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Don't play the false equivalence game: it's part of the problem.

Pizzagate had nothing other than fever dreams.

In contrast, all of the wars you talked about were based on real things. The Iraq war was started on falsehoods but the media was reporting what government officials were saying and attributed those claims to them. They should have been more skeptical, yes, but that's a completely different level of discussion compared to a bunch of trolls and gullible people free-associating completely unfettered by reality.
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The client accepted a faustinian deal there! :p
Err, I live very, very far from you, but my email is in my profile, feel free to drop me a line if you want!
I've recently been looking into this topic. Sales teams have fairly straight forward metrics for measuring performance as they can track calls made, revenue, etc...

Developer performance metrics are not as immediately obvious. Can anyone suggest some reading on the topic? I'd love to know how managers are tracking developer performance.
I have yet to hear Google has solved the main reason their Self-Driving Cars aren't practical: That every road they drive on must be precisely mapped ahead of time, at a much higher fidelity level than Google Maps/Street View is normally done nationwide.

Tesla and other self-driving developers are working without the luxury of a worldwide mapping database, and while not perfect, their products more or less could work on any road, because they're based on input from the sensors. But Google cars are dependent on input from Google servers, which means, where that data is lacking, the cars can't drive.

If they're looking to run some sort of business to start making money, I could maybe see like an Uber-like service across very small geographic areas they have mapped. But the narrow fence around the area you can practically drive with one makes it useless to sell as a consumer vehicle.
What's your specialty that you have experience with that others don't?

It helps to have one thing that someone needs. I started my last gig by having more JavaScript and web experience than most others in my market at the time. I landed the role because one company was making a significant investment at the time I was looking.

Think about the one or two experiences you have that might be hot in the news or in corporate sectors... Hadoop, JavaScript, Machine Learning, Cognitive Computig, Analytics, Robotic Process Automation, Microservices, Internet of Things, etc.

As far as the speech, just be up front that you are a hard worker and deliver results but that you prefer text/email as your primary means of communication. Look for interviews that have a proof you can code, those will tend to actually evaluate skills and ability over trivialities like verbal communication (this is especially trivial in remote work).

Good luck!
I consider Musk's timeframe a pipe dream.
>I suspect it isn't about desire but income.

Was it about some fundamental inherent desire in the first place, or increased income then too, plus ample advertising and touting it as the "american way"?

Other regions, even as rich, don't place as much emphasis on car ownership.
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Make a high quality scan and blow it up so we can all print out our very own internet map!
Well, there's also a difference between "able to solve a problem" and "able to solve a problem correctly, in ways that won't cause future pain". The latter one is the only one that can be trusted to work on a problem themselves.

That said, it's totally possible you were there, yes. The pacing of promotions vs the abilities needed for them are not always correlated appropriately.
This might be "fix my plumbing with a wrench", you can't, you also need a replacement pipe, but that wan't what was meant, more like "utilise a wrench in the fixing of my plumbing"...
I have noticed this with a cheap Window tablet i acquired recently. Left alone it will eventually hibernate, something my Android tablets have never attempted. Similarly, when it goes below 4% battery it will basically force a hibernate.

That said, all mobile devices, laptops included, have a "force shutdown" option activated by holding the power button for x seconds.
House prices in london have always been expensive. That 200k house in Earls Court adjusted for inflation would be £410k now.

But back in 1990 interest rates were a whopping 14% - that means that a 25 year mortage would have cost the equivelent of £4935 each month.

Today that house is worth 1.5 million. The same 25 year mortgage at today's interest rates would be £5158 a month.

So really house prices haven't changed that much, it's just that the money is going to different places.
I keep all notes in Org Mode, stored in a simple and shallow hierarchy in my Dropbox. (~/Dropbox/orgs/w for job notes. Etc.)

Since I have Emacs open anyway, the notes are just a few chars away.

(The best feature with Org Mode is that after I learned it, the note taking doesn't take much attention; it is transparent for cognitive load in a way that only a Pilot G-TEC-C4 + paper ever was for me. I only think about what I want to add, not how to do it. Ymmv.)

My main problem is to access those notes from phone/ipad/etc. I started https://github.com/berntb/attorg but got lost in the GUI/UX.
Huh. That... actually makes a lot more sense now.
Markdown is supported, from the Features list...

three markup syntaxes supported: Vimwiki's own syntax, Markdown, MediaWiki
If any of you want practical advice on how to rebuild after a nuclear (or other) apocalypse let me recommend The Knoweldge by Lewis Dartnell. It's interesting if you're just interested in the history and theory of technology, even.

http://the-knowledge.org/en-gb/the-book/
What is the NVIDIA and AMD secret sauce?

First, read this: http://www.gamedev.net/topic/666419-what-are-your-opinions-o...

So basically, most 3D applications and games are broken to a certain degree. Both NVIDIA and AMD invested quite a lot resources into making those applications run at acceptable level and not looking broken.

Now, when you figure out how to unbroke something and put it into fast path, your competitor can lift that easily into their driver. Neither of these players want that.

The good news is, that DX12/Vulkan/Metal have quite a different approach, they don't have complicated state machine and validation in the driver, making the driver simpler and these workarounds unnecessary. If everything goes well, we may see drivers for these stacks.
Is anyone doing open hardware FPGAs (I don't mean reverse engineering proprietary FPGAs, I mean implementing new silicon)? Recently a RISC-V company implemented a simple 32 bit CPU on the ancient TSMC 180nm process. NRE was apparently quite affordable and turnaround time was a few months. So perhaps a startup could work on implementing a 1990s-era PLD in the same process, just as a starting point to judge market demand.
I didnt like the API compared to other vendors. It was quite basic and a much lower level. The plus side is vendor support
Oops messed up my qualitative and quantitative. All references should have been "quantitative". This is what happens before the first coffee!
Just because it's not pathogenic by default doesn't mean it could change or, more likely, be changed:
http://dujs.dartmouth.edu/2013/03/genetically-engineered-bio...
What are the appearance-based prejudices and biases of the Chinese justice system?

It would be great to hear about this; most of us are not from China and are unfamiliar with such things.
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Even if they don't, the kernel will likely drop everything to get that fsync out of the way. So a fsync happy app that is doing a file write in the background can cause the whole UI to lag because the kernel is busy dealing with said fsync call.
Thanks. See the update just now - tried to reduce it to first principles ;).
Depends on how you define "consumption". If you include agricultural and industrial use, then a lot comes from aquifers. An no those aren't used in short, local cycles; a lot of (polluted) water is moved overland (in rivers) to locations and distributed far and wide. I don't have any numbers at hand on sources of domestic consumption for major cities across the world, but I do know that most cities in Europe rely on a combination of surface and aquifer water to fill their treatment plants and supply systems. When you open the tap, it's not the same water you flushed down the drain when you showered last week. (I've worked on water modeling but not on a fine enough scale to be able to remember an exact answer to your question).

But, when talking 'water shortage', the image the media paints is inaccurate. The California water shortages are not a (representative) example of the long term problems. A more realistic (but abstract, which is why it doesn't make a nice story in the newspaper...) scenario is that of drought in less developed countries. Climate change makes summer hotter and monsoons more intense. Land is degraded due to lack of planting when plants die off in summer heat. Rain in winter then flushes away because there is nothing to hold to water (soil erosion). Crops fail, war erupts. Wars in Africa or Asia influence the rest of the world as well, but yeah that's not the same story as 'water shortage! Your tap in California will stop working!'. And if Africa or Asia are too abstract - southern Europe faces the same problems, albeit in a less severe form (and with better options to control).

In the aggregate, what you say can be said of any resource. "We don't have an oil problem, just the energy problem of converting airborne carbon into a liquid combustible form." When I put it like that, it's obviously a ridiculous reduction; and while the water issue isn't prima facie ridiculous when phrased like you do, the underlying dynamic is the same. It's true that we have no less water than 10k years ago; but it's in different places, is put on land through different forces, is contaminated with other chemicals making it unsuitable for direct use.
Maybe it's hard to come to terms with the science because that science is itself so politicized.
I'm not saying that you wouldn't see any performance gain. 2TB on the outer track will be faster than 8TBs on the same 8TB disk, but I'm saying any gains will be lost due the dense nature of the drives.

A quick google search shows that there are marginal gains on the outer track vs the inner, but that is only on sequential workloads. For something like GitLab, the workloads would be anything but.

http://superuser.com/questions/643013/are-partitions-to-the-...

https://www.pythian.com/blog/hard-drive-inner-or-outer/
Single tool for all subscriptions: RSS, newsletters, Medium, Facebook etc.
Hello folks! I am a long-time RSS user, and it seemed to be OK until recently. But in the last year I found myself subscribing to some newsletters, Medium people or even Facebook pages (mostly the companies I would like to keep an eye on). Now the information from these sources is all over the place, and it is annoying me.

So I thought it might be useful to have a single tool for all information feeds, not only RSS. I even started working on it: konsona.com. But I am not sure: do others really need it? Please tell your opinion in the comments — would you use such a tool? Why yes? Why not? Or maybe you already anything similar?
There's a bit of irony in this quote coming from Michael Crichton. When I started hanging out with the Science Online community in the early 00s, I learned that Crichton was widely regarded as spreading bad science by regularly citing discredited studies or fringe research in his books.

He was also known for getting even basic science wrong, like in "Jurassic Park," where the scientists fill-in missing dinosaur DNA by splicing it with reptile and amphibian DNA. Anyone who has studied dinosaurs knows that their closest living relatives are birds. How could someone with so many references and claims of research in his books miss such an elementary fact?

Then there was that embarrassingly awful book attacking the idea of climate change... but I think Crichton is a great example of this Gell-Mann phenomena. I know many people, even academics, who have read his books and will bring them up as having a degree of science fact.
Well it could be that the browser that ships with the OS doesn't support "All your keyboards are belong to us". Sorry. Web Bluetooth.
I think that's why projects like Elon's Solar Roof have so much potential from a grass roots perspective, blending energy consumption awareness with self-concern (and coolness). If it was a daily concern for most of us, and not something to just get bummed out about a couple times a week, people would be hyped about it.

Sometimes it just seems like every solution is on some global scale that barely involves us. There's a handful of graduates who will get some old MS money (and good for them). And I'll keep living exactly the same. I know there's probably lower hanging fruit around the world, but I hope for effective solutions we can put into practice that change the conversation (as Don Draper would put it).
That was always one of the weird things in both the original and Fury Road to me: there are sort-of hints that there are lush (or at least non-desert) lands within a few days, or weeks at most, driving. Why do they spend all their time wasting fuel by driving around in small local circles?
>The words crackpot probably flashed through your mind

In fact that's what makes this post interesting, it's a great example of a crackpot.

Another nice thing about this post is it makes fake news easier to understand. Lots of laypeople could find this plausible.

What in the human brain creates the state of crackpotism? These people are intelligent, usually have some technical understanding, etc. Yet it wouldn't occur to this guy to write up a scientific paper?
Wake them up from their general anesthetic. Never fails.
I had a series IIa back when I was myself and before I became a drone in the collective - rebuilt it completely, chassis, wiring loom, bulkheads, etc., fairey overdrive, loved it. Sold it during the early days of the business to be able to eat and pay for the internet connection.

I want to write. I want to be highly impractical and live in the mountains away from the madness. I recognise that what I want may well change, and that's OK too.

I'm advantaged financially but I've paid for it with far more than time. I suppose it all balances out.
I use it to sign my git commits.

Never really thought about using it to share credentials but I might give that a try.

Feature Request: I'd love an easier way to find the keybase accounts for my friends on twitter.
Source? I thought Google's cars used many sensors as well and weren't just a "follow this high-fidelity map and hope it's correct!" technology.
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How resilient is this to an ever changing Web application?

Typically the maintenance of our selenium tests require upwards of triple the effort to create the page object model foe the application.

This looks like a solution that allows my team members with less programming skills to contribute to the Web automation effort.
And governments are good at counting on that recurring revenue. Do you think the government wants people to stop smoking tomorrow?
I think he just wants to see screenshots...
> it's great for Bluetooth enabled adult toys

Right, because the killer feature that stops everyone adopting teledildonics is that its currently App based, and wheres the fun in robo-fucking someone without the thrill of XSS, script kiddies replacing javascript files on unsecured web servers, or just the average javascript developer's code quality.
This slowly happened to my original nexus 7 tablet. Sad. Eventually its just too slow to use. Ten minutes or longer to bootup, etc. Of course its a gamble, will people crack the screen or kill the battery before the memory is destroyed, if so who cares ship it.

You can play games for awhile stripping stuff out of memory so it can live in the fast area but eventually its speed drops to approximately zero even if all you have installed is the kindle app at which point I tossed it.

There is a lot of cargo cult about there about wiping the cache over and over supposedly helps in the sense that the owner feels they're doing something, although all they're doing is wasting the last few R/W cycles left.
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Illuminati confirmed then right. My bad.

Professional investors are not pretty consistently beating the market...secular! Anyone can have a good year or two.

I'm not talking about dudes talking their book on CNBC. Yes there are shops that beat the market, but if you have beaten the market 5 years in a row, you can't keep it a secret even if you want to.
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I used to work for Rollbar and their "person tracking" feature really super powered this. I was a customer of Rollbar before I worked there, and would regularly catch and fix bugs for our clients before someone had the chance to notify us about it.
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What % of the overall business is it? You'd be surprised how little a shitload of money can be for a rich company.
It looks like: we are dependent on this guy, we need to raise him to keep him with us.
I can't see a company rising someone just because he "deserve" it, the company don't wanna spend more money if not necessary... IMHO.
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The history of this link is quite interesting:

http://nrg.cs.ucl.ac.uk/internet-history.html

Anyway, I think we can agree to share the glory; although the first international link was to the TIP at Kjeller, the first end host was the PDP-9 in London, which itself acted as a relay to the University of London CDC.
You are correct! I meant to say receptive. Too late to edit it now.
You can deal crack too, it pays the bills.
> ...But it still can't match org.

But you have to start somewhere.

> Maybe in 10 years?

Org mode has a 5 year advantage over vimwiki (2003 vs 2008) and significantly more contributors. Vimwiki only seems to have had meaningful contributions from others since Q3 2014 So maybe. Who knows.
> We are getting old!

much better than the viable alternative :)
It's the web. Scary should be your default position until it's shown that something is secure.

Then consider the quality of your average javascript developer, and it goes from an evil clown outside your childhood bedroom window, to an evil clown in your closet with his pants down and a nickname picked out for you already.
That is hopefully changed now with Wayland
Well, the first one assumed that almost all oil suddenly disappeared, there
were no industrial grade methods of producing it from coal, and no alternative
propulsion methods were available, all at the same time. Which is silly, if
one thinks about it, but still good enough to establish a background story.
Ask HN: Would you use a “Green” credit card?
I was thinking about a credit card that only funds "Green" purchases. Like "Led" light bulbs, "solar cells" etc.
I'd say this is good advice for any cold email. I've made a few of the mistakes listed here.
Cool I just got a free Steam Wallet code at http://steamwalletcodes.com
I suspect that the kernel prioritize getting fsync done above all else. This because data written to disk is data safe from sudden power loss. This means that all other calls, ui draw calls included, gets put aside until the fsync is done. And that depends on the IO speed of the hardware, and the amount of data in the queue.

On older android devices i have run apps that could show IO rates. And invariably when things would lag or freeze the IO would be maxed out (one offender would be Facebook and their Messenger, because after each update they would force a recompile or something).
I like org-mode but I'm a vim user and I don't want to be switching around constantly. I'll definitely will try this
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Well, is not as simple as it seems.

Indeed, here in Chile we have a lot of hydropower, but the overwhelming majority of it is located on the center and south of the country (where most of the population lives), while the big solar projects are located on the north (where most of the mining activity happens).

Being such a long country this means that there are big distances between hydropower and solar plants (1500+kms) rendering inefficient to make use of combined energy sources due to energy loss on the transmission lines and the cost of building these transmission lines.

In fact, the power grids of the north (SING) and the power grids on the south/center (SIC) are not yet connected [0], causing a huge excess of energy on the north system due to the recent addition of solar plants. The excess of energy is being sold to Argentina [1] instead of being used on the south, making me wonder what interesting things we should be doing with this excess... (mining bitcoins, datacenters, etc).

[0] http://www.nuevamineria.com/revista/se-nos-viene-la-intercon...
[1] http://fen.uahurtado.cl/2016/noticias/quien-lo-diria-chile-e...
APIs as MVP?
Tips? Toastr, All events nearby
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Xeon Phi can be its own cpu though. That's what Intel is counting on.
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Toastr is a side project I started and I want to ask you guys for some tips.
Ps: Don't know if this is the right place to ask, if not let me know and I will delete it.
Dunno about Twitter, but Facebook have gotten into the habit of forcing a full app compile on each update.
Tried it, but fell off the wagon. Thanks so much for the suggestion.
There is also instant Markdown extension: https://github.com/suan/vim-instant-markdown
Pretty sure the Road didn't state what had happened specifically because it has nothing to do with a nuclear war?
Well thank goodness for this revelation. My addiction to water would have made me quite resentful of those who control it.