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"The fastest code is the code that never runs"

On that note, postpone noncritical shit as long as you can stomach. 9 times out of 10 it will resolve itself and you'll find you didn't really care about the result.
Ask HN: Is facebook deliberately preventing/discouraging users from logging out?
I always feel even though the text on log out dropdown is static, it takes suspiciously unusual time to load the dropdown. This can be observed on slower connections.
Yeah I was skimming replies and didn't notice the thrust of your comment. But I stand by my statement about that particular conversation.

Based off what I've seen, if Twitter goes under, I expect one of the participants (pseudoerasmus) would not switch to another social network and would just stick to blogging.
Because it's ridiculous and I'm tired of seeing that site in every acquisition thread.
I can program (mainly C++, Java, Perl, Ada, SQL) and I had difficulties to improve my weak level in Python because I had (still have) few opportunities to practice. I have followed an easy MOOC (https://www.coursera.org/learn/interactive-python-1) that uses game development. It was very motivating and a good reminder that game programming can remain simple.
That's not a comfortable thought at all. I don't think this woman deserves a life of suffering simply for being honest with her feelings.
Some cultures are more aggressive than others and do not allow for the free exchange of ideas. This is why this does not always work. The freedoms provided by western culture are fragile, a monopoly over a democracy can result in an antidemocratic anti-free society, one where the benefits of free anything are extinguished.
I think you need to look up...

To support your 'Chinese games suck because the Chinese market sux because Chinese people suck' argument, you claimed that Chinese people have no idea what's going on outside the country, which is an offensive and baseless statement. If anyone needs to brush up on reasoning, it's you.

With Hollywood being located in the US, I'd be surprised if this wasn't true.

It may surprise you that some of the more intelligent television and film produced does not come from America and finds huge popularity in China. One recent example is Black Mirror[0], a series of seven sketches pregnant with social commentary of the likes rarely found in US film production. China loved it. I note someone is busy making a US version... to follow your reasoning in jest, no doubt because they are dumbing it down for the dumb audience who have no idea what's going on outside of their own country.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mirror_(TV_series)
No metric is perfect, but "highest growth in real median income over the long term" seems like a pretty good approximation.
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In the context of the article, "animal" is meant to be understood as "something having non-human features". An ugly guy has both human and "non-human" features, so a mind is split in those both directions, and the split evokes the feeling of creepiness.

Just because you feel bad about something it doesn't mean it's false.
Oh yeah, definitely. It's a fantastic way to check out from the mundane crawl that is average life in America.

Honestly though, it's better than watching TV. Atleast you have to interact and think. There's also the fact that multiplayer gaming allows us to meet new people with similar interests. Someday people are going to just put on the VR hat and practically live in another world.
"Unheimlichkeit" means more like scary. Scary is not the same as creepy obviously. Also "Unheimlichkeit" is not really a word but a "Substantiviertes Adjektiv" of "unheimlich". There you already can see that you have to bend over backwards to find something with similar meaning. And even then "Unheimlichkeit" doesn't really quiet hit it.
I love how the Apple community subtly works promotion of the latest iPhone in every single discussion
It causes an XHR request to https://www.facebook.com/ajax/bz, so yeah, it's not 100% instant
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I would like to have a discussion about those subjects too. So if you are above pc crowd, you can handle the painful truth. If you are on the same level as all pc people, then not much discussion is possible with you at all.
> An impartial jury would be bound to rule him guilty

Then why are you pushing this lie forward? You should be doing your part to inform Americans of their rights, not mislead and disempower them.
I think it is well explained here, including additional links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuCy_UkKBcs
> It turns out that I as a human can do a lot on my own!

Reminds of

> If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly

http://www.chesterton.org/a-thing-worth-doing/
Except that you can't do what CloudFormation does with just a programming languages alone or with Ansible.
moreover, Python3 is not the problem, it's the fact that it coexists with Python 2 that is.
Unless Musk cracks open the asteroid mining industry with SpaceX! (Though Bezos IS best-positioned to compete with Blue Horizon)
I did a lot of stuff on Paul Lutus' GraFORTH and TransFORTH. One of my projects on my 5th year in college ended up being a stack-based CPU inspired by Forth.

BTW, Mr. Lutus appears around here from time to time.
For me it was PythonChallenge.com

It's not as math heavy and quite engaging.

> If you really need shooting, explosions and fancy graphics to keep you motivated then I don't think programming as a career is for you.

It can come later. For example when I started out programming, I first build websites and then found out that Javascript exists and without having the slightest idea what I was doing, I built things based on examples, like animations etc. It gave me a foundation and interest in programming other stuff, like generating things for modding games in Python, deciphering the format where games store strings and writing a program to translate them to my native language and similar hobby projects.

If you have your own goal and interest in it, it's much much easier to reach an advanced level than by learning in a linear fashion with boring artificial tasks.

Later on I took proper university courses as well, but I think it helped me a lot in staying motivated that I already associated programming with fun because of the prior experience of playing around (without too much understanding).
Uhh Bush is one of the least popular presidents ever, for a wide swath of reasons. It's not like he was some god above public opinion.
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For (S)CSS there is a nice auto-update function, so you don't need to reload the the page. Very very hand for app-like stuff with complex states that don't provide deep-linking. In Canary you can even save the edits in the source files, but for both mapping to your source files is a bit of a hassle.

Must have for SCSS are of course the source-maps, but I guess that's well known.

If you have an Android phone and USB-debugging enabled, you can inspect your mobile site on the actual device (inspector -> kebab menu dots -> more tools -> inspect devices...)
Creepy ~= Gruselig/Unheimlich

Awkward ~= Komisch/Unbeholfen

And the concepts totally do translate to German. A lot of people would describe a "creepy guy" as "gruselig" in German. Actually we've imported the word "Freak" to describe these people.

As an aside: there was a German copy of the "Beauty and the Geek" show that was far more dehumanising and called "Das Model und der Freak" where the entire concept was that "pretty" c-list celebrity women would give a "nerdy loser" a makeover to turn him into a generic alpha male womanisers.

The entire concept was "here's this loser weirdo no girl would ever date, let's make him conventionally attractive and exterminate his pre-existing personality in its entirety". The sole point of the show was ridiculing these "weirdos" and their strange hobbies -- of course the exploitable traits were exaggerated through bad scripting and heavy editing.

A pet peeve of mine is that until recently the words "geek" and "nerd" have often been replaced by "Freak" as movies are translated to German, drastically skewing the intended meaning ("Freak" is almost always an insult). Recently "Geek" and "Nerd" seem to have entered the German language (especially the former, mostly via gaming and social media) so hopefully that's coming to an end.
The subtitles are available here - http://www.amara.org/en/videos/2X4iBBif3jnx/en/1429060/
FYI, Gmail ignores dots before @.

first.last@gmail.com, firstlast@gmail.com, and f.i.r.s.t.l.a.s.t@gmail.com are all the same address.
Am I the only one expecting a explanation or setup guide for David Allens GTD?
From personal experience, you probably want Babel anyway even with TS to deal with some weird edge cases.

I think this has been fixed now. But a couple of weeks ago, I had a case where TS compiler output has to be ES6 (since the code base were using something like constructor.name which isn't in ES5), but then Jest (the test framework) doesn't like ES6 syntax, so Babel is needed to compile whatever Jest didn't like down to just ES5 syntax.
I don't think "ask the locals" resolves to "ask one local and listen to his opinion even if it is plainly bad."

Just like your app can offer a decent list, a single local will be able to as well. Ask 5 locals and you'll often find all of them name at least 1 or 2 of the same places.

Also, asking questions in order to receive helpful answers is a skill that takes practice. Other factors can also seriously affect the response you get, such as asking the question in English versus at least attempting to ask in the native tongue.
The reactions are non-voluntary and humans evolved this way. And since it's in our genes that our women are predisposed to feel like ugly people are genetically inferior, that is enough proof to say that they really are in a certain circumstances, specifically where sexual selection is the deciding factor in the success of reproduction. We live at the times where sexual selection trumps all other factors by a large margin, so people who are not desirable because of things they may not have control of, because they are genetic, they can be called genetically inferior.
It might (and maybe should) be, but maybe not (despite some glimpses of PUA language in there). The really sad part is: This thing has more upvotes than downvotes! That seems to indicate that this POV is somewhat accepted/shared by the given community. And while it is stupid, ugly and nauseating, it's not surprising. Or do we still think it's only men who can be disgusting fucktards? Also, equating physical beauty and even young age with genetic superiority? They don't come much stupider, do they? LAWL!
> If anyone needs to brush up on reasoning, it's you.

I think you really need to look up what "whataboutism" means :)
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OT: is it me or is Babel incredibly slow in translating ES6 to regular JS?
Well, I am not sure I can use it, since it is a book :-)

https://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textboo...

Also I am not in US.
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wow...nice info
http://www.tipsterkini.com/2016/05/7-cara-menjadikan-kulit-h...
the assumption here is that people can only learn at adequately fast rates before earning their phd? aka, isnt the expectation that if you can earn a phd in at least a highly related industry you should be able to pick up just about anything. Are they going to know how to wrangle a huge dev ops stack into submission, or pump data through some realtime frame work to maximize throughput or setup paxos properly from day 0, fine. but neither does any other entry level engineer and these guys can either learn it or be placed on a different team within the company that does deeper research that would make use of their phd...
Who cares about when they launch, I'm excited to find out when they shut it down!

This winter? Spring? I doubt it'll make it to next travel season.
Print() function hinders Python 3 adaption !
> The key is DOING.

Yes, especially doing things that are useful to you. This can be something very small. Many years ago, I needed to list filenames in a folder. (I had no idea of the command line). I knew some basic Python and I figured out how to do this.

Or I wrote a flashcard quiz test game to prepare for my history test in school (Javascript and HTML).

Or I wrote a small program to find rar or zip files on my computer that have also been extracted and now take up approx. double the space on the disk (the extracted version and the archive are both there).

Or some animations in Javascript to understand things we learned in physics class (harmonic oscillation and similar things). Small projects like that.

Or a program with GUI where I plotted some function we learned in math class about, with sliders to control some parameters of the function and see how the plot changes instantly.

I liked it so much that I enrolled in university to study computer science and I really liked the uni courses too, because I already understood how programming things is helpful in everyday life, it wasn't a dry abstract thing that you build for its own sake.
See also ELKS, which can run an (extremely stripped down and extensively rewritten) Linux kernel on a 16-bit 8086:

http://elks.sourceforge.net/

Also Fuzix, which can run a Unix-like on a variety of tiny, ancient processors like the Z80 and 6809; I've ported it to the MSP430, a modern micontroller, and I also have a half-finished port to the Raspberry Pi that I must get round to fixing one day (hilariously, the Pi has more RAM than Fuzix can handle)...

https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX

Both of those run natively, of course.
It is. Try enabling the `compact` option or using something like Buble [1].

[1]: https://buble.surge.sh
This is such a toxic attitude.

The industry complains about being unable to find enough programming talent, while dismissing entire swathes of highly trained, highly educated people for investing in themselves.
Yeah, just think what a nice ornate roof we could build if we skipped foundations and spent all the time saved on the roof…
Since we are already linking GiveWell, claiming administration costs are paid separately is just an accounting trick. http://blog.givewell.org/2009/12/07/robin-hood-smile-train-a...

Donors shouldn't obsess about the overhead ratio anyway, as the link explains.
Actually, it started at /r/the_donald, but was promptly removed for violating reddit's doxxing policy.

Since then it's been spammed in a variety of low traffic subreddits in an effort to make it relevant news.

Personally, I find it had to trust anything that comes out of reddit's political forums, as they are incredibly unreliable sources of information. (this included)

The /r/exchangeserver communities top post of all time as of yesterday had 50 upvotes. The top post from 2 years ago had 25 and 13 comments. But somehow I'm supposed to believe that the best technical resource this guy could think of when faced with this investigation was reddit? Umm... No. I don't believe it for a second.
Big in China, and China is big... Believe they are 4th largest overall at the moment but who can keep up with the ever changing league tables? I am planning to kick the tyres on them this weekend actually.
While I too disagree with some of the tax benefits afforded to homeowners, particularly with regard to long time homeowners here in CA, no, I would not consider that unethical. For one, there are probably more homeowners and parents than billionaires, so if they vote to give themselves certain tax breaks, even if I happen to disagree with them, I don't view it as a "corruption" of democracy. I'm sorry for using the word "corruption", it might not really be appropriate but I'm tired and couldn't think of a better term. At the very least, politicians seem to be pretty straightforward regarding tax breaks for homeowners, the process of taxation and financial lawmaking seems significantly more opaque to me. I view tax avoidance on the scale of hundreds of millions, or billions of dollars, differently than tax avoidance on a much smaller scale, even if both are perfectly legal. I admit this may not be a very good way of looking at things but I can't help but feel that scale is important here.

I hope my posts didn't come off as a "rant", that was not my intention and I deliberately tried to make sure to point out that I'm not concrete in some of these views. I like coming to HN largely because ideas can be challenged in a respectful manner, I apologize if my posts came off as rants.
I think the argument is that one would expect "Linux running on architecture Foo" to imply support in Linux for Foo, rather than support in Foo for Linux that allows Linux to run unmodified. I certainly expected, when I clicked, to read about someone's effort to rewrite a minimal subset of the Linux kernel to use exclusively 8-bit registers and no MMU.
Problem is, they'll use a proprietary genetic algorithm that will only run on specific RNA profiles, and it will crash unexpectedly, requiring the patient to restart their treatment from the start each time. :-)

You know you were thinking the same thing. You know it.
The article isn't about the creepiness described in the comments here. It's more about creepiness in general, like in clowns. It's pretty standard stuff actually...creepiness isn't just physical threat, it's a sense of impurity or a pollution of a thing's essence. Clowns are impure in the sense that they are humans gone wrong, with waxlike and distorted features.
When going from riding a bicycle to learning to drive a car, it is very easy to
feel a lot of anxiety about it. After all, driving a car on American roads is a
very morally strange thing: you are in fact imposing upon other people a risk
of death or lifelong-debilitating injury. And you have to work to accept this.
Of course you can and should avoid exacerbating that: only drive when sober and
well-rested. Don't text and drive. Don't have complex discussions when driving.
Scan your mirrors for bikes and motorcyclists. But as long as you are going to
get up and go to work, you cannot reduce risk to 0%. And you have to work to
accept this. There are even things you can do to actively be much better than
most drivers: do the Dutch Reach[1] when you open your door. Spend $10 on a
wide-angle mirror[2]. But ultimately you are still imposing an increased risk of
death on others. And you have to work to accept this.

Likewise, when going from reading things like
http://tinyurl.com/schrodingers-rapist, or various blogs written by and for
those on the receiving end of stalking and street harassment, it is very easy to
feel a lot of anxiety about the possibility of creeping someone out. But humans
are strange and varied people who have all sorts of backgrounds and perceptions.
And you have to work to accept this. You still must avoid doing things that
will cause a reasonable predictive model of people to feel fear: Keep a
situationally-reasonable distance from people. Don't shout things at people on
the street. Don't present sexual/romantic intent to someone with a high cost to removing themselves from the situation.
There are ways you can trade time/money or your preferences for other's comfort if
you choose: learn to choose and wear nicer clothing. Speak in a slightly higher
pitch. Avoid facial hair or tattoos. Have a friend smell-check you if your nose
is impaired. But ultimately, people percieve things in different ways and some
might perceive you as a threat. And you have to work to accept this.

[1] https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/09/08/this-cyclist-wa...
[2] https://www.amazon.com/Fit-System-RM011-Clip-Mirror/dp/B001A...
I guess most energy in UAE is used for cooling which should be highly correlated to solar output. They could probably meet most of their energy demand with solar power without significant amount of storage.

Furthermore, desalination will probably also play a major role in electricity consumption and I can imagine that plants can be adjusted to solar power production instead of running them at the same level 24/7 (pure speculation, no idea how the technology behind this works).

Edit: All water in UAE comes from desalination[0], so using clean water storage with larger plants instead of energy storage could be cheaper.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in...
In school, one conversation with a close friend made it clear what this was about.

I'd been brought up with a strong influence from my father who believed the pursuit of wealth for wealthy sake was pointless. It mattered what you did as a person than what you earned. My ideal job would be to become a scientist.

My friend told me that he wanted to earn money, not because he wanted to be rich, but because he liked seeing that number go up. He knew that it was a straight up numeric increment for him.

Now that's a relatively deep insight for a teen, which applies to everything from gaming to work. It's obvious and direct behavioral reinforcement.

Oddly it doesn't explain why he grew up to be a scientist (bio-analytics/genomics) and I ended up wading into finance and business.

Maybe self awareness is the pre requisite to being more comfortable with less than comfortable choices.
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> Creepy ~= Gruselig/Unheimlich

> Awkward ~= Komisch/Unbeholfen

Those translations don't really contain that additional negativity of "Creepy/Awkward". It is hard really pinpoint it though.

> there was a German copy of the "Beauty and the Geek" show that was far more dehumanising and called "Das Model und der Freak" where the entire concept was that "pretty" c-list celebrity women would give a "nerdy loser" a makeover to turn him into a generic alpha male womanisers.

But that was so much more over the top. Those guys were more like "eklig" (disgusting).
Snapshot of North Korea’s DNS data taken from zone transfers
> Unlike traditional bank transfers that can take several days,

What? It takes a few seconds.
Or is this the USA and the USA is different from the rest of the world?
But it seems suspiciously slower and I am on a 2mbps connection and it always seems to me that part loads slower compared to other parts of the page. Also it is just static text mostly, so it seems to me a deliberate attempt to discourage users to log out.
I'd prefer to run Debian instead of RHEL, but since the stack I have to support uses Oracle

Here you go: https://gaiustech.wordpress.com/2013/06/26/howto-install-ora...
>Something about this...

I reckon it's probably the SIMM soldered to the breadboard.
webassembly can't come soon enough. as a developer who doesn't deal with browser frontends what i read in this thread is madness. (3 comments at the time of writing this...)
I've not heard it called the Phantom Time Hypothesis. The one I was referring to is described in this series of books:

https://www.amazon.com/History-mathematical-statistics-Eclip...

A lot of the stuff in there is dubious, but it's a vast series of books and an absolutely fascinating collection of historical mysteries even if you don't subscribe to the theory one iota.

Some of it is available online from the authors. Here's the chapter that deals with medieval Athens:

http://chronologia.org/en/seven/1N07-EN-410-445.pdf

With respect to "most of the books were destroyed", indeed there aren't many from this time, but that's part of what makes it so hard to figure out if ancient history is properly understood. Somehow there's a wealth of books from the early Roman and Greek civilisations thoroughly preserved by endless armies of monks, but a dearth of them much later. Fomenko's theory states that this is because many of the books we believe were written in ancient Rome were either mis-dated or flat out forged. Doubts about historical texts are not a new phenomenon: Isaac Newton was famously sceptical and here's a book from the 1800's that studies one of the big works of Roman literature:

http://www.searchengine.org.uk/pdfs/4/287.pdf