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> I wonder if there's a way to make it work where all the usages are replaced by 'float_t'.

Yes, in fact you don't have to change anything else. The trick is that on x86-64 float is promoted to double for argument passing, so the mismatch in the return type on spectral_contrast has no effect.
This exactly. Sometimes I feel like an old fart still using Django (or Flask if the project is small) instead of some new hotness.

But Django has the DSF behind it moving point releases, bugfixes and major releases in a very sane way. The same absolutely cannot be said for angular (major rewrite in progress!) or a lot of similar projects in the Node.js community.

None of this means Node.js is bad, just that there is something to be said for consistency in development. Now watch as Python/Django devs slowly morph into what Delphi devs used to be ;)
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Nope, you should have a good Operation (!) engineer, not DevOps.
When the time comes, I think Mozilla should move on from the Firefox brand to an exciting new browser brand. Mozilla forked Phoenix from SeaMonkey. Microsoft forked Edge from IE.

When or if Mozilla can start merging the Servo engine or Electrolysis multi-process support into Firefox might be a good time. (I like the name Servo for the whole browser. :-) Like IE, Firefox has had a hard time shaking its old reputation (e.g., memory leaks and add-on breakage). A new brand says "this is something new; give us a try again."
Building an Internal Product? Great insights on what works and wont
And most of this is unnecessary complexity.why haven't anybody came up with better tools to attack that ?
You'd have to measure that against other things that money could have done. And in many times, the company would be moving anyway.
Yeah, Google web apps must have some scary Javascript bloat going on. I remember when GMail was lightning fast; now it takes 5-10 seconds just to load the first page of my inbox and chat windows.
I use Remember the Milk[1] and it has served me well for the past couple of years. I started off with the template presented in this post[2] from the RTM blog and it's a great basic implementation of GTD.

The advanced search functionality to combine items from multiple lists into a single view is my favorite feature. The keyboard shortcuts, quick entry and iOS/Android apps make it so that it's always easy to input something into my trusted system, whether I'm near a computer or on the go.

[1] https://www.rememberthemilk.com/
[2] http://blog.rememberthemilk.com/post/116665489183/guest-post...
The fundamental decline started when they moved towards flat design.
The work round is to spend 3 months in the EU and then return under EU rules and not UK. The case was Surinder Singh but there are subsequent rulings - https://www.freemovement.org.uk/surinder-singh-immigration-r...

You'll still be rejected out of hand and forced to resort to legal action however. You're right that the UK has targeted non-EU spouses and is intentionally obstructive, arbitrary and perverse in their dealings, all for the political ends you describe.
There's still nothing that truly competes with the MBP. IMO it's the only thing they have left that's clearly better than the competition.
> The way I survive Windows problems is pretty simple: never plug in an ethernet cable. I'm sure things are far better now, but for a large part of the past 15 years, doing so opened you up to a lot of problems and required utilizing software you simply should not have to install in order to have a functional system.

I don't think that's really true. From 2K onwards windows was pretty solid if you kept it up to date. I never used any firewall/antivirus/etc., just disabled unneeded services (admittedly the defaults in 2K and XP were poor), didn't run executables attached to suspicious emails etc.
> could really care less

Annnd that's a downvote. This community prides itself on good, honest discourse and high-level language. Please don't bring us down to the level of a 7-year-old redneck.
There aren't many people in countries like Germany that see religion as an intrinsic part of them. I don't speak German, but I do know English, which should be similar enough :)

I think my mum (in England) would tell people she's Christian, although only if asked — she'd never mention it in conversation, but if someone on the street is "doing a survey" she'll say Christian. But apart from other peoples' weddings and funerals, she hasn't been to a church service for 20 years. I think she'd be much more offended if someone criticized her hobbies — they're things she chose, religion was chosen for her.

Average Church of England attendance is around 1.5% of the population [1]. Football clubs have higher attendance figures [2] (the lowest on that page is 3% of Manchester's population apparently attends Manchester United games, and Manchester has several major football clubs).

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/07/church-of-engla...

[2] http://www.sportsvibe.co.uk/industry-news/football/attendanc...
> Also the rules entirely ignore the spouse's earning potential which is stupid.

Are spouses of people on this type of VISA allowed to work?

> Because separating families is immoral.

You do know the default answer to that is: "Fine, as paragons of morality, we will hereby no longer allow any foreign workers with spouses who make under XX,XXX to enter the UK, because separating them from their family is immoral."

Proviso: I believe in having substantially more open borders than we do today; I just don't think your argument to morality is a very good one.
A lot of Americans are obsessed with "capitalism" and "the free market", but don't even understand the basic assumptions that must be true for free markets to work like perfect information, interchangeable goods and services, and a lack of market power for any single entity. Like, the basic—the most basic—assumptions.

Capitalism has become synonymous in the collective mind with "don't make laws, laws are government interference and socialism." Just look at the way people on the right talk about removing Obamacare and letting the "free market" do its thing. But the healthcare industry basically NEVER met the assumptions necessary for a free market to exist in the first place. The same is true in banking, albeit some might argue to a lesser extent.

You've got oligopoly or monopoly firms in many industries that are "too big to fail", have near total market power, and make many decisions (some around pricing) behind closed doors or with little transparency (let alone anything close to complete information), and then expect markets to run efficiently? You can't bake the perfect cake if you don't have any of the ingredients in the first place.
They are starting to do this with commercial buildings. They pre-fab the apartments off-site and then "place" then in the building shell. Not sure how popular it will be but it is something people are considering.
> Of course its discrimatory, it discriminates in the favor of british and eu citizens, is that wrong?

You have that backwards. British citizens are the ones it harms, they're the ones who cannot see their spouse or child.

> Are we saying that non citizens have the same rights of entry as citizens?

Dependants of British nationals should have the same rights, yes.

> So minimum asset determinatiins for residency qualification is common and not a vile abnormality as sugested.

We are talking about visas to bring a spouse or child into the country, you're talking about something else entirely. I don't see the connection. I also have no idea what country or visa type you're even referring to.
>2. Wait. Then wait some more. Even if you pay big money for a support contract, they take a long time to respond (often > 1 hour).

My experiences don't reflect this, perhaps we are familiar with different levels of support contracts. I use AWS for work only so I can only speak to one level if their support.

>3. Get a response from a first level rep who has no access to anything, has little dev experience, and asks some inane questions which I'm convinced is a purposeful stalling tactic.
4. Play the dumb question/obvious response dance, waiting an hour or more for a response each time.

I can't agree with this either. I almost always use their chat option and a rep is usually available within 15m unless there is an AWS outage.

I do however completely agree with 5 and 6, but I don't let it bother me. They can't expose too much info about their infrastructure. I'm usually just looking for a confirmation of an issue in their side or not which they have always been willing to provide.

If you're using aws for business and are unhappy with their current level if support maybe you should talk with their sales folks to find out about higher tier support plans.
Because the government keeps either bailing it out or protecting some actors when it should be punishing them to a much bigger degree.

Some may say, wait a minute, but if the government does that, doesn't it mean it interferes with the "free market" and whatnot? I think to have a real free market, you need a fair market. If some companies violate the law to get ahead, they should be punished. Or at the very least be allowed to fail when they reach their own individual "bust" after some high growth from risking with people's deposits.

The point is they can't have their cake and eat it, too.
If you just want a straight ham radio, I'd recommend a Yeasu FT-60R (~100 on ebay), having owned one, I find the build quality much better, I suspect it also performs better when it comes to adjacent channel interference, intermod, and desense too - for a mobile, a Kenwood TM-281A (~120 on ebay) - which is a 2m only radio, but one of the best (and easiest) I've used.

For Commercial options (you generally loose the front panel programability) so long as you only need the ham bands - Motorola HT1000 (~20 on ebay) (available in VHF and UHF) or for a mobile (could be used as a base or in a truck) a Motorola Spectra (~40-150 on ebay) or GM300 (~50-100 on ebay) - as a note, when buying the commercial radios on ebay, you have to pay careful attention to the bandsplit of UHF radios, many of them are 450-482, rather than the 403-450 we'd want for ham radio.

The thing is, as a radio, the Chinese units are not horrible, they're a world away better than what anyone was using 25 years ago - but they're essentially disposable radios, one drop - and you're probably buying a new one - to give you an example, I own a portion radio fleet that a group of us use for low cost rentals to non-profits, its mostly Motorola, but the Motorola hardware is expensive, so we were looking for a low cost analog only option, and we bought 10 woxun handhelds for our rental fleet, they made it three rental cycles (about 18 months) before all but 2 were dead - in that same period, we had no failures in the Motorola and Kenwood portions of our fleet.

These experiences perhaps color my judgement a bit about the baofengs, woxuns and the like.
They said the actual cost for building the structure is $67,000. Not sure if that includes items like well and septic, etc which are 1000's of dollars.
Why most A/B tests give you bullshit results
Specifically what did Docker do in the community that was so great?
Basic research, yes, I agree. But there is not much basic research in electric cars, the tech has been known for many years now, same for space travel.
You could run into licensing problems. Apple wants their products to be a walled-garden. Even then, you'll have people complaining that the core is bad software.
> Google latest Android Map crashes all the times 1-2 minutes into the navigation

I haven't had these issues, but I have had significant issues with its performance. 15+ seconds to initialize. At least 3+ seconds needed to swap between transit options. Moving to navigation mode feels sluggish. And this is on a Nexus 6, with no issues with other apps.

When I choose "walk" as the navigation mode it puts an Uber route on there, which when selected gives me an ad to try Uber for the first time. I don't have Uber installed on my device. I don't want to take a fucking Uber, I want to see how long it'll take me to walk somewhere!

I get the feeling that something happened in the Google org responsible for maps. It was always a snappy app that was useful to me. Now it's slow and appearing to be an avenue for ads on the device that I bought directly from Google. Unacceptable.
The startup I'm at rolls the two roles together. I do operations, as well as "devops" tasks (everything between the repo and the deploy).

I'd love feedback on how other teams or orgs are handling this.
At one point, in the not too distant future, the mobile version will become the "full" Ubuntu version.
I'd set up a wiki to bring the notes and ideas in order.
I would disagree with Steven King here. Once you write down ideas, it allows you to reconsider them later in a different light, a difference context. I believe that is extremely valuable because it is crucial to analyze an idea from various perspectives before embarking on implementing it. Embarking on an idea not well thought out can be extremely expensive.
Don't worry. I remember. cifs.kext is hella more stable nowadays than back then. I used to have the entire OS come to a grinding halt if a mounted Samba (or NFS) share disappeared (e.g. mount local share at home, put laptop to sleep, wake laptop at school).

I remember that in (I think 10.3) they "fixed" the issue by having a timeout dialog popup and ask if you wanted to disconnect... only it was too sensitive and would popup (and then go away before you could react) if there was any jitter in the network connection.
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Flaming Reddit style comments tend to get deleted pretty quickly 'round here.
Like most happiness articles, this didn't mention issues such as:

1. Having personal space

2. Privacy

3. Freedom to take naps whenever you like

4. Freedom to set your work hours

5. Whether you are near windows or not, ceiling height

6. Noise pollution.

7. Default alive or default dead. If you don't work, are you going to die from running out of resources, or still live to old age?
""science-based medicine" (medicine studied not just through randomized, controlled trials but also through careful consideration of fundamental science)."

Medical science seems like it's wrong as much as it's right. Careful experiments are how we learned most of what we learned that's useful. Science can certainly inform those experiments. Yet, the solution to the problems of evidence-based medicine is usually better evidence gathering and review. Filters out the major issue of scientists own models or assumptions screwing up their results because they didn't reflect reality. Fixing that can take a long time, too, depending on the sub-field.
Why can't the central government concern itself with the health of its populace over the dire shortage of iPhone developers?
Does anybody have other examples for Node.js, Python and Ruby?“
You guys are scaring me. I have Lion on my Core 2 Duo MBP and Mountain Lion on my i7 MBP. I've been content but Google says that Chrome won't get updates for these after April and I've been thinking about upgrading. Now I'm thinking about just going back to Firefox.
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No one has a clue about what's going on in this article. Nothing substantial it seems.
Google is trying quite hard to stop the download ads. The people running those ads are trying even harder.

It has nothing to do with CV, it is not an engineering problem.
I should totally be a patent troll. Are there any MOOCs that cover this?
> The Bible is always very clear that I'm right and you're wrong.

I have studied the Bible and other world religions for over a decade in higher education. Have multiple years of Greek and Hebrew education, and includes Aramaic, and Latin. I can tell you MOST people don't really care what the Bible says and most just care of how thy feel and/or think. Most things in history of Christianity have very little to do with what the Bible says. (I was working on a PhD in Historical Theology which is the nerdiest of focuses when it comes to Theology.

If people ever want to have a discussion and are Christians it is hysterical to me to talk scripture with them and realize they will just twist something out of the air and consider themselves proven. In the exact terms of "Global Warming" which I was speaking about there are zero scriptures that supports the idea that it doesn't matter what people do or don't do with global warming but for those working to protect the earth it is in the Bible. So the funny thing is that these Christians are so strongly opposed to the science of Global Warming against the Bible they claim they are fighting scientist for.
First the impact of religion on behavior has been studied for a long time. Perhaps the most famous being the increased economic growth of Protestant areas over Catholic areas.

Anyway, you misunderstand what I am saying. Cheating, Murder, Stealing, are often directly referenced in religious terms and so they are influenced by religion. It's behaviors that are not described in religious terms (aka speeding) that have minimal impact.

There are even industry's focused around following the letter of religious 'law' while side stepping the impacts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_on_Shabbat

In other words, religion is generally a 'narrow' change in thought and behavior rather than influencing all actions.

PS: Now, if some religious leader takes up the cause that speeding is meaningful then that's going to have an impact. But, again only because of the direct focus.
Awesome analogy about context switching. It's definitely true. The "unix philosophy" never really worked well for GUIs and that's been a big problem for composability.
Mast Mobile acts as a mobile network provider (MVNO), but we've integrated software into the network routing, we can do lots of cool things. The most prominent of these features is that we can provide a different caller id based on who is on the other end. This lets us show, for example, your personal number to friends and relatives, but a work number to your clients. The same architecture also lets our users specify that they aren't receiving work calls at the time, but are receiving personal calls.

All of this is done without the use of an application - you just use your phone as you normally would, and our software keeps track of which number to use for each of your contacts. There are a few companies out there that are attempting to do something similar, but they require that you make some calls using their app, which is not how people are used to using a phone.

We've done this by a series of integrations with different systems that are needed for phone account management, routing phones and billing with an orchestration layer in the middle. We plan on extending this over time so that more integrations are possible in the future.
My sister works as a primary teacher in the London area. She's Canadian, and can't find a job in Ontario (we pay our teachers very well, so there's rarely a shortage). But the British don't pay their teachers very well, meaning that talented teachers like her who are working hard to contribute to Britain's future for fairly paltry wages would be kicked out of the country under this plan.

If Britain can't meet it's demand for teachers at the wages it wants to offer without immigration, how do they expect to do it when they kick all the immigrants out? In essence, it's going to mean that British taxpayers have to foot the bill for the higher wages needed to get British teachers, or else some schools will simply have not enough teachers at all.

It saddens me that such a fantastic country would be so short-sighted.
Yes but how would general public know about it? Its strange that whole of the web has moved so far with the https and yet apps have no such way of knowing.
Firefox gives many choices for search integration. Perhaps something like that would have made Pocket more acceptable.
I'm 75-90% sure federal judges are on salary, and are not paid by the case. At least I hope this is so.
This looks much cooler and easier to use than the industrial ones. Would love one!
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I'm always baffled by heavy Calculator users, to be honest. I've never understood the popularity of dedicated calculator apps or widgets, on any platform. 90% of the time you can simply round numbers in your mind, and if precision is necessary for big numbers that's likely a job for Excel.

Same for clock apps. Clock in your taskbar, sure; but who would ever start a dedicated clock app? I barely touch Contacts and always from other apps. Photos is terrible, but that's been the case for a while now, the obsession with hiding the filesystem has degenerated in an unusable interface (sharing in particular is just mystifying).

Of your list, I do use Messages (you don't really get a choice, if you want to receive SMS texts...) and Safari (again, no real choice), as well as the Camera simply because I use it so little it's not worth my time looking for a better app.
> Apple's mail client not changing in 10 years (aside from some minor adds and removes) are examples of this

How is Mail.app supposed to change though? It still completes the task that it was designed for. I'll agree that Mail's stability has been spotty across releases, but how are you expecting them to change such a core app?
You shouldn't feel like an "old fart" using Django or Flask. I think both are awesome, relevant, and will stick around into the future.

One of the great things about being a programmer is that we know how to program in general. If we have to adopt a new syntax or learn the intricacies of some new methods that's ok, and not nearly equal to the amount of effort we expended to learn how to write code in the beginning.

Keep writing your Django apps. I agree that it's great that DSF is backing a stable and productive framework like Django.
::snort::

All these gol-darn modern frameworks just to do something simple! Just use jquery!

Jquery is a framework. When jquery was all there was, people weren't building the kinds of things they're building now.
These industrial ones are not designed for personal use
I wouldn't build a christian startup because there is something magic about the christian label. It might even fail. It's about personally believing in the mission of Christ and wanting to share the love of Christ through your gifts and talents.

Also I will reach out to Slack's team to find out about the ToS. If this is truly the case then many other slack communities are in violation as well :/
Mac Mini is 1.5 years old, Mac Pro is >2 years old, 13" Macbook Pro is 1 year next month (and conspicuously absent from rumors of Apple's upcoming announcement event, gotta release those watch bands though).

The iPhone is definitely on a 1-year cycle, but it's not really something they put effort into maintaining on their computers. MacBook Air and iMac are probably the closest.

I blame iOS/Mac features tie-in like Continuity. OS X definitely gets the short end of the stick from that.
"would be no crime at all in every other country" is completely incorrect. He is accused of initiating sex with a person who was asleep at the time.

This is a crime in the UK & Wales, in fact their legislation specifically mentions sleep (this was specifically cited by the UK Supreme Court when it denied his appeal). This would also have been a crime in Canada (the Canadian Supreme Court ruled on a case a year or two ago in regards to sex and unconsciousness). It is also a crime in Sweden.