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> misunderstanding the original comment was maybe an intentional act

Some people scan comments looking for specific things that conflict with some narrative they're promoting, usually with regards to a product. They will:

* only reply to comments that are going to be seen by many people, e.g. those near the top, at certain times of the day, within a certain time of being posted

* write the reply in the shortest amount of time

* write a reply that deflects attention away from the original comment, irrespective of whether that reply makes any sense
In my experience installing updates to Jenkins has been painless, 2.0 was no different.
Mozilla Corp is currently hiring a contractor to do precisely that.

https://careers.mozilla.org/position/ohUW2fwT

IMHO Thunderbird should replace:
- Gecko with Blink
- XPCOM with normal plugins (I don't think anyone is making any real use of the unique features of XPCOM, e. g. the universal binary interface)
- XUL with QML/WPF/alike.

Qt would provide a full-stack alternative:
- Gecko -> QtWebEngine
- XPCOM -> QPluginLoader
- XUL -> QML

Maintainability and performance would increase exponentially.
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BigQuery is faster than anything else I've seen.

Why switch to what everyone else is using then?

(See http://tech.marksblogg.com/billion-nyc-taxi-rides-bigquery.h... vs all other benchmarks for the same dataset Mark got)

Disclaimer: I'm Felipe Hoffa and I work for Google (https://twitter.com/felipehoffa). But you can try BigQuery in the next 5 minutes and check the speed claims :).
What's an iPad Air screen repair cost?
I'm glad it is useful for someone else.
Gaming console ?
Perhaps, but we introduce a new implicit specification by doing this, possibly closing the door for situations where white-space is relevant.

The common appearance of the ignorant user seems to stem from him generalizing patterns as a holdover from one UI to another. Perhaps we should better study these patterns and steer the user to a consistent path. But instead, it seems we're trying to out-smart him time and time again, creating a jungle of user interactions which merely belittle and confuse.
In Australia you always had to disclose the phone cost in a contract. People still keep upgrading phones.
Great for everyone rich enough to buy a new electric car, but not so good for poor people who can only afford second-hand cars.
tl;dr it's hard to find lots of new people every quarter who can afford $600 phones.
Jenkins has been good to me over the years, but DroneCI is where I'm at now. It's certainly not as powerful as JenkinsCI at this stage, but that's why it's an instant improvement for me.

I hope to see Jenkins, and the team behind them, stay strong within the industry for a long time :-)
The difference, as I see it, is this: In a "BDUF" / "not agile" environment, the customer expects a rigorous change control process, and that serves to protect the developers when the customer starts changing things around. In an environment marketed as "agile" it became received wisdom that you don't do "change control" because it "isn't agile". So while the agile process (Scrum or what have you) was designed to manage the change in requirements from the developers' point of view, we seemed to get away from the thing that forced the customer to update their view of things, when changing requirements midstream.
You can also use the duals of (convex) uniform polyhedra (as here) - uniform polyhedra have equivalent vertices, their duals have equivalent faces.
I hear a lot of complaints from non-programmers about the software they use and they always try to make sure I'm not offended. I can't even begin to explain how I'm not only not offended, I hate these lazy problems even more than they do.

Some of those are clearly complicated issues but there's so many cases of just plain laziness it's infuriating. However, I don't blame the developers entirely. There's so much pressure from management, product managers, etc. and so much cost cutting it's ridiculous. It doesn't directly affect the bottom-line though so I'm not sure we can do much except expect more from ourselves and get used to it.
You can use the env option to change the transforms per env http://babeljs.io/docs/usage/babelrc/#env-option
It's sort of astonishing that they kept it up this long.
I agree with you, that's why Canonical did what they did. It's also why Gnome 3 is the way it is, and why Windows 8 was the way it was. But to me, it feels like a huge mistake in all cases. I use my desktop all day. I want an experience tailored to the desktop, not some compromise experience that's not-too-bad on the desktop and not-too-bad on a touch device. All these orgs made this huge bet that you could make a one-size-fits-all experience, and so far I'd say the results are not promising at all. Apple took the opposite tack: have a desktop UI and a touch UI, and allow them to diverge. And that seems to have worked out pretty well for them.
Thanks - but I was just replying that they hadn't missed a link. I've already placed an order for a few dice. :)
Which will be phased out to Asia, eventually.

On a past life, I was one of those employees that had the "pleasure" to do competence transfer to my replacements in NSN India.
I guess your opinion and mine greatly differ on the history of high end gaming pcs.. (building highend pc's since riva tnt and diamond monster 3d days..)

One of many high end buyer guides one could reference.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/538/17
The ecosystem is still evolving very rapidly. Additionally, the vocal majority of the existing Unity community aren't the most technically inclined. The result is something akin to the front-end web development community before Stack Overflow; essentially, lots of copypasta, not much published innovation.

I'm not sure how much of this linked library is even original; much of it seems to be just copied from Valve. The concept of dependencies is not present in much of what I have seen, so this isn't surprising.

Having not read any formal writing and coming from what I consider to be more traditional systems (web dev), game dev has a lot of peculiarities. Adjusting to the concept of the execution frame (a literal video frame) as a point of reference for state, for example. The 10ms frame recommended by Alex Vlachos helped me quantify this and comprehend what the frequency were programming for, which makes something like the way keypresses are handled more sensible.

I've built two small projects in Unity, but am looking for another engine for my next project. Today, it still probably stands as the best choice, but Lumberyard, though riddled with bugs, is moving quickly in the right direction. Using an alternate stack for simulation (though not necessarily client-server) to get outside of the game loop has a lot of appeal. However, latency and the corrective prediction techniques do not look like fun to me.

My next project involves heavier simulation, which, after programming very simple AI in C#, has me looking to keep that codebase simple, specific and flexible; outside of the game loop. It's likely that I'll start with the simulation code only and add a graphical "front end" later. I can see this being justifiable on simpler experiences, too: loading any content from the internet will likely be less painful and faster if you pre-process it externally.

It's still the wild west out there. The real smart people are employed by AAA studios building proprietary engines writing really dense C++. Indie devs are not primarily software people and Open Source gaming is a pretty sad effort. But, since we're see more people like you and I getting interested due to the general appeal of VR, I'm sure the shared knowledge will grow at an increasing rate.
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Hmmm. Just today Amazon announced their starting to support San Francisco with 1 hour restaurant delivery for Prime customers.
aren't your customers a pretty small niche compared to the most of the Apple users in the US? Most of the people will go to apple store if they need a fix for their device instead of going to a local repair shop which will void their warranty. So the argument about people wanting/or not to upgrade to a new device a pretty subjective to your specific customer type, no?

> "I recommend buying a refurbished 6 over any of the 6S line"

I would not, upgrading to "S" was the biggest performance boost I've had, compared to regular 6 - it's blazing fast and on top of that I can't imagine myself without 3D touch app switching, live photos and text navigation, those do help a lot at least to me and most of the people I know.
I had one of those once so I winced when I saw it. I was printing 'Error: ' with the message that came back from the server and in one case saw 'Error: Success'.
Is this something that Apple can address with more competitive pricing in China?
We had one player that would roll a d100 in a bowl. It was the ultimate cheater's die. We banned it after two sessions.
Many enterprises are, indeed, using SPA and Node...for the client-facing, non-mission-critical web UI software. These applications tend not to be very large, and on this scale, these tools are usable. But once you get to the really heavy stuff that enterprises rest their critical core business on, they'll stick with real languages like Java, C#, Python, C++ and Scala...things that they trust without question.
This should be ok 93% of the time
My favorite variant on this is combining "agile" with no design or requirements up-front with a rigid change request process at the end.

The thing is, a certain measure of "change control" was always a good idea, even in an "agile" environment. My (admittedly subjective) take is that getting away from change control contributed to everyone's mindset shifting to where "changes are free".
>By this metric Singapore is far behind most Western economies and is in the same basket as Spain, Greece, Slovenia, Portugal.

Thanks for showing me the numbers in a different light. Updated.

>I just think it is far too easy to be dazzled by high GDP figures, and miss out on the bigger picture.

This is true, but then again, part of the bigger picture is the country is run by very visibly smart and competent people.
Getting an SSL error on a NASA page.. Weird..

HTTP Link: http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/hubble-discovers-mo...
I would recommend Hammerspoon for this type of automation. http://www.hammerspoon.org/
>> You don't always get what you pay for with developers or any other services or products. Sometimes, but not always.

If you paid people a lot more money you'd get a lot better software.

You get what you pay for alright, regardless of whether you recognise it as such or not.
The Hanlon's Razor portion vastly underestimates the sheer amount of contempt and vitriol that many people in business harbor for their technology staff.

Sometimes (oftentimes, in my experience) they really do hate you.
At least the kernel people still support nomodeset.

If the userspace people had their way, the option would likely have been ripped out long ago.
Sure, that's the product category. The iPhone is a phone. But it's sold on the premise that it does much more than simply make phone calls. If Apple bricked everything apart from the phone call functionality it still isn't carrying out the functions it was advertised to me and sold to me to do, thus violating the law.
Email encryption isn't mainstream and it isn't Thunderbird's fault, but GPG's. It's an antiquated protocol with an antique implemention and it's hard to understand and hard to setup. Thunderbird including the implementation by default would only confuse users. Those who want Enigmail already know to search for the plugin. Those who don't know what it is wouldn't know what to do with it.
i feel a lot of bad ways about my work, it's true, but i really don't see it so much in my original comment. i was just elaborating on a comparison likening programmers to factory workers. i wouldn't necessarily say i'm a factory worker, but i think there is a comparison to be made. is that so awful? is it so awful to work in a factory?

for what it's worth, i'm not sorry for me. i don't like my job, but i've never been satisfied with a job. i don't want to work a job, i want to do my own work, but that's very, very rare to do full time. maybe someday, if i'm incredibly lucky. in the meantime, i have bills to pay. my current job's pretty cushy, affording me a bit of flexibility on time, and enough free time to make progress on my own stuff.
It really is. They were able to squeeze more out of China than any other foreign company has (or at least American company).
There is nothing honest about trying to run DRM over HTML. Serving adds are pissing in a public pool. It might be convent, but it makes things worse for everyone else.
Heh, I'm going to get myself the new CAT S60 phone (650€ at the moment, hope it goes down to 550-600 in two months). I already have an (aged) B15Q... but holy cow, a FLIR camera in a phone?!

Only downsides:

1) no MediaTek CPU any more, only Qualcomm shit => no more easy rooting, firmware reflashing etc.

2) no dual-SIM :'(
That word does not mean what you think it means.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/actual_innocence

>A finding of actual innocence, as that term has come to be used in federal habeas corpus jurisprudence, is not the equivalent of a finding of not guilty by a jury or by a court in a bench trial.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actual_innocence

Innocent means that they didn't do anything legally wrong. Plenty of uncharged and unconvicted people have broken the law.
VR, Drones, self-driving cars, of course, everything controlled by smartphones.
More likely mobile is headed quietly down the path of the PC - fewer generational improvements means people keep devices longer and there isn't as much of a reason to buy new hardware so sales flatline. Great business still but Wall Street hates that narrative. They want the next hot growth market -- VR perhaps when its killer app moment arrives.
Specially outside US and other first level countries.
in general, hardware improvements will drive new swanky software, and make computing on smartphones closer to a first class citizen (remember motorola's laptop+phone dock, where the phone powers the laptop?).

another big pain point is battery (and battery consumption). still waiting on hardware (and software in conjunction) to get more efficient. you'll remember how power hungry PCs were in the beginning and how much better they are now (laptops notably).

feels to me like we still have many years to go, and many more "big" technology investments.
Seems like a vague question without knowing exactly what constraint they're worried about. Are they too poor to afford the move? Singaporean expats have a harder time getting visas? Restrictions on getting a passport to leave?

We see similar figures for NYC, which just underscores the need to pin down what "can leave" means: http://patch.com/new-york/westislip/would-you-leave-ny-if-yo...
no phones
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So, do you sell your product(s) in Bulgaria, or in the US?
True. The second/third person clarification is a good one for speakers that may not know better.
http://i.imgur.com/Lng3MQB.jpg

I'd say that computers have come down in price.
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It is from Bellman, Held and Karp [0] and has O*(2^n) complexity for both space and time. It is quite simple and based on the idea that

"Every subpath of a path of minimum distance is itself of minimum distance."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Held%E2%80%93Karp_algorithm
Thank you for your comment, I tested on Debian jessie, and OpenBSD only. I will try to make the build more compatible to other distro/OS.
Took me a minute to figure out what a stub was. Apple core, for those wondering.
Oops, I was mistaken about that. It looks like all core modules are in local scope when in the REPL which is why `os.arch()` was working.
More importantly in this context, will Apple be the company to bring it to us? Is it the watch? Interesting point for the company.
>> "To me its real problem is that it's almost indistinct from long-press."

Are you saying this as someone who actually uses the feature? Because in my experience a long press and 3D are very distinct. In fact 3D touch makes it quite difficult to long press on home screen icons to delete them.
Instead of Babel, you might want to look at Rollup.js for ES6 module support. [1]

You can have Rollup spit out CommonJS require commands for things that aren't part of your project, or you can use rollup-plugin-commonjs to wrap your entire app into one big bundle, including the CommonJS includes.

And as much faster as Node 6 has gotten with module importing, it almost can't be as fast as Rollup's module loader, which is more optimal than Browserify and WebPack, in that ES6 modules don't even get wrapped in "requires", but instead included inline. It just parses the code to ensure no variable names collide.

[1] http://rollupjs.org
Funny, if anyone is copying the OSX UI it is Gnome.
He gives an example of solving complex nonlinear systems [1] in a very few operations by using the inherent parallelism available via subdividing intervals. He claims both accuracy and huge speed gains are possible.

[1] http://www.johngustafson.net/presentations/Multicore2016-JLG... (see example starting p.10)
So let's get this straight.
1. There was negative pressure on PostMates' business model sustainability

2. Speculation that the numbers didn't work

3. PostMates is in the process of raising new funding

4. It is in PostMates' best interest to get a positive news buzz going about its business model and numbers to raise valuation of the company in a new round of funding.

5. Financials are "leaked" that show the numbers look better than expected. (Thank you TechCrunch)

6. New round of funding is closed at a higher valuation than what it would have been if these documents were not "leaked" (Speculation based on how investors follow herd mentality)

7. PostMates founders do a high five (Speculation on my part)

8. Mission Accomplished
I actually installed Thunderbird and Enigmail at the same time through my operating system's packet manager. You do not have to start Thunderbird before installing Enigmail.
Incredible that this is the first time in 13 years that Apple hasn't posted quarterly growth. I'm sure there will be lots of "Apple has lost its ability to innovate" articles based on this, but growing for the last ~52 straight quarters is insane.

And I don't think one quarter without growth is enough evidence to conclude "Apple may be reaching the saturation point among potential customers in some countries" or "other smartphone makers using Google’s Android operating system continue to challenge the company with powerful, lower-price devices."
In jepsen that might actually be an apt message - https://github.com/aphyr/jepsen :)
Some combination of wearables, AR/VR, IoT, and consumer 3D printing.

The thing is a) those are all a few years out, b) they're interconnected. VR will happen first because it's got an obvious path to a large consumer base. That will lay groundwork for AR, which is probably the actual Next Big Thing. Wearables/IoT/3D printing are really an extension of the miniaturization/customization of longstanding technologies, but are all experiencing severe growing pains (wearables : size/batteries, IoT : cost, 3D Printing : materials).
Ya, well I'd rather be safe than feel safe.
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Yeah, Force Touch has really compounded their problems of overloaded and undiscoverable UX. I realized this recently when trying to tell a family member how to rearrange their home screen icons. It used to be "hold down an icon until it wiggles, then drag it". Now it's "hold down an icon, but not too hard, until it starts wiggling. What do you mean there's a popup?! Oh you pressed too hard. Tap somewhere else to close the popup and try holding down an icon again."
T/EI ?

What a cute military acronym.
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> When we make the perfect the enemy of the good, we reinforce that status quo.

Story of present day FOSS right there.
Yes, you better assume the smartphone golden era is already over. It is super hard for the manufactures to get people hyped for their new gears.
I meant as a UX design pattern.
Turning a extension into a disto package, ye deities...
> Embedded GUI

> Gradle: In addition to supporting a traditional command line interface and IDE integration, Gradle offers a graphical user interface. This is a stand alone user interface that can be launched with the --gui option

> Maven: X

Maven was intended to be used from within an IDE -- that's why it doesn't provide a GUI and uses XML that is only intended to be manipulated via an IDE rather than edited directly by a user.

Also, I don't see Apache Groovy mentioned anywhere on that page. Are the Gradle devs ashamed to mention it?
And if you're public facing, IE9-11 may be too big combined to not support.
China demonstrates new anti-riot robot
I'd say it's a stretch that Java has code reloading. Sure you can reload the bytecode, but unless you're marshaling the data to the new version like Erlang does you're just introducing more errors than fixing things.
Phones are a status symbol, in many cases, which shifts the sale price. PC's much less so.
Funny enough, most VR projection models use gaming consoles as the low point of estimating units a few years from now.

I want to bet on sunglass sized AR, but it seems like we'll need some material science revolutions to shrink down the requisite hardware to have the kind of useful experience is imagine
I like the url. man-k is so much cleaner than apropos. How could I google that?
Even when reporting malware hosts to them, the response to my abuse reports is "we are a reverse proxy, we do not provide hosting" - and then no further action is taken.
Probably much higher than that. 7% of the features aren't guaranteed to be used 7% of the time. There's actually no correlation.
> AAPL is essentially in freefall right now, down from 104.35 at market close (~97.00 around 5 PM).

It looks like it is just going back to where it was in Feb? (90 or so). I guess if it keeps heading down below that it would be alarming.
VAR - Virtual/Augmented Reality.

Also, i'm hoping my future glasses have some kind of mechanism built in that will let me text with my mind... even if that means thinking about moving shapes or colors or something to do it.
High end gaming PC (that you build yourself) always costed about 1500-2000$

In real terms, that means the cost of a PC has been reduced quite a bit (because of inflation: http://www.dollartimes.com/inflation/inflation.php?amount=10... )
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> Open hardware doesn't really seem to be a sustainable business

Neither does open source software tbh.
Mass IPv4 WHOIS Collection with Django and Kafka on AWS EC2
Yeah, webpack can be not fun at all... but, depending on your needs it can do what you want. Being able to configure CSS processed, with some stuff inlined, required from your components is pretty sweet...
Oh, nice.

I used to make up RPG rules for fun and one of my systems used a die scale that went: d20, d40, d60, d80, d100, d120.

Those are just die sizes that are easy to make with the commonly available dice: a d20 is a single die, a d40 is a d4 and a d10 (reading units on the d4 and tens on the d10) and so on.

The thing is that d[20,40,60,80,100,120] is a nice, smooth scale, unlike what you get if you use the d[4,6,8,10,12,20] on their own.

And that works alright, but it's always nice to have the exact sizes.

"What do you do with 120-sided dice" indeed! Roll, them, duh. What else?
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