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> > While you shouldn't be working on multiple things, I and most other people I met, end up doing so

> Fossil solves that with branches. Merging a branch into the trunk is equivalent to what Git calls pushing.

git does the same thing, though sometimes you're working on two related things, but want to make 2 commits.

> Git's normal working model is that your checkins are local first, then only optionally pushed back to the repo you cloned from.

Because I may not own or be associated with the original repository? Are you saying I shouldn't work on code simply because I can't contact the original author?

> The "guy in the room" doesn't ask for comment; he just drops his magnum opus into the trunk and says "deal with it."

But again, if i'm working on something that necessitates breaking something while it's being fixed, you're saying to use a private branch, so what's the difference?

> Because Fossil defaults to "autosync on", you can't check in a change on a branch that has upstream changes. Fossil simply won't allow it. (There's a "force" option, but it creates a special kind of branch called a fork, which has to be resolved at some point.)

Git has the same ability to prevent forced pushes. I'm still not seeing your point. But also, none of this actually solves the issue that everything you're talking about are environmental and not inherent in the scm, i.e. testing.

> This is why we have social mores and community standards of behavior. It is a good thing if the tools we use support those desirable behaviors.

The tools shouldn't stand in your way when you want to make a coherent idea a single idea instead of multiple little, sometimes conflicting ideas.

It seems to come down to if you believe you own your code and everyone should be "allowed" to work on your code, or if you believe that anyone should be able to work on code. (centralized vs federated).
I try to switch to FF every 3mo. or so. EVERY TIME I try it gets sluggish if I have even a modest number of tabs open.

I really like what Mozilla is doing, but why is it that they just can't make a browser as snappy as Chrome?
though in reality, today the difference is almost academic. One Wilshire is known as _the_ carrier hotel in Los Angeles, if not all of the US. The 4th floor meet-me room was widely known as the most expensive real estate on the west coast, at one time.

While many large, international networks still setup inside One Wilshire at a premium, if I just need cross connects, I can get them for exactly the same price inside Wilshire Annex -- a more "colocation for server farms" oriented building that is slightly cheaper and much larger (for individual spaces, not in total conditioned square footage, iirc).

Why do large international carriers pay the premium for being in the "carrier hotel" One Wilshire? Because they don't want to rely on CoreSite (the buildings and associated interconnection infrastructure management company) infrastructure. They want "home runs" to the other large international carriers they interconnect with and sell to.

If you aren't ATT or AWS, there is little need to be inside One Wilshire -- except perhaps for the "prestige" factor.
We could go look at the implementation/documentation of Scientist to confirm, but nothing says the comparison has to be happening on the response thread. You could fork a new thread to run the unused implementation without impacting response time, as long as you have the server capacity.
I don't know if it's terribly useful to compare the entire US with Sweden. Sweden is about as populous as the Bay Area. If you're going to make comparisons with the worst places in the US, you should compare with the worst place in Europe. Drop a street view guy in the middle of Donetsk and have a look around.
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According to my read of this article, it seems that this pertains to the UK in 30% of the retailers there. Also, 70% of the consumers expressed discomfort with most of the tracking techniques with the highest disagreement pertaining to intimate tracking techniques such as facial recognition. I feel that this strengthens my point rather than weaken it. These UK stores are doing this subtly without telling the consumer - when the consumer is asked, s/he expresses alarm.
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yay server-side console logs!!

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Web_Console/C...
I think you would be saved by rephrasing to indicate a particular computer scientist. People are getting overly pedantic.
It's also a matter of drawing boundaries. It doesn't make any more sense to complain that Sweden is nicer than Flint, than it would to make the same complaint about Seattle or Philadephia. Or, taking the converse, it makes as much sense to blame Swedes for the state of urban decay in Belarus.
I am married to a Swede, and we had our wedding on my wife's family farm. My family came out for the wedding, and both my parents and grandmother had never been outside of the country (USA) before. It was a bit awkward that most of my relatives kept remarking "it is so clean here" whenever we went to a new place. Some of my wife's family has never been to the States, and so now they think the US is just a dirty craphole because of those remarks. They're not so wrong, though. Cities in the US have a special kind of indescribable grime and smell. Of course few places are as bad as they are in Flint, but there is definitely urban decay in many places.
http://talkorigins.org is an amazing resource for the scientific perspective on Creationism vs. Evolution. It details neatly all the creationist arguments then thoroughly debunks them with overwhelming scientific evidence, complete with references. Is there a similar site that does the same for climate change?
What will be your build workflow for TS.Node? I've never really found something that works well.
You can skip the Purism laptop, and just simply download the Qubes OS installer and try it out on whatever system you have. It uses the same installer framework as Fedora. As long as your system supports VT-x (pretty much anything recent does), you can have the Linux + Windows experience and the isolation offered by running them in separate virtual machines.

There are more advanced security features, such as isolation of network adapters from the rest of the system, offered with a system that properly supports VT-d (aka IOMMU). Between having a CPU that supports VT-d, BIOS correctly configuring VT-d, and ACPI tables being correct as well, finding such a machine can be a little more challenging than you expect. I suppose that is where some value is offered by the idea of a "Qubes certified" laptop.
A colo center is a place to put servers, that probably also offers you Internet bandwidth and/or a variety of existing ISPs to connect to. The second variety is called "carrier neutral".

A carrier hotel is a place for ISPs and large network users to place one or more switches or routers, and bring their own connectivity together with other customers of the same hotel. Each connection is negotiated separately.

A public exchange is a place for ISPs and large network users to bring a connection, and then they generally participate in a master agreement for traffic exchange between all users.

A private exchange is any other peering agreement between ISPs.
> but they often try to expose both sides of the coin in the process and at least present the evidence in a way the audience can judge on their own

Having seen it, and having read a lot of this stuff...I'm genuinely curious what the other side of the coin was/should have been in this film?
Jen from Telerik DevRel here...we are working with Google to ensure that Angular 2 works great for your NativeScript apps. Please check our blogs at nativescript.org for forthcoming info on performance comparisons and how-tos. I'd encourage you to visit our getting started guide on the above web site to see how you like NativeScript!
Ditto. I'm hoping to move back at some point
The first thing to do is to try to minimize the scope of mutating operations: e.g, decompose a monolithic read-write operation into independent load, transform, and store. You can then easily test as much as possible (the load and the store) side-by-side. The parts that must have side effects are still hard, but at least there are fewer of them. (One variant of this would be to build your code such that you can always intercept side-effects, and then block the new code's side effects and compare with the old code)

The next thing is to try to take advantage of idempotence (and, by extension, try to make as many of your mutating operations idempotent as possible): there's nothing completely risk free, but you can at least verify idempotence for either ordering of new and old code, and if you're factored right, you can run both paths on the same input and verify they have the same side-effects and output.

Finally, making the observation that the new code must in general be backwards-compatible with the old code, and both versions need to be able to run concurrently (because this situation will always exist during deployment): in the worst case, you can always start with a limited deployment of the new path, which limits the amount of damage done if the new code is bad.
A couple years ago, I decided to setup a MediaWiki installation, and found it works well enough for storing thoughts/ideas/things. I added another sort of 'navigation' layer that makes sense in my head, and wrote a desktop app in python to use my navigation layer instead of the links. Eventually I would like to set it up to scan for links in the various pages, download the content then add it to a job queue to be parsed into a more concise format for the wiki itself.

I don't use it nearly as much as I should... it's one of those things that's 90% what I want, and just missing the last 10%.
What's your setup/laptop and OS? I am having a better experience with Firefox over Chrome, with 40+ tabs opened at any time.

Chrome (at least some time ago I tried it) crashes frequently and uses more memory.
I know at least 10 people that buy customized OEM laptops from various local shops in the UK the quality is on par with Dell/Lenovo upper tier products.

The OEM vendors don't make this in some basement in Shenzhen it is done very professionally and the level of customization that those laptop give the user is unparalleled today.

The PCSpec laptop's I've seen are about the same quality as my Dell XPS 15 (2014 model), some of the Macbook Air style laptop's (https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/lafiteII/ a UK startup that my friend works in bought this for the 20 or so hires they got once they got out of the incubator they are pretty flawless) I've seen are almost indistinguishable from Apple (with the exception that they are usually not unibody) and if you stick an Acer logo in the front and call them the C97somthing I would not be able to tell that this wasn't a brand product.

Now don't get me wrong if you pay peanuts you'll get monkeys but if you are paying 500-600$ for an OEM laptop you will get good quality including IPS screens and capacitive trackpads with large enough orders (10-20+).
What's a modest number? I regularly have about 30 open on my (Android) mobile and my desktop surpasses 100, 150 often enough.

How many tabs do you need? How many does Chrome handle, if I might ask?
Why was 64-bit Firefox for Windows so late to release?
Cool Site. Especially the example with the open source tool.

Working in finance the data and statistics I do can tend to be so similar, I have been looking for ways to use the tools and methods working with big data for other purposes.

This is something to consider.
Anyone Remember Neonem on Windows? Well, that was really good for organising personal info in a structured way. Discussion here seems too broad: comparing Evernote (which is basically losely structured), wiki's etc to real classic outliners that once were thriving on Windows in he old days but kind of have of have been forgotten the past years. If you search for "outliner" you'll find some good all abandoned Windows projects.
How is NativeScript related to AngularJS ? is it the same team ?
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Following up to my own point: products come and go all the time and it seems like luck that Jerry happened to pick a product that stuck around. It does seem unfortunate to have to risk your outboard brain on luck!
> We have welfare and a multitude of social programs design to assist those who need help.

We absolutely do not, and it is disingenuous to claim otherwise. Europe has vastly less wealth disparity, and many more social welfare programs that ensure a pretty high degree of social mobility. The United States doesn't hold a candle to most of Europe in this regard. And you know something infuriating? My tax rate is only 10% less where I live in the States than what it will be when I move to Sweden. Our taxes are high as hell and we get basically nothing for them. A nice weapons development program, and there's something to be said for that, and then the Social Security ponzi scheme. But nothing else. Sweden has a huge number of beneficial programs that actually help people when they need it.

And your one citation is from the Heritage Foundation.
I don't have the same behavior. It would be interesting to see details on your issue, response time differences, memory usage, etc.
Except that a large majority of the US population is already moving towards Social Security and Medicare. As more of the population is covered by them, it becomes trivial to cover the remaining populace not on them.
Look at this asshole, having a finite Erdos number and publishing solo ;-)
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> Angular 2 works great for your NativeScript app

How is it going to work exactly ?
And yet, most space combat know-it-alls discount the utility of stealth in space. Stealth doesn't have to be absolute and bullet-proof to be useful. And there's nothing against the laws of thermodynamics in restricting all of your emissions beyond that of a 3-deg Kelvin blackbody to a 20 degree cone.
From that page:

> The C100P Flip is the best netbook I have seen in eight years.

That's quite the praise! This thing must be really good.

> The default ALSA config was completely silent. Enabling Right Speaker Mixer Right/Left DAC fixed that. Supposedly there is a risk of burning out the amp if you thoughtlessly enable every option.

Uhh... wow. Well, OK.

> After suspend/resume, wifi will not work if the btsdio module was automatically loaded.

The best netbook in eight years, yet it can't even suspend/resume properly? What?

> The best video output mode is X11 video output. Despite what everyone says about being slow, this is the only driver that doesn't have major desync problems.

> Stellarium would run at a buttery smooth 60 FPS for a few minutes and then everything would die.

> Chromium will not run on this hardware.

> Screen rotation through xrandr doesn't work at all...

Then under "Things to Fix":

> - HMDI output. Very wonky, usually crashes X11 after a few minutes.

> - USB ethernet. The cdc_ether module will load but nothing happens.

> - Webcam. Crazy bucket of fail here. Maybe 25% of the time fswebcam can grab a single frame. Good luck with video.

> - Multitouch on the panel. No idea how to get that working.

To me, —even with the fixes and workarounds you describe— that device sounds like a nightmare to use.
Thanks for writing this.
That's gotta be a plugin, mate. I have the reverse problem: Chrome is slow, but Firefox is snappy. I know in the last few months FF fixed an issue where css cache was per-tab, which meant plug ins (like adblock plus) which add huge stylesheets to every tab had a huge memory load.

The only slowness I get with ff is when I have lots of heavy js tabs open for more than a day. In my case that's gInbox, gcal, ghangouts, trello (with heavy plugins), Facebook, and then my normal browsing tabs. Even then, I only notice the slowness when I instantiate a new window.
Snappy behavior depends on a lot of things: which sites you're on (some browsers are better at some sites than others, and none is great at all of them), multiprocess separation (e10s in Firefox, on in Nightly and it really helps a lot), your graphics card and whether the browser has blacklisted it, and of course if you happen to hit a rare perf bug (which all browsers have, not surprising given the amount of constant code churn).
I disagree. If philh intended to make the finer distinction you're now making they should have stated it. As it stands they are stating both that a) "science fiction" is a fuzzy category, there's no right or wrong in how you categorize it in specific instances and b) this particular statement on what is science fiction is right. These two points contradict each other, and dragonwriter was correct in pointing this out. Just because a certain usage of a word is not accepted by the majority doesn't mean it's wrong.
"Better Private browsing" that still features the Pocket bundleware and button in the toolbar that's still not un-installable like other extensions and requires about:config edits to disable..
Your car metaphor is completely off. It's not like Philips updated your lights to only light up in specific location.

But cars are a good example, say your automatic shifter breaks. There are no real third party options, you've pretty much got to buy a new one from the manufacturer or by used one. You can still do all normal car things with it you just can't use third party pieces. Same with the lights, they still work, they shine light and do everything that they did before now you JUST can't use third party bulbs with the system.

If you want to go with other shitty analogies say you made a game, something like an MMO that has monthly fees. You sank a lot of money developing the game, the box price isn't high because you know you'll make your money from the monthly fees. You also use money from the monthly fees to improve the game, fix bugs, add content. Now your subscription model is a little strange, it works by players entering a code on your website. They buy it from your online store, get it in their email and use it to get play time. Now let's imagine that your security isn't absolute and some third party figures out how your keycode generator works and they start selling codes for half the price. Now your paying subscriber count is shrinking. What do you do? Do you A) fix the problem which results into many users losing money since they already bought several months worth of play time from this company? or B) leave the system as it is because openness or something like that?
It always surprises me when people get bent out of shape when they learn that blogs and forums are rigged to favor a certain group of people. There's A LOT of money to be had and if you think places like Product Hunt, Reddit, HN, etc. aren't all being rigged in some way, you're naive.
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That would mitigate the loss through shadow, but not the apparently much larger loss through diffusion in the atmosphere.
Are you implying that the stops weren't deliberately chosen?
How many Angular folks are sticking with native ES6 and babel vs TypeScript? Angular is clearly directing folks to TypeScript. I don't want to have to use TypeScript on front-end and ES6 + Babel in Node. Trying to pick one.
is that all it's good for?
> Cannot perform a "fossil diff" for just a directory and its descendants

Thanks for the suggestion. I just checked in an enhancements so that this works now. https://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/info/c46f98055cf49687

As for your other short-comings, please mention them on the fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org mailing list
Computer specs? I suspect you may be doing something wrong. Firefox runs great for me.

Also, try:

1) Help --> Troubleshooting --> Refresh Firefox (i.e. wipe all your data and settings so it's a clean install).

2) Tools --> Options --> General --> Tabs --> Don't Load tabs until selected. This let's you have hundreds of tabs open without having them all loaded in memory. When you click to a tab that you haven't visited in a while, it loads the page then.
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This was more focused on the video blending (and how it's synchronized with the audio cues). The clipping is from a naïve audio speed algorithm (the other naïve approach results in pitch shifting).

One thing this probably does give, though, is the necessary curve to output a well-formed audio blend.
What's really fun about that is that most people I interview, when asked "what are your salary expectations?" answer with "I'm currently at XYZ a year"
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Windows is indeed the last (64-bit on Linux and Mac has been there for a long time). I think the main issue was binary plugins, which are more common on Windows, and can be incompatible with a 64-bit browser.
Are there cases where muni-broadband would depend on commercial carrier interconnects, making this a complicated issue?

Or is this simply the lobby dollars at work?
How about this? http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=3932
Just a week or two ago I saw someone get downvoted for suggesting that many CS degrees don't include real analysis. I suspect that by now undergrad CS programs are all over the place, and I wouldn't dare make broad generalizations about the math content of a CS degree anymore.
Simpler - https://github.com/AmericanRedCross/posm-build seems to be based on Ubuntu 14.04 with some extra packages. There's also a Kickstart script.
~44GB compressed. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Planet.osm
You've been posting unsubstantive and inflammatory comments to HN. That breaks the site guidelines, so please don't do that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
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> re-implement it first then improve it

Right. I'm saying (poorly, I guess) that that doesn't always work. If the technical debt is sprinkled throughout your system or your organization is sunk deeply into a broken paradigm, you're in trouble. Sometimes you need to provide a completely new technology that serves many of the same use cases in a different way.

I'm not saying we should reach for rewriting things as our first instinct.

I am saying that your COM interface will need to be replaced some day. Or your COBOL business logic will become a liability. Or your frames-based web API will cost you business.

Incremental change leads you to a new local maximum, but sometimes that local maximum stunts your growth or even proves deadly.
I don't get my smartphone from a carrier. I get it from a manufacturer. The carrier is a commodity.
Looks promising... But personally I dislike TS., and I know that it not required for Angular 2..., Now I prefer ES6 + babel, maybe in future I'll change my attitude to TS.
I have a low spec machine (2009 MBP Core 2 Duo, 4G Ram) and there is day / night difference in performance between Safari 9.0.2 and FireFox. I've also been testing the multi-process FF version with no luck.

Some website like Amazon are almost unusable with lots of pausing / unresponsiveness. No plugins, clean install.
AFAIK it's possible to use $$ -- $$ for math notation, it exports to LaTeX/MathJax etc, and there's a setting for making it to preview within the buffer (the function is "org-latex-preview-fragment"). And there is very good latex integration, support for latex blocks etc. I do not know the details tho, I'm not a maths guy.

If you set

#+OPTIONS: inlineimages

you'll see links to local images inline in the buffer. IDK, if video is possible, but I think no.
As I understand it they have most of their docs written for TypeScript but they plan to fully support ES6 and have the docs to show how to use ES6 too. I would prefer ES6, however it appears that TypeScript is a bit less verbose to write.