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Feature is not a good thing per se. A presence of feature is a cost the makers and the users pay to be able to do something efficiently.

Good design has the smallest number of features making the greatest amount of things efficiently possible. Scheme and Forth are brilliant designs by this metric, Haskell, Python, and Go good ones, while C++ and Scala, well, not so much, frankly. BTW, Odersky himself admits it.
If I booked a tour and the host drove me to a different place to stay, that's all I can do.

Unless you're staying in some remote place, absolutely not! You can and should find some other place to stay unless the whole situation is very well explained. In any major city in the world, there are hotels and motels which speak English and other languages. There are also local guides if you need help making yourself understood.

Just being helpless and allowing the host to take you wherever they want is not safe!
Language design is an exercise in balance between features and guarantees. More features = fewer guarantees and vice versa.
You've got no clue what you are talking about, do you? The thing is that many mega projects fail because of ridiculous reasons; mostly because high ranking people make dicisions outside the range of their expertise. Startup projects have very different characteristics and different stakeholders (i.e. mostly private). If 90% of the money could be saved then that's pretty bad.
Considering not all of the user base comments and that of those who do, not all of them are misogynistic, imputing the opinions of a vocal minority to the whole community isn't really fair.
Well, the first three you mentioned are for providing power to other chips, the last 4 are RF amplifiers, they aren't really related.

Why you need (or want) multiple power management ICs: they are likely powering separate zones of the board which may have very different power requirements, e.g. need different voltages, need to be able to power up or down separately, or need particularly clean power.

Why you need multiple RF amplifiers: Almost all phone today run on many different cellular frequencies and protocols, a quick look at the specs indicates the iPhone 6 supports: 800Mhz, 850Mhz, 900Mhz, 1700Mhz, 1800Mhz, 1900Mhz, 2000Mhz, and 2100Mhz along with various different signaling schemes. You can't handle all that in a single RF pathway.
Can you translate that error for us? It seems to be

"Secure connection failed

"The connection to www.openssl.org was interrupted while the page was loading."

What certificate do you see, and have you configured any security settings in your browser or installed any custom "security" solutions / MITM proxies on your computer? openssl.org supports only TLS 1.1 and v1.2, so it's possible that some older proxies, DLLs, etc. can interfere.
This is a reflection for priggishness and humorlessness.
Too many 'normal' and 'sane' people have wasted their own life in frivolous stuff.
He has built something technically impressive with his own time.

I think I would prefer to be him than to be the wasteful normal one.
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You don't need JavaScript if the server can generate all the pages and the links are valid.
Just tonight, my mother checked into an Airbnb in Vienna, Austria. She sent me photos of the bed which did not have new sheets, the towels which were not fresh, a band aid on the floor and some rubbish bins full of cigarettes and ash. The apartment was overall pretty dirty. The host's contact phone number goes straight to message bank (I also tried many times) and the host is not answering emails.

In this situation, what do you do?

She's travelling alone and in her 50s and as you can imagine, she's pretty upset. I decided to get her a hotel and called her an Uber. I then called Airbnb and they said they will attempt to contact the host and they will get back to us.

She wouldn't know what to do without me and if I weren't available, she'd probably end up wandering the streets at night looking for a hotel because she'd be too upset to return to the Airbnb place.

I think for now, I will stop recommending Airbnb.
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> Customer contacts AirBnB

According to the article this didn't work. They had to resort to Twitter. Frankly, if their resolution center doesn't provide a phone number that can be used 24/7, than any demand to contact AirBnB with issues is bullshit.

I had similar issues with Uber and their inadequate customer service. If I can't reach someone directly for services like this, they clearly have issues with pleasing their customers.
I really think that jack will be the best person for Twitter; sometimes a c company just needs it's founder's vision.
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> It seems like it would be a nightmare to sort through a he-said she-said after the fact when the offended party didn't even book a stay (instead the room was booked by some other person that is insisting "no, it's cool, I know them"), and furthermore didn't even report the apartment not being available when the issue occurred.

It's AirBnB's job to do this, sort out these kinds of situations. It's not that hard to come up with a 'nuclear option' to exercise in these situations, where the customer can get a resolution and the host gets a sharp enough slap on the wrist to where it's unprofitable to build a business out of bilking people on AirBnB's platform.

Seems to me that there might be a bit of a leadership vacuum at the company, running AirBnB in as many countries as they're running it in, I imagine not all of the outfits are going to be fully competent. If not even Twitter escalation is solving the problem though, maybe its the executives sleeping at the wheel.
How does this performance compare to what Intel can do at 1-2 watts?
> IMHO it's part of a larger system of not valuing introverts as a society.

Of course, that's turnabout being fair play: society rejects introverts because introverts reject society (or, less absolutely, society finds less value in introverts because introverts prefer to engage less with it). Like you, I don't see any way to change it: it's like trying to get two positive charges to attract.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_American

Is not pan english in that it is mostly attached to the US. But given the vast scope of the US media penetration its probably as close as you get.
> If you have a restaurant where you've decided to list all your menu items at zero cost, that doesn't automatically grant you the power to kick people out because they refuse to eat off the floor.

Why not? Kicking someone out of your restaurant is exactly what you should do if you can't come to an agreement.
I don't disagree with the idea that probability has a lower value in this type of software security risk assessment than some others; my point was that probability is a different thing than severity, so that it is not necessarily an error that issues with a different probability of being exploited but similar consequences get the same severity rating.

Your point, however, is well made.
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It is unfortunate that there isn't a more serious discussion taking place about data collection, use, protection, etc in education. Certainly, there are folks out there making suggestions about data use more generally (e.g. Sandy Pentland's 'New Deal on Data') - but it's a worry that a highly publicized negative event could create additional public resistance to technology in education right when we should be running towards the new tools/opportunities that could be created.

I remain skeptical that core education will be entirely digital in the near future - but that hardly means that we can't/won't/shouldn't see significantly more data collection and use within the classroom. There are limits to how much knowledge even the best teachers can have about student competency/ability without better data tools.

It has to be a part of the way forward, so let's be smart about the rollout.
I'm under the impression that the processor in 6s and 6s Plus is exactly the same. The only test you'll see a difference is on screen rendering, because the 6s Plus resolution is higher.
It doesn't really say "why". Water ionizes really conveniently so you can make it an acid OR a base (which is sorta unusual and it can talk to acidic or basic things), and is polar (its got a + and a - electrical side, more or less, so it can talk to + or - things), and has hydrogen bonds (so you get liquid lifestyle at gas temps)

For one why, look up amphoteric and zwitterion. Water has a super convenient pH range where about a ten millionth of pure water self ionizes aka ten to neg seventh or pH of 7, and all kinds of super convenient reactions occur above and below that pH and its really easy to manipulate ionization rates around that level without using too much. You don't need just a liquid but one where you can really screw around with something like amino acids by easily and cheaply changing the ionization rate of the liquid. So there are super convenient chemical reactions that depend on the ionization level of the liquid and its really easy to manipulate water. Conveniently water "just works" without having to add tons of other stuff to it.

Liquid methane isn't polar enough to really be useful when messing with ionic substances (table salt, etc). Whatever you use for a liquid, it needs to be polar so ionic stuff like salts can dissolve. It turns out that interesting chemistry doesn't happen with non-polar substances at normal temps; thats why when you bury stuff for a couple million years the only thing left behind undecayed (more or less) is non-polar hydrocarbons (crude oil). Ammonia is polar but has other issues.

The hydrogen bonds are important. Water should be a gas at room temp. Really, it should, looking at bonds and molecular weight and stuff. Yet the hydrogen bonds that form keep it liquid at room temp. So you get "gas speed" chemical reactions at "high" room temperature, yet its liquid to a ridiculously high temp.

Maybe some custom liquid silicone with some bolted on weirdness could make a useful artificial blood plasma or "stuff" for life to live in. How it would make it without the chemical plant being made first is mysterious.
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That was the headline feature of Java 8.
There are a lot of services which will act as the Registered Agent for an LLC or corporation. Those can have hundreds of corporations listed at their mailing address with the same phone number. It wouldn't be too difficult to put a few NOC shell corps into the buckets already existing legit businesses.
I don't really blame the renters here although, in retrospect, they'd obviously have been better doing things differently.

At the same time, in the grand scheme of bad customer service from big Internet companies, Airbnb doesn't look like a huge offender here. Photos from balconies notwithstanding, there is apparently a lot of he-said, she-said to sort through here and it's really hard for an Airbnb (or an eBay etc.) to sort through that. What usually evolves over time (to the dissatisfaction of one side of transactions or another) is policies that strongly default to favor the buyer or the seller.
Correct, it does not need wifi. I was mistaken. I just looked it up again and it says it needs an ethernet cable to connect to internet.
I haven't played with Kotlin in a while but if you want collection operations to be lazy you have to explicitly convert it to a sequence. So your example would be something like:

ints.asSequence().filter { it > 0 }.map { it * it }

and then you can convert it to a concrete collection type with toList, toHashSet, toArrayList etc.
Back in May I went to Barcelona with a friend. We booked the apartment with Airbnb. Among other issues (the address Airbnb gave us was wrong, and had to wonder the streets for a couple of hours with no response from the host, then the host turns out to be a real estate broker of some sort)... once we found the place at 10pm, it turns out that the beds had no sheets, and the broker asked us for €15 for "fresh" sheets. I found this to be a real abuse... and the real problem with Airbnb: lack of quality control of product and service.
Sounds a bit like http://rollapp.com
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent was once considered that but its usage declined after WWII.
The culture war is alive and well, many companies (mine included, unfortunately) treat software engineers as barely qualified typists of the "algorithms" designed by "real engineers". They'd get rid all of them in a second if they could, every so often a new manager tries.
Yeah, I get this feeling too, for the most part.

One thing I've noticed about working in a professional setting is that social performance and actual job performance are incorrectly intertwined in people's minds. There's some sort of carryover of positive emotions from strong social interactions when people consider their coworkers work quality, leading to mediocre but savvy workers getting rave reviews.
I'm supposing rather that they don't want to "discover" martian microbes or organic molecules that are actually stow-away Earthlings.
The way I read this is that the key is the difference between running government at the macro level versus the micro level.

Traditionally, government policies and lawmakers create laws and regulations with broad brushes expecting the people closer to the ground to execute it. This type of centralized authority rarely works.

What they deem A/B testing is executing at the micro level down to almost individual choices. This gets you better and more immediate feedback.

The same thing happens in large companies. When there are so many layers between management and the consumer, it is hard to make the right decisions. But if management is talking directly with the consumer, they get better feedback and better decision making.
How the manager and senior leaders are could also be linked to a hiring bias tending to make everyone else that way.
You don't replace, you use it in addition. Layers of security.

Now if you want to spam 500 million credit cards on my system, you are going to need to at least make them from some common domains, which I can block down the road. If you are using an email hiding service, way easier for you.

Not sure bitcoin matters, if I had users paying with bitcoin in an app I would STILL blacklist certain email domains.
True. But in that case I would take a landline number in the first place. Its more professional and more easy to reroute somewhere (or to somebody) else.
Cars and airplanes are things, not features. The ability to drive on roads and the ability fly don't necessarily entail the downsides of a car or of an airplane.

I'm honestly wondering what the reasoning is behind the dislike of too many features, and how people justify the "right" amount of features. I can think of at least one argument against too many features, and that's managing what features a team should use in production, but there are solutions to that and I think that's a weak argument for the original assertion, which was entirely unsubstantiated.

I haven't used C++ or Java in over a decade, and I've never used Scala, so I don't have a horse in this race, but vague assertions deserve substantiation.
Aren't these all pretty obvious?
I think there are a handful of hosts that do not care about their guest' experience and instead are mostly focused on the financial gain of renting out their place. That being said, I'm an airbnb host who has rented out my 2nd bedroom in nyc to some of the most amazing individuals I've ever met, and many of them are some of my best friends now.

It really depends on the host. And I think that 90% are fantastic.
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Agreed, here's what aerospace arrived at (organically too) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DO-178B
I'm an engineer who has worked at non-profits for several years and have maintained top skills. The answer is- your long term earnings will absolutely be reduced, though not for the already cited reasons.

Essential books to read before going into the non-profit space:

* With Charity For All - Ken Stern

* Doing Good Better - Bill MacAskill

Also, read SSIR, it has the best coverage of emerging trends in the non-profit space:

http://ssir.org/

The short answer is- if income is important to you, marginally to significantly more important than impact, DO NOT work for a non-profit. If impact is of marginal to secondary importance, then contribute money and time in accordance with the emerging analytics that Bill MacAskill talks about.

If impact is most important, and income is not, then by all means work for a non-profit, but remember that mission comes first, second, third and fourth.

==

There are very, very few non-profits that are using technology in any of the ways that resemble tech-focused big shops or startups, because at this stage there are very, very few non-profits whose funding streams are dependent on specific details of technology deployment.

There are (to my eyes) huge opportunities for technical innovations like data analytics, APIification, and many others to transform the non-profit space, but these transformations will be years in the making. The space moves very, very slowly.

So, at a non-profit, you may maintain skills, and you can often be paid a fairly equivalent salary, but all sorts of other income, practice, and leadership opportunities will pass you by.

* bonus

* equity

* quantitative management

* developing for the customer

* etc

Once you have more of your life-course settled, with life partners and kids and living situation and so forth- by all means go work for a non-profit.

I DO NOT recommend it for junior engineers.
>You're also going to blow off the only person (the host) who cares at all about your situation.

Are we reading the same article? The host in this situation advertised a room for let, waited until his guests were on site in the city and contacting him to get the key, then yanked the listing. You're accusing the customer of blowing off the host in this hypothetical?

Any given hotel on any given street cares more than that host.

>What you're suggesting is that you're going to start making international calls with some website's support staff while you have luggage on the street, no place to stay, in a foreign city and completely on your own.

Sorry. Imo you're completely dramatizing how hard it is to inform Airbnb of an issue. If you've got either a cell signal or a data connection, the computer in your pocket can take care of this in the time it takes for the host to get to you. You can actually do this with your luggage beside you, and I'd argue that it's a better use of time than driving to an off-the-books apartment that you've never laid eyes on in a completely foreign city. Also, Aribnb provides a local 24/7 phone number in the original confirmation email so you don't have to just rely on the web form.

>Have you ever travelled to a foreign country where you don't speak the language?

Yes I have.
Are these cars not legal? has any action been brought on the owners?

If the tires spewed asbestos and no law was against you driving them, then I think my argument still stands.
> That doesn't work very well if you're using stuff like AWS Lambda functions, short-lived VMs, Docker containers that come and go regularly, etc.

Actually that's the use case where it works best. If you have constantly changing infrastructure, how useful are those logs anyway? Unless its something that is happening across the fleet, in which case it should get picked up by your application metrics. Also this is the perfect case for stream processing of the logs where you look for things in real time and then throw away the actual logs (no need to keep them around after you've processed them).

> Plus, off-server logs are invaluable if the server is compromised.

Only if your systems are mutable. If they are immutable then you're much better off looking at the incoming data through an application firewall or looking for unexpected data changes in the data store. The application server should just be a conduit for the user to interact with the data store.
I was talking about giving food to charities, not trying to set up a half-baked charity.

The big issue here is food that's still good but undesirable, not food that has gone past regulated safety limits.

Especially when manufacturers are setting arbitrary 'best' dates.
We are all human.

Some of us are sick more and some of us are sick less but in this day and age we all get sick and we all take vacations.

I'll give my 2 cents here...

1. If a few days of being sick throws everything into chaos, you are probably stretching yourself pretty thin to begin with. You need to take a step back and leave time for yourself to be sick and to rest.

2. You need to communicate to your customers clearly, you are sick and you will be back when you are healthy. I realize this can be really stressful, especially if you are just starting out but I have yet to find a customer that did not understand this basic human function.

I learned from my experience (5+ years of being a freelance) that anything you communicate clearly and honestly to your clients will be accepted with understanding (within reason of course). Just try that, see how it goes.

Get well soon, rest, sleep, recharge. Do whatever you need so that your body will function at it's prime again.

Good luck!
My ongoing first time experience forced me to create this basic question set. The realization is airbnb is no different from craigslist. There are no minimum standards/rules.
There are awesome deals out there. Only people with a good question set end up choosing a better deal and the rest get stuck with bad deals.

Room
1. Room size (width x length in ft)
2. What lighting do you have?. Or you have only one table lamp?
3. Is there a table?
4. Do you provide a towel?
5. Send me a picture of bed size and also the measurements.
(width x length in ft)
Please don't just say queen or king. I need the width and length. I have seen hosts mention the sizes incorrectly.
6. Do your personal belongins stay in the room?. Any don't touch belongings?
7. Does the room have a knob(inside) for privacy?
8. Is there a fan?
9. Total house built up area in square footage? (excluding garage)

Sharing
1. How many airbnb guests stay there?
2. How many guests I share the rest room with?
3. Is there space in the fridge for me?. How much (approx)?
4. What is the typical temperature maintained in the house?. Are there
guests with a requirement to keep the room warm despite me sweating?

Cleaning
1. What is the cleaning schedule for house?.
1. What is the cleaning schedule for rest rooms?.
2. Who do we call if the shared rest room is soiled?.

Location
1. Are there any loud sounds/noises from surroundings/roads at night?
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Don't know what you are talking about on any points.

a) 3D touch is not exaggerated. I have spent a few days with the iPhone 6s and it is a game changer for future mobile interaction. It is very reminiscent of contextual menus and in a year once all developers get on board (and they will thanks to Apple's excellent iOS9 adoption rate) it will be hard to use any phone that doesn't have it.

b) There is no need for new hardware for the Apple Watch. I have one. Every problem with it is software related. Many animations are superfluous, the app strategy is misguided, native apps are still too slow (yet Apple's apps are fast), the watch faces are not nearly customisable enough and it is not situation aware enough.
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