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This was one of the most important lessons I learned at my first job out of university. Beautiful, well structured, clear, simple code is nice, but the customer doesn't give a shit about it. All the customer cares about is that your product solves their problem.

By all means, if you have additional resources, invest them in refactoring and improvements and additional testing and continuous integration and all those things that make our days enjoyable and our product quality high. But your first priority has to be making sure that your product solves your customer's problem.
Ok, I see what you're getting at there.

So if it takes you significant time to get proper defect locality, I think you should see if there's a better way to approach the problem. This should be essentially the default for typical/modern unit tests. Perhaps you're writing tests that are more like system level tests?

I'd also say that if you're essentially certain a test will never break, then (other than for documentation purposes) why are you writing it? To paraphrase Kent Beck - we should only test things that could possibly break.

You might be overgeneralizing what "people" say about unit tests - I'm not sure what your specific scenario is, but there are a whole spectrum of opinions on the subject. Perhaps this is just an organizational code-smell of the place you're mentioning.

Dogmatism/cargo culting in general can be annoying however.
Usually the main weakness of "Proof of Stake" protocols is something called "weak subjectivity" which means that nodes that connect to the internet at a regular basis (i.e. once per month or something) have strong correctness guarantees, but nodes that go offline for long periods of time reach a situation where they can no longer distinguish the "real" from a fraudulent blockchain. Nodes that reach this state need to be manually reconnected to the correct chain.

I think this is arguably an acceptable tradeoff, given the other advantages of POS.
As well as a diversity / community aspect. For every chef, barista, waitress, cleaner etc they hire, there is a chance to alter the hiring clique from (hyperbole) rich, snotty nosed, Ivy leaguers to include people with different backgrounds.

I know that may seem like a small thing, but providing jobs for the less educated off sets at least some of the problems these companies face with gentrification, gender and racial diversity etc.
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Ha I just thought/posted the same thing!
...EDIT: if anyone is interested, there is no API anymore. I tried Google's Custom Search, but wasn't great at all.

I ended up using this Node package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/images-scraper/

I don't know if it violates Google's TOS (it probably does), but it works great.
This is something I've been working on for fun. It's made with PouchDB/CouchDB and JQuery for the most part and runs on a DigitalOcean server.
Oh, it’s not profitable. The company usually ends up far in debt from selling off the assets, but the shareholders or the interim CEO they forced in aren’t responsible.

A common scheme is buying control of a company when it’s in a crisis, selling off all assets and real estate, forcing them to rent the real estate again, then the company goes bankrupt, after having no assets left, and the shareholders made profit, and the company has to pay huge amounts of debt.

It’s the usual way of destroying jobs.
Exactly. As an engineer, no matter what your boss says, you are responsible for the consequences of your actions. If the CEO tells you to do something which you know is unsafe, you must decline (and explain why, preferably).
Having negotiated this particular turn many times, I'd guess it's a combination of factors. Atlanta is spread out so the highways are typically long and straight, so apart from rush hour the fast lane typically goes 70-80 mph comfortably. Even on highways, you're usually ok to reduce speed to 60 mph to make interstate turns, e.g. spaghetti junction (85/285). Interstate turns this sharp are very rare so even natives need to be alert. I-75 is a long multi-state road so many out-of-towners may not be expecting the sharpness of this turn. Not sure if this plays into it, but it does also exit from the fast lane.
What a terrible decision that was. Glad it was reversed. It never would've worked.
It's not the split that dilutes things, it's Mark Zuckerberg's sale of non-voting stock. The split changes nothing - the sale means that non-Zuckerberg FB shares have less voting rights per dollar invested. (Basically tautologically, since Zuckerberg's shares have more voting rights per dollar of value).
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In the Soviet Union, Belarusians were sometimes called bulbashi, a pejorative conjugation of the Belarusian word for potato.
Is there any way to hook up bookmark syncing cross browser? Better battery life would be nice, but I like having Chrome's sync between Mac, Windows, Linux, and iOS.
the people interviewing you are human beings. it sounds like you're treating it a bit too much like an SAT test.

consider that a technical interview is also a behavioral interview, in a sense.
Actually, he did that because he felt the public price was undercooked, and there was more value in the company people weren't seeing.

http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-06-01/michael-de... is a great read on that.
I don't think they bought a fleet of jets for marketing. My point is about their respective cultures. Amazon's culture is just flat out better.

Amazon just entered the retail grocery business. When they did it, they looked at the process and noticed that in the existing process everyone was double handling merchandise. Once when they select it, and once when they checkout. So Amazon decided to make it a single handling process, making life a bunch easier for consumers. That also decreases purchase friction, which is great for Amazon.

That thought process illustrates why Amazon is the leader and will continue to humble it's rivals. It will take a huge culture change, and a probable industry consolidation before the likes of Sears will become competitive again.
In my lab we developed a different assay that favoured the isolation of generalist phages and we were really successful in finding broad host range phages (many were multi-genera in host range).

Did your group publish anything on this approach? If so, could you share a link to one or some of the papers?
you should be a startup boot camp drill instructor.
I'm personally hoping for Basic Income, myself.
Yup, UK next.
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Not sure why you are being down voted. Perhaps people are just bitter at school.
Because effectively blocking packets at requires supervising all routes through which they might escape (i.e., managing a lot of dynamic rules on a lot of very critical routers), whereas injecting forged packets only requires one little box.

Kinda like the Berlin Wall. Easier to shoot people attempting to cross than hermetically seal the entire border.
Aol has free sodas, but not food.
Chrome is ugly. Chrome forces tabs on you (the real estate is wasted whether or not you believe in tabs; I don't, I think it's the sign of a failed window manager). Chrome is slow.

I use Chrome every day because all of my work stuff on my work laptop goes in Chrome, and all of my personal stuff goes in Safari, because that's what I like the best and use at home. Separate browsers mean separate session tokens for work vs personal gmail.
They need to streamline the stupid checkout process where you get hammered with incessant questions and wait for 3-feet of receipts to print out.
The consequence of death does absolutely not discourage people. Several people die everyday in the US because they were texting while driving. The problem with the consequence of death is that no one believes it will happen to them.
One variety of patent troll is not interested in the legitimate goals of the patent system at all.

All they want is a credible threat and easy prey - a patent that will hold up in court long enough to bankrupt their victims, who lack the resources to fight back, and will therefore settle.

Fighting this variety of patent troll requires acknowledging that patents have (unintended) uses other than "incentivizing capital markets to invest in products and processes that otherwise wouldn't see any investment because of the lack of a profit motive".

Even legitimate and narrowly drafted (but inapplicable to the defendant) patents can be abused in this way, because the process of responding to a patent infringement claim is expensive.

There are many flaws that should be fixed in how patents are granted, but patent trolls rely on one serious flaw in how patents are litigated: the median cost to defend against an infringement claim is $1 million.
> Shut the hell up and get to work, dude.

As simple as it gets.

Start working on it. Create something, a simple MVP, to test your idea. Then worry about the details. If you do it before you even begin with your project, you will end up with a hundred reasons not to start it at all.
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codegen? lol, never. It would be enough reason to forget about Rust at all.
Doesn't appear to have any of the quoted things from the bloomberg piece i.e. the text messages, doesn't mention the Zuckerberg <> Andreessen communication at all
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> Truck driver is probably the first job to disappear, this is also the #1 job in about 30 states.

That's not really true. This misconception came about from an NPR journalist who drew an infographic that appeared to show that truck drivers were the most common job in each state[0]. In reality, that infographic used BLS data - the BLS subdivides other professions to provide more granularity. In other words, all that infographic showed was that the BLS considers "truck driver" to be a less specialized profession than "teacher" (which is separated into different roles of teachers).

If you actually look at the number of truck drivers in each state and compare that to the size of the labor force in each state, it's a lot smaller.[1]

[0] http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2015/02/05/382664837/map-the-...

[1] http://www.marketwatch.com/story/no-truck-driver-isnt-the-mo...
I believe that iCloud Tabs works to sync Safari bookmarks with Chrome. Not sure it's bulletproof though in my experience...
There's a point where printing progress is actually a huge bottleneck to performance. Try it out in python. Make a for loop that loops a million times and prints "Hello". Run the program once normally, and a second time piping the output to a file. You'll find the first one takes 15 seconds, while the second one is near instantaneous.
Yes - very much so. This happens a lot. Frequently when you optimize on a metric, the correlations go away.
> you have to play by the same rules as every other public company.

Let us speak truth. At that size, scale, and reach, you play by a different set of rules and even get to define some of them.
Or rather, we have a terrible intuition about relative probabilities. Explains not wearing seatbelts, playing the lottery, and lots more.
Is your home worth between $1 and $1.5M ?
> Some will argue that it’s unfair to gerrymander statistics in this fashion, separating airlines into categories of convenience. However, it’s necessary. Regional carriers, for instance, can have substantially different cultural and operational environments than their legacy carrier affiliates. It’s the majors that set the standard, and it’s only fair that we measure from there.

Yes. It is gerrymandering, and no you can't wash your hands of the regional carriers' crashes and deaths after you've stamped your 'trusted' name and brand on their flights.

I am appalled at how they callously dismissed those plane crashes since 2001 like this.

> To be clear, there have been a handful of tragedies involving regional carriers and freighters... in which dozens died.

Really? 'dozens died' is ok, but 100s died is not? Are we cattle?
Purchasing secret presents, the use case incognito was designed for ;)
...and what is the "correct" chain may be a highly contentious subject. For instance, this is likely to be contentious if a big theft happens, yet the same theft also makes it possible for the thieves to not only control the chain going forward, but also rewrite existing history as a theft can give control of private keys relevant in the past.
Craftsman used to be a good name, now it's just the same (or worse) house-brand tools you can buy at any big box retailer.

I have a 20+ year old Craftsman socket set that I use regularly... then a couple years ago I bought a new set for a project at work -- I broke one of the sockets within 2 days trying to loosen a tight fastener, and then the snap-ring that holds the socket head together came out a week later (not sure if it broke, or somehow worked itself out, I never found it), and the socket head fell apart.

Sears did refund my purchase price, no questions asked, but I'm no longer buying Craftsman.
That only makes sense and in the case where added product quality in the market doesn't expand the total market, it cannibalizes, dollar-for-dollar, sales that would have been made elsewhere. This also means all the marginal value in your industry is actually being captured by your customers (this might make sense if you have a competitive market on your side, but are selling into a monopsony.)

If you find yourself in that unusual situation, your concern probably isn't with paying your engineers properly, it's with reorienting your business so it's not locked in that kind of market.
What is highly unlikely about that? That seems more plausible than, zlib is magically 1000x slower when used by Archive Utility.
"I don't like the default setting of this one specific command because it's subtly different from what I'm used to" isn't the same as "broken editor"
Might "sifr" be a cognate for "cipher"?

Slovak has two cognates: šifra (cipher: secret writing, plus some related meanings, such as an individual character of a secret writing, an abbreviated signature, or anidentifying mark) and the word cifra (digit). (Probably used a bit less than its synonym číslica).

The word ciferník denotes an instrument or clock dial (also číselník).
I worked for a very, very big Canadian telco.

Same requirement - data must not leave Canada, which ruled out basically all "hosted solutions"
Underestimating on the grocery thing. Handle each can of beans

taking from the shelf to the cart
from cart to checkout belt
from belt to bag (ok they help with this one)
from bag to car (several at once)
from car to counter in pantry
from bag to shelf

and later

from pantry shelf to kitchen counter
from kitchen counter to trash/recycle bin
from bin to curb

Taking just one of those out is not much benefit, marginally?
That's not the e2e encryption protocol that they hacked, but the SMS-based authentication and unencrypted chats that are stored on the server in the plain. The state has control of SMS, so it can impersonate you. This would seem to be a potential problem for any service that's backing itself into SMS, but here the attack would not be possible as messages aren't shared across devices on e.g. Signal and WhatsApp.
When sears killed their lifetime guarantee on wrenches, the local competition put an aquarium in their tool section. Throw in a "useless" sears wrench and you could pick up a free replacement with a life time guarantee. Seemed pretty effective, the clerk claimed they had to empty the aquarium every week or so for the first year.
>A field technician will have minimal benefit from a heads up targeting display.

I can think of a lot of scenarios where AR would be a great benefit. For example, imagine an electrician running wires through a commercial building and having the wiring path displayed for him. No digging through documentation, measuring, and marking necessary to get the job done. Or imagine fire fighters with AR heads-up displays getting routing information inside building that is smoky and difficult to traverse.
Actually, only two of the world's safest airlines hail from the US: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/The-worlds-safest-air...

And 6 of the top 10 are not from English speaking countries (ANA, Cathay, Emirates, Etihad, EVA, Finnair).
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I'd take Zimbra over Gmail any day.
Google did give money to firefox. Lots and lots of it.

https://www.cnet.com/news/firefox-maker-mozilla-we-dont-need...
FWIW, it's not 'a data center'. It's at least 3 a few miles apart from each other. They might (probably do) still end up in Montreal, depending on where those city/county limits lie.
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That's why you watch the date (despite several clickbait farms working hard to hide or fake them)
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I'm keeping an open mind, if it ends up as more of the same again I hope you will as well.
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Ah. Sounds like Noxious Frank is out and about again.
I also can't find any proof that the e2e crypto is broken, but crypto nerds sure love to shit on it. I'd love a source indicating otherwise.

The unencrypted messages are certainly not secure, and it's disingenuous of Telegram to market itself as a secure system without being really clear about the limitations.
Microsoft is fighting for everybody on this one right now.
http://www.technology-law-blog.co.uk/2016/07/relief-in-the-c...
Yes, for large corporations and banks of which directly benefited from the FLOOD of free credit (aka money) and ballooning asset prices provided by the FED, the recession ended. For the rest of us, all we got were higher asset prices and more taxes.

More than 50% of people in this country do not have 1000 bucks to cover an emergency, whether medical (LOL like 1k would do anything here) or a broken water heater, etc. More and more people are living on the edge, while large companies announce stock buybacks and mergers funded with cheap credit printed by the FED paid for with our money and our futures.

Yeah, glad the recession is over.
I very strongly agree. In the very much socially just rush to get women in the workforce we've lost sight of the damage done to children by separation from their parents, and the damage done to relationships by the staggering workload of managing children and a household with both partners working full-time. I would very much love being able to fluidly transition between periods of being a house-husband and employment, and my girlfriend feels likewise.
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>Intel is finally getting a handle on pushing its x86 line into smartphone power consumption territory.

Intel cancelled their smartphone x86 chip in April.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/10288/intel-broxton-sofia-smar...

Perhaps they'll re-enter the smartphone market but it's unlikely to be anytime soon.
So let me get this straight...

You're saying that because they don't have the financial wiggle room to make their property something you want to look at they should GTFO?
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"Yes, I want to work in a trusting environment where my interests are aligned with doing what's best for my company, but an at-will employment capitalist economy doesn't always work that way."

What economy does work that way?
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It's like something out of Mad Max. I had the misfortune of popping into one on the way to the airport for a vacation, after I realized I hadn't brought a watch. I swear there were tumbleweeds blowing down the aisles. While I was waiting to check out, I watched a toothless young lady harangue the cashier into selling her several sets of Boston Bruins towels that were clearly marked as $19.99 for $5 apiece. The cashier brought her manager over to doublecheck, shoulders were shrugged, and zero fucks were given. As I was leaving, a befuddled elderly lady was trying to return items she'd bought at a TJ Maxx. There was no TJ Maxx in this strip mall, nor within five miles. I got the hell out of there with my cheap wristwatch and resolved never to return.
In principle TDD is the opposite of this.

Out of curiosity, did you use any debugging on paper for your code?
I'd rather not live in a dystopic high-tech, low-life society where the elderly and destitute are tossed aside. But, as I walk down the street, I see homeless people sleeping just outside the entrance of Snapchat HQ (latest valuation @ ~$25 billion).

Frak it, bring on the Guilted Age!
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"The case In RE Facebook Class C Reclassification Litigation, CA 12228, Delaware Chancery Court (Wilmington)"

https://www.chimicles.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/File-Stamped-Facebook-Complaint.pdf

This doesn't have any of the quoted things from the bloomberg piece i.e. the text messages, doesn't mention the Zuckerberg <> Andreessen communication at all
They killed the lifetime guarantee on tools.
Water is most dense around 4°C. Accordingly the bottom of a large body like the great lakes is near that temperature year round. This is part of the reason why fish can survive in lakes that freeze over in the winter.

This is exploited in deep water source cooling [1].

Such a thing is implemented in Lake Ontario since 2004.

Very cool imo :)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_water_source_cooling
5mg/$99? What is the standard dosage?
"averaging 40gbps" != "maximum 40gbps"

Also, qix puts their member list online, and Amazon has a 10gbps port:
http://www.qix.ca/en/members/membership

From 2013:
"deployed over 180 Gbps of capacity into the exchange."
https://www.cologix.com/pdf/QIX-Case-Study.pdf
It seems weird to "run into" someone from the same area here on HN (I grew up about two hours "down" from Indianapolis) -- it certainly isn't exactly a booming high-tech area!
I'm glad that infosec has broken out of the era of endlessly debating the imperfections and faults of every solution but instead can clearly recommend practical advice for everyday users that is easy to understand.

Having the NYTimes advocate for crypto so clearly and to such a large audience will make a real and tangible difference to users - more than can be said for the years of online nitpicking by experts.
Hey guys, love the concept. Just wanted to see when or who could use the contractor agreements? I would love to get those set up now.
Anecdote: Recently I had a sears gift card number but not the actual gift card. Tried to buy vacuum in store with just the number not the card, and they said no way, even said they should call corporate security to investigate my scam. I went online to sears.com in the store, paid for my vacuum with the gift card number and selected in store pickup. Left with the vacuum.
If you paid with a credit card, a lot of them will do a chargeback if you didn't get what you paid for. Worth asking about.
I would agree with that. They didn't go in trying to make a billion. They made a product(s) that are worth billions.
Or, sometimes, a way to convince people to solve problems by hitting one another...
I wouldn't put too much stock on those numbers. They are probably statistical estimates, not actual counts.
Data distribution is next to meaningless if there is not the accompanying power to affect political change.
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... which is not precisely an argument against free will. Imho it's a close cousin though.