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> Nobody (or very few) is doing the whole package as well as they are.

If you read what I've said in this thread, I actually completely agree with you.

That map dashboard is like hundreds of similar dashboards I've seen elsewhere. I literally just saw a guy put something like that together in a couple weeks for an internal project where I work using mapbox and some d3.js bits. It even had a time slicer like this one and clickable map features.

So why isn't everybody as visible? I suspect getting a billion+/year in VC helps. But they've also managed to unify several key user-facing tools into a nice package and generalized it enough to support lots of different problem sets. Something that still seems beyond most companies.

From what I recall of their old public demo (Op Tradestop), their ontology data-input engine was pretty nice (if labor intensive) and it allowed for some easy to use queries against the enterpise graph. You can get pretty far locally with Visio, omnigraphle or yED, but they've managed to centralize the information input and retrieval in a nice way that seems easy enough to do by anybody who's seen it.

It might turn out that at scale it just doesn't provide enough value, or the labor intensive data entry parts make it not work well. Who knows?
I only had my passport as ID and didn't have to give my home address, so it can be even easier than that in practice.
"Interesting" is in the eye of the beholder. If you don't think it's interesting, then it's not. Don't ask the internet to help you form an opinion.
Author here. I've looked into support for Mac OS some time ago. The audio code is portable enough given OpenAL, but getting global keyboard events on Mac is not trivial. It also doesn't help that I don't own a mac myself for development...
> And who benefits the most on European countries problems and EU dismantle?
> Russia.

So Soros's agenda is to help Russia? That makes no sense.
> Building a computer to play with and learn from is great. But when you have to get work done, it pays to get the best.

Right, but "the best" is completely subjective. I've wasted more time trying to get OS X and Macs to do what I want than I've ever spent building my own desktop machines or getting Windows to do what I want.

That's the reason why the vast majority of businesses don't run OS X too. It's not the best for them. Not even close.

If I had to use OS X daily, it would be death by a thousand cuts for me since it's missing so many features. The things that it's missing are really stupid and simple too, like the ability to just disable a monitor without having to unplug it. I can't spend all day hunting down third party solutions to every problem in OS X. There are too many. Nevermind the fact that the software that many businesses run wouldn't work on a Mac unless you virtualized it.

Using Mac hardware without OS X turns that nice hardware into crap, so that's exactly what Mac hardware is worth to me. I need to buy it to test stuff for iOS though, so I always buy refurbished desktop Macs since Apple won't let you upgrade their laptops.

IMO all laptops suck anyway. I don't get why people buy them. All my work is done at a nice fat PC desktop with 32 GB of RAM, a fast CPU and multiple SSDs which was thrown together from commodity parts...for cheap...which is easily upgradeable...and which also smokes the refurb Mac Pro (Mid-2012) that I also bought.

(When I go to a meeting I bring my Dell XPS or my Surface Pro, both of which are over 5 years old and still working very reliably with no problems - meanwhile my old 2008 MBP will not be able to run macOS sierra next year.)
This is pretty useful for someone like me who's been in large companies using Teradata forever, just to understand the NoSQL products out there and potential use cases. On any given day, I feel like I've fallen way behind on database technology simply because we're fairly locked in, admittedly very happy with TD. It's helpful to keep up here though, because we do have some projects we'd like to do that would probably work better outside of an RDBMS.

I'd love to see something similar on the various ETL/data pipeline tools. In that regard, we still write a ton of SAS code because we have a variety of sources, which SAS does well, pretty solid if you need to do some data cleansing into the target, and the code itself is very batch-friendly and maintainable. It's been a while since I've surveyed alternatives.
News as such is fungible, but good newspapers and magazines provide their unique value through op-ed pieces, columns, research journalism, thought pieces, etc. That kind of writing is not interchangeable.

I have a subscription to a newspaper (on real paper!) not for the daily news (which as you say is fungible) but for these in-depth articles that go beyond the news, and provide some background and perspective.
> I do not see queues of refugees fleeing there

Hmmm... have you actually looked?

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

This is doesn't even include Palestinian refugees.

http://www.unrwa.org/where-we-work/jordan

Same story in Lebanon and Turkey

https://mgtvwspa.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/refugee-story-3...
yeah, he is well known ahole, that's for sure. don't look for any altruism/good intentions in his actions, rather ice cold calculation on how to make profit on it in longer term, regardless of consequences
I should have been a bit more specific: The teaching that I'm talking about is private lessons for younger kids, K-12 schools, and even a handful of adults who take lessons as a leisure activity.

I took music lessons as a kid, from around age 6 through high school. My parents had no expectation that I would become a professional musician. (In fact, my dad later expressed his relief when he knew that I wouldn't). And in reality I would never have made the cut. Jazz bass was easier for me to get into than classical cello, because there was at the time a shortage of bassists, and nothing like the insane auditions that classical players go through. I was happy to let music be a serious sideline while I pursued math and physics as my college majors.

Today, my kids are themselves taking classical lessons, playing in the youth orchestra, etc. It's interesting, when the orchestra has its final concert every year, the program gives a little bio for each kid who is a high school senior, and many of them mention their future plans. A huge percentage of the kids in the orchestra are planning on studying science, math, computers, etc. A few will actually study those subjects in college, paid for by music scholarships. One of my band mates went through college that way, and is now employed in the software industry.

So it's a good kind of Ponzi scheme. ;-)
>Witness the poster you're replying to, suggesting we accept human extinction rather than taxes and regulation.

Straw man or False dilemma?
> I think you may be coming at it from a javascript perspective where you expect it to work according to the way you're used to it working with Node/NPM

Please avoid making such assumptions about other people. It's just a little step from there to ad hominems.

To make my point more clear:

I love Python and 'm used to Python/PIP, but when I had to work with NodeJS and saw NPM, I immediately thought: These people got it right. Not the language, mind you, but the package management!
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I suspect you're looking for a more absolutist set of principles than exist when, in fact, these things exist on a continuum and opinions vary. I think there are certain overall factors that trigger the broad McMansion dislike but they're not universal.

(From an architectural perspective) a lot of mishmashing of architectural styles and features without any sort of unifying aesthetic. Yes, that's a matter of taste, and there are ugly buildings with unified modernist aesthetics but we can probably agree that architecture should be more than pich two from column A, one from column B, and one from column C.

In many cases, McMansions are in large developments with big houses on small property lots with, often, minimal landscaping both for reasons of space and because they're fairly new, which accentuates all that there is to not like about the houses themselves.

I suspect that the McMansion style gets wrapped up in a lot of cultural biases and attitudes such as you see here.

[ADDED: The OP did make an effort to offer some tests. My untrained paraphrase would be that McMansions tend to be sort of a jumble of often seemingly random design elements.]
No you don't. They will overnight you a box. You pack it up, call for pickup, it then gets overnighted to Apple. They fix it that day then over night it back to you. All on their dime.

I was really really impressed with this.
That's not anywhere near a complete list of deprecated extensions and there are others that have been completely removed from the language [1]. It's unfortunate that ScopedTypeVariables hasn't been standardised, but there hasn't been a new standard since 2010, so it's not hugely surprising.

https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/LanguagePragmaHistory
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This isn't surprising, if you understand that the mission of the American military and intelligence apparatus is to promulgate American Values (I.e. Hegemonic control), not democracy. You need only look to the juntas that the CIA have installed and supported in Latin America alone to see that this is demonstrably the case.

Consider that NZ were worried Fiji were getting close to China. This would be the US's concern too - so roughing up some political exiles would curry favour with the Fijian regime, potentially staying their burgeoning relationship with China.

There was no bungle.
One of my biggest issues with Prop 13 is that it suggests that you should have a claim a municipal government in perpetuity. Huge amounts of the value of land in towns and cities comes from the services provided by the city government, and I think Prop 13 pretends this couldn't possibly be true.

I also think it would be an absurd argument to make. If those people had no desire for services, they would have bought/built houses well North of the bay area, or South of San Francisco in some place like moss landing. And I don't think it's worth preserving that delusion at the cost of perverse incentives, waning tax revenue, and a massively illiquid housing market.

Granted, this is not all that's needed to fix the problem (even moreso in CA, which has some really bad barriers), but I don't think moving in the wrong direction will get us where we need to be.
I think they're simple too, but then I remember working in tech support for DirecTv how many people just didn't plug the TV in.
> using whatever the modern $200 hipster version of a "buckling spring" keyboard is

Those would be Topre switches. Which makes the keyboard worth more than $200. ;)

They are good switches, and do rely on a spring, but they are quieter. And more expensive.
> For example, if we rsync -a /source /target, we trust that the contents of /target will exactly match the contents of /source

You might trust that, but you'd be wrong:

$ cd /tmp
$ mkdir foo
$ cd foo
$ mkdir bar
$ mkdir baz
$ touch bar/quux
$ rsync -a ./bar ./baz
$ ls baz
bar
$ ls -R baz
baz:
bar

baz/bar:
quux

You see, without a final '/' rsync will put the source into the target, rather than synchronising the source and the target. Also, if you really want a sync as opposed to just a full copy, you probably want to add --delete (which will delete files in the target which don't exist in the source.

So you probably want rsync -a --delete source/ target/.
That's pretty ingenious. Can you share any other details about the OS?
You didn't read what I said. I wouldn't want to live in US suburbia.

My wife and I actually live in two places right now because of our line of work:

There's a 2BR apartment in a German city with about a million residents. It's not exactly downtown but definitely urban. It's actually slightly less central than the place I grew up but it's where we mostly stay when working on-site for clients in the region.

We also live in a 3BR apartment in a German town with about 15k residents. When we have children, this is where they will grow up until we need a bigger place.

I wouldn't want to live in US cities either, but for completely unrelated reasons. I'm more inclined to believe that it's possible to find a bearable place in urban regions in the US than in the traditional American cliché suburbia. Either way I'd prefer almost any apartment I've lived in (except for the tiny 1BR place we stayed when we were studying) over that.
I haven’t fully read How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler, which is likely to be referenced in another comment, but I do something that’s referenced in that book: syntopical reading.

When I read stuff I usually grab a few books on the same subject and read through them, using a mix of ebooks, physical books and audiobooks, so I can fill in dead time in different contexts with reading something on the same topic. I’m able to compare the ideas of the books and that seems to collate them better in my head.

Other than that I’ve given up and consciously trying speed reading tricks like using peripheral vision to read or reading stuff one word at a time. I’m sure there’s more gains for those techniques but I just don’t have the patience to put them in muscle memory at this point.
Oh, brings back memories. gopher wiretap.spies.com was always my go to gopher site.
yeah exactly. now, here's the thing: if you want to plug in newer hypocritical-boards...

... i'm sorry, you may be confused by the use of that phrase - allow me to explain before completing the sentence. broadcom is a highly unethical company that was caught completely off-guard by the rbpi phenomenon. their MOQ for this processor is 5 million units. the only reason they allowed it is because it was for "education" and it was one of their own employees working on it.

now, when you get one of these "education" boards, the first thing that happens is that a proprietary program is uploaded to the GPU, which then and only then turns on the CPU. this should be ringing massive alarm bells already for anybody who knows that respecting the privacy of children is fundamentally important.

but if that's not enough, if these children wish to watch films on these "educational" devices, they are forced to pay $2.50 to a cartel in order to obtain - not information but a PROPRIETARY library.

so here's the message that broadcom tells kids: "we want you to get educated! you're free to do so... except no further than WE say you can. fuck off kids if you want to educate yourself about the way our cartelled business makes money".

total hypocrisy.

now, i'm keenly aware that they're under enormous pressure to release the GPU's inner details, but dumping the tools onto the software libre community and expecting them to pick up the pieces doesn't strike me as being particularly responsible either.

anyway so back to answering your comment... :)

so if you want to plug in 15mm high boards you need a housing that can cope with 15mm high boards. you want a pi-top in other words not this one. if you've seen the pi-top, however, you'll notice that it's almost 1.25 in thick, possibly even more! there are other issues with it as well, such as: the team haven't fulfilled their promises to be open with the schematics or the 3D CAD files.

i've taken a heck of a lot of issues into consideration in the design of the 15.6in laptop housing, basically as a demonstration to the industry that there is another way.
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Well, she and I share a great deal of things in common in this situation. We're both dual professional marriages with families in the Bay Area who are in the situation where housing in the areas where we want to live is unaffordable. The difference is while I also want to see denser and more affordable housing and shorter commutes, I didn't rage-quit on the internet over not being able to buy a $2.7M home in exactly the place where I want to live. Instead, I was extremely rational, considered a wide range of issues, decided that the problem with housing in California is effectively systemic and unchangeable because existing homeowners are an extremely powerful voting block.

If I wanted to live in Palo Alto the first two things I'd drop are the requirement for "walkable to downtown" and "my kids can bike on my street". Those are great attributes, but that's about half a million of additional house cost, and I think any rational person buying a home would drop those requirements if they truly want to live there. Adding on to that, I'd also suggest buying a fixer-upper, fixing it up, and living there (not flipping it).

Ultimately, if you rage-quit on the internet, you can't complain if people call you on the irrational parts of your rage.
It's "Kildall". And he hasn't been doing anything for quite some time. He died in the 90's.
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I think this is interesting, but perhaps not described the best way in this piece.

I'd say it's more along the lines of a Parse like service where:

- you own your data

- you choose your datastore

- you get an easy to develop against service for client interactions without sacrificing back-end flexibility (aka you can still run SQL queries for reporting)
> Redis, as the only non-partitioned system in this comparison ...

This is a bit misguided, redis cluster has been in GA for over a year.
1) Now we know Manafort potentially received a cash payment of more than $12 million. Which, I mean, seeing how good he is at running a campaign is clearly money based on competence!

2) Donald Trump's campaign's ONLY intervention in the entire GOP platform was to remove anti-Putin language from the platform re: Ukraine.

3) Not only that, but just days before the RNC, Carter Paige, one of Trump's foreign policy advisers traveled to Russia and gave a speech attacking America's policies towards Russia, calling America's focus on democratization and fighting inequality "hypocritical."

4) The Intelligence community has confirmed that Russian Intelligence is responsible for the hacking of the DNC, which is an obvious attempt to harm Hillary Clinton's campaign.

5) Furthermore, Donald Trump called on Russia to release/hack any emails they could get their hands on.

6) Trump's campaign manager has ties to pro-Putin oligarchs who were propped up by the Kremlin. This isn't new information. As long ago as 2005, there were calls to McCain's people to try and do something about Manafort because he was working against American interests in the region.

7) Trump has praised Putin numerous times, calling him a far better leader than Obama.

8) Donald Trump has taken an anti-NATO stance.
In all of the suburban and urban areas I've lived in and near, it has been the case. In the rural area I live now, my options are crappy satellite or expensive 4g.

/anecdote
I don't know about that, if a bunch of people are excited about something and I'm just not seeing the 'hook', then I'd want to be clued in so I can be excited too. Or, just be made aware "yep, that's what they were excited about, it just doesn't do it for me", which is okay, too.
I'd say that modern disel injector problems were more common than spark plug problems, so I guess we'll have to agree disagree :) I could also draw your attention to the cost and ease of replacement of a spark plug vs a diesel injector, or all the extra emissions treatment equipment that modern diesels need that petrol doesn't, but I don't think we're going to convince each other here :)
I both agree and disagree. If you code yourself into a corner with React it can be harder to understand and untangle: it's much easier to understand jQuery under the covers than React, especially if you're using other parts of the React ecosystem.

None of this is related to what I said originally, which is that jQuery doesn't encourage shitty code. jQ's original purpose wasn't to organize developer activity, it was to simplify one tiny portion of it.

> [Good code in jQ] requires planning and architecture engineering.

Precisely what I said.

(That said, if you don't do that with React, you'll still end up with a mess.)
The right combination of people doing the right combination of work. One of the ostensible purposes of open plans is to facilitate communication and collaboration. Unfortunately, every collaboration session throws off those around who are not involved.
I would add, make something YOU would actually use. Don't make something with the intent only on getting rich. That's how you're successful.
The way to prevent accidental discharge is to keep the rifle slung over one's shoulder, with an empty chamber, rather than nervously gripping it with one's finger on the trigger guard as pictured in TFA. That posture serves no purpose other than the intimidation of the ignorant. And it's clear from this picture the magazines, if they exist, aren't secured in one place on a sensible leather belt, but rather are rolling around in the bottom of one or more of those giant pouches he's got hanging around.
Call me paranoid, but I wouldn't trust an account after somebody has broken in.

In that case I'd create a different account with a different password, possibly at a different provider, and tell all people that my email address changed. Maybe I'd also create a forwarding from the old to the new account, but only for transition period over a few months.
I was really asking a question, but I think I understand your answer. I can see where there is a business case for it, but also the other.

As an example from another field, my architect drew up plans for my house. I'm only allowed to use those plans for that house. I can't build another house just like it, and I can't sell the plans to somebody else.

His expertise and hard work went into making the plans. It's no more "real" than a print-out of a program. Yet it would be very hard for him to make a living if other architects could just take his plans and use them.

And the idea of selling giving the program away for free but charging to fix the errors may not be the best for all cases.

I can see the case for copyleft, but I don't think it's the only case. (Not that you said it was- in fact, I've heard some people say something like that but not too many.)
Also read: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12289246
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I've never had that happen...
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This would likely benefit other scientific fields -- bioinformatics for example has the same sort of software tooling.
The point of writing this bio probably had comparable inspiration to your own when deciding if you should make this comment.

You wanted to make the comment and thought other people might want to read it. Do we gain anything from your comment? No. Do we gain anything from the bio? Maybe not. Did that stop any of us from pushing text out onto the internet?
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I have no idea what the pain is, as you haven't specified, but I'm glad you don't have it.
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I agree with you on all the theory, but I'd add that if you take the subsidy option, you'll forever have to clamp down harder and harder as the effects of the distortions amplify.

I'm actually open to the idea that the government option could work; I just find it entirely antithetical to the ethos of the US.
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Thanks for that link! I haven't seen that wiki page before. Even so, only 4 extensions have been removed. I know others are de facto deprecated, like Rank2Types.

I picked scoped type variables as an example because it's been in GHC since version 6.4. That was released in March 2005, so it had plenty of time to make it into the Haskell2010 language standard.
I am curious who is sponsoring them, it looks like an interesting project.