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Seems to have some issues on the latest build of Chrome if the tab has focus. Really cool otherwise!
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You're still quite obviously making plenty of bad decisions.

Or he's making great decisions. Because your rational is just based on your own political ideology.
Just as an example, from my (top tier) college engineering class, of 5 friends and I, only 2 individuals are still practicing their original major. Some went into business, law, finance and the remaining a different engineering major. I think it is very common for people to different things than their original major.
A boom or scissor-arm stand with suspension mount ($30), a pop filter ($10), and USB condenser-type microphone at the bottom of the range of your chosen manufacturer ($30-$100) will get you 80% of the way there. The cheapest $5-$20 microphones are cheap plastic USB crap with 5 cent dynamic transducers, but it's really a huge step up to something like the chunky, metal Samson C01UCW studio microphone, for only a little more money.

The whole setup cost me $76.
Why, they have phones in stock. So it's not like people won't get them. And the little parts of the OS that are not open will be opensourced if they had to close operations.

And also I think they will hopefully get some cash from investors and Finish govt really soon.
Its very much the case that new engineers want to work on the hardest projects and prove that they are capable and deserve lots of money and/or responsibility. But management typically doesn't care if you completed 99% of the hardest project on the block if it doesn't yield a usable result (nor should they). Its generally better to solve a simpler problem well enough to at least claim success. The downside is that if everyone feels that way, the quality of the framework for future tasks is not robust and technical debt racks up. Without a sound framework, there isn't reliable infrastructure and navigating previously written tools can't be trusted by glancing at a method or package name. It turns a depth 1 BFS into an unbounded DFS and eventually it becomes extremely time consuming to get anything done. The problem gets compounded if there is a lengthy review process and the reviewer is safer doing nothing, letting the change languish until a manager pushes for it.
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> there is a clear difference between mere exposure to TV versus interacting linguistically in an environment.

Right. It wasn't clear to me that you meant that by "mere exposure", I was assuming both of those things as "exposure" versus actively being taught a language in school, and spending effort to practice.

Still, I think I learned more English from subtitles than I did in school.

I remember when I was about 10, I had learned a tiny bit of English in school, really nothing to speak of (it can't have been more than half a year). And a lot more from TV and subtitles. At some point my parents had some English-speaking friends over, whose kids were exactly my age. I could (partially) understand what they were saying, but I was a bit scared to talk back in English, because while I knew some English, I had never spoken it "for real" :)

So yes, interacting linguistically is important. But it felt to me more like "unlocking" the ability to converse in that language, after already knowing most of it by being exposed to it, daily, for most of my life.

I don't actually remember learning anything really new about English in school until years later in high school (some words I hadn't seen before, or used in a particular manner). Everything I already had seen on TV, it was more like remembering.
There were also game pieces distributed in Sunday newspapers.
FoxBase +/Mac 2.x - it was one of the dBase 3+ clones, this one was geared directly on the Mac.

It got way more right than just the databse, well integrated quickdraw libraries and could do graphic forms and such and given the way it was designed you could graphically generate full printed pages as well, and get help using the output from the form builder to help you work out the code. Very fast, easy to program.

I think it all was all about 800K app, compiled from C.

Even the developers got turned on to the superior Mac version (I have promotional material from the time somewhere talking about how everyone at fox was getting Mac religion. You can get an idea from this article - http://www.foxprohistory.org/interview_fox_to_mac.htm )

That changed once Microsoft took Fox software over, started standardizing the FoxPro Line to windows standards (foxels... shudder)
You have a consigner -- the US Government. In most cases the bank is just a processor getting paid for processing. They bear zero downside risk.
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> In a professional environment, we develop software not because it's fun, but because it supports the business and/or because it is the business.

Software is created, knowledgeable developers get bored if you don't take their needs into account, they quit, software dies, sometimes slowly enough for the business to not even notice, sometimes fast enough for business to die too.

I don't see how ignoring the problem, of developing software not being fun, does anything but harm the business.
Neither, possibly in part because they know those who would support that don't vote
That is the price to pay for equal playing field. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
How would one even measure how directly a degree is being used? Outside of pure professional degrees (medicine, law), is it just a gut feel?

My degree is Economics. I'm a project manager at a large software company. Am I using my degree? Probably not directly, but I certainly use the critical thinking skills obtained during my years in school. A bit of the math comes in handy as well.

The two largest programs at my university were English and Psychology. I guarantee very few of those graduates pursued careers in either field. But, a good psychology degree takes a fair bit of statistics with a dose of scientific method. And the English degree took critical reading and analysis.
> it happens to me occasionally, but I quickly get over it

By realizing that you'll make even bigger of a mess the next time around?
Other countries seem to be able to manage.
Awesome open source crews:

* Rancher - https://github.com/rancher
* Weave - https://github.com/weave.works
* OpenStack (IRC) - irc.freenode.net #openstack
* Kubernetes - https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes
* Docker - https://github.com/docker
* EmileVague - https://github.com/EmileVauge/traefik
* Enspiral - enspiral.com
* MetaMaps - metamaps.cc

....That's an incomplete list of projects whose teams have put up with me, and even gone so far as to ask for more. I've worked in OSS for a little over a year now, and I can heartily say that I haven't regretted the decision once.
Flow's type inferrence features are great, but I'm not a fan of the inline type annotations, which is one of the major reasons I didn't just use it instead of working on rtype/rfx.

I believe that both Flow and TypeScript are competing solutions that are precursors to what may eventually become standard in JavaScript. At that point, all the annotations written for Flow and TypeScript will become obsolete overnight.

This is essentially the same thing that happened to AMD, and one of the reasons that I advocated for users to chose Node-style modules and Browserify (and now Webpack) instead of AMD.

I consulted on several projects and gave exactly that advice. They didn't listen. Now they're stuck supporting a huge AMD legacy & Bower ecosystem and the authors of Bower are no longer supporting it.

That is the future that awaits those who build TypeScript + Flow-annotated applications. Fine if it's just a few modules here and there, but for large enterprise apps, you're building a mountain of technical debt what will eventually need to be paid.

Don't get me wrong, I am really excited that Flow and TypeScript are paving the way, and I blatantly stole some good ideas from them for rtype/rfx, but I'm also very wary about leading people down a road that I am pretty confident will dead-end within a few years.

Both projects still have great value though. We learned a lot from AMD, and it has influenced the new standards. I am confident that TypeScript and Flow with both influence whatever we get in the JS standard. I know the TypeScript team is already experimenting with additions to the runtime reflection specifications coming in future iterations of ECMAScript.
Much better: smooth animation and smooth audio, with Safari 9.0.1 on a mid-2014 15" Retina MacBook Pro.

With Chrome 46.0.2490.86, the animation is smooth, but the audio is stuttering quickly and noisily.
The cynic in me thinks it's often a case of a product line they no longer want to support but for which an established user base already exists (Flex comes to mind). The optimist in me thinks this isn't necessarily a bad thing though, it's certainly better than just killing it altogether. The FOSS idealist in me thinks it's great to be getting all this stuff, under an Apache licence!
This is yet another trend following startup employer who doesn't get it. Really good, seasoned talent wants personal freedom (or more money and equity), and having an 'awesome culture' doesn't have to do with that.

Culture baits are primarily for 20-somethings out of college who don't know better or have nothing better to do. An example of giving developers real freedom: Let them work remotely for n months out of the year.

Yet few will trust developers with real freedom, because it seems too dangerous to most SV startup employers... and there is certainly risk there... But baiting developers with video games, pub trips, and secret cinema is just an extension of constraining said developer's freedom. If they don't care about that freedom, they are either young, in a tough financial position, or aren't top talent.
But its more expensive and wastes share holder money and I say that as one who has been give a written warning for going on strike.
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This is the 29^{th} submission[0] of this story. I refer you to my earlier comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10645000

[0] ... of those I've found.
The original title was changed because it was incorrect. Jolla has to make some financial restructuring. The Jolla blog posts are more up to date than this, but IRC might even be better.
Merit scholarships and/or need-based grants. Skip the loans completely.
>A key ingredient here is diversity: hiring people with different backgrounds and origins (e.g. our team of 6 is currently British, French, Russian and Greek). Seeing the same people every day is definitely more interesting if each of these people can brings something different to the culture.

That is why remote work exists, so you can change your working environment by traveling to different places and then learn different cultures. That keeps you away from getting bored.
You have any examples where this actually happened?
Agreed. I'm sure there are also some examples out there of people who, despite insurmountable privilege, managed to make all of the wrong decisions and end up on the streets.
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Well, it is because they are not bankrupt. The title is misleading and incorrect, and outdated.

[edit] The title was changed, much better - thanks. Buying is still possible, and if you've held out because you thought Jolla did not need you - it does.
If you did more that 1 second of research, you'd know the history of the middle class in the US starts in the early 1800s with the growth of manufacturing, not WWII. WWII was a huge boost for various reasons (women in the workforce, GI Bill), but it doesn't negate the parents point about the immigrants of the previous century.
Normally, like the first world does.
Somehow it works in most of Europe?
Realistically we have a long way to go as far as getting off of fossil fuel dependence.

Those supposedly isolated wars are really an extended campaign that supports the petrodollar.

https://www.mtholyoke.edu/~paul20i/classweb/AFP2008/middleas...

But actually these middle east conflicts are basically tribal and go back hundreds of years including The Crusades and beyond.

We need a good alternative to clinging to the petrodollar's dominant position until it is pried out of our hands by a world war. Bitcoin looks like a good candidate.
I know of these two projects that offer some guidance to combining RoR with React:

https://github.com/shakacode/react_on_rails

https://github.com/netguru/react_webpack_rails

Basically, you introduce webpack as part of your dev/build pipeline, it interacts nicely with the asset pipeline.
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I don't know why this article made such a small deal out of it, but there is an income-based repayment program thats caps your payments as a percentage of your income, and forgives the balance after 10 years (20 years for private-sector workers). It's a ridiculously good deal for people with a lot of student-loan debt.
Posted earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10645761
> renewables alone will not bring us into carbon free future.

They certainly can, and going 100% renewable by 2050 is feasible. [1] Once you add in nuclear, it's only more feasible (though maybe more expensive).

Taking a look at the five potential plans for the UK from 2009 [2], they are now much more potentially feasible as solar and storage technology has plummeted in price far more quickly than anticipated.

It's only a matter of political feasibility, not engineering or industrial feasibility. That's why these plans need to be reevaluated every 12 months, because technology for renewables is changing so much more quickly than any of the conventional technologies do, and the boundary for economic feasibility is quickly quickly shifting.

[1] http://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/Count...

[2] http://www.withouthotair.com/c27/page_203.shtml
Weird that poor people in the US are so fat - access to food clearly isn't an issue.
It's a chicken-and-egg problem. If it weren't for the easy availability of these loans then tuition would be much lower. This is a classic example of the fallout from adverse selection[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_selection
Please see my other comments. They are not bankrupt. They are having significant financial issues, but debt restructuring is actually something that can work really well - the channel tunnel is the living example of this.

I for one am going to order some spare batteries for my phone. That might give them some extra cash, and it is time to do so anyway ...
Interesting observation. But fate? I'm not sure thats the word I'd use. But is it easy for a large company to do so? certainly. It's very easy.

Apple's downward spiral in software started when Steve stepped away, and has only gotten worse. I think when there is a curator that can say "this sucks" you'll get a more opinionated, focused product.
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Sounds like many coders from out outside the US and went to a for-profit MS program.
2 years > 3 years > 1 year > 1.5 years > 1 year

Just started a new job last week too, some cases its been that I haven't enjoyed the agency others its nothing more than the new company offering something better.
This guy's enthusiasm is contagious. I laughed throughout. Thank you for sharing this.
> but what gets me is you have people that speak like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nj5MMURCm8 and tell foreigners they are not understandable

hah, IMO that's because they mixed the music way too loud in that clip :)

I can make out most of it, but definitely not the very first bit. I guess if it had been Dutch, I'd also have trouble understanding everything--though perhaps a bit less because like you imply, I'm better trained at separating "Dutch sounds" from background noise.

This is the reason why I really prefer to watch English TV or movies with (English) subtitles. It's one thing to understand what they say, it's another thing to be able to make it out in the first place.
Email, IRC and git are not application platforms. The first two are communication tools, the latter is a version control system.

Apples to hammers.
So if you look at the evidence, neither of your first two claims are true; that's the problem with speculation when there's actual data available. For-profit student debt was dischargeable in bankruptcy just like almost all debts until 2005, yet there wasn't a wave of opportunistic bankruptcy filings. Interest rates were similar to now. Student debt was made non-dischargeable largely through banks purchasing congresspeople because why not exempt yourself from bankruptcy if you can?

There are multiple datasets available that you can find yourself, or eg

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2015/04/16/student_loans...
Mm, I don't actually see anything about finger travel in Josh's article. The main advantages he talks about are "no more context switching", "taking everything with you and keeping it forever", and that he likes being able to fullscreen emacs as a complete workflow with no external distractions. You have to admit, these are not as easily done with a multi-program, IDE-heavy workflow.
Spending that 6 billion euro on, say, lithium ion batteries would generate 40GWh of batteries at current prices, but would likely drive down the price drastically as a guaranteed market is established the learning rate on batteries increases.

We're at the point with current technology that we have tremendous gains that can be had simply by scaling industry. We don't need one GigaFactory, we need 200 of them.
It would be very helpful if you provided some specific examples of code in both Julia and Fortran that is under-performant in Julia. As it stands, your concerns about things like "fancy abstractions that no engineer or scientist will ever understand" are rather too vague to be effectively resolved.
It always surprised me a little IFF was not more popular in the PC world.
If a web browser is able to freeze your system, that's rather damning for Windows 10's stability.
I don't think your analysis of the whole "Microsoft buying Nokia" is correct. Nokia did not offload, but had no money left to defend itself against an aggressor. Basically, they were led to the slaughterhouse by the "burning platform" message from a former Microsoft employee.

The way Elop treated Nokia's technologically superior platform was very transparently not in the interest of Nokia. The subsequent sale must have landed him a lot of money. I'm curious what Elop is doing now ...
As soon as he mentioned working with a boring, large scale data integration framework with an annoying DSL I knew what company he was talking about.
No! No more slack!

* Rocketchat
* Gitter
* Let's Chat https://github.com/sdelements/lets-chat
* Baloons https://github.com/rickyrauch/Balloons.IO
* Friends https://github.com/moose-team/friends
* Chats https://github.com/acani/Chats
* HackChat https://github.com/AndrewBelt/hack.chat
* Jabbr https://github.com/JabbR/JabbR
* qTox https://github.com/tux3/qTox
* TorChat https://github.com/prof7bit/TorChat

I bet that they can be just as friendly using an open source application on golang-based kubernetes clusters.
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The 6 billion is the original number. The real number is 15 billion + X with X largely unknown. That was my whole point: I find a project that is so dishonest about its real cost not trustworthy.

Whether you consider that worth the price will largely depend on whether you believe it's game-changing. I don't.
I don't see how this could be done without putting information about the internal representation of DataFrames into the compiler. Such an approach would seem to require breaking important abstraction barriers and would couple the language to a specific back-end for data representation that might need to be replaced in the future to handle things like out-of-core data frames.
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Yes, but it's also good to understand how some people in really poor places like Bangladesh or Malawi are able to overcome while others in the same class and circumstance aren't, for example. What, is it in those people which makes them overcome obstacles others can't or dont want to. What makes some people succumb to circumstance while others persevere in the face of it?
> also know that if I had gone through something like that at 18, it would have made precisely zero impression on me.

Honest question. Do you think the age of majority should be raised form 18 to some higher age? (Like 21?). I hear a lot of this sentiment when discussing student loans, and it makes me think that if one is not capable of understanding the consequences of their financial decisions at 18, then their parents should still be in charge of their life.
It is unfair to say that a meritocracy believes the poor "deserve" to be without. I'm not sure what's started this campaign against merit (eg. Qualifications, years of experience, etc) - was it political correctness?

Society can either pull back those that achieve (to level the playing field) or there will be winners and losers. However, there are still welfare programs and taxation to offset those at the lower end (at least in some parts of the world).

However, the current system is imbalanced with the rich getting richer. As the rich get richer, Everyone else gets poorer. Taxation was "meant" to level that playing field, but tax havens and vested interest by politicians to give tax breaks to the wealthy have allowed the horse to bolt.
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I love this guys videos, he is always finding new funny things, that he tears down :)
That really depends on how you fit models. Maximum likelihood estimation (or MAP estimation) for models of IID database rows is often trivial to implement using an iterative algorithm that applies to both in-memory and out-of-core data stores.
Impressive how it almost starts as a CS course. Complete with A.Kay quote.
It is possible that though you grew up poor, you still had advantages that allowed you to rise out of it that the vast majority of those in poverty did not?

A mother who cared about your education and read to you?

A teacher in high school who took you under their wing?

A strong computer science program in you high school?

A strong interest in computing among your friends, which transitioned over to you?
Also, it is because they are not bankrupt. The original title is plainly misleading. They are restructuring.

As a happy Jolla user (my whole family has one), I hope they make it. If you don't have one yet - I encourage you to order one. It is something different, and a feeling of 'just buying a phone, not a surveillance tool" that no other phone on the market can give you.

They could do with your help. If you want to buy but are scared you might lose money doing so because of non-news like this: under Section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act, your credit card company is jointly liable if something goes wrong with a product or a service you've paid for by credit card. So if anything fails, you get your money from the credit card company. If it doesn't, you'll have a great phone and instant real karma.
Wow. The site loads the text with javascript simply to achieve a fade-in effect. With noscript enabled it's simply a blank page.

Fuck this trend in web design, and fuck this site. I hate how javascript-heavy the web has become. Why do I need scripts enabled to read a page of text?
Or Noobuntu/Debian for a lot more support on average.