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Hmm, time will tell. I've been using IDEA since 2008, but switched to WebStorm a couple of years ago because I wanted to get the new JS features and extensions sooner (and didn't need the Java Enterprise bits).

As someone who upgrades WebStorm within an hour of a new version being released, I'm hoping the new subscription model will mean they push out improvements whenever they're ready, rather than waiting for a major release to showcase.

Totally understand the angst on here about the IDE not working if you cancel your subscription, but I guess I'm already in that mindset from using services like Linode and BrowserStack.

As a serial upgrader, the WebStorm subscription price looks okay. Over the years, I've considered the IDE more of a co-worker than a tool (should credit Hector the Inspector as a great Wingman). If you're billing for your hours I still think the product is a no-brainer, but understand this would be a frustrating development for a more casual user.
Chipping in on the memories. Lucasarts Adventure Game Pack on 5 floppy disks IIRC was the first game I ever purchased with my own money for our Compaq Presario 386-SX 25Mhz back in the day.

They used to remind to take backups of your floppies before doing anything else, so I purchased a 5-pack of 1.44 MB floppies to copy the diskettes unto. I will never forget the pain when I realized that I accidentally formatted one of the original diskettes in the process, and I could not install Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ever.

My imagination ran wild when I looked at the photos of this game in the contained cleverly disguided walk through that was in the format of a story, and I longed to install that game and play it but nobody had it. Luckily I downloaded it later from a local BBS and finally got to play it.

But back on the subject, seeing Monkey Island logo on the screen, with glorious 256-color VGA, the PC Speaker playing the theme music, in the dark cellar where our PC was, was just pure magic. Nothing has ever come close to that moment and will never come, it is one of the few rare memories that I wish I could re-live, to feel the magic of entering that Island and being there again, for the first time.

Monkey Island 2 came close, but the magic of playing my first really graphical adventure had already passed. Oh, I wish to share that feeling with my child in the future :)
You don't say "I want to run linux, I'll pay Heroku to do it for me."

You say, for example, "I want to run Wordpress, I'll pay Heroku to do it for me."
Geophony, Biophony, and Anthrophony
YC's Geoff Ralston on Learning as You Go
Why early stage VCs are fundraising faster than ever
Wrong. "Less" instead of "fewer" has been standard English for over 300 years.
Ask HN: That article on IBM culture, argumentative meetings etc.
HOOSERS - Basketball movie (The best sports movie ever) had the first practice was performed with out a basketball. This reminds me of this.

Love this organization with the activities and activities with videos. Great presentation to me.
Can anyone locate it for me?
Homograph attack( link is not it appears,for example click on this paypal link )
> It is possible to be good at thinking computationally, but when it comes to platform specific implementation details and changing requirements not much can be done.

Its quite possible to be an expert at platform specific implementation details for various platforms, or to be good at analyzing new platforms and understanding those details, so that part is something one can be good at, or not, too.

Its also possible to be better or worse at designing software to be maintainable in the face of evolving requirements.
Introducing the “fedora-tools” Image for Fedora Atomic Host
I think if I was going to ride in a self-driving car I'd want it designed like a hard realtime system where it is guaranteed to sample the road at X rate or whatever. Most of the time it won't matter at all and doing something adaptive would be fine.

But when the cameras go out completely (or get blinded or whatever) then you could end up with a really degenerate case where the software can't keep up with the car's motion and it freaks out and crashes (literally or figuratively).

Prior to suggesting that this couldn't happen, or would be extremely unlikely to happen, please remember the results of the Toyota "unintended acceleration" investigation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9643204
So on the other hand, then why do we estimate (with extremely limited information) that this project will take 7 months for 8 developers, and exactly TO THE DAY, we deliver the final projects 7 months later and the client is happy?

AKA you can't estimate pieces, but you can still say this will be done in 3 months, and then you manage scope etc. so it's done in 3 months.

Or: you can't estimate how long this will take, but you can set a "how long" given flexibility in the "this".
5 Great Tips for the Samsung Galaxy S6
"Baxter officials say thru-hikers are openly using drugs and drinking alcohol, camping where they aren’t supposed to, and trying to pass their pets off as service dogs." - Sounds like a pretty good time to me.

I don't think that I can get behind a complaint that people are hiking in the wilderness _too much_. This is a good problem to have.
"Guybrush Threepwood? Ha ha ha!!! That's the stupidest name I've ever heard!"
Apparently so but I've not heard it before and it's jarring.

Everyone else is clearly marching out of step.
I enjoyed the book a lot, like all of Bill Bryson's books.
There was a redditor who explained the difference between various levels of wealth, from his real life experience dealing with rich people:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2s9u0s/what_do_i...

There seems to be a pretty big difference between 10m and 1b.
Doesn't look like it is confirmed by GoPro, but the rumor that it's being postponed to 2016 has been widely circulated. If GoPro was releasing the Hero5 a month from today, they'd be idiots not to have a press release out denying that rumour.
The biggest problem I see today is that there are so many hikers who say "leave no trace" and then kind of just treat the outdoors like their bedroom.

You can't do anything about the boat campers and the cooler campers, but the backpackers and hikers that I have been around have been less conservation minded than I would like.
pixard said:

> I would easily pay double what I'm paying now _but_ on the existing scheme where I can upgrade when I want to...

If he upgrades every other year, then JetBrains's revenue per year works out to be the exactly the same as in their subscription model. In the subscription model, if he has a down month around about the time when his JB subscription payment is due, he loses access to his tools. This could kill his business, which would -in turn- shut off the money faucet to JB.

> (it's a business expense, so it's even cheaper)

Does JetBrains have a business license that's cheaper than $120/year? If they don't, then $120/year is still $120/year, whether or not a business is spending the money.

> Your business model seems more suspect...

Do you run a business? Do you know anyone who does? There are good months and bad months; cash flow is almost never steady. Indeed, it is likely this very fact that is causing the JB people to switch to the subscription (AKA "Let's get a guaranteed revenue stream!") model of billing.
You are confusing an subscription-based IDE with software-as-a-service.

Do you even use IntelliJ? You don't lose anything except access to the IDE. You can always switch to Eclipse if you don't want to pay. You lose NOTHING except the convenience and power of IntellJ, which is why you pay for them.
3DR Solo. Not the best bit of publicity for 3DR on multiple levels.

As a hobbyist quadcopter designer/pilot, I'm getting real sick of these idiots flying in all sorts of stupid places you shouldn't be flying a 4 pound brick with potentially skin-cutting blades attached. People already have enough of an irrational bias against "drones", events like this sure aren't going to help.

Good thing the stands in that area were empty.
So approximately the energy equivalent of the mass of 2 earths.

Seems doable.
In addition, the product which is marketed as "unbreakable" and "unhackable" technology, appears to be a rebranded version of someone's free product. Further, it introduces a security flaw (the company hardcodes its gmail account and password into the software, which is used for password reset).
My sound engineering side thought one thing:

Latency - It isn't bad for vocals or if you are playing a single audio source, but if you have multiple of sound sources and ALSA and JACK devices playing how are you going to handle latency?
At times... I was out at RedWest.
I would say, yes. Some programmers have trouble reasoning abstractly or think it somehow beneath themselves because it does not produce something real at the end.

There are also "programmers" who's entire method of work seems to be to copy+paste blocks of code from Stackoverflow, only changing the minimum amount to make something load and then move onto the next item in their hit list.

I always liked white boarding problems.
I hate to see a quota imposed, but if the problems increase (who takes a hairdryer into the wilderness??) maybe there needs to be some qualification hikes, much like how you have to finish a certain number of marathons before being allowed into the Boston marathon.
was 1873 days ago I think it is okay to post this and not be told it was done already.
The movie Wild is a good film. It might not be good if you know anything about long distance walking and wilderness trails. In the same way that movies get coding and cracking wrong, even if they make an attempt at honesty.
Maybe coming soon: a toll gate. Onstensibly to pay for trash pickup. Really to pay for a park official mid-management bureaucrat's pension.
The good news is, we're also approaching (or have already experienced) peak demand for a lot of things. The root cause of demand, population, is set to peak later in the century.
Five topics that converge in one: performance
I doubt many would disagree with you, if the people hiking were dispersed. But there is (obviously, I think) such a thing as overuse when it comes to a given natural resource.

More importantly, treating this like it's an issue of "people hiking... too much" ignores an awful lot. The hiking isn't the problem, it's discourtesy, entitlement, and destructiveness that are worrisome.
Pixard said:

> I think (for me anyway) the problem isn't the price at all. It's the fact that if you let your subscription lapse you CANNOT use the product.

(emphasis mine)
Angular 1.x to 2.x Upgrade Strategy
And that's a very rightful question.
> "If you look at the scale and speed with which the Valley moves, if they wanted to solve this problem, they could," Dr. Womack said.

That's basically an argument for "the Valley" not having any problems at all. It's said in the context of a wider talent shortage, so does it mean that there is a huge glut of engineers (black or otherwise) currently being ignored/underemployed?

Or it could mean that throwing money at the problem would fix it in short order, which I generally doubt, though I have no issue with the notion that companies complaining about a talent shortage should consider paying to get what they want.

Or it could mean that companies should throw money at the problem in the form of training up engineers, but that is not a speedy-scaley proposition, unfortunately. Hard problems still exist in the time of Uber.
When this scheme came to light, google ended up giving their employees a 10% across the board raise. Further, google is often used as a compensation benchmark.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527487035236045756052...

Nov 10 2010

Moving to plug the defection of staff to competitors, Google Inc. is giving
a 10% raise to all of its 23,000 employees, according to people familiar
with the matter.
Not until you run into ruts and mud knee deep with trash all around you. There can be too many people. I think I saw in three different times used needles and one of them had a burnt spoon. It can be very frustrating.
Boy do you have that right. I love how small that phone is and the hardware is good in general, but everything they've done with the software is cringeworthy. What are the options for wiping it completely?
Great Collection!! There is a pattern in every deck. Best sequence of slides is:Cover,
Summary,
Problem,
Solution,
Product,
Business Model,
Market Opportunity,
Competition,
Growth Strategy,
Traction,
Financials,
Team ,
Funding
National Geographic Sells Out
It's not wilderness if they're leaving trash and destroying wildlife.

I sort of agree with you though - if sheer numbers of people is the problem does it matter if they carry booze or not? If the alcohol is causing problems that probably needs some extra detail.
You only have to finish 1 marathon before running Boston, you just have to run it fast enough to qualify. http://www.baa.org/races/boston-marathon/participant-informa... You can also get in with a charity slot without qualifying.
It's true that an invasion of the US mainland was never in the cards, given the situation during the cold war. Pretty much nobody was seriously worried about that. What NATO was very worried about was a Soviet invasion of Western Europe, which is a very reasonable worry considering the number and detail of Soviet plans for doing just that.

For their part, the Soviets were very worried about a combined NATO invasion, which seems quite reasonable considering that Germany alone, while also fighting/occupying most of the rest of Europe, managed to get to the suburbs of Moscow, and kill millions of Russians along the way.

Now if the Soviets did manage to invade and conquer Western Europe and maintain control over it, then they might be in a rather better position to consider direct attacks against the US. Which is a good part of the reason why the US invested so much in keeping them out of Western Europe.
I think the point he's trying to make is that if it wasn't Facebook, Zuckerberg would have been successful with something else. Perhaps not as wildly successful, but he certainly wouldn't have regressed to the average, run of the mill consumer getting by on the 9-5.
AFAIK, you can have global shutter on cameras today if you sacrifice low-light performance and high framerates. You need a CCD sensor instead of a CMOS (generally speaking), like you find e.g. on most cameras in the Canon PowerShot line, which do feature global shutters.
Is there a less blogspammy version of this? The article mentions a YouTube channel but doesn't give us the URL.

Edit: Did a bunch of digging and found it: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaq5dRB_CnZDC-eQcsv7nZg
Intro to watchOS 2
They reserve the right to do just that. In the case of sudden, unexpected company collapse, they may have no choice but to kill all their software at once. That is the hazard.

Unless you have a rock-solid contract with stiff penalties, software rental is a highly risky proposition.
True, and I failed to explain myself properly, I have no issues with the price, only with the fact that if I stop paying I can no longer use the product, not even in the version it was when I stopped paying, but since they say that are listening to the feedback maybe there will be some compromise on that.
Not a fan of either film but I really enjoyed both books. I think Wild has substantially further reach, especially among women, while Bryson's book is amusing and entertaining, yet ultimately forgettable. Either way, an increase in Americans focused on exercise, spending time in the wilderness, and general soul-searching activities will be a good thing.
For some reason wherever there are lots of people (at least in the US...I don't know about the rest of the world) discourtesy, entitlement and destructiveness seem to abound.

Personally I think the answer is better policing and giving out large tickets for litterers and destroyers. I don't see people smoking some weed why they hike being a real problem.
If you only meant that the passive system described by the person you were responding too had too high a latency then I think we are in agreement.

However, regarding binocular versus LIDAR in general, I would say that while a greeter frequency is always better 15 Hz should be fine. And in fact the awesome $70,000 LIDAR used by Google's self driving car only runs at 15 Hz.

http://velodynelidar.com/lidar/products/brochure/HDL-64E%20D...
If you want to see a thru-hiking film, watch Do More With Less: https://vimeo.com/126514281. It's a fantastic documentary on the PCT filmed last year.
Yes, you are correct. The problem is not so much with git, it is with GitHub. You cannot retrieve dangling heads from GitHub, not even by cloning. Maybe GitHub runs garbage collection right away?

But if you just keep your repositories on your computers, then yes, you can clone and then find the dangling commits in the clone, too, and then save them.
Watch a drone flyby of Apple's gigantic spaceship campus
Pentagon Now Says Army Mistakenly Sent Live Anthrax to Labs in All 50 States
Haha, fair point. But anecdotally, the comments I've always seen regarding upgrades ask about features. Even here in these threads.

Would be difficult to test this theory though. I've never seen software that doesn't include some level of new features in big releases. Could you convince people to pay for a normal upgrade that didn't include any new features? I seriously doubt it.
Only if you assume that accessible minerals are restricted to those that can be found on the Earth, which is not the case.
Pretty much. That's why I voted him back up.
Most of my time on the computer is at work, so I have a Dell Optiplex with 2 24" screens. At home, I have both a workstation and a laptop, and probably use the laptop more. I use the phone for a quick lookup something, or for reading articles, watching videos &ct.
>"Computer science isn't a science and it isn't about computers"

Earliest use of this quote that I know of is from Abelson in his 1986 lecture teaching SICP: https://youtu.be/2Op3QLzMgSY?t=24
another glorious point for women in technology
When people on the far left and the far right agree, they're usually onto something. My favorite examples are the NSA spying stuff, and this.

Lefties hate the NSA spying and love a universal basic income because the spying tilts the power away from the people, and the income tilts toward the people.

Righties (well, go far right enough) hate the NSA spying and love a universal income because of government overreach in the first case, and the ability to drastically simplify government welfare--cutting out a ton of means-tested programs and their agencies, and replacing it all with a check each month.

Gotta love it!
Git repository management
Real-Time Motion Capture Firm Faceshift May Have Been Acquired by Apple
reading is not your thing, ah? It is too condensed and have not finished it but sections 1.5 and 2.3 are very explicit about it...
I do not "trial and error" my way to correct answers, but I complain bitterly about whiteboard interviews. It's the wrong medium. I wouldn't mind at all being asked to use a pack of cards as a prop to talk through a sort algorithm, but asking me to write one out on a whiteboard is just hamstringing me.
These are the kinds of folks on the AT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjyNO0Ltc6U. They're partiers, not hikers, who are destroying the wilderness and opportunities for solitude.
In chrome://extensions there is an option that lets you give chrome extension to content served from the file:// protocol - maybe that's what you need?
EFF Shines a Light on the NSA’s Plans for Disclosing Software Weaknesses
Buffer has raised a 3.5M Series A. GitHub has a quarter billion dollar in funding. Bootstrapping doesn't have to be an eternal culture, it might just be what makes sense in the early days of a company, and it might no longer make sense further down the line.
yes, class and __type__ seem very reasonable keywords to me, a yelling WHAT does not. the syntax is the same, except the choice of WHAT. I guess I'm the only one who considers it hopelessly odd. if "object1.class == object2.class" seems like something you might think of. But "object1.WHAT == object2.WHAT" is something that wouldn't occur to me in a million years, and makes me laugh even now that I've written it. I suppose you might disagree.
Or are you saying that that now makes sense, and the remaining axiomatic disagreement is about non-existence itself?

I'm sorry to say that I have no idea what you're talking about up to this point. But it doesn't seem to matter, as I think we agree that the axiomatic disagreement is about whether non-existence itself is something to fear (at least, I think we agree on what we're disagreeing about).

However, I would ask that you consider the possibility of the two not being incompatible: believing in an afterlife is not incompatible with trying to make this life as good as possible, and even if you believe it can't be made perfect, that doesn't stop it from getting asymptotically better. .... I'm not bothered when others have faith; it does bother me, though, when faith in a higher power causes people to give up on humanity. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

I think you're misunderstanding me still on where I stand on this. I think it's my responsibility to do what I can to improve things here where I am, both in my community and on my entire planet. Admittedly, that's also integrated with my faith, and it's certainly not an ideal I wish to discard (which in turn makes the idea that my faith makes me wish to discard that ideal all the more ludicrous).

Let me be clear. I have given up on humanity's ability to fix itself. I have not given up on a higher power's ability to change individual humans into people who can make this world a better place. And that includes everything from being more charitable, empathetic, and forgiving every day to having motive and drive to throw away personal riches and futures for a lifetime of thankless service in the trenches of fighting poverty, corruption, unjust war, and more. Not all of us can be Bill Gates and set up a foundation that can really make a difference. But I do believe that everything starts in the hearts of individual people. Unfortunately many people are too petty, selfish, or jaded to care, despite the rare amazing stories of real selflessness. The higher power I believe gives me back hope for people to change.

Sorry for the late reply. :)
Apollo 16 Image Library
And the utm_* tracking query parameters...
Are you running the 'stock' Google-provided ROM, did you try an actual fresh installation? I'm running a clean AOSP ROM, without any kind of CM customizations.
As interesting as it would be to have this in the near future, I'd agree with you.

We would need a semi-permanent 16%+ U6 unemployment before its likely tho. As long as ~90% of the people who want full time jobs can find full time jobs, there simply isn't going to be enough momentum for it.

When automation cuts out the bottom 10% or so of the employment market is when it'd happen.