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yes my point is how deep you need learn, maybe have some introduction courses at middle school is a good idea.
One big concern is security: code like this is notoriously prone to exploits and once shipped everyone is exposed whether or not they use it.

That doesn't mean new formats can't happen but it should encourage some careful assessment of the benefits relative to the need to support it for years.

(This is one of the stated reasons why Firefox never shipped JPEG 2000 support despite some demand)
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Exactly. What I see from the "calling convention wars" is not that "it just doesn't matter all that much", it's that there is no single optimal convention in all cases. Some functions need to use more registers than others; some arguments are used very early in the function and their values are not needed after that (prefer these in a register), while others may be used later after a bunch of computation that needs many registers (these might be better staying on the stack.) Some instructions like multiply/divide require certain registers (does your function start with a multiply or divide and is one of the arguments the multiplicand/dividend? Use AX, EAX, or EDX:EAX for that one.)

The short examples in the article are illustrative of "used early and not needed afterwards" --- in cdecl/stdcall the caller writes the arguments into memory, only to have the callee immediately read them back again. Ignoring the extra memory accesses, even fastcall isn't optimal in this case --- it uses ECX and EDX when what's really needed is for one of the arguments to be in EAX since it may become the return value. In my "optimised" fastcall above, you can see I had to spend an extra mov instruction just to get the return value in the right place. It would be two instructions (cmp eax, ecx | cmovge eax, ecx) otherwise. All this useless data movement, for what? Just to conform to some arbitrary convention. These may be small things, but they can add up.
Here is a link to the article you mentioned:

http://www.politics.co.uk/blogs/2016/07/14/everything-you-ne...

I also find the following article very informative:

"Brexit means Brexit – and that means there will be no debate on freedom of movement"

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/brexit-means-brexit-and-...
The places with the least immigration are usually the poorest places most fearful of immigrants taking their jobs (specifically, lowering their wages - and they're probably right) and least optimistic about the future. They are usually remnants of the industrial revolution getting marginalized by globalization (mostly China).
I made WordSafety.com [1] last year. It got some positive attention initially: #1 on HN, and about 79,000 pageviews in the first month... But then I just basically forgot about it, because I was so busy with other stuff. Now, after a year of complete neglect, the site gets about 1300 sessions / month.

If someone wants to take this over, I'd be happy to entertain any offer. The app itself is exceedingly simple (a database-less Node.js app), so hosting costs practically nothing.

[1] http://wordsafety.com
It's also the most acceptable and very commonly consumed anywhere and everywhere. People are ridiculously casual about drinking to intoxication then carrying on their business as usual in public.
Disruptive behaviour in school is often caused by boredom. In a professional setting, I guess it could also be for ego/political reasons.

But if somebody is thinking along and asks genuinely good questions, it isn't usually for ego reasons - they want to learn. I think it's worth pursuing: either a) you find somebody knows why it was done a certain way, and it's good to spread that knowledge (and get to know other people in the org) or b) everybody has left/forgotten why it was done that way, and it's good to increase/regain that knowledge.

By the way, acceptable answers for doing it a certain way include "politics", "time pressure", and "we didn't know any better". These are way better than "don't know", because they're valuable knowledge. "Don't know" can also easily translate to "we don't understand the risks, so there's no way you're going to be allowed to change this".

"don't know and we'll never know/don't care" is the easiest way out. My advice to anybody who keeps hearing this is start looking for your next job - this place will never care about personal development and helping you grow.
Two teams in the same firm, as gruez says below. The key is that the second team does not look at the internals of the product, and that the two teams communicate only by specifications of interfaces (physical, software, electronic, etc.) and not of behavior.

This approach to cloning was established long ago (1960's) by IBM's competitors and has always been legal.

You can just google "clean room design", Wikipedia is quite informative on it.

BTW a few early PC firms did try to cut corners and clone the PC BIOS without the chinese wall; they were sued and died. This isn't theory; it's been practice for decades.
The filter will be opt-in, obviously.

And, again obviously, they need to keep track of which account is allowed access to which article. If only to allow you to read the article across multiple devices.

(Former employee here. Not in the exact loop these past 12 months)
Don't sell yourself short. Comments like this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6225951#6228350

... work anywhere, regardless of their length; HN, Reddit, Slashdot, Youtube, Infowars.com, the Yahoo stock message board for Comcast, the Comcast customer service complaint board.
This is what happens when you tout STEM, STEM, STEM in education. We should be asking, STEM at the cost of what? What are we giving up in order to give STEM that extra time?
It's still in the EU and still trading with everyone. The kind of things we could change by leaving would be to say drop tariffs and subsidies on agriculture which would make food cheaper but put a lot of UK farmers out of business and so not be politically popular.
I wonder how it would handle "I've come in my shorts today" vs "I've cum in my shorts today".
We have the exact same use-case for TIFF or JPEG 2000: users can browse a giant repository. They can view many files directly but we have to run a transcode server for browser-unsupported formats, which also means things like the standard Save As UI no longer work as expected.

That's not clearly bad - the range of obscure formats is long & it's easier to update an app than every client - but it is a cost.
> Why is inter-device file sharing still a hassle?

Because every vendor and their dog wants to push their own proprietary toy solution to lock in users, instead of using any of the existing standards.
Ironically you just mistook a contrarian with a critical thinker.
As far as I was aware it was the areas that the least amount of immigrants that wanted to vote for leave, but at this point it's moot. And I wouldn't say that fears over immigration are xenophobic, I think that the referendum came at a terrible time when Europe as a whole is facing a big refugee (economic or not) problem that they still can't decide how to solve.
"With regard to unskilled workers, Japanese businesses rely on inexpensive labour from Eastern Europe in the manufacturing and agricultural industries in the UK"

What a hypocritical demand from the Japanese. They have one of the strictest set of immigration policies in the world, largely for the sake of national homogeneity at the expensive of their economy. They believe that is a worthwhile sacrifice for them, why not us?
But the entity deciding to lace certain drugs with another drug designed to harm a class of users, and deciding to not lace certain other drugs, is the same entity that runs the legal Oxy cartel. Surely it's not possible to believe that part of their actions in this regard are motivated by any sort of social concern.

Or am I missing something?

PS: this, of course, not getting into the obvious immorality of lacing a drug to harm addicts. Only a mentally sick society could think otherwise in 2016.
What's the problem with Bluetooth? File sharing between smartphones and computers has worked every single time for me, and it's natively build into all devices.
I think if the whole system was redesigned from scratch a lot of things would be different.

Why on earth do we use red and green for signalling stop/go when a statistically significant number of men (plus a few women) have difficulty seeing those colours?

It seems that once you get past a certain level of adoption, it becomes impossible to change even an obviously sub-optimal design.
We accepted bitcoins from day one. Not sure if they still do as it was used I think 8 times over the course of 2 years. But given the people working there I wouldn't be surprised if they still accept them.

(Disclaimer: Former employee. Left in sept 2015.)
Make the lower back more resistant to chronic injury.

And maybe some sort of "steroid" release with no negative side effects. To improve regeneration. Steroids are a "Jesus" level miracle of medicine. They have literally cured the blind. If this sort of regeneration was built into our bodies it would be pretty cool.
The sight of a few immigrants in an otherwise white British community is probably more shocking for the locals than it would be in a metropolitan area with a large immigrant population.
What are you saying here, that you are good at skirting the law without breaking it, that all takedown claims are bogus, or that your lawyer is so good one letter can chase away even determined legal action by deep pocketed firms?

Only the first one makes sense, and it has no relevance to the project we're discussing, so it's unclear why you say it.

No disrespect, just trying to understand your point here.
It does not change my view on private military. I do not think mercenaries should exist at all. I am a fan of a strict monopoly on the use of force by the state, which in foreign states should be backed by the UN. For me it is a question about moral. Similar to the death penalty, there might be cases where you think someone deserves to be dead. I just think that especially when dealing with bad criminals law must never be opportunistic and must at all times have the moral upper hand. I think when ultima ratio has to be taken, it should be taken by individuals who later have to account for their actions. Law should never allow it.

His post perfectly answers my question. I can see why this is a huge motivation.
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Lectures are a very poor educational tool anyway. Facts can be delivered in other ways leaving teaching time to concentrate on getting the students to interact with their teachers. The Socratic method is much better but harder work for both teacher and taught, although it is more efficient in the long run.
+1 for Allen & Moronuki. Long. Well written. Won't repeat what's already been said.
> instill fear

Is that how Europe is governed? I think any country should be allowed to leave without condescending comments by anyone. I prefer staying in Europe, but if the majority of my fellows prefer the opposite, then it's democracy. Who are we to judge they are "stupid", "country-side, or "senile", like I've read all across newspapers, or even fascists, like I've heard too?

If Europe relies on hating the people who have a different opinion, twisting their vote to say it meant something else, and govern them with "fear" and "bad deal" (your words), then...

...then this is not the Europe I want to be part of.
On Android, its built in.

Windows Mobile < 8? Nope
iOS? Nope
Aside from London, which is a special case, that's not particularly true. Remain won in the very big cities with urban cosmopolitan populations and in a few university towns, but lost almost everywhere else.

There are two main groups of leavers, with some overlap - the working classes with limited education and low prospects, and the petit bourgeois, who are relatively poorly educated and uncurious but can be reasonably well off.

The first group has direct experience of poor working conditions, and often lives in an area with immigration. They'll have seen wages being kept down first hand. This vote was enough to swing it for Leave in many working class areas.

The second group may not have direct experience, but is easily persuaded by xenophobia and jingoism. They're often older and are nostalgic for an England that never really existed. They tend conservative - and Conservative.

They like simple explanations to complicated problems, and they're easy marks for the British press - the real source of many of the UK's problems - which has been stoking their prejudices for decades with a constant stream of anti-EU scare stories.

This pattern isn't unique to the UK, but so far the UK is the only country to stress test it.
This opinion piece is a political attack on Trump. It attempts to denigrate modern libertarianism based on an article published 40 years ago in the magazine Reason. The connection goes something like: 40 years ago an antisemitic article appeared in an issue of Reason, therefore Reason magazine is bad, therefore ideas espoused now in Reason magazine are bad, therefore readers of Reason are bad, therefore libertarians are bad, therefore Trump's libertarian leaning supporters are bad, therefore Trump is bad.

It seems to me, that when you slice the country in half politically, there will be a large number of bad actors in each half. Dividing it up into a few more pieces by considering the green party, the libertarians, etc. won't completely eliminate sizable numbers of unpleasant people in each group.

It probably makes more sense to look at two things, the current Libertarian Party platform [1] and compare that to the actual meaning of Fascism [2]. They aren't the same thing.

[1] https://www.lp.org/platform

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism
I made a quite clear explanation of the argument a lawyer would use. This open source client is in effect a pirate copy of the closed source client. I expect it will disappear from Github rather soon.
It would be cool if we kept regenerating teeth throughout our lifetime, like sharks.
I made a music recommendation site: http://recommendindieband.com

After an initial successful post on the indieheads subreddit, it's slowed down to about 15 users per day.

I also had people writing album reviews and they kinda got bored by it so it's been a while since the last review.

If this is a project people would be interested in (built in python / flask), I'll throw it up on github.
A lot of it relates to trade so we could have the single market. If you're going to have a border free market where you can order your ingredients from any country you need them to be made to the same regulations.
It isn't? Wow, Apple. Also, who uses Windows phones?
I learned flash/action script once.

It was the first programming I ever did and not the best thing to start with (strange mix of js-like syntax and whatever macromedia came up with before), but a rather gentle transition from graphics in to programming and UX.
Bluetooth. It is a bit slow - especially on large video files, but you can use it to send arbitrary files to just about any modern device.

Or, WiFi direct https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_Direct for larger files.

Now there's a problem with discoverabillity and compatibility - but that's no different to trying to get CIFS devices talking to each other.
Apple always bakes their own bread...

And plenty of people have to use their company Windows phone.
Also on Symbian and S40 it was already a well known feature.
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Blinking lights are certainly getting your attention, but the more recent, electronically flashing variation makes it very difficult for me to locate the position of the flashing light. The flash catches my eye, but when I try to pinpoint it, it turned completely dark, and by the time it flashes again, I am already looking into some other direction. This applies both to bicycles as well as modern police lights.

In old times, police cars would have rotating lights, and I found those much easier to track. So if one uses flashing lights, there should also be some constant level of light to make positioning of the source easier.
Well sure, but I take it that the change in the way the word 'philosophy' is used is not the interesting development. That's not what people usually mean when they talk about philosophical problems becoming scientific problems.
The overall structure stays the same, but we have made some changes: notably, we reduced the workload by suppressing some exercises which turned out to be too difficult, and quite a few glitches have been fixed.

If you have precise suggestions for improvement, please do not hesitate to send them to the course authors, there maight still be time to take them into account.
The people on countries that paying for an iPhone would cost too much versus their life costs and don't want to use Android.
"The UK has some of the worst infrastructure, least effective education, most unaffordable housing, least secure jobs.."

Which is why we are one of the most popular work and living destinations for the most educated people in Europe?

"and least effective and generous social spending of any other major EU economy..."

Which is why we are one of the most sought out destinations for the recent migrant wave?
I hope this helps...

You might find out like me that there is very little pressure when your goals are well defined and you have a list of all the tasks needed to bring them to completion.

This lets you focus on a set of specific tasks that are ideally ordered by priority, or <effor (to some extent).

Add clocking your work and you get a very clear picture of how your time is spent, and in some cases (:) where it would be wise to lower the amount of time put on certain things.

Sorry, this is as vague as I could explain it.

TL;DR Organization can really make miracles.
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What else can central banks do?
They bought 250bln GBP, right? I'm no expert on monetary policy but I thought the way to counter a falling currency was to buy the currency with other foreign currency reserves.
Yes... If the PM don't let some time to that tech research about the "good enough" solution, the long run can be ugly.
Have you heard of Mint? How does Spendful differ from Mint? https://www.mint.com/
Hmm, Airdrop is usually fine for me.
I'm guessing you've already looked into those keywords, but @:expose and @:keep are Haxe compiler metadata. These are tags that are used to provide additional information to the compiler. A full list is here: https://haxe.org/manual/cr-metadata.html

In many cases, compiler metadata is specific to a given target. E.g., they can be quite common on extern definitions. This allows the Haxe language to stay small, while providing flexibility for better target interoperability.

In this case, @:expose will expose certain methods to the global namespace, and @:keep will prevent the compiler from removing code with its dead code elimination functionality. Both of these are very useful for creating and maintaining js libraries, regardless of whether or not the library is also cross-platform.
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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12422638 and marked it off-topic.
Sure, but that's sad. Q: Why not get everybody involved with #1-#5? A: Because that's more effort for management, and they'd have to trust their staff. (Sometimes it depends on how well you go about this, aka. soft skills, but often there's no way to sell it other than get involved with company politics for 2+ years)

I'd also argue that at large companies, getting stuff shipped isn't usually the hardest part, not stagnating is. "How could we do things better" can be a pretty huge and valuable question in large places.
Also from the UK. Everyone I know who has spent a significant amount of time driving in the USA has commented on the generally poor driving.

Not that UK drivers are perfect (very far from it). But I've heard the same comments enough times to make me wonder how American drivers are so bad.
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The launch escape system is part of the Crew Dragon spacecraft, which has not entered service yet, and would probably not be used to deliver satellites anyway because its crew-carrying capabilities add significant weight and cost.

Rocket launches have gotten fairly reliable in recent years -- launch success rates have been hovering around ~95% since the 1970s. [1][2] A 5% chance of killing 7 astronauts is unacceptably high at essentially any cost, hence the launch escape system on the Crew Dragon. However, for an unmanned launch, the entire launch escape and recovery system would have to add little more than 5% extra cost on top of the satellite and launch vehicle for it to be a sound purchase.

A Falcon 9 rocket costs about $62M. A very complex satellite can cost over $200M, so for easy math, let's say that the entire system costs $300M, 5% of which is $15M. Those $15M have to cover the following:
- powerful launch escape engines (e.g. SuperDracos) that are not recovered if the satellite reaches orbit
- hydrazine fuel for those engines (highly toxic and reactive, has to be handled with great care)
- carrying all that extra weight to orbit
- parachutes and their deployment systems
- hardening the payload to survive the physical stresses experienced during landing
- refurbishing the payload after it falls into corrosive salt water

Given all this, I am skeptical that a launch escape system for unmanned payloads is economically feasible.

[1] http://space.stackexchange.com/questions/1659/what-is-the-su...
[2] http://planet4589.org/space/log/launchlog.txt
Thanks! Will give them a shot
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just confirmed: tried to send an image from android to mac. Complete failure (on Apples side?)

didn't even try to use Bluetooth for ages, because every time it results in nightmares.

( and yes: Bluetooth was activated and connected )
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Why Would I Want to Use JSON in SQL Server?