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Disclaimer: APEX dev team member here. Independent of APEX and even the Oracle database, if you are not using stored procedures, you are not using the database efficiently. See e.g. this presentation for a performance analysis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfkph4lXmKU
Yes, but you do have PL/SQL to fall back on. It can be very useful.
> Intercooler is a sturdy, quiet alternative in a web development world of noise and complexity. I'm happy with that.

love this and thanks for sharing. your intro/docs page is very well written in that it progresses very well from simple examples to more intricate examples. very well done!
Downvotes but no comments. What is wrong with what I said?
An entire charging industry akin to gas/petrol stations is another side benefit. These businesses could be located in "unusual" areas such as multi storey car parks because there isn't the same danger posed by large amounts of liquid fuel. This alone will be an enormous industry.
Oh, you're right, I forgot about proof of work. I guess you can go in and remove proof of work to make a simpler blockchain. But then you're losing some of the plug-n-play aspects.
Interesting! Not my experience, so hard to comment intelligibly. As if that is going to stop me, this is the internet.

I guess I would still go into your network and see if they have met anyone who has moved on. Adter all, it isn't the direct connection that you are looking for (though that is preferable), but the second layer connection.

Otherwise I think you are either in the position of following the author's advice or trying to expand your network by working with people in other ways (side projects, moonlighting, open source, volunteering). I know how unsavoury that choice is.

Since I can't definitively speak to your situation, let me talk about ways to avoid it.

- work in a consulting shop early in your career.

- seek big companies over small as your first or second job

- prefer job dense locations early in your career

- volunteer your time when you have cycles. Work an event, write some code, etc

I realize these are not all available to everyone, they are just guidelines that will expand your network.
> Because "keep studying" can be construed negatively: You're not good enough. Unsolicited advice isn't usually a good idea politically.

They're rejecting you because you weren't good enough (or because they suck at actually identifying talent).

> Saying "luck" implies several things:

None of which are good things about the process, because a process should be designed to drive the percent influence of luck to as close to zero as practical.

> - You just weren't the right fit.

Bullshit non-reason.

> - I don't wish to imply your skills are lacking.

We also don't want to admit that we may not have any idea what we are looking for or how to evaluate it.

> - I hope you succeed, even though I wasn't able to help.

If I don't need improvement but I succeed elsewhere in a similar job, that just means you screwed up.
People make these technologies for the government, and many private firms do much of the work as contractors or by selling products as had been documented in many Snowden leaks. In addition i doubt any of the employees who do this are conscript. Simple venality and maybe a dash of patriotism suffices for us to always lose this game.

Nobody has managed to roll back the arms merchants' profits and influence, hell some of our governments (US, Canada) are the biggest arms dealers around. I see no reason why we'd be able to hold back this monster (profiteering and control through complex and often secret surveillance) when we can't hold back profiteering and control through mind numbingly obvious stuff like bombers and guns. Hell Trudeau talks a game about lgbt people and human rights and turns around and sells arms to the KSA to help bomb Yemen into hell.

The military industrial complex won, don't see why the surveillance industrial complex won't either.
I think the fact that they are making fun of themselves is nice and different... just compare it with spots of other public transport companies (like this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a5MRlppTAM)... I mean we all know that public transport sucks and these companies usually try to sell it of as relaxed and fun.
Same for me, but - anecdotally - I've noticed a ton of people working with their laptops and external monitors in a stacked arrangement lately. They don't use a secondary mouse or keyboard, and instead keep their laptop in front of them with the external monitor above and behind it.
per the article, in the Burma case, you have multiple banking branches with only intermittent internet connections, and therefore want to be able to work offline easily while still querying the (albeit stale) database state.

Streams of messages don't work as well when you're multi-party, and the default state is offline, not online
Interesting read. The TV-show "Veep" dealt with the case of a tie. Based on my memories, they got it right.

Funny that the article points out the circus of 2000 with the endless Florida recount, especially after everybody went after Trump for not saying that he will respect the outcome of the election. I guess that's what you need to be in politics: the ability to forget what you did a few years ago to be able to blame your opponent for doing the same thing.
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Wow, that ended awkwardly:

> When we were exploring multitouch many, many years ago, we were trying to understand the appropriate application and opportunities for [it]. We just didn’t feel that [the Mac] was the right place for that…. It wasn’t particularly useful or an appropriate application of multitouch.

> Because?

> For a bunch of practical reasons. It’s difficult to talk [laughs] without going into a lot of details that puts me starting to talk about things that we are working on. I don’t really want to talk much more about it.

The politics behind this must be mind-bending.

In the earliest days of touch computing, Apple and Microsoft each bet the farm on two different strategies. Apple spun off a new product line based on iOS while Microsoft worked to integrate touch into the existing laptop / desktop OS.

Microsoft's difficulty shoehorning Windows onto a phone-sized device meant that Apple's phone products were always superior (though MS did turn out a few good devices along the way). However they have finally integrated touch into Windows in a way that is starting to transform the product.

The critical issue here is that now both companies feel the bind of their strategies. Apple now has to double-down on its decision not to put touchscreens on Macs. There's absolutely no technical reasons the Mac team can't integrate a touchscreen into a Mac - hell, it's probably easier than getting one to work in Windows. The only thing stopping them now is politics, and the original design decision, which has some merit (a touch-enabled 12" Macbook might make sense, but a touch-enabled 27" or larger iMac? C'mon.)

It's political because there now exist two different power centers within Apple that are not really integrable and their existence is dependent on Macs not having touchscreens.

Now it's just a question of which strategy works best.

As a matter of fact I don't have a strong opinion on this, but a few years ago I bet that, if Microsoft could actually bring touch to Windows in a way that really worked, they'd win for the very reason that Apple would be structurally unable to copy it. [1]

[1] http://riprowan.com/windows-8-vs-ipad-advantage-microsoft/
Then people could just physically cover up the extra screens.
>Ask HN: Overwhelmed with learning front-end, how do I >proceed?

Stick with jQuery || Native Javascript. Others are not doing something which you can't do with your current experience.
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Or, possibly, extremely competitive candidate with a unique skillset.

Based on this limited info, he gp was probably very affordable. Which is fine, I was very affordable when I first came out of school.
Without probing questions, no. On technical matters and some interpersonal matters, though, you can use a variation of 5 Whys to quickly drill down on certain decisions or details. The only way to pass that is to actually know what you are talking about.
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>> What are your standing plans for Wednesday night and Sunday morning?

Whatever the hell I feel like doing. It's nice not having to attend service two days a week (and twice on one of those days)

Churches can be full of the most hypocritical, judgemental, and gossipy people.
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To deal with climate change we need a new financial system
There are a lot of problems beyond much of the oil being heavy. Mostly created by the government and it's not very good economic policy.
FYI: GitHub will create a branch in your repo for pull requests. You shouldn't need to pull directly from someone else's repo just to look at their pull request.

http://stackoverflow.com/a/30584951
So if we put 'branding' and 'we love Elon' aside, where does this put Chevy and Tesla on the map of innovation and competition? Is Tesla still years ahead? Or has Chevy bought enough tech to have a comparable/better offering?
Most IDEs can integrate with the same tool this uses - https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/PHP-CS-Fixer
Most of the article is copied from this http://www.danpink.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/FLIP-Manif...
That piece is called Android, actually.
The article mentions Lyft drivers getting their hands on the Bolt first. How does that make sense? Is a range of 200 miles really sufficient for the needs of a Lyft driver? Wouldn't it mean no more than 3-4 hours of driving per day? [wild guesstimate]
Means that can be used to kill people have also been abused.

You should be focused on access, control and any inappropriate uses. Not on whether the things being used exist or not.
I've witnessed this phenomenon at work when asking other people for help with problems. My coworkers come up with more creative solutions than I did, much faster. The only problem is that when I'm asking for help with stuff, it tends to be tricky stuff with lots of edge cases. My coworkers' solutions tend to not actually work...

Which is not to say that there isn't value in asking them. Sometimes their solutions that don't work can be modified into something that does; or their crazy non-solutions can spark some inspiration on my end.

My theory as to what's going on here is that when you are responsible for the solution, you spend a lot of time thinking about what could go wrong, so your thinking gets constrained. When you are solving a problem for someone else, you're thinking is much freer, because frankly you don't give a damn. You are much more likely to come up with a unique, novel solution. You are also much more likely to deliver a solution that is actually disastrous.

My point being: I think there's room for both associated and disassociated thinking. This article seems to think because there was one series of studies showing some benefits of disassociated thinking that disassociated thinking is just straight up better.
Front End Developement, by Nerd Ranch 2016

There's a ton of Front End delevoment books out there. They go stale pretty quick, or are terrible edited. Try to by the book used. Most people buy books, but don't read them. I honestly don't know if books are the best way to convey this stuff.
Hear hear. This is one of the reasons why I am not even vaguely interested in a touchscreen laptop.
A trial period is a great idea only if the switching of jobs is not disruptive to both parties.

When you switch jobs in the USA, you switch health insurance and other benefits. Doing this for 3 months and then finding another job would be tedious.

Also, if it doesn't work out, what does the candidate do? Go hunt for another job with a negative signal on their resume? If I were a job seeker that would seem high risk.

This is the same reason contract to hire positions don't attract everyone. If you are good enough, the company will commit to you without the trial period, which candidates typically want.

Optionality has value, and both parties can't possess it.
In which country and what measure of inflation? in the UK an equity income fund can yield >4% and the first $13k capital gains are tax free.

Oh and indexed linked gilts are another option.
PSR-0, 1, and 2 build off of the previous one.

PSR-0 is an autoloading standard

PSR-1 is a basic coding standard

PSR-2 is a coding style guide

I'm very unsure what running code through PSR-0 would do for it, since it's not really about code-style
I think you're guarding against different things. If you live in a society where there are (following historical patterns here) patriarchs coercing the votes of spouses and dependents you probably have a whole slew of other problems that make this particular one just part of a larger social reform that should happen anyway.
Ask HN: Alternatives to Honeypots(JS and CSS) and Captcha for form spam prevention?
Captcha on my public facing forms isn't enough to keep spam away, so I'm looking into additional methods. Honeypot inputs were my first thought, however after my recent spout of Selenium based scraping, I figure honeypots probably aren't going to be very effective for long.
systemd does manage containers, but from what I can tell, that functionality is not in PID 1, is it?
What about Ember CLI? Predates both of them.
Ask yourself if you're building a website or a web application. The main difference in my mind is websites are static documents at the end of the day, allowing users to read text, while web applications are dynamic and often allow the user to modify the data in the system.

If it's really a web application you're after, then get ready for some complexity. The state of the art has progressed significantly in the last couple of years, to the point where modern web applications are as complex as iOS and Android applications in terms of the number of moving parts. To add to the confusion, there seems to be a large number of framework and library choices on the web, where with iOS and Android the vendor largely controls the environment, and the tooling choices are more obvious.

Try to see the big picture as you're looking at all these tools, and recognize that they're largely interchangeable. We can see a common architecture emerging, where the latest versions of all the largest libraries have coalesced around the same basic patterns and ideas:

- Web Components (Angular 1 directives, Angular 2, Vue.js, React, Polymer, Preact, etc)

- State management (ui-router, Redux, MobX)

- Network interface ($.get, $http, restangular, W3C fetch())

- Local storage & persistence (W3C localStorage, ngStorage, react-localstorage)

- Build system (webpack, gulp, grunt, jake, make, npm scripts)

- BDD Testing (Jasmine, mocha, Karma, Chai, Enzyme, Jest)

You really can't go wrong learning any one of these libraries. Even if you aren't using the same library a year from now, you'll understand the application design patterns and JavaScript, two skills which aren't going away any time soon.

Hopefully that helps clarify things, and good luck!
Fast containers of polymorphic objects
The people building these front end frameworks aren't building products to last 5-6 months much less 5-6 years.
iCloud's Notes are not bad as a solution for simple password storage solution. No need to worry about syncing and it is secured.
Using frontend web technologies for keeping passwords safe is not the best idea. Lastpass has "restricted" password copy functionality, if passwords were shared. But it actually loads password to input field with type set to password. Open up inspect tools, change input field type to text and you have a password in plain text, you can easily copy.
The bad news is that there already was a Lemmings 3D. It wasn't a hit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av994EHazuo

You'll want to try and avoid its mistakes!
not specific to Suisse, but this can be PITA - actual hiring in bigger organizations take many more months, so hire&fire is a very costly exercise, time and cash wise.

As stated before, it's nicer to the employee on one side, but since everybody wants to hire proper guy to avoid firing&rehiring hassle due to these protections, interviews can end up on the ridiculous side.

you gain something, you lose something else.
I'm still waiting on the Flybo Total Electric, a 4-speed manual electric car:

http://auto.indavideo.hu/video/En_ettol_felek

Seriously though, think of all of the additional torque you could get with a quad motor Tesla and a clutch. Electric manufacturers are wimping out by saying it's enough already, and it would be hella fun.
As a person on the left, I didn't recognize any anti-left sentiment in the video (which I thought was excellent.)

If you're looking for a neutral analysis that won't blame policies instituted or continued by the group that has been in power for 20 years for its current situation, you're looking for something that is impossible. Saying that they have completely failed to prevent the predictable catastrophe that would be caused by the fall in oil prices is undeniable. Blaming it on the rich who are reaping massive profits by exploiting Venezuela's policies instituted to mitigate the harm to the populace is like blaming the wind. Rich are going to rich, it was up to Chavez to come up with a sustainable defense to that rather than simply pumping more petrodollars in. It was a boat with a big leak, and it's becoming more leak than boat.
Ancient Burials Show Traces of Blood Feuds
terrible acronym obviously
In what way do stream of messages which are recorded by the receiver not work in this case, and how does the Blockchain differ?
Amazon Kindle with ads on the lock screen is already offered as cheaper hardware than without ads.
> The awkward thing for me is to deal with candidates who seem to be good at _something else_ (that is not a good approximation of the work at hand). I usually ask them why they want the position. Usually it's just that they "want to get into a slightly different area" and fortunately most agree that a take home is fair.

Trying to get companies to even talk to me about positions that are not like whatever I am currently doing is like pulling teeth. I used to work in real-time embedded systems, signal processing specifically. I shifted to NLP and ML for reasons, but one of them was not "I'm tired of/can't hack embedded and want to try something else". I would love for companies to give me take-homes to prove I can still do embedded. Instead they just ignore me.
Musk says SpaceX knows what caused the latest rocket failure
Good comment and perspective.

I don't live in the Bay Area, but I actually hope that the problem gets worse and that non-development continues. It can/does keep some engineers here in areas like where I live.

The primary issue the Bay Area has is that, as you mentioned, there is no in-between. It's either skyscrapers or gigantic houses with expansive yards. What the area actually needs is more mixed-use development neighborhoods.
It can even be closer to React than that, especially with JSX render functions. You don't even need the view to name itself:

export default Vue.extend({
props: ['text'],
render() {
return <div>I am a button <button>{this.text}</button></div>;
}
});
I think that is correct. If the seal is broken you can not guarantee that the votes are correct especially if there is no paper trail.

So for maximum impact make sure you go break the seal at the end of the day...

How many votes are stored on a single machine in a large district?
A rationale approach to problem solving is usually the best. Others have less baggage and fewer emotions invested so they certainly can help.

Before organizing a whole enterprise around this however it is worth considering how much of our work actually fits into the solvable problem category.
I used to recommend them when they were offering their pro version to get some extra features but they have changed the licence so that you need to pay the subscription if you use it for any commercial work.

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I don't mind paying for a tool, but the way they went from free to "free or subscribe for extra features" to "You have to subscribe" really left a bitter taste in my mouth.
I'd suggest getting a solid understanding of the core front end technologies: HTML, CSS and vanilla JavaScript. If you can't build reasonably complex websites without the crutch of a framework or a more complex tool chain, then you've probably missed out on getting the basics right.

You should also learn about UX and design. I met a self appointed frontend developer recently, who didn't have any understanding of what a good designer does. This led to some really horrible conflicts where core design decisions got ignored (the developer thought they knew better) and the end result was a mess. Designers are your friend when working as a frontend developer and will help to make sure that the end product is both well built and actually useful for the users.

Read: https://gdstechnology.blog.gov.uk/2016/09/19/why-we-use-prog...

If you're building frontend your job is to make sure that your audience can use it. There's no reason not to learn and use fun tech, we all like play and make our own development lives easier, but your users must always come first.

If you can do all of that then you'll be able to do a pretty good job as a frontend developer. Picking up the latest and greatest frameworks is really quite easy once you understand how JS and the DOM works. You'll have the added advantage of being able to critique new tools as well.
'Blockchain' pretty explicitly specifies the data structure, the method of securing a block is an implementation detail. For example Proof of Stake is basically a variation on a M of N signature scheme.
Hmm, I don't think that the rope would hold up to being cut lengthwise.
Signing into one billion mobile app accounts effortlessly with oauth2.0 [pdf]
You think a taxi averages 50-66mph over 3-4 hours?
Reminds me of the TLDR; app on the chrome store.

Have you considered making it a chrome extension?
But can you feel (without looking) whether you hit just F3, or F3 and F4?
Indeed. Look at the code for the vanilla js todo example where you have a model, view and controller. start modifying it to add views, an app controller etc.

JavaScript is actually really fun when someone else's crappy framework isn't getting all over it.
Because there are no blocks, no transaction ordering and no distributed consensus?
Or just keep Javascript on but install JS Blocker 5 and choose what scripts run. It quite amazed me how much sites try to fingerprint your browser, especially with canvas fingerprinting.
Interesting case of new economic geography: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_geography

See also Brad Feld who talks about building an entrepreneurial ecosystem, but the commitment is decades.
> that you can steal

This is the bad management part, and does not automatically follow from socialism.