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The process that you are describing in language is incredibly far from being ideal, it's just a reality because language is truly distributed. It would be far better if we did not overload words, leading to a period of ambiguous transition before the word finally changes definition entirely.

Design language is still distributed, but not nearly to the same degree. If Apple decides that an old skeuomorphic logo is ambiguous, or not understood by younger user, or some other compliant like that they can change it and the new one will enter the design vocabulary very quickly.

Often these are helpful. A little logo with just a person is _much_ clearer to me than a contact book. Over time it would be best to shed all the strange associations with real world objects in favor of a design language that actually describes what the software does, instead of making a poor analogy to a real world object.
People who really like Windows (including me) generally seem to dislike the full-screen button in OS X though, so how is that placating anyone?

Everywhere I look I find people saying that window management in Windows is miles ahead of OS X. Even from people who wouldn't want to use Windows. If Apple wanted to placate those people, they would make the green button maximize by default, get rid of that ghastly global menu bar, fix the bad keyboard acceleration, make the Dock even more like the taskbar and add window snapping among a few other things.

I'm hoping some day someone at Apple will see the light. It only took them twenty years to realize that letting users resize a window by any corner or edge is a good idea and that one-button mice were really not a good idea so maybe by 2036 it will all change.
Perhaps it has to do with the myriad sub-specialties in Computer Science. They are distinct enough that the specific knowledge and experience of one is typically not transferable to another. I am thinking about such distinct specialties as electro-mechanical control systems vs. A.I. You wouldn't expect the controls pro with no A.I. experience to pass an A.I. interview simply on the basis of his general computer science experience. Same for a CICS programmer with no mobile experience interviewing for a Swift programming position.

This fragmentation implies that Computer Science really is too broad an umbrella. For sure, there is a lot of process related general software development knowledge that all of the above should possess. But most projects won't suffer an experienced developer's learning curve on a new sub-specialty, even if it only means a few months.

Do Statistics, Economics, Actuarial Science and Operations Research have a similar attribute?
yes but how does that approach help drum up awareness in their startup?! this thing has viral posting written all over it. (I actually have no issue with a startup doing this if it helps them)
Why do you think that?

Just because they treat Bitcoin as a commodity does not mean you can somehow avoid paying taxes on it. Compensation does not have to come in the form of cash to count as income (just look at stock allocations).
I never understand Nintendo's naming. NES, SNES, SP, DS, 3DS, NX?
> If it's self correcting then why does it not correct?

It is. Due to government-mandated lack of supply, the market is working its magic to make you have to move to the east bay.

> If lack of supply is a problem, then restricting that supply by 10-15% is part of the problem.

Sure, and if taxes were cut 25% you'd save a lot of money too. You still haven't identified anything special about section 8 that is holding you back from your dreams of temporarily lower rent. What about proposition 13? What about insane zoning rules trying to preserve the "character" of generic suburban neighborhoods?
"The people who are educated" can turn the full URL display back on in Safari's settings.
You make the assumption that being taller is better, even outside of social-perceptive advantages.

Otherwise you're making the assumption that Japan, because shorter, is somehow worse than a taller population country than Belgium.
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I posted a thread on a paper that discusses just this issue. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12165000
>The Emacs from 76 and GNU Emacs are totally different programs.

I know, but there were both definitive in their time.
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You do not have any legal reason to have to pay this but share it with current VCs so they are aware of the issue.
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As have I, but that is thanks to the largess of the those organisations, not any legal directive (as far as I'm aware).

It's pretty common for state-funded media to support audio streaming. However, video is much less common. If a person outside the UK (using a plain-old internet connection) tries to access BBC video online they are told they can't due to their location. This includes locations within the EU; I am presented with this message from Dublin.

Given that people in the UK and Ireland (and maybe elsewhere) pay annual fees to support the BBC and RTE and pay for production, licensing, etc. with those fees, it that they shouldn't be mandated to provide that service to people in other countries.
I think that would be a different crime though. Something like accessory to a homicide rather than money laundering.
1. Not everyone is a fluent English reader. If you are providing government services, you have to provide them to "dumb" people as well. "Dumb" in this case includes a lot of smart people who were not raised with English as their first language.

2. There is no official version of the English language. Pronunciations, spellings and style guides change over time.

Disclaimer: This post is subject to Muphry's Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law
Well it will be a almost dead set certainty to run OpenCL, hopefully it will have bindings / extensions to handle the SSD directly from your OpenCL code. Then all you need to do is port the code.
A 2-year-old can navigate an iPad because a touch screen requires less motor control than a mouse. The Norman/Tognazzini article points out the loss of discoverability, feedback, and recovery in iOS.

The most pointed criticisms I've seen of Apple's UI changes have been from people who work in visual media. "Serious content producers" use Finder for the same things as the rest of us. The interface isn't consistently more subtle; where color hasn't been removed, it's brighter and more saturated. iOS has moved in a similar direction aesthetically, so it isn't a matter of different interfaces for different audiences.
Totally agreed. I woke up once with severe arthralgia throughout my entire body, went to the ER and was asked to rate my pain level. Despite being the worst pain I've ever felt (woke up in tears due to the weight of the blanket on my toes), I answered a 7/10. Acute pain – not really a big deal.

Unfortunately, whatever caused the arthralgia was (and still is) a complete mystery, and by day 5 of having top pediatricians explaining "nothing is out of the ordinary" I pragmatically, unemotionally contemplated suicide for the first time in my life. Somehow the ailment completely disappeared over the following weeks and hasn't returned, but it's quite something to feel that pain will truly and honestly never stop. It's not even that your brain goes into panic mode. It's a different mode of existence altogether – I can't even imagine people suffering through years of pain even 1/100th of the intensity of what I had.
I would accept such a reduction, provided the reduced salary was still enough to live comfortably on while continuing to save money.

That said, there is another approach: work remotely, and avoid companies that insist on installing time / activity trackers on your work machine. This frees you from "seat time" metrics of productivity - if you can get the same thing done in 4 hours at home vs. 8 hours in the office, you gain 4 hours. (Versus an office environment, in which you'll either a) be expected to sit around doing nothing but looking productive for that time, or b) be "rewarded" for your efficiency with useless bullshit no one else wants to touch.)

Know that this will limit your opportunities for "career growth" within a company. The next level is to not care about that, and instead switch to consulting. Once you're doing remote work anyways, this is an incremental step where the only major difference is that your tax returns are now a bit more complicated. As a consultant, your "career growth" is being able to ask for higher rates over time.

If you have a good relationship from remote work with your previous full-time employer, you may even get them as a client! Just make sure that, when calculating your rates, you don't just divide your previous salary by 2000 hours - remember that you now have additional overhead that you didn't as an employee, like health insurance (in the US, at least), client development, and all those mini-breaks that employees take during the day that are now unpaid. The usual rule-of-thumb is 2x your previous hourly rate.

With the right setup, you can reduce hours without reducing salary ;)
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Yes this article doesn't seem to control for childhood nutrition.
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But what should happen when somebody retires? Stay working or get kicked out?
You're right, I suppose it's a continuum -- everything is incremental to some degree or other.

The Manhattan project is probably the best example, because there was nothing to build on except "science strongly suggests we could make a bomb out of this; we have no idea yet how to solve the practical issues, or even what all the practical issues are." It was partly incremental in that a much smaller nuclear bomb would still have been useful, but there was definitely a big risk that it just wouldn't work at all.
no, he missed one obfuscation trick that should be quite natural in java land - just create deep nested class hierarchies that serve no apparent purpose - AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean for everybody; no hope to understand what is going on here.
but I can appreciate the intent to preserve some degree of income diversity even in expensive neighborhoods

I agree, but it's not rich neighborhoods or rich people paying the price but the young middle class.
> Every time I see a colleague using command line to do git operations I get itchy and think to myself "oh, come on! I could've done this in gui in seconds".

What operation could you possibly perform significantly faster in a gui than on the command line? I can think of tons that would be far, far slower in a gui.

> to me using a GUI is more of a mark of valuing one's time than that of a novice

I would argue the exact opposite. GUIs are there to make things accessible to non-power users. A command line is just infinitely more expressive and will let you be much more efficient if you learn to use it effectively.

With nearly every program that I use I start by depending heavily on the GUI and then transition to using almost exclusively keyboard shortcuts as I become a power user, as GUIs are fundamentally inefficient.
Because it's an interesting and active project, it might make sense to resubmit the github link.
This may be a controversial opinion, but I do believe that a certain amount of surveillance is effective. It worked in London. It worked in New York.

But that is "using" technology. Not "crippling" it. I am sympathetic to the needs of the state, and I believe there should be some attempt to meet these needs, but with oversight, and with proper procedures and protections.

It's one thing to say James Bond doesn't have time to call back to 'M' to get permission to plant a bug but James isn't a massively industrialised automated spying operation. I'd give him sole dispensation on national security grounds but that doesn't scale up to the level that GCHQ and NSA were doing. The more actors involved the greater the possibilities for systematic abuse and that has to be acknowledged, and those questions answered.
Living through the evolution of the Web, it looks like money (especially ad money) and social networks encouraging people to broadcast their real identities (often doing so can be lucrative—see both traditional and Internet celebrities' use of Twitter, for example) are the main causes of (negative) changes.

Manipulative ad-spam typo-squatter sites basically took over the Web. Around '08 or '09 Google seemingly surrendered in the battle against them and took to just showing the same handful of trustworthy sites for most searches. Smaller communities and sites faded. Meanwhile, a huge percentage of "legitimate" sites have become nearly indistinguishable from ad-spam sites. The spammers won, in a way, by becoming the Web.

Youtube, briefly a kind of miracle of the information age, is so full of people trying to sell things or make a living at it that they've drowned out the earnest amateurs. Plus there's tons of advertising on it now. Just another bazaar full of haggling and people trying to pick your pocket, where once there was something like a community theater.

Broadcasting one's identity is valuable ($$$) but leads to the ongoing conflict between those embracing that and those viciously trolling them under what remains of traditional Internet anonymity. Now that there's money behind it, the old-school Internet reaction of "well yeah, why the hell did you put your real name and address on the Internet?" is being seriously challenged, even in tech circles, by "real names for all so we can hunt the trolls (oh, also anyone else we don't like, but surely that will never be a problem)!" The money in tying Web identities to real identities may well win, over the value of (even semi-)anonymous speech.

I don't see it as frontier versus civilization: I see it as pure human (and human-scale) expression versus (incomprehensibly massive and alienating) commercial exploitation. Commercial exploitation is winning.
Eh, give me Snow Leopard functionality and stability, and I'll live with either skin.
I had a laugh at the mention of the Number Nine Revolution IV graphics card.

Back when the SGI 1600SW monitor came out, I had more disposable income than common sense. I ended up buying two of them and the accompanying RevIV-FP graphics cards. They were they very best in LCD screens with a digital display connection (OpenLDI, which sadly never caught on), and continued to be so for years afterwards.

I continued using them for a long time in a dual-head setup, until support for the Nine RevIV-FP graphic card in XFree86 evaporated. By that time, monitors with DVI input were finally becoming widely available.

The uptake of digital display connections was frustratingly slow in the early 2000's. I had tried a couple different VGA LCD screens around the turn of the millennia, but I was disappointed with image quality of the digital->analog->digital conversion, which has since improved a lot.

Those 1600SW monitors were very expensive, but running them as long as I did, I suppose I got my money's worth out of them.

Actually... I think they're still in the basement somewhere...
This has been going on for well over a decade and it's accelerating. There are lots of vacant properties and new properties are purchased instantly for above asking.

Supply is being added at a decent rate for the population of the city but not everyone purchasing property lives in the city.
You know, at first I figured I'd use the original site, but I'm on mobile and the formatting is atrocious.
Aside from the quirky interpreations of "eg" and "ie" that triggered this decision, the abbreviations "e.g." and "i.e." are actually problematic, especially when dealing with non-native speakers (or even simply people who had no exposure to Latin).

"e.g." means "exempli gratia" -- I am fairly confident the majority of readers in an international audience (or maybe even a national one) will not actually know this and come up with their own personal backronym (like "ergo" or "example given").

"i.e." means "id est" (literally "that is") -- I know for a fact that even people with some exposure to Latin get this one wrong and instead think it means something like "in exemplum", which actually leads to people using it incorrectly when they should actually use "e.g.". I know this is what I did as a teenager in Germany (while learning Latin in school) and I know that this is what many of my German colleagues tend to do, simply because it seems like an obvious equivalent of the German "zum Beispiel" ("for example").

In the context of a website that explicitly tries to use simple English when possible, I think it is perfectly valid to preempt this confusion and not use phrases which are not actually English and can trivially be substituted with unabbreviated English equivalents in prose (whereas even the unabbreviated Latin would likely not help the reader).

EDIT: I'm not saying you shouldn't use "e.g." or "i.e." ever. I personally use them all the time. But it's absolutely consistent to avoid them when you're trying to use simple language to be understood by a broad audience with varying levels of comprehension.
I think this is just the blah and boring exterior of modern Apple hardware being carried over to the software inside.

I remember the beauty of the original iMac (compare the G3 to the current model at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac), or the beautiful clamshell iBook G3 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBook). Likewise, System 9 was beautiful, and the original OS X was even more so: it looked like candy, translucent and shiny.

Now, everyone praises Ives for turning out yet another rectangle with some circles on it. Someone really should buy him a French curve to augment his straightedge and compass …

The new macOS looks much the same: flat, boring, staid, plain.

Now, I personally don't really mind that (my own WM is dark, muted and mostly invisible), but it seems rather a betrayal of what Apple used to stand for: actual beauty rather than simply the lack of ugliness.
Mandatory vacations are also a good way to detect fraud. Most fraud schemes require ongoing work to avoid detection, and having someone else do your job for a while can lead to the scheme being discovered or unraveling in your absence.
I see what you mean but if you encrypt them you will end up with an extra encryption key... that you'll need to store somewhere else.. otherwise, holding just an encryption passphrase is pointless as it's just the same as having two login passwords.
Best marketing would include some sample videos.
What a lame corporate, promotional, piece. Seems like an excuse to:

1) Get their name on here despite them no doing anything interesting / News worthy.

2) Attract hires / advertise for free
I like the new look and feel and where the OS has been going in general.
That metaphor makes no sense at all. The commodity in question in that example would be "transportation" and the government can and should subsidize various forms of transportation for those with lower incomes. Nobody is proposing creating low income units that are incredibly high end in design and materials.
Same thing happened to me on desktop. They want me to click to another page for every 3-line paragraph? Gah!
Hehe, yes this is what I find rather strange.

In Germany, companies feel much more conservative (you have to be in office from 9 to 18), but you get 4-6 weeks a year off.

In the US, companies feel much more modern and liberal (you can work remote etc.), but you only get 2-3 weeks off.

I had to start freelancing, to get both benefits.
I work semi-remotely, and yes, it has several downsides, which can be mitigated by the company actively taking action.

On the flip side, companies get access to a deeper talent pool at a cheaper price. My current position used to be based in the U.S., but they couldn't manage to get developers to stay. In my case, for the price of one U.S. junior developer, they got two senior developers.

I do believe some face to face communication would make things smoother (at least two or three times a year).

A lot of great articles have been written on how to manage a remote team. It's definitely not for every company, and tools are not yet there (and probably will never be 100%, but they'll get "good enough" for the normal use case).

Edit: some of the articles -

https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2013/02/why-we-still-believe-...

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/BeingARemoteWorkerSucksLongLiv...
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There's a huge amount of books/music/movies/games that I have no means of obtaining legally. There's also tons of stuff I don't have convenient way to buy (e.g. no way I'm paying full HBO NOW subscription for watching a single TV show).
We are 16 years into 21st century now, it's about time for big-name producers to stop calling people "thieves" and offer them an acceptable service instead.
That's a good point. I'll have to think of ways to notice that–if there's a sudden drop in someone's productivity, or they seem obviously really tired, those should provide some early warning signs.
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As societies become more prosperous and free, women (generally speaking) are less likely to be interested in careers in IT.

[citation needed for sweeping generalisation]
A comment on another site said that the author had heard someone claim ‘eg’ was short for ‘egsample’.
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The Economist recommends "eg" (no full-stops) in its style-guide[1].
As does the Guardian/Observer[2], and the University of Cambridge[3].

There are counter-examples, such as AP and NYT, but this usage - without full-stops - is not uncommon or abnormal.

[1] http://www.economist.com/style-guide/abbreviations

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-observer-style-guide-e

[3] https://www.cam.ac.uk/brand-resources/guidelines/editorial-s...
The game was in beta and running on a small budget at that point. Core gameplay features were a higher priority than localizing units for an audience of nerds that understand SI just fine anyway. And they probably had badges in mind for awhile before they actually released them, so they likely knew of the issues that localizing units would've had.
4 day weeks in the summer sound awesome.
> you should absolutely not communicate with the other party at all

One very slight, but important, addition - don't even indicate that you are looking for your own legal advice. Mum's the word. Totally a slippery slope albeit plausible argument: "Investor A" might just be waiting for you to make a legal mistake. Even that post could work against you (deleting it could be worse). Keep your lips sealed and share the whole ordeal once you have reached postmortem, if you still want to go that route and your lawyer gives you the go-ahead.
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