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You mean this? -- "Software developers grow up with more screen time than others. They need forced interaction in order to communicate enough in person. Otherwise it's all by text and can easily degrade to passive aggression."

Yup it is a sweeping generalization. I'm comfortable making it. I am/was one. It's totally anecdotal, based on my 15 years experience in work and school environments around both engineers and sales-y type people. The engineers are, on the whole, way more comfortable with screens than people. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that.

I'm not aware of any published research but if I were going to design an office I'd try to research people's experiences by asking friends or Google [1]

All engineers are different and there are many who prefer people to screens. I think the rest of my first comment explained that people are not all the same and can change over time.

I would never create an office seating plan without getting to know each individual. I would also change it up over time. Sitting in the same place all the time for years is too boring.

[1] https://encrypted.google.com/search?safe=off&q=software+engi...
> I'm still unsure what they offer over a simple object with property key values.

They offer a particular abstraction, that gives a certain automatic conceptual clarity for free. Personally, I'm a massive fan of prototype-based object systems, but having the class syntax sugar on top of it has made certain patterns clearer to express even if it's semantically equivalent.

My main issue with ES2015 classes, is that I've seen some projects use it for everything including things that it's really not required for; really putting the _Java_ back in Javascript, so to speak. But that can be said for a lot of language features, really.
Returning an error code is error-prone, you need to check for the error code for every function you use.
There's no need for an undercover officer to identify themselves as such. They're free to lie and manipulate (to an extent). It would kind of defeat the purpose otherwise.
Saving the HTML or the stripped content with the image wouldn't be much of a problem to make right? Why OCR when the screenshot is of a website?
"One of the" not the ONLY. Also, "prima facie" - not definite.

Reading comprehension failure.
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I wonder if Google's ultimate goal is to make "Android apps" all work on Native Client/LLVM.

It already seems to be the goal to make all Java apps work on Native Client on Chrome OS. But once that's done, couldn't they just allow anyone to write apps in Go, Rust, Python, etc for Native Client directly? (and thus eliminating what will probably be some performance penalty of running Dalvik apps on Native Client).

That way Google gets to deprecate Java apps in the next 5-10 years and be done with Oracle forever, and developers would have a choice of some really good and safe languages as well.
> is not binary

Why is this a downside (apart from 'I can't telnet now')?
One more to add to the list: J.S. Bach who walked some 200 miles to hear an organist play once. One of many legendary anecdotes about the man.
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If anyone here is using TypeScript, a couple of months ago I wrote type definitions for umzug [1].

Also if you use sequelize as ORM they go hand in hand.

1 : https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped/blob/mast...
It can be done easily, and most noname Chinese phones and tablets have it.
Not sure about the modern digital TV, however.
There are several technical differences between classes (or functions) and simple objects. Namely - presence of "constructor", ability to have static and non-static methods and overall the fact that class can be instantiated. It is easy to reason about.
I'm sure there could be listed some additional features, but those are first things that pop into my mind.

However, I'd say one of the primary reasons for existence of classes would be familiarity. A lot of developers would have experience with classes in other languages so it is useful to have similar entity in JS.
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Here's a great StackOverflow question/answer on this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4670987/why-is-it-better-...

I program in Java and I like that methods have * to declare what they exceptions they throw. This makes it very obvious from a consumer standpoint.

* except for runtime exceptions
... no, it doesn't imply anything of the sort. As far as I know, ZFS still has this issue - it can get itself tied in knots, and only a reboot will stop this from happening.
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I run a small operation providing websites/online storage/email for a couple of friends and small businesses, and I use this as recovery solution to a master key. I distributed the encrypted very big master key, full system documentation and a part of the decryption key to the master key to a couple of people including a public notary. This way, should it ever get necessary, it will be possible for them to access my encrypted files. Say I get hit by a bus or something similar.

Thank you, Shamir!
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> So when applied to a country, the context should of course matter.

I agree with you. Even in my last sentence, I didn't refer to Slovenia as "impoverished". The author of the article used the word in the context of juxtaposition of minimum wage, incorrectly, it seems.
Android is usually pointed to as a success story for Java performance. I thought that it was just us that had performance issues because we were developing a big app with a completely custom UI... Interesting to see that others feel this way.

The conclusion is that it almost doesn't matter what language you choose for a platform if you have enough man-power and resources and you can force developers to use it. :)
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> Why does it need to do something to your body? Wouldn't it be good enough if it does something beneficial to your mind?

Well, why not ride a bicycle, and let both your mind AND your body benefit?

> Apart from that, go for a stiff 2 hour walk and then come back and tell me that it didn't do anything to your body.

I've tried this. I walked 1.5 hours a day, 5 times a week for about a year. Didn't lose a gram of body weight, while having a normal diet with limited refined sugars (I don't like sweet tastes). Switched to cycling (30 minutes a day), and feel much more in control now.
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It probably does nothing for people who are otherwise working out, jogging etc. There it doesn't create a new stressor for their system to get better. But for people who otherwise mostly sit and drive in cars, even that little bit of walking will create steep improvements to their body.
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I didn't know it was still in progress... really hope async/await makes it in. I'm betting on that pattern to make JavaScript much more pleasant to write!
An exception is not simply a return statement, which only returns program control to the calling function. An exception can transfer program control to anywhere up the call stack, it really behaves more as a scoped goto with context information than a function return.

Put differently: without exceptions, each function in your call stack is responsible for error handling of its callees, and for returning the correct error information to its caller. With exceptions, you only need error handling at the catch site.
Seems like a very eventless transition. Nice to see the impacts of header compression. And I've just noticed I've worked with some of the guys behind this post, which made me smile.
Thank you. It has been stated in the article. :)
Because employers prefer candidates with "passion" over ones without, all else being equal. Which makes sense, given their incentives.

So, given that reality, employees learn that demonstrating "passion" gets them more job offers than not doing so, so they do what they can to appear "passionate". Which also makes sense, given their incentives.

So you end up with a system that looks ridiculous, but it's just groups of people following their respective incentives.

It's not that a sensible work ethic isn't enough, it's just that when the next guy is promising more than "enough", you're less likely to get picked.
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Let's assume a Soviet warhead did get stolen in 1993 and was recovered somewhere in Kazakhstan with the help of a US special operation. Would any involved party want to publish the event?

Russians wouldn't want to advertise their weakness. Kazaks (in this scenario) wouldn't want to advertise that they cooperated with Americans. And USA wouldn't want to advertise how easy it was to steal a warhead and sell it for a relative pittance.

In a few decades, I think we're going to hear some interesting horror stories of the post-Soviet years, similar to the early '80s near-Armageddon scenario of the Soviet false alarm that wasn't published at the time (the Stanislav Petrov incident).
They get arrested when police catch them, same as now.
Basically, "indicated".
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+1 for Ting, the only US cellular provider I haven't utterly detested as a customer. (Have used all the major ones.)

I am also saving hundreds of dollars per year (especially since I spend a lot of time outside the USA... If you don't use Ting during a month, the bill is like $7 or so.
OK, old guy here. I bought a Note 4, one reason was that it had a FM tuner. The Verizon people told me it "wouldn't work on their network" which I took for BS. Hve been unable to find software to use it. Is 57 just too old to get it?
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I sometimes screenshot an entire w
full page, sometimes just a portion with a manual crop with Screenshot Minus extemsion. I only want to index the part I capture and search the content within.
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You can divide embedded systems between industrial control systems and headless consumer devices, like set-top boxes or smart TVs. For the latter, you really don't want to invoke a device reset every time the input stream is malformed.
> Every day millions of programmers require the length of a string

Why? There are relatively few cases where I think you should actually give a damn about how long a string is.

For most CRUD applications (i.e. most applications) you either have a grammar for your input or you don't. If you don't then all you typically want to do is minimal sanity checking (e.g. check that nobody is putting a 10 MB string in as their email address).
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I can safely predict that Chinese will not be used as the common language for Europe...
The problem with this being a secret, behind-the-scenes thing is that there's plenty of scope of serial killers. Harold Shipman got away with being the most prolific serial killer of all time because he was knocking off old people.

This is the argument that needs to be made, because euthanasia is and will go on anyway.
My question is, why?
> Well, why not ride a bicycle, and let both your mind AND your body benefit?

If one gives a purpose (in the form of training/wellness) to a walk whose foundation is being purposeless, he's defeating the point.

The different is, more abstractly, about the cultures of producing 24/7, versus allowing oneself "not to produce".
Walking helps me in solving programming issues.

When I find myself stuck and my mind starts to loop around, I need to force myself to take a purposeless walk, around my office's block or little more. During the walk I stop thinking about the problem for a while and then resume from a new angle. It normally works very well.
Yeah, the ribbon cable was what I thought would give you grief. Glad to hear it didn't :-)
Could you report a bug at https://www.chromium.org/for-testers/bug-reporting-guideline... please?
It's a PDF from GCHQ. It's almost certainly loaded with a surveillance payload.

Probably even some sort of of brainwave scanner.
As someone growing up in a country that was under an embargo (born in '75 in Yugoslavia, spent my teenage years in 90's Serbia, under Milošević rule) and having seen it firsthand I can tell you that it never hits the ruling class and politicians - it only hits the common people - the more poorer you are the more you will feel it. Politicians and the rich people around them find the way to bypass it.

During those times my both parents were having small private firms and were trying to make end's meet which were difficult enough with the collapsing economy and inflation and having no political connections with the ruling class (they despised the serbian nationalism and were being active in the then-opposition parties) sure didn't help them.

The one occasion I will never forget is when my parents decided to go to Hungary to try to buy some glazes for my mother's pottery shop. They would've bought some 20-30 kilos, smuggled it in our car and that would've been enough for a next few months. When the shopkeeper in the Hungary heard they are from Serbia he decided that he wouldn't want to sell them anything because "embargo and war and stuff" and so my parents came home empty handed. They came to the shop as private individuals and must have mentioned briefly where they would be taking the merchandise (they both spoke hungarian) but the shopkeeper kept looking at them as if they were personally responsible for all the things that were going in the Bosnia at the time.
We didn't have to close the shop, a few weeks later they found another supplier and bought from there but it really left a bitter taste in their mouths.

(shameless plug: this is now my brother's pottery shop who inherited it from our mother who passed away 6 years ago, this is a small promo video he did some time ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD-bREcrLEQ
> Getting a list of usernames and IP addresses from GitHub would have an insane signal to noise ratio

Or you could assume that they have that information already. Which I deem highly likely - private repos are a must-target for any intelligence service out there.
Really cool project. I haven't had the opportunity to use things like Buble or Babel on a project yet but would certainly like to.

I don't quite follow why plugins are discouraged in your FAQ section. I was looking at this Gulp plugin (it's very new, but looks straightforward/is idiomatic gulp): https://github.com/TrySound/gulp-buble -- I'm not following why that would be an anti-pattern.
Any new technology is bound to have such teething problems.

I’m curious how HTTP/2.0 and HTTP/1.1 compare in a few years from now.
Exceptions should be for exceptional cases

Why? Simply because the words look alike?

I think you're painting a false dichotomy here. There's a whole world of program state between "usual program logic" and "exceptional cases".
Checked exceptions were/are one of Java's biggest mis-features (IMHO). You can't force a client to deal with exceptions. Checked exceptions ends up encouraging empty catch blocks, which is usually worse than propagating an exception.
All major internet protocols to date has been plain text, which for almost anyone has been easy to learn, easy to inspect and diagnose without specialised tools and easy to extend without creating compatibility concerns because of it. We've already seen SPDY be incompatible between its few versions.

Binary ruins that fine tradition for the promise of 0.1% better performance. And I think that's a terrible trade.
The Poisson distribution is just a limiting case of the binomial distribution and not needed to explain any of the concepts that drive statistical inference, so its absence from an introductory text is hardly something to fuss about.
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My impression i enhancing security within containers.

This because now a would be attacker can't as easily tell if they are inside a container or not after exploiting some daemon vulnerability.
Why didn't the companies just merge? Would that not have been cheaper?
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I think it's great this person is so dedicated to maintaining such an important part of the ecosystem, but is there seriously just one dude that's taking care of this? If something happens to him, what happens to everything and everyone that depends on the index? Perhaps it's time to think about moving the responsibility to something more fault tollerant, like a non-profit organization -- maybe even python.org?
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But the problems here are nothing to do with choice of ISA and everything to do with standardisation of the bringup/boot process.

Free/Open Source chips are a lovely idea that doesn't work without a financial sponsor because software can be made and distributed at near-zero marginal cost, including by the end user, but hardware can't.
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> If your sales people do any work

This might be the joke
If the method you're designing is going to throw an exception that wouldn't make sense to handle from a consumer standpoint, creating an exception that extends `RuntimeException` would be my advice. I agree that empty catch blocks are not a good idea.
Allowing someone to die of dehydration (a process that takes many hours and involves gradual shut down of organ function) might be marginally more kind than letting someone die more slowly, but is only fractionally so.

Fortunately most doctors have more empathy and ethics.

The difficulty comes with conditions that aren't immanently terminal. Campaigner Debbie Purdy took eighteen months to starve herself to death after she reached the point where she did not want to continue with her progressive MS. That's just insane and barbaric, but fewer doctors will step in at that point.

We need better laws, as a matter of civil rights. If I have the right to life, I should have the right to relinquish it.
When it comes to the interface, it puzzles me why it cannot have a clear, interactive interface like e.g. https://packagecontrol.io/

For that reason, I almost never directly in https://pypi.python.org.
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Coraid used to build and sell systems based on Plan9, but I believe they don't exist anymore, though I don't mean to imply Plan9 was at fault, quite the contrary.
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Ah that is indeed more complex... Can't you tie some services together that do that? If you are the only user it can't be expensive. If no-one already did that? Would actually be interesting to try. There are OCR cloud services ; just no clue how solid they are ; anyone tried here?
also, purposeless bicycling.

need to be away from traffic, so you don't have to concentrate. a bike path - even better, a national/state park.

but to clarify, it helps to have a destination, even though it's not the "purpose".
I'm not sure what you mean by "whether you can use the multiple-return approach", since the ABI is usually irrelevant on bare metal. The only issue would be tooling support and the standard library.
And I wish Sun had used a different (more widely accepted) license when open sourcing stuff, so that we would be using an enhanced version of Solaris Zones.
I would say yes.

For anyone tracking the mobile phone market, there was other companies coming up with devices that were damn close to the iPhone but didn't get the traction in the press that Apple products got.
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Yes. I'm sorry for the confusing title. This has been pointed out to me and I agree. The reason it hasn't been changed is because it would change the permalink.

Sorry for not giving you the information you were looking for.
I wonder, could we see a potential let's say Raspberry Pi 5 use a quad-core RISC-V processor, as well as an open source GPU (and open source everything else)? I think that would align quite well with Raspberry Pi's mission, and it's an an better position to kickstart the adoption of open source CPUs and GPUs than some other noname project.
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> Frameworks should be written for consumers, not maintainers.

Welcome to Worse is Better. This is literally what Unix went against. People used to write that way before; now it has to be easiest for platform developer/maintainer.
My super power.

During the week I walk a loop in the morning (9.5miles) and when I have to commute to NY, it's a few miles downtown,a brief lunchtime wander around, and a swift walk back up in the evening to Penn.

Part of my walking is for health reasons, part is due to a need to move about, part is meditation. My mind wanders while out for a good walk, it's the most liberating feeling I experience.

My wife and I go for longer walks on the weekend, sometimes we chat, but often time we walk together in silence. It's a guilty pleasure.
iD-Mobile (operate on Three’s network) have some pretty good prices for data users (1GB: £5.00, 2GB: £7.50; 4GB: £10.00). All 1 month contracts.

I switched to their 2GB plan after Three announced their price increases.

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The BBC are the ones writing the damn article about the supposed trend, I'd say it's their responsibility to provide evidence.
Ouch. No. Don't. :-)
SF tolerates street trash acting up and acting out in ways real cities -- eg nyc -- simply don't.

"street trash" is a particularly nasty way to refer to people. They might be mentally ill, drug-addicted, and perhaps criminal, but they're still human beings. Maybe, just maybe, if society treated people who find themselves at rock bottom with a bit of respect and compassion then they wouldn't end up in a situation where they chase women around cars with screwdrivers.

There's an interesting theory that suggests there's two different sorts of wealth - private wealth and public wealth. Private wealth is living in a nice house and driving a fancy car. Public wealth is living in a clean, beautiful community where it's safe to walk around without fear. If you want to be happy then both sorts of wealth are equally important.
You can see that with how MS kinda stagnated around the 2000s, and then surged forward from Vista onwards. Damn it, XP was their longest ever supported Windows release.
Richard Jones the creator of pypi is also running PyCon AU in Melbourne this year: https://2016.pycon-au.org/
Wanderers were our ancestors and wanderers we are, gentrification and hipsterification in large cities are a notable exception.
thats why gmos are the most tested foods in history (despite what the naysaysers say)

Mutagenic crops devised with stuff like cobalt 60 was never tested. Also you can breed a potato to be poisonous. In the end its a case by case basis

Edit: spelling