain trying to oversimplify a complex world. It's actively evil, in fact, the equivalent of grouping all Koreans together and calling them "gooks" because the idea that you're shooting actual humans is just too distasteful a thought.

Don't you see? It's ENTIRELY easier for you to not hire an entirely qualified black man, if you're spouting this bullshit.

Someone whose very job demands a high standard of integrity, acting in this fashion... This is what a horrible human is.

Michael Magrino, cited in that article many times, seems to be the person behind http://mandmprivateeye.com/ so perhaps he's already moved on from straight-up police work to private investigations.

Correlations with race are highly suspect as well as self-reinforcing. I believe they should be abandoned because the damage they cause (by perpetuating a problem) may be greater than any possible benefit they provide.

Computations can't be just "parallelized" in any automatic fashion. The code has to be written in such a way that it understands it's running concurrently. So splitting up an emulation of a single machine into multiple execution units isn't really feasible. It could SORT of work if the execution was split up by process, but then you'd run into the fact that Erlang isn't very fast at math.

Do you love coding?

If you don't, just find something else.

This is why i want to avoid mutable data as much as possible

How long ago was it? They've gotten increasingly onerous in the past year.

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."

-Winston Churchill

Has banning anything provably resulted in a long-term good? Because all it seems to do is 1) push it underground 2) hurt communication.

I think Prohibition is a case study in banning vs. regulating

Here's a timely book by Sam Harris where he (successfully!) debates with a formerly fairly-extreme Muslim:

http://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/0674088700?ref_=cm_sw_r_a...

They're basically banning a (long) number.

Which is absurd. I thought we hashed this out when DeCSS was a thing.

Have you considered open-sourcing your code with a license you're comfortable with? http://choosealicense.com/

As a developer who suffers from sleep disorders (both sleep apnea as well as general restlessness which is fortunately aided by f.lux!), how do I donate to your project (ideally in bitcoin)?

Thanks for the clarification.

Also, constraint of side effects at the language level allows powerful things like... time-traveling debuggers (does GHC provide anything like this, btw? Because it probably could...)

http://elm-lang.org/blog/time-travel-made-easy

> problematic viz. stack consumption

Not if one codes towards TCO (Tail Call Optimization): http://stackoverflow.com/questions/310974/what-is-tail-call-...

> But splitting them out into external applications has other advantages.

Such as?

How is a nine-nines reliability record (as achieved, for example, by Erlang http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8426897/erlangs-99-999999...) not relevant to safety-critical applications?

In the second example, you stand on firmer ground though.

I'll just leave my tweeted photo from ElixirConf right here.

https://twitter.com/pmarreck/status/650430959951593472

That was a live survey done during the session. The long yellow bar, in case it's hard to read, represented Ruby.

It's not that hard to see why: https://speakerdeck.com/mosic/elixir-at-evercam?slide=6

Just in time for people realizing that holding onto lots of state is actually a code-design smell and that functional paradigms should be used as much as possible instead!

Why wouldn't (or shouldn't) one be able to make it run standalone?

Perhaps they are being served up by PS/2's...

You probably want http://elixir-lang.org that way ==>

It looks like this is not being treated as a range operator, but a flip-flop operator I've never heard of

You can master IRC with a few basic commands. In fact I rarely have to use anything more than /join, /leave and /msg <someone>. /me <some text> for announcing an action. That's about it.

(It probably helps that a lot of in-game chat interfaces use a lot of these same commands, as I'm a gamer as well as a programmer.)

There's a pretty nice web interface to IRC called irccloud.com which also persists your connection (so you can simply log onto irccloud.com somewhere else, and entire history is preserved).