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True, but imho only after a couple of weeks. In the beginning, the metal feels really sharp!
I'm not saying that this was handled well from either side, but as a contractor you are hired to deliver a product to a company; if that product is effectively useless once you are done with your product you have not delivered what you were contracted to do.

A contractor that would produce some fully functional, and even elegant in it's own way but convoluted piece of code is doing a poor job regardless if it's because the code is so smart that almost no one can understand it or because it's utterly inconsistent internally and is an unreadable mess.

You aren't selling a binary product here, a company isn't buying off the shelf software, they are contracting you to further develop their IP if what you produce is not useable to them you effectively wasted their time and money.
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The number of comments fitting the following pattern is interesting:

"I (guess/think/have a feeling) he is (negative adjective). I'm not saying he is, but (reasons that justify presumption)"
Yep. Fixed costs.
You could run it on itself.
Exactly, this is a much better way of doing pinning, if only because it's much more human readable and easily parsable. I've been using it for a while as well, and find it very convenient.

It seems to me that that's where we should be heading towards.
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> I've never been able to wrap my head around the scientific premise of hoping to observe radiation from the early universe.

It's not "hoping." The humanity actually observes the radiation since 1964:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_of_cosmic_microwave_...

The guys got Nobel in 1978 for that, almost 40 years ago.

What you have to understand is that looking in the distance means looking at the older events. Eventually, we "see" the "glow" of the Big Bang (actually receive it with the radio telescopes). It's a specific glow of one specific phase of the development of the Universe, not of the "zero point" but the exact moment when the "baby-universe" was at the state to emit these photons. That happened some 380,000 years after the imagined "zero point of time."

The confusion that you have is that a lot of those who know that the Universe already existed before that glow that we observe are the researchers who when they speak about the glow aren't interested in the phase that will never be visible (and don't worry, there are also other researchers who are). So the popular accounts shorten it to "we see the Big Bang." Which is also true, as nothing else but the Big Bang can explain the glow. It's not "I said he said" it's an immense amount of very precise calculations of different very precise measurements that all have to fit, and the alternative "explanations" simply don't give the results. So the Big Bang it is. It's comparable to the fact that the humanity started to produce the globes ("the 3D models of how the Earth looks like from the distance") almost 500 years before it was really possible to see the Earth from the distance. It was all a lot of the measurements and a lot of the calculations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globe#History

And it matched (the better the measurements and the calculations were, the more it matched). If you want to learn more about the Big Bang radiation, it's easy to find, it's called CMB:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_microwave_background

"The CMB is a snapshot of the oldest light in our Universe, imprinted on the sky when the Universe was just 380,000 years old. It shows tiny temperature fluctuations that correspond to regions of slightly different densities, representing the seeds of all future structure: the stars and galaxies of today."

It's fascinating.
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Most beginners (quitters?) don't receive fenders for their first guitar. If they do, the gifter is obviously LOOOADED.
Years ago a writer friend of mine asked me about and idea of how a group of people all doing the same thing at the same time could do the most damage in general.

I surely did not have good enough ideas for a writing, but this pizzagate thing seems to be one terrifying answer to that inquiry.

Just that in this case the damage is very concentrated and it seems to affect only on a few group of people.
Is that not a bit early?

I mean, sure, it's 5 to 7 years old depending on your count, and it has quite a lot of toys, but "lifetime" seems a bit of a stretch.

Star Wars has for sure stood the test of time, and I have no problem imagining Minecraft being Lego 2.0/Lego digital or something else entirely, but right now I see it merely as really great/pervasive product with some branding.
I've recently got back into playing after a 10 year break. Back then I was learning from tablature online displayed in monospaced font, the quality of which varied from nothing like the music to pretty good.

Today, I find not a lot has changed, except the sites where I used to go to find tablature are now charging for the same material.

I'd like to pay for quality transcription of music (like the official music books) but available online or in an app.
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Technically you are correct (the best kind of correct) but from where we sit today in time, Haskell and OCaml appear as are peers. They probably have some 4~5 years between them, and probably less if you consider ML.
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Yep, lets wrap it in multiple layers of daemons and kernel special sauce.
One important thing seems to be missing though: collaborative editing.

(A requirement on the modern web, since you don't want to edit a file only to find out that your version was overwritten by another person who happened to be editing at the same time).
> I have a feeling this is the kind of guy who tells everyone to rewrite a million lines of production code in Go because its "more scalable.

As louis ck would say, but maybe??? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O5h4enjrHw

I have to somewhat disagree with this. Sure, I give the point that you can just throw more hardware at the problem of scaling. However, there are some problems that do not linear scale and rewriting gives much more of a boost.

For example. Just last year I was at a company where they had a backend product system in just under a million lines of code. I'm not going to say what language it was because I know someone will say oh it didnt scale because it's X.

In addition, it was starting to get cumbersome by having multiple developers write in it. So the agreement was to rewrite it in GO.

What was the net effect?

- Less servers, much less.

- Faster processing times, significantly more so.

- Less code cruft.

- Faster feature push.

- 1 developer let go of, saved $90k

I think all in all, they saved $150k-200 a year by switching to GO.

I know it's trendy to say, don't rewrite something in production. But seriously, if the developers agree and the business WILL BE better off with it.

Why not?
Krebs didn't pay akamai. It will be similar on cloudflare. If you're on a free plan, they will have a limit on what they will defend for you. Layer 3/4 and 7 attacks are only covered in business plan, but if you use this plan (which likely makes sense for many due to other features), I'm pretty sure they won't throw you out.

Mitigating DDos is one of the main selling points nowadays. That's why OVH wrote so much about the huge attack they defeated (and they didn't name the impacted clients), Cloudflare offered Krebs to host him (he refused) and other providers add scrubbing centers.

I actually think it's rather cheap to defend against DDos if you're a small company. Large companies will have it harder as they have typically more complex requirements and cannot just shift everything behind cloudflare or similar services.
Chrome on pc here...I clicked on Jasmine tea go to product - I get a white page with log errors regarding amazon.com.
how much percent of front-end devs do 'only' native UIs?

I mean even most of the mobile people were web devs once...
I had such a setup when the Joplin 2011 tornado hit: http://www.ancell-ent.com/1715_Rex_Ave_127B_Joplin/images/ and I got off lightly. But the separate room my BackupPC hard drives were in was breached (see 302-2nd-bathroom-with-hole-of-unknown-origin) and those drives become fit only for Ontrack's $$$ recovery service, maybe, and one of my computers with e.g. my email was seriously damaged. The data on it was easily recovered from rsync.net's off site Denver location, who's service I love and will continue to use for my most important and "hot" data.

LTO (-4) tape had gotten capacious and cheap enough that I went back to tape (I'd outgrown DAT); if I didn't have a big sunk cost in a well working tape system and pool of tapes, which are very easy to put in e.g. a safe deposit box (they're a bit fragile, but nothing like a hard drive), I'd already be using one of S3, Glacier, or Backblaze, maybe even GCS since suddenly and irretrievably losing access to my backup data because a bot decided I was evil would not likely coincide with a total data loss at home (Google simply cannot be trusted if you're small fry like myself, as HN has been discussing as of late).

As Glacier has gotten sane enough to use without twisting your mind into a pretzel, with the new price reduction for slow retrieval I can seriously think about adding it to the mix and switching to it when my LTO-4 tape drive dies someday (e.g. ~3TiB for ~$12/month per my quick calculation just now), instead of buying another tape drive.
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SoC like Lattepanda can run full version of Windows. I speculate that flagship phones by MS will have Intel chip in it, so no need of emulation. Evan Blass also Tweeted that we may see Intel chip in our phone in near future.

But anyway, this emulation will be helpful for cheaper phones. I am holding my breath for that day.

https://twitter.com/evleaks/status/794598340927307777/photo/...
What is wrong with requirements.txt seriously?

I've used it in countless projects and it just works. It's also simple to understand.
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Which is also wrong. "Improving speed by 100%" means being twice as fast. 100% + 500% = 600%.
Better avoid it even if it sounds sooo much more than "double" or "five times".
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That 1-5 days to settle isn't due to slow and disconnected systems though, which is what many looking from a tech perspective believe. Most financial transactions are matched in settlement systems the same day they are traded. The 3-5 days is for prefunding of underlying accounts, tear ups and other asset class idiosyncratic reasons.
package.json makes so much sense to me, npm has spoiled me also
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Hey! I believe it's just due to me logging in from new locations/countries quite often and Google's account hijack protection kicks in. Up until that point it's completely understandable (although I'd prefer if there was an option to disable that altogether). What happens later, however, is beyond me.

Also, I forgot to mention (I wanted to!) that I've never given Google any phone number or logged into an Android device (with that account).

Sometimes I am able to get through with the email verification, sometimes I cannot. By the way, this issues goes back to at least 2014, when the form looked different: http://puu.sh/sqFDT/0c3eea00d9.png
This.

Requirements.txt is very pythonic in the sense that it's as simple as possible, but no simpler.
I'm not talking about Haskell "the language", but about Haskell "the ecosystem".

Industrial rigor regarding code means:

* consistence in using a coding style

* having adequately named modules, functions and variables

* having adequate comments

* having an adequate level of code coverage through automated tests

* having performance and regression tests

* having good release notes

* etc.

Many of those things, required for high quality libraries, are often skipped for the academic projects Haskell is known for.

So that's why Python or even PHP or Javascript, as less "rigorous" theoretical languages, can have more "rigorous" libraries in practice.
I don't think so, not if you're building a language package manager.

I think you should look carefully at what npm and cargo do, and try your best to avoid what os package managers do.

Unfortunately, half the problem with python is that system level package managers want to rule the world, and not allow you to have 'user level' packages (ie. libraries) installed.

pygtk, for example, can't be pip installed. In fact, you can't actually (afaik) even use it from a virtualenv without modifying sys.path.

The most annoying thing about pip for me is that it isn't a 'complete story' in many cases. You have to actually install system level python-foo packages, which are not pinned in any meaningful way, and then hope that your application works.

Repeatable builds should be the goal of a python package manager; and that means being able to install specific versions of python (and c) libraries, in a way that is idempotent to the underlying OS; whatever it is.

OS level package managers solve a different problem; providing a single consistent packaged version of libraries and applications for users; having repeatable builds to generate those packages is a different problem, and, as evidenced by the huge amount of work the debian folk are putting into repeatable builds, not a trivial one; certainly not one that dpkg has already solved.
Only if you insist on determinism :-)
I've had a metallic blue electric guitar for ten years now.

Bought so many beginner materials and they're fucking awful. I can't understand jack shit.

The closest I got to sticking to anything were the eMedia programs, at least the acoustic one. I bought the metal one but I'm not sure it works anymore on current Macs and I didn't want to rebuy it.

Bought a piano and the situation is even more dire.

Music is awful for self teaching. Absolutely awful.
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We are working on a Docker container, which provides a full Node.js + NPM + ECM6 environment as well as a pre-configured Gulp, Webpack and Babel:

https://github.com/k00ni/Docker-Nodejs-environment

We would like your feedback about that! Helpful? Something missing? Need a different flavour? Thank you!
Software is, among other things, a form of communication between humans. That's what Knuth's "literate programming" ideas aimed towards. It's also a driver of lots of these methodologies he's so fond of: we use them because they are easier to understand than the wordier alternatives.

Whatever else his code is (and remember, we only have his opinion that it's good, we can't judge for ourselves), he's failing really badly to communicate with his co-workers and bosses.
Or you could just solve it analytically, making validation easier.
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Errr, I mean their new low cost raw storage B2 Cloud Storage (now 0.001 cent/month more than Glacier https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13010949), not their total solutions for those not wanting to go to that sort of trouble/complexity/whatever.

(As someone who's been using tape drive backups since 1978, DECtape to start with, fortunately before I learned the -rf flags for rm ^_^, I'm not a conventional user.)
Just a few random observations: I can't seem to toggle off bold/italic/...? Neither can it be toggled on before typing it seems. Also, setting text alignment removes bullets.

Nice idea, but functionally not quite there yet.
I don't know what to believe, but I'm not going to take the New York Times at its word. I see it has already lied once in the article.

Remember 2003, Iraq war, WMDs? That took thousands of dollars out of your pocket.

Let's agree on one thing here. Spreading false information is unhelpful.
Have you checked Udemy? I had good success with a guitar class on there.
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I laughed at the Apple Premium Reseller chain on Gran Canaria the first time I saw it:
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Agree with this. While you may feel like you're losing something big by not using the asset pipeline, tools for managing assets in js are now totally awesome.

A frontend app using create-react-app has everything to compose js files, load css and even manage sha1 suffixed asset file names.
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If you are interested in this, you may find ShellCheck a useful tool.

It is a static analyzer for Shell, that looks for some of the problems cited in the post.

https://www.shellcheck.net
I think they might be coming from a broader perspective: "If this is true then conservation of momentum and Noether's theorem are false, and we'd see that out in the wider universe: therefore this is a lab error and people who chase it obsessively are cranks."
I should try a car with one of those transmissions, then. They sound quite interesting. While I have driven quite a lot of cars, I have never dealt with such a transmission, but it sounds both nice and efficient. How's the comfort tradeoff? I believe the lock-up was initially avoided due to comfort, as people liked the "gooey" transition between gears.

I'll keep that transmission in mind next time I go shopping.
Does anyone have a good solution for bugfixing and updating defective smart contracts yet, other than "fork the entire blockchain" Ethereum DAO passim?

If they are to be immutable then you're going to have to code to NASA standards.
It's common to wire acoustic guitars with steel strings too. The problem with acoustic guitars is the fretboard. With acoustic you need to press down harder and further to get a clean sound than you would with an electric guitar.

Anecdotally I found acoustic guitars to hurt my fingers more than electric - both wired with steel strings. Yet to play with nylon.
Uhhh? So what?
Can you recommend any resources on how to get started?

I built things in the past. But they were the wrong things.
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>While we're at it, why don't we add a real Plan-9-style bind and use union mounts?

There have been a few stabs at a union fs. The most recent one, OverlayFS was merged in 2014.
In what way is this a hacker piece of news ?
What's next ? "This cat completes Record Backflip" ?

Please refrain,
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Here's what I think probably happens in these situations. Especially when all parties involved are genuinely looking out for the best interests of the company.

If you're with a company who depends on lower expectations to survive, they are probably not just doing this with programmers. The managers are probably under-qualified as well.

I get the sneaking suspicion the breakdown is in communication. If a manager can recognize and articulate a problem with precise language, face it head-on, and define a precise set of rules / constraints that a team needs to follow in order to resolve those problems, and retains a tight feedback loop to determine if the plan is working (adjusting if / when necessary), problems like this should not arise and remain an issue. Unless, of course, the programmer is unreceptive to the plan.
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>Nobody let go good programmers just because they are too good, that just doesn't make sense.

Yeah, they do. I've seen this happen. It's simply an occurrence of the principal-agent problem. In theory the company doesn't want to see good programmers go but poor programmers in positions of weak authority don't like to see their authority challenged by better programmers and they usually don't like change either. They are motivated to get programmers better than them let go.

Upper management (the "principal") typically don't have visibility into the development process. They usually can't tell who is good and who isn't. They can see the disastrous results of shitty code but they don't necessarily know who or what to blame (if anybody). They often end up following recommendations.

>soft skills are no less important than technical ones

This kind of misses the point.

In practice if "soft skills" end up mattering more than technical skills then that's a sign that the environment is highly politicized. Which is fine if that's what you want, but if you want to build great products and exercise your technical skills it's a very poor environment to be in.

On the bright side, if you really are that good and you're mobile (i.e. not stuck in some backwater city with a few poor quality employers) and you really were fired for being too good, and you really are much better than your coworkers then finding a better paying job should be easy.
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> until we write all our applications as some sort of crazy monad

Desktop Linux seems to be finally moving towards self-contained formats like AppImage and Flatpak. They are clearly not oriented towards server apps, but who knows.
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I guess that's why Fender have an interest in getting people beyond the beginner stage.
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Do you know if anyone has ever been kicked from cloudflare pro because the attack was too large?

I'd guess that they're one of the largest companies providing DDos defenses. I'd guess if they can't handle it there aren't many more that could. But don't know if that has ever happened.
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True.

I think that there is no way to compete against the speed and relative non-complexity you can get from "closed group, trusted 3rd party" solutions.

There is so much hype and confusion spread around the issue - as there are some genuine threats to some of the bread-and-butter services the banks do, like accounts and payments.

But to put it mildly, the bank executives are for the most time not really in the right career to sort out what's what, and due to the way the banks work, they are not likely to listen to the people that actually know how to do that until a lot of money is wasted and very little has been gained.
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My main problem with Pip is that, if you include multiple requirements.txt files which declare exactly the same dependencies, then that's an error.

If you don't control all the projects involved, this needs some quite convoluted inheritance chains to work around.

I can't tell if this change will fix that.
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Yup. This is what I was just arguing with my family about-they voted Trump because they want manufacturing jobs back. I pointed out that if the US imposes trade tariff's high enough to make manufacturing things like steel cost effective again in the US the people that build the plants will simply put in these kinds of robots-not people. Robots work Saturday and Sunday for the same cost as a week day and with far less bitching.
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I wouldn't say that. The classic fender stratocaster is around $400 iirc. It's a great guitar for the price and that is by no means a high end guitar or high end fender. The other "classic" guitar is the Gibson Les Paul which start at $1500. If a beginner got THAT, the gifter would be loaded.