rational-future

The trial in genetic programming is too random, compared to what a human researcher would try.

Why would you run a "critical payment application" in US East? This datacenter has 10x the downtime of West or Ireland.

Lucas did see a number of German and Soviet SciFi movies before making Star Wars. Some of the influence in costumes and space ships is quite obvious.

That's an interesting argument, but it misses the fact that the US is effectively subsidizing the healthcare in the rest of the world.

You have NO idea what you're talking about.

> JS have to be interpreted

Yeah, because the Bible, the Quaran and the Declaration of Independence say so ...

You are completely ignoring the other big reason for surrender - USSR declaration of war.

So many wrong statements.

The performance differences, between CSS styles applied from a JS file and a CSS file are very small on modern browsers, with JS being faster sometime.

JS files are cached.

Preprocessors are not fine, they complicate and slow down the development process.

Inlining CSS is not stupid, OP discusses the numerous advantages it brings...

> addressing the underlying cause of the leak

There are problem causes that are very hard to address. E.g. alcohol consumption causing a lot of traffic accidents.

Or massive corporations, with huge lobbying budgets, releasing toxins in the environment. Toxins that cause no obvious harm, but kill a lot of bees or cause cancer in some humans after 20 years of exposure.

I thought, based on the title, this is something similar to Music to Code by - http://mtcb.pwop.com/

I've done some diving in the Black Sea and have stumbled upon a number of structures that looked like human-made artifacts. They are near the shore lines as they were before the end of the last glacial period. I'm personally 99% sure there was a somewhat advanced civilization at that time.

Is there a video online?

or will patients have to go through evil health provider gatekeeping?

FTFY :)

Hey Dave, how does RNA sequencing work for an individual customer? Do you plan to have something like the 23andMe collection kit?

In my understanding human cells have may different types of RNA, which one are you sequencing?

Citation?

> And the second is the huge export boosts from China in iron and steel. (alleged in the article to be below cost but there wasn't really any support for that argument.)

It's just a well known fact. The major iron and steel mills have 100K or so employees each. They receive billions of $ subsidies annually to save those people from unemployment and potential social unrest.

Do you recognize that someone needs to develop the sites that you consume?

The web server that comes with Windows 10 - IIS 10 is the first version of IIS to support HTTP/2.

DirectX 10, HTTP/2, kernel improvements, etc.

Not much. Almost all high-budget games are still developed for consoles first. The hardware inside Xbox One doesn't support DX 12.

Ask to be appointed CTO. If it goes through you'll have a lot more freedom, if not just quit.

Sculpt Ergonomic Desktop sends all keystrokes over unencrypted WiFi.

With every new version of Windows, Explorer gets worse and worse. I personally switched to Directory Opus long time ago.

Will this work on Raspberry Pi?

> similar to how we would reject a conspiracy theory

I fully agree that this book is lacking in rational arguments. But I IMHO you are not using the phrase "conspiracy theory" correctly. There are a lot of conspiracies out there. E.g. the wage fixing between Google, Oracle and Microsoft is on the YHN front page today.

Why not use SignalR?

If there are 1000000 million advanced civs in our galaxy and 999999 of them decided not to expand, the 1 remaining will still colonize everything in a million years.

This is not a theory, but a hypothesis. A small chance is never a good bet, especially when our whole race is at stake.

Not that big. Advanced technology, like replicators and a few million years are enough to reach galaxies far-far away.

Not much of a resolution. If our progress continues to accelerate with same rate as of the last 10K years, in 100K years we'll have the capability to change completely the structure of our galaxy. Why can't we see any such grand-scale projects from other civs?

Yes, because space rockets never blow up on take off or shortly after.

Well it's first and foremost a protocol. Feel officially invited to implement it in any language you like. Language correctness guaranties sounds to me as a term from MBA programs and business magazines and not something a REAL dev would EVER say.

I've been to at least 200 software conferences in my life and never heard speakers like Linus, Ken Thomson, RMS, Gordon Letwin, DHH, Anders Hejlsberg mention "correctness guarantees".