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It is tightly integrated into the entire Microsoft development toolchain. There are free versions given to developers. And then there's the persistent myth of "Nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft". They used to say that about IBM. They don't anymore.

A lot of it is inertia, as well. People who have been writing software for MS SQL server for the past couple of decades probably aren't going to change any time soon.

Plus with MS Azure, MS SQL server is easy for a non DBA to setup, add failover and scale.
Well i dunno, all my worst flatmates ever have either been british or german. and they both were sooo terribly noisy and invasive. French people really do like and respect silence.
>None of this is a surprise- it was all predicted by those opposing the ACA. Fortunately, the asian countries are developing first rate hospitals and medical tourism industry.

What a joke of opinion. Reality won't stop you from making up non-sense, will it?
> PII is not available, it is anonymized. There are laws around this.

But we've seen how useless even apparently well meaning anonymisation is—think of the AOL search results. I can't imagine how utterly useless it becomes when it is done by people in whose interest it is to do it poorly, while remaining just within the law.
I'd be interested in this as well - preferably something that could be shared with my wife / mobile that we could both document where / on what we spend money on.

We've been getting into using points based credit cards and paying the balances immediately a: for the points and b: to try to improve credit and between a few of them, it can be difficult to track everything
Maybe GP's idea of enjoying themselves is going to the gym. And my idea of enjoying myself is going to the bar.
I can indeed recommend "The Passionate Programmer" which is a great book. Very eye opening.

None of these books is new though, they've been around forever. Why are they must-reads of 2016 specifically?
Still waiting for new the dashboard…almost a year now :( And how I wish Stripe allows non automatic deposit, keeps the money in the currency it was paid in and peer to peer transfers! One can hope…
I've read that Google will penalize a site with identical content elsewhere on the web. Is that still the case? I could see why you wouldn't care either way, just curious.
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Can't speak for GP, but what I did was move my schedule up to 9:30-6:00 or so, let my arrival date float between 9:30 and 10:00 so I could come in pretty much when I felt like it.

After awhile my workload dropped practically to zero, and I started leaving at 5. Kept it up even when there was a workload, and found that completion times didn't suffer.

Don't propose anything. Just start shifting your schedule around and see if people complain. Do it slowly and people won't notice, or if they do, won't care.

In the corporate world, you don't ask for permission, only forgiveness. The word they use for it is 'initiative'.
Yes, it can be souped-up to be as fast, but the frame is still larger and heavier, and has an inferior display. So, my point still stands that most individual buyers would not prefer a 2012 MBP to a new one that ships with SSD and a retina display. The ability to change out parts does not really matter to most buyers. Yes, I know, some buyers like that ability, just like some like to have a DVD player in 2016. Those concerns are not what make Apple a $700 billion company, but can still bring in a non-trivial amount of profit so I see why they still make them.
The line between encoding and encryption is blurry, so it would be difficult to enforce without being seeming arbitrary or capricious.

On the other hand, custom crypto will almost certainly be defective, so why bother prohibiting it it?
My mother's second husband's stomach trouble was misdiagnosed. Because of the long waiting times to see a specialist, the cancer was too far gone by the time they found out what it was, and he died when he was 50. My wife's sister was taken to hospital with a gallbladder infection. Despite being extremely weak, the staff let her walk and she fell. She broke her pelvis, but they missed it. Despite being in severe pain and being very weak that they let her walk again, and she fell again and her condition deteriorated. She died a few days later, aged 36. Their incompetence killed her. The case was referred to the Ombudsman and the family got an apology, but no compensation for their mistakes. I do understand that horror stories also occur in the U.S. but the faster time to treatment, and better testing, would have saved my mother's husband, and the fear of lawsuits would have saved my wife's sister. As I said above, there are horror stories like these in the newspapers every day. Many, many more cases like ours are simply not reported.
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Vendor partnership, commercial support, legacy app support, .NET drivers and optimizations not available elsewhere, developer knowledge...

Why does Oracle, DB2, Sybase, or any other commercial RDBMS still exist?
If the node app uses express js and has multiple processes, then a redis server may be required to handle non-stikcy session. It would be nice if the article describes the redis server setup.
It always comes with abstraction, it is the same with more complex Html helpers in MVC or any other .NET library.
If you can assume that any given client will consume a relatively set range of server resources to the point where random load balancing evenly distributes load for large numbers of clients, then why not just have the front-end servers return some sort of "server's full" header and tell the client to try another? Are the extra requests so expensive? Or is using the random distribution simply a case of "This works, so why bother with non-random methods?"
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I work with a team in India. I can assure you the Dell tech reps log into Dell's system and are not hacking via the website. This is an inside job and there are no simple ways around it. Cost benefit analysis shows Dell they can allow you to get ripped off. They are still are selling computers and saving tons of money offshoring. They have no reason to correct this problem. Glad I build my own PC's at home.
Along these lines, I had built up my site using makefiles, imagemagick, and a little perl (to translate multimarkdown to HTML). Super simple, super lightweight.

Never really understood why site generation needed custom tools, on demand page generation, databases, etc for what amounts to the web equivalent of a mail merge.
This is exactly what a lot of wealthy people are doing: "yield arbitration"

Pension funds buy assets that generate between 3-4% a year (i.e. property). Let's say you are able to put together a €30m property portfolio generating 10% a year. Pension funds will pay €50-80m for that.
I also stay indoors so that public security cameras can't see me :) I don't have a bank account or Amazon account :) I live curled up in my basement shaking with terror at the prospect of my privacy being violated :)
"A modern, powerful, programming language called Scala to work with. You begin with a very small and simple subset of Scala, and progress to the level of Scala proficiency that you care to reach."

so basically it's a Scala IDE for easy learning and authoring, tried it quickly and it looks nice, though the UI is pretty java-swing style.
> I guess it might be interesting for all the people who, like the author, are Java and PHP programmers and have no experience with C?

Maybe it isn't snark, but that reads like it, and it seems unconstructive. Why knock down someone who's learning by denigrating his background? What's the harm in someone sharing something interesting (to him) that he learned, whether or not you think he should have known it already? It's easy enough not to read it, especially on a random blog and even on HN, if you don't want to share his experience.
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All fine and well until the drone army comes online.

Only half kidding.
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Does anyone turn off adblocker after they put in this gateway? I just stopped reading forbes instead.
Done. The helpdesk representative actually mailed me the PDF version, and said that a PDF version should be forthcoming:

Bijna alle kamerstukken zijn als pdf terug te vinden. Zo te zien worden de recente eerst als doc gepubliceerd.

Apparently new documents can be posted as DOCX only (strange).

You are right to point out the open standard guidelines, but unfortunately, they are marked as comply or explain. This means that they are not mandatory if you have a valid reason not to be able to comply with them. In this case, the reason is probably "our civil servants are used to Microsoft's defaults", which is — as much as I disagree with this policy — probably enough to get away it.
> You don't get notified of updates, and updating is a manual process

That's a lot of extra work, but it's also a huge security problem. Is it really worth the extra privacy? After all, you can't really hide yourself from Google because they index the entire web and public databases and your friends' emails...
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Working fewer hours != A world that's functioning 80% of time
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Every full-time job is 40 hours, which is the maximum allowed without having to pay overtime.

I think it's fair to assume companies will do anything for increased productivity. That has nothing to do with wages.
Date per the article: 2011
The description is missing a t in two places in this sentence:

"Pome stands for Posgres Metrics. Pome is a PosgreSQL Metrics Dashboard to keep track of the health of your database."

It should be Postgres instead of Posgres and PostgreSQL instead of PosgreSQL.
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DayZ is early access and broken too. Not sure if you were saying that, but I wanted to say it.
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You could say the same about Ruby and C.

>Ruby is a DSL for C since you are working at a much higher level of abstraction than what C offers out of the box.
> but no compensation for their mistakes.

You sue to get compensation.
If you're setting up a network that might one day be connected to another network, or used via a VPN by users working from home, it's well worth using publicly routable addresses for it. It just makes all the routing setup so much easier.

If you have enough publicly routed IPv4 addresses to do that with IPv4 then then knock yourself out, but IPv6 ones are much cheayer.
This is unrelated to Apple and it's AppStore. Even if you sold this on your own, you'd be subject to the same rules.

https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/policy-guidance/encryption
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Good call! I completely forgot the default units were in Kelvin, and not Celsius.
Mint has really sucked for me since Intuit bought it. They switched out the backend, and my accounts stopped updating.

I've loved BillGuard as a Mint replacement. It's much more user-friendly, and it creates a collective protection system -- when enough other people flag a charge as fraudulent, it automatically lets you know if you have the same charge.
I had the same problem last April, and had a surprisingly difficult time finding any more info about it. All Dell forum threads say that they know nothing about it and refer you to the FTC site. The really disturbing part was they used my mobile number, which had been spam-free until the Dell issue.

I posted about my experience here, with the hopes that others in my cohort would benefit from it, but the thread is still quiet:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/scam-calls-from-dell...

Summary of my battle:
Keept them on the phone as long as possible, asked stupid questions, and tried to piss them off as much as humanly possible - I managed to get a "find a pen, remove the cap and stick it up your ass" after 2 hours on the phone with them. I kept them on the phone while my 4mb download took 45mins.
ElectricFence is great, and I recall having a similar feeling to the OP when I first used it because many of the described issues were also new to me at the time. It's a great experience :)

If you're on Solaris or a Solaris-derived OS, you also have the libumem and watchmalloc libraries that can help you out. I have used libumem to great effect in the past.

It's been a while, but I anecdotally recall that Solaris is more stingy with its mallocs than Linux. I used to compile and run my C projects on Solaris as a first pass in my search for memory errors.
It's a shame that distributors haven't made it easier to purchase the film in your area but you have to realize that behind-the-scenes rights deals have many involved parties each taking their own risks and these restrictions are usually the result of that. I don't understand your fixation on piracy though, if you read the article I would hope that you'd see that this was a valuable work by a very well-respected director that is worth buying, especially for the things I mentioned, but I guess not. It's not like shipping takes that long these days or that waiting a few days would make you not want to watch it. I agree that DRM is bad. While a nice screen helps, it's not required, but you will get a much better experience from a Bluray restoration.

As for our friend YIFY, do you wonder what kind of "magic" they do to fit feature-length films into 700MB? Most importantly they completely starve the bitrate so nothing looks as good as it could. Then they use a whole variety of filters to change the film from how it originally looked so it will compress better like denoising or color changes. Not to mention other atrocities such as changing the aspect ratio, downscaling, low bitrate audio, or even cutting out parts like intros and credits. You're only impressed with it because you haven't seen what you're missing.

And thanks for the personal attack, In the future I'll make sure not to write well-meaning comments to someone who had trouble with a specific method of watching something. Excuse me, I gotta get back to sending cease-and-desists letters and meeting my shill quota for the day.
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If the battery on the Apple pen is non-replaceable, you are essentially renting the hardware.

I'm sick of devices that work for 2-3 years and then die because the batteries aren't field-replaceable when they degrade.
Like unlimited free food/snacks, a ping pong table, nap rooms, and many other "unbelievable" office amenities, the unlimited vacation policy seems cynically designed to keep you in the office as long as humanly possible.
I don't think that's how it works. Ruby is general-purpose, unlike Rails, which solves a very specific problem by building on top of core Ruby.
Is that a problem with the catalog or a problem with the store? I've found steams interface for searching and finding new games is pretty bad.
I see your point - I used to be reticent to use /opt since it was a bit of a Solaris-ism (it only got added to the FHS because the proprietary Unixes kept asking for it).

I'm thinking about changing it to /opt instead (and will credit you if I do it), alas /opt/bin isn't in $PATH on most distros.
Yes fine I know this. My objection is that this data is starting to be compiled on a cross site basis.
I'm no fan, and Sharepoint is super-heavy and requires enterprisey-typical levels of care & feeding, but it's a mature platform

You seem to have just agreed with me.

The Sharepoint vs. open source argument is a straw-man, since I never once mentioned open source. Sharepoint is used by all manner of organization for all manner of tasks. I just recently ran into an organization using it as a CMS platform. Past teams I've been on have used it as a document sharing platform, but even that experience is far from ideal. Sharepoint is used because enterprises are not in the risk business when it comes to software procurement. But for document review and sharing there are a host of better options available. Very few small teams that I've worked on that had their own control over what software they used chose to use Sharepoint of their own volition. Take that as you will.
Masters is a complete and utter fuck-up.
I have a friend that uses Mint and has told me that you really have to go "all in" with Mint but then it is really helpful. He said he still feels a little nervous having a single company with all this financial information about him but Mint has lots of things built in to monitor your financial health. I will probably go with Mint unless I hear something that changes my mind in this thread.

Have you looked at Mint?
I'm waiting on a plane, so it's a bit messy, and I haven't tested the float version yet but: https://github.com/RDeckers/c_doodles/blob/master/Linalg/src...
Compile with gcc -O3.

MxM_4x4 is my function, say we have AB=C then it loads B transposed into registers, then for each row it uses 4 multiplications to calculate to row(A)column(B) products, 2 HADD for summing half of the generated products, then 2 permutations to line up the vectors, and one final sum to compute a row of C.

MxM_4x4_2 is a direct port to doubles instead of floats of intel's example on the provided link. When compiled with -O3 my compiler produces the same code in terms of assembly instructions as Intel's example explictlly writes.

(Note the name of the repo, I know it's not pretty ;) )
Indeed, but we were talking about enterprises, not private buyers ;)
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I'm confused. That proves his point. Every state at a secondary enforcement seat belt law before 1998. Every state aside from Maine and South Dakota (both of which had relatively high seat belt usage before the law) saw an increase in seat belt usage post-law.

I think you might be confused by the 1998 number. That year came after the after law percentage. Meaning that enforcement immediately after the law also worked.
I'm not seeing any direct evidence of a hack. It seems just as likely that Dell could have simply sold customer data to interested parties.
I've worked the standard 40-? hr/week programming jobs for years and about a year ago I took on a project where I was the only developer and before I took the job I made the decision to work about 20 hours a week. Turns out that 20 wasn't quite enough so I ended up doing 25-30.

Looking back I think 25-30 hours is about as efficient as I could have been as I gave the best hours of my day. But when it came to the last month before the release I found I did have to give some more time to get it done on time. Short bursts of working long hours seem to be effective for me, but I also noticed that I needed to take some time off after the project.

It's been a great year and I've really enjoyed the other things I was able to do with my time. If you are able it's worth considering even if you take a little less pay.
Not just "won't be nearly as attractive".

We assume that food of that type (burger, sandwich, etc) will be symmetrical: if it has visible lettuce etc on the side you're seeing, one assumes that the density will be equal everywhere else, meaning not only the other side, but also on the underneath the bun. The image is false not just because the picture is "more attractive", it is false because it is implying a density of ingredients that just isn't there.

This is just plain false advertising, no more, no less.
Would be interested if it could do something like OpsDash[1]. Also, would it work with a AWS RDS Postgres?

[1] https://www.opsdash.com/blog/postgresql-monitoring.html
Are we agreed that my claim was valid? Thank you for digging up a primary source on it btw!
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That's a legit concern about Barnes & Noble right now. But with B&N not only gift cards, but their entire digital business (Nook).

If anyone received a B&N gift card for christmas, my advice is to spend it soon, and spend it on physical goods -- not digital. Because when the hammer falls your digital "purchases" are not going to be protected.
Its kind of hard from their website to figure out what they do.
Does anyone know what technology they are using for their private distributed ledger? I heard a rumour that it was based on SharePoint - not sure if this was a joke, but wouldn't be surprised if it were true. As per some of the other comments, a private distributed ledger doesn't need to use the innovations of the public blockchain and so could use pretty much any data datastore.
This is interesting if for no other reason than Winer has commented[0] that he is mirroring content on Medium at this point.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10839457
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I wonder how many of the young so called "programmers" would be able to solve this. It's a pity that one can call himself a "developer" without having the tiniest idea how a computer actually runs, what a process, a thread or a pointer is...
Calm down. It is the US Govt requiring this form. Apple is only passing along the requirement.
> update at 30 or 60fps always

Actually neither OpenGL nor DirectX force you to do this - it's just what game loops set out to do. There isn't anything stopping you from calling Present as infrequently as you want (i.e. when something changes).

What you are saying might hold truth because most people don't think about power consumption and could thus end up using a normal game loop for their UI app.
I use a combination of Mint + a single credit card which gives me a fair money back (with one card for me and one for my partner), has no foreign fees and has an app that provides instant notifications of all charges. I put as much as possible on auto-pay, and also make frequent CC payments to maintain a healthy balance level on my CC.

While I could increase returns by managing multiple credit cards with different payoffs and promotions, transferring balances, etc. I don't feel the additional money is worth the headache. The same for not using autopay, mailing checks, whatever, takes too much time and headaches.

This way, all my purchases get notified on my mobile, and I can track all of them (and get reasonably good automatica categorization) on Mint (as well as some basic budgeting), without a lot of complexity. Since you can check all the expenses on mint, you can use tags on them to remember which ones are recurring and on autopay on your cc, and change them easily.
Lego used to offer something like that inside their Lego Digital Designer application. You create your model, press a button (sort of), and you'd get a nice box with all the pieces and instructions in the mail. Unfortunately, they've discontinued the service. I don't know why.
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> It's the very point of the original article that working fewer hours can increase the quality and focus of the work done during that shorter period.

To me, it depends on how you cut the hours, and to what extent. I'm all for working shorter days, eg. 6-8h, 4-5 days a week; however, the more you get close to half-time or below, the more difficult it becomes to stay fully focused and as motivated as a (more) full-time employee. This is admittedly less of a concern if the person uses their free-time on related projects (eg. writing open-source stuff).
Maybe something like 'x companies with y users are using this every day' helps as well. With some specific company names and testimonials and/or specific use cases.
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