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Ordinary humans don't have others talking about them thousands of years later.
While I don't know if it has programmable text objects, it does have the standard Vim ones from what I've seen last time I tried it.
Please. Reduction to absurdity isn't a valid argument. Are those folks working at large scales? Are they tuning DB's for applications which have to handle hundreds of thousands or millions of transactions per second? I don't imagine you actually know what you're talking about here.
How did you do that?:)
I implemented a similar stuff : https://sabakumoff.github.io/hn-sort-out/10.16.html
Snapchat's interview process for software engineers is so difficult that nobody's ever been able to pass it.
Why wouldn't you put a passphrase on your key?! An agent, and especially keychain support, removes almost all the inconvenience, and it adds a tremendous amount of security.
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Sure, but even then I wonder how much of that complexity (the scaling bit) is actually implemented by the front end devs. I would assume that it's handled on the back end, but of course a UI like FB, used by 1.7 billion people, can't be an easy thing to design.
Interesting that this is an AMP link, loads faster than the regular page (http://www.theverge.com//2016/10/6/13191614/verizon-google-p...)
I agree with the grandparent, that the writer overstated how much in ten years will be useless. It was almost 20 years ago that I first learned HTML, and since then neither it nor hardly anything else I have learned has decayed: CSS, native JavaScript, jQuery, PHP, PostgreSQL, Apache, and Bash. But I guess it depends on what you try learning.
Maybe you can quote what I said that you feel implied that, because it's nothing I intended to write.
I agree, most are.
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While this isn't in Ashburn, it's between Gainesville and Warrenton at a site that was formerly an NSA signals intelligence facility [1] and is now a fledgling industrial park that this just-outside-of-exurban-DC county is trying to push. It's adjacent to major FAA air traffic control facility.

That being said, I wouldn't count this as "new node" in the Tech Corridor, it's simply a good site in a lower-tax neighboring county, but still in DC's exurban western periphery. When other parts of Virginia away from a 20-mile radius of Dulles are seeing this kind of investment, then we can talk about a Virginia Tech Triangle.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vint_Hill_Farms_Station
Today Google warned me about re-use of a password And woke me from my absent minded state. I am grateful, impressed and freaked out.
> The question isn't if unix could theoretically work as well as an IDE if you added a few thousand custom userland programs that understood language context. The question is if unix, out of the box right now, is competitive with a high end IDE. It's not, because it can't possibly understand your code.

You need to download tools for your language just like you downloaded an IDE. The whole point of Unix is that you have specialized, composable tools for your purpose. Don't move the goalposts.
They don't.

I18n on Android is seriously awful. For example, Android 5 shipped with an improperly escaped string in the French Canadian localization strings that would cause the phone to reboot in a loop if it was connected to a charger when opening the lockscreen. Even the latest Android version (Nougat) displays the battery as "24 % %" in the French localization, "Press power button twice for camera" has been translated to the near unreadable "App. 2x sur interr. pr activ. app. photo" (roughly "Prs pwr btn 2x fr cam.") and some of the localized strings are comically nonsensical.
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Greenhouses can amplify pest problems as they are a closed system where things can get crazy very quickly with no natural checks and balances. They are some of the biggest consumers of pesticides.
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Why would I do any of this ?

It seemed a bit forced in my opinion.
As a working developer and SRE at 55 years of age I can't help being just a little amused at the author. I guess you really _are_ as old as you feel. The points about the competence cycle over the span of a career are dead on, of course.
Now you can just `apt install smart-notifier`
> Reducing anything to absurdity isn't a valid argument.

You're absolutely right! That applies to frontend dev, too. Anything is easy at trivial scale. Comparing trivial frontend dev to nontrivial everything else does nothing to advance the conversation.
It's sort of the same reason I keep giving for why I like Rust over other languages - sufficient vigilance is very difficult for humans to maintain, and so unexpected catastrophes happen.

I'm optimistic that there are technological solutions for this particular crisis, although I admit I don't know what they will be.
What is this AMP garbage? I've noticed it everywhere in the past few weeks and it has been really annoying. Trying to copy/paste Gothamist links on mobile to send to other people was an exercise in frustration. Had to request the desktop to site to get the real URL and send that for it to work.
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> hiring candidates as temporary contractors for a real world test doing actual work

While this is very effective at filtering out poor applicants, it is also very effective at preventing good applicants from applying in the first place. Why would a great developer who probably already has a great job quit for a chance to maybe get hired at Google? In most cases they wouldn't. And at the scale Google hires, they can't afford to lose all of those potential employees.
I understand. But we couldn't get even 10. We got too spoiled by Google Cloud.
> And unix can never be a very good IDE, comparatively, because "text streams" are not a sufficiently good data structure for representing program structure.

This is a simplistic view of the system; you essentially have binary over streams and can use it to encode in any format you wish.
Dunning-Kruger right here folks.
But scrolls so bad that I still read the normal page. Thanks for the link.
The claim of full coverage of 110,000+ characters (they are targeting Unicode 6, apparently) appears to be false: Noto Sans CJK covers approximately 30K characters[1], while as of Unicode 6.0 there were 74,614 CJK Unified Ideographs (calculated from [2]).

Edit: Using a script I made to check codepoint coverage[3] I get 63,639 codepoints with glyphs defined for all Noto fonts included in their default download (Noto-unhinted.zip).

[1] https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-fonts/issues/717#issuecom...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJK_Unified_Ideographs

[3] https://gist.githubusercontent.com/amake/53b2331a2547b94f430...
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So what are the chances that Verizon is leaking all this stuff itself to get Yahoo for cheap?
I imagine that it's too much to hope that this could ever lead to criminal charges?
Even after re-reading the guidelines, I still don't know which one that post is violating. Which guideline are you referring to?
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Unless you believe rivers flow uphill into the mountains, farming has nothing to do with trees dying in the mountains. Salmon downstream in rivers have a complaint, trees upstream do not.
I think it's too damaging to the long-term value of the brand.
I am sorry, but as someone who isn't from the US (but does live and work in the US) ... phrases like this make zero sense:

> Mylan should have been paying a higher rebate of 23 percent, but did not do so because the company improperly classified EpiPen, despite being told its classification was incorrect.

If a regular person defaults on paying their taxes, the IRS can seize their property and stuff. Why are Mylan's EpiPen warehouses not being seized to pay for these rebates? Instead, they are being gently chided saying "you really should have paid more, because um, the law requires it?"

In my opinion, due to massive lobbying, there are really one set of rules in the US for regular people, and a different set for the ultra rich and large corporations. I would be delighted to be offered a working alternative explanation, or seeing massive financial and possibly criminal penalties for Mylan executives (if willful misclassification is proven).
Checking alone isn't the point. As things stand, it's no better than C, where the type checker can approve your code, yet it still has undefined behavior.
This amount of job growth seems typical at first blush. A haphazard sampling [1] of job creation announcements in Virginia as a result of state grants reveals:

April 2013: 25 jobs in secure document and card printing

March 2014: 40 jobs in new lumber mill

August 2014: 25 jobs in manufacturing coating spray for aircraft turbine parts

August 2014: 25 jobs in new lumber mill

August 2014: 500 jobs in parts for automotive engines

October 2014: 75 new jobs in parts of automatic transmissions

December 2014: 97 new jobs in HQ consolidation for medical device company

April 2015: 160 new jobs in food processing for fruits

May 2015: 100 jobs in lighting fixture manufacturing

January 2016: 50 jobs in tamper-evident label manufacturing

February 2016: 50 jobs in ingredients for cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries

March 2016: 15 jobs in new lumber mill

March 2016: 1800 new jobs in client support and consulting

September 2016: 50 jobs in paper towel manufacturing

[1] http://www.virginiabusiness.com/search/google?q=jobs+grant
To spare, you say? I want to use that computing power for my own purposes. I suddenly decided I want to multiply gigantic matrices.
Why are there so much negativity? I thought the people here are supposed to be more visionary. We are one step ahead in the future than other people. Avatar with your facial expressions. This is huge and innovative. It will not be limited to just game players or geeks. Common people will be drawn to this.
Someone should set up an AI startup for harddrive failure prediction.
also, https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/ort...

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Good one. Trite comments like yours always make for good discussion. Care to elaborate on why you think I'm wrong?
Yeah, i thought it was amazing. It's the predecessor to the Metaverse.
Whatever you do, don't go for an office that has a "noise suppression" system in it. A company that I used to work for has one, when I first joined I thought it was just a loud HVAC system (until I was informed what it really was). It took a lot of getting used to, or so I thought, then the headaches started coming. Headaches that would start at work and then dissipate an hour or two after leaving the office. After doing some reading and discussing with a relative who designs buildings for healthcare, I realized the connection between the two. I started working from home, no headaches. Apparently a not insignificant percentage of people have this reaction to a constant "barely audible" white noise. I'm not sure if I would have the same reaction to the headphones, but at this point I'm not trying it.
The inability to search my own tweets is a huge annoyance because I use retweets and likes as a log of content that I like and admire.
Seems like this idea is couple of decades in making..

A seawater greenhouse is a greenhouse structure that enables the growth of crops in arid regions, using seawater and solar energy.

The technology was introduced by British inventor Charlie Paton in the early 1990s and is being developed by his UK company Seawater Greenhouse Ltd.

The technique involves pumping seawater (or allowing it to gravitate if below sea level) to an arid location and then subjecting it to two processes: first, it is used to humidify and cool the air, and second, it is evaporated by solar heating and distilled to produce fresh water. Finally, the remaining humidified air is expelled from the greenhouse and used to improve growing conditions for outdoor plants. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seawater_greenhouse

Making Namibia’s desert green using seawater
https://www.newera.com.na/2016/07/08/making-namibias-desert-...
No, not everything is trivial at small scale. Scale is not everything in software development, it just happens to be the most common hard problem web devs will face. There's a whole world of software out there that isn't web development. Some problems are just hard, regardless of scale.
Well, the articles states the greenhouse is expected to yield 17,000 tonnes per year or 37.47 million pounds of tomatoes. The infrastructure costs 200 million dollars. So if they sell the tomatoes for $5.34 per pound they will pay off the infrastructure in a year. 53.4 cents per pound and they will pay off the infrastructure in 10 years. I expect it will be somewhere in between.

Pretty close though.
>Ok, then backend folks just do API integrations and database guys just make tables, no real technical challenges anywhere. Anybody getting stuff done is pasting together libraries.

The original poster said nothing about frontend vs. backend. Still, you're absolutely correct, backend work is mostly gluing together pre-built libraries and software too.
I wonder if the vr can actually grab their facial expressions, or how much was pre-rendered.
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It's not like the laws you've cited were written by the same people for the same purposes, so there's no reason to be shocked that they are different in content and application. You'll have to find better examples if you want to stoke outrage.
I've used emacs for years. I've invested a great deal of time in learning it. I'm not sure it was worth it. When I think about the opportunity cost involved in internalizing the kb shortcuts, apis, tuning emacs configs, getting various plugins working together, setting up this or that language support - and on and on - that time could have been better spent learning more useful things.

This feeling is especially strong when you use an IDE that does more out of the box with fresh install, than you could make emacs do after 6 months of tinkering and tuning.
Reduction to absurdity isn't a valid argument.

The Wik says Aristotle called it "ἐις ἀτοπον ἀπαγωγή" and reductio ad absurdum has been considered an important and valid form of argument for at least 2500 years. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum
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> formerly an NSA signals intelligence facility

Hey, EU customers who want a POP in the US -- come use our new servers! We checked, definitely no SIGINT bugs left behind. :)
I wish your comment were higher up. It does indeed take time to internalize how to use these data structures, and that's what the interviews usually test.
sun, seawater .... and fertiliser.

As made clearer in other articles [1], they are adding nutrients to the water.

In response to delbel: As mentioned in [1], the farm has a 10-year contract with Coles, one of Australia's big supermarkets, and that was what enabled the farm to be funded. Consequently, you can go to Coles and buy these tomatoes for about A$7 per kg. [2]

[1] http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-01/sundrop-farms-opens-so...

[2] https://shop.coles.com.au/online/SearchDisplay?storeId=10601...
I don't see where they were saying there's no difference.
How are they different in fundamental principle? Money is being collected from people (taxes) or corporations (Medicaid rebates) for a collective good.

> were [not] written by the same people for the same purposes...there's no reason to be shocked that they are different in content and application

This argument is circular in nature. "Different laws are different, because they are different". Why are they different? Could it have anything to do with the fact that Mylan spent several million dollars lobbying various lawmakers? (https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D00002776...)
I like this a lot! Very good stuff.
There aren't too many vendors for spinning disks, and if you have a lot of disks it doesn't take too long to see that the sector count metrics correspond to sectors. In my experience, bad sector count is a good predictor of future trouble, and running disks until they threw read errors (before we were running smart monitoring), they all had lots of bad sectors. That said, there's a threshold, getting to 100 slowly is probably ok, a thousand is probably not.

SSDs though, they just disappear from the bus when they fail; so I haven't been able to look at a dead one and see what looks like a useful predictor. I have seen some ssds reallocating a big block, which kills performance while its going on...
The cost of starting a transistor startup in the 1950s was too high so the traitorous 8 started Fairchild.

The cost of starting a SSI company was too high in 1968 so 3 dudes started intel.

The cost of starting a new mainframe company in 1976 was too high for most garage ops but turns out two hippies were ready with a better, cheaper, replacement product anyway.

The cost of starting a pc company for Gates and Allen was too high in 1981 so they left it to IBM and wrote the OS. Turned out ok.

The cost of starting and OS company in 95 was too high for Brin and Page so they left it to msft and looked at how to reliably search the web.

The cost of starting a search engine was too high in 2004 so Zuck looked at how to connect people rather than documents. Good call.

See a pattern?
Several problems with your counter-hypothesis:

1. It is inconsistent with historical records. There's no evidence showing that the ancient Gauls, Celts and so on are of the same nationality as that of Romans. Their Y DNA are unlikely the same.

2. It assumes the invading Franks, Goths, and so on have different gene from the general public that they ruled over, i.e. Goths and Franks were not R1b, but there's no evidence to that. There's no evidence that the European medieval noble class were not R1b.

3. It is inconsistent with the common phenomenon of an invading ruling class's Y DNA quickly displace the ruled ones. A recent example is south American. R1b becomes the majority in a little over 500 years, displacing the original Q DNA.

4. The timeline does not work. R1b is a new gene originated about 10000 years ago in Asia. There's no way they are the one first colonized Western Europe. People with I, G and other far older genes have been there for a long time when R1b shows up.
Unfortunately, I don't think you're going to find a good way to ballpark their financials without them supplying them. It's common in the cold email to say something like, "Our sweet spot is companies with an EBIT of $X-$Y". So the person you're contacting knows if they are too big or too small.

For deals of this size you can also look for smoke signals e.g. you're looking to buy something for 200k-300k in EBIT and you go to their about page and find 50 employees you're probably barking up the wrong tree.

It's also worth pointing out that you're looking for one person to say yes. If you hit on folks that aren't a fit and never email you back or laugh you away so what. That's the nature of the game. You just need one.
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Also, you're not fighting for the/your privacy of today- you're fighting for tomorrow's privacy. Facebook is scummy with your data, but Google (who knows hell of a lot more about you) is pretty nice with your data. The problems start when they won't be. Google knows what you buy, what's on your mind, which apps you open during the day and when, which people you have contact with and how often and when, they have your e-mail, they have your location and your usual routes, where you work and live. They also have aggregate data about stuff like traffic flow, festivals, businesses, etc. etc.

Now imagine them selling this data to the highest bidders. Insurance will know if you sport or not, if you eat healthy, if you smoke, etc.. Other companies will spring up that buy data to check if you were really sick for work, or just slacking (and businesses then buy this service for a price). Advertisers would sell their kids, mother and grandmother's soul for access to this kind of data. You think impulse-buy-optimization of supermarkets is bad? oh boy..

So yeah, fight the good fight, even if its a bit of a hassle, and slightly more expensive. You can actually find a good balance between privacy and usability. I use Protonmail for my mail, Apple Maps for my mapping needs (Google Maps as backup, sparingly), DuckDuckGo for search, Lastpass for passwords and iOS (Android is mined HARD by Google) + OS X as my OSes. Linux is even better, but you're constantly tweaking or fixing small things.
A good place to start with transparency in the meat industry would be mandatory cancer warnings, like tobacco products are required to display:

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Not really. That infrastructure scales up. You pick up a few construction jobs and maybe get some reusable utility infrastructure. That's it.

A lot of the other roles are field service type things that
don't use local workers.

That's not a bad thing, just not the end-all, be-all. if the building of data centers or similar facilities are a trend, you will build up good local capability to build these facilities and may start winning other business.
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> Because they cannot defeat it.

Or because they don't want to defeat it?

The war on drugs is a big source of income for the police.
Nice! I hadn't seen this before. Interesting approach to capturing the facial expression. I'd bet the first commercial implementation of something like this will be based on cameras inside the helmet combined with IR illumination, We're going to want those anyway for gaze tracking and it might be that they can do double duty. This is clever, but from a practical standpoint I bet capturing expressions will be easier with cameras.
Unless Verizon is having second thoughts about the purchase.
While I agree with the rest, there is one nit I must pick regarding:

>This statement is false: "Half of what a programmer knows will be useless in 10 years."

The idea of a half-life of working knowledge has been around for decades; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-life_of_knowledge
Multi-user VR is really, really cool. It seems that Facebook is betting heavily on headset prices coming down (which they will, obviously) which will allow their metaverse to become the de facto virtual hangout space. That two bundo FB shelled out for the acquisition seems like it was a really good deal.
I've noticed the same trend as well, and I think you're right that it's just a cyclical thing. There should be a comparable "eternal september" phrase for social networks.

It's like there is a never ending "go west young man" for internet enabled communication platforms.