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> I don't know enough about asm to know if their annotations are slower than vanilla JS in unoptimized engines, but I suspect they might be.

The opposite is true, for the most part. JS engines, even without asm.js optimizations, utilize the fact that the | operator emits a 32-bit integer (per the JS semantics), so it helps their type inference.

(The engine needs to be good enough to get rid of the actual 0 value in the |0 coercions, but JS engines have been that good for several years now anyhow.)

> I was also surprised that asm still won in Chrome - I thought Chrome optimized for asm-like code without checking for the "use asm" flag.

Chrome detects "use asm", and enables TurboFan on such code. All JS engines today detect "use asm", except for JavaScriptCore.
What a disgusting example of shitty "journalism" trying to cash in on 3D printer hype with a complete bastardization of the word "print". It's a ramp..... that's it. It's not new, it's not innovative. It's not even the first time it's been done.

This should not be on hacker news.
> And they should be looking at estimates of effect size

This. Null hypothesis testing: Just stop it. We've known this is a bad idea for decades
Yeah I should have been more clear. But I'm pretty sure his equity alone is more than $30M / year.
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Honestly, I don't care if you create wealth for this country. Having a diverse population to interact with and bring their point of view to things is a net benefit to the whole society instead of cultural homogeneity.
Here's a few more: randomly zooming out to full-earth view, changing the area of my search after I've already zoomed in, crashing all the time on mobile, randomly giving me results halfway across the earth, randomly changing my destination when I zoom in, randomly zooming out to full-state view.

These are the obvious ones. There are more subtle UX fumbles too. If I click my house while I'm in my house and click directions, I probably don't want directions to my house. I probably want directions from my house.

Edit: Oh! That ridiculous thing it does when my phone vibrates. Someone decided they could detect frustration by using my accelerometer. Now any time I get a text message and am using maps, maps gets insecure and asks me to submit feedback.
I don't have the soft here, but you should overlay them, surely there are other differences, like width and kerning.
That's correct, all JS engines except for Safari's detect "use asm".

More specifically, Firefox and Edge detect "use asm" and run an asm.js type-checker, while Chrome detects "use asm" and runs TurboFan.
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I've been in the same boat. Just think, 30 years ago we would have stopped to ask for directions!
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The comparison to Uber is completely invalid.
Not according to Glassdoor. Average Senior Software Engineer is $212k per year in total compensation. Directors of engineering are at $328.
I had a hard time understanding this analogy too from the title. The analogy is used in terms of the core/most important value proposition. For Uber, it is Predictabilty and for AirBnB Discovery.

In hospitality industry, the problem is not that of discovering hotels but that of having a consistent experience(predictability).

The way Oyo addresses that by having designated Oyo Rooms in partnered hotels which adhere to certain quality criteria like bedsheets, interior decor, toiletries etc.

So, if you book a Oyo Room in a Hotel A or a Oyo Room in Hotel B, the experience should be similar ideally.
I've just started checking out Fastmail as a result of this thread. I hadn't heard of it before but I'm really into it.

I've been trying out different email services lately in an effort to untether myself from Google, and this one seems like a really good choice.

I'm not into the iOS themed non native Android app though, but being an Android developer I'm more averse to that nonsense. It seems to work great and is really fast though. Does anyone know if there is a native app planned?

I'd be willing to pay a subscription for email if it's worth it. I'd love to hear others' experience with them.
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The good sand has a binding agent in it and hardens when it gets wet to really lock the bricks together. Still if you want a brick they're not hard to pry out.
The patterns don't look particularly hard for a computer to solve either. I guess it costs less to hire masons to feed the machine than to develop the brick arranger?
it seems they are using pure jets and in this case high-by-pass would be a way to immediately improve the thrust and thus to decrease the fuel consumption.
This is the problem. You can't argue a user into accepting that their experience is better. You have a whole swath of people saying maps has gotten significantly more cumbersome over the last few years. Telling the user they are wrong and giving them coping strategies to handle the UX awkwardness is just insulting.
This is not true I am a dev and have been doing development for 15 years till I was forced to change my career. Reason not one big IT shop or Consulting companies want to hire anyone with experience. They want to hire the cheapest H1b's to do coding. Since they accept such low salaries and everyone claims they are a coding expert. In reality it is bodies vs the rates. So if the clients are willing to pay 100 dollars per hour and it costs you 30 dollars per hour by hiring a H1b. You pocket the 70. Since these guys do such a bad job now you can milk the client for all the bug fixes etc for the crappy job. Since there is no easy proven way to evaluate quality other than the number of tickets closed it just does not matter.
At no point am I referring to companies in silicon valley like Google, FB, AMZN etc. This is for the consulting industry in the rest of the country where this gets completely misused.

I have seen most of my fellow programmers change their career since having 15 years of experience is bad thing because we are not willing to work for 60K.
My theory is that this has something to do with the average Googler's tenure lasting 3 years. With such a high turnover, the overwhelming majority of employees are probably much happier achieving the supposed glory of making something new rather than understanding and maintaining the old system.

Maybe another reason for the change is that, back in the Marissa Mayer days, hiring standards used to be much more brutal. Google was still reaping the rewards of bucking the trends of web portals jammed with ads, but eventually lost its confidence in nerd-driven products and instead began to imitate Apple, Facebook, and inexplicably, Microsoft...
God forbid if a journal reviewed its articles and told the people who submitted articles if they would be published, before actual publication.
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LOL, I did not fail, I am not your manager. That's why I said "it should really be what they need". Don't smugly put words in my mouth. And while we're being busting out hipster-level snark if you're not willing to put the order in yourself then I start to question is a prima donna who came of age in the boom era and is too precious to do the dirty work that is required to help a company succeed? (http://paulgraham.com/schlep.html )
Hushmail recently had it as well. https://help.hushmail.com/entries/107539976
As opposed to languishing inside a small company that is strained for resources?
Picking a nit, they don't use React in the browser across all devices. They actually use an internal rendering engine called Gibbon on some devices with client code written JavaScript with React but not rendering to HTML or a browser instead using their internal engine. Interestingly this has become easier with React breaking out React and ReactDOM.

Interesting to note that Netflix must see Gibbon as a competitive advantage, I've been told its not likely to see an open source release.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNC0mRYGWgc
I think this is one of the best userstyle for hacker news I have seen.
I recently persuaded my company to let me write job postings loudly bragging about the fact that we will buy you whatever fancy hardware you want. Our best hire explicitly mentioned in his cover letter that this caused him to apply.
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I've been using it for my main domain for over a year... It's a great service and I'm happy with it. I wanted to move away from GMail, without losing a good spam filtering solution, and it works very well. I recommend Fastmail.
I call BS (in as good natured and respectful way as possible), and I have my own numbered list to share:

1) I've been hearing this every 5-10 years for the past 30 years, and it still hasn't happened (which is enough to explain my scepticism but granted doesn't prove anything).

2) The hardest part of what programmers do isn't pasting crap into an editor, snapping blocks into scratch or waving their hands at Jarvis, it's understanding the frickin' problem and thinking clearly about it.

3) The second hardest thing is maintaining that clarity while holding multiple levels of abstraction in your head at the same time. Most people struggle with this and don't really enjoy it. It may explain why people that like maths gravitate to programming (and vice versa).

So, yeah, things are going to get weird (and awesome!), and maybe there will be fewer job codes, but there will be a role for "explains things to computers" until Skynet (or the Culture) is online. IMNSHO.
Let's not kid ourselves. He was not actually under threat of poverty, just under the threat of losing all his assets. Worst case, he loses his cash and gasp goes to work for someone else, probably for a really high salary (maybe one of the VCs he made rich when he sold PayPal).
Not at all.

But don't pretend that playing a fantasy football pool is some sort of act of civil disobedience. It's just another impulsive act that happens to be illegal.

There are many arguments against sports betting. It corrupts the sport and is fundamentally exploitive of those who lack the ability to control their impulses. As I said before, it's illegal in New York, and the owners of these sites should be prosecuted criminally, just as any other pool organizer who attracted police attention would. We're all supposed to be equal under the law.
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Great experience with our business account. We pay some trivial amount and our emails are out the door... fast. There's also the basic support that you would expect built in. Our experience is that they just "do one thing well". It's probably the second-to-last external dependency we'd [edit: internalize], with Stripe being the last and Analytics and Github being the first two, if that gives any perspective.
I don't know of any studies, but I found "From Bauhaus to Our House" a worthwhile read:

http://www.amazon.com/From-Bauhaus-Our-House-Wolfe/dp/031242...

It discusses how Gropius started off with more of a continental arts-and-crafts outlook, but that increasing competition for the intellectual and political purist high-ground lead to what we call, despairingly, the international style.

A similar dynamic has played out with software UX: people were producing garish (but usable) UX with drop shadows, etc. and along came the anti-bourgeoisie puritans. They had a point, of course (they always do) but their solution was worse than the original problem.
That would be something like giving someone a large bucket of ice to protect oneself from their house burning down around them. (obviously not a perfect analogy, but a tank of CO2? Seriously? SMH)
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How does playing out of an opening book explain the opening blunder 2. e4?
Couldn't you just use a generic email client?
This sounds more like Best Western in the United States than Uber.
I think with some edits this could come across more effectively. You're right that the compliant isn't related to what you said, but the way you respond doesn't look very professional. Just my 2c.
Just consider the study that compared the biomes of the average toilet and the average kitchen sink, which found the sink much more pathogenic.
This article almost had me switching to Helvetica, but after doing a blind test with your image, it seems I like Arial better.
Those are the exceptions that prove the rule. Only when it implicates a fundamental right will the majority be precluded from banning things they dislike.
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We often have people participate anonymously - either anonymously among their peers, or in certain instances, anonymous from anyone in the company and we serve as the 3rd party arbiter of all the data. It really just depends on the organization's culture and how transparent they are ready to be.

Minimally though we're looking to establish an ongoing dialogue between the different levels of an organization. Our belief is that people on the ground building product, interfacing with clients, etc. aren't consulted nearly enough about predictions that inform big strategic decisions. Instead, leaders are making decisions based on input from a limited number of SME's, data analytics, and their own beliefs. None of these are bad per se, but not leveraging your own people we believe is a huge opportunity lost.

Happy to follow up live/over email if you'd like. adam at cultivatelabs
Can I thread hijack and ask what in the world happened to plain old satellite view in google maps ?

As in, go to the maps.google.com website, and the little icon in the corner to see things in a satellite view doesn't exist anymore ... there is only a choice for google earth and streetviews and blah blah blah things I never used.

Although on an old mac running snow leopard, satellite view option is still there.

What is going on ? Why would I not want the option of satellite view ? It seems like I would...
The letter threatens criminal prosecution as well as civil litigation. If the companies continued while awaiting a ruling they risk company destroying criminal penalties (under the state's RICO analog) and the executives risk going to prison.

Sure, that could have happened even without a letter, but ignoring it is daring them to do it.
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Those are good theories.

My personal one is that they just can't stop tweaking. It's not like there aren't some fundamental improvements with a lot of their services but everything needs to get touched and then it ends up like that car Homer tries to design in that episode of The Simpsons.

I know that you're supposed to constantly iterate and try and improve performance, design, etc in software but is there anything in the general literature / case studies of 'improving' too much and degrading the core product(s)?

Not to mention that it's always funny to search for an issue on Google, find the links to the forum, see all the people that chime in with a similar issue, the few souls that try to help, then, as you scroll, the further desperate comments of "They don't care about us." Shouts in the wind.
Wow, seriously, fuck these people. There has to be a technical solution to this, since it's infeasible to find/fix/finish the Armada Collective.

SMTP/IMAP/etc. are pretty crappy protocols in a lot of ways, but they're what everyone has deployed. They can be proxied like HTTP/HTTPS. There are spam/reputation issues with outgoing traffic, too, which makes this even more annoying.
Yes, it's just laying the bags in a larger number of rounds around the table.

So first like the numbers of the clock, separated with 1/12
Then separated with 2/12, so two rounds
Then 3/12 , thus three rounds etc.
I was going to make a Windows-centric comment, but my career has been so Windows-centric that I'm actually not sure what's Windows and what's not (because I've had such limited experience with "what's not").

As to the rest of your reply - just wow. And thank you. Such a detailed and amazingly interesting analysis that cuts to the heart of my career through something as seemingly distinct as font selection. I appreciate you taking the time to share it.
1. Trackpad

2. Trackpad

3. Battery life

4. Ease of web development software installation (rails, laravel)

5. Better quality software
I have a lifetime email alias from my university, and when I used it with Gmail it would always appear to people as "From me@gmail.com on behalf of me@wherever.edu". I wanted my .edu to be my actual email address, but my gmail address is what was ending up in people's address books.

So I tried out Fastmail with my alias and had no trouble getting it working the way I wanted it to work. So I've been with Fastmail ever since.
Soylent seems like an ecommerce dev firm with a food product on the side. This article is more detailed than anything they've released about their actual Soylent formulation development and testing procedure.
Doctors record your health info too.
Well, at least in the States it's gotten pretty close to those levels if not gone down to slightly below them. Not sure where that relates to the Aussie dollar though :-(
What it delivered soon? Put it in the top of the Kanban board and set a rule that the stuff in the top of the defined list gets worked first.
It's not as bad a dilemma as you think. Buy the doritos and buy the fresh food too. You show respect for your employees by respecting their wishes and you show you care about them by offering healthier options.
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Your right, I presented no evidence. Honestly it was a rhetorical post that I did not expect to strike the cord that it did.
Curious what you mean by this, as it's overall one of the more polished products I use on a regular basis. Hasn't always been the case, and the Android app still does some weird UI things, but generally the product is solid and a pleasure to use.

"Whole stack could be handled by one guy" - comments like like this and similar others ("I could build Twitter in a weekend", etc.) strike me as unproductive.
Google has a lot more bandwidth to absorb DDOS. You might as well try to flood the ocean.
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What kind of bugs do you have in mind for fixed point?

While there no doubt would be some, I have a feeling they are a significantly lesser drag (in frequency and debugging complexity) than floating point bugs. Assuming the language supports fixed point.

Of course you can imagine error-prone fixed point too. Writing shaders with plain integers while trying to manually keep track heterogenous fixed point scales would be a nightmare for example...
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Happened with Basecamp (formerly 37 Signals), too -- they're bootstrapped but they took a small investment from Jeff Bezos so that they could cash out a little bit and enjoy themselves.
> but there's a big difference between a store bought tomato that was stored in a fridge for months and a fresh tomato that comes out of the garden of my parents.

You're saying exactly the same that the article. It is not the way that it is grown, it tastes differently because they are picked before maturity. Take an organic tomato before it completely maturates and you will have the same insipid tomato.
Backblaze B2 will have that, we'll have spending thresholds in place.
You cannot guarantee squat. Which is pretty much the gist of TFA, within a single vendor's various client interfaces to its own unified email system.

However, as I put on my True Scotsman hat and kilt, any true email client will present monospaced fonts, therefor those which fail to do so aren't real email tools.
You totally missed the point that OP was trying to make.

Doing MS in USA is a money game (and not merit game at least at second and third tier colleges), most of the students who land up at these place are not from poor or lower middle class families. They come from families with enough means for them to buy tickets to USA, have enough funds to stay on their own at least for initial 6 months (which would be equivalent to life savings of many lower middle class families), demonstrate a big bank balance, show enough property etc. in their family name so that their student visa is not rejected at consulate… I could go on as to how one has to prove to consulate that a student is self sufficient, would not be depending on another source of funds (scholarships, loans etc.), has enough monetary and family reasons to come back after education to stand even a remote chance of getting a student visa.

OP did not have all of above, other less than mediocre students had those, and hence they scored.
Ensure and Soylent have radically different purposes. Ensure is meant for weight loss. Soylent is meant for nutritional sustenance.
No, it would be like expecting PayPal to build a spaceship or an electric car.
If Garmin's remaining market share consists of extreme edge cases like the one you have outlined, then they are history.
Another +1 for Fastmail. I've been putting off migration from Google for months, but finally got around to moving things over. The migration was easy, their UI is shockingly quick (about halfway through processing ~20k archived messages), and it's got most of the features you could possibly want.
"Ensure is intended for supplemental use with or between meals and for interim sole-source nutrition."

Soylent is a total food replacement; you don't need to eat anything else at all. It's not supplemental, and it's not interim.

If you're not eating it a lot, then no, there isn't any need for Soylent.
Because it's an attack on fundamental physical resources, rather than on any technological feature.

There are exactly two workarounds: Minimize processing of packets that you think are coming from the attackers, and have more servers.

Asking why we haven't solved DDOS is kind of like saying "Why can't we cure decapitation? We've got all of these new antibiotics!"
I actually found it quite the opposite, the only people who really care about you and your future are your parents.
That is not Documentation that is Specification. How do you Document something that isn't built yet unless you have perfect foresight? Last I checked humans could not yet perfectly predict the future. Thus, the value of Working Software that can be interrogated and probed vs "Comprehensive Documentation" that may or may not be based on wishful prospection.

The Manifesto values Collaboration over "Contract Negotiation" leaving off the Negotiation part is a straw-man argument.

Similarly, "Responding to Change" it is not the Change that the Manifesto values it is "Responding to Change". What it values "Responding to Change" over is "Following a Plan" not making a plan or doing any planning.
Exactly--in a work environment when everyone is fearing for their livelihood, succeeding at performance theatre becomes the primary concern. You need to be a top performer, in both senses of the word--but it's human nature that over time the acting sense will take priority.
#elixir-lang is quite nice and noob friendly too.
My definition of "healthy" is different -- I'd want low-carb. But really, just listening to employees and customizing from there.
Detection is trivial -- "Are we getting orders of magnitude more traffic than average?"

What would the AI do?
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This actually helps for situations when awk seems like overkill (or is just too hard to use)
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Why would a person's above-average age when they begin web development warrant "extra scrutiny"? I'm baffled. This is ageism writ large, and there's no reason for it. Judge the quality of the employee's work, not his or her age.
You can also live without electricity. It's way more convenient because you don't have to pay bills or worry about electrocuting yourself.