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The same research that shows that complex tasks are better solved with intrinsic motivation also shows that simple tasks are better solved with extrinsic motivation. That is, measuring mechanical/repetitive work does increase its productivity.

What we have today is an almost complete lack of mechanical/repetitive work to measure.
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> You can follow the event per livestream on 3 February 2016 at 2.45 p.m. CET.

The program should begin at any time.

EDIT: Err, CET... UTC+1. So, perhaps it is over?
Judging from the description I guess the main difference is that hashnode is open to more open-ended questions and opionated discussions where there is no single valid answer.

Let's hope this won't become a battlefield of endless flamewars and we'll see some quality discussions comparable to the ancient c2 wiki instead.
After re-reading the spec, I think both your comment and mine are slightly wrong. Connectors must be capable of handling 5A; cables are required to support at least 3A. (See sections 3.1.2 and 3.7.7.4.) You're correct that higher power requires USB-PD.
If you're referring to The Society of the Spectacle, it's a book of 221 roughly paragraph-length theses. It really ought to be read/experienced first-hand.

However, in briefest and roughest form:

Relationships among commodities has replaced relationships among people, and authentic social life has been replaced by its representation—a spectacle. Where Tyler Durden reminds you that you are not your car, your job, the contents of your wallet, or your fucking khakis, the Spectacle reminds you that is, in fact, exactly who you are, where you find and express your authentic self—and provides a mass of imagery to help you find your true self in having instead of being.

Social life has declined from being into having, then further into merely appearing. Quality of life is impoverished, as people participating in the spectacle degrade knowledge, and impede and deteriorate critical thought.

It is an indictment of consumer culture, and the destructive nature of commodity fetishism, especially as it is celebrated and depicted in the imagery that surrounds us—assuring us that nothing is wrong, that we are at our most free when we have some thing (or appear to have it).
This is someone who pre ordered paying $5000, i guess 2 years back, so that he could get a car ASAP. Canceling a pre order because a customer complained he was kept waiting at a poorly organized launch event? If he was so offended by it he should have organized better launch event. Inviting someone to an event and then giving a poor experience was bad. Blogging about poor experience resulting in his pre order is only tainting reputation of Mr.Musk. No response to the blog would've been a much better response.
That's just because these are technologies that the US government wants to stimulate. Musk is doing an excellent job of that. You'd better be worried about the subsidies received by harmful industries.
This change simply draws from Jinja, which has had this feature for nearly 10 years[0]. It's a simple and efficient solution to the problem of trimming whitespace on either side of a template tag, I fail to see what is kludgy about it (and intuitiveness is in the eye of the beholder). In my experience it's clear, simple and doesn't make the template less readable.

> Sure, it's terse and being terse can be nice, but terseness to me probably doesn't even make it into my top 10 concerns when designing a language or library.

The whole point of this feature is to be terse, otherwise you could already use template comment to trim formatting whitespace.

[0] http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/dev/templates/#whitespace-contro...
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Prepping for a sale or spinoff. Yahoo's hoping that by writing Tumblr down by $230 million they can slip the new valuation past auditors.
Well, the Wendelstein 7X experiment is mostly funded by Germany as an investment into the east/north German science infrastructure. That makes it easier to coordinate, but it's hard to finance such a project. A project, which will have commercial use decades away, and whose commercialization would need much larger funding...

We have actually enough financing needs in the German energy landscape currently: dismantling the nuclear power legacy, find a safe storage for radioactive materials and the research and development of the renewable energy landscape - which is in the hundreds of billions of Euros over the next 35 years.
Yeah, it should have started almost an hour ago and actually be just about over.
I don't believe that's true, it may depend on the action.

I'm very comfortable pointing a person or animal where to go, and the lack of force feedback doesnt make me want to go up to them and push them into where they ought to be. Bit different than wielding a sword.
Ok, we're not close just now but at some point during the next 100 years perhaps?
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The signaling value comes from the cost of the diamond. "Wasting" a lot of money on something so impractical proves you have wealth to waste, and spending a lot of money on a gift to a loved one proves that person is valuable to you.

Pay less for a synthetic and admit it, and you've signaled a lack of sufficient wealth to buy a real diamond.

Pretend a synthetic diamond is real and you're deceiving people.

Either way the synthetic diamond is signalling something undesirable (to the target market for diamonds) precisely because it costs less.
> Am I in the minority to think of Go as a completely unnecessary move-along-now-nothing-to-see-here project?

Ignoring your broadside of insults, I keep asking myself the same thing after working with it: What is so compelling about Go? It's better than C, but we already have good choices in that area. I feel like there's a bandwagon effect around the language.
absolutely - if you want to write your games for the terminal https://github.com/JoelOtter/termloop
> Everything I have read about agile is that if you do it right, everyone is happy. The customer, the developers, and the managers.

So they said about all its predecessors, as well. Pretty soon, they start adding "...of course, you must have exceptionally competent people", and then they define 'doing it right' by 'having a successful outcome'.

Problem solved by begging the question.
Because world is different than bubble of HN/Lobsters/Silicon Valley ;)
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I see that it's done wonders for you.

Edit: don't be so sure of your experience trumping mine.

I think your humor needs needs work, because if you have to explain a joke you've failed.
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How accurate would you say the heart rate sensor is with the Apple Watch? I know there's a fitbit with an optical HR monitor as well but it is apparently very unreliable. That's one of the reasons I ended up going for the Garmin Vivoactive + heart rate strap - accuracy of results. Do you know of any comparisons between the Apple Watch sensor and a strap?
As attackers get better, we can just up the ante. More rounds, more memory usage, etc.

If you're building software in 2016, you want to use one of the following for turning a password into a crypto key:

- Argon2
- scrypt
- bcrypt

PBKDF2 should be your last resort. Don't fall back to a simple hash function.
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You are assuming that staying 8 hours a day in a job you don't care about is less consuming than staying those 8 hours in a job you love.

I can't even imagine where did you get that from. One will cause deep depression and burnout in no time - the other is a wonderful life experience.
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Pretty sure you could make a "plain old regular" usb cable that would do similar. Maybe you should go back to RS-232? You should also beware of just about any usb device you see, as it could be a http://kukuruku.co/hub/diy/usb-killer in disguise
I was under the impression that her area of expertise is in chemistry. Or is it that of her husband?
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This is so annoying, I know..

But people just love to debate whether Twitter is alive, dying, or already dead, so I figured they could use a common space to talk about it.

Twitter is dead, long live Twitter! Cheers, @ducu
They can. Most software (MS Word) will just use kerning pairs predefined in the font, but more complex design software (Adobe InDesign and Illustrator, for example) can automatically optically kern text - it works pretty dang well.

Maybe I'm not picky enough as a designer, but I only very rarely kern something by hand, and that's usually when I'm working with some weird display font that auto kern doesn't handle well and has poorly defined kern pairs. Sometimes logos as well, but for 99% of text it's really not worth the trouble IMHO.
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May I have two recommendations?
- put more screenshots on the web page to apetize us
- if you provide server... provide it as an Docker image too, so it's easy to test

Looks good anyway, I am going give it a try.
I showed this article to a coworker who pointed out an interesting idea - that this technology could be used to produce meat in Space, or on Mars. Interesting thought.
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The claim I hear when I mention this to feminists is that "Every other day is a men's day".

Or I get the

"But they are intimidating and I'm scared to go."
Just sit on the subway and browse the ads above your head. Some will be designed by a pro and the typography will be properly handled. Others will make you want to poke your eyes out if you examine them closely.

I'm going to say that yes, 100%, it provides value by creating a more appealing display. Frankly, it's embarrassing to have your brand displayed without the typography handled properly. If you don't see the difference then maybe you should do yourself a favour and not delve into the art of type because there is no turning back once you start noticing the bad stuff.
>Yahoo, which bought Tumblr in 2013, said it had reduced its valuation of the blogging service by $230 million, or about 23%. The move was basically an acknowledgment that Yahoo overpaid in the $1.1 billion deal.

Either it lost value, or Yahoo overpaid. Both can't be true at the same time. Make up your mind, buzzfeed. Was Tumblr worth $1.1 billion and has now declined, or did Yahoo overpay?
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From the third slide:

> Most of the code examples won't run except locally and using Go 1.6.

> The playground still runs Go 1.5.
Political topics in a country of the size of Germany (and even more in countries like the US or Russia which are much larger and have a much larger political reach) are a very complex and complicated domain. I'd say it helps a lot to have the most intelligent political person at the top. Not that I would agree to all of Merkel's political decisions, but she is without doubt the most intelligent politician in Germany of her generation.
I've always wondered about what you bring up in your second paragraph and the rest of your post is great. You do things pretty much like we do so you just saved me a lot of research effort. Thanks.
A buzzfeed article with a bait-y link? I don't believe you!
Hooking up a good charger up to a good unit with the ground and voltage wires reversed can fry things.

You can try it with your laptop. Cut the cable after the transformer, flip the ground and live wires and start it. It will get fried. Is this the fault of the specification or the person who intentionally flipped the wires?

The manufacturer was the person flipping the wires in this case.
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...using tons of FBS (fetal bovine serum) in the process.

FBS is essentially a magic mix of animal growth factors, and no good serum replacement exists for cell culture.
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The tl;dr of this is that if the Wendelstein works, and works well, we're potentially only a few years away from building a fusion reactor that generates large amounts of clean power at extremely low cost.

If it doesn't work, well, they'll keep trying.

It's like when SpaceX landed that rocket over the ocean (without a barge) then let it crash- if they succeed, the cool stuff comes next.
I wondered the same thing myself. I suspect they can/do, but that their guesses aren’t great for general, more complicated fonts. That might make it inappropriate for larger print work.
> The problem was not the Jira.

The first problem was thinking that you could set meaningful hard deadlines for inadequately defined goals. The second problem was acting as though they were meaningful.
Kerning.js is a really good css/js library to include in your projects if you're interested in this stuff but not a professional. It lets you take control of what's going on with the typography on your site.

http://kerningjs.com/
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Ah, didn't realize they were doing IV infusion, if they made capsules or something with a time release mechanism they could probably avoid the "altered state".
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If the "correct" valuation was halfway between the 2 valuations, then they could have overpaid at valuation, and still have declined in value.

Of course, value is relative and only based on what anyone will pay for it.
It's hard to project 30 years out. Ask Charles Stross (he's written near-future SF, and -- I'm probably misrepresenting him -- has said he's abandoned story lines because technology caught up with his predictions). Predicting 100 years is pretty much impossible.

But absent "nanotech" or "micro-mechanical biotech" or some similar game-changing advance, self-replicating machines will need to incorporate self-replication of so much of their technology base that they will basically look like factories. Now, there's nothing wrong with a self-replicating factory, but it's not portable and cuddly, and you can't stick it on a rocket and launch it (not in one piece, anyway).

I would be delighted to be proven wrong.
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When she says "In the 2020s, we’ll launch our next robotic missions to Jupiter; they’ll arrive and do science in the 2030s, and will hopefully persist for a decade or so.", she's referring to the upcoming Europa mission.
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Most PC CGA cards offered composite output. One could use a TV or higher resolution composite monitor and skip the expensive CGA one. I did this, as did a number of others I knew at the time.
From your account, and looking at the pictures, you need to hold your arm/hand/finger in the air to make this work.

How long can you do that before it becomes uncomfortable (aka "gorilla arm")?
> The grey borders/lines, they need to go. They serve no purpose.

Completely agree. While I think it is fair to put a bit of blame of Github's bad rendering (the same markdown looks much better in stackedit's rendering, for instance [1]), but I'd still see how can I preserve the grouping without blockquoting things.

I can see the reasoning for rest of the points as well, but to each his own :)

[1]: https://stackedit.io/viewer#!url=https://gist.githubusercont...
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What would you guys want to see in a blogging platform?

Markdown or WYSIWYG? Or both somehow?

Git for source control? Or versioning and diffs like wordpress?

Themes? Purely css or something more, less secure? How would you want to host it and customize it?

Would you want any social features besides roles and permissions? Such as quoting content from others, or pingbacks or something?

Finally, generate static files or just cache heavily? I think the latter is better but a script can exist to generate the former on environments where caching infrastructure isn't very robust.

Comments - here I would just say use third party javascript based stuff and plop it on the page.

It's kind of related to this post but I have built a framework where I could probably make a blogging app like Wordpress in a week.
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The question presented is not whether it makes a stylistic difference visible to those in-the-know but rather whether it makes a motivational difference visible in the actions of the mud-people. Those are two very different questions.
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With the exception of the LA riots, every result I'm finding talks about home defense.
What would you suggest?

aside: Your history is riddled with inflammatory comments... I like outside-the-box discussion. I gave you an upvote and I really like Python.
Did you know that the mating habits of deer include digging a small hole, peeing in it, and covering themselves in the resulting pee-mud?

Not really relevant to this conversation, but neither was your answer.
It will be in your MacDonalds burger as soon as they manage to make it produce 1 kilo of meet for a dollar.
> It'd be much, much nicer if we could just use memory safe languages all the time, everywhere. Sandboxing is ultimately a kludge: a recognition that our tools are so dangerous that failure is not just a possibility but an inevitability. It comes at a huge cost in developer productivity, code complexity and sometimes runtime performance suffers too.

I disagree. Both Java and .NET are memory safe and both have supported some form of VM-level isolation for many years. Sure, the kind of missed-length-check-leads-to-complete-compromise we're used to from C is very rare, but at least Java is full of hole anyway.

Process-granularity sandboxing gives a clear hardware-assisted security boundary that can be quite difficult to break through.

tl;dr memory safety is great but it does not replace sandboxing.
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Exactly this. It would seem from reading tech websites and blogs that Java is dead. However there is an extensive industry of people writing and maintaining Java applications.

You won't hear of some new sexy startup using Java, but there are companies who quietly go into business either using Java for their product or providing services with Java applications.
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Is that bad?
All I got from this articles was an excessive desire to post childish Uranus jokes.

Predictions of the future are supposed to inspire and bewilder
When companies lose value (or are overvalued) why don't we ever highlight it when they use Agile / Scrum? Since those techniques are expressly marketed as value- and productivity-enhancing techniques, I think it's very fair to call out attention to cases when they aren't working.

Of course there are confounding factors. Maybe Agile/Scrum are working well in Tumblr but other things are keeping them from achieving their higher value. Or, maybe Agile/Scrum bleed away productivity and fail to extract value from engineers. Or maybe it's a mixture.

In either case it seems useful to point it out, ask questions about it, and so on. We shouldn't let Agile-adhering failures go un-called-out, whatever the post-mortem analyses might bring.
Echoing what a lot of other folks are saying the design of the resume isn't great. Note I don't work hiring programmers but a portion of my job is in recruiting.

- It is hard to scan. Often times a recruiter will be scanning through 100+ resumes. The fact that it doesn't follow the 'standard' format of resumes makes me have to break out of my usual pattern of how I'd scan a resume.

- I don't care about what you're reading. Sorry but it's true. I kind of don't care about your blog posts. I'm not going to click on the links though. I might if you make it past the initial screen.

- I do like the skill sets under each job. That's handy. I don't care for 'favorites'. Just tell me what you know how to do preferably in a more concise manner.

- Don't give me three emails on how to contact you. I'm a tired stressed out recruiter I don't wanna play a game on which email I think you'll respond to.

"Don't make me think" is just as valid as it is for hiring as it is for web design. Help the recruiter make the case as to why you're a great hire. I don't think that the non-standard formatting helps with that.
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So what if you were part of a failed startup? You did your job, and did your job pretty well, but the actual products failed to find its audience due to factors (mostly) outside of your control, since you weren't making the decisions on what to make or how to market it?

How do you use STAR to not make that sound bad? I think I currently say I delivered the projects on time and on budget and talk about what I was responsible for, and I know I personally gained a lot of experience from the projects, but every time I see STAR suggested, I'm like "Well, if I did that, I'd basically have to say that my work resulted in the company losing money and ultimately folding."

I get plenty of attention for my resume as it is, it just always bugged me when people suggest STAR as if it's the only way to write a job description on a resume.
If we're talking 100 years, my money's still on some kind of field propulsion. Here's why:

Take any 100-year period of time over the last few centuries. It's not just that folks in one period of time would not understand the activities of the next period, they wouldn't even understand the concepts involved So horseback folks really didn't grok riverboat steam power at all. Same goes for railroads. Or aviation.

That leads me to believe that what's up next is something we currently think impossible or silly. "Field propulsion" is a nice moniker for that, whatever in reality it turns out to be.
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I've heard rumors that management have set quotas and/or increased monetary incentives for recruiting women at some of the big companies. I have no evidence though.

I've also heard of review manipulation to "rebalance" the buckets if the numbers appear to demonstrate bias.

Anyway, Marissa is certifiably idiotic for adopting the GE/Microsoft stack rank system.
In the US, resumes are the short summary and CVs are exhaustive.
It seems to me that checking out mentally is only an option if you're doing mindless, repetitive work. But as Fred Brooks put it, "The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff." So is it even possible for programmers to check out mentally without seriously degrading the quality of their work?
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im not sure they let it crash, i think that bit was an accident.
I don't think those two are good examples. They both had significant commercial ecosystem support, either in the form of a large company that pushed it (Google with Python) or in the form of other commercial compilers that promoted the ecosystem (lots of commercial C compilers over the years - MS, Borland, Watcom, Metrowerks,....).
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You've got it backwards. Resumes are typically one page. CVs are detailed. In the USA most places will ask for a one page resume. I've noticed some tech companies want a longer resume or a CV though.

http://theundercoverrecruiter.com/cv-vs-resume-difference-an...
The issue isn't the standard, but that compliance is not regulated by the retailer, the wholesaler, the standards body or the government, which is why consumers are trying to effectively regulate it themselves.
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Just think how small New York was at that time..