I always thought an interesting experiment would be to fire off a handful of nuclear bombs in space. (Rather deep space, like well out of where they could do any harm to Earth.)
Then pace the time between detonations to different prime numbers...
This is a core point in the Three Body Problem series of books by Liu Cixin (plus a little hand waving sciency signal amplification). As mentioned below it turns out to be a generally bad idea
Relative to the speed of light, where these effects actually become appreciable?
Yes. Hell yes. Basically identical velocities. Signal to noise ratio issues will do in this idea long before relativity has any sort of impact; it's not even close.
Not really that deep at all, it turns out you can fire off nuclear bombs above about 80km up and they are essentially harmless to life, causing only electrical (i.e. EMP) effects.
Wouldnt 'they' have evolved 1000 yrs as well? By that time their own current state of evolution would look even less developed given the exponentiality of evolution.
Perhaps we just need to stop being dangerous to other species and ourselves. Embracing the pursuit of collective goals would be a huge advance in our civilization level. Beyond that point athough less developed we could be accepted for not being harmful anymore.
no.. you're assuming that other species develop technology at a similar rate, and that our current progress will continue at the same rate. Both are things we don't know.
There may be hard limits that stop development of technology past a certain point. Like Moore's law coming to an end, but one day we may not have any viable alternatives.
I'd imagine with ES6 all nicely wired up in this release that moving away from Coffee would be an obvious next step but was way to large to undertake in one release.
CoffeeScript was never the "default". Since the asset pipeline was added new rails projects contained only a single 'application.js' which included any default JS libs. There has never been coffeescript in a default rails project. That makes the default plain-old JavaScript. CoffeeScript has just been there as a default gem so it was available to you by default, but you have never been forced or even strongly encouraged to use it.
That said, I love CoffeeScript and continue to use it to this day. It gets a lot of hate and I've been pushed to write a lot of ES6 these days, but CoffeeScript is still much more succinct.
I was a happy Postman user for a long time. I tried Paw on a lark (the importance of free trials) and loved it. Totally worth the money to me, and I've only scratched the surface with it. I especially like the plugins ecosystem.
Yup. To riff a little bit on those bullet points: If the interviewer[s] is displaying that behavior during an interview, expect the entire company to have exhibit the same stuff, only by an order of magnitude more.
If the interviewer doesn't respect you, then management doesn't respect or listen to employees.
If you only get canned questions, then the company cares more about checking boxes than creative thinking.
If the interview process is complicated, _everything_ is complicated.
If they aren't paying attention, then nobody pays attention in any meeting, so they get repeated, or stuff constantly falls through the cracks.
From what I've gathered, the only thing Gruber is upset about is the name "Standard" Markdown. I don't think he cares if there is some kind of body that has some kind of standards thing. I'd bet that if the "Standard Markdown" people called it something else and even kept the exact same syntax, he'd be fine with it.
