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Good question :)

IBM used to make pretty good laptops but sold the laptop part off (Lenovo)

IBM used to have a pretty decent server line or lines, though they sold a good part of the Intel stuff off (now Lenovo for the server line, but had sold off many other parts earlier, such as storage, and started using more vendors)

There were things Software Group did like Websphere, which I imagine still does good money, but why you'd actively want to seek it out over free alternatives I have no idea. They also have DB2 in database land. Software Group used to be cooler and have better resources than hardware groups, or so we thought. I have no idea how well they are doing.

They also got rid of microelectronics and who knows what else. In general, innovative parts of IBM get sold off, and they keep the services parts? Feels that way.

Their margins on services and people are not good, so they also have the reputation of restructuring/laying-off like crazy and seemingly at random, with lots of pressure on stock price.

I was there in 2001-ish when they scrapped pensions, though the thought of pensions actually existing is a novel concept today. It used to be a place where people thought they could work forever, and that is decidely no longer the case anywhere, it shows how the views of what IBM was changed rapidly over time.

They also increasingly pushed for a contractor-heavy work force for more ability to make cuts and reduce benefits.
Tried to do a quick walkthrough of it, a couple of pointers:
- The first screen (phone number) is covered by a modal asking for notification permissions (you might want to move that later into the flow) I hit "Dont allow" and it took me to a page saying "Nudj doesn't have access to your contacts". I understand that this might be relevant at a later point but let the user see the app and register before asking for all these permissions. (I can't move forward from this page because the only option is hitting "Settings" and giving you access to my contacts). I quit the app at this point.

I restarted the app and decided to try with a fake UK number, and hit next once again, it asks for permission to access contacts. I hit don't allow and got stuck at the same settings page. At this point I would give up and leave (unless I see value in an app I wouldn't want to allow it to notify me or give it access to my contacts).

My two cents:

If the purpose is to share jobs etc , let me find something interesting (that I want to share with others) and when I click share ask for permission.

If I use the App a few times or if I specifically ask to be notified ask for "notifications" permission.
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Building an NPS tool is easy until it isn't
Pretty much. I'd date artistic Modernism from Manet, but that's personal taste. It's also open to debate when Modernism gave way to Post-Modernism - Neo-Dada in the 50s, Minimalism or Conceptualism in the 60s?

We're currently on "Contemporary Art", which is going to be a hard label to shake...
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You are taking the article too seriously. The guy googled a bit, came up with some half-digested ideas and burped them with a clickbait title. Here’s a recent overview of Ukrainian IT market on the largest Ukrainian IT community hub. Look at the last two pictures.
http://dou.ua/lenta/columns/jobs-and-trends-2015/
What makes this project incredible is how it is dug at the base of the mountain, instead of higher up. That makes it the deepest tunnel, dug under 2,500m of rock at its max. When you have almost two miles of mountain weighing down on you… pressure is intense. The rock has different compositions along the way, some parts have to be dug with boring machines, some parts with explosives.

The project has been in construction for 20 years. For comparison: the Golden Gate Bridge took 4 years. The Hoover Dam, 5 years. The Burj Khalifa, 5 years.
Could you please explain how the internal representation of null in the language's type system has any effect on the semantics of code written in that language?
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Long time user of TooManyTabs. This is better. I figured there'd be a keyboard shortcut, since this was posted on HN after all, and thank goodness.

Cheers.
So is this man-made space junk or what?
Prior to being acquired they were a much lighter weight and usable site. Now they are almost as bad as weather.com with ads and unnecessary UI clutter
This gets no comments? Oracle cloud engineers will be a little disappointed I'm sure.
in 2012 we had this in Afghanistan on almost every single container/pallet/load.
Unfortunately most people who are looking for an article like this are looking for "How to send spam and avoid spam filters", not "How to respect the attention of my valuable customers in such a way as to not offend their spam filters."
Very good talk
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You're not wrong...
Sure. So I'll give you one very over-simplistic example. Let's assume that T is an unknown type (a type parameter).

You can form types like Object&T, and if T is an optional type of form S|Null, then that is reduced automatically to the type S by the typechecker. But if T is not an optional type, then it just remains T.

Very useful to be able to do this kind of trick in generic code.

And note that nothing here was using any special reasoning about Null: this is all just the totally generic reasoning for union types in general.
My housemate in college had a Dell with business support. IIRC he used the on-site support once, and another time just had them send a new part to install himself. And it was cheaper than AppleCare.
" --- at significant expense."

Which is being directly passed on to the client along with an extra slice of profit making. Brilliant but not so nice if you're the client.
Took me a while to get that they are using the Linux kernel as a library, i.e. https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#MereAggregation applies.

I thought they have a kernel module with a GPL wrapper, like the NVidia graphics module which would be more contentious.
not having interop costs also makes Kotlin much more realistically useable for Android apps, which could really help bootstrap its adoption.

Android could use a better language than Java 7 (or even 8) and Kotlin seems to be the only one that can easily replace it.
Is it just cloud or is there a mobile app as well?
*.txt.gz is not exactly a modern data format.

I share the parent's sentiment; finding easy access to good weather data is hard.

Do you want your side project to be an experience in learning how to parse obscure formats and coordinating obsolete dependencies, or HTTP GET some JSON and immediately do something with the data?
I didn't say that Ceylon has a problem interoperating with Java's unreified generics, just that reified generics on a shared platform have their own issues. The level of interoperability, though, is radically different from Kotlin's. And yes, I have never tried Ceylon because its stated design goals -- while great -- are not what I'm looking for. If I got the design goals and philosophy wrong I'll happily give it a try. I will also reiterate that I can certainly see that other people may prefer Ceylon's design goals over Kotlin's.
I think the problem is that you're assuming that safety rating == safety.

The big deal is to make sure that the companies are able to operate and pass the safety checks with a sufficiently high mark. Since those are based on the existing vehicles, there is no reason to redesign everything to get the same rating at the end.
> it will be the world's longest and deepest traffic tunnel

yet the linked list of the worlds longest tunnels lists two longer metro tunnels in china
To which extend Net Neutrality was damaged, is debatable -- and likely we will only see in the future what the net-result is. I can only see for now, that they left dangerous holes in the Net Neutrality case here, which the providers where longing for very much, because they want to use these holes to draw money from it.
I like the idea of advertising the actual salary. The rest of your points makes me believe you have either been lucky or haven't actually had a lot of success in this approach.

Not getting fired at a company for 2 years is an extremely easy thing to do and means almost nothing. To the contrary I've hired some extremely talented people that have previously fired just a couple months on the job.

Quite honestly, saying recruiting is not hard makes me think you are just not very intelligent.
At liberty to elaborate always sounded like a weird phrase to me. Of course he is. As a free citizen in a free society he can speak his mind freely.
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Thank you for this. I didn't quite make it into the top 10, but it was a lot of fun. I really like what you guys are doing. I began learning to code by writing bots for games so your approach to teaching is a lot of fun. It looks like lots of others enjoy learning to code this way too.

I'm very curious about and hope that you'll post your opinion on the success of this tournament as a channel for hiring. This is a refreshing approach to filtering candidates that, hopefully, will be adopted by many others. I'm also curious to know if the tournament accelerated new user sign-ups. Perhaps the extra incentive (an interview was offered to the top 10 players) was enough to convince some to learn to code who would've put it off otherwise.

Thank you again. I hope the result of this tournament will be very positive for CodeCombat, and I wish you all the best moving forward.
The "beer test" thing is really sad. Like, why do people require their co-workers to hang out with them in their off hours? Friendship is supposed to be voluntary; don't they have friends of their own?
Gotthard Tunnel

The Gotthard Base Tunnel (GBT) is a railway tunnel through the Alps in Switzerland expected to open on 2 June 2016.

- Length: 35.4 mi

- Cost: $10.3 billion

- Construction: 1996 - 2016 (est)

Bay Bridge

The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge (known locally as the Bay Bridge) is a complex of bridges spanning San Francisco Bay in California.

- Length: 4.46 miles

- Cost: $6.5 billion

- Construction: 2002 - 2013 (est)
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You might also consider allowing developers to register and enter their keywords.
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I think a better analogy would be a bear-trap or a land-mine. The powers granted to government exist to deny life, liberty and property to those who violate the law. They're fundamentally destructive. Although we intend that they only be used in suppressing illegitimate force and fraud, that's not always the case.

Under this analogy, I think it's quite reasonable to question why we have so many of these very dangerous laws just lying around waiting to ruin someone's life. Absent very compelling and readily apparent reasons for keeping them in place, the default course of action should be to disable and remove them as quickly as is safe to do.

"A generation may bind itself as long as its majority continues in life; when that has disappeared, another majority is in place, holds all the rights and powers their predecessors once held, and may change their laws and institutions to suit themselves. Nothing then is unchangeable but the inherent and inalienable rights of man." --Thomas Jefferson on the dubiousness of pre-supposing that perfect and timeless wisdom guided anyone who's ever deigned to enact a law.
Yes, when I bought it (at the Apple Store), it came with iOS9. I have updated it to 9.0.2 but have yet to update it to 9.1. I haven't noticed any problems, though (except for one issue with the Facebook app going crazy -- so that the phone was hot to the touch when I picked it up -- but that only happened once).
It does do that. Roulettes are generally banned. Of course, since the State makes the laws, the State can also decide when to make exceptions, as is the case in Nevada and Atlantic City, for example. And the State can also make exceptions to benefit itself, as is the case in state-sponsored lotteries.
Sigh, I wish web sites had more information, this from the manufacturer https://www.spiber.jp/en/endeavor?section=3

I'm curious to know what the tensile strength and Young's modulus is for the thread. I get annoyed that the "stronger than steel" moniker when it discusses one aspect of strength and generally related to weight but not volume. Its much less impressive to have a .050 fiber that is "stronger than steel" when the equivalent steel fiber would be .0005.

Interesting questions like "How does it compare to Kevlar(tm)?" are we going to see sails made out of it? What is the durability in the presence of ultraviolet light (aka sunlight)? Is this just a Velben[1] fiber, suitable only for showing off just how much you can spend on a jacket?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorstein_Veblen
> Or worse, anything that patches a Windows DLL is a derivative work of that dll?

Isn't this the current status quo? How can a patched DLL be anything but a derivative work?
> The other comments do a great job of that.

No, they simply don't. At best you are using circular logic. At worst you don't explain anything.

Again: Forcing content creators into this, is the only sensible option. It's the user-friendliest too, because why the fuck would I pay for an ads-free subscription service, if I then have to watch ads? So, as it's friendly to the users (i.e. the non-content-creators), the only way forcing content creators into the deal could be construed as not user friendly is if it would have any negative effect on content creators.

What is this negative effect? Because I simply can't see any. Why would any content creator be against signing this deal, what are the specific reasons? And your answer can neither be "because it's bad for the users" (it isn't), nor "because they are forcing me to do it". Because that's only sensible and also what every business does all the time, including the place where you shop for groceries. Terms and conditions change and if you don't accept the changes your contract becomes void and you are no longer able to use a service. Any service that ever changes their rules.
The Peckinpah movie (and the hit C.W. McCall song that inspired it several years earlier) stands among the most famous instances of trucking in popular culture-- I would guess rather strongly that it's a reference.
General level of terror in Israel? It is absurdly low compared to the threats that surround them (lets not go into if such threats are warranted or not)
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Nope, that is the total price including the battery.
This is not how life works. It is how you wish life would work.

Humans are social animals. The power to cause (or prevent) change in organizations is political in nature. The power to affect operations through technology is at best instrumental to the power to decide what effect is to be implemented. By ignoring these facts, programmers forego the opportunity to be seen as valuable allies and turn themselves into exploitable resources. No amount of progress, or "platformization" is going to change that.

Sure, getting high paying jobs with little accountability can be kind of cool, in the short term. But you need to think what happens next. If social Darwinism is true, idiot managers will die out and be replaced with more competent managers. It will take years, but at the end of day, they will wise up. And if so many of them see programmers as a threat they will cut our jobs.

To a degree, this is what we are seeing now. The older generation of managers learned that programmers are unreliable, so they outsource not to save money, but to mitigate the risk of having to deal with programmers directly. The next generation is learning that the 3rd parties that isolate them from programmers are unreliable too. I expect the next generation will be very reluctanct to have in house development at all, and that they will limit themselves to existing products from reputable companies, if at all.

Hard to tell what happens when that option is also shown to be not reliable.
The whispers of Theranos being a shitty company, at least in the healthcare/biotech community, have been around for almost a year. To get the type of talent they need, they will have to pay a pretty big premium, but it does seem they've got nothing but cash to burn.
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For what it's worth, the FSF's opinion (and they wrote the GPL) is that the nvidia blob is no different and that the Linux developers should defend their copyleft. I really don't get Linus's position in that he refuses to defend his copyleft here while at the same time gives nvidia the finger.

edit: oh, I remember I tried to ask him once, and he called me a Stallmanite or something like that and sent me some insults.
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People can choose to give up that liberty by signing contracts. :-(
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> when they scrapped pensions

IBM doesn't offer any kind of pension as a benefit? What does everyone do? Buy privately? I think that's even illegal in some countries like the UK.
"Liespotting" by Pamela Meyer

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/liespotting-pamela-meyer/110...

http://www.amazon.com/Liespotting-Proven-Techniques-Detect-D...

I won't oversell it and tell you that the book turns you into a human polygraph. It simply surveys what is known about deception and human behavior and how you can apply that to your interactions with others.
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My brother-in-law (and next door neighbor) owns a logistics trucking company (that mostly ships for my father-in-law's hay company, which is the largest exporter in the US). My father-in-law is the largest exporter of anything out of Utah, and loads all of his trucks back up from the port, making him one of the largest importers. In short, they do a lot of business.

I talked with them at length about this exact idea, and they had me convinced that the Uber model doesn't necessarily make sense in this space.

First of all, there's no network effect or immediacy required (a la Uber). Basically you're just contracting out trucking companies, and there are a bunch of different ways you can already do that, even online. It's not a simple push-button order, and generally the ordering is done based on relationships.

So basically this company is putting that ordering process into an app. I'm not sure if there is a big enough of a differentiation to make a difference. But I wish them luck.
That sounds like a problem that needs solving.
They're honestly not that bad if you keep control of the conversation (to the point of being willing to walk in response to BS) and double-check their claims. You actually have a lot of the power in that relationship, since usually the salesman needs your sale more than you need to buy from him.

I actually like doing a lot of initial research face-to-face with a person. It's higher bandwidth, and the car is there in front of me, so I can get a sense of the intangibles and other facts that are hard to capture online.
I think we're in violent agreement here, the case you note is exactly why key distribution matters. But even more than that the distribution of value lifetime matters too, if a lot of the values stored are very short lived then not only do they not get rewritten many times but you also get to only ever write them as part of sequential batches (no random seeks). The compressibility of your data also makes a big difference, if intra-key compression is effective on your data that can easily be 1.5x to 3x reduction in the footprint on disk. So, benchmark your workload.
I'd be worried about the trucking unions having a legal field day over something like this. The taxi unions are one thing, but the teamsters and longshoreman are a whole different thing. I don't think we'll see Convoy trucks picking loads up at port for some time (if ever), which is where the big money is to be had.
You are right that I am not 100% sure about my credit card information, they could have my credit card info in Stripe or another system like that. However, my home address and my email are not stored securely.
Now you're just lying. You said:

"The problem with reified generics isn't their efficiency, but that they don't play nice with other generic types on the platform (which is the vast majority)."

And the context of the comment was quite clearly Ceylon interoperating with Java as anyone can verify.

I have a friendly request for you: please don't comment about Ceylon on any more hackernews or reddit threads. It's great that you like Kotlin and are having success with it. I'm happy for you. Post about how great Kotlin is on all the Kotlin threads you like.

But it's just not a good thing for anyone that you're going posting on Ceylon threads, speculating about made-up problems with Ceylon, and pretending you know Ceylon when you don't.

So please stick to the Kotlin threads is all I'm asking, OK?
I don't think their size is too relevant, in this case. It was noticed by the tech community, at least, and the first thing I did was search out the code so that I could duplicate it -- and I don't think I'm the only one who thinks like that.
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They make their money on a few things outside the profit from the can, which is in fact very low.

They make a killing on your trade-in.

They make a killing on extended warranties on used cars.

They make a killing on maintenance and oil changes and the packages they sell around these things.

So although in general they make more than $200 or whatever on the new car sale, they make their real money on everything else around it.
Interesting. Next they will probably acquire the weather.
The past couple of versions of Eclipse have really moved it on IMHO. Mars is a great IDE.
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Did you know one thing IBM are doing is working on a JIT for Ruby? They're talking about it at JavaOne today.
It sound like many other businesses, with costs and customers that change over time and many people to keep happy.

Also sounds like the arbitrage is no longer as profitable as it used to be. And that's a good thing. When information is flowing, you get less people profiting simply for having information others don't.
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Was hoping this was a Washington Post blog about Engineering, but it ended up being a blog about Washington Post engineering.
US quashed democracy?

US is the arsenal of Democracy !

Mao, Hitler, Stalin and Brezhnev played some serious REAL POLITIK.

The US had to counter their evil and murderous shenanigans.
We are using the Bitcoin blockchain. Glad we made the cut of non-annoying blockchain projects ;-)
I think it may be by service area. It seems "Fly Maids" is for the LA area as far as I can tell.
When a customer is offered a monthly/weekly price of $X and the car is in the exact condition described by the dealer, it cannot be a ripoff. Now if the dealer is filling their head with nonsense like the car's value will increase over time (a la mortgages), then maybe you might have some fraud aspect.

Laws can't protect stupid people from wasting their money and I don't want a world so locked down where they could. And what's the worst case scenario? The car gets repossessed and their credit goes down (ie less people will trust them to make purchasing decisions in the future). There is no debtors prison and its highly unlikely they would have wages garnished unless the car was destroyed.
The US price is pre-tax (depends on state: 8.5% in California). The UK price, like most other countries in the world, already includes all taxes (VAT is 20%). In California the $1299 MBP will actually cost you $1414 including sales tax, a difference of just $117. In the UK the price includes AppleCare (under EU law), which would cost an extra $249 in the US. So if you were going to buy AppleCare anyway, then it's actually ~£85 cheaper overall in the UK.