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I didn't downvote your comment, but I do want to provide a response for anyone else reading:

This comic gets linked quite a lot when discussing new systems, and I and many others see it as a fairly low-effort jab. I'd venture a guess that anyone reading HN has seen this comic before, and the creators of systems like Matrix are certainly not oblivious to it as common criticism.

While there is danger of becoming yet another variation that doesn't "win" or solve problems in a meaningful way, the folks developing systems like Matrix think they can do more to help by approaching these problems in a new way than they can by throwing up their hands and living with the problems, and I think that effort deserves respect.

It'd be more constructive to do some reading about the protocol, become more familiar with it, and share more specific criticisms that concern you than to drop a link to the comic everyone has seen before.
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Nothing in that comment said you can't do whatever you want - it said, quite specifically, it's bad form to do it, and then explained exactly why that was the case.

Plenty of libraries break API/ABI all of the time. Notoriously FFMPEG was/is terrible about it. But depending on libraries that are hugely unstable in this way is terrible, so in most cases, people go out of their ways to avoid doing so (most frequently using another library, or in harder-to-avoid cases creating an interposer library to smooth out the instabilities of the underlying library).

OSS developers probably know more than anyone in the world that the most expensive thing to do in software engineering is maintaining a piece of software as time moves forward. Anything that makes that job more difficult needs to have an enormous upside to make it worth while, and in almost every case, using an unstable library is just not worth the extra maintenance costs attached.
> had you ever considered that there might exist a word describing exactly why cat videos are popular?

"cute"?
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> would be seen as in effect the start of Brexit
> negotiations

No, as much as I was pro-Remain, and as much as I have sympathy for their perspective, the start of Brexit negotiations was this:

> "No informal EU talks before Britain invokes Article
> 50, says Germany"[0]

[0] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-germany-idUSKCN...
Looks nice.

Good colors

I suggest to change font size and line hight to

Font-size: 1.30rem;
Line-height: 1.65;

It gives a more calm feeling. But it affects how many words are per line (as its a bit bigger) so suggest also to make the text wider

Width: 44rem;

Other inputs: The color headline seams strange and out of context.

The chapter indications (I, II ...) are too big in a too large space to understand what is going on. I suggest you eighter center them, make them a tiny bit smaller or make the space above and below a tiny bit smaller.

The font is named

â€˜yoga-serifâ€™

its an ansi representation of a UTF8

‘yoga-serif’

so im not sure it will ever render yoga-serif. You must use

'

or

"

around strings in css - but as there is no space in the name you can remove the ‘ and ’

and good content too :)

Why dont you put it on github so people can contribute?
Gotta take a sec to recommend his book Why Engineers Need to Grow a Long Tail. It's an unusual and inspiring book.
It will be hard to argue (esp. in front of judges) for SLAs on free services.
Clojurescript is what introduced me to the Closure compiler. It killed three birds with one stone: it unbloated the client build, saved me from writing validation logic twice in two different languages, and I can stop writing JavaScript.
Look into recycling it to somebody who could use a computer. Maybe it is someone down on their luck or struggling to survive and can't find a way forward or an elderly person or just a kid who could do with their own computer.

Slap Ubuntu on it and pay it forward. If you gift it to somebody looking to use it for more than Facebook then stick some free ebooks for Python or such on it.

It is easy to think "but everyone has access to a computer" and while that is mostly true having your own computer is very different from access to one.

My father is a teacher and has recycled three laptops (and a desktop a long time ago) to kids living on the poverty line. I know at least one was very grateful as I got a lovely thank you letter from them.
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You do understand that the reason the government uses contractors is specifically because they do NOT want to hire software engineers for projects that do not last more than a year or two, similar to how most private companies now operate? It is incredibly hard to lay off federal workers, not to mention a typical GS14 will make more than a good dev after adding in federal benefits, pension, etc.

Yes some of the big boys are wasteful and overpriced, but I can ensure you that the federal government itself would be 5x worse, especially since, in DC, at least, the typical GS level employee has absolutely no experience in software engineering, and many times less authority to make good decisions.

Anyway, I've seen a few of these types of enterprises sprout up in the last 5 or 6 years in DOD land. They are sometimes referred to as 'boutiques' in contrast to the big players like BAE, Northrop, Lockheed, etc. They tend to have much younger engineers, SV type office environments, and a lot of hubris.

I'm currently making a good salary via cleaning up their MongoDB, Node, and bloated AngularJS messes that never performed half as well as the old systems running Java and a real RDBMS.
For everyone using an ad-blocker, here's a working link:

https://archive.is/tdF2L
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Every half year there is a new version and then you get new bugs.. for which you have to buy the next version to get it fixed.
All true, but for some reason he sees the major libraries as a different beast and I just don't see why, which is why I wrote it strikes me as odd.
> Even more interesting as it's not dual-core as in two 6502 cores, but one 6502(or 6510, I expect, as bank switching and the tape port won't work on the C64 otherwise) and one Z-80...

There was a bbc setup with a second CPU on the other side of the 'tube' which had a Z80 option.

http://mdfs.net/Software/Tube/Z80/

http://www.primrosebank.net/computers/bbc/bbcz80.htm
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I don't think my app died with 200 users purely owing to the technologies I used. Those may have not been the best tools for the job, but with some precautions, I could have made them work fine.

If I see performance issues with Mongo, I will switch. But I don't want to switch just because I can.
If you're not satisfied with the amount of personnel at DMV, then you should vote the guys out who cut their personnel budget time and time again.
I hate cardio with a vengeance, and the most effective way I've found of getting past that was to make use of meditation techniques: Fix my mind on my breathing, and keep it there. Not allow myself to pay attention to anything else. First time I did that, I ran twice as long as what I'd one previously. It works great for activities you can do "automatically", whether the reason you want to stop normally is because they're physically demanding, or boring (like cleaning the house).

Another approach is to set a goal, but keep moving the goal posts.

"Tricking yourself" that way can be surprisingly easy - I first consciously tried that (though I'm sure we've all done it without thinking about it) after thinking about how easily we trick ourselves into continuing pleasurable activities that way, or procrastinating ("only 10 more minutes, then I'll start working"); it works quite well for me as a means to continuing exercise or work too.

What'd be incredibly intimidating as a goal at the outset suddenly seems a lot more achievable if you set a more modest goal to start with.
My real life must be very poor, today I learned another meaning for mount, previously I thought it was a word for installing a controlling sector in a hard disk, to sum up there is hard evidence that I should live more and use computers less, lets say that I should mount life. Context: English is not my native language.
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I think all experiences on this will be highly variable for virtually every aspect ofyour experience. If they're receiving tips, they are supposed to report it; not doing it isn't a fringe benefit, it's just the government electing not to pursue the matter.

Likewise, some bartenders will pull hundreds based on location, their appearance, their social skills. Others will either get no tips or very few for a whole night. Some bar tenders wil work high volume bars at clubs and process hundreds of sales a night with minor tips. Others will work a bar in a restaurant or a hotel and get maybe a few customers a night.

There really isn't a blanket understanding of bar tender wages simply because it's incredibly dependent on factors outside of the work itself. Whether or not it's a long term career is kind of irrelevant; I don't think too many people go into bar-tending with the idea that this is it for their life, it tends to be a failback when other options just don't pan out. Regardless of how long they do it, while they're doing it, if a city wants to have these workers and bars as part of a city life, they should probably make an effort to ensure that the workers have a place to live and can eat at least, else they will have to leave by necessity.

Like, the idea of a career job versus a non-career job seems very arbitrary here; the expectation of a living wage is kind of basic for work - it's why most people do the work thing. Sometimes it's labor of passion, but a lot of times, it's "I can do this and someone is willing to pay me for it."
And it's not as if we didn't have pencils before economies of scale kicked in either, the invention of the pencil (1564) pre-dates much of the mechanisms described in 'I, Pencil' so at one point it was definitely possible to know the entirety of pencil-making.

Even so it serves as a very graphic reminder of how interconnected all of humanity and industry is at this point.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/page/p/pencil.sht...
It's worse when you have the exact problem laid out and the customer support guy knows less about the product than you do.
Two years ago, I talked to the Dell Customer Support about my failing hard drive and showed him the tests I ran to verify it.

He: What do you mean by failing hard drive? Is it not booting?

I showed him bad sectors in my hard drive.

He: Is the problem solved?

I: No! You have done literally nothing to solve my problem.

He: But your laptop is booting now, right?

I: Yes, it is, for now. But it won't in a few days.

He: I think your laptop has no problem. Have a good day.

I did take a backup and my hard drive did fail completely a week later. So much for tech support.
You might be surprised how much support there is for RSS. It is a very easy way for media sites to integrate with social networks and external services. They might not show a feed link to an end user, but if you can guess its URL, then you're in.
But not everyone wants to live in an apartment/flat there are serious downsides to lease hold property's.

A co worker was on the residents committee for a block of flats (london UK) that had to have the roof replaced not cheap and the original contrcator did it wrong and they had to sue them and have it redone.
> I can still hear my drill instructor yelling, "You aren't tired until I tell you you're tired!" He was right.

I wonder why Rhabdo[1] isn't more prevalent in basic than it is.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhabdomyolysis
These gross generalizations are horrible. There is no European way and I doubt there is a homogenous US way either.
I heard different story: there is no such thing as "mental fatigue". The reason why we get tired when doing office work is:

- our muscles need to support our body while sitting.
- most mental work includes some dose of stress, which is a real reason of fatigue.

Buy yourself best chair you can find plus do stress-free, enjoyable work and you can go 16 hours straight, without fatigue. At least that's how I felt about all-weekend-long Quake matches back then when I was living in dormitory.
In R a data-frame is a list of vectors (in Python parlance, a dictionary of arrays). Therefore the length of a data-frame is the number of columns and an iteration over a data-frame iterates over its columns. Iterating over the rows can be done but it's generally better avoided because it's highly inefficient. The reason is that since the columns have different types each row has to be represented as a list. This is also true in Python, as far as I know.
I would prefer they raised it to 90%.
What exactly do you mean by PITA? In most cases in my experience, you have two very simple choices - 1. don't modify the existing API / public structures as you change things and the ABI will stay safe; 2. just change things and bump up major number when necessary.

The third way of carefully doing only additive modifications to the library to preserve ABI even over upgrades is hard - that's true. But I don't think it's needed that often once most of the features are in. And again - it applies only if you've got some really popular software that gains anything by doing it this way, rather than just bumping up the version.
I read it as "it's bad form, although it has been known to happen."
Is there also a Gentoo profile for a system-wide clang/llvm? Add libressl and musl (instead of glibc), and it would be quite a different and advantageous linux distro.
To reliably recognize something as an ad, as opposed to important information, would require very sophisticated processing. Scenario: "Sorry officer, I didn't see that road sign, my glasses thought it was a billboard."

And you need to do it in real time, within the constraints imposed by a device you wear on your nose.

If you are Google or Microsoft Research, maybe this is something worth thinking about.
This is so wrong I don't even know what to say.

Python is a beautiful object oriented language. Very much so.

Java is not different at all, I'd say go for Haskell or similar to get something really truly dif
This is going to be similar to the Kansas Experiment but a scaled up version.

Can Britain really afford to cut taxes ? It has already cut services to the bone, while running a large twin deficit.

Ireland can afford lower tax rates because its such a small country - Dublin is nothing like London and can survive on low investment, and Ireland does not have complex public health service like the NHS.

Also lower rates really doesn't mean anything if you are unable to access customers. What Brexit represents is a demand shock to British business, a kind of deflation that has caused the collapse of society in the past.

A market of 55 million people is too small for doing any serious 21st Century type globalized business.
The wages of winning is ruin ...

You cannot buy that kind of comedy with money
Thanks, I will try to find some time and join your team and help with development. I lost hopes in tox despite being much more mature than matrix.
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You would willingly give up the french language if asked to and replace it with english? As a french person too, this is inconceivable for me. I don't think cultural identity is really possible without languages. French culture would not be the same french culture if everyone spoke English.
He is not saying that the "big guys" are allowed to break APIs. He is remarking that in the case of major libraries, they break APIs. Thats simply an observation, nothing else.
I put an undemanding Linux on it and passed it to my 6-year-old daughter.
A language carries its philosophy inside the words. Not all philosophical concept can be easily translated in other language. Take a Hindi/Sanskrit word "Aatma/Ātman" for example, it is translated into english as "soul".
But it is wrong translation as plant, animal don't have "soul", while even bacteria have "Aatma/Ātman".
If Sankrit is lost then the concept of "Ātman" will also be lost.
Create your own home VPN, useful on restrictive network environments like office, school.
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Bullocks!

Source: any movie by Vasco Santana from the 1930's to 1950's..
Why do you think it's not your own fault of consuming way too much anti-(Brexit/Trump) propaganda?
I think you are interpreting it as "Major libraries are allowed to do it sometimes."

I think what he meant to say is "Even major libraries do it sometimes." It is already understood that minor libraries do it.
Or Modula-3, if you're not going the minimalistic route of the Wirthian tradition.
If you haven't touched Pascal in 20 years you should refrain from making comments about the language not being fit for development productivity and code quality, it simply isn't true.
There were quite a few articles on ZDnet like this:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/why-we-need-software-patents-an...

Which were pushing software patents for all they were worth (not much), in recent years.

Keep in mind that this is one of those 'retry until you get it' subjects, that will be pushed over and over again until the ratchet clicks and then you're stuck with them forever.

We owe M. Rocard a great debt for keeping Europe free as much as possible of this nonsense and it's sad to see him go.
I understand that position. Why should everyone waste time on negotiating if there is the very real possibility that Britain backpedals and stays?
Why, in the age of cosplay, when majority choose to roleplay (intelligence in case of hipsters) instead of acquiring real abilities, there is no wonder that other people decided to cosplay fitness (by consumption of certain products and services, dressing and acting, like hipsters do).

This, by the way, probably has something to do with gang and criminal sub-cultures of role-playing of success and presumably high social status they actually lack.

Two thirds of those fitness obsessed could not even run a 10km, but spending thousands for their image of being extremely fit.

Nothing new under the moon. The social media created this new age of mass cosplay and role-governed behavior. Instead of beatniks, hippies or Elvises of old days we got this role-playing mediocrity.
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Make it as a free VPN/VPS for other to connect to...
For French speaking people, original article is http://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/michel-rocard-heros-victorieu...
> Ireland does not have complex public health service like the NHS.

Ireland has a complex public health system whose cost is comparable to the NHS, it is however not of the same quality.
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This. Working with SO versions is much easier in my experience than working with Ruby gems where every minor upgrade could (and sometimes would) break everything.

So with shared library dependencies, you can be very broad (e.g. "any libm.so.5 please") and get security updates etc. automatically without needing to recompile, while in "modern" programming languages you will be locked onto old and rancid libraries because the app developer doesn't bother updating the locks.
Any why is that?
Thanks for clearing that up, now it does make sense. In R most functions handle vectors as well as scalars without distinction, so normally one would use the function directly. Whereas if you wanted to process each element of a vector individually then you'd use apply(). It works the other way around.
You're saying they shouldn't? Seems a fairly straightforward strategy: by calling them out on it, they either force the UK to step up and invoke article 50 or to have their bluff called out. Both outcomes weaken the UK's ability to negotiate and remove the threat of leaving from the table as a weapon the UK could use.

Seems like a decent plan, why would they possibly want to negotiate something with the UK, only for them to potentially make a heel-face turn and not leave?

In other words, they have very little, if anything, to gain by negotiating anything before the UK makes a move.
It's not always that "natural" of a selection. Many native Americans were basically kidnapped and forced to learn English. Governments in the past have intentionally tried to eradicate languages with the mistaken belief that one language is superior and more communicative and another is barbaric or degenerative. This still happens in the form of dialect prejudice, which is institutionalized in the American public school system. People tend to project their prejudice towards a particular group of people onto their language. This has been proven many times with dialect perception experiments. I think we have an obligation to preserve cultures and languages that have been eradicated due to ignorance and prejudice, and we need to learn from the past and stop trying to enforce linguistic standards in school. If a single homogenous language is necessary, it should emerge naturally.

Having said that, languages do die naturally for socioeconomic reasons too, and I agree that it's unnecessary, and probably harmful to try to force people to use a language that they have no socioeconomic incentive to use.
You push for true individuality, where people are own agents and don't feel the need to associate (as in mix ones identity instead of subjective taste) with religion, politics, brands or other points of contention.

Problem is that those groups have vested interests and human beings are likely too social and irrational to refrain from belonging to "inner circles" and construct inane belief systems.

Having a slightly autistic streak might help though, to naturally be less immersed in group-think or feeling the need to belong.

We seem to be able to accept differing tastes in for instance food or temperature/weather, so people are capable to disagree on taste without feeling the need to take that difference to an emotional/irrational level and segregate into clans. I guess liking spicy food isn't generally felt to be a crucial defining factor of one's identity... at least to the level of wanting to attack or murder each other.
Business tax at 90 percent?!

Do you want all businesses (that can) to move out of the country?
It reminds me of the pre-crash stories about corporate lawyers and then investment banking working mad work weeks. The difference at least in the case of SV that more people seem to enjoy their work.
The position is easily understood, but that doesn't mean it wasn't the first salvo in negotiation.
He said his knowledge "might be rudimentary and without much detail" - it is perfectly possible to understand how something works (in a general sense), without building a prototype yourself.
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This has bad-faith written all over it.

I think a court would agree.
Why? If corporations are taxed to the point where there are negligible profits they will cease to do business in Britain. As corporations leave for other markets (or simply go out of business) so will the jobs.

That's not to say corporations should not be taxed (although a coherent argument could be made for zero corporation tax), but certainly taxing corporations out of existence is a bad idea.
> You're saying they shouldn't

No, I'm saying it was positioining, and unambiguously the declaration itself was the start of negotiations, just as threatening to slash corporation tax in the UK is also a negotiating position.