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> but I just don't see it for Kotlin

From what I understand, Kotlin will be gaining more features slowly but steadily, similar to what you describe for Swift. I think that Kotlin's ability to integrate seamlessly into any Java codebase (at least in theory) is one of the strongest things it has going for it. Plus being backed up by Jetbrains, with very strong focus on providing a top notch IDE experience.
I confess I never trust an animal until I can see its mouth; until I know what it eats, I can't be sure whether I'm dinner. So how does Twitter benefit from this? Is it just hoping that people will use their ad platform?

Given Twitter's fickleness toward developers in the past I'm especially wary.
In the real world, I've got a team that, while all of them could learn to read that one line of code, I don't think any of them can read it now.

Sure, they could be taught. But they're busy being taught other things - Android, say, or the latest JS framework. So there's an opportunity cost to teaching them - it takes away time and attention from teaching them other things, things that may move us closer to our business goals. So in practice, yes we can teach them, and no we won't.

And now that one line of code can decrease clarity for the team.
there are a few resources out there, the most recent one:
http://www.zdnet.com/article/what-google-says-to-aws-price-c...

But GCP also has a pretty nice pricing calculator:
https://cloud.google.com/pricing/tco/

Cheers,
I know this is a bit in the weeds, but I recently got an LG V10 on T-Mobile, and there is an option in the Calls menu that allows me to "Reject calls from all private numbers". I can also add numbers to a call reject list, as well. My previous HTC One M8 had the reject by number (but not for private numbers), as well.

My dad has a V10 on Verizon and they don't have the reject private calls option--so it would appear that some carriers are removing functionality that is otherwise available on at least some phones. Figured I'd share because I had before assumed it was a technical problem to block the private numbers, and have been happily surprised now that I don't get calls from "Unknown" anymore.
I find it bizarre that quite a few people seem to think that gifts must be things. What's wrong with buying someone an experience for their birthday? A dinner out, a massage voucher, a skydiving session... my friend has given me an Escape Room challenge for my just-passed birthday.
I worked at a place that had pairing stations at separate tables in the team area. We were supposed to pair when doing any coding.

In practice we paired when doing difficult stuff. It worked well.

Tips:

Don't pair at your desk. Use a pairing station.

Pair for a task, short if possible. If not, timebox.

Pair for short periods!

Train yourself to be productive while pairing. Don't relax. A short period of hard work.

Pick a consistent pairing time and make it a habit. Such as after standup, after lunch, whatever. Some times when you would not be productive solo, like after lunch, you can be productive in a pair. Experiment.

Failure modes:

Long, unproductive, exhausting pairing periods. People will quit.

That one guy that nobody wants to pair with. Happens, sorry.

Sitting there twiddling your thumbs while your pair partner writes an email. Only pair for coding / debugging / testing! Don't pair at your desk.
That is exactly what happened. In the source tweets it does not look as if any of the original by standards were asked to move. If I am wrong, please let me know.

The men were not asking for the women to be moved, they were asking to be moved.
I would like to recommend GOW. It works pretty well for my needs.
It's IBM.
I used to skip the lounge access also, but its a nice perk. It has decent internet, some snacks until I eat on the plane, and foremost comfortable seating. I don't like a lot of noise around me as well, so its a break from the rest of the airport bustle. I fly business when available because many of my flights are 13hrs-ish. I'm oversized, so I literally have to fold myself up to fit within my space in coach. That's fine for 2hrs, but not more. I can't sleep sitting up. That's a long 13hrs staring at the seatback display of the plane going around the world.

I scored a mid-level membership once. I didn't go out of my way to do it. Nothing super good about it.

Oh, your luggage gets a priority tag and comes out first. In certain airports that can save an hour of your life.

But mostly its about accumulating miles on trips I'd be taking anyway. Essentially free upgrades, or entirely free flights. Just for joining their silly program. Why not?

I do the same with hotels.
> most users do not know the difference

There are two trends: more overall internet users, and a growing subset of the users that never clicks on ads.

That leaves the users who can't tell the difference as the primary marketing target.

I think the number of ads a person attends to per day is an inverse predictor of intelligence.

Google is acting more and more Yahoo-like.
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That's not a surprise since it is one of the few and first places where it is allowed. Once the new wears off, and once detractors stop attempts to re-criminalize, I would expect more willingness to compromise from supporters.
How is it different than before?

Pre-legalization, the police had no way to discern if a driver was high.

Post-legalization the police still have no way to discern if a driver is high.

The only difference is pre-legalization, they could arrest you for having some bud in your pocket. Now that can't do that.
We must have wildly different definitions of "cheap". My rent is going up 21% in a month. My actual cheapest option is to move out of the city and get a job that pays 10-15% less.

>I'm not trying to address your needs
Changing the frame of the debate doesn't change the points made. In the case of alcohol, an individual is in control of how it affects them. In the case of smoke (pot or cigarette), the individual is at the mercy of the general populace.
Particularly liked the NodeRed like WorkFlow platform, which is intuitive, easy to use.
I've been relying on multiple Cloud offerings (including PaaS, IaaS etc) outside Google for many years, but for some unclear reason, I cannot manage to consider Google a reliable partner for a type of hosting or another, at this point.

I would love to be proven wrong really, because I often look at their GC offering, and I /really/ want to dive in, yet I feel that I would risk having to migrate quickly in 2 weeks at some point because they are changing things significantly (either shutting down or other major change).

So to my question: for how long have these services been around in a fashion that is stable (feature-wise, quality-wise etc)? Is there anyone here with a longer history of using Google Cloud offering, able to comment on this?

EDIT: thanks to everyone who replied below. I think I'll give it a try :-)
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It is neither vacuous nor illogical to point out the inherent internal contradiction in someone's proposal for how society ought to act. It only adds to the discussion to show that what seems on the surface like a nice idea is actually intrinsically illogical. That one dislikes the ramifications of the proposition being illogical is beside the point.

What seems appealing at first blush is the superficial "just be nice to everyone" aspect of the proposal. That sounds nice at first glance, and that's why people ignore its inherent paradox to accept and promote it.

But not only is it intrinsically illogical, it's not desirable. Should we not define and maintain social out-groups for, say, neo-Nazis or child molesters or (insert your favorite bad guy figure here)?

In-groups and out-groups are not intrinsically good or bad. How they are used can be. Encouraging people to get rid of them is not only impossible (as it embodies a paradox), but also undesirable in the soft sense that ignores rational analysis which you are calling for.

All human societies have always and always will have in-groups and out-groups, and that's not inherently a bad thing. Being aware of them (the weakest possible formulation of the OP's point) changes little except making a certain group of "21st century intellectuals" grow pompous and self-righteous, and weakening what little respect there is in society for reason and logic by advancing a paradoxical proposition as though it were a virtue.

It certainly won't do anything to prevent the emergence of a future group like the Nazi Party. If anything, it makes it more likely by allowing the elite group of self-aware intellectuals to feel certain of their own moral superiority, and thus authority, over the supposed unrefined dullards who are less aware of their biases.
I think the life cycle of resources issue was a big reason why I was surprised to hear people say that Rust was Haskell-like.
When Snowden's NSA leak had just started, there was a podium discussion about it on German TV. Well, a few, but in one specifically one of the guests was a lesser german TV celebrity, known for science shows if I remember correct.
If I had to guess, I would say he was probably born in Germany, but his family immigrated. And that background is plainly visible. And that is important because of one sentence he said that practically no german with a german heritage of 80 years or more would have dared to say -- "If Nazi Germany had the NSA's surveillance capabilities, the Holocaust would have been over in a month."

And this is not a theoretical worry, in an interview with Gen.Alexander there was a question whether he is worried about building this technological infrastructure and its abuse potential by future potential successor entities. His reply was along the lines of "Nothing will come after us." Which to a German, strikes a lot of similar chords to Nazi Germany's eternal Reich rhetoric.
Yes, $15k would not be the same for a biopharma company, but they explicitly do not have the same goals of a biopharma company, nor are they a biopharma company, nor do their people come biopharma, nor are their users biopharma companies. Biopharma companies do not benefit from this, so why does it even matter what the status quo or state of the art of "doing science" is?

It's easy to be a cynic on HN, it's harder to think critically about why someone else would believe that it could work. You don't really get rewarded for empathy on here.
Is this legal?

I'm surprised MS hasn't open-sourced NT 3.x already.
It depends on how large a VC, too. A small VC might be happy to see you build a $50M company, because their overall requirement for returns is smaller. But if you have a billion dollar fund that investors want to see turned into $10B (or more), a $10M return (20% of $50M) is peanuts. It's not worth the time of the small number of general partners available for due diligence, board seats, and other oversight. Their business model depends on unicorns, not horses, no matter how beautiful the horse.
Seems to be a pattern: wimpy mobile endpoint devices drive everything to the cloud.

If so this is perhaps a dated phenomenon. Moore's Law is still a thing and today's generation of mobile devices are getting fatter and fatter.
I don't mean one has to copy ideas from C++ or Java to Rust verbatim, but having some explanation on how to use Rust OOP abstractions for solving common programming problems would be useful. I don't think current Rust documentation covers that well.
>What is that?

It could hypothetically be as simple as a video game driving test. It could be some other abstract measurement of reaction time.

I don't understand the question. A driving skills / reaction time test, is an alternative.
Every concern seems to amount to fear that marijuana would come to be seen as normal. I can't possibly shrug hard enough.
Sorry to hear that. Is there something specific about our current console you find hard to use? Perhaps I'm used to both (and I'm biased) but I like our create instance page just fine.

Like I mentioned above, we do have active communities on Stack Overflow, per-product mailing lists (in this case https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/gce-discussion) and Server Fault.
There's an esr version of this I enjoy too: "The single most important kind of intelligence is the ability to see past your own strongly-held preconceptions and your tribe's conventional wisdom and engage reality as it actually is and facts as they actually are."
The dichotomy between the "liberal arts" students and STEM/ aka what the author considers"successful" people is one of the biggest annoyances I have about modern tech culture. In the 60s and 70s, some of the most significant computing advances were made by implementing ideas from the humanities with an extraordinary degree of technical acumen - this was Douglas Engelbart's whole MO. The book "What the Doormouse Said" is a great overview of this. I wish more tech people realized that they aren't diametrically opposed to one another. They need each other.
Hey, it's like laser tag, but you have to look through a tiny screen while you run and jump and try to evade and attack! What could go wrong?
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Are you referring to Sivak's report[1]? The problem there is that it compares average trips and not trips where car vs plane is actually an option, according to the ThinkProgress article [2].

I have not read the report itself and I don't know how credible ThinkProgress is. The Yale Climate Connection article [3] points out similar issues. Bottom line seems to be that flying is better than driving alone, but as soon as you have more than one passenger, the car looks more attractive (still depending on the efficiency of the car).

Interesting though that the train is not looking so good in the statistics in these articles. My hunch here is that the numbers would look very different in Europe.

[1] http://www.umich.edu/~umtriswt/PDF/UMTRI-2015-14_Abstract_En...
[2] http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/04/29/3652505/driving-...
[3] http://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2015/09/evolving-clima...
You could have done the same on AWS (source: I have worked at AWS for 6 years, and know GCP very well)
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Not really - many people rely on Google Cloud and if Google made it harder for Spotify to compete (via, say, raising prices for Google Cloud for them), they'd have to be pretty specific to Spotify to not cause other customers to move to AWS or Azure.

Spotify has much bigger risks in their licensing deals.
Sometimes I think the 3rd world population most view the western powers as Schizophrenic. On one hand you have some westerners trying to help with micro lending and free solar energy initiatives, fresh water ... (the list goes on). On the other hand, powerful corporations and western governments do everything to counter any efforts by: meddling in local politics (outright financing coup d'etats!), installing their local strongmen to further the profits of the western world and keep the dysfunctional social fabric intact ($$$).
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Yes, but all that gets you is that no language is a panacea; bugs always exist. It does not address the question of whether or not there will be a propensity for more bugs (or more severe bugs) when comparing two languages.
I think he was ironic?
I'm curious regarding the economics of this but could anyone approximate the cost associated with this move or expenses going forward. It sounds like this would be a pretty big account for Google.
What is Heroku?
+1 for msys2 and pacman. I was able to compile rather obscure libraries with next to no effort thanks to this. It's simple and straight forward.

pacman -S msys/apackage

I had very little linux experience in the past and was amazed by the wealth of libraries, tools available. Especially anything related to the Gnome project. This stuff should be more popular among Windows developers.
It was very unstable. But I still like the UI, and have tried to replicate the simplicity in every machine I have had ever since.
Right, OpenPandora, its predecessors, and its successors. I considered buying one for a time, but never quite convinced myself, so I've never gotten to play around with one.
Whereas before it was legalized they could...?
I originally heard it in the "Cowspiracy" documentary".

UN and IMF say it's around 18-51%:

https://youtu.be/KpmTiHjUEBU?t=3m27s
What's a more efficient way of getting from San Francisco to LHR? Via ship, the long way?
This blows my mind.
www.toptal.com is the place where you can hire developers capable of doing more than CRUD web apps
No we shouldn't. It was an unmitigated disaster the first time. Might I recommend Ken Burns excellent documentary on the subject.
One of the big advantages of Google Cloud platform is "Scalability".

Load balancers: Scale to millions of users seamlessly. No warming up, no tickets, ...

PubSub: You can send the whole Internet 10 times in a day through it. Google does that every day

Big Query: Its equivalent to spinning up a 100+ node cluster in a matter of seconds and it can process data at speeds of GB's of data per sec, I heard couple of use cases where the user was able to process at ~ 50 GB/s

Kubernetes: 1000's of nodes running 100's of thousands of containers.

Can't beat that!
Spotify are not moving to BigQuery alone. They are also using Dataproc, Google's managed Hadoop service (which co-incidentally went GA yesterday), which lets them get value out of all the orchestration tools they already use, like Luigi. (They are also adopting Cloud Dataflow, Cloud Pub/Sub and other parts of our Big Data stack.)

Luigi has had BigQuery support for some time: https://github.com/spotify/luigi/pull/1002

Spotify will be talking more about the specifics of their data pipelines at GCP Next in SF in March, - I would expect to see a lot more on the new Google Cloud Big Data blog at https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/ too.

[Disclosure, GCP guy, etc]
It's free for open source projects.
Just like you, I was about to write a rather pessimistic comment about how obsolete this will be as soon as VR goes mainstream, but I hate being the nay sayer so I will just go along and assume this would be great as a cheaper "hybrid" alternative to join the fun?
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Deis looks amazing! In my current project, I'm running stateful/backing services like Redis, PostgreSQL outside containers. Is that the way to go with Deis as well?
> Huh? Okay - think Cygwin, except:

No GCC or compilers, which I would think is one of the biggest reasons most people use Cygwin? Cygwin isn't just shell commands, and surprisingly PowerShell doesn't suck as much it features some unixy commands. As well as others have mentioned Clink makes cmd.exe suck even less.
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i loved splatterball. iirc it had an hourly charge too, well worth it ;D
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So what's the logic here? One dangerous substance is legal, so we might as well legalize additional dangerous substances?
Somewhere a bunch of people are getting stoned, and they haven't even bothered to email you, they maybe didn't even send out so much as a tweet. What you hate, is the outspokenness of a small fraction of users. There's a fair chance you'd hate listening to these people no matter what they were on about at any particular moment.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11160070

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11155588
Depends on your standard of living. A studio apartment there goes for around $2500/month these days with no parking or utilities. Agreed that remote would be a nice option.
That's a good point about the private key never even touching a network.

Here's a thought: if the crack firmware does leak, and Apple becomes aware of it, could they just push out an OS update that rotates the signing key? That should effectively disable it, once updated.

What I'm getting at is this seems more about resisting government abuse / repressive regimes than technical infeasibility of limiting it to authorized users.
After 20 years together ... I gotta say, our relationship just isn't wired that way. There's negotiation when it's needed, but it's from a position of mutual respect and not adversity. That is, we both recognize each other's needs/wants in the discussion as legitimate and go from there - there's no assumption that one of us is trying to gain power or the upper hand.

It's largely been this way from the start, and has only become more so with time. I couldn't fathom wanting to spend my life with someone I was in a constant power struggle against, or who felt she was in such a struggle against me.
You must be confusing me with somebody else - I'm not pointing out decay so much as abysmal state of affairs.

Whether things are decaying or not - you can look up how much the prices for the basic human necessities like housing and food have gone up in relation to wages. From what I recall there's no question the middle and lower classes are getting screwed right?

Anyhow one can be wrong with 1 instance out of 10, the overall picture remains the same.

What you're doing is referred to as nitpicking :)
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I should add, I've been on top of AppEngine for about 4 years now. This is my second business on it.
Seems interesting, what would be a practical use for this? Replacing configuration files?
I want to commend some of the Google Compute Platform employees that commented in this thread.

I was at AWS for 6 years (left 2 years ago... today!), and I've always been a proponent of being more open and communicative with developers, but it rarely happened - I guess that AWS' PR policy and such are a big showstopper for these kind of discussions. Although, some individuals did their best (e.g. Jeff Barr) to try to share as much as possible.

It seems that the Google guys know how to do it.

Keep doing it. It will help your business a lot.
I think the parent comment is saying it could incentivize owner-occupied properties over rentals by untethering the taxable values for long-time landlords who are benefiting from Prop 13.

Of course, you'd probably also have to drop rent control to keep things "fair" (otherwise your taxes go up, but you can't increase your rent), but that's probably the right move anyways:

"There’s probably no topic that economists agree more on than rent control... It is not an effective way in the long run to preserve affordable housing in an area in which demand is rapidly rising" [1]

To me, the core of the problem seems to boil down to this:

- if I move somewhere cheap and build up the area's value, I should get to stay there and enjoy it without paying a lot more (in taxes) and/or being forced to move because I can't pay

vs

- if a community chooses to invest in an area's infrastructure, all those who benefit (local residents) should all pay their fair share

I don't know what's the right solution, but if it falls closer to the "pay your fair share" side then we as a society need to accept the psychic cost of sometimes forcing long-term/elderly/poor residents out (softening the blow by the dramatically increased sale price of their home).

Although Futurebot's innovative "develop their land and give them a place in the new building for life" idea seemed to be heading towards an interesting place as well.

Living in a rapidly gentrifying area myself, I see the struggle every day. I understand the emotional appeal of "let longtime residents stay in their homes despite economic hardship", but can anyone elucidate more clearly what (if any) argument exists around the economic value of their contribution for "finding it first" and building up the value there?

[1] http://www.moneytalksnews.com/why-rent-control-wont-make-hou...
I said "such as" referencing the group of people who have similar thinking similar to yourself, not your specific comment.