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In a weird way, I think it was just a quirk of circumstances. We were a small team in a satellite office of a much larger company, which generally meant we were financially stable but otherwise disconnected from the rest of the company (no HR present or anything like that). So when someone misbehaved, it was sort of a "what happens in vegas stays in vegas" kind of thing, IE, as long as your shenanigans don't have ramifications outside of the group we'd keep things in the family.

I think because it was such a tight knit group, there was more tolerance than there would be in a more detached professional setting. I think this guy also got a lot more slack than he deserved because he was young and talented, so people chalked it up to immaturity.

That might be overcomplicating things though. I think when it came down to it, our boss was basically a nice person who didn't really want to fire anyone, and there was no pressure to, so he'd procrastinate it, and the rest of us didn't really want to see him fired, at least to the extent of outright advocating for it, and so it just sort of kept going until he finally left to do something else.
This. The cost of serving even a fairly large website is within a hobbyist's budget and trending toward zero.
California seismic building codes are pretty solid. The state does its own earthquake research and has definitely lead the US in terms of building codes. In the US, CA's seismic exam for structural engineers is considered the most rigorous in the country. Generally, the seismic codes are roughly at Japanese levels.

However, CA's buildings are mostly older.
And we don't even know the name of the sponge diver who found this. The find should be named after them.
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> Moving from 1.8 to 1.11 shouldn't require any changes provided that you're running with 0 deprecation warnings on 1.8.

Yes, this is how it's supposed to be. This agrees with Django's roadmap (see the "I’m the maintainer of a reusable application. Which Django versions should I support?" question at the bottom): https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/jun/25/roadmap/

However, it depends on the third party apps you're using. I have a Django 1.9 site that uses django-mptt. The site was running warning-clean, but when I attempted to upgrade the site to Django 1.10, it broke because of this issue: https://github.com/django-mptt/django-mptt/issues/469
Have to agree with this comment. Word Online is bad enough, when you start using Excel or Powerpoint Online it becomes disastrous. I've needed the extra functionality of Excel/Powerpoint over Google Sheets/Slides at times, but 'collaborating' over Office365 was much, much more painful than working individually and recombining sheets like the old days
Technically, no problem. But who pays for the content when someone else puts your content in their presentation?
Those are informative but rather long documents. Are there any specific portions you'd like to call my attention to? Because I'm seeing statements like "There have not been any cases of TDWR interference identified for other unlicensed device applications" (referring to things other than outdoor point to point links), and the sole satellite communications provider operating in the U-NII-1 band being concerned only with limiting the power radiated upwards from outdoor access points and unconcerned with indoor access points.

For such a well-studied topic and with such strong regulation on the table, there really ought to be something relevant and approaching a smoking gun to point to.
The upgrade to 1.8 should not be difficult. It all depends how you are setup now. I write django fulltime. Ping me if you need help. :)
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As an American who hadn't been out of North America until 10th grade, my student exchange to Lyon was very enjoyable and showed me how absurd life can be in America sometimes.

The beautiful old architecture paired with modern public transit made it an excellent city for adventures. We could be anywhere we wanted via bike, scooter, skateboard, and metro in almost no time, and there was so much to see. Coming from living in a car-centric US suburb, it was extremely liberating.

One of my fondest memories was when my exchange student was here in the states, and we were eating at an Applebees. The waitress took his 3/4 empty soda glass away, and he swore at her in french. She just shrugged and returned with a free refill. His jaw just dropped since drinking that much soda, and free refills, was totally foreign to him.
No need to rewrite if you have a good codebase. Just go upgrade one version at a time until you reach your target version. Its not too bad.
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> but that our broken way of archiving scientific knowledge has hid the analysis?

A thousand times this.

What we need is a wikipedia of academic science where edits are peer-reviewed.
Not right now, but I am going to make this change so that it's by default.

Two months old job posts aren't as useful as I initially thought.
Ask HN: Using sentiment analysis on new hires to discover political affiliation?
I'd personally never do it, but I hear reports of HR departments trying to clamp down on political arguments in offices to "curate culture"... and I just figured the next natural extension in the mad dash to save culture at all costs is hiring people based on "political culture fit".
Apple buys screens and has some of their chips fabbed by Samsung.

It is remarkable, but not uncommon.
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I wrote a programming language. Nobody uses it. Therefore, it has no IDE support, and trying to use it in an IDE will be a frustrating waste of your time.

Someone else wrote a language. It powers 100 trillion dollars of business. Lots of people use it. Therefore, it will have ten IDEs all competing with each other to be the best, fastest, most popular, and least buggy.

In which environment are you going to use an IDE?
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One thing which has not survived well is any attempt to replace email with a more complex messaging tool like Google Wave. With the rise of more targeted communication tools like Slack, Facebook, and Snapchat though, you never know.

As we never know, I am adding one more tool to the targeted communication tools listed by @zackbloom.

Formal Messenger ( https://www.formalapp.com ) is a email alternative app which has options to handle email's categorization, overload and etiquette problems.

Disclosure: This is a shameless plug. I am a developer at Formal.
Why? Do you think it's an indicator of performance?
Great idea! If you don't have the time or money to set all that up, or you want something a bit more portable, you can also pick up a pedal exerciser/exercise pedaller (same thing, oddly). They're $25-$50 on Amazon, and you can stick them under your desk and pedal away while you work.
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Hopefully this investment will help the guy reach the finish line even though his extremities are all controlled by different keys on the keyboard.
This case may be relevant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.

Henry Ford, in his 3rd attempt at starting a car company, began what we know as Ford Motor today. His previous two ventures had failed; the first was run by the Leland team and renamed Cadillac; the second dissolved; the third made cars using Dodge Brothers engines, transmissions and differentials. According to "Wheels for the World" by Brinkley, the 3rd company of Ford's had run up quite a debt to the Dodge Brothers while getting the Model T going. Henry cut them in as shareholders in order to pay off his parts bill. Once it was a sales hit, Henry Ford resented giving the Dodge Brothers such a high percentage of the profits and did not want to purchase the drivetrain from them anymore. He started manufacturing his own drivetrains to cut them out of the picture.

So there is a lot of case history built upon Dodge V Ford, and the actual story is a fascinating thing to compare to modern day Silicon Valley.

My main takeaway from reading "Wheels for the World" by Brinkley was the similarity between the tech boom and the auto boom in the early 1900s. Many startups, a few succeed, and then consolidation as the industry matures - Microsoft acquires LinkedIn, Facebook buys WhatsApp, etc.

https://www.amazon.com/Wheels-World-Company-Century-Progress...
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1. Why would someone's political affiliation be relevant to whether they'd be good at performing their job?

2. While political party membership is not a protected class under U.S. anti-discrimination law[1], it may be strongly correlated with protected characteristics like religion or age. So, hypothetically, if by discriminating against Republicans you're also systematically discriminating against Christians or people over 40 (due to some correlation between these groups), this may be a basis for legal action against you.

Even if you never get sued, if word gets out that you're delving into employees personal lives in such intrusive ways, your reputation might (justifiably) suffer.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_class
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I think most developers would quit if not given sudo access to their machines. Don't use windows and fire people who manage to install malware. Most companies use some sort of remote management app no one except IT cares about. Yes, it probably spies on employees. Software that needs licensed probably has a license server option.
The logic that we are using "only a small part" of our brain is caused by the sparse activations. When perceiving something, we need to encode the raw sense data. When encoded, only a small part of the brain is necessary to represent it, thus the misconception that we are only "using" that part. In fact we are using all of it, even the inactive parts. By analogy, when I am writing, I am only using one letter at a time. This does not imply that I am only using 4% of the power of the alphabet, just that it works by sparse combinations. Thus there is no basis to thinking that we could improve if only we could use 100% of our neurons at once.
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He's being sarcastic and it's actually quite funny if one uses less than 100% of the brain.
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achievements might actually be cool, but should be done sparingly and in a very limited fashion; When you find crazy stuff in the game, for instance (small fire mario, minus worlds), or something rather impressive (beat the game in less than 18 minutes, beat the game without warping, etc), rather than "ACHIEVEMENT GET" the first time you get a mushroom.

Extending this to games like the Mega Man series (Beat Quick Man Stage first, kill Rock Monster boss without pressing start) or even Contra (Beat on three Lives) would be great. Just remember that less is more, and 3-5 achievements maximum is where you want to be.
Crap like this is EXACTLY why trusting mass communications to one company instead of an interconnected system is a terrible idea.
What "correction" was there, exactly? I replied to an over-generalization and misstatement. What exactly do you see being actually corrected?
Regarding "demand for other fractions", if you look at the current rendering of the stars on Blood River (your example):

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2184798.Blood_River

It actually renders a much smaller sliver of a star than a half, at least for me:

https://i.imgur.com/QTBT7Ls.jpg

Not saying that needs to be implemented at the Unicode level, just saying there is evidence of use of other fractions.
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There is a reason why he is described as one of the greatest novelist that ever lived. I'm reading through In Search of Lost Time and just the simplicity of the writing, exploring some of the most seemingly banal aspects of human nature, is astounding. I do wish I knew French; I can only imagine what the original manuscript must feel like.
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I recall a Sunday School song to that effect, with hand gestures. "Theeeeeeeeee foolish man built his house upon the sand, the foolish man built his house upon the sand..."
I'm a bit confused: When you talk of size, are you talking of the compiled binary size of the runtime + generated code, or are you talking of lines of code?

If you're talking of binary size, I'm surprised that it'd be a problem given that you're using a scripting environment. Maybe you'd be willing to share more details?

If you're talking of lines of code, using someone else's library seems to me to always be better.
Xposed module patching only works when SSLPinning is performed in the Java code of the application, as Xposed provides a mechanism for intercepting Java method calls only. Unlike in this case, the code is in C/C++ layer, hence can't be used.
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Lately I've just been throwing everything behind Caddy (caddyserver.com) in reverse proxy mode. This is all you need in your Caddyfile to get automatic TLS. It's genius.

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tls <your email>
proxy / localhost:<port>
}
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Oh. I read it as the one corner was two inches higher. Vertical displacement / width. But that seems wrong now.
If the title is click-bait that doesn't match the content, it should be corrected when submitting it on HN.
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Cydia performs dynamic hooking, and patches the function in the runtime. In theory app's signature should be intact (I have never come across this scenario in practice, so might be wrong). Generally, application implement additional checks for function hooking and dynamic library injections to prevent such attacks.
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Can you site any of this? Facebook, Twitter, Google (for a long while), Uber, Yahoo all run critical systems on MySQL.
From http://noahdavids.org/self_published/CRC_and_checksum.html

In "Performance of Checksums and CRCs over Real Data" Stone and Partridge estimated that between 1 in 16 million and 1 in 10 billion TCP segments will have corrupt data and a correct TCP checksum. This estimate is based on their analysis of TCP segments with invalid checksums taken from several very different types of networks. The wide range of the estimate reflects the wide range of traffic patterns and hardware in those networks. One in 10 billion sounds like a lot until you realize that 10 billion maximum length Ethernet frames (1526 bytes including Ethernet Preamble) can be sent in a little over 33.91 hours on a gigabit network (10 * 10^9 * 1526 * 8 / 10^9 / 60 / 60 = 33.91 hours), or about 26 days over a T3.
I think they are very much underutilized in games. A lot of developers seems to simply add achievements for reaching various milestones (how developer-like :P) -- but they could be used for so much more!

What kinds of edge cases came up in testing that would be fun for the player?
What kind of super secrets can you rally your playerbase to find/hunt down?
What kind of silly little tasks can you come up with?
Especially if you ask for a little more. I had friend once who asked for a lot more and they rescinded the offer; because they (probably rightly) figured the two wouldn't have a long relationship together if it's starting like this.
If the pilings go down 80 feet, and bedrock is at 200 feet, then worst case you'll still have 46 usable stories!
Agree. I started with extremely low max-age like 120 seconds, and once I am comfortable I change to a larger value like 6 months.
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This is what is fishy. Probably merger had to happen.
If we speak about Quip as word processor with collaboration and chat capability. You get almost the same word processor capabilities with Etherpad (+ plugins) - sure less polished - for free, open source: http://etherpad.org/ (its root go back to Google Wave)
I enjoyed it. Gives an interesting perspective on the mind and human behavior
Aren't you hypothesizing aliens + making human whims seem like universal goals? I don't think there needs to be an easier source of energy than solar to justify not tapping stars, just lack of desire.
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CCCP is a correct acronym for the Chinese Communist Party:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Committee_of_the_Commu...

The abductee claims, and Britain states, that the Chinese government, née communist party, was responsible. The books that the communist party found objectionable, and which led to the booksellers' abductions, contained gossip about the personal lives of party members.
Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12198026
A better recipe is to enforce a culture of actual politeness (not fake tolerance) and not talk about politics or religion at the office.
Ummmm no I would disagree with you. If you expect all of it to be compressed into one partition each executor has to send its data back to the parent/driver and the driver has to handle the task.

In most cases, like ours, we have a driver that is skimpy on RAM (around 2 gig) and each executor/slave has around 4-8 gigs.
Each slave/executor thread it spawned has to do it's own job and return when it's done.

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500 updates is nothing for a modern database. 10k's of updates is no sweat on modern hardware. What is so scary about this load?
> now I have my answer.

Yes, although it was interesting that they put themselves through ETL pain now for a future state they aren't moving to.
I'd recommend people also watch Evgeny Kissin play it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0U73NRSIkw

if only to get a fair view as many find Valentina Lisitsa.. questionable.

In any case I feel like people either really like or dislike her. My piano teacher absolutely hates her playing, while she's my friend's favorite pianist.

Another piece I'd recommend is also Liszt's Mephisto Waltz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9JbNgPsAkg
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How much travel do you estimate is required?
It's awfully hard to believe that they literally can't tell what the soil is like at the point of refusal. Sending down a camera and a light is child's play compared to actually running a drill string.
I like DRY and generally I'm the sort of person who's always spinning off chunks of code into their own functions, classes, modules, etc. and almost always hating anywhere I have duplicated code.

That said, I think DRY can sometimes lead people astray. One problem is that the boiled down concept of "DRY" has nothing to say about quality. Reusing bad code can often be much, much worse than the alternative. Sometimes it's critical to "sunset" code that is "working" because it's not good code, and it would take too much to make it good. Then tie any new attempt to reuse that functionality to an effort to create a better replacement. If instead people think "oh hey, this exists already and it sorta works, whelp, better be DRY!" then they can turn a small problem of bad code into a big problem of horrible code that becomes even less maintainable and more of an effort sink as it acquires little patches and fixes to add support to all the new stuff using it, and as it becomes more and more indispensable and costly to replace. Whereas if the first person deciding to be aggressively DRY had looked at the code and instead said "this is garbage, I'm writing my own better thing" then maybe everyone else coming along later would have ended up using the better replacement and over time it would have become trivial to migrate the one usage of the original to the better version.

The mental model I've started to adopt is instead one around "littering". Basically: don't create garbage code, and don't use it. Garbage code is code that has future cleanup inherently attached to it. Repeated code can be garbage code because there's inherently either deduplication work or duplication of fixing/redesign/adaptation work attached to it, it's basically like littering in the code base. But by the same token you don't solve that problem by finding a use for garbage, you still have future cleanup and bug fixing work attached to the code, only now it's worse because it has different use cases to support and higher consequences if it breaks.
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which terminal addon do you use? As I am extremely interested to use terminal within Atom.The other day, I was using terminal-plus and it seems to have some issues.
It is because Uber didn't cut a deal with Sydney Airport. Happens in a lot of airports here in USA where Uber doesn't work. But once you're outside airport boundary you can get an Uber.
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Wouldn't a better culture fit be picking people who don't like to dogmatically promote their personal political beliefs, whichever side of the fence they're on? I've worked in groups where many members loved argueing and it was a positive thing. But also in groups where they hated it and it led to hostility. In neither case was political affiliation itself the problem.
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