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I wouldn't lump all of the "new shiny languages" together; they all have their own performance profiles.
The article said, it improved support. Additionally there is some serious corporate bullshit speak in there, so we can hope they will win more big organizations over to strengthen open standards.
It varies from document to document, but it's always improving with each release, so try it! Nothing to lose but a few minutes of downloading...
Yeah. Nobody will talk about this. Trillions of dollars went to China in exchange for things purchased legally and voluntarily. Now, people throw around terms like "money laundering" as if the Chinese are a bad ass cartel that's been selling us cocaine all this time.
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I've often been drawn to testing out LibreOffice (and OpenOffice), but every single time I open the apps, they always look terrible.

This isn't 1990 anymore - if the kind of UI design that the devs have gone for (have settled on?) alienates a tech-friendly user such as myself, there isn't a hope in hell of people like my parents using it regularly.

Does anyone know why the style they use has persisted for so long? Is it just a case that no one cares about this sort of thing on that project?
This is one of the more ridiculous posts I've seen on HN.

"Companies" are taking a whole range of approaches to storing data. With a combination of NoSQL, SQL and Filesystem e.g. HDFS and everything else in between. Cassandra in particular is killing it right now under the stewardship of Datastax which is why they've grown from 1 person up to 400+ employees.
Some ad networks are already taking in user data through hashed email addresses.

There are other things that can be done though. Google Analytics supports User Id's, so you can do a better job at attributing to specific users across multiple devices. GA has traditionally discouraged passing this PII into it's platform but is now supporting this limited ID information. Other analytics packages have allowed this type of identification information for a lot longer.

Specific to advertising, there are also other tactics you can use to value your impressions that don't involve individually identifying people.
the .Net framework project is an insightful reminder that MS can build and execute on a project well, visual studio is great, .net/c# is great I often hear that f# is something special and worthy

with .net and visual studio, Microsoft seems to think and plan way ahead, and even when it missed the boat, they are able to quickly turn things in the right way

example: .net got a little fat, so we now have .net core, with open source and genuine cross platform intentions thrown in for free

with a little more effort and care :) .net might even become fashionable!
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It is. Just in a different way.

Its cross platform development of logic, with per platform development of ui.
Yeah, welcome to the USA where you pay more for worse internet.
Why don't companies feel comfortably "code dumping"? Just throw everything online as a tarball, and say "we aren't supporting this and we don't want to have anything to do wit h this, but here's the source."
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As if modern China was communist.
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Is this question machine-generated?
Then standards would just decrease?

I blame porn.
Former British colony with banking and enslaving land price shocker, page 4.
Baltimore is a probably the cheapest big city on the East Coast. At one point in American history more immigrants were coming through Baltimore than NYC. I think Baltimore suffered because of it's proximity to DC - most major cities are more than 40 miles apart.

Part of Baltimore's cheapness is that it has one of the highest crime rates per capita. In addition, the dangerous areas are much more interspersed and distributed - at one moment you can be walking down a nice block and the very next block is all boarded up. I've lived in both Baltimore and NYC and definitely never felt unsafe in NYC, whereas there have been multiple times that I had a sudden sense of danger in Baltimore. The Johns Hopkins medical school would routinely post security bulletins about people being mugged a few blocks from campus in the middle of the day.

If it wasn't for Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland Medical school there wouldn't be much to Baltimore.
I would be interested in hearing the opinions of people who've been in this situation, too. Seems like it could be beneficial to the community.
A youtuber who usually does videos of classic DOS viruses made a video of this one in action.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD9CvHVU7B4
I definitely agree. Not using '.ConfigrueAwait(false)' is the exception rather than the rule. That said, I use an extension method '.NoSync()' to replace it which at least is more succinct and explicit.

There are a few other async/await constructs that are glaringly missing in .NET. My most useful is a function 'await TaskEx.EnsureNoContext()' which conditionally yields to the threadpool if not already on it. With this function I rarely need to use 'Task.Run'.
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> Which is really just what every company at these scales do

No they aren't. You need to understand that databases are being used in a whole range of different ways than you think.

Batch/streaming analytics are typically done with HDFS, Cassandra, HBase, MongoDB etc. Event aggregation often with a time series database like Druid, InfluxDB etc. Web API serving layers are still the domain of lightweight SQL databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL. Customer data warehouses are still dominated by Teradata, Oracle, SAP etc.

What you misconstrue as a single platform is often a multi headed beast with various architectural components. Each comprising their own technology stacks.
I hope the auto update wasn't affected. I just did this at work, no big warning screen. Now I'm paranoid to reboot..

Update:
Looks like I wasn't affected. There was an official update (4.3.0) which was released on the 30th leading to unfortunate timing.
They are using GTK+ Broadway, which renders GTK applications inside the browser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr8eo4RlPw4

Not sure this is the most performant way to do it, but the project itself sure is impressive.
Often they don't own the copyright for everything they own. Also, wouldn't code be an asset to be sold in the event of liquidation?
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I wouldn't say OO competes with LO, it's way behind.
> if enough of them were that fat, it would sort of become the new norm and standards for attractiveness would change accordingly.

The most attractive women have always, everywhere, had a waist-hip ratio of around 0.7 (http://www.scienceofrelationships.com/home/2013/11/11/curves...). That would rule out obesity as the new norm of attractiveness. I assume there is also a formula/ratio for attractive men that rules out their being obese.

Also, people are known to lie about the number of sexual partners they have had (http://archive.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/08/12/st...). Could that be a factor here?

Finally, the article focuses on age of first sex and number of sexual partners, not frequency of sex. It doesn't rule out millennials having more frequent sex with fewer partners.

Stop press: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/aug/03/large-number...
Living costs are very low. And hours are good. Can you buy time? Do you want to live in a country with shameful inequality? Not me.
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Damn. With the state of most consumer mainboards, an EFI "payload" could leave the system "bricked". I know I've got one el-cheapo laptop that can't boot because I made a mess of the EFI environment and there's no way to reset it.
What should Hillary stop/start/continue doing?
This has everything to do with browsers. What React Native does comes very close to what a browser is doing. React is just a very thin layer on top of JS/HTML that makes the browser a little more efficient and pleasant to program for (they are not the only ones by the way, there are many virtual dom implementations). But that layer is getting thicker and thicker. You can say "react native" and "browser" are different things, but they really aren't. Both are application delivery platforms.

My problems with React:

- They try to push a programming paradigm, without considering that other programmers may have different or even better paradigms.

- They put too much functionality into a single framework.

- Frameworks are a bad idea anyway. It is much better to divide functionality into self-contained libraries.

- They try to redo what the web, a huge standardization effort, is doing.

- React does not fully support all HTML/CSS constructs.

Now all of this isn't really a problem right now. But if React grows and gains more traction, then it could become a problem (just like Internet Explorer became a problem after a while).
I'm going to keep flossing. Screw them.
The most repeated thing I know about businesses are: "ideas are cheap". Why would anyone pay $50+ for one idea per day? I guess there are some workshops (whatever that means) as well but the idea thing seems to be the focus.
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You have enough users to know if they will ever convert to sales and I think you have your answer.

If I was to say why this approach didn't work it is that you are trying to target a very unusual person - someone who cares enough about what they wear to use an app to tell them what to wear, but also doesn't care enough about what they wear so they are happy to wear what they are told what to wear (sorry for the convoluted sentence).
It looks like they have a dump of the Fosshub user database.

Audacity was also affected: http://www.audacityteam.org/hacked-download/
The report echoes a lot of positives I've heard about Beijing. And some of the negatives about San Francisco.

I think the author misses some of what's happening in the valley. Supercomputing smart phones requires deep tech. The AI and pushing of Moore's law behind these devices requires deep tech. So do autonomous cars.
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" I can get caught up in code for days "
look at https://github.com/eventstore/eventstore
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No, by "generated" I meant "generated". If I'd meant "fabricated" I'd have said it.

You can tell that this is a generated hit piece due to Thiel's politics by the very first sentence, which begins "Trump delegate and Gawker bankrupter Peter Thiel...".
Exactly. Just last night talking to a guy in Montreal about to open a new eco cafe. He can take the risk because rents are lower here. Fuck the banks. Long live Henry George.
Is this a case of emphasizing aspects of each environment based on some kind of personal bias?

The article describes a lack of moral compass in Silicon Valley and an enriching hacker spirit in Beijing.

What about the other way around? If you apply a standard of morality to Beijing, is it better or worse? If you judge the hacker spirit of Silicon Valley, is it better or worse? Are you holding Beijing up to less scrutiny compared to Silicon Valley?

This is a genuine question. I haven't lived in either places, so I really can't say.
If my current company went under, I don't see who would put in the effort to sift through all 3rd party items we use for licenses to see if we're even allowed to do it.

Someone also owns the code, I guess, and they might want to use it for something else at some point.

Some products might have been hack-jobs form the beginning that ballooned, they might work but they could be total hack jobs that would either A) be worthless on their own or B) slightly embarrassing to show.

I've not been in the situation from a company perspective, but I have taken a product I've made off from the shelves and the factors above came into play. I am sure there are more as well.
That was an interesting read.

I can also subscribe to the image of San Francisco - with homeless and ill people on the streets - it was what made me decide against moving to Silicon Valley, although the offer was very attractive.

Beijing I've never visited, but now Nils made me curious - maybe I should take a trip there someday soon ...
Iranian here, as programmer and software security hobbyist, I always warned my friends against telegram. Sadly the local news is government used that bug and clone 15M person chat record/contacts/public data and etc.

This is pretty huge, this can put many lives in danger, I know people who are gay and use telegram. If you are any kind of person who government does not agree with you , from now on , government has your personal communication record. For example when you applying for regular job(which 90% of jobs in Iran is related to government , because of state controlled economy)then you have absolute no chance, even if you are much better candidate than some stupid person who spend their lives defending government stupid ideas.

P.S. Replace all "government" with "regime". Government in Iran is actually good (in compare to regime) and Rouhani is our only hope. The problem is Revolutionary Guard.
This type of money (rich and super rich) has always been invested in the nice, stable democratic world, places where they can safely park their money, friends, families and educate their children. Places they are go to in case of an uprising or regime change..

The difference now is that this class of person is not just coming from the oil-baron gravy train and political kleptocracy. But is also coming from the booming business-class that is China

So many of those new rich who make it big certainly want their families and especially their children to the chance to live and be educated in a free and democratic society.
I use WPF every day and it is a powerful framework. That said there are definitely aspects that are very poorly designed. It desperately needs a fork to catch up with the modern framework (no support for generic types, async Task-based commands, etc.). Not to mention that the slow measure/layout pass means that we still have UIs that 'hang' even when absolutely all programmatic work is done on a background thread.
Why wouldn't a "reasonable definition" include people who were shot in large numbers by murderous governments?

Take your time.
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Interesting and engaging writing. I had similar history; harsh winters, Norwegian summers and access to computers meant staying in with friends learning every bit about our computer overlords at home and at demo-parties. At age 14 I was interning at a technical university college doing Linux work. Eventually I made it to Silicon Valley, all starry eyed. Because of moronic immigration laws I was never able to try my luck there. The only off-putting things were real estate prices, and all the schmoozing which in the Nordics we call lying. Now I am a corporate drone and have accepted this fate. No more illusions and aspirations of grandeur, only the long hard road awaits. As it happens it is pretty sweet and I'm happy.

Skål mine nordiske venner.

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Pics or it didn't happen!?

Me outside a Hewlett Packard campus building I particularly liked: http://i.imgur.com/pWtoVpm.jpg

Our product: http://i.imgur.com/VL1UQVF.jpg

Company story [now defunct]: http://imgur.com/a/6l1kl

[I'll be writing an obituary on it later.]
I disagree. I much prefer 90's style UIs for desktop applications like office suites.
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right, writing's about the useful order of the facts.
This was cross-platform too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_(Java)
Does switching to the Breeze icons help?

Here's how to: https://twitter.com/libreoffice/status/737637299928870912
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Unless SmartScreen complains, the order of dialogs and buttons on those dialogs is exactly the same for both signed and unsigned programs. They only differ in content/design elements. That's not what I'd call prominent.

There's nothing like HSTS for signed programs, so it can't be helped, though.
I completely understand your sentence, it makes me wonder if the design of the app itself is convoluted as well. And perhaps should be either a wardrobe manager, or a tinder of outfits. Instead of trying to be both, and some more.

And thank you for your reply!
Even if they wanted to open source or just share the source, there could be some real effort involved in reviewing the code to ensure that nothing sensitive will be exposed.

Re the other comment about owning copyright on everything (eg. Due to components being licensed from other vendors), they could rip that out. Thinking about this triggered a memory of when Descent 1 source was published, they excluded the sound library for this reason. Could be tough to excise something more integral though I guess.
I think it's the Linux desktop software style (up until 2012 at least), complete with gradient overuse.

But for the most part, it does look like Word 2k3. And among the people who aren't using Google Docs, Woord 2k3 is pretty enticing.
Facebook does not relays in SMS anymore. They implemented a code generator in the mobile app. See: https://www.facebook.com/help/270942386330392
>We'd rather just grab US and Chinese cash then vacation in Mexico than actually work.

I would also like to grab cash and vacation. What's so honourable about working?
> This is a pretty fragile ecosystem

Bad from a security point of view, too.

Linux distribution packages are digitally signed and reviewed.
FWIW, I tried this link in FF 47.0.1 on OS X and it loaded quickly without blocking anything else. Maybe check your plugins or try a fresh profile.
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To those operating in Beijing: is the language a significant barrier? Can you get by as an English speaker?

If you've leaned enough Mandarin to be functional, how long did it take you?
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What should Hillary stop doing?
xxxxxxxxx, dunno

What should Hillary start doing?
xxxxxx, dunno

What should Hillary continue doing?
xxxxxx, dunno either

Good luck against Trump!
The Chinese buyers are paying on average $900k for a house, which is what the average Canadian is buying.
The percentage of Chinese buyers is anywhere from 4% to 8% in the market.

What upsets me here more than anything else is that no one mentioned the CMHC. I suppose people would be more willing to believe that aliens are using mind control on people to drive a real estate frenzy rather than believe that there are institutions creating moral hazard within Canada.
I know this isn't a general rule, but based on my experiences with proprietary projects, even with the best of intentions most became a jenga-esque pile of hacks and shortcuts that few developers would want to show off in public even if the overall system works well.
Also, the Python JIT compiler PyPy in many cases matches or exceeds V8.
>alienates a tech-friendly user such as myself,

You mean FE engineers? :P (half kidding)

A lot of tech savvy folks think the old style UI is more usable. So you should take care speaking for a group.
>> I've been hearing about used 2012 MBPs selling for more than they cost new.

Where? They go for $700 at the most on for sale forums.
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Probably poor technique. When the oral hygienist flosses my teeth it doesn't hurt at all but I can't replicate the pain free flossing at home.
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> (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.)

That's not really needed, my Name is Jan and I'm male. My cousin is called Dan and she is female (people call her Dan but it's Danielle).
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I've always wondered why Apple and Google decided to use Objective-C/Swift/Java for their native iOS/Android libraries instead of plain C. Considering you can write bindings to C in virtually every programming language out there whether the programming model differs a lot or not (e.g OO or functional), you would be able to create mobile apps in any language you want if it can target the architecture.

Is there any particular reason why Google and Apple didn't take this approach? Does it introduce problems with the permission systems for apps? Security issues?
Predictable, and predicted. Read it how you want. The parable isn't a fair comparison because the candidates are not equivalent, much less equivalently "evil." I strongly believe arguing otherwise is only done from a place of privilege.

Further, the "Wrong Lizard" parable is a parable of collective-created system. I'm an individual acting within in a moment where the reality is already defined, as are all other individual voters. It's problematic to apply collective-level critiques to individual behaviors because what is less sensible at the collective-level is fully sensible at the individual-level.

But, again, see what you want to see. If it makes you feel like you've got the high ground or something it's no skin off my back.
The "relationalness" is/was not really important here. It's all about MVCC and how storage engines handle it.

Postgres is lacking in these scenarios, whereas a particular fine tuned version (or fork) of InnoDB (or MyRocks or whatever they end up chosing) handles this better.

See Facebook's "mysql-5.6" branch, that has hundreds of patches piled on to support especially these taxing workloads.