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Decreased property values near hotels, student ghettos, and other nuisance areas are very commonly depressed, and often have elevated police dispatch rates. It's hardly an uncommon phenomenon.

Not all restaurants are roach-infested mold-filled hazards - but we have to treat them all like they potentially are, in the sense that we need to register them and inspect them to prove that they aren't hazards. Marriott and Hilton hotels get inspected all the time and they pass with flying colors because they do all the things they're supposed to do - unlike unregistered fly-by-night flophouses working under the radar.

You've obviously never gotten bedbugs from a neighboring unit or hotel. Trust me, they suck like crazy. You do not want to go bundle everything you own into trash bags, move out for a weekend while you wash everything you own, and have the house fumigated (heated to a crisp). It sucks.

Fraud/money laundering is a form of criminal activity, and (just like hotels) banks are compelled to report on specific types of activities that are likely to be criminal. Hotels don't define this; legislatures do, just as they define (or delegate) what they consider to be suspicious financial activity. The Hilton is not deciding that the guy paying in cash every night with a dozen visitors every night or the guy bringing in a bunch of drain cleaner every day is a suspicious individual, they let the FBI investigate that just like financial crime.

Sorry to break it to you but the FBI is on to your no-tell-motel dealing scheme. They're not stupid.
I still don't understand what's a .NET project now, how to define one? what to checkin? is it still project.json? Or do we need another tool?
Well it's definitely in Asia.

To me it makes no sense to lump such a huge area together under "asia-pacific" though. Even just Asia would be too big.
Can't give away all of our secrets ;)
Email me at alex@irisautomation.ca if you want to chat more!
He's been a loud, offensive, and narcissistic all his career:

Reagan administration's thoughts on him pestering them: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-2...

Or in 1989, trump takes out a newspaper ad calling for the death penalty for 5 black teenagers, later the 5 are exonerated via DNA evidence: http://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/donald-trump-and-...

I think his willingness to be honest and polarizing is a respectable quality, which is why some love him. But if he turns out to become moderate for the sake of PR, then there will really be nothing about him I can respect.
Like many other things worth doing, iaido is best experienced by doing it. Talking about it will get you nowhere. Get your sword out and start training until you wear yourself out.

The people in your club who are there because katanas are cool will all quit within the next 3 years. Some may last 5. None will last 60 unless they get over the coolness factor and see it for what it is.

That being said, iaido is great. It's a good physical and mental workout. It'll teach you a lot about yourself, a bit like meditating but with sword in hand. There will be endless repetition in a search for unattainable perfection. It certainly can be 'spiritual' in a sense.

Source: over 2 decades of martial arts and nearly 2 decades of iaido.
This is what drove me away from GNU/Linux back into the worlds of Mac OS X and Windows, as the developer communities view of the world isn't Vi/Emacs + CLI.

Working on .NET, Android or Mac OS X/iOS is a much closer experience to working with Alto and Star environments, or even ETHZ Oberon derivatives.
I sent a referral in to the California Department of Justice/Antitrust Division when I ran into this at an Archstone (now Equity) property in Los Angeles. Didn't do me any good at the time, but hopefully they'll start investigating and prosecuting if people demand it.

The company that was given exclusive rights to provide service was plainly advertising a kickback program on their website before, but it looks like they've cleaned that up since.

Compare this `live` page:
https://www.consolidatedsmart.com/commercial-services

With this, from 2004:
https://web.archive.org/web/20041206091748/http://consolidat...

"""
As property owners, managers and business people, you have a captive audience of resident consumers... we consider it our mission to continue to offer more profitable ways to maximize ancillary income from your residents and customers. Consolidated is your proven resource to increase ancillary profit with:

- Coin Laundry Systems
- Smart Card Systems
- Satellite Television
- High Speed Internet
- Domestic Appliances
"""

Turning customers into captives? Kickbacks? Sounds like the kind of work that would violate Sherman Antitrust or RICO Act provisions.
Wonderful point. Student housing is a great example of long term rentals with tenants that don't always respect the property or neighbors.
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Excel for Mac is excellent too. Any particular reason for using the Windows version?
John Gruber is an Apple fanboy who somehow makes a lot of money from his blog. And invented Markdown formatting.
"I can't think of any code I've personally written in, say, the past five years which used tests or runtime type checks to try to catch type-related bugs. In fact over the past ten years I can only think of one time when a static type checker would've caught a bug that got as far as being committed."

This is clearly a case of "you don't know what you don't know." I strongly suspect that there are many things you deem "not something static typing would catch" that I have been catching with static typing. From the trivial (passing bid price where ask is expected) to the simple (keeping track of which array this index is supposed to point into) to the tricky (restricting certain behaviors to certain threads). And those three examples were from my last big C project - no esoteric type system (some of which make it even more powerful and even more convenient).

I won't go so far as to argue that extensive use of static checking is always a win, but it is a tool I find very effective. And it looks very little like "assert isinstance" strung about a Python codebase.
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Medieval War Principals meet modern weapons. People charged in with horses and protective amuletts at verdun. But where butchering a village was hard work in medieval times, modern weapons make it the flick of a switch.
Add to that a culture where non-fullfillment of expectations is a huge shame and extererior pressure upholds all the norms, and you get japans behaviour during the ww2.
Personally, I don't think those two statements are linked. The first is about education on general.

Yes, it's nice to have a one more tool in ones cognitive toolbox. Like, it's nice to know some maths despite not using it professionally.

The second is just about hiring publicity. Given free choice, the top professionals often seek the hardest challenge in town. It's just a recruitment honeypot. There is no hiring methodology to actually figure out the productivity of a hire - but, you can affect the population of hires. 8 hours at a whiteboard in itself is not that necessary except to maintain the image of a worthy challenge, thus calling in a population with it's siren song. It's not personal, it's just statistics.
I'd recommend Plex instead.
It's effectively a simpler, more polished version of KODI.

(IMO)
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Was Japanese war crimes really worse than the European standards in pre modern times?

From my Swedish history, see the 30 year war (for a viewpoint not covered well in Swedish schools, google Polish deluge). To me it seems the main difference is that Sweden didn't have the same technological resources a few centuries earlier...

Edit: The obvious point is -- does present Swedish culture explain why historical atrocities were so common...?
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He might be thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-linguistic_programming.
> became only an output language for content management systems

Sure, if you want a complex website and crm. HTML is just as easy as it ever was, if not easier with some of the cleaner html5 tags

> I occasionally point a finger at Soylent, which built an elaborate IT infrastructure for a site that averages about two sales a minute

Average isn't necessarily what matters, but peak. Do you think Amazon.c om needs to design their systems around avg load, or potential load a few weeks before Christmas?

Your complaints don't really hold water.
Ah great, a new BT version once again, when even the LAST standard isn't properly supported (and especially documented!!!) in BlueZ. Not to mention Windows (which usually comes with a next-to-useless stack, and every other stack costs $$$) or OS X...
> Touch-typing isn't widely taught anymore, is it?

If true, that is deeply bizarre. Touch-typing, much more so than programming, is actually useful in basically any non-menial job in the modern world. It ought to be as basic to the curriculum as math and reading.
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While I don't use Kodi, I'll download videos like the ones from WWDC so I can play them back as many times as I want without worrying about the plays counting towards my bandwidth cap. In my case, I've added them to iTunes (and Plex).

If my PS3 didn't have a Twitch app, I'd probably use Plex to stream it.

On my Apple TV, I regularly use the YouTube and Netflix apps, I occasionally use the Vimeo app all legal content. On my PS3 I have CinemaNow for those digital Ultraviolet copies of films. So, there's a lot of legal content. Granted, I'm sure a lot of illegal content is there too.
This is one of the most persistent and silly myths in cycling.

When biking at a steady speed, even when accounting for the fact that steady speed isn't entirely steady because humans pulse their power a bit, wheel weight is not worse than frame weight (the extra effort of each micro-acceleration is offset by the reduce slowdown between micro-accelerations and then some)

When climbing a mountain, wheel weight is not worse than frame weight

Yes, when accelerating, wheel mass is worse than frame weight, but only a tiny amount. source: physics:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1N2aS3E0K4wrTa5jKqed7...

That is my spreadsheet, it is very very basic physics and it drives me crazy that people spew pseduo physics and comment on this "without taking the time to comapre the sizes of the effects"

take the time!

TLDNR; don't worry about wheel weight any more than frame weight. Addendum: don't worry about frame weight much either.
What you see as pointless is in fact good conditioning of the mind and body, something that reduces anxiety in the parents and boosts confidence in the kids. Anyone who learns a martial art with the intention of getting into fights, well, is an idiot.

You need to take a long view of the martial arts, instead of a short one. Two years of practice won't teach you jack shit. A lifetime of it can be very fulfulling.

Many people have difficulty seeing the benefits in kata training, but it really is one of the best ways to learn to apply techniques correctly.

As for practicality, what does that even mean? Do you frequently need to punch people in the teeth?
Nope, that's not quite how it worked. Except for a few critical libraries that were pinned to specific versions, every build built against HEAD. However, a presubmit hook would run tests on the transitive closure of code depending on the changed code, and if anything broke, it was your responsibility as the committer to fix it or roll it back.

This is really what kept things stable. If you maintained a a common library and wanted to update it, you had to either keep things backwards compatible, write an automated refactor across the codebase (which wasn't too hard because of awesome tooling), or you would get dozens of angry emails when everything broke. If you relied on a library, you had to be sure to write solid e2e tests or your code might silently break and it would mostly be your fault.

I definitely miss the big G, so many resources were dedicated to engineer productivity and tooling. It's what makes the monorepo work.
Tech companies in california would continue to be incorporated in Delaware and just have their servers + headless dev stations in Nevada.
"When it takes hours or more to run tests and produce a build it can really slow the team down. "

I don't think those are necessary artifacts of a monorepo. A huge chunk of code does not mean that every component there is connected.
The whole issue is that some machines been force-upgraded to windows 10 despite users explicitly (or so they thought) responding multiple times that no, they do not wish to upgrade; and then failing to work correctly because of e.g. driver issues.

This is not acceptable behavior - I can understand automatic upgrades that are fully backwards compatible, e.g. a security patch; but upgrade to windows 10 isn't like that.
This works because they have teams dedicated to reproducing the work everyone else gets from their ecosystem's community.

For us non-googlers, would you trade away the benefits pip,gem,npm for single source of truth?
Oh my, waiting for this announcement forever! I was always anxious about the fact that so much data from Indian users had to be hosted outside.
"Lighter wheels are like the SSDs of cycling: biggest bang-for-the-buck."

Completely wrong. Biggest bang for the buck is low CRR tires, then skinsuits, then, I don't know, maybe helmets. Then 100 other things, then light wheels.
Isn't it just connecting a coax cable to the wires underground?
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I have a Nexus 6p, which I connect to my car via Bluetooth for music and navigation.

The dropped audio, stutters, and need to reconnect are driving me crazy. I've now switched back to a generic audio cable.

Bluetooth reliability really is dire, the phone is within 10m of wherever the car transceiver is and in the designed hotspot too (inside the car) and it still fails.
> labor enjoys none of the same benefits.

Yet median wages and environmental protections have been trending upwards in China since they opened up in the 1970s. The same is true in western nations.
You speak of "free market" but next you would like to "impose some corrections"? Doesn't sound like free market at all.

How about you stop buying VW cars if you disagree with what the company did (let the market do its work)?
This part is interesting. What if someone who didn't cheat thought it could be done and then did it so they could compete with them?
Could you sell me on Scala over C#?
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Bit late, but an R&D contact from StartCom told me that they will be supporting IETF ACME with StartEncrypt, with the possibility of open source as well.
This is precisely what the fine is doing. Fifteen billion dollars of the market capitalization was wiped out, directly impacting shareholders. The stock has lost about 40% of its value since news of scandal broke.

You can argue it should be worse, but we don't need some special new mechanism. The fine can be anywhere from $1 to the the market capitalization+1 and the effects would then range from a slap on the wrist to bankruptcy and the loss of all equity in the company for shareholders.
Most likely they will. Maybe they won't, because part of the process is a certain indoctrination that their employees are more than just talented or clever, but are actually special. And you can convince an employee of a lot of things if you start by convincing them that they're special.

Mostly, though, I worry about the ripple effect that's been on the industry. I have friends who are in the medical field, dealing directly with surgeries, childbirth, life-saving (or potentially ending) drugs, and they're taken aback by the kind of interview requirements that so many tech companies have. A Nurse Practitioner can get a job in an ER in a heartbeat, but a front-end developer building React components needs a collective two full days of interviews? Something about that just doesn't make sense to me.
I wonder how much the unusability is actually related to weapon carry right. I mean, of course sword skill is useless for defence if you cannot carry a sword with you. If it were otherwise, like in pre-Meiji Japan, I'm sure kendô skill would be better than nothing. But given that by the time warriors were taught real military fighting and not martial art in the modern meaning, the question is a non starter. So I agree with you and your teacher.

Interestingly enough, from the 6 different clubs (aikidô, karate, iaidô, nippon kenpô, shaolin temple box, sumô) that were demonstrating their art at some event, the most effective or useful one seemed to be... sumô and nippon kenpô. The sumô dudes were very strong and had serious skill for putting done someone on the ground. The boxer kicks were pretty serious too. On the other side, the way people falled on aikidô kata seemed pretty fake, not to mention the karate dudes fighting thin air.
A MRO tech at a potato chip factory told me the chip bags are filled with nitrogen. So maybe they are free of oxygen inside.

I think many nonperishables with expiration dates (distilled water etc.) have to do with degradation of the container.
Mmm, two things of note:
1) As has been mentioned, I'm fairly sure you can fix on a given dependency.
2) Changes to upstream libraries trigger tests on consumers of that library, so breaking changes tend not to happen.
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This is great news. Sites hosted in India load much quicker than ones hosted abroad.
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Imagine what Microsoft could have made out of Access. It really should have been extended to a full blown multi-user server/client DB system, keeping the RAD capabilities. It would have really rocked as a replacement for all the Lotus Notes databases (that are still around). Instead we got SharePoint :(
I'm in Canada and we've declined people from attaching anything to their balcony's railing. If they want to put a dish on the balcony, it has to be on a stand. My upstairs neighbour has one like this.

We've done this rule about attaching things to the building/railing because the building is actually two buildings one is a heritage building so nothing is allowed to be attached without prior approval of the heritage committee of the city. Since that building can't do it, we made the decision to do it for the new building.

We had to get permission to use a new type of metal shingle that looks like a traditional shingle but it has a 50 year warranty. Since that roof can only be serviced by one company in town (it has a steep roof like a church so only that company is actually able to do it) we wanted it done once and not have to worry about it. Even the method we used to clean the outside of the building had to be approved.
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Unless it's about laughing. Then it usually is metaphorical.
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In Google it is somewhat connected, actually. Sometimes engineers have to run ALL tests over the repo. And it takes hours (better be scheduled overnight!).
Although they might have fixed that already.
A monitor is not a life critical device, unless another critical device depends on the monitor's telemetry. Bluetooth is perfectly adequate in this case.
To clarify, I was saying that I as a layman cannot properly understand that answer on Reddit. My attempt at saying it with a touch humor has failed.
I can't see why I can't have both...

If my central package repo had genuinely reproducible builds, such that I could download the source, run the build process and know that I had the same output that the repo held, then I think that I would love to have a setup where:

- I could "add a dependency" by having an automated process that downloads the source, commits it as its own module (or equivalent) in my source repo, tags it with the versioned identifier of the package, and then builds it to make sure it matches what the package repo holds.

- I could make local modifications to the package if I needed to, and my source control would track my deviation from the tagged base version

- I could upgrade my package by re-running the first step, potentially merging it with my local changes.

Hmm, I think I just described the ultimate end state for Go package management...
I think the future of programming is multi-disciplinary. In a way it already is. If you know how to code well and you're experienced in another field that could benefit from it, there are an extraordinary amount of opportunities out there.
Yep! That's it, thanks for refreshing my memory. Looks like I would have found it if I'd been a bit more persistent with my search terms.
Your comment reminded me of cperciva's thread where he introduced Tarsnap - at one point someone challenged him about his braggadocio - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079

Also, it's neat to see Drew Houston comment in that thread, who as far as I know didn't win the Putnam, with ~ a billion net worth, and cperciva still working away in relative obscurity.
Sure. But none of your perfectly valid comment changes the fact that if you are clueless about a contract, you should either talk to a lawyer (or otherwise someone knowledgeable) or decline to sign it.

It goes without saying that employment contracts all use the same language, I have never personally run into a clause I found opaque or confusing.
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Good point. And the Federal court may actually stipulate that by saying "this is not a matter of Constitutional rights -- it is merely a challenge to a local ordinance and must therefore be contested in that jurisdiction."

AirBnB probably knew they'd lose locally, so either they thought "we'll end up appealing anyway, let's go right to the Feds" or "let's make a longshot stab at a 1st Amendment rights claim and avoid the local court."

They stand to lose at either level, because the SCOTUS has already weighed in on "the local government took unlawful control over my real property" -- a rent-controlled NYC landlord's case was turned down by the Justices a couple years back from even being considered in the Supreme Court.

And there are standing regulations already in place for hotels and motels.

AirBnb doesn't have a chance here, really.

The faux taxi services are somehow skating from being held to the bar for being illegal taxi services, but probably not for long.
Oddly vim/vim appears twice in the list:

347 40997482 vim/vim 5325

770 32795110 vim/vim 3356

Since the links are identical I tried to find the repo by id

curl https://api.github.com/repositories/32795110

{
"message": "Not Found",
"documentation_url": "https://developer.github.com/v3"
}

Any idea what happened there?
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If enough people do it they will simply remove the option to opt out.
The issue with it is that SQL is a bit different kind of language. When using it we don't tell the database what to do, but instead we say what we want. That does not translate well.

Second issue is that tables and their relations don't map too well to objects and their relations.
They're not exactly long term, though. In my city, they're turned over every 4 months or possibly 8 months. The biggest university has 4 month terms and their co-op programs alternate 4 months on 4 months off.