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> They aren't very nice houses! They're often cramped, the lots are tiny, the block landscaping isn't nice, nothing is walkable, nobody is all that close to public transportation, the surrounding areas are all strip malls and trunk roads, traffic is a nightmare.

Weather is nice compared to Brooklyn or most East Coast cities though. I remember someone saying way back in the 90's "the house doesn't matter you won't be spending much time in it". Sure that is an exaggeration but...

> What's, really, the upside of living in Palo Alto? Palo Alto is nicer than Sunnyvale, I guess? But as a college town, it's not even as good as Evanston, let alone Ann Arbor.

Seriously if you are in tech and you are a 'go getter' (or even if you're not) there is a great deal to be said about being in a target rich environment like that.

I spent some time in the early 90's out there. When my ex wife wanted to move out there with her new husband (he worked for one of the name companies out there which I will not mention) I said "you have my blessing, I will move there as well if you go there".
For US workers that may very well run afoul of labor and tax laws (and in fact almost certainly does). For foreign ones it depends on their laws.
The author isn't in an engineering role. The tools listed in the article seem more centered around collaboration between a project/product manager and engineers versus between an engineering team. Hence no mention of git/source control
Have you considered AGPL as a license? So that anyone deploying and changing your app will have to give back.
Warren Teitelman implemented a rule-based command correction facility in BBN Lisp in the 1960s (https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6905) that later became known as DWIM in InterLisp (http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/interlisp-...). It was notorious for introducing weird errors: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.misc/hBQ1autWqlI/I.... There is also an anecdote about it deleting files in ESR's Hacker's Dictionary (http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/D/DWIM.html) that seems to be ESR's made up bullshit - the syntax is wrong, the anecdote is not in the old jargon file, and also the fact that Interlisp had undelete. A lot of people seemed to have liked the facility though.
More generally, type ~ as an escape sequence.

For example, type ~^Z to put a session in the background.

Similarly, type ~~ to send an escape sequence in an inner session, etc...
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For mobile I care about data usage and speed without WiFi, before native feel. This version downloads each comment in a separate request and the total is huge. Even the main page (with everything already cached) takes ~7KB on original site and ~28KB on your client.
Oh yes, I was thinking of a case where checkmate is theoretically possible, but where your opponent can thwart it indefinitely with good play. But as you say, that's a draw rather than a stalemate. Which is not a particularly important distinction, I will admit!
First in line to Disneyland, or first in line at the suicide booth?

Direction is as important as order, so a criticism of "not first" must be more nuanced.
Drug experiences are still experiences and like any experience, you can learn something from them or waste them.

At the absolute least, a psychedelic experience should teach you a lesson about the reliability of the senses and about how subjective our experience of reality can be, which is a valuable lesson to learn, IMO, and no matter how much you understand it intellectually, directly experiencing it is another matter entirely.
Yeah I agree with you I didn't find much of anything useful beyond this one other bit that added another, small explanation for moving away from bossless:

> While the old times created a strong sense of camaraderie, employees didn’t know who to direct questions to, either about uncomfortable confrontations with colleagues or about their own performance. “Without even a minimal layer of management, it was difficult to have some of those conversations and to get people feeling like they understood what was expected of them, and that they were getting the support that they needed in order to do the best work,”

No information about what the current structure is, how it's working out compared to the last one nor really any satisfying answers for why the initial bossless failed (I mean I can certainly guess but they went through it, it would be nice to have more data).
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I don't think I ever made the claim that Magnesium would cure. It has helped my symptoms. Hypermagnesemia appears to be very rare so it was a low risk effort for me. I've had positive results with it whereas other touted natural antidepressants have quickly petered out (St John's Wort, 5-HTP).
Failure to recognize the importance of relating to other people is a technical deficiency.
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I'm curious... what has this done to the job market for those who aren't in tech?

Where do the nurses, garbagemen, policemen, etc. live? Their salaries are not nearly that of those in tech so I can't imagine these prices wouldn't lower the number of people in essential non-tech jobs in the area (unless they're willing to suffer through the commute).
10 hours a week to deal with patches?
Fwiw many people live in places that are just like Palo Alto except:

a) The weather sucks

b) The jobs and tech serendipity isn't there.

This is like arguing what the best top college is to go to while the majority of the world doesn't even get to go to a top college. [1]

[1] My vote goes to Princeton in the Ivy's even though I went to a different Ivy. Just like the college town feel. Of course today I'd pick Stanford because it's so target rich with opportunities back when I was in college nobody talked about Stanford that much.
I've never met one. But if they were campaigning to infringe upon my gun rights I certainly would.
> If you need a PCI Auditor, make sure they have a background like me

Maybe you're being flagged for the blatant self-promotion? I can't say for sure, as I wasn't the one who clicked 'flag'. You may want to tone it down a bit.
We are in desperate need of a carbon tax to continuously push the economy away from global warming emissions. It's crazy that we let Saudi Arabia's oil whims dictate our transportation policy.
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Another good example is the NeXT vs Sun duel, regarding the RAD tooling of NeXTStep vs the traditional UNIX development (1991).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGhfB-NICzg
I've been running relays at home for over a year. The only sites I have trouble with are Monoprice and Apple Support Forums. I don't have any trouble watching Amazon videos.
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Not even criticizing, but how do you manage 130 tabs? How do you find tabs you're looking for? You must have some kind of system!
> That's definitely one way of saying Intel is all over the place lately because it has no idea what's "the future."

As has no one else. Everyone who said that he knows the future has been proven wrong so far, at most people can hope to try to see a possible future, nothing more.
Could you elaborate on why you think that would be useful?
Tracking Protection is pretty much an ad-blocker. It's default-enabled in Private Browsing and you can enable in normal browsing, too, by setting "privacy.trackingprotection.enabled" in about:config to true.
Do those statistics adjust for the quality of incoming students? That is, would the same student do worse at a for-profit college than a usual university (taking into account expected costs and outcomes)?
Can GitHub--a company with 600 people--really be called a "startup" anymore (as termed by the article)?
In readline, ^U will only clear from the cursor to the start of the line, leaving anything on the right. ^K is the converse.

I'm not sure you are speaking about readline though.

Another very useful thing I use daily is Alt-F/B, to move forward/backward in the line one word at a time. Control does the same, one letter at a time. D will delete an element instead.
Does freely accessible mean copies can be hosted by anyone anywhere?

I would say that fingerprinting is still useful, to knowthat the original information hasn't been tampered with.

Why do we need publishers again?
Couldn't you just put it in restore mode and install the latest version from iTunes, or manually download the IPSW from the internet and install it?
The macro effect you aren't accounting for is political -- there's no penalty to residents for nimby policies.
Can science 'enrich the understanding but rob the imagination?'
I know this article says Unix specifically, but on Linux (Ubuntu) I just tried typing `ls^D` in bash and got a terminal beep. I tried in zsh and got an autocomplete as if I'd hit tab. In ksh and fish nothing happened. I'm curious as to why there are different behaviors here?
Safety measures aren't enough. The requirements are impossible: In finite time window T, N people attempt pass through finite region R. N increases every year, past the point where they just don't fit.
> At least at the undergraduate and masters level, there is a strong incentive to select students that are LIKELY to graduate from the program.

Is there? It affects their attrition rate, but I am not sure that is a big factor in which schools students choose. It seems to be based on things like facilities, "vibe", majors available, prestige, quality of education. A high attrition rate need not even suggest a low prestige or quality of education: in many graduate programs, almost the opposite is true.

I went to a very expensive private but nonprofit Christian school for undergrad. They accepted anyone, and their attrition rate was abysmally high (although the education quality was fine). The attrition rate didn't matter at all to their marketing, as parents sent their kids there for different reasons. In fact, those kids who dropped out after 1-2 years were big moneymakers, as they only took gen ed classes that are cheapest to staff.

For PhDs, attrition is much more discouraged, at least economically (I'm in bio), because PIs/advisors pick students with the understanding that their first 1-3 years they will be useless in research and only start "paying off" near the end. This is why at the higher-tier graduate schools, there is a big attrition at the general exam (1.5 years in) and it's very low afterwards. In lower-tier programs there is low attrition throughout. And of course, many grad programs pay stipends, so those programs lose money with no compensation if someone drops out. Very different incentive structure than programs where the student pays tuition.
I didn't say all depression can be treated with lifestyle changes. Though my claim of this being true for the majority of sufferers is too bold. I should have stuck with my usual "many, if not most".

I wrote:

Depression (and anxiety and other conditions) are all,
for the majority of sufferers, treatable with lifestyle
changes.

To restate this (including my too broad claim):

The majority of cases of depression and anxiety are
treatable with lifestyle changes.

And lifestyle changes are not "just get over it" prescriptions. They're major and incredibly difficult. Things like, move to an area with a better climate. Quit your job and take one with less stress. End some relationships. Pursue (challenging) physical activities to get in better shape and get more sun and fresh air. Those aren't easy to do or resolve, but stressful jobs, inactivity, lack of sunlight, poor relationships are the sorts of stressors that lead to many instances of anxiety and depression. Identifying the causes is incredibly important, and saying that people can't and that they can't effect change to improve themselves and their situation removes their self-agency, making them feel they are weak and incapable of controlling their own lives.

Drugs do work, and in many cases are necessary at least in the short-term. But they're poor solutions in the long-term for many, if not most, people who suffer from depression and anxiety.
At a previous job I put this in to practice. I would give interviewees a short list of questions on a piece of paper and after the interview they could use a browser and take as much time as they needed to answer the questions. Some were logic type questions that would be difficult to Google, some were just process questions that very few people would know off the top of their head but should be able to Google. The idea was to see if someone could find answers when they ran in to problems. Got some great hires using that technique (and avoided some hires that might have been disastrous!) HR killed it, though.
Ah but that's working around the 'plant spirit' and all that other stuff, you won't have an 'authentic' or 'real' experience and the hipsterswill laugh at you....
On Linux, you can compile in kernel support for a "Magic SysRq" key which causes SysRq to give you a menu of various debug printing and other actions. It works on serial consoles also, where instead of SysRq, a serial line break signal can map to the action (so it is completely out-of-band relative to serial data).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key
> Community college is not the answer to the kids flunking out of ITT tech.

Who's trying to solve the problem of kids flunking out of ITT Tech? One of the problems with ITT Tech is that you can't flunk out of it.

> They won't do better in community college, they will just have comparatively less debt.

You seem to think that there's a problem with people doing badly at ITT Tech. The problem is that ITT Tech is bad, not that people are doing badly there. That people are saddled with a worthless qualification and are in crushing debt from the process of getting it is the problem.

> Getting more kids in community college is certainly not the answer.

To the question that nobody asked? No. To people ending up in horrible debt with a worthless credential? Of course it is. It would take you 4-5 years in community college to generate the debt that you can in a semester of one of these fake schools. Community colleges are fine. Some are great. I went from community college to university, and a ton of other people did with me, a few to Northwestern and the University of Chicago (I just went to UIC.) I'm sorry you didn't like yours, but you shouldn't judge all Chinese restaurants because the meal you had at the one in your hometown was too salty.

> More subsidies is even more not the answer.

To what question?
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Well hopefully my comment didn't imply that living in Palo Alto meant you were destined to go to Stanford...but there IS a real connection...many residents went to Stanford, and for better or for worse, many have already made the outrageous guaranteed-admission donation, which , as you say, is in the millions.

Tech money is literally raining down on Stanford. The only thing left to upgrade on the campus is to line the gutters with platinum. Its sad given that San Jose State actually educates more local workers...but connections to Stanford are a real social network for some of these people.
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I find the idea of a democratic structure oddly appealing. Don't like your boss? Vote them out! Love someone and wish they'd be in charge, because they're basically in charge anyway? Vote them in! If anonymous voting happened at every level, it's possible that the incompetent people hiding away in the company will quickly get revealed and demoted (which might make them leave altogether).

That said, the democratic approach has a lot of other issues in the form of cohorts and cliques. A manager might secure just enough votes to stay in power by having quiet conversations with some employees, using power to give them breaks, etc. I'd love to see a frank discussion or proposal about how to dissuade that.
Nice to hear, we are thinking about adding image export and also markdown export. We are awaiting more feedback regarding those two and based on that we will move forward. Thanks for your comment.
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Power usage has little to do with memory usage. In fact, if the browser is using more RAM as a cache, it won't hit persistent storage as much, which actually increases battery life.
This is a nifty paper. Also very cool is the proof without words that just happened to be in the same journal page as the last part of this paper.
I have this exact same problem, in fact I could have written your comment word-for-word. I also cannot reproduce it reliably, but it started in August.

I also switched from Chrome, but for slightly different reasons...I got to thinking about Google, and Chrome,and ad-blocking, and it occurred to me that Chrome will probably never allow extensions on Android, not because it's technically not possible, but because ad-blocking is bad for business (if your business is showing ads).

How does the Chrome team reconcile this? We know that ads are annoying, and ads can track you, and some ads can even be malicious. It seems that blocking ads make a browser better. But the Chrome team is not allowed to block ads on Android, so they are purposefully making a worse mobile browser.

Anyway, I do a lot of surfing at night in bed on my Android tablet, and I'm going to stick with Firefox.
At my first job, one of the senior software engineer asked me to read Programmatic Programmer. Initially, I was like "huh, why would read a book like this?" Five years later, when we have a new engineer joining our team. I ask him if he read that book, if not I make sure he does.
chrome on linux doesn't seem to get much attention for quite a while now: got affected by this [1] more than 2 years ago and been quite happy with firefox for surfing & dev ever since

[1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=393395...
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what's the issue with that?
> But as a college town, it's not even as good as Evanston, let alone Ann Arbor.

... except when it comes to weather.
If you can point out the human being who follows no trends at all, I'll accept that your definition has use. I don't believe that you are correct, however.
Thank you, you're right I'm loading every item individually async from the official API. Not only are the requests unnecessarily large, it can take a while to load with a large number of comments. Definitely something to work on and fix.
To be able to buy and sell goods without anyone besides the person I'm buying and selling from knowing about it. Not because I want to do anything illegal, but for the same reason that you shut the door when you use the bathroom, and don't willingly install cameras pointing at your bed that broadcast to the entire internet. I'm not willing to give up my privacy just so governments can avoid doing the police work they're elected to do in order to prosecute crimes, or so corporations can bombard me with their shitty products.
No, Gamergate was about ethics in journalism. That's why it started when Gerstmann was pushed out of GameSpot for his unfavorable review of Kane and Lynch.
Hardware does not get exponetially better. Maybe it did in 90ties and 00ers. Right now hardwardware gets slimmer, less power consuming and cheaper. But not better. My 12 year old (then mid-end gaming pc) is pretty much exactly as fast as my current, 2(?) year old office machine. (x264 and other mulit-threaed cpu benchbmarks) But it costs a fraction and uses next to no energy.

/edit: Yes this is wrong. I made a mistake. My "gaming" desktop is "only" 8 years old. It has a 4 core AMD processor. It's on par with current atoms.
> Include a remotely-activated kill switch; and kill with plenty of warning.

People would just remove it. If you can't remove it, then don't buy devices that are crippled in this way.
Ostensibly the decision to change structure is to improve productivity. Does it? And if so, how does it affect/improve it? Commit activity is as granular/quantifiable a data source as we have to analyze it.

Obviously, the analysis shouldn't be limited to the mere quantity of commits. I'm more interested in if the activity becomes more "regular" than sporadic. Or if long-neglected (i.e. boring) issues get more attention than they did before.
OK. They're both about 20fps or so for me (at least eyeballing it).

Mind filing the bug, since you can reproduce and profile?

Edit: mstange did in fact file one: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1300848
You had warning. You just ignored it. You had plenty of warnings when installing the beta, and Apple typically does not provide updates from beta to GM. Just because you ignored the warnings doesn't mean they didn't exist. Stop blaming Apple for your own failings.
> I've been a long time Firefox user (due to multi-row tab extension -- can't live without it).

Which one do you use? There are several.
Correct me if I am wrong (it does happen), but I have seen titles edited for clarity regularly on HN.

Also, many titles are context sensitive. For example, if you're reading the title on the Quill website, chances are you already know what Quill is - or do you? When you copy the title verbatim to something like HN, the context is completely lost to anyone who doesn't already know what Quill is. In other words matching the title doesn't benefit anyone when the title is meaningless without context.
Personally I pick a couple and then complement with HN, feels like a good trade of between time invested and coverage I get.
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Thank you for this blast from the past :)
Whatever box you open, you take the name inside and go to the number you associated with that name. So when you end up at box 89, the last box you opened must have had your name inside. So you will have found your name, provided you got there in under 50 steps.
>completely ignores troves of older hardware existing in people's homes that has to run browsers just as well.

The performance has gotten worse for users of a computer from 2006, but it has improved for users of ten-year old computers (since a ten-year old computer in 2012 would have been from 2002). If you assume that a computer is less likely to be used the older it gets (and that this rate is roughly stable), then I am not ignoring older hardware at all.

>although I guess it depends on the timescale and your willingness to fudge the graph to sparse data points

thus is the nature of all real-live long-term trends. If you pick a sufficiently small timeframe, they never work.
What "car people" see as a negative, some "eco people" see as a positive.

In Cambridge, MA, there's a significant part of the population for whom "I am making an overt statement about my care and concern for the environment" that will cause them to prefer the unstylish Prius/LEAF/Volt.
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In Firefox 47 (or 48?) you can now do: about:performance which displays/kills the CPU hungry tabs directly.
In one corner, cultural identity, a shared, commonly accepted fantasy, a set of semi-arbitrary rules for a role-playing game.

In the other corner, the effort to stop the transformation of Earth into a smoldering pile of garbage that cannot sustain human life.

It's a fight that "makes sense".
> If you want environment 2), you have exactly one choice: .Net.

A JAVA guy could probably make a good selection of corporate-supported frameworks that work as seamlessly as .NET.

And then, there's the Apple world, with their well designed mobile and desktop libraries, and a hot new C#-like language... Just saying.
You make a good point - the psychedelic experience can lead to a greater sense of empathy in that you perceive the world not through the eyes of your ego but as "all one" (over simplification). An increase in empathy is a good thing but equating these drugs to a magic pill for self actualization is wrong.