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This comment made me think back to a period of time just as git became popular when every second blog post was on the topic of "git is easy once you understand X" in which people who'd just had that moment of inspiration and discovered the innards of git would share their newfound knowledge. Inevitably, the comments would point out various mistakes and bad advice contained in the blog post. Often comments would then correct the authoritative sounding corrections in the other comments.

It's almost like git hit some weird sweet spot where its UX was so confusing that it could confuse smart people into thinking they understood it, even when they didn't.
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It's very strange that HN seems to sway so heavily against open offices.

I genuinely think the reality is that opinions are split squarely down the middle, otherwise hacking/working in coffee shops wouldn't be a thing for example (people seek out that specific experience)

It also implies that the likes of Google/Facebook aren't being as productive as they can be, which is hogwash in my opinion.
While Groupon is not exactly known for their financial filings accuracy. This acquisition is weirder than usual. There seems to be no official press announcement instead Groupon added basically just this one line in their 20-page long 3rd quarter earnings press release:

"On October 24, 2016, Groupon entered into an agreement to acquire all of the outstanding shares of LivingSocial, Inc. The acquisition is expected to close by early November 2016, subject to satisfaction of customary closing conditions. The acquisition consideration is not material."

For those comments questioning the "not material" part. I agree this looks like a potential legit issue: The price paid is probably somewhere in the 8 figures. But regardless of price, Groupon is a small company that doesn't make any money (they just announced they lost $36 million last quarter alone), so even a small purchase price, not to mention LivingSocial's future expenses, can be very material.

But more important than a debate over acquisition details and what is "material": Groupon management have been accused in multiple different lawsuits in recent years for making untrue statements or omissions of material facts. And they lose/settle for millions of dollars.

Innocent until proven guilty but if one reads further down to management's "Outlook" section of the press release it is very odd to see LivingSocial mentioned here:

"Outlook: Groupon's outlook for 2016 reflects current foreign exchange rates, as well as expected marketing investments, stabilizing trends in Shopping, the acquisition of LivingSocial, potential disruption related to country exits...Groupon is raising its revenue guidance range...and narrowing its expected 2016 Adjusted EBITDA range to between $150mm and $165mm"

If something is not material then how or why is it one of 6 things listed as reflected in the company's outlook??? Why even bring it up again?

Things that have an effect or get reflected in a company's outlook and guidance is material. Even in the most generous definition of material this is material.

I am not saying Groupon needed to disclose price paid or give a full biz synergy plan. But what is LivingSocial? Is it a going concern? Is this accretive or dilutive? Asset or liability?

This acquisition deserves more information than was provided and should not have been labeled as "not material". The stock's AH 10% drop feels very material to investors.

Groupon's 3Q2016 Press Release: http://investor.groupon.com/releasedetail.cfm?releaseid=9956...
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At the end of the day however, it is not Tesla's responsibility nor in their best interest to educate their customers to make intelligent purchasing decisions.

If you want change in this regard, it's not going to come from Tesla.
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This video shows it perfectly, while this is an SP3, the SP4 is based on the same tech : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA4iF00YHoA

On slow strokes, you can the tracking between key points looses accuracy as if the signal between points becomes weak.

I have tried everything I can to correct the issue like changing the stylus battery, 100 point calibration and driver updates. I'm pretty much convinced that N-trig just cannot be compared with Wacom (even the iPad Pro does a better job)

However, there are programs (ClipPaint and Mischief are my prime examples) have built-in mouse smoothing which greatly reduces the jitter but means the drawing action lags behind by a second or so.
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I'm almost certain that it's legal in US to have people work in a windowless room, but I doubt that most people would accept it. So you're also restricted in how "deep" your building can be, if you discard the open office plan. Meaning that you'd have to build higher, or have more buildings.
He's the CEO and our CTO is about to leave because of him.
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If only Red Hat actually tried to accommodate others' use cases, Linux systems would be so much better.
That's just sociopaths being sociopaths, it isn't a dogma that the male population is trying to enforce on women.
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Speaking of savings, it's funny how no one is including safety in this breakdown of cost.

The Model S/X are considered some of the safest vehicles on the planet, even breaking testing equipment, while I'm not convinced you'd do as well in that 20 year old del a Sol (or any older vehicle for that matter).

And once you start dealing with kids and safety, it becomes even more important.
I generally don't do that, because I want one way to open a browser that has no extensions.

So I can go to Chrome (alt-6 to get to that virtual desktop) and then ctrl-shift-n to get a plain browser.

Firefox keeps the extensions on by default, so if I need to login to one site with different accounts, I can use ctrl-shift-p for a private window, or `$ firefox -P` for a different browser profile.
The thing that annoys me most about science communication and science in general is when people abuse it to make lazy claims.

Here is the methodology:

"Two hundred fifty eight Finnish participants (63.6% women) took part in the online study. Their mean age was 31.81 years (SD = 9.89, range 18–65). Of the participants, 38.1% were working, 44.4% were students, and 17.5% were employed in activities other than those mentioned earlier; 1.2% had grammar school education, 44.2% had vocational or upper secondary school education, and 54.5% had polytechnic or university education. Religious affiliations were none (61%), Christian (37%), or other (2%)."

Tell me if you think you can make the claim that "religious people understand the world less" from that. The title should be 'Christian Finns understand the world less compared to non-christian Finns" and even that is being lazy.

If I did a behavioural study with male and female rats and mice of various ages I would be laughed out of the room. So why so much leeway with these studies when there are so many confounding variables?
Lets take this (obviously broken) analogy a bit further.

Toothbrushing, as a skill, is learned early in life and passed over by generations. Best practices, such as in which order to brush the teeth and at which moments during the day we are supposed to use the brush, are repeatedly given during dentist visits, at schools and early in life. Reasons need to be given why to do it this way and these reasons involve some understanding of microbiology, sugary food and plaque. So, also with toothbrushing, it is important to RTFM.

It is important to understand that the task at hand is extremely repetitive, does hardly require a mental model and is shared among all humans.

Now, compare this with git. If I would start using an electric toothbrush without having any understanding of how to use it and what effects I'm trying to achieve, I would hardly be effective. Seeing the dentist bill after a long and painful visit, I would point out the advertisement: "helps prevent carries" and ask what all this toothbrushing is supposed to be about.

I'm not saying the interface of git is intuitive or provides useful affordances. It can be improved. Nevertheless, using a distributed version control system is inherently a difficult task and requires a good understanding to prevent problems down the road. Just like plaque, microbiology and sugary food give a model for brushing, so do blobs, tree objects and commits a good model for (distributed) version control.
Art is a weak market that lives already of crumbs from society and this scheme vacuums most of them without adding any value to society in the long term. You could argue that Instapainting doesn't hurt relevant american artists once they live from a diferent market (patrons and benefactors), but by reducing the artists pool, the chances of having important ones reduces also. Why doesn't Instapainting hire american artists?

A developed society needs a developed culture. Adopting European artists and scientists during early XX century helped US affirming themselves.
I am not sure about this, in certain areas people are really worried about Eastern Europeans, particularly Poles (google "polish vermin brexit"), and Farage did speak often of sending Italians and Spaniards back home.
Whoah Groupon is still around?
ARM vs. x86 can wait as first decent Xeon alternatives in ages pressure Chipzilla
Most recently, kdbus. It wasn't even ABI-compatible.
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For me the difference between an open plan office and a coffee shop is direct interruptions. I can drown out the ambient noise of a coffee shop and get into flow when coding. In an office, people walk up to you/phone you/whatever which is a direct distraction "aimed" at you specifically, which is much more jarring and difficult to ignore.
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I don't think it's fair to assume they didn't read the article. It's difficult to know when an explanation is succinct vs analogous, especially if you have a working model of knowledge. "A is just B" can mean more than one thing.
I actually met Chris a couple of years ago when I was in San Francisco for an internship. We got lunch with a mutual friend. He was excited about the success he was experiencing and inspired me with his confidence about the future.

I'm sure glad to know that he's actually made it.
Whatever you think of Brexit, is a pretty sound procedure. Those laws are already valid in the UK, so by bringing them in you ensure there are no disruptions, while giving yourself time to amend them / replace them with new ones. It also signals that the UK is doing an orderly Brexit and that it's "open for business".

I suspect laws dealing with human rights, which May was quite strongly against, will be the first to be repealed the moment EU membership is officially up.
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Same in Holland. I make a very decent living as a freelancer to the point of feeling uncomfortable around many of my peers, many of whom are struggling just to find a non-menial job and/or make ends meet.

But it's primarily ease of finding work and a decent salary, not so much that I make tons of money.

But being just past thirty and hearing of other developers making bank in SV, Switzerland, or BigCorps, as well as hearing about the problems 'we' will most likely face in older age, I'm getting more serious about trying to find one of those really high paying jobs for a few years.

Plus, I can't help but wonder how long all this will last, especially web/mobile development.
Just intonation is based on intervals that are ratios of small whole numbers.

The 12-tone equal temperament scale is historically a development of just intonation (a "fork" in software terms).

So it's not a coincidence that 12-tone equal temperament intervals are close to ratios of small whole numbers.
I would - but just to be clear - the setting files should not be stored in the code repository.
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Find something that is a good fit for you and in demand (preferably rising), avoid niche and fads. Be good at that one thing and a handful of directly related tech. Keep yourself informed about other stuff to the degree where you can hold an intelligent informed conversation and contribute to decisions. Use your spare time to satisfy intellectual itches. Expect periods of boredom in any job. Look after your spine.
Opera is switching tabs by "most recently used" order, just like Windows does for applications with Alt+Tab. That's exactly what I want, but if it confuses you, you can turn it off in the settings ("[x] Cycle tabs in most recently used order")
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Thank you. I can see the advantage of Promises and async/await. But most of the time, I want to read the file right now, or define what should happen after it has been read. I can not imagine any circumstance when I maybe want to read a file later witch I think is the only advantage of Promises over callbacks, EventEmitter and Sync.

I think it's perfectly fine to wrap standard nodeJS modules into your own module, Promisify or what not. Almost all NodeJS modules does actually use standard modules in some way, it would be very naive to suggest that the standard library should start returning Promises, as it would break almost every NodeJS module ever created.

I also think that Promises only makes sense when you only expect one return, it would note make sense to use Promises in NodeJS streams.
Pfff, The End of Eternity is obviously the best Asimov book :)

edit: and probably the best time travel novel as well
Sentry is also a nice non-trivial one: https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/search?l=JSX
Apple, time to fire your Steve Ballmer (Tim Cook) and become cool again.
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Not sure what the implication was meant to be by the parent. That English speaking demographic would also tend to be a more highly educated, wealthier / higher income segment of India, linking up with the rest of the parent's reference about having a smart phone + credit card etc. I'm not sure what Internet business could possibly generate significant profit from the bottom 750-900 million consumers in India today (median ~$500 annual income in that group). They simply do not have enough disposable income and won't for a few decades yet. Nor are they a homogeneous consumer group that you can network capture (get the first N and the rest come in easier and easier) all or a huge part of (spending wise). The top 200 million consumers in India however are increasingly very enticing for a traditional tech company. The ideal would be to start with the higher profit, higher margin customers in the top demographic, and as India rises accumulate the customers that move upwards in income. It's exactly what eg Amazon will ultimately do.
Competition in general. War is just one form of it.

So-called Cold War and Arm-racing is the most recent examples.

Continuous competition for everything, not just survival and reproduction, is what makes evolution (biological or social) possible.
While their raw benchmark data may be ok, the summary chart makes no sense. They calculated the average and median runtime of all the queries, without first normalizing the results, despite the fact that there is a very huge runtime variance between these queries. Therefore the final number comes mostly from a few most costly queries and almost totally ignores the others.
So American artists (I'm assuming you mean creative people who paint things) want to be paid a lot of money to make something beautiful, and so art made by American artists is expensive and pushed even further to the fringes of society by the economics of it. Thus, it seems to be that people who are buy art are at the intersection of the set of people who can afford it (few) and those that appreciate it (a lot).

This scheme as you so vehemently put it, is really aimed at getting more pretty things on people's walls. To do that, you need cheap and hopefully somewhat unique. Instapainting allows people to have both because they employ non-creative people who paint. I simply can't entertain the idea that the Chinese artists are being exploited by Instapainting by the very notion that they are being paid less than an artist would be in the US.
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The smaller the better
Adding a user to the dockergroup is a bad idea on a desktop.
Suggestion: you and the rest of the 80% arrange to wear headphones all the time for one day. (No need to have any sound in the headphones) and conduct all exchanges via email/internal messaging. Sort of silent protest?

Might get the message through...
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That you need to turn off hidden settings to disable this shit makes it pretty clear Google wants this to become the norm. How long till the "for you" suggestions include ad results?
At least it's honest and clear. People know where they stand, rather than http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/boss-admits-staff... . (And I suspect it ends up being a much fairer workplace for disadvantaged groups, if e.g. promotion is based on straight numbers rather than subjective "cultural values")
Does the boss have a theory about universal music?

Has anyone suggested piping nature sounds/sea sounds through the loudspeakers as an experiment (you know, a bit of disruption)?
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>Particularly when they she said that they want to run containers reliably in production, how do they think they are going to do this?

As I understand it, they keep doing what they have been doing all along, including everything that currently makes their system reliable, and gradually add some of the desirable features of containers in a way they can fully understand.

That doesn't sound like the worst idea ever to me. The danger of ending up with too much of a homegrown snowflake is of course real. You're not wrong about that. But she described the risks of the alternative approaches pretty well I think.
To continue this train of thought, the entire reason Silicon Valley exists in the first place is because of Department of Defense spending: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo (aka Big Government spending.)

The foundations of the web were laid down by Tim Berners-Lee while working at CERN, a huge, expensive physics research organisation funded by European governments: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERN#Computer_science
> ioctl can be guaranteed by the kernel to be atomic. If a driver grabs a spinlock during the ioctl processing then the driver will enter atomic context and will remain in atomic context until it releases the spinlock.

That's a red herring though. A new syscall implementation can also provide the same guarantees.

> What, bothers me is what the fuck is an iovec!

Pretty sure they're referring to Berkeley-style UIO. Any discussion about those will soon devolve in other types of IPC, in my experience..

> What cringes me too is it is a distributed system (and I played quite a lot with them) and they say they have tackled the problem of global ordering of the messages. Well, be it on the network, be it on silicium, I never saw anyone achieve this feature.

They are claiming there's no global synchronization and a global order. That is textbook impossible, and leads me to believe what's written on the site is either waaay misunderstood or waaay manipulative.
You could define Palantir more easily by which customers buy its products (Nat sec/law enforcement/military intelligence), and who specifically in those organisations use their software (mostly intelligence analysts.)

By saying they are a "Data-Mining Company" is an obvious (to me) sign that they want to be able to position themselves in the public sector (e.g. banking, retail) with counter-fraud services/solutions, and perhaps more generic cyber security solutions for large organisations.
Is there not an independent cafe somewhere near with no music? I've noticed that the independents tend to either not have music or have less intrusive music compared to the chain cafes. Latter have a 'format' they are required to keep to.

I made a significant discovery last night: Franky and Bennys restaurants in the UK do not have background music inside the restaurant (unless the one we ended up in just had a fault with the system). Bliss
Let me know what you guys think. The app was made to get people talking again to the people around them. I threw in automatically generated anonymous nicknames to lower the initial barrier a bit.

Any advise on how to market/keep people engaged are most welcome.
You don't need to if you do not want to.

For Goldman Sachs, you are indeed a resource, a money making appliance. However, for _you_ (assuming you are lucky/hardworking/talented enough to get a job at GS), they are not a family, nor a prison or army or anything else. They are an _instrument_ to achieve your personal goals.

E.g. if I am a successful algo trader, I can start building my track record, bringing money from external sources (not only for investment, but for technical/administrative costs as well), and, after say 5-10 years of gruesome work, I can launch my own hedge fund. Or fail at it.

OR -- I can apply for a quant trader job at GS, and get access to their vast financial resources, knowledge, connections, and whatsnot. Yes, they will take, say, 99.5% of money I earn with my trading algorithms, but 0.5% of a billion is much more than 100% of those $20000 I can make per year trading on my own account.

Win-win.
I got my A500+ suped up with a 68010. That'll get you 5% in a tight loop.
I think they're too trendy looking. They'll be fine for a season/uni semester, but after that will drop out of fashion. And they'll be too pricey for their core demographic to keep buying new ones.
Did he get moved to a smaller room?

If so, you have your strategy.
Always knew this intuitively. When two tribes, cities, countries goto war; they push each side to get better or perish. Winner never takes all as any society created with war in center will have power struggle built in. Process repeats.
I'm not sure there's a good way to work around this - the alternative is to only respect the robots.txt as it was when the snapshot was taken, at which point once a confidential page is in the archive you can't (easily) remove it again.
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2) Start from obvious opportunities first, then move to less obvious
3) Commissions are the killer, minimize it at all costs.
Authentication, authorization, and resource quotas for agents are not really addressed in the Erlang model, but would be expected for IPC on a Unix-like system.
By design from the last time I saw it discussed. The idea is that a change there could indicate that there was a mistake and the data shouldn't have been crawled for one reason or another. There's just no way to know in an automated fashion.
If there's no "lesser of two evils", it's because Clinton is not really evil. She gets lots of bad press, but all things considered, she's actually pretty good. Certainly by the unfortunately low political standards of US.

I'd certainly like the US to elect more progressive politicians, but that seems unlikely to happen. In any case, Trump is sub-par even for US standards. He should be completely unacceptable, and fortunately even people of his own party are finally starting to see that.
Just FYI you can pause and scale with Redshift as well... but if you query very infrequently (or low volume) cost structure of BQ might be on your side.