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I sometimes yearn for the days of the simple script tag that seemingly gave us the world at our fingertips. Especially when I have spent hours trying to get tooling to work alone. The constant updates, deprecation of libraries and tools before they even hit version 1.0, it can be tedious.

Having said that, I think in the case of the direction of Javascript itself: I believe it is going in the right direction. ECMAScript 2015 was a mammoth release that really took Javascript in a nice direction, the smaller ES2016 release adds a few minor features and ES2017 is shaping up to be another monumental release for Javascript. The ecosystem as you mention is really in a confusing state at present.

The only constant in all of this is Javascript. We are living in an era where things are being deprecated before they even hit 1.0. The one part of front-end development heading in the wrong direction is the questionable design choices of frameworks like Angular and React. The only framework I have seen which is abiding by actual web standards is Aurelia. The lack of Aurelia specific concepts means you're not committing to something proprietary you're stuck using, like the case with Angular 2 and ReactJS.

Then you have the elephant in the tooling room: Webpack. People are using it, it is becoming increasingly popular in the front-end space, but it has basically no documentation and it is incredibly confusing. People are using it, without even understanding it or knowing how to use it. Mostly learning from blog posts and StackOverflow. Webpack 2 looks promising, but it probably won't have any documentation either.

It is almost like nobody seems to plan anything, choosing to develop and release off of the cuff. Even when Babel dramatically broke things out and changed the way it works for v6, that was a painful experience for the ecosystem in itself. Then you have System.js, JSPM and other tooling/module loaders breaking things every release.
Personally, I think Mithril.js has done a better job than React of "nailing it" in terms of elegance, but it had the advantage of React bulldozing the path.

I'm not new to JS, and React's approach was the first one in years that I found very interesting in a way that didn't feel bloated or over-engineered out of the gate.
Working at a startup "for the money" is like playing the lottery, you may hit it big, but a lot of startups just crash and burn.

In the meantime you're making a lot less than someone working at a large company. You could take the $50K/yr pay difference and buy lottery tickets with that.
It takes a very low % of chargebacks to completely negate any profits.
Or this http://makezine.com/2015/04/20/understand-1700-mechanical-li...

A retired mechanical engineer spends his time making videos of mechanical linkages in CAD. He's was at 1700 a year ago, hard to say how many he's at now, he's still releasing them. This is what technological progress looks like I think, in a couple of years this will be shown in just about any intro class into the subject and it will reduce the learning time by like, i don't even know, 100x? 1000x? Idk how these were described before but boy do they seem hard to describe in anything but animation.

I'm also having a hard time imagining his brain isn't getting exercised just fine.

I'm not a mechanical engineer and I spent like good 15-20 minutes watching them and getting quite a bit out of it.
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Worse yet - go to Calgary where they've named all the roads in a given neighborhood with the same name. E.g.: Eversyde Blvd, Eversyde Cir, Eversyde Manor, Eversyde St. It's insanity.

(Lived in Edmonton, Calgary, and now Lethbridge. Always fun to see another Albertan on here. :P )
This makes the improper assumption that you're forced to upgrade. The code for Angular 2 will not evaporate when Angular 3 appears - at that point the choice to upgrade to the latest version is just that: a choice. You are free to wait until Angular 4 comes out before you adopt Angular 3 if you want to make sure the ecosystem around it is solidified.
Get internet access? There isn't an offline activation for the full version either you might be able to activate it via KMS.

If you reinstall your system you'll need internet access these days, even if it is only to activate windows.

If you restore it from an image you should be probably ok.

But sorry I don't find the excuse of not having internet viable these days.
Interesting. I had never considered donating and helping the NPS setup flight restrictions in their airspace until this moment.
Hey Chris.

So you know, I'm generally anti-left. But I've also had good training from hanging out on Wikipedia and I try to be fair about things and I definitely don't try to be ostentatiously anti-left.

I personally agree with you that there's serious problems with the way that the left perceives, reasons about, and talks about both cultures and consequences, at a distance and otherwise. I furthermore believe that you could be downvoted or called a racist xenophobe on these pages, simply for expressing true facts and reasonable opinions.

And I downvoted your comment.

I also downvoted the grandparent comment and the great-grandparent comment, and for the same reason: because they didn't seem very conducive to a productive conversation. The original poster doesn't deserve snarkily being called out for "victim blaming" for a reasonable post which relatively-neutrally explores the cycles that perpetuate the status quo. The reply "What makes you think they aren't to blame?" doesn't add anything productive to the conversation and just increases the temperature.

Your approach as exemplified by this comment - pigeonholing all critics into a conspiracy - is worthless, unproductive, raises the flame-war temperature, and is generally harmful to the cause of Reason as well as any particular cause you're hoping to promote. If Hacker News is leftist-zone full of oikophobes, well then, you should be all the more prepared to apply Principle and Rigor to your arguments, a property which is mostly welcome here. (Outside of a few disturbing incidents like the Brendan Eich witch hunt, anyway.)

In summary, you got downvoted 'cuz you're doing HN wrong.
On July 21st, RideConnect became available on the app store for download
RideConnect solves the problem of trust and affordability by giving you control to create your own community of drivers and riders so that you can ask people for a ride, or offer them one.

Use RideConnect to easily and quickly share rides and carpool with friends, family and other people in your social network.

Download for iOS - http://just.rideconnect.it/iphone

Download for Android - http://just.rideconnect.it/android

RideConnect for Android is available as a part of the Family Library. What this means is that only one family member has to pay for it, and up to 5 other family members can download it at no extra charge.

RideConnect is not a car service app. It's a private ride sharing app. Your community is made up of the people in your Facebook or in your phonebook, or both. It can also include groups such as this one.

If you would like more information on how this app can be useful to our ride share group, please let me know and I would be more than happy to clarify.
Dogfooding does not require interest. Yes something niche that a developer on their own will never use is difficult (I think we had this as some of the previous companies I have worked at). Still, you should get the development team to use and demo the system on a semi regular basis. Make creating project ideas or something that they can use your product to make and play with. Tell them to take off every X hours a week or two weeks or something to ensure they are constantly using the product.

It's harder but in my experience it's still necessary. At least I've never seen a good product come from a team that didn't also use the product. That I know of, anyway.
Okay, you're right. Opinions can be based on faith, as well. But anyone would be well within the realm of sanity to weight opinions based on faith lower than opinions based on fact.

"I base my opinion on X on the fact that my religion says X is right/wrong, I base that religion on faith" doesn't mean the opinion is based on fact. You've got me on that one.
I think they made all the X11 colors suck on purpose because they were afraid of being sued by Pantone.
When I go to watsi.org, I see 3 friendly faces with bios in the "Meet the patients" section. Are you not seeing that?
1.5% with a $0.50 minimum is incredible gross margin on a debit transaction. All major debit card interchange is capped by regulation to just 0.05% + $0.22. Not sure what their fraud exposure is though.
Once the framework has actually shown some degree of maturity I don't think it would be unfair to ask the Angular team for an LTS version of Angular.
Cool and nifty. No joins is a deal breaker though. Maybe that doesn't matter with a key->value db though.
I think the problem is that the people who enjoy the benefits are not the people bearing the cost. It's great for you if you want to live on a cul-de-sac in San Ramon, but it's not great that you now need to drive your car to work on an elevated freeway through Oakland. Without having ruined that neighborhood, the property in San Ramon would be all but worthless.

If people in exurbs all rode the train to work then probably fewer people would be tut-tutting about their odd streetscape.
I'm gonna assume that poster knew that and was being a smartass.
This has been a really common theme of city planning discussions on HN. A lot of urban dwellers don't understand the appeal of suburban living, and would rather brand it as "wrong" than accept that not every living situation is there for their preferences.
It's not difficult to understand why anyone might not want to argue that "poor people are poor because they're inherently lazy" from a strictly political perspective.

In addition, thought, how many children of wealthy families really turn out poor out of laziness? How many of those wealthy families were impoverished in the previous generation? If your explanation were as important as you seem to be saying, maybe those questions shouldn't be easy to answer.
Some cultures have built in defenses - like conspiracy theories, unfollowable rules for outsiders and micro-agressions to uphold.

But yes, you could reeducate that kid- but are you actually saying that a destructive culture should be dissolved by reeducating? Mao would be so proud off you. Speared on his own mental censor-scissor!

In all seriousness, the most interesting thing that was dissolving these anti-modern Regressor-cultures are smartphones and the old, non censored internet. If everyone can look over the fence, even the children, suddenly the conspiracy stories are difficult to entrench.
To the best of my understanding, the FAA maintains exclusive control over all airspace, so you'd want to donate specifically to get some collaboration going.
Eiffel too IIRC (same family I suppose)
> How would the US even know who was on a flight from Moscow?

The US has foreign intelligence services, utilizing both human and technical means, and they attempt to monitor movements of persons who are of concern to the US, with varying degrees of success.

(The degree to which Snowden is still actively a concern to the US is a bit less clear.)

> If you believe Assange

I don't, particularly, but on this particular point his claim isn't implausible, and, more to the point, isn't materially relevant.

> the reason for the Morales incident was that Assange leaked false information to make that happen.

Sure, that might be what they US believed Snowden was on the plane. Of course, were the US not both able and inclined to stop even a foreign leader's plane from transitting unmolested from Russia to South America if Snowden was believed to be on it, Assange's false leak (assuming that is the source of the belief) would be immaterial. That they have the capacity and will, however, to take such acts is demonstrated by the Morales incident independently of the source of the false belief that Snowden was on the plane.

> Furthermore, what does any of this have to do with Snowden's suspended passport?

Nothing, I wasn't responding to a claim about a passport I was responding to the claim that if Snowden wanted to be in Ecuador, he would be in Ecuador, and there is nothing the US could do to stop him from simply boarding a plane in Moscow and flying to Ecuador.

Their manifestly is something the US could do, and has demonstrated both the ability and willingness to do, to stop him from doing that.

> The passport isn't what's keeping him in Russia. I think the two plausible things that might be are: (1) Snowden, (2) Russia. You think there's a third? Can you explain it in some detail?

The United States. And I think I've explained it in excruciating detail in this post, and my prior post in this subthread.
The best judge of your ideas isn’t your boss
To also add what those who have no clue about gypsies don't understand is that even if some of them want to become integrated, they'll get oppressed by OTHER GYPSIES, because their culture is at stake etc. Can a gypsy be racist to a fellow gypsy?

I'd be interested in hearing the answer, but presumably it will be nonfactual nonsense.
This is a succinct example of racism, you've defined an entire ethnicity as "groups of violent, fraudulent thieves." shame on you.

they're human. And don't use "we" i want no association with you.

The rise of the far right over the last 10 years is an economic problem made political. There's no inate superiority of western european culture.

As for "denying the problem exists" far from it, i instead want to see it change rather continuing with another decade of this hate.
For those who are not Australians it is important to note that in Australia there is universal health care independent of your employer.

Also while benefits are not usually the same as for full time they are sometimes and even if not the same are not as different as they are in the US.
At some point while I was growing up, I found out that American streets were often numbered rather than (as is traditional in the UK) named. Then at some point, a few years later, I discovered that they weren't random, and were actually numbered in order... a possibility that had simply never occurred to me.
Some portion of the work could be comstant-time.
Maybe you've never read The Register before. Its articles have a certain dry humor. Taking offense to a goofily hyperbolic photo does fulfill a "HN loves Tesla" stereotype.
I propose a new medal category: Arnold Benedict commemorative medal.
That seems backwards to me. The natural state of things is no roads. In the human world, we typically start with property rights, and only take them away when it's deemed necessary.

Looking at it that way, it's the road users who are enjoying benefits while foisting costs off on the residents whose property they drive past (or whose former property they drive over).
An Adderall tablet is mostly binders. The actual amount of it that is amphetamine is nowhere near the size that you see.
In that case the editor is the one to blame.
Yes, absolutely. If you put up a 1gbps wireless link everyone in the complex could do 1mbps speedtests at nearly any time.

If you were to bring in unlimited bandwidth to your complex and look at a traffic graph of the usage, those 70 customers would only use more than 100mbps for maybe one hour out of the day, probably more like 20 minutes. If you had a 1gbps link feeding them, you would only be slowing them down at all for at most one hour a day, and even then you wouldn't be slowing them down in any noticeable way. It only takes at most a few dozen mbps to stream a 4k movie, for example. There would almost certainly never be a time when one of your customers could not stream a 4k movie.

If it made you feel better you could sell it as a 900mbps product, or even a 500mbps product. Above 100mbps for residential it's really all marketing anyway - there are no services that a residential customer uses that provide a noticeably different experience at 1gbps vs 100mbps.

Also see sathackr's post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12520531

EDIT: Consider also that the fiber line you'd be connecting to is probably at most 10gbps, and might only be 1gbps. Residential / muni fiber networks (including Google Fiber) are using at best 10gbps fiber circuits to feed entire neighborhoods with thousands of subscribers.
A feature request, Anaconda partners with Intel and includes MKL default. Could you do same for Julia and add MKL default at least in version 1.0 so no manual work needed?
You're right about kids: they spend much of their free time exploring and playing like they're hard wired to do it.

I think our 19th-century-style schools are the problem: we drum information and behaviours into kids until they forget how to be independent. All this time wasted sitting at a desk in a classroom means they might miss out on the chance to develop a passion for something, something that they would fill their free time with later in life. And then we're surprised that people just want to watch netflix.
Right, exactly! The NPS would have to request permanent TFR status from the FAA.
Java ;)
Guessing was mistaking the Universal Fund page for a home page.
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I honestly don't think this is a aquire-hire. It seems much more of an attempt to get access to additional data not made public from companies using api.ai, at the same time boosting Alphabets capabilities.
Made the switch to HTTP/2. Using push with minified/gzipped/cached assets. Loading all my assets is typically a 6ms affair for all of react, react-dom, redux, custom JS, custom CSS, and additional PWA files. Mind you, dev machine.
On a regular basis: none.

If you have to do it, because of scheduling or timezone conflicts, have the common courtesy to schedule them well in advance. People do have lives outside of work, and arbitrarily plunking a meeting a 7 AM or 8 PM with little lead time is disrespectful of their time and commitments.
It will be an interesting experiment since the vast majority of Americans have none of these stereotypes. The word Gypsy conjures solely the image of a palm reader and the word Roma means nothing to the vast majority.

Their speech will sound like Russian to the American ear and their appearance will match that impression.

So, if the trend somehow continues or expands, we have a chance to see whether the exact same stereotypes re-emerge or whether they too end up following an unremarkable integration trajectory.
Been to a few nieghborhoods in Calgary like that, I can definitely confirm.
We could use RMS' system[1][2]. :)

[1]: https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html
[2]: git://git.gnu.org/womb/hacks.git
I’ve heard horrifying stories involving Roma, but also Mexicans and black people. I’ve told those to other Roma, Mexicans, and black people. One of those group has described those are perfectly normal and in line with the values of the group; the other two were generally horrified.
And what of the ones that don't get brought on? Do they get anything for their equity typically? For key employees i can see them sticking around, but early hire support staff that may not be needed could still have considerable equity.
There are no general-purpose slurs that I know of, so xenophobes/misanthropists do use plenty specific hate speech.

Like, an American xenophobe hates all foreigners. But he is going to call a German by a slur against Germans, and maybe mock sauerkraut and make snide remarks about WWII. A Frenchman, he'll use French slurs and insult France. He doesn't just call them "dirty foreigners" and mock their foreign-ness.

You could be right, I'm just curious if it runs deeper than what we see on the surface.

ISIL, for example- hates Jews, Christians, Yezidi, Shias, liberal Sunnis, Mexicans, reporters, women, America, Europe, Israel... so rather than "antisemites" I'd describe them as jingoist/xenophobic/etc
This. I setup ZK and Kafka over a year ago. It took about a day, and it's been running ever since.

Another serious question (and I mean this as un-snarky as I can). Are people just terrible at devops? I'm wondering if the people who think it is "too complex" grew up in a heroku world?
Hilarious article, until it hits a bit too close to home and you realize we're all part of the problem and there's probably nothing we can do to stop the hell train.

Truth is, I've come to terms with the idea that this ridiculous situation is somewhat acceptable, not great by any mean, but simply a reflection of the state of the real world and fleshy humans. Society itself is pretty much an amalgamation of obscure traditions and questionable decisions, held together by myriad of band-aids with hair stuck on them, and every generation tacks its own clean band-aids on it only for somebody else to violently rip them off or rub their dirty shoes on them, or worse.

Programmers are humans, and no matter how logical we like to think we are, we're subject to the same pitfalls as everybody else. But because of that "logical" trait of ours, we like to think everything is fixable, or worse, that everything needs fixing, and when that isn't possible, we lose our shit, we get depressed, we only see flaws and we just accelerate the pace. We constantly attempt to identify the bad in everything, when in reality nothing is inherently good or bad, it's just mostly chaotic.

So yes, we're the architects of our own nightmares, but not necessarily because of the evergoing snowballing clusterfuck we all contribute to, and perhaps simply because of our own warped expectations.
Perhaps obviously, when your interpretation makes the article not make sense, it's useful to try interpretations that work.

I guess another way to put it is that a very human mistake to make is to infer something and assume it was implied, then use that assumption to form a dismissal.

I get that your particular interpretation is likely meant as some subtle manner of dismissal of the Koch brothers (something along the lines of how they didn't earn their wealth would be my guess) and I'd like to encourage you to state such feelings directly. It's far more interesting than low-grade emotional rhetoric that just turns into boring no-light-low-heat discussion.
The reason why this is the case is that most people who live in Europe in the vicinity of traditional Roma communities have experience that reinforces those biases. Say, being pickpocketed, or being spat at after you refuse to give money to a beggar.

The biases themselves may well be overgeneralized and racist in nature, but the experience is quite real, I assure you. And I don't see any solution to the discrimination problem that doesn't involve fixing that experience.
Having lived in all different types of road patterns, the number once thing that increases safety is population density.

The lower the density, the safer, and the better for children. Everything is more pleasant, less noise, less wasted time, room for kids to play, less conflict with neighbors.

There's more driving, but I don't care, everything else is so much better it's worth it. And don't forget that even with the driving, everything takes less time.

So do it - design "for cars" if you want to call it that - you are really designing for the people inside the cars, and they will be much happier.

If that means a cul-de-sac ("dead end" as I've always called it) do it.
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