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2000s: It's expensive doing business in the UK: price hike

2007: Business needs to be protected from Pound fluctuation: we accepted the new norm that a $500 gadget cost £500

2016: Brexit hurt our company earnings : like I care, we are full stack OSS
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You can use

git stash -k

Which will create the stash with your changes (both staged and unstaged), but keep the staged ones in the staging area and in the working tree.

https://github.com/git/git/blob/659889482ac63411daea38b2c3d1...
It would be a fun project to set up a genetic algorithm to solve for the object(s) and star.

We have: a star, an object, a signal, knowledge of the physics involved.

Set the GA to change the star and object consistencies and goal match the signal to the true signal received.

If it works you will have changed the use of computing in astronomy.
Don't really think that's realistic. In all honesty, the easiest way to tank the Brexit vote would have been to allow MP's a vote in Parliament - which would have been perfectly constitutionally valid - since the majority of politicians "appear" to be against Brexit. If anything, I see a firmer commitment to Brexit over time - as demonstrated by allowing the banks to leave London by not closing down "hard" Brexit.
What happened to him exactly?
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If the DSL logic is complex enough to require something approaching a turing complete language - which it looks like "jsonlogic" is, it's better to just provide the functionality in a python library with a clean API rather than trying to invent your own DSL.

Turing complete markup-based DSLs have been created before - e.g. ant/maven/xslt - and in those cases it was a huge mistake to create an entirely new language that powerful.

If the DSL logic doesn't require a turing complete language - something much less powerful, it might be worth doing a DSL that has limited computational power.

IMHO this is a core principle underlies most computer languages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_least_power
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We have a saying in Britain, that few people remember now: "rise with your class, not above it".

That comes from an understanding that making the best of living under a system that creates opportunities to be rich and opportunities to be poor is not the same as altering that system.

Really, the idea of privilege as people use it now is too individualistic to make sense at the macro level.
I really have no idea bout UK/British politics even though I worked/lived in Europe so...

Can someone explain this part of Brexit. Nigel Farage resigns in July 2016 after he wins the vote. Why? Says he did "his job" and didn't want to be a career politician (according to Wiki)

Then earlier this month he stepped back in as party leader of UKIP after his replacement was forced(?) out/unable to garner support? Did he just get bored and want his job back? Seems like he has ample time to fly over to the States to pump up Trump.

What I'm trying to get at is this whole Brexit triggered a huge depression in the value of the Pound. Yet the Conservatives and UKIP are still in power? Or can no one do anything until the next general elections?
She a Conservative traditionalist and most definitely a right-winger. How is that communist?

I swear I have no clue how so many people don't know basic enough history that they are so mistaken by what communism is.
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for the last 7 years i've been a php developer and i'm currently in the process of learning my second language, #c. it's good to hear that someone else has been through this process before me and said it was such a big step!

thanks for giving me some more motivation!
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Genuinely curious: which OS ought to have beaten UNIX?
Knowledge-wise: Github. When I began learning Javascript I'd read through the source code of any libraries that appeared to do magic and figure out what the trick was. Very helpful in making things 'click'.

Tool-wise: Vue.js (a single file for code, templates and style is refreshing), Now by zeit.co and Sublime Text are my three hombres.

And hot-reloading, for all those hours it saves me....praise be to Websockets.
If we blame problems on genetics that means they are out of our hands. We cannot solve them. At least not without preventing reproduction of undesirable genes.
Indeed, plus:

What I really don't get is why Sharp/HP/etc. never made a PocketPC that had phone functionality built in)

There were many PocketPC-based smartphones (PDA-phones), even from HP and Sharp.

Also, many inexpensive phones could run third-party apps, albeit crappy Java ME-based.
Not being a coder myself, I have hired freelancers from Toptal on two projects. The entire experience was pretty good. The contact at Toptal took time find the the match.

On the first project we got a pretty good front-end-dev. I will say that I've learned a lot about project management in the process. On the second project we got a very skilled front-end-dev. We're still working with him daily.

It's not exactly cheap. At $70/hour I think it's fair. Don't know how the devs feel about Toptal or how much they charge but, from my point of view it's not all bad in the freelance market.
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Way better if your music collection consisted of 12 songs.

iPod made a thousand songs in your pocket a reality.
that's... a weird usage of the words "public domain"

also for some reason Qt is listed as a "proprietary" dependency in the readme
Emacs.

I remember finishing college in the late 90s and coming across Emacs (actually, XEmacs back then) for the first time. What a weird editor, how could anyone even want use this voluntarily? Until some coworkers at the place I worked back then showed me some tricks. The touch of enlightenment hasn't stopped ever since and probably never will.
other companies are moving into this space iirc. external gpu case manufacturers are targeting apple with a pretty perfect idea+execution. macs already have high resolution screens, just lack the gpu processing power to drive games on those resolutions.
wolfe/bizon tech are working in this space
Bushwick, Brooklyn.
These settings left me with a neverending accident on one lane.
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does anyone know if I can use this service on the new german datacenter so that no data is send to the US?

Also did anybody worked with their video APIs? They say it works 'near realtime'. What can I expect from that? Does it work with livestream?
Clojure, or maybe all these related Rich Hickey talks transformed my attitude towards systems programming. Before that, the Unix philosophy. But perhaps I can't say that the Unix philosophy changed my career because I adopted it very early in my programming and way before any career established.

Sadly, Clojure has left me in a position where Python + Django in my day work disgusts me with its mutability and unnecessary OO semantics, but I don't have much choices in my area. Ignorance can be a bliss sometimes!
>You don't need a PHD to understand what this means, you need only basic reading comprehension and minimal intelligence:

Quote from FED:

>The hedonic quality adjustment method removes any price differential attributed to a change in quality by adding or subtracting the estimated value of that change from the price of the old item.

What do you think "attributing a change in quality" or subtracting "estimated value" means? If you don't understand how the introduction of these arbitrary variables, invented by a politicized FED, completely nullify any informational value, nobody can explain it to you.
It's entirely possible that the other person has the opinion you read into the post. It's possible that they don't. Nuance is easily lost online.

I'm not trying to offend, just to be clear and to clarify the other person's position in the process.

I am not angry at the poster, but I sincerely think that the first dismissive statement here was the one I replied to. It shuts discussion down before it gets to happen.

As someone who enjoys spicy food (and used to eat super spicy food), I have been confronted with this argument often. If you put yourself in my shoes for a second: it is pretty insulting -- here's something you care and are excited about. And there's someone who doesn't understand, and claims you're missing 'the point'. I think it's valuable for a discussion to point this out in no uncertain terms.

Edit: thank you for the feedback though! Next time, I'd probably say the same thing with a bit of extra sugar coating.
I, personally, believe it's up to a user to decide which version control system works best for them.

Both git and mercurial can talk to "non-native" remote servers.

IIRC mercurial can talk to subversion and git (with hg-git).

Git can talk to subversion, cvs, perforce, mercurial (there are multiple tools for the latter, and I'm the author of one of them), bzr, and maybe others.

If things don't work smoothly in any of those cross-VCS configurations, my belief is that issues should be filed and fixed.
(living in London for 5 years, Non-British / EU citizen)

Took me 10 weeks to find a new opportunity (recently) applied for permanent and freelance/contractor/contract roles.

Comparing with the previous years, where it took me less than 2 to 5 days, there's a difference.

Housing has never been so expensive & the currency never been this low - during the period I've lived here.

Contracting - some companies stopped paying better for overtime work: Weekends, bank holidays are the same rate and not 1.5 or 2 units.
The "foundation of representative democracy" is to have a representative in the decision making process (-cracy) for every part of the populace (demos). Political parties are not essential to that premise. Representatives that can have their voice heard are.
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More like putting datacenter on satellite - plenty of solar energy, lower latency due to direct visibility. Cooling is a problem though.
Stanley Kubrick would have hated this. ;)

http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Message-From-Stanley-Kubrick-...
OTOH we have little problem understand latin or greek texts.
It's okay and there is no need to be shy about making comments or voting for things. Now that finally, after all this time of being a bystander, your parent convinced you to take this step, please tell us about your story.
I just mean to say that person you thanked seemed quite emotional. And you made an account, and thanked them. But I cannot really see what's so special about money turning into more money. That's why you went to primary school. A few dollars made you able to read and write, and now you're using it to save dollars or make more dollars.

So please: expand on the emotion now you've taken the plunge.
UKIP aren't in power. They have one MP who is an ex-Conservative.

Fluctuations in the value of the pound don't normally bring down governments.
"I had to study so much in these last 2 years" --> Could you give a glimpse on what have you studied/read?
I'm very interested. Thanks!
Hence I said "kinda like". It's not a patent, so of cource prior art makes no sense, but the equivalent for a trademark, whatever that is called.
UKIP are not in power and have never been. They have 1 MP out of 650.

In answer to your wider point, I think you're reducing the problem to the value of the pound when there are many more factors at play ('sovereignty', border controls, democracy etc). Plus, many people viewed sterling as overvalued so a fall might not be too bad a thing.

It might be that, in time, the negative economic consequences of Brexit affect the Conservatives in the polls but it's too early for that.
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I didn't do a benchmark. Phalcon is probably faster than Django (by a few miliseconds) but it is a compiled extension and also doesn't have all the functionality that Django has.

Django compared to Laravel (which is now probably the most popular PHP framework) is orders of magnitude faster.
This is what I meant with Django being faster that PHP (this statement compares a framework with a programming language - not fair)
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Clojure has mutability and a lot of its idiomatic abstractions are object oriented in nature.
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Transrapid! I've ridden it in Shanghai, and I was lucky to be there at one of the time slots when it is going higher speed (430 km/h ~ 267 mph).
I doubt millions of IP security cameras were bought off eBay or Alibaba. We're talking more like "Will Walmart stock it"?
I assure you many millions of people have been through this process before you! It gets easier after the second, particularly if you stick with mostly procedural/OO languages. So after C# you'll pick up Java, and maybe Python or Ruby in a heartbeat.

Languages with fundamentally different paradigms will still be a little tricky - Haskell, Scala, Stan, R etc don't bear a lot of resemblance to PHP.
Ask HN: What high-end digital products ($50+) have you discovered recently?
I'm doing some research for a new article, hence wanted to ask here - what high-end digital products (one-time payments, above $50) have you discovered recently?

Here's a great example: http://lauraelizabeth.co/client-portal/
Paying in order to increase the maximum count of followers sounds really bad, given that those are the users that also generate content and hence the reason for why you also have lurkers with under 100 followers that just consume content.

Your proposal is a terrible idea, because Twitter should be paying those that genuinely attract an audience, not vice versa, since those people can always switch. Popular people will be popular anywhere. E.g. Linus Tolvards has a big and active audience on Google+, even though it is in general a ghost town.
What's a Cassandra gland?
Made a lot of money with Pascal, then Perl.

Common Lisp and Haskell turned me into a grumpy, unemployable mess. Terrible ROI.

I went 180 and now I'm starting to appreciate (and making money with) Go.
Au contraire, for a while I was one of them. But I think we were seen as too weird to even bother with a holy war
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You nailed it, taking investor money and being guided by it to grow until your business breaks. Really appreciate your last paragraph.
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> Set against that, the effort required to parse expressions is trivial.

Especially s-expressions.
> But the reason git beat out the competition isn't git's excellent UI or large marketing budget, it's that those features actually provide significant value.

I don't know if it's true for everyone, but this is at least true for me. The reason I started to work on a git remote helper to talk to mercurial servers is that I grew frustrated that mercurial didn't have some of those features (and that the existing git remote helpers were not working well at the scale of mozilla-central, or required a local mercurial clone under the hood)
Windows 7 was a 'tock' release to Vista's 'tick', so I can see why the author would not consider it major.
Then again, Windows 10 was also probably a 'tock' release to Windows 8's tick (considering 8.1 was essentially a service pack).
DOSBox seems to have a second life through its JavaScript port EM-DOSBox, which appears to be quite active:

https://github.com/dreamlayers/em-dosbox/commits/em-dosbox-s...

That one became very popular through the use at the "MS-DOS Games" section of archive.org:

https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games
Elasticsearch + Kibana.

First it was a weekend project, then a full project at work, now there is a full team working on it and my title has changed to "Data analyst".

All in 6 months.
You are right, I misread his comment
Actually, I am toying with the idea to fly to Shanghai (instead of Hong Kong) once in my life just to be able to take the Transrapid... Can you tell me when those high-speed time slots happen?
FWIW, I would be quite interested in your view on DDIO - anything you can link?
There are use cases for rule-based logic like this stored outside of application code and JSON is a very easy format regardless of warts.

The amount of salt in here from 1) Gross JSON! 2) why did you implement an AST?! is astounding.
I'm glad that post explicitly called them out on the deception:

> The representatives of WoSign and StartCom denied and continued to deny both of these allegations until sufficient data was collected to demonstrate that both allegations were correct. The levels of deception demonstrated by representatives of the combined company have led to Mozilla’s decision to distrust future certificates chaining up to the currently-included WoSign and StartCom root certificates.

Contrast this to WoSign's announcement:

> WoSign also made a careful investigation of these issues and issued a report on these issues, some problems have been clarified, and all problems are found in the first time and fixed. WoSign actively cooperate with the investigation and communication to guarantee the issued SSL certificate will not be affected in any way.

(https://www.wosign.com/english/News/announcement_about_Mozil...)
If there are still any in 2016 it's a good sign they are not begin actively maintained
My wow moment was when I first found out something totally different than my comfort zone. It was SQL then. But it was 15 years ago.

Another wow moment was Perl, and its just three data types.

Then lisp.

Currently I think that the most mind changing languages for me were SQL, and C++. I don't know why, I just love Postgres, and I love the C++ speed.

However for the last 15 years I've been commercially programming in C, C++, Java, Javascript, Python, Ruby, Perl, Delphi, PHP, SQL.

What I like is different: I like Python, Postgres, SQL, Java, and I'm learning currently is the newest C++, and a little bit of Rust.

I'm not sure why I still have problems with understanding Haskell.

However when I'm looking for a remote job now, all that doesn't matter. I get some strange interviews with 10 minute algorithm tasks (if you don't remember the implementation of this task, which you have never seen before, you have no chance to write it). Or even recruiters not understanding the answers to technical questions they ask.

And most of the job offers I get require 10 years of writing in one language, so I'm wondering if I did good learning all those different things.
What I'm missing is right lane preference, that would control how much people obey the rule that you shouldn't be on the leftmost lane unless you are faster then the cars in the right lane in front of you and if you aren't much faster then the car that's next to you on the right lane you should slow down and place yourself after it or speed up and place yourself in front of it.

It's horribly painful to watch two slow cars occupying both lanes next to each other.
Oh yeah.

I still remember my fathers face when he saw the 5000 NOK phone bill from me dialing a non local bbs a few too many times in the early 90s :)
Here in Norway we had charges by the minute for all calls, but long distance (outside your area code) was a lot more expensive.

In the end i had a separate phone line installed on my room and ran my own bbs using https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBBS (I can't find any non Norwegian sources, use translate).
Coming from PHP (did it from 2006-2011) JavaScript blew my mind.

Most of the time I saw it as a tool to use, when CSS wasn't powerfull enough.

After using NodeJS I was blewn away. NPM alone was a killer feature PHP was missing.

Functions as objects that can be passed around and closures introduced me to functional programming.

I really thought PHP would go downhill after I saw the whole JavaScript hype and switched 100% away from PHP. Many web-companies here in Germany were just doing Java or PHP at that time (before 2010) and if you didn't know about one of those two languages you were screwed, but now I do 100% JavaScript development AND get better projects than with PHP. But I have to admit Facebook pumping money into PHP helped tremendously to make it better.

At the moment I have smaller WOW-moments with TypeScript, RxJS and NixOS. Smaller basically because I don't have work-related projects at the moment to use them, but they seem to fix a few pain points I had with JavaScript, React/Redux and Vagrant. (undefineds everywhere, realtime-data stream control and sane dependency management)
Further, linking PhysX to GPL3 is not possible.
Why don't you cache the results for your proposed websites (or at least just your own's ? )
There will be a lot of price hikes coming to the UK so they can expect some high inflation. Pound is weaker so need more of them to achieve same revenue in dollars.

I'm utterly fascinated by Brexit -- I'm here in Ireland and it's going to be part disaster part boom depending on how we handle it so it has very real consequences. I think the biggest damage will be that to young people in the UK who will likely be denied the ability to travel as freely to live and work across the EU and this sort of denial of opportunity won't manifest as obvious for many years.

We put up the price of our software in the UK once we heard the referendum result and May indicating hard Brexit. On both occasions Sterling dropped.
You can if the aircraft is on the ground (if you ask nicely), which seems to be the case of the picture
The latests iteration of hg crecord which is an interactive selection tool for chunks (see it in action here: http://g.recordit.co/BfbSa7cMXn.gif)
Is far far better than git staging area. Intuitive to use, i can submit hours of code in few nice selective chunks really easy.

This sole function built in is a game-changer in mercurial for me.
Then the investors will get tired of subsidising the other company, it will get more and more user-hostile and quite possibly run out of money altogether and shut down, and users will be worse off in the long run.