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&gt;sometimes means being uncompromising. Fighting for equality is complex.<p>Fighting for anything is complex. If it wasn&#x27;t complex it wouldn&#x27;t take a fight.<p>But people get blinded by their righteousness and fight in ways that waste time at best, can make people disengage or set their goals back at worst. If anyone thinks they&#x27;re fighting the good fight, they owe it to their cause to understand their actions.<p>I often find myself getting ignored or on the wrong side of an accusation for thinking about the &quot;ends vs means&quot; of goals I agree with. I&#x27;m running low on patience for getting asked to diminish or overlook hamfisted actions after the fact because the motivation was proper.

finnthehuman

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Oh gosh yes, it&#x27;s the best. I can do a two-point turn in a narrow parking lot lane if I have to. It&#x27;s actually shorter even than the original Beetle, but has <i>amazing</i> front-seat leg room (a big part of why I chose it) and plenty of trunk space if you fold down one or both rear seats.<p>The rear seats themselves are mostly decorative unless you have very short friends&#x2F;family. It&#x27;s not a good car for four people. But for one or two, it&#x27;s amazing.

PhasmaFelis

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Elinks is my preferred browser on the terminal, it also has gopher support. DuckDuckGo looks very good with Elinks by the way!

fsiefken

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FWIW HammerFS dedup doesn&#x27;t require much RAM.

cm3

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I agree your mind doesn&#x27;t stop, but sometimes I solve my problems in that moment before sleep, I think because I can direct all my energy to it (even eyes are closed, so no visual processing needed).<p>Though the tired mind is often very keen to simply recurse over thoughts you&#x27;ve already had opposed to think of new ones. If you find you can&#x27;t stop yourself going over the day though, then 10-15 mins of meditation, where you force yourself to concentrate on clearing your mind, can stop these thoughts so you can sleep. Do this every night for a few weeks and it becomes second nature.

hacker_9

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In general, I think it would be most optimal if technical decisions didn&#x27;t hinge on legal restrictions. GPL makes this less likely because of its absolutionist stance.

Sir_Substance

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There&#x27;s different severities of bipolar disorder and manic episodes can worsen to the point of hallucinations and psychosis when left untreated. I&#x27;ve read quite a few books on bipolar and lack of sleep for many days and hallucinations are more common than many people realize. Myself included until I read books on the subject.

cmullinstu

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<i>Teddy Roosevelt</i> couldn&#x27;t make a third party work, and that was in a pretty lack-luster field.

douche

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&#62; But... that is what happens today.<p>Not quite. At least with Dell, you can still upgrade Windows via Microsoft Update at will. No waiting around 3 months while Dell integrates MS's updates into Dell Windows, then pushes those updates via Dell Windows Update. But that's what is happening in the Android market.<p>I vaguely recall something about Microsoft including a clause in the Windows OEM license outlining what ways OEMs could and couldn't modify Windows, with ultimate objective being to ensure both uniformity of the Desktop and user experience, and control of it.<p>Seems Google forgot that part. Going to be difficult to add it after the fact.

SkyMarshal

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Many years ago, at the first company I worked for that IPO'd, I think I was something like employee number 30. Employee number 1 was a good friend of mine, and after the event we and a few others decided "I'll show you mine if you show me yours". Jewel was big at the time, total honesty was all the rage. Now I had made "a bit" of money on my stock options, not an amount to be sniffed at, but far from a life-changing amount. Think on the order of, a car, or a year's tuition, or an amazing vacation. What was shocking tho' is that we'd <i>all</i> made that much. We all had exactly the same options package.<p>Executives hired well after me, mere months before the IPO, were buying racehorses. Go figure.

gaius

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How do you know that that&#x27;s actually all data Google holds on you? Facebook has a shadow profile for every one of its users, one whose contents you cannot access. There&#x27;s no technical reason Google can&#x27;t build one, and they have been deceptive in how they collect your information in the past <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apnews.com&#x2F;ef95c6a91eeb4d8e9dda9cad887bf211" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apnews.com&#x2F;ef95c6a91eeb4d8e9dda9cad887bf211</a>

mediumdeviation

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Sorry. If you've never heard of NYC, you're not going to make it :)

loumf

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Now can someone please do the same for Oracle and ask.com toolbar?

api

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Sounds like me. :)

kordless

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I think there are plenty of incentives for hackers to come to NYC but it's mainly from the finance sector. Wall St firms wining and dining their hire prospects is common practice. Matt's recommendation is to show that the startup community can entice hackers in its own way. Startups might not be able to pay the salary + bonus that finance firms can throw at you, but perhaps they can gain influence in other ways.

brianmwang

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One is possible based in science, the other...possibly based in science. I was just saying that it is possible, not that it is probable.

de_nied

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I have this problem in practice plugging my Pixel 5 phone into my car for Android Auto. The cable only works in one orientation. Android Auto is notorious for being very finicky about connections; no one&#x27;s really figured it out but it seems to work better with shorter cables and of course higher quality cables. I&#x27;ve assumed my particular problem was some quirk of the connector fit, but now I&#x27;m wondering if it could be related to the asymmetry in the data pin design.

NelsonMinar

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I don’t have a Mac. Does Spotlight handle units as well as Google does? Also, doing the calculation in Google is handy because it’s easy to share in a modifiable way.

Robotbeat

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I just finished rewatching Star Trek 1-4 a trip down memory lane...

taf2

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Hijacking the Recovery Through Hydrogen: How fossil fuel lobbying is siphoning Covid recovery funds<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;corporateeurope.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;2021&#x2F;07&#x2F;hijacking-recovery-through-hydrogen" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;corporateeurope.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;2021&#x2F;07&#x2F;hijacking-recovery-th...</a>

hsolatges

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Which is why at the end of the day I always pick the platform language for production code.<p>As long as the platform is relevant everything moves along without extra layers of tooling and idiomatic wrapper libraries for platform APIs.<p>Might not have all the bells and whistles, not so shinny, but it works and I don&#x27;t need to care about my replacement having headaches.

pjmlp

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Free software is an ethical imperative; open source is a business model. Not my idea, someone called RMS came up with that, copyleft, etc.

okprod

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I&#x27;m wearing one right now. I agree this is a handy feature.<p>It has two down-sides:<p>1. Muting the mic involves touching&#x2F;moving the mic, so you make some noise when trying to discretely mute&#x2F;unmute.<p>2. It mutes, but doesn&#x27;t tell Zoom that it&#x27;s muted, so you can appear to be unmuted to others on the call. I&#x27;d rather die than be falsely accused of having a dog bark interrupt a call from MY mic!

sgarrity

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It drives me crazy how Google never fails to remove the most unique and yet most important words of my search term. It basically does this 99% of the time now.

bmitc

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I agree, but it still seems far ahead of any competitor. Eg DuckDuckGo, Bing etc... anecdotally for the things I search for.

the__alchemist

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I would like the ability to note certain profiles of people for future review. Much like upvoting a story saves it for me, I would like to be able to do the same with a person's profile. Call it a "watch this person" feature or something.

joshfinnie

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<i>Complaints around infelicities in the Python stdlib are fair enough - I don't think anyone would defend them, but what can you do? You can't change published APIs.</i><p>I was under the impression that Python 3 broke a lot of backwards compatibility, so could they not introduce new APIs with that? Or is that in fact what they did, and Zed is just complaining about 2.x?<p>I apologise if I'm mistaken on this, I've hardly used python at all. (though I keep meaning to learn it so I can finally stop writing bash scripts)

pmjordan

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No -- it's evidence that having more eyes looking at code is good, and that the "experts" aren't necessarily better than the "non-experts" at avoiding dumb mistakes.<p>I think there's also an argument to be made that cryptographic code (or security code in general) should be written by people working 9-5 who are forbidden from every doing any overtime. The risk that a security flaw will get in because someone was sleepy far outweighs any benefits of getting code out the door sooner.

cperciva

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As I understand it they don&#x27;t exactly need a search warrant currently. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;andygreenberg&#x2F;2013&#x2F;06&#x2F;20&#x2F;leaked-nsa-doc-says-it-can-collect-and-keep-your-encrypted-data-as-long-as-it-takes-to-crack-it&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;andygreenberg&#x2F;2013&#x2F;06&#x2F;20&#x2F;leaked-...</a>

sandmansandine

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Source: Most of Europe.<p>The issues with public transports are the same as with biking in the US: It works better when cities are really dense. Suburbs destroy the efficiency of public transport, biking, walking, inline skating, and any other non-car transportation.

kuschku

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I wish more companies did things like this. I had a really horrible experience trying to cancel my ADT security subscription and they simply wouldn’t take no for an answer after being on the phone for an hour. It ended badly with me throwing a tantrum and shouting and banging. I will never use that company again nor recommend their services because of their obtuse off boarding process. Had they handled their offboarding better I might still be a potential customer in the future.<p>I think it’s similar with quitting your job and “not burning bridges”. You never know what may happen in the future.

Bluecobra

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I saw this and for a while I thought "Oh yeah, that's pretty cool, but why isn't the lua community into it?" Then I really looked into luasocket[1], which uses a this api called ltn12, based around dataflow programming concepts. In most respects this is a much much more elegant way of doing network programming than the node.js way. This is the sort of thing you would want to implement on top of node.js to make the callback hell easier to deal with- and compared to luasocket, luvit is a step backward. But this is the standard way of doing networking in lua.<p>[1]: <a href="http://w3.impa.br/~diego/software/luasocket/" rel="nofollow">http://w3.impa.br/~diego/software/luasocket/</a>

TheZenPsycho

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The outcomes of decentralization sound good until you realize it means you’re either running your own server, or using a blockchain and need to protect a private key somehow. But normal humans want nothing to do with either of those responsibilities and always rely on a centralized service.<p>If this ID standard included a way to use a centrally-controlled email address (the defacto ID standard today that works just fine for most legal activities) or a social login then maybe some of the bigger players would be onboard and it would take hold. As is it seems like it’s just gonna be another crypto fad.

oofbey

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Could this mean that a "magentic hose" built really tall, be used to launch objects into space?

sfaruque

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If it is as you imply, that's a pretty serious Theory of Mind failure on their part.

MBlume

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While I think I understand what your point is, I'm not sure I agree.<p>In the company I work for (about 80 people here), it's not the university rookies that I have problems with: some are weak, some are excelent. But most of them come with a desire to learn, and will in most cases be exploited by PHB project managers that make them work very long hours. Have seen it happen again and again, with no productivity gain whatsoever.<p>But then, when that really excelent rookie hire appears, with an outstanding ROI, we just can't hire him/her or give him a decent salary, because of all the 'historic' figures that are on the company forever. That's why I cannot agree with a simplistic "juniors can't expect to earn the same salary as someone that has more experience". Some fully deserve it, don't get it, and then become just another layed back demotivated worker.<p>Thus, "It's all about being a worthily asset for the company, other than just being an simple asset.", can I assume that you offer stock options? Clearly defined rewards if success is reached?<p>Of course that its not all about the money, but so many portuguese bussiness owners like to forget about their employees once they reach success, and maintain the 'just an employee status'. Thus, it goes both ways. I'm not saying it is your case, but I could not infer otherwise from your text.<p>And finally: "that they really need to work had to make a difference" What's working hard? To so many people working hard is working long hours almost every single day. My personal experience tells me most of the people that work long hours are either slackers (lots of coffee, lots of talk) or workaholics that do not always play well with others.

jc79

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The recommended way of doing this is to use Hyper-V and multiple VMs. Windows VMs start <i>very</i> fast on Hyper-V.<p>That gives you virtual LAN bandwidth control, &quot;Storage QoS&quot; (IOPS limits), partitioning, affinity and CPU limits. Not only that you have virtual SAN and network fabric. It&#x27;s pretty awesome!<p>If you utilise it by deploying your app to a .wim file and then use wim2vhd and fart it at a Hyper-V host, docker already exists on Windows so I&#x27;m not sure what all the fuss is.<p>Yes we do this.

monstermonster

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Civilian power reactors need refueling at about that pace, but Nimitz-class carriers &quot;are capable of operating continuously for over 20 years without refueling&quot;<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimitz-class_aircraft_carrier#Propulsion" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Nimitz-class_aircraft_carrier#P...</a>

DennisP

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I wish someone would hack Sonos to make its network communication more reliable. Every time you turn it off you have to press the two buttons on top to make it find the bridge again. Several times.

gadders

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A&#x2F;B testing is a form of markov-chain-monte-carlo experimentation that makes certain assumptions about the landscape it is trying to find the maximum likelihood in. Specifically, it makes the assumption of monotonicity of the likelihood or that the lack of monotonicity is of the same scale as the changes they are likely to make. A&#x2F;B testing cannot break out of a local maximum of the likelihood function if the assumptions are incorrect.<p>A complete rewrite of the application from media heavy to plain is far smaller than the typical stepsize used in A&#x2F;B testing and has some temporal effects on top of it.

BlackFly

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Well if you take your kid to kidcreate or something like that then you do pay for the play date!

sjg007

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I think there are many benefits in decoupling this form presentation logic vs plain view further with form builder compared to some gems. The ability to work with the form, create your own fields, and use presentation logic outside of the form view is great. And now knowing it&#x27;s built in to rails, this is fantastic (and it&#x27;s also good to know I don&#x27;t always have to go to other form builder gems for their conciseness when I want that <i>and</i> control).

jahkeup

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So by this definition, an interpreter is a compiler plus a virtual machine, bundled together?

taneq

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I believe they follow the same reporting process regardless of vendor, Google included. Here&#x27;s one that Google fixed in Chrome about 15 days before the 90 day public release threshold: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;project-zero&#x2F;issues&#x2F;detail?id=162&amp;can=1&amp;q=&amp;start=100" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;project-zero&#x2F;issues&#x2F;detail?id=16...</a><p>(You&#x27;ll note the explicit discussion in there about the deadline:<p>&quot;Chromium issues should be treated the same as any others. So there&#x27;s a 90-day deadline (which was not exceeded in this case), ...<p>Same disclosure warning to the Chrome team was in this bug: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;project-zero&#x2F;issues&#x2F;detail?id=513&amp;can=1&amp;q=&amp;start=400" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;project-zero&#x2F;issues&#x2F;detail?id=51...</a><p>And project zero explicitly warned the Android team about the 90 day disclosure policy in the one bug report I checked:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.google.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;android&#x2F;issues&#x2F;detail?id=182510" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.google.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;android&#x2F;issues&#x2F;detail?id=182510</a><p>Edited to add:<p>Here&#x27;s one where they disclosed prior to Android fixing the bug: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;project-zero&#x2F;issues&#x2F;detail?id=860&amp;q=" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;project-zero&#x2F;issues&#x2F;detail?id=86...</a><p>with the note &quot;deadline exceeded&quot;. Unfortunately, the link to the Android bug is still protected, so we can&#x27;t learn why AOSP hasn&#x27;t fixed it yet.

dgacmu

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Note well that he also warned against a &quot;scientific-technological elite&quot;.<p>Something that hasn&#x27;t been given as much attention.

emmelaich

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On iOS at least - the (current versipon of the) Lytf app specifically asks &quot; … to access you location while you use the app.&quot; Uber _used_ to have a &quot;while using the app&quot; location option, but the recent update took this away so you choice is either &quot;Never&quot; give it location info, or &quot;Always&quot;.

bigiain

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Maybe communism vs freedom?

madengr

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&gt;Uber<p>Some teams do

home_boi

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I am very irritated with this update, it is so unnecessary and iOS is complaining about the location access as well.<p>I dont see any possible use of tracking the location after the ride except tracking the users location and create a surge pricing out of it.

niksmac

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I did something similar (not for laptops) but Amazon rejected my affiliate application because there was not enough &quot;original content&quot; on the site.

newyearnewyou

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Go-JEK | www.gojekengineering.com OR www.go-jek.com | Bangalore | Fulltime.<p>With over 18 million downloads, the GO-JEK app has become the leading transport, courier, and hyperlocal shopping app in Indonesia. It’s food delivery service alone is the largest in Southeast Asia, exceeding the daily volumes of all food delivery startups in India combined.<p>Launched as a digital product in January 2015, GO-JEK has partnered with 200,000 motorcycle drivers and 5,000 trucks nationwide in under 12 months, growing monthly transaction volumes by 900x since launch and daily transaction volumes over 100x in just the last six months alone.<p>GO-JEK is leading Indonesia&#x27;s online revolution by bringing offline players to the mobile space with a powerful combination of logistics, payments and a one-stop-shop interface. It is the only company in the world of its kind, successfully integrating multiple business models into a single app and logistics network.<p>GO-JEK&#x27;s product offerings have the following analogues among Indian startups: Ola, Paytm, Zomato, UrbanClap, Swiggy, Grophers, BigBasket and BookMyShow. GO-JEK has received investment from Sequoia Capital India and Yuri Milner’s DST Global, among others.<p>We are hiring across functions Backend, Data Engineer, Devops, iOS. Please drop at email at vaibhav[dot]khare[at]go-jek[dot]com

vaibhavkhare

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Yeah, but why does Uber need&#x2F;care about that information? If I ask to be dropped off at X and walk a couple blocks to Y, Uber shouldn&#x27;t care. I can understand the argument that maybe going to certain buildings you have to be dropped off at a specific spot, but that seems like a minor gain for something that&#x27;s more than just a minor intrusion.

yladiz

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Am I allowed to modify it?

k__

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SixBets Predictor - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sixbets.co.uk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sixbets.co.uk</a><p>Trying to make a profitable predictor for the English Premier league. Currently, the predictor is profitable on the whole season, but not on the weekly basis.<p>I&#x27;ve train it on data from the 1992&#x2F;1993 to 2011&#x2F;2012 season, and tested it on the 2012&#x2F;2013, 2013&#x2F;2014, and 2014&#x2F;2015 season. In tests, it shows profitability from 4.12 to 8.40%.

vukmir

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It might be a bit cliché but I read On the road by Jack Kerouac and it motivated me to do a big road trip alone across USA&#x2F;Canada&#x2F;Mexico. I met many awesome peoples, became more confident, more adventurous, more open to people and new experiences. So the trip changed my life but the book led me to it. This other book motivated me as well : Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

kalagan

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This is very unfortunate that they are doing this if the data was scraped and not hitting their servers. Is it that some part of the data they think is copyrighted (like grades) versus just courses?

shtylman

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I think my cheap choice of wireless charger is to blame; I&#x27;ll have to try this out again with something more legitimate.

technologia

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They never said that they would release the Mac Pro next year (2018) they said “not this year” (2017). From the link you posted...<p><i>These next-gen Mac Pros and pro displays “will not ship this year”. (I hope that means “next year”, but all Apple said was “not this year”.) In the meantime</i>

scarface74

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I had never spoken publicly, as in a featured speaker in front of a large gathering of strangers. I had spoken in front of everyone at my old company (80 people) but that was the closest I came to public speaking, and since I knew everyone it didn&#x27;t count. I remember freshman year of high school having my stomach in knots when teachers would call on me. I just had that nervous personality. Want to know how nervous I&#x27;d get in public with everyone&#x27;s attention on me? I almost fainted at my wedding - at the altar. The priest had to cut the ceremony in half to accommodate me. To this day people make fun of me for it (I feel bad for my wife).<p>A couple months ago, I surprisingly got asked to be a speaker at a pretty large and prestigious conference in town. It was at a large venue with over 1,000 attendees, some of whom are important to impress for various reasons. It was a great opportunity so I accepted, knowing that this could be a problem.<p>Anyway, I rehearsed my 10 minute speech ad nauseum, I could do it in my sleep. Every little last verbal tic, joke, everything. I knew I&#x27;d still be nervous. I wanted to be so good that I could do it on autopilot and hopefully be more confident. I got on stage, lights shining brightly, and took a seat as the host read a brief introduction about me. While he was doing this, I was so nervous that I thought I was either going to vomit or faint, or some horrible combination of the two. I was literally telling myself not to puke over and over again. My stomach was tossing and my head was spinning...I could barely breathe.<p>He finishes his intro and I start my talk, visibly nervous. Then a funny thing happened. About 20 seconds in, something clicked and I just thought to myself, &quot;Why are you nervous? You know this stuff <i>cold</i>. You got this.&quot; And wouldn&#x27;t you know it, from there on out I <i>killed</i> it. I dunno, it was weird, I instantly became as relaxed as I am with my friends and delivered a great speech. I had tons of great jokes, kept everyone really engaged, and I think even delivered an interesting idea to the audience. By the time it was over I was actually disappointed it was over since I was having so much fun. I got tons of superlative-filled compliments afterwards and was really in shock about it all.<p>I dont know what the moral is. Just have fun I guess. Know what you&#x27;re talking about and the rest will sort itself out.

bedhead

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Perfectly stated. Employee compensation is a contract freely entered into by the employee. If you think you deserve more, don&#x27;t take the job.<p>However, I have sympathy for the fact that founder risk in SV has declined dramatically over the last twenty years, while employee risk has not, but if anything employee stock pools are smaller than they were a decade ago. Yet every founder says &quot;it&#x27;s impossible to hire good people&quot;.

jdh

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If people have to do anything it&#x27;s not good enough.

xeromal

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Quitting before having a new source of income is not something everyone can do. I do acknowledge this.<p>Most of the people I talk to in these situations however are not shopping around. Acting like they are trapped or a helpless victim. If someone is not happy at a job they owe it to themselves, in spite of any drama going on in their lives, to make time for interviews until they get the sucky job problem solved.<p>By no means blow off family in need etc, but making time to get into a happy work environment could mean less stress, enough or more money, and a much easier time dealing with the difficult parts of life one can&#x27;t change.

lrvick

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4 major versions and still not official direction support! that&#x27;s why i use Foundation because it offers RTL support out of the box.

ramigb

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So <i>that&#x27;s</i> why it got flagged off the front page so quickly. That was a while ago, but it&#x27;s probably relevant that <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vim&#x2F;vim" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vim&#x2F;vim</a> was last updated within the last 24 hrs, so TFA which is also less than a day old is probably news and probably shouldn&#x27;t have been flagged.

jessaustin

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Theoretically that is totally possible. I think the channels functionality would really make managing the different streams easy. Go routines could also greatly improve performance.<p>It would be interesting to see how it performs under load. After all, that&#x27;s what Go is meant for. I&#x27;ll think about writing some code to test that out.

nanodano

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[1] should get fixed post-MIR (the new &quot;middle IR&quot; that&#x27;s in progress right now)<p>[2] --- let&#x27;s hope this improves :)

Manishearth

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IMO this is also due to modern pixel-art actually emulating 16 bit pixel art.<p>The 16 bit computers already had graphics capabilities much more similar to modern graphics cards than their predecessors.

bhaak

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Pretty interesting, but I hope no company here is ever forced to take his advice.

tomjen2

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Well, I didn&#x27;t say I agreed with it, just that it&#x27;s one of the stronger arguments. Creating a constitution is a fraught project that requires referendums and the like, so people have to believe it works. If courts are willing to injunct unconstitutional laws then why didn&#x27;t it happen here?

native_samples

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&gt; Offering equal pay for equal work [...] Pay people for their contribution and treat all humans with equal respect.<p>Does any company actually do this? I don’t feel like this is economically feasible. What rate do you pay? The California rate or the Romania rate? If pay the Romania rate then no one from California will work for you. If you pay the California rate then you will be putting way more money into salaries then needed, which could drown your company in hard times. Splitting the difference doesn’t actually solve anything.<p>I can see in the long run equal pay becoming a reality, especially within a country (same pay for California or Nebraska) because movement is so easy. But it will be long time before cost of living between the poorest matches that of the richest.

celeritascelery

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This depends on where the debt is.<p>If it&#x27;s in the codebase for a single project, then sure, you can do some refactoring while you work, add more tests, etc. It&#x27;s not too big of a time sink if you do a little at a time, and you can do it all by yourself.<p>But if the tech debt is in the architecture, or the API spec, or the authentication layer, or in some other area that impacts how services owned by multiple teams communicate? Now you need coordination with other teams to fix the debt. Everyone else has their own jobs to do, and if leadership doesn&#x27;t make fixing tech debt a priority, other work will always take precedence.

twblalock

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Or receive a greater % of their news through social media

ttttttthu66ttt

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If you read further, they talk about the value of synchronous communication, too. The key to both is being intentional.

zeckalpha

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How much storage do they give? (In FAQ they say either unlimited to backup a singe PC or as much space as your account)<p>What limits on file sizes? (In FAQ they say 2TB)

MikusR

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It&#x27;s actually pretty easy. Just find a job and apply for Blue Card and you&#x27;re all set. Lots of startups are sponsoring visa and desperate for talent. The visa regime is pretty humane compared to USA, and please learn the local language (A2 minimum) before moving :-)

FlyingSnake

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&gt; the more technically apt they are, the less they believe in it<p>your network seem to be opposite of general population, where less technically apt less believe (economists, news people, etc.)<p>i suspect it has more to do with political leaning, i.e. more center-conformist less believe, outside center more believe

carl_misj

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It is indeed a low number as far as science research goes.<p>It&#x27;s pretty staggering how inexpensive experimenting with DNA can be. Recent advances in DNA synthesis are outpacing Moore&#x27;s Law. Creating genetic constructs for insulin is also cheaper because insulin itself is a relatively simple protein.<p>And fortunately there are also a ton of extremely qualified people on the team who seem to love working for free.<p>EDIT: you shouldnt need to use facebook. you can sign up for experiment .com with just an email addy.

snewk

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Well, most people have email and the ISP can just require that they have a working email address on file.<p>That&#x27;s how ISPs in Germany do it and it works fine. Or if it&#x27;s urgent, they&#x27;ll just call you.<p>No need to invent a new form of communication or do evil things with Squid.

_yy

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To use a sample you have to get a license from the original artist:<p>&gt;Today, most mainstream acts obtain prior authorization to use samples, a process known as &quot;clearing&quot; (gaining permission to use the sample and, usually, paying an up-front fee and&#x2F;or a cut of the royalties to the original artist). Independent bands, lacking the funds and legal assistance to clear samples, are at a disadvantage - unless they seek the services of a professional sample replay company or producer.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Legal_issues_surrounding_music_sampling" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Legal_issues_surrounding_music...</a>

a_bonobo

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The company being Simple?

westi

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I&#x27;m not sold. I live on a so-called road, it&#x27;s comprised of a single lane of paved dirt that stretches on for 3&#x2F;4ths of a mile. On top of that, the very first line is just utterly comical:<p>&gt; If we want to build towns that are financially productive, we need to identify and eliminate stroads.<p>You&#x27;re missing the point on why they&#x27;re made. They&#x27;re built to facilitate expansion in confined areas. I&#x27;d argue that it&#x27;s more dangerous and less financially productive to have a street there, and <i>incredibly more dangerous</i> to put a road there. So, what&#x27;s the solution?

smoldesu

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Not to agree with killing someone but a bike is more than metal and rubber. Sometimes it is your method of transport to and from work or other more important things.

celticninja

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Backend? IANAL, but using a frontend JS library under the GPL doesn&#x27;t have implications for your backend per-se; they can be entirely separate works.<p>You could argue about their frontend, though.

lwf

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<i>&quot;This release comes with the first image allowing the GNU operating system to be installed from a USB stick.&quot;</i>

akavel

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What about octopus as both singular and plural?

giantg2

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Well if you are not expecting investor to take money out of his pocket (or hat) after that pitch you surely have to prepare (a) executive summary 1-2 pages (b) slides/screenshots 1 page(can be four colorful slides on it) just because this guy might want to share something with other decision makers. Of course if you dont think that after your pitch will suddenly became beter advocate for your project than yourself ))

vgurgov

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I&#x27;m fine with an ereader that is just an ereader, and optimized to be an ereader.

WalterBright

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On the other hand Paul explicitly says that he isn’t taking what he could rightfully do. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.biblegateway.com&#x2F;passage&#x2F;?search=1+Corinthians+9&amp;version=NIV" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.biblegateway.com&#x2F;passage&#x2F;?search=1+Corinthians+9...</a><p>&gt; 13 Don’t you know that those who serve in the temple get their food from the temple, and that those who serve at the altar share in what is offered on the altar?<p>&gt; 14 In the same way, the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel should receive their living from the gospel.<p>&gt; 15 But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing this in the hope that you will do such things for me, for I would rather die than allow anyone to deprive me of this boast.<p>So FWIW, I don’t believe having my priest receive a salary from the church goes against New Testament teaching. It just doesn’t conform with Paul’s personal example. There are also priests in the church who receive a salary from doing a more normal job, like being a professor at a college, but they typically don’t do nearly as much pastoral work as a priest who is assigned directly to a church.

javagram

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It actually is possible to have decoupled allocation in a memory safe way. We have an open proposal for this in [0], for Vale. TL;DR: Have some bits in the malloc header which instruct the language on which deallocator function to use.<p>I&#x27;ve never used Odin, so I don&#x27;t know whether&#x2F;how they&#x27;d keep it safe.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.google.com&#x2F;document&#x2F;d&#x2F;1243br9VVluZN0ZD9MVKSQMAwJbKO9ey9aJzmx6rnpAY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.google.com&#x2F;document&#x2F;d&#x2F;1243br9VVluZN0ZD9MVKSQMAw...</a>

verdagon

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<i>"Schools need wireless networks; the pupils need a device (handheld computer, or laptop) each, which they have access to whenever it is needed"</i><p>Why do we need one laptop per child in a school? Computers are useful tools but hardly central to learning.

danw

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Agreed. People like Jesse Thomas usually have had ample advice on how not to be jerk and why, but they ignored it.<p>Unfortunately I think there are a lot of people out there that think that being a raging jerk is an acceptable and even desirable part of being a leader. Especially those who blindly idolize Steve Jobs. The problem is that many people don't understand that:<p>A. They are not as talented as Steve Jobs B. Steve Jobs succeeded in spite of his assholery C. Steve Jobs got fired from his own company, partly because of his behavior D. Steve Jobs learned to mellow out a bit in his later years<p>I live in DC, and I remember when I saw the first JESS3 sticker of his face and thought, "There goes an out of control ego." Didn't know that it would turn out this bad.

GVIrish

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&gt; Octopus entered English from scientific Latin. In which the Greek plural was not used<p>The Latin (nominative) plural is <i>octōpodēs</i>, the Greek (nominative non-neuter) plural is <i>ὀκτώποδες</i>. Almost identical. <i>octopi</i> is not used in Latin, it only appears to occur in English texts.<p>Most Romance languages get their primary word for &quot;octopus&quot; from an alternative Latin word for it, <i>polypus</i> (plural <i>polypī</i>), which comes from Greek <i>πολύπους</i> (plural <i>πολύποδα</i>). <i>polypus</i> is also an alternative word for octopus in English, albeit it is rather archaic. The English plural <i>polypi</i> cannot be accused of being a hypercorrection, but (for octopuses) <i>polypuses</i> is much more common. <i>polypus</i> is also medical terminology for a type of blood clot, and the <i>polypi</i> plural is often preferred when the word is used in that medical sense.<p>The usual Dutch word for &quot;octopus&quot;, <i>octopus</i>, is pluralised by the standard Dutch rules, <i>octopussen</i>. English appears to be the only language in which this hypercorrect pseudo-Latin plural has any popularity.

skissane

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Book Depository is owned by Amazon :)

SashaRuvin

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&gt; Please don&#x27;t make political arguments into personal quarrels on HN<p>I am not making any kind of political statement nor a personal quarrel, I am simply pointing out that he got the answer previously but jumped on the comment trigger before reading anything linked. Is saying &quot;Do you bother reading&quot; considered offensive now?

ekianjo

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If Monty isn't happy about what's happening with MySQL, he could always buy it back with the $1Bn Sun paid him for it. But it sounds like he wants to have his cake and eat it.

gaius

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&gt; The irony of anti-capitalist efforts is that they tend toward monoculture: a single strong actor controlling everything, e.g. the USSR.<p>That&#x27;s very much not the case of anti-capitalist efforts generally. It&#x27;s the case for Leninism and it&#x27;s descendants, which even other socialists describe as “state capitalism”. But it&#x27;s not the case for things like leftist anarchism, market socialism, favoring of labor cooperatives as a firm model instead of capital-based ownership, etc., labor cooperatives, and other non-Leninist-descended challenges to the capitalist order.

dragonwriter

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So I guess LLVM has rather poor fortran support, but zig fortran compilation would be really neat for all kind of scientific programming purposes.<p>Being able to call fortran code from zig as easily as one can call C libraries would also make it a really nice way to wrap fortran libraries into lightweight static programs.

clavigne

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Interesting post, but they could provide a simple comparison that would help enormously. They should calculate how much they would have paid on a traditional 10% royalty based on the gross amount the publisher receives and compare that with their 40-50% royalty based on their net (I'm calling it net here because they are deducting a bunch of fees from the money they receive).

jgrahamc

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&gt;it was only ever a theory, and one that’s becoming increasingly outdated with each passing day that Russia remains in Ukraine.<p>This seems like a bit of a silly point, given that the war in Ukraine is, at least so far, nothing compared to the conflicts of the past. Do we wanna rush head first back into something that reliably produced worse conflicts than we see today simply because what we have going now isn&#x27;t perfect?<p>&gt;Germany’s dependence on Russian gas is now limiting its ability to respond to a crisis. They’ve handicapped themselves and can no longer promote peace and in fact are funding a war.<p>A bunch of western companies are pulling out of Russia over this and it looks like the whole thing is going worse for the aggressors here than they expected. I&#x27;ll take this over Germany and Russia engaging directly in armed conflict.

p_j_w

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From GNU Make webpage:<p>&gt; GNU Make is a tool which controls the generation of executables and other non-source files of a program from the program&#x27;s source files.<p>What is idiosyncratic is to think Make is first a command runner, and only after a file generator, and complain that it is doing a poor job at the former when it clearly says it is focusing on the latter.<p>I read the &quot;idiosyncrasies&quot; section on the just README and they are all performance related targeting file generation. All of those can be learned in one minute, as part of &quot;I&#x27;ll always find Makefiles in the wild, it&#x27;s good to know the basics&quot;.

andreineculau

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