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Well the simplest game theory is (100% chance to be nominated now but near 0% chance to be confirmed) vs (??% chance to be nominated later but 90%+ chance to be confirmed) which seems fairly straightforward. Given current outlook for POTUS election I would decline in their shoes. An older nominee or one that expected 8+ years of GOP presidents might reasonably say this is their only chance and take it though.

I guess an interesting question is whether being nominated now and not approved or stonewalled until withdrawn disqualifies you from being nominated again. I think the default answer is 'yes' (disqualified) although various circumstances could allow it to happen.
> Maybe it's because I use a Macintosh, and thus have never been subject to the joys of apt/yum/pacman et al, but I've never been comfortable with the idea that I could install some binary or library and it'd be puked into the system execution context.

I don't use a Macintosh. Is their OS system not built out of binaries or libraries? How are those managed, if not by a package manager? I was under the impression that Apple called their package manager "the App Store".

> I use homebrew, which has its problems no lie, but I can upgrade my own versions of software that might conflict with system level stuff without fear.

It's true that some systems' package managers don't support separation of each user's packages from each other, or from system-wide packages. For example, I've used dpkg and rpm which don't support that. However, some package managers can handle user-specific installation (e.g. Nix can), so I don't see how using a combination (e.g. using Nix for user-specific packages, in a Debian system managed by dpkg) is any different from using homebrew alongside whatever-the-Macintosh-package-manager-is.

I've found that using the same package manager for both makes life easier though; e.g. it avoids having two copies of something installed, since one PM didn't spot that the other had already installed it.

> I'd like the distribution to stick to its knitting and leave the decisions about my personal world of versioning and dependencies to me.

Personally, I consider myself to be in charge of my computers, so my personal decisions about versioning and dependencies apply to both user-specific packages and the whole system; e.g. if I want to test on different versions of Python, I should be able to; if I want to have my kernel built with different compiler flags, I should be able to.
To what statement are you referring?
Here's a case where the median and average cost could be quite far apart.
Because certain people in this world, narcissistic people, are desperate to put on displays of status before their peers, and fantasize about the effects such displays have on their social standing, and in other cases, some are capable of doing both of the things you've mentioned, and there there are those who actually do, in fact, do both.
Comparable in terms of specs. On paper, this machine looks almost as good as the discrete GPU MBP - the only major difference is worse battery life. In practice, it's worlds apart.
I would say, the easier (for you) the app is, the less you need tests. I've seen very experienced engineers of an older generation working on a complex service, that when being introduced to tests, after an initial phase of reject, coveted them like gold.
There are these things called "mother-in-laws" that try and make it as hard as possible to save money on weddings.
(this is speculation only but I suspect it's right)
When the individual memory chips on a RAM stick have base-2 capacity, it is easy to make a request get serviced by the right chip. You just take some higher bits of the address as the chip ID and the lower bits as the offset within that chip. With non base-2 chips, you'd have to do many comparisons and a subtraction, or deal with discontinuous memory. It probably also helps with the internal design of the memory chips for similar reasons. I'm guessing the same reasoning doesn't apply to hard drives because of much different performance and technology (disks have possibly multiple microcontrollers inside which don't have much problem with a bit of integer arithmetic).
Au contraire! Cardboard box: free (salvageable). 90 packs of generic ramen: $90 at most.
Point of Inquiry, Is there a parliamentarian in the house? There may be one or more ways to force McConnell's hand.
Eh. The total cost of its program ($35.6 billion) almost came to exactly $1 billion per death incurred by accidents during its testing from 1991-2000(36 fatalities). All that money and life spent on a somewhat functional newly minted freedom boner.
Just started learning 3D printing. Highly recommend https://www.tinkercad.com/ for basic playing around. It's limited, and I'll probably need to start using other things soon, but until then it's been a blast to use and learn the basics with.
And windows users ? and mac users ?
Except they aren't. Not even remotely. The package for some scripting language like python or PHP might have binaries it's depending on, or might have a code written in another language. Pretty much any project-wise language-specific dependency manager can include something that is not actually a library or a bunch of source code, but an utility exposed globally (like unit-testing tool or framework code generator). There are dozens of projects which started out as a domain-specific library (and thus subject for being operated via PDM or LPM only) and soon end up being used as an utility, useful for end-user (because difference between a library and a tool here was a 50 lines of code, exposing some existing methods and which we would like to have anyway for testing). Such tool then is installed via several package managers (and additionally from the source code, because github is far ahead of your PM repository, yeah…) and can cause version incompatibility problems or something even more obscure. And that's just from the top of my head: there can be hundreds of cases which I did not remember right now or even think of, ever. And neither have you.

In fact, pretending that these are different things and that "developer" is something drastically different from "user" is precisely the reason, why all (or, well, most) package managers in existance are so fucked up. The hard truth we must accept before we talk about package managers is that there's no hard lines in this domain. It's a complex problem and must be dealt with accordingly, without exceptional reductionism.
With a normal loan, the borrower enters into the agreement with the intention of eventually paying back the loan. In this case, they do not, and are unlikely to react kindly when confronted with repayment after going through a divorce. I hope SwanLuv is massively discounting the anticipated debt in their calculations, because I think this debt will be even less valuable than the average debt sent to a collection agency.
I wonder if instead of it being an integer underflow issue, it has to do with a divide-by-zero issue (if something ever is divided by the entered date).
There's overlap in the community/technology, but they are separate projects. Oftentimes people think that Guix is a fork of Nix, but this isn't so. Fun fact: Guix was started by a former NixOS developer.
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What is the unique value proposition in having your two developer team building another database?

I'm struggling to think for a good reason to have journals or databases be anything other than a PDF dump, and peer review already happens on other platforms.
Sign me up for the Las Vegas franchise. I'll be f ing running that town within 10 years. It fits in well with my paramour introduction service business and my marriage dissolution insurance business ideas. I love finance geeks.
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Facebook and other social media are priceless promotion tools for unknown writers who want their work to be read.
I gave you a curt reply above, so let me make up for that by thanking you for caring about the quality of HN. That's what matters most. It sounds like we largely agree anyhow. This thread is the rare case of being too big a story for normal moderation.
It was always going to be, now it's just become apparent to those who don't pay attention. Next POTUS will nominate a replacement for Notorious RBG as well. This is probably the most important Presidential election in a long time.
The president can use a recess appointment. It would probably end up looking worse than blocking a nomination for 11 months so it seems unlikely, if technically possible.
When we become systematic it ceases to be about people. Blame is symptomatic of an a-systemic approach.
The parent mentioned that, although the ballots were not properly filled, intent was clear.
Race, yes, but nobody born here asks me "where are you from?" upon first meeting, whereas I get this a lot from europeans and people from more tribal societies.
Rails freelancer here.

The first thing that surprises me is that the author talks about 'wasting' time, which is 'his precious resource'.

How is that? The more you work, the more you bill, if you got any decent deal with your client.

I've maintained many existing Rails projects. Personally the FIRST thing I do when joining a project is adding/improving the test suite. Often the owner will hesitate, but selling the merits of a technical decision should be part of your freelancer skillset.

Just like the author, I give a special importance to Capybara tests, for the simple reason that they implicitly hit the full stack.

However, I test anything else that can be reasonably tested. Controller tests are important for testing APIs, authorization, and more. Personally I like to set `render_views` so controllers specs implicitly assert that the views can be rendered.

If your app has any real business logic in it, you'll want to test models as well.

Do your mails render, and your jobs run? Only tests can tell (in the long term).

Well-written, non-redundant tests are priceless for your own sanity, and also for the health/viability of the project. Someone WILL maintain your project after your freelancer deal is over.

ps - I don't TDD.
What happens when this company fails? I would assume the debt would be auctioned off, and a firm that specializing in this sort of investment would scoop it up at a discount.

It would be hilarious if they auctioned off the contracts separately. You could have couples (or a shill) showing up to bid on their own contract!
I admit the phrase "terrible person" is uncivil, but where is an internet buzzphrase in my comment?
I think of this another way: why should a "get current time" function ever return an error? And what is someone to do about that case anyway? The time it returns may be wrong, but I think such a function shouldn't be capable of returning "error", as adding that path just increases complexity needlessly without much additional benefit; with the current time being used often in things like error logging, introducing an "error on top of an error" is not a good idea. Defaulting to January 1, 1970 or December 31, 1969 would be sufficient.
Tsch, such obvious planned obsolescence, trying to force us into a mere gigayear scale upgrade cycle.
>>> When convenient.

I'd say more "when useful". Many of his opinions were too convoluted to be considered convenient. He often went on and on without saying much of anything.
Going to a library and getting a free copy is exactly what people are doing. The library is online, freely accessible without discrimination.

Since when have we asked authors permission to add their book to a library? In many places (including the US) if you publish a book it is mandatory to submit it to a library.
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> recognized by the Brain Preservation Foundation, which awarded 21CM the $26,735

Wow. $26K could finance a lot of research. Maybe a few weeks in a real lab.
It would be relatively easy to modify the script for your own location in China to display the correct time. So that it is not displaying 12:00 when the sun is directly overhead.
I don't think "death per budget" is a meaningful metric, unless talking about weapons or serial killers. You can't just take two numbers we want to minimize, divide one by another, and claim significance.
Can you provide an example of when this has happened?
What is your idea of the arbitrary threshold at which point one should no longer use a message queue?
Technically they're called "mothers-in-law".
There's also the point that SokidWorks costs $4000 minimum! (Excluding the student license).

For many purposes, such as the author sharing his designs with random viewers, that makes it a non-starter.
I won't comment as to Scalia's version of history, but I will provide more context for the "sow's ear" comment:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/us/12bar.html?_r=0

This comment referred specifically to getting a clerkship, and he also admits one of his favorite clerks went to Ohio State.

In general it seems, he had a lot of bark, but no real malice, otherwise why would he be good friends with other justices, including of all people Breyer and Ginsburg?
23510262 minutes from January 1st, 1970 is 2014 September 13, 01:42:00. Matches that date exactly.
This article describes the status quo of package managers. Lock files, dependency resolution algorithms, etc. However, these are obsolete. The functional package management paradigm approaches the problem from a different angle which is able to precisely describe the full dependency graph for a piece of software, all the down to the bootstrap binaries (the C compiler's compiler, etc.). In this system there is no dependency resolution, because each package is explicit in what it depends on. A dependency is much more than a version number. The novel idea in functional package management is that a package can be viewed as a pure function whose arguments are the dependencies, the source code, the build script, etc. and whose output is the built binary. By viewing packaging from this perspective, functional package managers overcome the problems that plague traditional package managers, allowing for unprivileged package management, transactional upgrades and roll backs, multiple variants of a package coexisting without conflict, etc. One such implementation of functional package management, the one I hack on and recommend checking out, is GNU Guix.

https://gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Introduction....
Multiplying them would be more meaningful.
> found the lower end much harder

Same, although I think I overcompensated for the tendency to see patterns everywhere and generally guessed too low for R < 0.5.
I assume that you are aware that "radfem" is a distinct concept from "feminists with whom I disagree."
Feminism as a social movement doesn't have "equal rights for women" as the goal of individual members. The goal is closer to something like "gain social status and prestige by fighting for the rights of women".

In other words, achieving a particular state of the world isn't the central point: rather, it's a particular process of improving things for women. Consolidating things and entrenching a particular position doesn't visibly improve things for women, so there's no signalling benefit for doing it, so of course later prominent feminists don't do that. (Alternative explanation - consolidating the gains of feminism doesn't make any particular feminist prominent, so those who focus on that get marginalized from the movement).
Which Republican candidate would you vote for rather than Hillary/Bernie?
With due respect, ideas are a dime a dozen; and if this people had the "ability to execute on it", they would not need the engineers to do just that, would they?

I do not want to disregard anyone's skills, technical of business. Even if the GP is right that those guys where frat boys, they probably had valuable connections to bring into the table. But it is not fair that biz types hide behing the "salary" argument to shortchange engineers.

They are not just bringing early employees, they were looking for their CTO, for goodness sake! I am ok with not offering an "equal partners" deal, but it has to be partners. IF they are so wonderful business types, they why they do not get a Series A round without a product and then hire an employee CTO with a matching salary?

I will answer you why, and it is the same reason why engineers should not demand millionaire salaries. It is because your contribution's worth zero if it is not leveraged by the contribution of the other partner.
Actually, the survey suggests that successful democrats tend to agree.
Actually one can. Just like the cause of a hanged man's death is the knot the hangman tied. There's a great big sequence of events preceding it for sure.
So you can have the same date on your phone and computer with a flat clock battery, of course.
That was my first thought as well (off the title alone), and I'm somewhat surprised the article didn't mention the Osprey at least in passing.

I mean, you can certainly argue that the program was not worth the cost in money or lives lost (as is already being done in this subthread), but ultimately the thing works -- as someone who lives in San Diego, I see them flying overhead multiple times per week.
The Zune bug was persistent though, and caused by the leapyear. Even if the battery drained it went straight to bootlock. But yeah, it did fix itself at midnight.
So if you can't rule them out, your theory shouldn't postulate that they don't exist. It's one thing to do 100,000 experiments and have the results COMPLETELY predicted by Einstein's equations beforehand. It's quite another to invent just-so stories in terms of the theory itself after each observation!
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I was thinking something much simpler. If you were writing a book about Mu what would be the definitions you would print on the back inner cover? A table with two columns - first column being a term and the second column containing its description in one or two sentences.

Could you elaborate on the target audience for the doc you linked to? I am unable to make out whether that doc is intended for serious programmers in other languages coming across Mu for the first time or whether its intended for new comers to programming.
Exactly. I was at a different doctor's and being given an exam by the nurse. I brought this up and he pointed out that since I was perfusing just fine as shown by the oxygen sensor on my finger, ipso facto I had no coronary issues.
What's Obama got to lose?
That linked comment is really just a description of Scalia's stance. How can one say "here's why Scalia is bad" without being called out for being inappropriate? Even people who've listed their grievances with sources are being downvoted to gray.

Am I correct in saying a commenter is only encouraged to praise a person, and if that can't be done, to only describe without opinion?

edit: and to be clear, this is comment is unrelated to the flamewar above
Frankly, and as an outsider, purposefully waiting for a recess to appoint someone seems like the trick to me.
Well, there is the Ineligibility Clause in the Constitution (Article I, Section 6, Clause 2). But that only concerns the ineligibility of cross-serving in the legislative and executive/judicial branches, iirc.

There's nothing I can think of in the Constitution that prevents serving under the executive and judicial branches simultaneously. In fact, John Marshall did exactly that (Chief Justice & Sec. of State, iirc).
Try upwork.com. I don't think it's mandatory to disclose your mental illness there, is it?
"Honey, I'm going to buy out our loan that's payable upon divorce"

"Why?"

"..."
Florida was not within the margin of error in 2000. The number of people who were denied their right to vote would have made it a clear win for Gore. From the Rights Commission's report:

> The Commission's hearings spotlighted and this report highlights the harsh reality that despite the closeness of the election, it was widespread voter disenfranchisement and not the dead-heat contest that was the extraordinary feature of the Florida election.
That explains why foreigners move to Canada. But why do they pick Vancouver among all Canadian cities?
This seems like the opposite of insurance though
Slightly off topic but last time I tried, I can't add new dependency without upgrade existing dependencies with glide. Can glide do it now?
Not really. Both usages are common in spoken and written English.
Hah, you realize that last bit is a fancy way of saying you're being contrarian I hope.
>>but no real malice

Watch his many interviews re torture. The guy was no humanitarian.
McConnell is a blow-hard, and is looking for a rally-point for the party. I'm sure he believes this is what Scalia would have wanted.

But the idea that the "American People" wouldn't have a say with an Obama appointment is absurd. He was elected with a clear majority and Presidents are elected for four years, not four years minus whenever the next presidential race gets going.

I know you've expressed elsewhere (edit: in this thread) that Republicans have already made it clear that they won't do an appointment this presidency (and you're probably right that they're trying to set themselves firm in this as quickly as possible), but I can't imagine a scenario where Obama doesn't put forth a nomination post-haste. I also cannot imagine 11 months of blocking a SCOTUS nomination and leaving the court with 8 members.
Also, the author doesn't realize (or maybe never noticed?) that modern handsets support wideband codecs, often marketed as "HD Voice," that offer far superior audio than any landline.

On the other hand, there seems to be little interoperability between carriers, at least in the US. Even though all of the major networks support it between their own customers, none of them enable it between carriers.
FWIW, despite the awkwardness of the pull request terminology, Gitlab's merge request terminology was one of the major reasons why we ended up choosing GHE over Gitlab. Pull Request, among developers, has become like Kleenex, Xerox or any of the host of brand names that are linked with the generic concept they implement. In most conversations, developers here have stopped even saying the words...it's just PR without any thought to why it's named that. Trying to force a switch to MR would have been a difficult transition. In the end, it was easier to just pony up for GHE.

It may seem superficial, but if there's some way that you could give users the option to surface the pull request terminology rather than merge request, even if it's just a configuration option, you may find people more receptive to your product.
This is discussed in the article fwiw
The parliamentarian is an advisor to the presiding officer of the senate, which is either the vice president or in his absence the president pro tempore (by tradition the senior member in years of service of the majority party) or his designee.

In any event any parliamentary ruling is appealable to the floor where it is subject to a majority vote. The is the basis of the so-called nuclear option.

McConnell's hand can be forced if there is a majority willing to do what it takes to force it. If he has the procedural support of his caucus (even if they disagree on the ultimate question) he can prevent a vote from coming to the floor.

Edit: I misread the first sentence. Mea culpa.
And… I'm supposed to know that how? And… you know that for sure 100% of the time because…?
At least after the 128bit switch I know that proton decay will be the next thing I need to worry about.
wait didnt the voters decide when obama got reelected? he's still the president right?
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