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To a certain extent weather makes preppers of us all. I daresay people in Syracuse can rely on harsher weather coming more regularly than down here on the Texas coast. We get hurricanes and tropical storms but they have the entire Gulf Coast and Eastern Seaboard to choose from.

Every time a storm comes we get the usual advisories to stock up on a few days of food, check flashlight batteries, fill a clean tub with tap water for drinking, etc. Those things are drilled into your head from grade school and are repeated on news broadcasts before every major storm.

What's interesting is the unexpected byproduct of outages. Particularly here in the South home construction techniques have changed over the last 100 years. Older homes have lots of large, screened windows, whole house fans and vented attics to help move large amounts of air and help with heat. Even without power you can open all your windows and get a cross breeze. New construction is heavily insulated, has fewer windows and makes no concessions for mass airflow outside the air conditioning system.

Hurricane Katrina was an epiphany for many home owners down here as power was out for weeks afterwards; previously comfortable homes became sweltering hotboxes. The effect on local generator supply was immediate and obvious: sold out everywhere. I heard through the grapevine of entrepreneurs driving down truckloads of them to make a quick buck.

Even so gasoline-fueled generators can be difficult to keep fueled after a hurricane - people leaving the city have a tendency to deplete supplies and gas stations may not have power to pump. But natural gas tends to stay on even when power fails since gas distribution systems can have their own generation and some use the fuel they're moving to maintain pressure.

All the anecdotal evidence I have points to a heavy uptick in natural-gas-fired whole house generator sales after Katrina. In fact there was a trend for a while of new construction actively advertising whole house generator inclusion. I think it happened to a lesser extent again after Ike. Life really stinks down here without air conditioning. I guess my point is most preppers seem to concentrate on food and water, but at least down here electricity is high on the list. :-)
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>he wrote a really bad article full of personal attacks, misinformation, belittling comparisons

Calm your sensibilities, it's nothing of the sort. It's an op-ed piece that has a negative bias against Thiel (who has also said dumb things). Why does this site criticize any piece that speculates are conveys opinion?
Are these meetings something that you have only discussed online (setting up to meet others and "the person" shows up too)? You could look at setting up something and see if they show up? If that happens I would reset my phone and computer at home. email is in my profile should you have any additional questions that you might not be comfortable dropping here.
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Does "don't add your 2 cents" [1] contradict what you said?

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12156234
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1. As far I as saw from the article, this is mostly for negotiating more power, not less. I just skimmed it, though.

2. A USB hub might have less than the full 500 mA to offer to each of its ports if its host only offers 500 mA and it does not have a separate power supply (which four-port hubs usually don't).
why yet another image library? what is the difference between existing solutions?

random google search results:
http://image.intervention.io/
http://imanee.io/
https://imagine.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
https://packagist.org/search/?tags=image%20manipulation
...
I think the reason may be twofold. One, for many of us - myself included - hardware stuff is almost magic. Not in the sense that we don't understand it, but in a sense we have close to zero professional experience and "hobby quality" is the best we know how to do.

The other thing is, in programming you can do pretty much anything for free. Whether you want to write scripts when drunk or employ highest industry standards of quality, the only limit is your knowledge (and how much you care). In case of electronics, doing anything professional-grade gets extremely expensive very fast, so all we - the subset of HN for which hardware is just a hobby - can do is hobby-level work.
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Great advice. Now how to subtly get the boss to read this...
>hats off to Peter Thiel for having the courage to support Trump!

Trump is one of two candidates. What, exactly, requires courage? Tons of people support Trump.
One of the particularly nice things about LFE is the team's commitment to documentation. Duncan McGreggor has done a great job.
It basically is, just without bothering to elaborate on why disruption is bad, and what improvement actually means -- except in broad and vague terms.
Looks like Medium was built to flout HN's dupe-detection :/
I doubt you'll notice this but blacklisting new users like me -- so that my comments are always shown at the bottom of a thread and never publicly -- has the opposite effect of what you're intending. It pushes good people away.

Good people won't keep creating new hackernews accounts to figure out which combination of HN activity won't blacklist them. They'll leave. Possibly taking HN's users with them when they create the next HN.
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His name is tosser. Where's the attack?
> Personally when I listen to talks by Thiel or Musk I almost wonder, do I really need to drop everything and go build rockets?

You need to drop everything and make them rich.
Substantial discussion from yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12151393 (50 comments)
I disagree. That is, I agree that you should ultimately own your data and have the right to decide what Facebook is allowed to do with it, to have them tell you what data they have, and to have them delete it. I don't agree that you should have the right to force them to provide data-related services to you or anyone else simply because they have your data. If you want another third party to have access to your data, you can provide it to them directly. Don't have a server set up with a popular API for that? That doesn't mean you get to force someone who does to do it for you.
I'm generally one who ignores bias in the Opinion section of the paper, but one thing that made an impression on me was that this was published in the "Magazine", not the Opinion section. It reads more like a hit piece against someone for having the "wrong" politics than a thoughtful essay, IMO. (This, coming from someone who dislikes Thiel, Trump, and the GOP)
And I don't think either presidential candidate will cut back military or increase college spending. It's not the popular thing to do.
I am reminded of the story about the duck!

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2013/06/05/duck/
I agree in part. Except for "have you considered" which always sounds patronising to me. It's very clearly a disguised way of saying "you should have done..."

There's another part too which to me is; if the point that I, as a manager, am making suggestions (even valid ones) is when looking at the complete "diagram" then I've failed as a manager. The point to offer an alternative option is the point at which the team was discussing it in the first place.
I'm not sure boot2docker even has a virtualization level. Havent dug super far into it.
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It's just a silly comparison overall. A car (electric especially) can't go 150 mph because of kinetic energy, fuel density and drag. If you deal with these things by putting it in a controlled environment, getting an external power source and grouping vehicles you've built a train.
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> In Europe

Is there some kind of Europe-wide agreement on unsolicited marketing mail that covers every country?
You might as well be a lisp programmer who doesn't think recursively.
For future reference you can user the Minimal ADB & Fastboot application rather than the full ADK.
This was one of the hardest things when I managed people. Most solutions won't be how you would do them, maybe they are 75% 84% of the way there. Constantly judging and tweaking others work when it doesn't make a material difference has a mental and emotional toll on everyone. I learned to go with the flow, if I though that things could be slightly better I would give them a nonbinding code review a couple weeks later. If matters now, we discuss it now, if doesn't we ship.

Bosses shouldn't be bossy except in rare circumstances.

Most of aren't the creative director, so don't enforce your idiosyncratic aesthetic on your team members.
Passive aggression. I was searching for the noun of passive aggressive recently and someone corrected me, and I'm glad they did! (Hopefully this is helpful not hurtful).
>no, the uniquely innovative culture isn't the sole result of expensive long-term institutional investment on the part of governments

What's the reason then? Are the people just better and smarter there?
The situation in Israel is proof enough that the world would be better without muslims.
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Agreed that no amount of quote-listing or fact-checking will change some Trump supporters' minds.

However, let's be clear: there are people who very much DO believe he will do what he says. I know plenty of people who want - and believe he will - follow through on his ban on Muslims immigrating into the USA (they always remind me it's temporary, until we "figure out what's going on," assuming our immigration services have no idea what they are doing), and build a wall because they feel that's as good as anything to deter people.

People truly believe he will do as he claims. Those of us who think "no way someone can believe that" should be incredibly careful and put down a vote for someone other than him this fall, rather than thinking "oh there's no way he would do all that, right?"

Many people voting him in actively WANT him to do many of his more controversial things.
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Merchants can mitigate that risk by requiring use of a bank operated verification system like Verified by Visa or Mastercard SecurePay or the Amex one which escapes my memory right now. You set a password on the card via your internet banking which is required for card-not-present transactions.
As a boss, having observed the impact of motivated and unmotivated employees...

The motivational difference between it being a shade of blue I like vs. just being shipped right now because it's done is a gulf.
I think I'd go for records over tuples, so that the values can be named.
Amazon won't be using any of this technology. Heck, nobody will be using this technology. This is just an opportunity to encourage people to get together and further research.
RMS hasn't been an actual maintainer since at least 2008. This release has been under the maintainership of John Wiegley, and several previous ones - under Stefan Monnier and Chong Yidong.
HN's dupe detection is currently substantially broken. The rules have been relaxed to help reduce the problem of excellent articles falling through the cracks, but the problem now is that there are multiple submissions of the same story, and regularly the discussions are split across them.

I believe the mods are actively working on it, but the current situation is really poor.
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Is there any change here, or is this just the fairly common repost of this?
I use Amber Smalltalk to write cross-platform mobile apps for Android and iOS: https://medium.com/smalltalk-talk/amber-alert-we-can-do-mobi...

Smalltalk is not stuck as an academic language. Cincom and GemTalk would be very surprised to hear that. It is, and has been, used all around the world for commercial purposes for over three decades: https://medium.com/smalltalk-talk/who-uses-smalltalk-c6fdaa6...

It is possible to create shrink-wrapped distributables, but these days there really isn't much call for it. Most of the action is in the web and mobile space and IoT and so on.

Regarding performance, it was an issue prior to circa 1995, but today's hardware is more than fast enough. That's why Python and Ruby and Perl and Erlang are so popular, being no faster than Smalltalk.
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Where "grow" means "behave like the manager thinks is beneficial for the company".

http://yosefk.com/blog/people-can-read-their-managers-mind.h...

Probably better than "Thanks for the Feedback" by Sheila Heen.
You should not be using long messages in code, for one thing you can't localize them across multiple languages. You can do:

A = \
"A really long string"

But, the odds are really good you are making a mistake.
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And not just bad for you. Trump will bring misery to a large chunk of the world if he gets to act on just a small percentage of what he has to date said he will do.
Also, is it still accurate? I heard its way off now.
How long does your stack take to add a server. 3 minutes?

I have created a lot of services that couldn't have crappy perf for 3 minutes every time the load scales. Especially since in many apps the most expensive part is storage and dbs which cannot auto scale.

So say you spend 1k a month in your dbs and $100 for peak web load. You could spend a week fixing auto scaling bugs and try to save $25 by scaling web nodes down... But then you still have bad perf every time load spikes. I would not do that to save $25. I would question a company I work for that did that.

You need to be scaling up and down for hundreds of dollars per swing and have big spike loads before you add the complexity of auto scale.
There are EU data protection directives that have that effect. (Saying "Europe" to mean "the EU" is technically "wrong" in the same sense as saying "America" to mean "the USA", but it's common enough to be widely understood. Language is a tool for communication)
Having both freelanced and currently working full time, I feel that feedback is a significant benefit of working full time. As joshyeager says in this thread, "Yes, feedback is essential for growth. Without it, you can't grow any farther or faster than your own ability to evaluate yourself and decide how to improve.", and I agree with this.

This is something that is just missing when you are working by yourself as a freelancer. I could be a good coder, but crappy co-worker and I'd never know that if I just work by-my-self. Personally, I'm an OK programmer. But I used to be crap at teaching people. I freelanced for almost 7 years before I joined my first programming gig, and this is one of the first things I learned. Without feedback from my colleagues, I would never even have found out about it, unless I had gone out of my way to get myself involved in teaching.

And the way I look at it, feedback from your co-workers doesn't just improve you as an employee, it usually helps you grow as a person as well, and fix some error of your personality or character. For me, improving the way I try to teach things to my peers made me a better programmer, and [plug]helped me a lot while I was writing my book (https://www.amazon.com/Django-Project-Blueprints-Jibran-Ahme....
I think someone should change the title to indicate that it is a PHP library. "Grafika is an image processing library for PHP"
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They having this contest in germany for a reason - but if they are so cheap with the price money I don't think employees should feel threatened - yet.
This and Monkey island's series are among my fondest memories in the gaming world.

Truly master pieces of the 80/90's.

Now we need a port of the Johnny Castaway Screensaver (instead of a hack) and my nostlagia will kick in.
This very non-charitable reading of Zero to One makes it a hit piece. The reasoning is plausible and it's well written. But anyone that's in tech, has followed Peter and read the book knows it was never meant as a general philosophy/political book. Though admittedly it has gotten so popular that a lot of people read it as such so perhaps there was no ill intention in the interpretation (tho the bathroom comment got interpreted rather maliciously).

Personally I think Peter talking at the RNC and [hopefully for me] exerting some kind of influence on Trump is the best thing to happen. I still see Trump as a blank slate. With his presidency [IMO] inevitable I think it's super important that people like Peter start steering him in the right direction.
There is everywhere a large (and dumb) part of the electorate. They rarely revolt after elections though, unless they have guidance.
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Got a source for that clinical diagnosis?
For every company I've worked at so far in my career, there hasn't been a manager like this article describes at all. Never had a one on one. I requested one with my manager, and he said we can sync up, but I get the feeling he is full of shit. He seems to do the weekly status report document.
I wonder why SCTP isn't more widely-supported. It seems like a lot of Internet traffic is message-based rather than stream-based and would benefit from a more appropriate protocol.
What?! A constant in logarithmic scale is still a constant.
Previous discussions:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3871463
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8818893
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9250527
Its internet. Anyone can request anything. All requesters knows this. Almsot all servers knows this and thus check each request for access.

So yes there is one node that is going out of the widely accepted "social" norm but its Facebook.

Instead of changing one node, your solution is to change all other billions node.
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Are you using google calendar to plan your meetings?
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"...for PHP..."

It's not 1999 anymore. Please next time put the deprecated legacy tech on the title so we can skip it.
"All his points" are basically the one point repeated for 26 of the 28 minutes video.
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Today, nobody would want to feed all those mouths, not much to extract from them.

Why would you want to enslave much people today, especially when half of them are expected to be of age 40+?
Email hacks, especially around Clinton, have historically been very on-topic, and like the faq says, anything intellectually interesting is on-topic.
This seems most likely maybe it's not worth the hassle for them but legally releasing any illegal material back to him cannot happen so they're stuck doing essentially nothing.
What if I know I'm doing something that Facebook doesn't like, see an email from them and ignore/delete it? Where does a "Please stop using our web" become a Cease and Desist order?
I wonder if the pricing structure would remain same for long.
The point is that the parent thinks planes fly themselves.
This is still the first issue published in 2012.

edit: And I can confirm this with my backed up version from 22 april 2012. This is the same PDF.
The ellipsis in this case appears to me to be a sarcasm indicator, not a real wish.
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According to Wikipedia, work on BEAM started in 1992. Still earlier than Java.

LFE appeared in 2008, so it's newer than Scala.
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Here's the thing -- well, two things, really:

1) The article mentions Obi Felton's Foundry team. This was explicitly added to solve one of the deficiencies at X: X is staffed by hardcore engineers & research scientists, not businesspeople. The Foundry team was created to add a commercialization path & process for X research, which never previously existed (except in special cases like self-driving car). That should, in theory, help bring more things to market.

2) Google is averse to investing in anything that isn't a moonshot (where I liberally define moonshot as "at least $1b or 1b users"). So many great ideas and products get shot down because they just aren't "Google scale" even though they'd be perfectly viable, and sometimes wildly profitable, businesses on their own. Because the bar for business viability is so high, lots of things aren't even tried, which is a shame.
GLSL does have things in common with functional programming. Immutable inputs, restricted rules for mutating data, no side effects.
For the 'Alternatives' section, there's also gnu parallel which I have been fairly happy with.

https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/man.html#DIFFERENCES-B...
Facebook has the right to determine who can and cannot access their systems, barring a court order. You seem to be suggesting they should not have that right.
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Keen to know how they are different now.
Thank you for finding a real example. It's important to have context when discussing topics like this.

For example I think most people would reach the conclusion of the article without much argument, if this were the use case they had in mind.
Twitter is roughly a brazillion times better known than HN.
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Or reduce power consumption.
I couldn't wait and a few years ago scraped their site: http://blog.databigbang.com/the-call-of-the-web-scraper/
Maybe he didn't like other libraries? There are many reasons why you would want to write a new library. Fun is one of them.
It has smart crop based on entropy, ability to compare images, and bezier curves for GD which none of the existing libs have. Other libs are "image manipulation" this one aims to be an "image processing" lib. Also we need libs instead of new programming languages.
Pull your sim and battery. Reinsert the battery and turn the phone on. The time is still there, network or not.
The article explains how you can be productive. It's mostly in the "live coding/debugging" environment, which dramatically shortens the edit-test-debug cycle. The low cognitive friction of the language itself is also preeminent.

The clutter-free Smalltalk IDE is one its main selling points. I've used Xcode and Eclipse and Visual Studio, and the Smalltalk IDE is a breath of fresh air. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and I like Smalltalk very much. Dolphin, in particular, is prized for its excellent IDE implementation.

In practice, you don't need the full power of Vim or Emacs in a programming environment where you're ever only dealing with small methods and where everything is laid out neatly in the System or Class Browser. I love Vim, but I don't miss it here.