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I see cars routinely not obey traffic lights, which is one of hose crazy things. The only reason it has gone down at all is because of the cameras, but you'll still see it happen on a daily basis.

People don't look when they are crossing, they just go. I have to warn the driver to be careful at such intersection because there is always some old guy or gal crossing. The bikes are much more dangerous, as the cars are expected to, and can, just go around the pedestrians who don't give a f*ck about the light, but the bikes are always surprises.

Beijing used to have lots of bike lanes. Technically it still does, but it is all being used for parking. The four lane roads on either side of my apartment are effectively one lane roads since parking enforcement is non existent.
It pains me to see that people can't apply common sense without law anymore.

If a potential employer asks about my previous salary, I refuse to answer. Similarly, it never even occured to me to hide my salary from my coworkers regardless of what my employer asked me to do.

Needless to say, if any employer has a problem with that, I definitely don't want to spend 8+ hours of my day with them.
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The NSA and Department of Defence have has documents leaked.

Major retailers leak tens of thousands of credit card numbers.

Banks routinely have embarrassing security holes.

The very building blocks these systems are built on have bugs that laid dormant for years (OpenSSL, Secure Transport)

Why does anyone still believe computer security is anything but an illusion?
Now I'm wondering whether brushing with added attention towards gums would provide an equivalent result.
Anecdote is not evidence.

A few people are certainly "gifted" teeth-wise (I know another case), but not going to the dentist for 25 years would be disastrous if applied on large scale.
Not sure about WPF, but DLR was pretty much left to die on the vine, which is somewhat sad.
Afandian wasn't talking about cctv, but was talking about juries.
Firefox has a UI that is rendered in web components and javascript just like the displayed pages in the tabs. This technology is called XUL. The Gecko layout engine renders both XUL and HTML styled with CSS.

Traditionally this was all handled in one process. The tabs themselves are like fancier iframes.

If javascript in a window did not yield, stuck in a tight loop, it could make the interactive elements of the UI non-responsive (menus, modal dialogs, right-click menu, etc.)

To combat this, Firefox has a global timer in the whole-browser javascript that fires and interrupts long-running javascript to display that dialog box that says: "A script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped responding. You can stop the script now, or you can continue to see if the script will complete." You might have even run into it. This lets you kill it which gives you the UI back, but may break the offending webpage.

By making firefox multi-process, this hack is no longer needed.

Also you can imagine that for a very javascript heavy web application like Google Docs, Slack, or Gmail, it fires so many JS events and runs so much code that when the tab is active on slower systems you find Firefox's own UI is lagging. This is because the web application is always doing something or doing it too frequently and Firefox is having a hard time getting a word in edgewise.

Such heavy interactive pages will no longer negatively impact the browser, especially on multi-core systems.
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If you believe the app is misbehaving, make a complaint with Apple. Enough complaints will trigger an investigation. It wouldn't be the first time a big player is slapped with a request to fix their app.
> How to write a novel that is actually a worthwhile read?

There's no silver bullet for that, but one promising approach is to honestly try to write something you'd really like to read yourself.

> Why should you invest your time into an endeavour that will most likely fail and have no significant outcome?

The answer to this fully depends on your personal definition of a significant outcome. Some people consider working on open-source projects a waste of time. Other people think the same about working for a corporation. For some, the only outcome worth working for is noticeably and unambiguously making the world a better place. Others (the happy ones) just do things "for the hell of it".
Yes, insane property prices in Oz & NZ:

http://www.acting-man.com/?p=46075

Canada and Australia have been hit hard by the commodity collapse, and their currencies have crashed, so their property has inflated in local nominal prices, as foreigners have bought anything with a roof (or even without). But their internal economies have not reacted to the loss of export business and imported inflation for consumer goods. They keep high-taxes and high-welfare socialist economies which are sleep-walking off a cliff - this will not end well.

NZ is in a slightly better position, because it produces more agricultural commodities than industrial minerals, and it restructured its taxes and regulations to become more friendly to businesses and individuals (no capital gains tax, no inheritance tax). But its real estate market is also in a crazy bubble, which will collapse if the foreign buyers disappear.
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Wow, some really outraged comments so far...

Bottom line: if you're going to work for a company that does significant work with language and documentation, your grammar had better be up to it.

Further, if you're hoping to get into a role where attention to detail really is important, yet you still (after a couple of decades) can't figure out how your own native language works, you're not really suitable for that role - because the implication is that your purported 'attention to detail' isn't truly so.

Is that really so unreasonable??
I submitted it to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12216263
Serious? There's more to customer support than picking up a phone. I've worked with some very intelligent customer support people who know the product as well as the engineers.
The difference between an average and a great customer support is not millions of dollars in revenue. You are thinking about the difference between a terrible and a great customer, and with 1 in a million scenario.

There are some situations where great customer support brings the company tremendous value and opportunity. But these situations are so rare and few that investing in great customer support (for high price) is not worthwhile. An average person should do.

If good customer support is really bringing in value, then they should be able to negotiate for more pay. If they leave, the company should see losses.

But that never happens.
To me, the impressive thing the China has done is making the technology ubiquitous and commercially successful within China. As a software developer, I don't see a lot of magic in writing applications. I feel confident that I could write a WeChat or a mobile payments platform given enough time. But to convince hundreds of millions of people or thousands of retailers to use it? That is beyond my comprehension.

When I hear about technological prowess, I am expecting things like rockets that land on barges, self driving cars, and even block chains. Not web apps and mobile apps.

China has enough of the pieces in place that I wouldn't be surprised to see some innovations soon that would impress me. But it just hasn't happened yet.
>Anecdote is not evidence.

Well that's the problem, we don't have better evidence.
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> I don't have gaps in my teeth to get the floss in.

Same here. Never understood how people can physically floss. Maybe those with undeveloped teeth can do it, others, I don't see how it's even possible.
But there was: Microsoft ended support for XP with a more than amiable deprecation plan. Anyone running XP after the final deadline knew they were on borrowed time, and any Dropbox customers remaining on XP after that were on a grace period.

How many people still use XP with Dropbox on an internet connected computer? And how many of those are paying customers? For Dropbox it makes no sense to go with more than what they are doing now. Why spend a lot of money in postponing the inevitable? It won't net them any returns, whilst dropping supported for a legacy OS does have tangible benefits (e.g., reduced build times, less (untestable) code, less support).

If you really need to run software on an unsupported, unpatched OS, you are way out of the realm of of-the-shelf supported software. You need a custom agreement with the vendor to get that level of support, and you would have gotten ample warning on the impending loss of support with such a contract.

It would be different if Dropbox axed support for Windows 8 with only a month of warning, even though they are fully within their rights to do so.
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> There is way less women than men because the Government let people basically kill girls with selective abortion or after being born.

To put in in to perspective, there are 1.06 males per female in China [0] which though high, isn't materially different to other large developing countries such as India and Pakistan.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_sex_ratio
This is happening in Australia too.

There are new apartment buildings going up by Chinese property developers aimed squarely at the growing Chinese population.

As a matter of fact, construction management university students are told to study Chinese language and culture to help them get jobs after uni
The only case in which biometrics can be considered secure is when the biometric scanner is paired with an armed guard.
> innovation is not one of their "fortes"

Downvoting because almost-entirely off-topic, and TBH slightly racist.
More background on the long paths: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/jeremykuhne

There's some nice small Async enhancements in this patch too, such as improvements to Output Caching (which isn't available in ASP.NET Core, although Response Caching to set headers for proxies is).

It's good to see MS are still updating .NET Framework as I think .NET Core needs a bit more time before it's suitable for enterprise style applications.

Patches are coming soon though: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2016/07/15/net-core-...

edit:

More info on Response Caching: https://docs.asp.net/en/latest/performance/caching/response....

Shameless plug: I've written about Response Caching in my book on ASP.NET Core (https://unop.uk/book).
That tax is just a smokescreen. There are numerous loopholes and problems with it, so many that it's surely deliberately engineered for maximum buzz but minimum effect. BC and Vancouver have been playing hot potato with this issue for a while with no one doing anything to address the problem.

For example, it very narrowly targets foreign citizens who are not permanent residents or citizens of Canada, completely missing "investors" who have just bought Canadian permanent residence for cheap, do not earn income in Canada, and are now buying property in their safe haven. This scenario is unfortunately all too common.

About $100K in interest payments via Quebec's investor immigration program, no other requirements.
My gf pointed those out in passing but remarked "no one's using them."
It is interesting to look at the map of California and wonder at that huge gap between Carmel and Santa Barbara. No development, no population, its even hard for tourists to find a place to stay, or even a campsite.

The tech industry pays all the state's bills, mostly captured by tenured public sector workers, in true socialist fashion. If there's a tech crash, and a few years pass without IPOs, the state will collapse into bankruptcy, and the impoverished residents will start to eye that empty coastline as their most valuable asset. When the tree-hugging hippies die off, 350km of the world's most valuable real estate will come onto the market.
LOL, yeah, you are right, things you given "must be" the reasons
why innovation is not one of Chinese's "fortes". But the problem is they are innovating, in fact, and making more and more influence in the world. I can not believe you lived in China and know none of those "big" news from Chinese...
Similarly in Moscow I was told when changing the line I should never look that other cars show any indication that they would yield. I should just blink for some seconds and then go. Then I should trust that other drivers want to avoid collisions and yield.

It worked while I have been there for 9 months in 2009, but it never become emotionless instinct to drive like that.
A common thing in Europe in general. My home city, Kraków, Poland, had its market square renovation put on halt for almost a year when the initial works uncovered things of interest to archeologists.
At this point the target has proven to be EXTREMELY unstable and is an enormous hazard. The kind of hazard you would call the police on because you would be afraid of them shooting someone.

I guess this shows that people on HN do not understand these situations as much as they think they do.
The online documentation will serve you well. I recently had to learn django for my new job and I must say that I enjoyed every bit of the learning process.
... so does the money. There's no keyboard typing without the money.
I'm not sure about that. Many in the US are not crazy about pop-density. Just look at the push back against the anti-sprawl movement.
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From personal experience I can say: It helps, but it doesn't give you equivalent results.
Really? I live in Tanjong Pagar Plaza, we have a post office / popstation in the community area, and use them all the time, every time I go collect stuff I see other people collecting things.

Strange to hear no one uses them.

Granted, post offices are beginning to hold less and less now, cutting costs I guess, which may be increasing the usage.
If you have a girl with a Chinese woman outside China when you visit China they can refuse to let the girl go out. China needs girls.

Can't understand this, why they refuse the girl out?
I like having everything I need inside a 10 minute walk. If it weren't for work I'd very rarely go outside of this 1Km radius. To do that you need large apartment blocks.
Don't do it. Probably not legal. Just send them privately to the prospective employer.
Nobody deserves to die (unless you believe in the death penalty I guess?). However, threatening to kill people, and exhibiting signs of extreme instability and violence, makes someone a danger that needs to be neutralized.

If that person pulls a gun on the police during that process, they are not likely to end up in a good spot.

Especially with a five year old in the vicinity.
Not sure about local laws, but in most places it'd be a traffic offense.
So, it's not a vague attack on their views, but a vague attack on their communication style?
Is there any chance you're an expat living in China? Many expats complain about the internet because theytry to access the foreign internet. Internet within China is actually very speedy.

Regarding gender imbalance, this wasa cultural issue. It's a problemin many cultures where male heirs are preferred over female heirs.

I'd also lile to point out the Bay Area also has an infamous gender imbalance issue.
> How could alt.games.football not scale, and /r/football scale ?

Upvoting. NNTP didn't have it. Reddit does. This allows a reader to see the top posts.
Yes, but one that doesn't have the costs of being elevated or the downside of being blocked by traffic.
Looks like an accident waiting to happen: someone tries to go under it and forgets that they have a bike on the roof or that their car is too high; the bus tries to drive over a car just as it makes a turn; the list goes on.
It helps to try to price yourself out of 2/3-3/4 of the cold approaches you get from recruiters. If you want to make more, ask for it. If you're in a position, even if you don't like it, there's no harm to keeping your options open, or asking for 5-10% more than you are currently making. You might be surprised. Also, if you outright ask what the pay range is, more often than not, they'll tell you. That gives you some indicator of what to ask for.

Also bearing in mind where you stand on the skills ladder as part of that factoring.
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I'm replying here but I'm trying to reply to the entire thread.

- So you are talking about how much value we create and that we should receive more of it.

- Then someone else mentions a lot of other professions that do that too: create a lot of value.

- Now the discussion does a 180, forgetting completely the first topic: value. Now it's about supply and demand.

Pick your measuring stick people.

You either trust that markets work best and then you are paid exactly what you deserve, because you are free to change jobs and ask for more.

Or you don't and think that a better system should be in place, but then it should apply to everybody, not just software developers, right?
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I work across Java, .NET and C++.

It surely feels strange to argue for .NET given how it started and how I also bashed it back in the early days, specially since my employer had access to early versions of it pre-1.0.

But nowadays is just feels better.

However Oracle is actually making the effort to improve the whole generics/JNI/AOT compilation story, but those improvements are only targeted for Java 10 and beyond, while .NET has those features today.

And Android developers are not going to get them anyway.
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In the kernel, the proper practice for sweeping changes like this is one commit per subsystem.
I mean, but if the device notifies you that it's running low on battery... maybe you should close the app? Shouldn't this be enough?

You would avoid loosing data, and regarding user experience, also avoid a slower performance of your app (and perhaps complaining about it?), and also seeing your device shutting down itself with your app screen running in background (which is pretty lame).
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There are literally thousands of reasons to live anywhere, and it turns out that Massachusetts measures real well on a lot of them. If you base your living decisions on "there might in the nebulous future be an onerous non-compete I can't get an employer, who is trying to be appealing to me and in an industry as stupid-hot as tech is almost never the only game in town, to redline", I envy your few and trivial problems in life.

Hell, I've treated it as a filter in the past: the mindset that leads a company to be unyielding on noncompetes is a signal not to work for them in the first place. That a noncompete is unenforceable in some jurisdictions functionally only means, for the overwhelming majority of tech employees, you aren't finding out how much they think of you before you sign on the dotted line and quit your other job.
Well said.

Supply vs. demand explains so much of this world. Some people either don't grok the concept, or refuse to believe it applies everywhere.

It hurts our emotions when we think about a miner in Africa (working 120 hour workweeks, wiping the sweat off his brow, with five mouths to feed) getting paid hundred times less than a software engineer fresh out of college working four hours a day, sitting in ergonomic chairs and getting in massage pods as a "break."

But pain is not value. Sorry. This is not a utopia. Don't make decisions thinking the world is a utopia. Have a correct mapping of the world, and then do something about it.

Don't skip the first step.
Those numbers get a lot worse when you look at sex ratio among children under 5. I've seen estimates as high as 1.25, with some provinces above 1.3.

Anything above 1.07 at birth is proof of selectively aborting girls.
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Just equip this vehicle with a horizontal version of this:

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For me the water flossers (oral jet irrigators) are the best solution yet. I was never able to floss correctly with a wire, especially between the teeth in the back row but then my dentist told me about "the jet thing from amazon" and I wish I had it a lot earlier because it's so easy to use and quite efficient. (Just don't jet your gums with the highest power; it can hurt and make your gums bleed)
Why gradual? (not disagreeing, just asking)
Not only public data. At my main project I'm testing systems that generally crunch data from various sources, and yes, most of them are in CSV format, and then we process them only slightly (some filtering, aggregation, translation), and spit other CSVs out. I was amazed that the company had not bothered creating more... civilized (?) solution for internal data processing - but I guess that since it works, there's no drive to change it on a whim.