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You consider typing to be an over head? Do you really reuse variables within a scope to refer to different types? I feel like that would produce confusing to read and use code.

IMO dynamic typing is hard to work with and slows things down. "Auto-typing" or type inference like in Swift, Kotlin, or Dart is the most amazing thing ever. It gives you the safety of static types and the "speed" of coding of dynamic types.
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Back in the day when it was primarily an "Internet flea market", although it didn't use a star system, eBay was similar. Both sellers and buyers expected positive feedback accompanied with a comment like "A++++++++++ turned water into wine" so long as the reality wasn't "sent me a box full of bricks and axe murdered my extended family." Neutrals for a transaction that didn't quite go right even if issues were resolved were NOT appreciated.
Honestly I don't trust the government on national security anymore. They waged a war wasting $1.7T of our wealth, they lied and continue to lie about snooping. I am not sure if US government is not helpless before Chinese aggression. When the source of information is only government and no third party to verify all the claims we better assume the government is simply lying.
Man type inference is so nice.
One reason is that people's innate probability engine is broken, so they can't correctly figure out what's best for them (in expectation). This applies both to individuals and to civilization as a whole.
I haven't used dropbox for a year but it told be specifically not to try and sync git-repos via dropbox when I tried, because it would have performance impact and could result in unexpected behaviour.
I've tried both quite extensively. FWIW, iPad Pro _feels_ faster and more fluid. Still not the right device for me, but I had no complaints wrt performance. I did not buy iPad Pro though: not the right device for what I do. I did buy the Surface Book, but took it back to the store a couple of days later. It was bluescreening a couple of times a day seemingly due to driver issues. Its UI performance was choppy as well, particularly scrolling non-WinRT apps such as e.g. Chrome or Firefox. This was basically the top of the line Core i7 model, so I expect that things are even worse with the lower end models.
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(too late to edit, I notice that spell-check has 'fixed' my latin. The link is the correct latin phrase.)
Maybe less unnecessary or confusing state could be a good thing, but taking state out of interfaces altogether sounds like throwing the baby out with the bathwater. The whole point of interfaces is interacting with and modifying the state of the computer based on what the current state of the computer is, after all.
I can understand why LE goes rogue; it's simply in the nature of police to expand their power whenever possible.

What I can't understand is why judges tolerate it.
It boggles my mind that post-Snowden people still think it's not possible for people to keep quiet about such things, I mean even Apple is able to maintain an enormous amount of privacy of things going on behind closed doors, the idea that one single person being blackmailed and not saying anything about it is difficult to believe.....I dunno.
agreed, though one thing about the gig economy is income is not feast or famine, just lower overall.
I thought "salaried" overtime only applied to people that made less than a certain amount of money annually. If my memory serves me correctly, I heard it was about $50,000. If that's the case I would not be eligible, but if it applies to all salaried employees regardless of pay, then that's very interesting...
Sibel Edmonds alleges that the FBI collected information about the lesbian affair of a Democratic Congresswoman. That is a bombshell accusation, one I'd hazard would be more newsworthy to most people in the US than the Snowden disclosures.

Why can I only find references to that allegation on sites like LewRockwell.com, and not on WaPo or the NYT?
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I love it.

But how did he handle the knowledge gap, where he could help but you would benefit from working through it yourself?
And the sad conclusion, from 2014: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-will-blowing-...

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I'm currently in process of rewriting our work application from AngularJS to Redux.

The downside with redux is that simpler things can take a bit more code than you might wish. You have to add an action handler / reducer, action creator, etc. However, it's generally very easy to extend previously written code, and it's very easy to reason about the data / logic flow.

Another pitfall with redux is that it doesn't provide any help when you have to react to changes. A few days ago in reddit I wrote a small example explaining what I mean [0].

You might be interested in checking out relay-local-schema [1], it looks promising for experimenting with GraphQL and Relay.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/3u0167/getting_...

[1] https://github.com/relay-tools/relay-local-schema
What did Snowden change about any of this? The programs Snowden revealed were so well-known --- many of them having been reported in the press prior to Snowden's leaks --- that you can find them alluded to in the first edition of Applied Cryptography, back in the 1990s.

Were you surprised by the Snowden leaks? Even after AT&T and Room 641a?
The Core-M has more execution units (24) than the i5 (20), however, is clocked slower -- 1100 mhz vs 950 mhz. So, depending on how the graphics pipeline is being used, it's rather conceivable that certain tests will be faster on the lower speed processor. Especially with how intel's playing with what sort of graphics unit goes with what chip, counterintuitive results can and will happen.
Ahh yes please do go through my posts about how brains of women and men are not the same... might churn your stomach a bit. :)

Again some logic please... the man who created the machines would not know how to run them?

Since you love to quote wikipedia you could have scrolled down a little on the same page and seeen this -

Allan G. Bromley, in the 1990 essay Difference and Analytical Engines, wrote,[71]

All but one of the programs cited in her notes had been prepared by Babbage from three to seven years earlier. The exception was prepared by Babbage for her, although she did detect a 'bug' in it. Not only is there no evidence that Ada ever prepared a program for the Analytical Engine, but her correspondence with Babbage shows that she did not have the knowledge to do so.

Blue plaque to Lovelace in St. James's Square, London

In his PhD thesis, Bruce Collier, who went on to write a biography of Babbage, claimed:

It would be only a slight exaggeration to say that Babbage wrote the 'Notes' to Menabrea's paper, but for reasons of his own encouraged the illusion in the minds of Ada and the public that they were authored by her. It is no exaggeration to say that she was a manic depressive with the most amazing delusions about her own talents, and a rather shallow understanding of both Charles Babbage and the Analytical Engine

There is a google talk about Babbage's machines and the speaker also talked about Ada at the 36 min mark -- https://youtu.be/7K5p_tBcrd0?t=2190

Further links for your blithe mind to peruse -
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2012/12/26/christmas-trilogy-20...

http://www.salon.com/1999/03/16/feature_217/

http://www.juliansanchez.com/2012/10/16/much-ada-about-nothi...
> But that's never going to happen by every big company rolling their own thing. Everybody has to come together.

Google has ditched their own and rolled their efforts into Typescript.

http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/05/microsoft-and-google-collab...
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Do salaried programmers/developers/software/engineers in the US get overtime pay? In Canada's province of Ontario there is a specific exception in labour law saying that these kind of salaried employees are exempt from overtime pay:

http://www.labour.gov.on.ca/english/es/tools/srt/coverage_go...

http://www.ontario.ca/laws/regulation/010285#BK17

(I haven't found definitive answers for other provinces.)

Edit: spelling
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Which has happened. The Rossman incident shows that reps are fired for breaking rules regarding do not call and do not email and for having friends write false reviews.
If you don't mind me asking, can you expand a little on how it has helped your career? I've thought about creating some ambitious open source projects before, but I always imagined it would be purely for fun/technical advancement because the ROI from a purely monetary standpoint (increase my salary by being a known expert?) would be small compared to spending the time doing "real" work for clients.
Neat. One thing that isn't addressed however is the sustainability of the energy source. Until we have electric airplanes, trains will continue to have a lower carbon footprint.
I have absolutely no clue. But that's a weird one, especially since it never resulted in any kind of fall-out either way. You'd take that those accusations would not be left to stand without a solid rebuttal.
How is Perl6 overcoming the problems that python3 is facing in moving people over from one version to the next?
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Those are good ideas, thanks!
Last military rule was out more that thirty years ago , This article looks like a case of "hacking the foreign journalist" combined with "Cliché amplification".
Agreed, in that the intent of this perspective is not to constrain oneself. But it's very useful as a lens to understand certain social phenomena at large.
Seems to me like suggesting food should be compressed and blended to maximize ease of consumption
I hate the stupid, stupid implication that adding type information will slow a programmer down an appreciable amount.

Even for MVPs the opposite is almost always true.
Typescript is older (2012 vs 2014), more mature and stable (v1.7 vs v0.x), has better tooling support (autocompletion in Visual Studio), is easier to install (you only need NPM), has better documentation, and is easier to Google (try searching for "flow" online!). There are also plenty of common libraries with Typescript annotations, so you can just use e.g. Phaser and Typescript together without any extra work. Other than that Flow and Typescript are fairly similar. Perhaps someone who has used Flow can explain what makes it different from Typescript.
Well, as the above quote says, they have to rule out terrestrial sources as well. Also, how narrow is narrow enough? How was that decided?
There are quite a few differences from the old "JScript" days.

First of all: TypeScript is liberally licensed open source. JScript was totally proprietary.

Another aspect is that TypeScript is seeking to be a strict superset of JavaScript that evolves as JavaScript does (something that wasn't really happening in the JScript days) and is focused on specifically providing static types and tooling for types in JS. It's not a general "embrace, extend, extinguish" kind of thing at all, but rather a very targeted tool.

TypeScript is really one of the most JavaScript-y languages that compile to JS. Most of the compile-to-JS languages are more radical divergences from JS.

JS is not going to be replaced (though WebAssembly[1] will likely become an additional compile target), but compile-to-JS is going to continue to grow in popularity. Already, many people are compiling future-JS to present-day-JS.

The browser vendors have found that the standards evolve best when people can actually write code against the standards before the standards are hardened. Compile-to-JS tools help with that. If optional static types and type inference become very popular via TypeScript and Flow, JS itself may evolve to support those features and then we'll have that standard.

Microsoft is a better player on the web today than they have ever been before.

[1]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design
Well there are two ringing endorsements, sort of.
Same here, stuck on selecting a shipping address, errors that kick me back to the amazon home page, as of right now it looks to be stable enough to complete orders.
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that was a good one - at some point in that thread someone bet him 10K he was wrong - and offered to put the money in escrow - i wonder if it ever happened
If you are a US citizen, your personal taxes are entirely separate from the c-corporation, and accordingly whether the company is based in a tax haven is irrelevant to your personal tax liability.
There is a reason HTTP/2 requires GCM or other AEAD. TLS's MAC-before-encrypt is flawed because of these kinds of attacks.
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This blog post made me think:

We need something like "Code Triage" (codetriage.com) but instead of giving people old / aging tickets to fix, this service would alert people of negative comments.

I'm assuming it would have an ML algorithm which would flag comments if overall sentiment of the comment was negative. So people would sign up for github / bitbucket / etc. projects they're familiar with, and would then start receiving emails if negative comments were being posted. They could then help by more or less shielding the project owner from the negativity and hopefully preventing the complainer from going on rants across the web shaming the project or being negative in general about the project.
I mean... vs a nice shirt and khakis or something. My worldview allows for nice clothes that aren't suits, which seem to only be ubiquitous in Tokyo. 8^)
I disagree with my neighbour being able to keep anthrax-infected sheep on her property too, no matter that she tells me she's got a super safe pen for them, and really prefers the taste.

Although admittedly I wouldn't know until she gets raided by the CDC or accidentally the whole nearby biosphere.
> known standard workaround

that is a little bit hand-wavey, but fair enough. thanks. :)
There are some good training modules on citiprogram.org. Just plug in your institution and select the Key Research Personnel module. You will be beaten over the head with the numerous historical events that have driven us to this point. Tuskegee is but one of the many, many examples.
[meta] This is truly getting absurd. The recent, but incessant downvoting of anyone who is skeptical of authority or the mouthpieces of the status quo. What is happening to HN?

For the purposes of this article in particular, attribution ranges from extremely hard to impossible, but the downvoters are expecting the parent to swallow the government's statements at face value, without question? As if the USG possesses some sort of magical crystal ball for incident attribution?
I think the overhead here is the programmer time spent specifying the types in a program, which is why everyone loves type inference.

This is a common communication error: when you read "typing" you think "static type system", but when the parent wrote "typing" it almost certainly meant "explicit type annotations".
Can't you use TypeScript libraries from plain JS?
The cool thing about Olimex is that their hardware designs are open-source, so anyone could make a compatible motherboard with the faster chips.
Not exactly about the DevTools, but, I work with chunky SVGs in Chrome and that latest version feels completely different. It's always a little like playing whack-a-mole to juggle performance / user experience when a new version comes out but this version feels really nice and fast so far. Kudos to the Chrome team!
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It isn't clear that electric is a lower carbon footprint, right? What if the electricity is generated at a coal plant?

Intuitively the train should be more efficient, right? So the question imo is why does the data say otherwise:
Is there less market pressure to make efficient trains? Is this data wrong? Is this intuition wrong?

(edit to include questioning the intuition itself, i.e. based on the reply comment)
It must. I'm running 3.10.11 which the release notes say is the latest. I remember they changed their UI in the OS X menubar icon to be really crappy a couple years ago which I griped about. That's the only way I knew it was updating itself.
Somewhat hypocritical for the USA to complain about hacking.

We know the resources/extent of NSA capabilities and so it is pretty certain their spying efforts dwarf anything China does. I mean we know they spied on the German chancellor and she is on our side!
> the treatment worked, but not well enough

Well, the prognosis is 14 months, so if she lived a year, maybe it didn't work?
Also sir, I would not "seek to minimize" anyone's work for who am I do anything of the sort. What I detest however, is the use of untrue things in order to push a narrative and this is a classic example of it. We are so wrapped up in conforming with the current political-correct thought-process that we are unable to perform critical reasoning of our own. Any thought process contrary to what is politically acceptable is now regarded as bigotry. Science is about cold-hard facts and not about what makes a person feel good.
I am biased because I work there, but I think Virtru is the easiest way to send secure email from my gmail account.

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You know what reminds me of? A handful of years back various people asserted that developer time was more valuable than computer time and the joy of using tools that might be ten or twenty times slower or even slower than that with quick dev times was worth it. Hardware is cheap, good developers are not, do what's fun. There is both truth and non-truth in that. iPads and especially the pro are the hardware device version of that assertion. Nobody seriously would say they'd outperform a stout Intel core chip, but they are amazingly close and when you look at all the people that were/are still living on XP I think the benchmarks miss the point. It's not the performance that will be the difference, it's the controlled ecosystem and walled garden of the device that does.

Honestly, it looks like performance is in the realm of becoming a nonissue and I'm stunned at the app selection. The weak thing to me is actual data management, but that's a legacy emotion I have as a data pack rat. Laptop killer for technical pros? Not even close but a laptop killer for the masses? I'd say it's capable and just a matter of market perception.
No I understand, which is why I think type inference is a much better solution than dynamic typing. I use Python and JS often and I am constantly looking up types of arguments for functions and what their return types is. JSDoc helps, but its pretty tedious. I think dynamic typing is much slower to actually code in.
Traditionally, complex numbers are on a 2D plane, yes. However, this method uses a subset of complex numbers strung out linearly. Conceptually, the visualization of Cantor's diagonalization argument is similar.
You're talking about removing the New Yorker's branding. Their target audience is more intellectual than mainstream media's.
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Internal debt is not an asset because the debt holders are SOE's, provincial governments and companies too big too fail. Therefore the largest share of debt is public debt, and work must be done to raise incomes throughout China so that debt can be serviced by taxes on a healthy private sector.
"In June, the Russian billionaire Yuri Milner pledged $100 million"

Interestingly, this is also the same amount he spent on his California home.
No. What matters is the ability of the majority of people to have decent jobs, such that the State can maintain economic and social stability. The ineffecincies huge debt driven growth create make stability long term impossible.
So what are you doing when not working? Maintaining a house? Watching TV? Stuck in a commute? Taking care of elder parents? Volunteering at the red cross? Raising a family?

Give up something you value less than development. Move closer to remove commute. Let someone else volunteer. Give the family involuntary free space.

How about: Find or make an alone space. Set aside 12pm to 10pm every Sunday for your project. You disappear from the world, and only do the project. No maintenance/family/commute/charity/TV is allowed to interrupt.

This gives you 10 hours per week, or 25% of full time. If you spend half of your working time in unproductive meetings, it's more like 50%.

It can be done. Is it what you want to do?
I did it in chronological order of discovery and significant application. I agree it should be used as early as possible. Plenty of benefit to that. Further, the Orange Book era systems discovered a heuristic that supports your theory about old codebases: things must be designed for such verification or security from Day 1. Usually impossible to retrofit such properties into an existing codebase whose methods were quite different.
LCDs are often super easy to fix! Do it! The common failure modes are usually backlight or backlight driver failure, and power supply failure. The backlight driver can usually be replaced wholesale, the backlights themselves can easily be replaced, and the PSU often fails because of bad capacitors releasing their magic smoke. I've fixed many LCDs because of bad capacitors! You just want to make sure that the capacitor failed because it was old and not because something else shorted it out (i.e. there isn't some other issue).
This is great. That said, is it also time for child-less employees to get some love as well?

For example, its very difficult (aka impossible) to get equivalent leave as a child-less employee to pursue our passions for a month or two.

Note: I am not talking about taking a vacation. I am talking about taking leave to go volunteer in a literacy program (in my case).

Said another way, why is leave tied to having kids?
Everything else equal I agree, but everything else is not equal. The FRA says that all passenger trains have to be built crazy heavy duty in case of derailments. To the substantial detriment of fuel economy.
It has been known for a while. Even the Geekbench payloads are different for mobile and desktop.

However the benchmarks are irrelevant. Hardware performance means nothing in the face of application support and workflow integration for users. iOS is still an app centric interface. The reason iPad pro cannot replace my laptop is because my workflow is centered around files.
I visited the demo page using chrome, and the images from bing appear to be blocked. Seems to work fine on firefox.
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I wonder how TextSecure is doing this?
Nah. Some interfaces are purely functional.
Can't speak for the parent either, but this seems like a good setup to produce grandchildren that look in-depth at generic structures and understand how to (re)configure them into creative output, so I intend to take a similar approach.
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>so it is pretty certain their spying efforts dwarf anything China does

How is that certain? Where is the Chinese Edward Snowden dumping the docs about their capabilities?

>I mean we know they spied on the German chancellor and she is on our side!

Are you implying China couldn't spy on Angela Merkel if they wanted to? Or that they haven't?
Me too, I submitted it to them and Moxie closed the issue without much elaboration:

https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/4726
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So, if repairability is important to you, stop using Apple. Vote with your feet. Thinkpads are a great alternative for laptops - similarly priced, specc'd, and robust, and they come with (downloadable and free) extensive hardware maintenance manuals with step-by-step guides and numerous exploded diagrams.
It's surprising that some people still think that terrorism prevention is a true priority.
Be careful you done get done for hacking.