skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
probably derived from Asperger ... Asperger --> Asperger-ish --> Aspberger-ey --> 'spbergery --> spergy
What about jumping up and down while giving your update? That could literally become an Amazon version of "how high" meme.
The docs @ Mozilla refer to the "WebExtensions" API, as if it was a standard.

Google get's me nothing though, except the Chrome API and Operas copy thereof.

So Mozilla basically just said: "Let's just copy the Chrome APIs. Done"

Don't get me wrong, I've written some Chrome extensions, and I think the API is mostly pretty great.
But wouldn't an actual standard be appropriate?
Having worked at a company with a lot of this that's now circling the drain, I can't disagree.
you would like my book, http://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textbook.

I had the exact same problems when I started out with Go, so I wrote this small guide, it helps because it teaches with an example ToDo app
Well, there's no governing standards committee on the English language, so I can't really provide you with an official definition. But here's the Wikipedia article - based on my skimming, its description seems about right to me:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand-up_meeting

I'm not wild about people trying to be pedantic about rigidly adhering to some idealized Agile-with-a-capital-A. But it's not rules lawyering to say that someone's completely missed the boat. And it sounds like whoever implemented the process at your former employer completely missed the boat.
Man I dunno. This is so tough.

On one hand, absolutely. Stacking params on params is a recipe for disaster. But often times with duplication you do need to update the duplicates. Which means you wind up with 6 pieces of code all similar but slightly different such that it fails in increasingly nuanced and edge casey ways.

No silver bullet unfortunately.
If you haven't seen an aspie thats aggressive and disagreeable, then you haven't seen an aspie outside his/her comfort zone.
Something nice would be to see, next to the tab title, the CPU resource taken by that tab. I don't mind pages loading a lot of resources, I mind pages killing my CPU.
You probably have not seen how it really works in China:

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=284

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=4297

There is no "stagnation in innovation", in fact I'd say things happen much faster because there's far more competition.
Similar problems in Switzerland. After the Lower Grindelwald Glacier partially melt to generate a lake, there were worries that a sudden outbreak would flood Interlaken. Also there were landslides. A short tunnel to drain the lake has been bored.
True. Here is the thing that works well in Austria: the ramen stage. The standard of living you can have on little income is phenomenal. Hardly a country like it. The trick is to keep all the capital in the company, pay the 25% corporate income tax, and only cash out once you made it. Total taxes will still be in the 50% range but if you fail you will still have had a nice ride.

Hiring people in Austria is another issue. Part of the high standard of living is all the employee protections. E.g. by US standards there is an ungodly amount of holidays. If you are a core team of founders or hire people remotely this can be mitigated.

Actually counter intuitive why Austrians tend to be more risk adverse. It's really a mental block rather than a systemic issue.
The rest of the EU has few fintech startups in part because financial passporting across the EU meant that fintech startup could serve customers in the whole of the EU from an office in London.

That's likely to change...

The idea that this is less of an asset to London startups than increased diversity of culture and regulation between countries is, to put it politely, utter nonsense.
That paragraph sounds pretty uninformed. I wouldn't take it too seriously.
Militaristic police abuses cause kickback by oppressed citizens, so the police escalate with killer robots.

Seems legit.
> Most successful big projects grow out of a successful small project.

This is probably true, one could even say that forming a big team from day one is cargo-culting others' success.
I fear that thanks to Hollywood etc, aspies and sociopaths bleeds over into each other in popular culture.

If Jobs as aspie, there is no way he would have been up on that stage every WWDC to woe the crowd with superlatives.
I would recommend Go with the Beego framework. It is very popular in the far east but not so much in English-language countries. Except that it is an excellent framework for Go. I have done RoR, vanilla Node.JS and Meteor, but I my preference is Go/Beego. Static typing and simple, consistent API.
Asperger is nothing like Forrest Gump or the Rainman characters, BTW.

It is like Holden Caulfield or Travis the Taxi Driver, or the Deer Hunter, or Rocky the Bum.
Oh for sure, I didn't mean to imply that Jobs was _only_ on the spectrum.

I work in film (in addition to tech) and know a lot of people on the spectrum that I think people who only meet autistic programmers would have difficulty recognizing.

Even in TFA, one of the descriptors is:

> They generally marry the first girl they date

Maybe, but in my experience, that's only one specific kind of person with Aspergers (who I agree definitely exists). However, at least in film and other artistic/people disciplines, that wouldn't describe the "typical" person on the spectrum—I think you mainly see that type in tech/engineering circles. (To be fair, that's what the article is focused on.)

In my experience, at least in the fields I work in, people with Aspergers are "sigmas" (to use PUA terminology for a moment) and have no difficulty whatsoever dating, meeting people, etc. Certainly they don't do it the "normal" way, but they're very successful.

UDPATE: Thinking about it further, most people on the spectrum are not intuitive feelers (in the Myers Briggs taxonomy), they're sensory thinkers. When you find an Aspie who is an intuitive feeler, like Jobs, it's certainly confusing to people: if he's an Aspie, how can he get up in front of crowds? Lead a team? Negotiate? Etc. Unpossible.

It's really just "normals" applying their own biases on what a normal person would/could do, without understanding what makes those on the spectrum—especially those that are more emotional/intuitive—tick.
Everything you said plus having a developer assigned to several concurrent projects. Jumping between different project setups, PM's, software designs, etc. is mentally taxing to an extreme. It leads me to make more mental mistakes. Rapid task switching is not conducive to quality, detailed work.
Autism is complicated. Asberger originally labeled people with these traits as people with "psychopathic autism".

I don't think Jobs was heavy on the nerdy side of the autism spectrum. More likely on the psychopathic side - I don't mean this in a bad way. Just trying to analyse things.
Legal is the problem. They have the code. We've confirmed that fact.
"It was pathetic to watch people sacrifice their principles just because they liked the convenience of X."

You said a mouthful.

This is what the last 14 years look like in my rear-view. To be honest, I did get kicked off FB for being too old, my Ebay junky problem preceded this century and I did love playing euchre w/ my gramma on Excite. Then the dotcom refugees came back and those start-up search guys came & wrote in big letters on the wall(and plainly in the 1st paragraphs of their EULA). Of course, everybody eventually follows the easy money path and the privacy fleecing is thusly justified, "Everybody's doing it!".
Uber only became a multi-billion dollar multinational corporation by deliberately flouting regulation. They never would have gotten that way if they had followed all the existing taxi regulations instead of lawyering up and fighting it. Disruptive companies never succeed by playing by the rules the incumbents set.

I'm really curious how you think a company would amass billions of dollars without actually being in business first, providing a service, having customers, and gaining revenue. Companies don't just start out as multi-billion dollar multinational corporations.
Can you explain why you're comparing this to presidential assassinations and not other rampage killers?
Released OrientDB 2.2.4
>If Jobs as aspie, there is no way he would have been up on that stage every WWDC to woe the crowd with superlatives.

Exactly...
Dispelling the myth that the autistic programmer is much better than more balanced people.

Not dispelling the myth about their existence or character traits, because we all work with at least one!
It sounds like your sales friend needs to be told "no" more often.

Because it turns out everyone is making those same requests and the product owners are putting "we'll put it on the backlog" as a soft no. A backlog needs to be shit that will actually happen.

Alternatively, the wrong things are prioritized. The backlog is not "first in first out." It's a "here are the next 5 most important things. Why is your special snowflake more important than that?"
We use QLink Reloaded, and Jasmaz is in our IRC channel to help. The issue is that QLink uses a really byzantine system of communication with the server, where it's constantly going"57, 26, 23" and each of those numbers means a very distinct function. No one has a clue what those numbers mean, so QLink Reloaded is basically only the bits that could be reverse engineered in this black box situation.

We have modified QLink Reloaded for our purposes, though.
I bought a small "SanDisk" branded USB-storage device, I plugged it in, and started transferring files to it while I went to lunch.

When I came back, the transfer was complete, I unplugged the device, and I burned my fingers!

So now I have a broken USB-port in my Macbook, because I trusted Amazon to not sell me a fake product. I wrote a review, and rated it poorly, but they are still selling it[0], and most reviews are positive. They even write "by Sandisk", and "Dispatched from and sold by Amazon".

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B005FYNSZA/
Medium post is taken from this original site: https://www.startupgrind.com/blog/venture-capital-is-liquidi...

Maybe a moderator can fix the original link.
The three laws are a literary device and not an engineering proposal.
The CNN video says "they're used to diffuse bombs..."

I don't think so. That would defeat the purpose.

"Defuse" maybe?
I don't understand the downvotes here.

I work in a London startup where about 90% or our engineers are not British. They tell me that they are already seeing adverts saying 'move to berlin/dublin' on their facebook feed. There is a real danger that as well as not being able to recruit people, the people that are already here will simply leave.
This is another one of the factors that makes development time estimates difficult. While adding/removing/improving the code, you realize that some part of the code needs to be abstracted/duplicated, or vice versa. And this could take unknown amount of time to get it done.

Also, this is where the technical dept incurs over time, if the abstraction/duplication is held off.
> I just don't understand how the situation got to the point of "we have no choice but to blow him up with our robot." I certainly realize that there are circumstances in which that would be the best option--news accounts that I've read so far just don't seem to justify it.

Agreed. The distinction isn't between robots and guns per se. It's that lethal force is only allowed when someone poses a grave and imminent threat, and it's hard to imagine such a situation where a slow robot is useful.
This fits in very well with the concept write code that is easy to delete: http://programmingisterrible.com/post/139222674273/write-cod...

And here's the link to that discussion earlier this year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11093733

Edit: fixed the typo where I said wife instead of write.
It's a bunch of bots.
I don't see the problem here. Why do highly paid individuals need to be kept in jail at all? Are you worried that some guy accused of embezzlement is going to suddenly turn into a violent offender and hurt someone? If so, then why do you offer him bail?

The whole concept of jail is just wrong and outdated. Unless someone is violent, they shouldn't be in jail at all to await trial. It costs taxpayers money and is pointless and destroys the lives of the accused, who are innocent until proven guilty at trial. If they're violent, there must be real evidence that they are, and in that case there should be no bail allowed (and if there's not enough evidence that conviction is a slam-dunk, then let them go until the trial). If there's not enough evidence because the police body-cams "weren't working", that's the police's fault.
Then you're in the situation that your code is a mess of copy-paste and its obvious what you should do, but management prefers that you work on features instead of changing "proven, reliable" code. Thus the mess is there to stay.
Given that he would sit down, read, and annotate, a technical spec, and then grill the reporter during the next day meeting on technical aspects, yeah he was.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/06/16.html
I bought a portapro during a Black Friday sale a few years and my experience was kinda like yours: it broke after a few months of use.
This is by design and it's a good thing. If every salesperson is allowed to drop high priority "but my client is asking for this NOW" work items on engineering, you'll end up in a tug-of-war of competing priorities from O(n) stakeholders who don't give a shit about planning or roadmap in order to make their sale. Been there, done that. A proper product owner can balance all such requests and figure out what actually is needed to move the product forward. Salespeople need to make a business case for getting their requests done. Potential monetary results alone is often not enough, for good reasons, to force a context switch in an engineering team.
I still believe that programmers are closer to the autist personae type than the average.

Doesn't mean that being a real autist mean you are a good programmer.
> If it's laughable then why does the EU have the lowest number of unicorns of any super region in the world?

After the US, and China (a closed market?)

https://www.cbinsights.com/research-unicorn-companies

> that a country like Denmarks export to the US is now rivaling export to germany and is said to go move beyond that.

15Bi to Germany, 5Bi to the US, 5Bi to the UK

http://www.worldsrichestcountries.com/top_denmark_exports.ht...

> There is not a single thread of evidence that the EU is making it easier to conduct business.

While I agree with the regulatory capture remark, how much financing comes from the EU again? Besides the single-market and freedom of movement facilitations.

> I am for the common market but the EU is killing the very advantage of having individual countries with different cultures by trying to harmonize their culture.

Yes, and as much as I don't like big bureaucracies, some countries have a tendency of having worse regulations and more bureaucracy than what we can expect with the EU

(and the EU usually doesn't touch purely cultural aspects, maybe in things like Cheese with Maggots or some other "traditional" dishes)
Bonus points for the relevant law responsible having 1984 in its name.
congrats on year 7!

I signed up years ago when delicious decided to completely redesign their service for no apparent reason and broke backwards compatibility with all plugins and made the main site less usable.

I am very happy that none of that asshattery is happening at pinboard and the site remains the boring plain ugly link collector that it is.

I do find myself using pocket more and more however and would be curious if Maciej has any thoughts on that service. seems like so far the've done everything right. Although they are aggressive with new features which to me is a little worrisome because sooner or later some executive will try to be brave and fuck it up with useless redesign.
Yes, I know that, but it was one of the selling points of Brexit
Vienna! ha ha ha. You better have some VC if you want to afford that kaffe. I was there for a few days earlier this year & felt like I was getting fleeced at every turn.

What is the point? About 30 minutes drive you come to Bratislava. They have the Euro, they have the more affordable everything.. including old slavic roots who kick some serious butt at everything programming & math related.

Nice parks though.
Agile principles allow for "wrong abstractions" as technical debt.

The goal is to keep the team moving forward and constantly refactoring.
Hey gang, I'm the guy behind the MADE. I'm available to answer any specific Habitat questions you may have. Additionally, we're in #made on Freenode, where we frequently discuss ancient computers. Feel free to drop in if you have any thoughts or questions about the project.

What we really need is to start talking to AOL legal about QLink code, as we know they have the code, we just need to get it into a form we can publicly preserve. That means legal chatter time.
You're welcome to my DB schema. https://static.pinboard.in/schema.htm

There seem to be a gazillion open source bookmarking projects out there. It's hard to go wrong if you're the only user and willing to host it for yourself.
>Your argument is flawed in that it reduces the talent competition to just one factor: the tax rate.

In Europe, London and Berlin have much better access to capital and bigger startup scene; these things have to happen, you can't legislate them. Tax rate and business environment is the only thing that can be changed by at will and perhaps make the rest happen.

>It ignores factors such as cost of living (which is, at least, equally important), and quality of life.

Where Austria wins how? Don't cite average statistics: how is life in Austria better than the rest for someone earning ~€10k gross a month? Note that's always connected with the tax rate.

Want really cheap living? Go to Bucharest, great internet is a bonus, also many local developers, 16% linear tax. Want great quality of life? A waterfront property in Spain, Canarias, or even Bali, some guys work like that.

People may stay if it's ok, but to make them move to you, you need to be the BEST at some linear combination of all important factors.

>Nonsense. Young people need healthcare as well, be it for something trivial as flu medication or a visit to the dentist

Why do you need insurance for that? Just go and pay out of pocket.
Btw there's no such thing as flu medication. The only medication you may need is something to decrease temperature, but that's OTC.

>or something far more serious.

Which is very unlikely if you are young. Even then, outside of US health care isn't that expensive.
What is likely to change? The UK was the most important financial market before the EU.

No nonsense about that at all. Switzerland is doing just fine as far as I can see and they are not members of the EU.

But I understand that its politically charged and people has a hard time tempering their anger which yours and the previous post are nice examples of.
Netflix works great with Chrome on Linux.
Well...two decades ago, 500 GB of data would have been moved as freight, too. Data expands to fill any available capacity - I don't think there is any way around that.
Someone named "Monte Davidoff" seems to have helped them.
I'm so glad to hear a pithy saying given to this.

So many times I've fought for ripping out some indirection-heavy pattern and just doing {thing} procedurally, only to run up against the concern of the duplication it'll introduce.
I think the point of the article is to catch eyeballs and get shared because "I'm pleased to announce that I'll be teaching a public Practical Object-Oriented Design course in San Francisco on May 9-11, 2016" ...
If by multilingual you meaning speaking english in addition to their mother tongue, I agree. If by multilingual you mean speaking fluently another non english language I disagree, only a small minority do. Particularly in a population of technical people (since we are taking about start ups).
AttoASM: A Language for the WPU (Weird Processing Unit)
> sometimes ending with "hey Dave, I need your help in X, let's talk it afterwards"

Which means, given a 8 hours working day, that you've been needing the help of Dave since the previous day, for an average of 4 hours, and you didn't ask him yet?
California has open borders with the other members of the United States.
We're going to have to get used to more of this sort of thing as 3D printing and CAD/CAM continue to be more accessible to the masses, as then it won't be possible to dismiss knock-offs as coming from "the Chinese".

(I think this fight is going to look a lot like the MPAA/RIAA vs. everyone-who-listens-to-music wars of the 2000s, except this time for real money.)

It sounds like the real problem here, if there is one, is that Amazon's rating system isn't good enough at preventing fake ratings.
Organic Machines Mix Animal, Robot Parts
Thanks for sharing. I wish more companies would do this as it alleviates some of the interview pressure from the candidate.
I feel like search should follow the other per-page options (which go up to 160, I think?). So someday I'll fix that.

The number of daily signups and so on has been steady for years, I'm glad someone else is worried about it, so I don't have to be.
I see the author's point, but it overlooks code maintenance.

At step 4, where "Time passes" it should read, Programmer A fixes bugs, optimizes, adds features, etc. Repeat.

If the code is duplicated, the maintenance effort is also duplicated or the duplicates diverge significantly making them more difficult to understand in relation to each other. Why does methodA do this, but methodB does that?

Tools can help prevent ProgrammerB and ProgrammerX from coming in and stinking up the place. Set up sonarqube and let it tell them they must pass the quality gate before merging.
>they aren’t actually very good at allocating resources to the right problems for europeans because they have no feedback mechanism //

Do you have something in mind here, some examples. One of the big things at the moment is how well EU money was targeted to poor areas in need of social support. All these poor areas seem to have voted to remove vital EU subsidies; there no way the Tories are going to reinstate any of it (nor spend any saved capitation on the NHS, IMO, not without first privatising it).

Doesn't a collapse pound make it much harder for businesses that import or use overseas factories at all. It may be a small effect but if it's as easy to startup something in the EU, then surely even a little advantage is good?
Lots of good HN discussions of Linux signals:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=linux%20signals&sort=byPopular...
Then you should read some of the SEC's enforcement actions on what they perceive to be fraudulent Ponzi schemes

My conclusion is that it is extremely relative.

The definition of "Ponzi scheme" is quite simple, because what Mr. Ponzi did was quite simple. It works until it doesn't. It doesn't matter if your reputation is 1 year old, or 20 and "one of the best", while you are able to pay investors nobody questions anything despite how obvious the source of funding is, if you are unable to pay investors and halt redemptions then you have a problem.
I want me bookmarks provider to be free of politics

care to provide a reference? Missed this.
I'm confused because it's been possible to edit a URL for years, in the web interface. Maybe you're referring to an API call?
You can use Shift+Escape for that
Don't panic. Wait until the dust has settled (maybe a year) and then start taking decisions. I'm certain everything will look much less dramatic by then.