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Apple and to some extent Microsoft impose the look and feel of the apps on their platforms (desktop and mobile) but nobody has control of the web. It's just too large and decentralized. Best practices are all we have but not everybody knows them. Just check the number of pages with a light background and text of a color too light to be read comfortably, or that you can't pinch to zoom on a tablet and you need a lens to read.

Edit: check this http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3129953/ about reiventing the wheel, a horizontal scrollbar to flip pages instead of the plain vertical scrollbar of the browser.
It explains it how? Have people told you that you have an easy face to draw?
Contract surgery is pretty routine these days, fortunately. Be careful about who's doing the surgery, double-check that they're inserting the right type & power of lens, etc. (mistakes are rare, but it's worth double-checking everything you can) and manage your post-op care very carefully, but that's about reducing risks that are small to begin with; it's pretty safe -- especially if you're not dealing with more fragile eyes due to existing conditions (my case) or advanced age.

But if you do have issues to work around -- e.g., problems with the original capsule holding the natural lens, or other inflammation/etc. to avoid, there are even now a handful of different ways to attach an artificial lens that also work well; I have artificial lens in the original capsule, and the other that basically clipped onto the iris.

You'll probably need glasses anyway (for standard artificial lenses, you will) but possibly only for reading.

I use progressive lenses in my glasses (no more bifocals, these days); and generally reading, driving, etc. are just fine -- I don't think about it.
"the committee is notorious for two things; its obsessive secrecy and an institutional aversion to controversy"

The committee is certainly secretive, but as this makes it difficult to see exactly what candidates were considered and how decisions were made, it is hard to tell whether the committee has actively tried to avoid controversy.

Regardless of the committee's intent, its decisions have been the subject of many controversies: see the long list at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_controversies
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What about defining conscience as neurons firing in the brain?
Oh come on, surely they get results for the animal as well? If you want a unique name, you have to invent one.
I asked why "real" orange juice was "much healthier" than Minute Maid orange juice, not juice vs. soda. (Quoting text from hisham_hm; they aren't meant as scare quotes.)
Both professions involve applying techniques, management and processes to ensure that a product is created to a predictable standard. I believe there are numerous significant practical similarities between the two professions. Experienced individuals may be able to take an idea directly to code, but for software projects developed by teams of mere mortals, there are well establishing engineering processes that are shown to give a project the best chance of success.

> what is the equivalent of recipe in programming?

A software design of course.
I meant the second "click", but yeah you're right. I do use the new trackpad and it's awesome.
> At the moment, the only attempt at an explanation holds that God made the universe.

No, that's certainly not the only attempt at an explanation.
as it was in algol day. :=
Why would there even be a spectrum? Maybe a 2 dimensional spectrum. I'm sure someone can be both an extreme introvert and an extreme extrovert. Honestly, I think the idea is ludicrous. People aren't so different. But if there is hard science to back it up, I'd be willing to have my mind changed.
That shows the difference between standard time and local apparent solar time. Apparent solar time varies through the year according to the equation of time.

This map shows the difference between standard time and local mean solar time, which is fixed. There is a clock on the Corn Exchange in Bristol with two minute hands with a fixed angle showing the difference between Bristol and Greenwich mean time. The clock dates from the period when Railway Time (GMT) was the practical time in common use, but British legal time was local mean time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exchange,_Bristol#Clock
> Very rarely will these two overlap; only on very very large products.

This is the Kool-Aid drunk by designers who actually don't give a fuck about their users. 'rarely', 'very very large products'... this is the cry of the lazy, crappy designer.
Or in many functional languages you might say something like

a <- 5

Which is quite intuitive.
I've made a point of installing a variety of extra Unicode fonts like Symbola, and I still find sites with characters that don't render properly. I do see the magnifying glass on the parent comment's site though...
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For me, "software engineering" is even better term.
Your image is 404.

The text on the site is not black but it's 90% OK on my tablet (8" and about 2500x1600 px). Black text would probably be better. There is also a lot of useless () margin on the left but I can punch to zoom and make the text fill all the screen. No issues with font color at that size.

() Useless because I want to read the text comfortably on the tablet. The screen of my computer is larger and I probably won't mind that margin there.
The gold standard right now is operational transformation:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_transformation

But this requires that you capture every edit, which (I think) makes it more complicated than classical merging techniques which just work on whole documents as input.
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This is easier in languages which use the "let a = b" verb: mostly functional languages and basic.
> Setting up is something that fully fledged developers still battle with.

Amen to that. I have made a perfectly successful, 10+ year career of development in PHP with some JS sprinkled in there. But I still do it in FileZilla and Notepad++. Lately, I have been trying to learn about newer technologies so I have taken up learning JS more seriously using WebStrom and Python using PyCharm. I've been picking up all kinds of things bit by bit, but in the last few days in particular I have taken up a small project and gone down a road of:

* Python

* PyCharm (and IDEs in general - anything beyond syntax highlighting)

* React

* Node

* npm

* Babel

* Git

* Github

* Gulp

* Browserify

* File watchers in PyCharm

* Bootstrap

* React-bootstrap

* sqlite

* Database integration in PyCharm

* jQuery (the only thing on this list I have any previous experience with)

* Moment.js

In the time it has taken me just to understand how all these things work together and the way I need to use them, I would've been able to fully complete the project I am working on if I were just using PHP and FileZilla, hah. As it stands, I'd say I'm about 5% in to it.

Absolutely worth it though. I've made many revelations along the way and am definitely seeing how amazingly useful these tools (the IDEs in particular) can be once you have a grasp on them.
Thon could also use https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/thon

edit: that part meant jokingly (please). Although https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English_grammar#Pronouns is far more interesting.
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Man, they must have taken YEARS to fake all of these!
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I still shoot with a 1969 grade medium format camera -- not a 'blad but a Bronica. I get about 25 megapixels scanned at 2400dpi.

Aren't we glad today they they decided to take large film instead of 35mm!
I tried that, and even if I was in the Netherlands I don't think it would apply. Biking has its constraints, you can't go at your own pace even in dedicated lanes, you have to be very actively focused on others, and you need secure parking lots if you plan to do something else otherwise 50% chances it will get stolen.
> And the Oracle legal shenanigans

You mean the Google legal shenanigans that tried to find loopholes around two Java licenses (one of them completely open-source, and the other would have cost them $25M) that would hopefully hold up in a court case (which they were sure would follow, because they went straight after Sun's business), failed, and in the process forked the ecosystem?

Oracle did exactly what Google dared them to do (after a reprieve while Sun was dying). Only, to get what they wanted -- payment for the use of Java not under its open-source license -- they used whatever legal argument they could come up with, in the hope that one would stick. One did (well, at least partially), and now Oracle is at fault? This entire court case -- except the decision -- was orchestrated by Google. They could have avoided the whole thing by either abiding by the open-source license (which, BTW, is exactly the same as Linux's) or by paying Sun $25M. Oracle, OTOH, had no choice because Google went after them with their own weapon.

Oracle didn't just go after someone who'd forked Java. They went after someone who'd forked Java with the intent to harm on of their main income sources from Java (at least at the time), while forking the ecosystem and breaking compatibility -- the ecosystem's prime directive -- and all that while Java was available under an open-source license, which Google rejected. They don't care about the principles of copyright. They just happened to use that in their arsenal of legal tools to go after a company that they believed had harmed them.

Then, Google's PR tried to terrify the world with the possible repercussions of the one argument that did stick by blowing it out of proportion and neglecting to mention that it hardly applies to any software these days.

Neither of these companies is a saint in this story. They are just two corporations playing their parts. But Google was the one who could have stopped all this, and blaming the whole thing on Oracle is just ridiculous.
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Back in the day a large proportion of languages used = for equality and something else for assignment. That something else might have been e.g.

* := (Algol-style :=, not Go-style).

* A non-ASCII arrow character (surprisingly not always a <- 1, but sometimes 1 -> a)

* A keyword (SET a TO 1)

So yes, there was certainly a lot of discussion about it, but in the end this is also just a minor design detail. It's just an accident of history that we ended up with =- as-assignment being the norm.
Probably, chef work is not that similar to programming. Construction would be more prolific analogy. Note using of construction related language in software world, eg "development", "architecture".
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Really, though?

I always design with accessibility in mind, but I feel like there are more visceral complications than having to add a little extra context to a web search.

Almost everyone in development has encountered unfortunate name collisions that make what you're looking for hard to find... it's a pretty common inconvenience. Usually you just refine the query, like: "JAWS screenreader." The first result takes you where you probably intended to go, and it's at most 1-2 keystrokes away.

I think the real lesson here is to design inclusively. HTML has a lot of handy attributes to augment content; knowing & implementing the essentials means someone can follow the core flow of your site/application without relying on visual cues. And for the pragmatists... it has the added benefit of self-documenting and increasing semantic conformity in your markup.
This paper[1] looks at things from the perspective of cumulative CO2 emissions, as they have a roughly linear relationship with the temperature increase. For example, over the period of 1870 to 2012 we added about 1,430 (+- 70) GtCO2 to the atmosphere, and we're already observing a +0.8°C mean global temperature increase:

> Taking into account CO2 emissions prior to 2014, the remaining emissions quota (from 2015 onwards) associated with a 66% probability of keeping warming below +2°C is estimated to be 1,200 (900–1,600) GtCO2. This +2°C quota will be exhausted in about 30 (22-40) ‘equivalent emission-years’ at the 2014 emission level (40.3 GtCO2 yr^-1). Owing to inter-annual and decadal variability, the actual year when +2°C will be reached is uncertain. The remaining quota associated with a 50% probability of committing to 2 °C of warming is estimated to be 1,500 (1,100–1,900) GtCO2 (Table 1), corresponding to 37 (27–47) equivalent emission-years at the 2014 emission level.

So, within the 40 year timeframe mentioned in the link, and assuming (optimistically) that we've reduced global CO2 emissions to 2014 levels (recall: global emissions have been growing by 2.5% each year for the past decade.), we'll have hit a 50% chance of having locked in > +2°C of warming.

[1] -- Friedlingstein et al - nature geoscience, 2014 -- pdf version http://www.globalcarbonproject.org/global/pdf/Friedlingstein...
A gzipped truetype font is in the order of 100k, though plenty are bigger. 256 of these is ~25MB. Chrome and Firefox are only 45MB to begin with.
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Do you have any evidence that it isn't an intrinsic property of the language? I would have thought all that type inference is non-trivial to calculate.
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To elaborate, the goal should be to move forward by cycling between asking questions and doing something:

Ask question <-------> Do something (ie bang out code)

The "do something" will never be perfect, so don't waste hours trying to understand the theory perfectly. Use the coding time as a way to both test your knowledge and drive further questions.

This is why it's helpful to pick a motivating project while learning to code. It keeps you moving ahead and makes sure the "question time" is truly filling in the knowledge gaps you need to fill in.
Great story! Being a solopreneur myself, I still don't understand it.. Looks like a BuiltWith is a classical "You build, they come" example? No marketing, no validation or customer development. Can we call it "big luck", then? I'm really interested to hear about early days and motivation of founder to run it.
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I don't think that would help very much. You still need to know the types, even with type inference. Type inference just helps avoid excessive typing (of the keyboard kind).
"software engineering" feels broader, like it includes knowing the right aspects of project management and risk for the given project and business needs, beyond just getting something to work.
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Bro, do you even Zen?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAjTN2eYKqQ)

Quite sincerely, my understanding of the Soto zen tradition is "Sit & face the wall. Sit sincerely. Just sit." Everything else is extra. Include the new age hippy bullshit ugh. Including this judgment! Including this pride I take in displaying such wonderous knowledges about something as simple as sitting & facing the wall. lol :)
#4 is phrased badly. Don't stop asking questions. But do identify which questions are relevant to getting your stuff done and which are sidetracking into irrelevant stuff. You don't need to know how a webserver works as a newbie. You should know how it works when you're starting to tune for performance.
Mmm, analog synths. Any other gearslutz regulars on HN?

For a nice "plug-in" like DAW integration of hardware synths, check out http://ctrlr.org/
I agree. It's a very different thing to criticize the people compared to criticizing the country.

For example, I've lived in China, I have very good Chinese friends but because of the political situation and the past history, I fully understand why a lot of rich Chinese immigrate outside of China when they can or put themselves in situations that would allow them to have an escape route.

I believe that Russia's situation is a bit similar, it's not an indictment against the people but it's an indictment against the government and the way the country is run currently.
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While there might be some benefits, the biggest disadvantage of humbleness is that many people are not prepared for it. It's not how the role models on TV act, therefore it's weird.

People often take ego as an indicator for status or intelligence. If you're not asserting yourself, you don't know as well, or you're not as smart as others. Humbleness doesn't mix well with assertiveness. Assertive people need to be humble around humble people, and the other way around. With just two persons it might work, add more and you get interesting group dynamics.
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Yes, this book! I don't recall reading a book with such frequency. I think once I read it cover to cover 3 days in a row - it's full of... I don't know!

Also, I made this mistake too for awhile, the author of "Zen Mind, Beginners Mind" is S.Suzuki, not D.T. Suzuki - different folks, both responsible for establishing Zen practices in the West.
Not that it has a direct relationship with the article, but I'm watching The Americans (the TV show), it's made by an ex CIA officer, and I have to tell, the intelligence world is pretty scary. I can't comprehend how those couples could live such lives. I can't see any other work that is so mind sucking.

Although I have no idea how really accurate that show is, and I really have to look for clues about it.
I am pretty sure none of this helps people who have actually damaged their ears physically (i.e. loud sound). Because then you sustained physical and irreversible damage to your cochlea. It is important to distinguish between this and other tinnitus, like caused by stress, tension, etc.

EDIT: Sorry to make it sound like I didn't read the article and just dumped this onto here. I simply noticed a tendency of people to throw this link at tinnitus sufferers without taking into consideration the aforementioned distinction, so yes, this is slightly off-topic.
Russia's situation is similar and arguably much more severe.
There's a lesson in here somewhere.

If you're an engineer and your boss gives you an order that will cause the company to engage in unlawful behavior you should probably (1) refuse the order, (2) find another job as soon as you can and (3) if you feel the situation is serious enough that the cost to your career is outweighed by the benefits to society consider to become a whistle-blower.

On another note, that independent research was the trigger that caused this whole scandal to blow up is a very bad mark on the ledger of the EPA who should have caught this right out of the gate and not 1M+ vehicles later.

Interesting statements by VW indicate that some believe there is no way their cars would have passed inspection without cheating. With one diesel engine not being that technologically different from the next how are the independently verified figures of the various other brands working out.

As of last Thursday I no longer have a VW diesel since a bunch of crooks decided to steal my camper. I'd very much like it back, emission problems or not.

If anybody spots a silver grey long wheel base VW T5 with dark windows and a camper roof that opens at the rear then I'd very much like to know about it and I'll make sure there is a generous reward. Dutch registration 16-GGG-6, picture is here:

http://camarades.com/DSC_5237.JPG

Very mad about this :(
Ok, I knew that but couldn't connect. Silly me. Thanks.
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In buddhism, it's been about simply finding ones own mind, free of cultural conditioning & habits. To do this, one practices "let it go". This is the similarity in all traditions - in Zen it might be the "Mu" koan.
>> Nobody in their right mind wants to live in Russia.

>Xenophobic insults are not allowed on HN.

yes, man, have you been to Russia? While i disagree with the GP on many issues, he is a Russian like me and he knows what he is talking about. And before throwing a heavy term around, i'd recommend you check the definition of the term:

xenophobia - intense or irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries.

The term wouldn't be applicable here even if GP wasn't from Russia.

His comment isn't PC-style of course, so man up and clearly state that as a reason for your ban threat instead of hiding behind "xenophobia" label.
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Your mind can go off-rails, being able to slow things down (if it's more than imaginary feeling of my self) is good. You don't need everything on every time to survive. Like sleep.
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"smarter than you" this requires an idea of the ego / self & ones smartness - this itself could then be something you take virtue in - like "I am cultivating egolessness by spending time with smarter people" lol :) [1]

I think Wittgenstein hit the nail on the head when he said that the most profound philosophical truths can only be told in the form of jokes. This is the origin of humor in happy people.

EDIT: [1] A lot of what I find so amusing in the Zen tradition is that it is so good at articulating these jokes/truths in a minimum amount of words & its rejection of philosophical musing, etc.
To expound on your last point: I agree that you have to be able to stop yourself from always getting drawn by curiosity into the rabbit-hole, but in my experience one of the things that has separate the mediocre developers from the great ones is their ability to cross those layer boundaries. You don't have to know everything about every layer, but it helps to know enough about each one to have a general sense of how it works, and to know where to start digging if you do need to go deeper. Obviously this kind of experience takes time to build up.

For example, if you are doing front-end JavaScript development it can be very good to understand HTTP, and have at least a vague idea of how things like TCP/IP and DNS work. Nothing kills productivity like hitting a bug that you can't even investigate without someone else's help.
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They mostly use a screen reader, I think it's a proprietary one that is the current best. One also has a braille display that is insanely expensive (multiple thousands of dollars IIRC), but he almost never uses it.

They also use iPhones, as they complain that Android's accessibility is bad. I thought it was just the typical "I like what I'm used to", until I tried to use it on mine to help one of my coworkers with it, and he was right. It was unusable (taps wouldn't register, gestures wouldn't register, they were hard to do, etc). I was ready to throw my damn phone in the trash after ten minutes, I can't imagine having to use a phone like that all day.
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I don't think there was any correlation, it sounds to me you're reading too much into it.
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