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>When people started moving from Europe to America in the 17th century, I don't think anyone saw it as a backup plan.

i like the Mayflower crowd motivation, in particular "found the Dutch morals much too libertine."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrim_Fathers#Leiden

So, once the transportation to Mars starts working, one can imagine various new settlements by groups "special" in one way or another. Imagine an Amish colony under a giant glass dome for example.
good lord, just because the man did some selfish things does NOT mean he didn't care "about the well-being of others".
1) If you're trying to hire a Ruby developer to write Ruby applications and that's not what you're screening in interviews, you're not proving anything relevant to the candidate's ability to do the real world job. Between not having anyone to interview and an algorithm interview, I get where you're coming from. But if there is any other choice, you shouldn't be giving the technical interview to someone whose practical skills you can't assess.

2) There are a billion things to learn as a technology professional. The time you spend practicing specifically to be able to whiteboard algorithms for interviews is time you're not spending doing something else. Something that will be more beneficial to you and to your business on a day to day basis than learning how to interview well. So choosing to do those other things instead doesn't show that you're not engaged.
> Google doesn't do laptop/desktop computers

They do:

"Google Chromebooks outsell Apple Macs" (May 2016)

http://www.businessinsider.com/google-chromebooks-outsell-ap...
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ISRO doesn't appear to pay competitive salaries for engineers. The Russian space program had a lot of challenges when engineering wages went up a lot. India's success with outsourcing and other engineering is the cause. It will be interesting to see what ISRO's costs look like when increased salaries ripple through their workforce.

BTW there are several startups targeting small satellites. One is the Electron rocket from Rocket Labs. There's also the European Vega rocket, and Japan's Epsilon rocket. SpaceX has already had one launch purchased by a company that groups together small satellites to launch together.[1]

All in all, small launches are a very active market.

1: http://www.spaceflight.com/spaceflight-purchases-spacex-falc...
I might be envious of his success, but I don't think that's the source of the negativity. There's quite a bit of documentation of him behaving in ways that I don't think are acceptable (your opinion may vary). Here's an article from a quick google search. http://www.businessinsider.com/steve-jobs-jerk-2011-10
I read the article and don't think the premise was answered at all. Anyone get any value from it?
Well, it's not a lot of work. But it feels like way more work. It's visible even in the way we talk about it - "viewing a website" vs "getting an app". Looking at something is effortless, getting it implies effort. Often, too much of it, if I just want to check some stuff out quickly.

Also, I feel like after installing an app, it takes more time to get to the actual content, because every app has a few screens of "Welcome to Foo! Here's how you do stuff in here." Websites are pretty instant compared to that.
That invisible ink at the top is a good subtle touch.
Even when you have tons of spaces on a huge sdcard even. This is incredibly frustrating as some devices were shipped with very very little space and too much of that taken up by the stuff that shipped with the phone that for whatever reason cannot be moved to your relatively large sdcard.

I think merged storage is either here in the latest version of android or coming which will hopefully let us stop worrying about storage again but many devices will sadly never see the update.
You're ignoring that the web server is configured on purpose to give these things away without asking for payment. If your friend is standing there in his house, and when you ask to borrow his stuff he says yes and hands it to you, that's a lot closer.

It's not just a lack of prevention. It's a purposeful, deliberate choice to send this content even if you're not paying or loading the ads.
PHP with some template library. Pretty much gets the jobs done and stays out of your way. RainTPL[0] is the best template engine I've ever used since it is just so simple to understand what's going on.

[0] - https://github.com/feulf/raintpl
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to understand if jobs was exceptional, we need only ask if WE were given an identical set of circumstances could WE have accomplished the same or similar.

i know i couldn't. what's your answer?
Several of these are good rules of thumb for all code in many languages; especially 4, 5, and 10.
around 30% of all American CS graduates

That can't be right -- various sources but the number of CS graduates at 40,000 per year. So that'd be 4k CS hires (apart from math and other engineering hires) per company, per year. Sounds a bit high. But like a lot of other things VCs say, it's probably not meant to be taken "literally".
Hi, Jason is still on the appstore. There is absolutely no problem in that department since the approach is far from violating any Apple policy (it works just like a browser and doesn't "download" any additional code).

Soon after launching Jasonclient I realized the right thing to do is open source it, so that people can use it for their own apps, as well as build on top of it. That's why I've been working on open sourcing Jason for the last 5 months.

As for the difference:

Chrome : Chromium = Jason : Jasonette

Hope this makes sense!
> You can engineer circuits around this problem in a variety of ways, but the cavemun solution is just to give the battery time to discharge the heat by transferring the charge to an intermediate element

Of course, most people use regulated mods which do just that.

As someone who vapes, I wouldn't be opposed to banning the sale of mechanical mods (i.e. mods which are literally just a battery, a button and a resistance element in a circuit). They're dangerous. On the other hand, people would just build them themselves, they're not difficult.
I experienced a bug where the game suddenly stops after a few minutes of playing. I'm using Firefox ESR 45.4.0 on RHEL if it helps. Otherwise, great job!
When our first child was born she decided to take a sideline sales business and make it full time, working from home. She does very well, in her peak year she made more than I did.
> Type can put fashion over function, but it can also enhance function by making text more readable

I'm sympathetic to that, but is there really no system font that is sufficiently readable?
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After the first few paragraphs of content, the segue about 'bots' is strange -- unless it's not. Really this article is a thinly-veiled promotion of the idea of chatbots, which isn't surprising given the publisher's primary business is CRM and chat products and whatnot.

But it's also the Last New Frontier, because as the comScore charts show, most people spend their time in the top 3 apps -- which are probably the same or come out of the same pool of half a dozen. So the only way to push one's own content is to participate in a popular app maker's content ecosystem (FB Instant Articles, Snapchat Discover, myriad chatbot platforms for various messengers), or participate in a "open web" 'discovery' ecosystem (Google Search -> Google AMP).

So really the article's content seems to imply that the future isn't browsers (in the traditional sense of 'here's a user agent you can navigate to arbitrary URLs') after all, it's content aggregators who provide windows to -- and framing around -- content. This point has been made a few times before, most notably by Paul Kinlan of Google [1], so it's a pretty safe bet it's actually the case.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12206846
Interesting, but your case may really get at what may go wrong with the algorithm exam approach to interviewing. I would expect a developer with a good understanding of fundamentals to see the difference in using a hash vs an array, and I would hope that developer at one point implemented a hash as an exercise.

I haven't needed to implement my own hashing table or methods on a real world project, as far as I can remember, but yes, I've absolutely written code that would have performed miserably if I hadn't known to use a hash rather than an array. I just didn't custom roll the hash, I used the hashing methods available to me in that language.

I'm aware of what a hash is, and what a hashing function is, and how collisions are resolved, and strategies to handle them. But I'm also almost certain I've been screened out of jobs because I couldn't implement a hash with a good hashing function in 45 minutes at the whiteboard. I just don't walk around ready to do this.
Maybe the title could have been "Charting How We Managed Our Time in YC"

I get your point, but I still found the article informative.
My wife was working from home last month for the first time in forever and that's when Windows 10 Home decided to upgrade to the Anniversary update. Try and I might, I could not seem to find a way to stop this. It took well over an hour, in the middle of the day, to install Windows and kept her from working.

That's one of the most user hostile things I've ever seen in a software product.

Ironically, after the Anniversary update we could at least set the working hours but it's still limited to a 12 hour block. Is it really too much to ask to only allow updates/reboots from 1:00am to 6:00am?!?

I'd like to think if any of this happened to the CEO of Microsoft, this crap would get fixed right away.
No, Apple feels it's pretty crappy you have to use dongles for everything, but it's crappier if you still have display-only ports like HDMI six years in the future.

This USB-C conversion might be world-ending for people who haven't lived through things like this before. There was a time when notebooks had PS/2 keyboard ports, when they had parallel ports for printing. These have all died, but the conversion was always awkward and painful.

Have a USB computer but a parallel printer? Converter. Have a VGA display but a DVI notebook? Converter. Have an HDMI port but a DVI display? Converter.

The future Apple's trying to force here is where Thunderbolt and USB are ubiquitous and these converters fade into history.
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I hope that is going to be a major use case for TS (i.e. directly intended and supported by the makers), i.e. (guaranteed) "just types".
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> I need tasklists to be accessible on the phone.

MobileOrg does that, and it can sync up with your phone's calendar. I use it exclusively for capture and sync to PC when home thru ssh. I don't use the calendar sync as I use a physical agenda, but works nicely except time ranges don't get synced to phone's calendar.
Why use VSCode over Visual Studio for C/C++ when your environment is Windows?

If you were on Linux or Mac I would recommend CLion or Qt Creator if you wanted a proper IDE. Or a heavily customized Emacs. But on Windows, I would recommend Visual Studio.
Couldn't you just set your internet as metered? With regedit, you can set ethernet and wifi to metered.
If you cut the trip time down far enough, the need for artificial gravity is greatly diminished. Taking Musk's ITS/MCT plan as an example, the trip will take only 2-3 months and the destination (Mars) has 0.38 Earth gravity. In that situation, there should be little to no physiological issues and the astronauts should be more than strong enough to deal with Martian gravity levels upon arrival, especially if they exercise on the way over.

Mission plans that call for much slower travel (6+ months) are much more likely to cause trouble for the travelers, which in why in my opinion any plans that are seriously considered should minimize travel time as much as practically possible. The logistics in getting a craft into space, getting it spinning appropriately to produce artificial gravity, and hurling it towards Mars are significantly more complicated than, say, refueling in orbit to allow for reduced travel time.
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Angular/Bootstrap on the front end.
Java with Spring Boot on the server.
MySQL for storage.
Deploy on AWS.

Nobody's idea of excitement.
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I think your idea has been implemented already http://globalvote.org/

Here's a talk by the same guy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X7fZoDs9KU

More info about good country

https://goodcountry.org/

https://goodcountry.org/index/overall-rankings
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Sure, it's a bit different from the US sports. But you still cannot just set up a business and compete. You'd either start at the bottom of the football pyramid, meaning a multiyear barrier to entry, or you buy a club, which is paying an incumbent for their seat.
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> nuclear deadlock with their fingers on the "button"

So much sensationalism in this comment! It's like watching a sensationalist news channel. Anyone who follows India-Pakistan politics know that nuclear war is unlikely. Neither of them can afford another war.

The "realistic" situation is that unless nuclear weapons end up in the hands of terrorists in Pakistan, there is no real nuclear threat.
Hell, I'd be happy with "Do not reboot if there's mouse/keyboard/controller activity." My computer has rebooted literally in the middle of playing BioShock.
Thanks, I will update the comparison table. I did not include 'next' features in the table :)
A standalone appliance that can only bake 4 cookies at a time. And they claim to be environmentally friendly. I am really failing to understand the use case.
It does, look at AGNI-V and AGNI-VI
There's a view that Trump is but a big "fk you" towards the liberal elite that has drifted too far from the blue-collar folks they have failed to support in dire times. The UK situation would seem to be similar. Thus the key question is "did the elite get the message and can/will they do anything about it?" If yes, the society will go back to normal. If no, the rift widens further as the society is divided into radical camps. Which, by the way, would suit the neo-russian message of "the west is doomed, we are the saviour" message very well.
Not op, but I definitely preferred sublime to atom. I have since swapped entirely over to vscode, though, and I have been using it to write / compile / debug Node.js and c# / f# dotnetcore backend applications without many complaints.
I think it's good. If you're not savvy enough to do a quick google search and perform the simple (all-gui) instructions within, you're probably not savvy enough to self-manage your critical updates, either.
Note that diacetyl has been removed from almost all flavour compounds used in the creation of ejuice, aside from some custard ones, and even then there's variations without diacetyl.

In any case, I doubt there's a very significant amount of people who've started ecigs who wouldn't have started cigarettes, and cigarettes are well known to cause lung damage.
I use Glasswire as well but it's not enough because of Svchost. Whenever I block it, I'm unable to browse the internet. So, I use Netlimiter to throttle the process to 2KB/s.
Well Java is boring...

Actually language doesn't matter so much as choice of frameworks. Basically choose what you know works and avoid hype.

Also minimalism is a better indicator than age. A brand new simple framework is better than something old but over engineered.
In the article says the engineers said its a matter of adding too much complexity.

Also consider that its a few months trip (Scott Kelly did over a year) and the real problem is when they live there. Mars gravity is only 38% of earths. So the problem while slower, still will be an issue.
I despise icon fonts with a raging passion. It feels like we're back in 8 bit time where we're using sprites for things that Man Wasn't Meant To Do with them.

Web fonts as real world fonts are kinda-sorta okay. Although it's yet another area where "All the world's a VAX" can proliferate, when designers think everyone's got the Windows font engine or their MacBook/iPhone's Hippidippi display.
Granting anonymous access would be a matter of organization precedent, but I can imagine a world where it's encouraged to dev against these services and notify upstream service owners when stuff is about to change reasonably ahead of time (too soon and too many chefs might come, unfortunate reality).

I think every service owner should know who their 'customers' are, it's important because of things like Pager Duty rotations for example. Remember that scene from Hackers, "God wouldn't be on this late?"... in a sense, the 6 page form might seem like overkill but it beats sifting through a conversational email thread asking for all the same pieces of information. They could gamify the form I suppose, if that's better than a paper form... but on their end there should be a spreadsheet used for op budgeting etc and they need the info.
Thanks !

Role based access control is our next big feature on the roadmap, we're working on it :)

And yes, there is a link to the source code on the homepage.
Stealing his stuff results in a direct loss for him, rendering a page you were already given without a few components isn't remotely comparable.

Maybe a better analogy would be to walk through his lawn if he didn't put a fence up. This probably does about as much damage to his lawn as bandwidth would be wasted on you as an ad blocker.
What, pray, is ET <et@group.apple.com>?
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Progressive web apps are seriously pretty darn awesome. It can work offline after running it once. Supports push notifications. You can ask the user to install the web shortcut to the homescreen. I remember being blown away by all of this with pokedex.org a year ago.

I had a low-end smartphone for the longest time where I had to fight for every byte on there. After installing Messenger & Instagram, I had less than 1gb left thanks to uninstallable bloatware (there was no safe way to root it). And the Play Store doesn't let you install apps/updates when you're near 300mb or so. My friends with iPhones/Nexus devices that don't sport an SD slot have also shared these sentiments, though most just need to learn how to offload their photos/videos to the cloud. Regardless, not having to install anything is a pretty shweet bonus.
Yes, this scam is live and well in the sports betting world. There is even a CNBC reality TV show called "Money Talks" that documents and encourages this; as documented by the show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xiiv-s-DRs http://www.vipsportslasvegas.com/

The recipe is:

1. Cold call people on a lead sheet for people indicate interest on placing bets on sports games.

2. Sell interested folks with a "two week package" for $250; seems pricey, but the name of the game is to filter out the minnows catch gullible whales. You want folks who are "vested" on this and prove they have the cash to be scammed. Double-side your bets or smarter yet, side your bets by the probability implied by the Vegas oddsmakers (50% Team One Wins, 50% Team Two Wins or 70% Team One Wins, 30% Team two if spread is that way).

3. After a couple of weeks pass, call up the people who have won 4 or 5 games in a row, inevitable happenstance by sheer probability. Upsell them on a "weekend Vegas package" where they can gamble on higher stakes preferably $50K-$75K; because you're seem now as a infallible genius by the marks, you charge them a 35%-50% commission on their wins.

4. Doesn't matter if your client wins or lose. Take home the 50% commission on their churn and move onto the next one. Rinse and repeat.

The show is highly entertaining and enlightening not because of the extreme doucheness of the head scammer and his salesmen, but the marks who delude themselves as they lose game after game and gets scammed - all followed by the camera-men of CNBC and the spin-motivational commentary of the scammers.
Ye old "LAMP" stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) is pretty boring, and widely used. Very stable, very performant (and lots of options for caching / indexing / tweaking code when you encounter bottlenecks). Lots of competition in the hosting space as well, and you're not locked into any one company's flavor of "cloud computing platform".
I'm surprised that browser vendors aren't including the more popular fonts.
The time saving isn't as important as avoiding frustration in your tools. Stubbing your toe on silly problems like trailing commas breaks flow and makes exploring less fun.

In my experience, these commas don't add any real meaning to the human readers. Will it really obfuscate the code for a future reader? I can imagine it can look unfamiliar and consequentially grate someone's nerves. Reminds me of the arguments around R's "<-" vs "=".

I agree with the sentiment for most code, but I doubt I spend as much time reading my SQL queries as I spend writing and refactoring.
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How else would it work? The recruiters need to take a cut somewhere, whether it's a lump sum up front or a cut per hour is fine with me.

I agree that it's annoying that a company would pay a recruitment agency 90/hour to have me, but would never pay me directly that much.
Why can't we just deal with the fact that different devices will display your content differently? The world doesn't need better fonts, the world needs better designers.
This is awesome ! Indeed we don't have any Mac and so we did not have the possibility to try it. We'll ask a few Mac users to give it a go before claiming Mac support. Thanks a lot !
I'm not sure about the motivation, but I do agree that the comments are very judgmental and critical of Jobs as a whole. This is unfortunate, because this reflection isn't objective, and furthermore, probably isn't based on first-hand knowledge.
Electric, steel-wheeled trains are already limited by passenger comfort in acceleration and deceleration. Making a trainset that accelerates and decelerates more quickly is a non-problem that nobody wants to solve.
This looks really cool.

The name is completely unrelated to its function; I thought this was NASA's code. Imagine my disappointment when I saw a javascript library for working with GraphQL!