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> Java is failure on the desktop, nowadays besides IDEs and a few FOSS tools there are hardly any applications done in Java on the desktop.

Nowadays there are hardly any applications done on the desktop, full stop.

I agree that the JVM would benefit from being usable for a) command-line utilities that are lightweight enough to use in pipelines, and perhaps also b) decent native GUI applications (if you believe that niche is still important). But you don't need the capability for OS development to do those things. I mean, Python does those things. I don't think Scala Native is or should be serious about OS development.
For Ubuntu and Ubuntu Touch
For me the question is very clear:

1 - A monetary system without any regulation accessible online (i.e. Bitcoin) needs perfect security.

2 - There is no such thing as "perfect security".

Therefore: A monetary system without any regulation accessible online (i.e. Bitcoin) is deemed to fail.
create-react-app is an npm-based solution.
SF employers need to hire and approve a ton of remote employees. Period. Problem solved.
Diamond Springs ham radio operator talks himself into $25,000 fine
They can raise their asking price, or exit that particular labour market. I did something similar, and became an economic migrant.

Cartelization is not good for the economy, no matter who tries to pull it off.
Symta is a novel dialect of Lisp https://github.com/saniv/symta
Sales Force Acquired Quip
GitHub does have something similar, called showcases: https://github.com/showcases
javascript engine provided by the OS, in iOS it's JavascriptCore, in UWP it's the chakra engine.
Not sure what it is in Ubuntu, probably v8 packaged with the executable.

In either case, it's not using node or v8/chromium .
Original concept video from 6 years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv8_W2PA0rQ
We need tax reform in this country. This is so unpatriotic. Companies who turn their backs on the country that has been so good to them should be tariffed the amount of the tax savings. I hate this greed and we should fix it with legislation.
As it happens, the construction of Sydney's shiny new light rail was almost halted because they found a bunch of Aboriginal artefacts under the route: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/call-to-halt-sydney-light-rail-aft...
Should be for Unity 8, therefore for desktop as well.
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This is pretty much what we’re doing with Create React App.

npm i -g create-react-app
create-react-app my-app
cd my-app
npm start # start devserver
npm run build # build for production
This has got nothing to do with browsers. This is just a set of APIs that allows developers to use ReactJS (not web, just javascript) to write Ubuntu apps. I didn't read the ReadMe in detail but judging from React Native for Android, iOS, Windows and OS X, this will use QT UI toolkit under the hood, not web tech.
I agree that the outcome could have been predicted, and I would not have acted in the same way she did.

But let's have some empathy: she was in her home, and some folks came to her home and attempted to remove her, with threats of violence. She didn't believe they had legal authority to do that.

What would you do in that situation, with those beliefs?
When the police shoot someone who shoots at them, or threatens the lives of others, it is not reasonable to classify that as an execution.
It says "The address wasn't understood".

How do you start this?
Id argue it's not really flourishing if the government basically grants you a monopoly and hinders your foreign competition. I suspect there is a reason why WeChat isn't anywhere near as popular in the states and in Europe.
> Nowadays there are hardly any applications done on the desktop, full stop.

The guys paying us didn't got the memo apparently.

Nor did the ones targeting Android, iOS and IoT LCD displays.
> Verifying employment is one thing (I guess...)

Why are you reluctant about a company being able to verify that you worked where and when you said you did?
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I'm of the opposite opinion, finally someone is getting a replacement for html and the web api that will actually fit with the design and implementation of applications.

I'm tired of websites trying to be apps just so they'll have a better distribution model or once in a lifetime use site that wants me to install it's app.

The fact that they are making all this with Open Source is even better.

Besides, the standard protocol bodies we know from the web today (and that many of us don't like at all) were created after Netscape or IE created the foundation upon which they work on alone.
There's more to customer support than picking up a phone.

I agree. There is more to customer support than picking up a phone, and some people make it sound like supporting a customer is just reading from the manual.

There's also more to cleaning than mopping. You can employ your philosophy of cleanliness and make things perfectly ordered and spiffy-shiny.

Maybe one day the CEO might walk in and be impressed by your attention to detail, hire you as an intern, and so goes the rest of your success story.

But how much value is the janitor bringing to the company by doing a stellar job? How about customer support? Either hire a stellar engineer and mediocre customer support, or hire a mediocre engineer and stellar customer support. Which would you choose?

When we start talking about jobs, we tend to imagine, in our minds, the people working. Then when people throw out words like "software engineer brings more value to the world than customer support", we translate those words to "you are saying this customer support Jan I am imagining is more valuable than the software engineer Dan I am imagining?"

(Names Jan and Dan were chosen as such because I have seen more female customer support and male software engineers than their counterparts. If you think that is sexism, then you are inherently valuing the human worth of software engineers over that of customer support personnel.)

People's worth is not determined by how much value they bring to the world.

Digression aside, we tend to construct mental models emotionally and attempt to justify with logic.

That is why people include gender in this argument, even though gender has nothing to do with whether people bring value. Again, the software engineer Dan is not a more valuable person than customer support Jan. If you don't get this difference, read No More Mr. Nice Guy or The Way of the Superior Man. The titles are somewhat of a misnomer; I suppose women will gain just as much value from those books.

This is a total shot in the dark, but female engineers are probably paid less than male engineers because they bring less value to the company (read: people hiring) than their male counterparts. The reason why male trait is valued more in STEM is because there are more men in STEM already.

We tend to want to work with people who are similar to us. Thus to a male CEO, he probably prefers a male over female engineer, if they are equal in aptitude. This, of course, is not a right judgment call, but this is humans' default mode of thinking.

There are also job-specific preferred traits. If I were running a hospital, I would pay a male nurse less than a female nurse; female nurses, by their gender trait and societal preference of female nurses (both men and women prefer female nurses), female nurses inherently have more value.

A complex topic that is easily subject to emotional manipulation. But worth talking about.
I do agree with you about ReactJS - I think it's effectively a tax Facebook imposes on startup web development - but the same cannot really be said about ReactNative which is a relatively okay cross-platform UI toolkit that happens to have the same API as ReactJS.
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>for many years, wechat has been combining new features with its social network, whereas whatsapp wanted to be a pure chatting app and missed many opportunities.

Nah, WhatsApp was just crippled by its origins. It was started independently from a major social-network, and in a country whose currency and payments infrastructure wasn't going to scale outside the original borders very well.
It's such a shame that OpenOffice and LibreOffice won't merge together again after it's not under Oracles control anymore.

So many wasted manhours...
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Care to elaborate on how it can be considered a tax on startup web development?
Correlation doesn't equal causation. I don't think you can say that just because those things happened under communism means that communism is good for innovation. In fact, you could just as well argue that modern day Russia persisteted even despite communism.
Flossing was a painful, bloody mess for me the first week or so I did it. Then it felt great, then I ran out of the floss sticks (like a disposable razor, but with floss instead of a blade) and haven't done it since. Such is life.
Uber runs a lot of databases in production. We stopped using Postgres a while ago for new applications that talk SQL, and this article explains some of the reasoning.

We still have many applications that talk directly to MySQL, and we still have our original API monolith that talks directly to Postgres.

All new applications are being built using distributed databases like our in-house Schemaless system which happens to be backed by MySQL, and we also have Riak and Cassandra in production.
Because it's none of your business how much money I make.
> I bet facebook is thinking hard how to merge Messenger and Whatsapp without getting people angry.

Indeed. Simultaneous communication between WeChat circle, QQ group, the odd email CC'd to people in and out of the conversation. 'Keep the momentum'. Should anyone get confused, send them a screenshot from your phone of the other conversation. It is very fluid. Show you're communicating and getting things done. For transactions, pay via WeChat, or pay via AliPay, doesn't matter, works anywhere.

No need to integrate anything; users will do it themselves if they see a compelling need.
Lessons Learned Over 4 Months as the Interim Sales VP for My SaaS Startup
Forgive the noob comment, but how does the patent troll know that it can sue Apple? How do they know what infrastructure Apple is using? Do they just sue indiscriminately and find winner cases through discovery?
There are NDA issues, as well as data protection laws in the EU that mean that if you don't store data locally you need to got though a bunch of red tape (and get the person who is storing the data to also get audited). Oh, and good luck if the company is not in the EU (or even in another country).

Not to mention that we should really stop increasing our reliance on "the cloud". It's someone else's computer which you have no control over.
Potentially the most useful part of this post to me was this part

> 2ndQuadrant is working on highly efficient upgrades from earlier major releases, starting with 9.1 → 9.5/9.6.

I hadn't heard of that before. Anybody know more about this? I'm currently babysitting a 9.1 deployment which we desperately want to get upgraded. The amount of downtime this can tolerate a very limited and I was currently tasked with coming up with a plan. Its going to get hairy. If such a tool is really on its way, I could make a case for holding off on the upgrade for a few more months and save quite a bit of work.
So just so we're clear. You're saying that the Chinese are more intelligent than the west? Man, when did HN become racist...
Donald Trump's Many Business Failures, Explained
...everyone's reliably incapacitated, and most people survive? (potentially everyone with adequate medical care which was not provided in that situation)

That seems strictly better than shooting to kill.
The Republic of Fear: Authoritarianism in the Information Age
Every language has it's pros and cons in terms of performance and benchmarks are notoriously inadequate to compare but my general probing of people in the industry result in the following regarding language speed:

1. c/c++ is the fastest.

2. modern java is either the same as c/c++ or about 2x slower

3. modern javascript (i.e. v8) is about 4x slower then java.

4. python/ruby and most other dynamic languages are about 10x slower then java.

Never seen C# really compared with others because it's rarely ran on the same systems.

Go, Rust and all the new shiny languages are still far away from when we can infer about their performance, but they are probably somewhere around the Java level.
It's no different than buying a car.
Create an Aurelia Application with ASP.NET Core 1.0, Part 2 – Navigation
The whole point of react native is to not have to deal with a browser. React native is not for cross-platform development.
You can check here: https://www.google.com/get/videoqualityreport/
LibreOffice under the hood: a year of progress from 5.0 to 5.2
I've tested a few times - if I floss the day before and day of I don't get the "floss more!" lecture.
Auto industry agonizes after Tesla Autopilot fatality
you can use pg_upgrade with -k - it will complete within seconds. Afterwards, things will be slow until a complete analyze updates the statistics, but the update itself can be done in seconds.

I have updated ~2TB of database from 9.0 all the way to 9.5 over the years.
> Trams can. But it still happens only rarely

As a data point, my local (German) tram operator reports an accident rate of once per 30,000-70,000 vehicle-kilometers, depending on the line. The highest accident rates occur, of course, on lines passing through high-density areas with small roads.

Does anyone know the accident rate of cars?
Tab (YC W15) Is Hiring a Backpacking Back-Ender in London
Tab is a young startup that mixes travel & fintech, backed by Y Combinator.

Tab powers bookings and payments for tourist businesses (like hostels, dive schools and surf lodges) in emerging countries.

We're already working with 60+ currencies, across countries including Guatemala, Argentina and Peru. Our goal is to boost local tourism, while helping backpackers and independent travellers make the most of their precious time abroad.

We're looking for a full-stack developer to work across our entire platform, from public-facing web apps, to internal tools, APIs, third-party systems & services, and our mobile apps.

We mostly write Python but also do Java, Swift and JavaScript with React & React Native, on mobile and on the web.

Tab is based in London, and you'll have the opportunity to travel to exciting places to experience the product and meet users.

To read more, visit https://tab.recruitee.com/

(We're also hiring for the Growth Team.)
A go-lang based open source BaaS
https://github.com/SkygearIO/skygear-server
Totally agree about power imbalance; stereotyping (and belittling in general) someone from a position of more perceived power is of course worse, no doubt about that. But parent's point was along the lines of: women can't take jokes as men do, men are such sports! The most important objection is of course that stereotypes about men don't actually harm men, while stereotypes about women do often harm women, but I also wanted to point out that men being such sports is not necessarily a great thing.
It seems that after lots of hyped NoSQL systems companies are still using MySQL or Postgresql as simple storage backend with lots of custom crutches over it, like it's 2007. So all these cassandaras and riaks failed expectations?
I put the possibility of them massaging the data in some way at very remote. This study had a lot of eyeballs on it so risk of getting caught would be too high for them to entertain. Moreoever, the CoV grunts who do the actual work, like doing studies, seem both competent and of high integrity, and I don't think they'd be willing to betray their duty to the public and try to create a false impression of the unoccupancy rate.
My gaps are small. My dentist says my teeth are tight. I have found that using Glide is the best floss. Even with that I have at times cut right through the floss with a particular pair of teeth. You might want to try Glide.

I floss daily and sometimes twice a day. I keep floss at my desk at work and some mouthwash to kill some of germs that get stirred up. It is easy to fit that in when thinking through a problem.

I also take vitamin C twice a day. My dentists always comment on the good health of my gums and say "you take vitamin c don't you?" At 62 I want to maintain my gum and teeth health.
Under the hood:

http://www.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2016-08-03-under-the-hood...
> pay as a percentage of additional salary negotiated

So many things wrong with this. Agents typically negotiate fixed-term contracts for athletes and entertainers. Agents take 10% of the entire pot, not "additional salary negotiated" whatever that means. You don't know what you would have been able to negotiate so there is no "additional" amount, only what they got you. Are you willing to give 10% of every paycheck to your agent?
I'm not really talking about styling, more about the same kind of abstraction you get for Android vs iOS: common components are exposed as the same "universal" component that will render as the specific one on each OS and OS-specific ones are instead used directly.
Brushed irregularly?
Sure they are kicking ass when it comes to money but I honestly don't think that a monolithic app the dominates the entire market is the right path forward for a free and open society.
React Native is just React using native components instead of the typical web components.

All this is about React Native also supporting native components in Ubuntu, namely the phone and the new desktop.
Troll question, but also really curious: Does the import from MS Office works already? (At least as good as in OSX's Pages). That was the single reason why I couldn't use LibreOffice so far... it just couldn't open files I've got from the "external world", like Microsoft Word, as soon as the document was a slightly more complex.
Do we know better than her how she feels and why?
Which is one of the more practical reasons a rollback is very, very unlikely to happen. (It would have been fairly unlikely even in the case of ethereum/theDAO, had not the nature of that exploit effectively locked the funds for a month.)
"Also, what is the scale of Uber that you think is unsuitable for RDBMS"

Never said it's unsuitable, I have no idea. Just said the move from relational to NoSQL is what most billion dollar companies with mass-market apps or websites do.

Many of them also do sharding on normal RDBMS.
(Yet another, but this time different) Battery saving app for Android
After being initially excited about the idea of React, I have been working on several teams doing React-based web development. My eventual conclusion is very simple: the overall amount work that goes into developing web apps has increased compared to vanilla HTML/CSS/JS. Performance is abysmal, and as is the case with many frameworks, you're soon reaching a point where your people spend more time (and in the end: computing resources) tricking the framework into doing what they want it to do. I would say the component philosophy of React does offer some organizational benefits, especially for working in a team, but it's nothing that couldn't be replicated by simply introducing coding conventions.

In the end, I do believe Facebook - as a company that can't really move fast anymore (and doesn't have to) - knows this imposes the same restriction on smaller companies by taking away their agility and maxing out developer resources for work on what used to be trivial stuff. Rationally, from Facebook's perspective, React has to serve two functions: priming and funnelling programmers into their enterprise, and suppressing development efficiency elsewhere. It's positioned very well to achieve both.
This seems like only usable at straight roads, where only regular passenger cars are allowed. Allow a van there or a truck and you are up for accident. Also, I would assume that some driver being all of sudden surrounded by this machine can steer right or left out of surprise.

Hopefully they have this planned. Or maybe this is just a way to suck money from city budget to private pockets or even marketing stunt, that would make more sense.
They need the camera (roll) "read" permissions for their screenshot protection.
Total compensation is the important part here.

Everyone talking about how great an agent would be are forgetting that under the current way every agent works, they'd be writing off 10% of their paychecks in perpetuity to that agent (or at least along a defined timeline).
My teeth are tight and food tends to get stuck between them. If left attended the effect is festering, pain and infection. A quick floss, some mouthwash as a few days and the healing is complete. I will continue to floss. For me, the study size of one, flossing is a benefit. YMMV
They've been willfully ignorant to the numbers for some time. What is to say they aren't misinterpreting the data, fudging it, or ingoring factors like "more houses" or "more energy usage" while the number of people are dropping? This kind of thing goes on all the time here in Beijing, the only reliable way to determine vacancy is to count the lights that come on at night. All the other metrics, including energy consumption, are so gamed that they are useless.
I really don't like the idea of an HTML-based GUI, but isn't anyone else too thinking that a GUI with this effects would just be gorgeous?!
From their Twitter page

Fun fact: We actually had an EFI payload. We just had issues with the installer and it was left unadded.
I tried to use the java Optional<T>, but the API has some points, which make it inconvenient for some usecases. (Some of these are addressed in Java 9)

As I see: unfortunately without algebraic types you cannot solve this properly, even if you address the lacking points in Optional<T>
For most of my life I brushed but never flossed. I had no cavities but I was at risk of losing my teeth due to plaque below the gum line. My teeth were loose and gums would bleed when I brushed. I've had all that fixed and now floss regularly. In retrospect flossing seems more important than brushing.
Assuming iFixit is meant to be read as "I fix it" why the weird capitalization? As a stickler for correct capitalization, I would not even apply. If I did apply, the whimsical capitalization of the name of the company would (incorrectly) tell me that the company was not that big on following strict English usage rules.
or ramsomware!
I didn't say communism is good for innovation, I just said that the statement that it is bad for innovation doesn't hold water and provided a counterexample.
Your app doesn't need to be single threaded. To begin with, the JS that you write is running on a different thread to the app's UI thread, but if you also have blocking work that you want to offload to another thread, that is possible by writing a native module [1, 2]. The story isn't perfect, there are probably some things that you want to be dealt with asynchronously, but could be written in JavaScript, but on this front React Native isn't any less limiting than native.

[1] https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/native-modules-...

[2] https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/native-modules-...
> once users start complaining, that will trigger an investigation

Why?
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On the bright side, competition may be helpful for open source projects. Example: postfix and exim. Other example - squid: no competitors, slow development and ugly bugs.
I find it is strange that a supported development plataform for Ubuntu on Ubuntu uses dependencies outside the main repositories (ppa seems fine, however they even use npm directly to download some dependencies).

This is a pretty fragile ecosystem. Yesterday I saw one colleague having build problems from a Maven project because one dependency changed hosts. Seemingly an easy fix, however in the new host they didn't include the version used by this specific program. My colleague ended up blindly using a newer version that seemed to work, however this is pretty fragily.