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The core "IDE" features you don't normally get with an editor are things like project views, intellisense, code completion as you type, real time parsing and error highlight, code navigation. Sure you can get most all of this by wrangling plugins for vim (or which ever editor you choose) but in an IDE like eclipse, netbeans, intellij, visual studio, it's all there, ready to go.

In effect, a modern IDE is "programming ability" multiplier. It helps me code smarter and faster. That plus understanding what's going on behind the scenes is a powerful combination.
Because the Surface Hub is an integrated device, there are savings in:

* purchase research - deciding what parts to buy and making sure they'll all work out of the box and that the computer is fast enough to support what people will be doing with it

* physical setup - hooking up those external PCs and peripherals and making sure they are all working like an appliance so that you don't need an IT person "turn it on" for the salesperson before every meeting, etc.

* support - if something goes wrong, you're talking to Microsoft, without figuring out which part is broken and then figuring out who to call

Considering a decent 1080p 55" touch display is probably going to run you around $3K (and it doesn't have active pen support), I'm not sure $9K is that unreasonable for a business, especially if it stays in operation for five years or more.

-- edit: i realized the parent was responding to the to car showrooms comment and not boardrooms after the fact - but left the post here for the context of boardrooms
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> The most famous real-world example of this was in 2000, when Ralph Nader "stole" votes from Al Gore, letting George Bush win.

Is Nader's 'theft' really more famous than Perot's? I think that Perot really made a much bigger difference than did Nader: in 1992 there were a lot of Perot supporters who would have voted for Bush over Clinton, but for some reason they really did think that their candidate had a chance.
For us peasants not trying to sell anything : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_ISV
Personally I've always found it to be inferior to Hangouts and Facetime.
Right, but the problem is often pinpointed to someone else's team, and then you have to go communicate with them and convince them to make it a priority.
For people from Russia or other countries China could be attractive option.
Take-home money can be good, especially with low taxation.
US is not really a competition, it is relatively unfriendly to foreigners, very hard to move there.

But I think China wants to mainly increase talent retention. There are many Chinese who stay in US after finishing their studies there. China wants those educated people back.
This feature is a "Whatsapp" feature the same way "curved corners" is an Apple feature (it's not).
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This webpage has the honour of causing my browser (Firefox Nightly, Windows, 64-bit) to crash outright. It’s been ages since that’s happened. Ah, the occasional joys of running a nightly browser as your primary browser!
>Finally, its fucking ridiculous the amount of trust people have in "authorities". "No we won't talk to you about your mental issues because fuck you, but hey why don't you go pay to talk to a stranger instead"? What? Why is that better? Isn't a friend/family member much better positioned to understand your problems and offer some perspective?

While it is good to have a supportive environment from friends and family, my experience is that they are very poor at solving these problems. A good counsellor can be far more effective. Supportive family members often give very poor advice. They think they understand your problem when they rarely do. They'll give you all kinds of suggestions that, for you, are clearly useless and only serve to highlight how little they understand your predicaments.

Also, keep in mind, that often friends and family are part of the problem (without intending to be).
What a great question. I find it's always the little things that do the trick!

Here are my top 2:

I have a simple motto: I aim to save my clients money. This can work in lots of different ways, shaving a day off development here or there, coming up with cheaper solutions, even outsourcing little tasks to UpWork or automating them via an existing web service.

#2: At the end of each week, I like to send a quick summary email. I got that tip from another freelancer. Even though clients have access to online project management, it gives them additional reassurance and they go into the weekend with a sense that you're doing good work on their behalf.
I submit the link. I didn't write it.
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Google acquires the team behind an Alexa-powered smartwatch for Android Wear
http://scorevoting.net/Complexity
well... Should a Designer Learn to Program?
Okay, that's understandable, but how do we know this is an implementation-level problem rather than a fundamental problem?
I'd also recommend the Sniper series of books by Stephen Hunter.
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Even if there's such a clone, it's not as good as github/bitbucket/whatever. All those chinese clones like are terribly worse than originals.
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> I believe this is the situation on android but that on ios you need a card either way to download from the app store?

> Or at least this used to be the situation.

Nope and I've never had one attached so it's definitely not a new thing either.

They do have a bit of a dark pattern to trick you into adding one when you first set up an Apple ID. IIRC, when you pick your credit card type (AmEx, VISA, etc) you can pick "No Credit Card" to skip it.
He covers type inference too, which is much more painful not having:

Animal animal = new Animal();

val animal = Animal();

Swift also doesn't need the semicolons. You can also omit the () in if and switch statements. It all adds up to a lot unnecessary noise. The immutability of let is really nice too.

let animal = Animal()

In Swift I don't bother adding the type for Strings, Bools or Ints:

let foo = "Hello world"

let answer = 42

var isDone = false

if isDone {

print("Correct: \(answer)")

} else {

print("Wrong answer!")

}
Chrome is closed-source (though based on the open-source Chromium project so it can nicely claim the associated kudos of an open-source project).

IE also "improved" rapidly back in the IE4/5/6 days, adding features such as CSS filters and AJAX. These "improvements" were considered much needed progress by developers at the time; later, with the wisdom of hindsight, rightly seen as proprietary extensions with little to no consideration for interoperability.

And if you think the Blink team's membership of, and contributions to, WHATWG/W3C/&c. automatically ticks all the friendly interoperability boxes, you've clearly never encountered monstrosities such as https://compat.spec.whatwg.org/ (created and maintained by Mozilla)
OSX Sierra, Chrome, Macbook Pro Retina (.. 2013? can't remember haha).

It's fairly snappy, it's just that any animation just bothers me when i'm trying to click from link to link to link, you know?

Ie, if i'm using Google, i open tab after tab in the background for any sites i need to research. That has near instant feedback, no delay. I know it's different, because i'm not actively looking at the background tab, but effectively for my use case that is the UX you are trying to replace by viewing the content in real time, inside your site. So i need to be able to click, and then click away, with as little delay as possible (instant, preferably). An animation just gets in the way for that, to me at least.

Note that i am more than willing to wait for the page to load. I'm not trying to be unrealistic. I just don't want to wait, any time, to popup already loaded content. I suspect the animation also gives the content time to load the higher res version, so that i can't say much about. If it needs to be, it needs to be :)

I'll check out the low graphics mode, thanks!
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I didn't say it did anything amazing/revolutionary. At the end of the day its just a giant TV with touch features. The key bit is they got 95% of "it" right, the "it just works" factor is huge. The integration with remote desktop, the feel of writing with the stylus, quality and feel of the plastic hub, skype integration, pulling off white board sessions to email, etc.
Funny to see you here! By the way, what happened to shintolin.com?
"It suggests that the quest for knowledge includes failure, and that just because one person may know less than others they should not be afraid to ask rather than pretend they already know. In many cases multiple people may not know but are too afraid to ask the "stupid question"; the one who asks the question may in fact be doing a service to those around them" [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_such_thing_as_a_stupid_ques...
My main gripe with Java is its lack of type inference and the resulting redundancy that pops up. Things like the following got tiresome quickly (I might be a newb missing out on a better way to do things like this)

private final TreeMap<String, TreeMap<String, Record>> searchTree = new TreeMap<String, TreeMap<String, Record>>();
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One cultural factor is the fact that developers have a low social standing in China (sometimes referred to as 马工). This leads to low pay, reduced dating pool, lack of respect from people you meet etc.
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One way to completely break a Mac user out of their comfort zone is to switch the machine into verbose boot mode (sudo nvram boot-args=-v). Makes it look like old Slackware.
The origin of PostgreSQL's “allballs” shortcut
Before there was nothing this integrated, you really see the power towards the end of the video there. Where you see people being dialed in to help tackle whatever was on the screen there.

Imagine three teams in different locations all collaborating around the same set of drafts, stake holders being called in from all over the place for their input. It creates a real-time flow of information that was just not possible/practical before.
I have to say that most problem is not true. Most Chinese don't prefer youtube and even for the university student knows how to pass the block by vpn and other softwares. Also in some university Google is not blocked.
We are playing with open mesh for our new building. So far it seems amazing.
I haven't done this, but if I was going to, I would target an existing platform that big companies depend on (salesforce, slack, more niche CRM's, etc.) and create a super focused niche plugin that 1) Is not core value prop of the platform, 2) Has little chance of being duplicated by the platform, 3) Has no competition, 4) Solves a real problem companies have.

For example, do research that shows that 7% of companies in industry XYZ use certain CRM. Analyze that industry and see what common use cases and pain points are. Somehow figure out what the CRM is missing for that industry. Validate the idea before building it by reaching out to said companies.

There would be a lot more to it, but basically a plugin for established software a company already uses is much easier and less risk to sell when you are a small shop.
Self-sabotage, fear of failure, and how to stop them hurting your productivity
Booting up is a bit of a special case that I'd actually be willing to carve out an exception for. When the boot-up goes wrong, it's often due to causes so deep that they leave you with very few means of diagnosing it or showing an error message. If the booting process hangs, having a rough idea at what stage it happened can be very helpful. Without these messages, discovering the cause of failure would be much harder.

The boot-up splash screen hardly even counts as "GUI" anyway.
She's the US District Attorney for Massachusetts, so any federal case in Massachusetts is going to run through her office.
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Isn't Mad Max the film where paper is the most highly prized commodity, but everyone smokes cigarettes?

It's easy to forget that the vast majority of popular speculative fiction is utter bollocks and could never happen. I wish we had more "plausible" sci-fi.
>This is why I don't seek professional help. In the US we treat depression as a clinical disease, but more a massive weakness. If you get diagnosed, it's hard to keep living a normal life. The State comes in and never leaves. You can never get back to normal. They will say your depression is in regression.

This is the extreme scenario, and relatively rare (at least for adults).

I spoke to my PCP about my potential issues. He said I had two choices: Medication or counseling. I chose the latter. Nothing pushy.

Both the counselor and my PCP also recommended against a formal diagnosis of what condition I thought I had, because:

1. There is no cure.

2. The non-medicative treatments (i.e. counseling, behavioral therapy) is exactly the same for people who have my condition as those who do not but only have some symptoms.

3. Given the above two, why bother with a diagnosis? (Additionally, without a diagnosis, it can't be on a record anywhere - not my concern but it addresses yours).

4. My condition was causing problems in my life, but from a doctor's standpoint, was not too serious (i.e. not about to harm myself or others).

This whole "State coming in and never leaving" is rare. Probably more common for children, though.
At my company this is the most crucial problem, people with different VP's priority than your VP's priority causes arguments that never end with anything being fixed. So you have to work around the problem which leads to hack upon hack.
What you're suggesting is that the first self-driving car manufacturer (as long as its cars are rolling off the lines of one of the major players) will dominate (parts of) the fleet sales market. That's not insignificant, but it's not the car market. I think you're underestimating how resilient the existing driving paradigm will be among consumers (i.e. the people buying personal cars and driving fleet vehicles).

> Catching up isn't easy, you won't be able to just reverse engineer it.

No, but the California-based employees with an understanding of that system will be able to get a nice payday when they start working for a competitor.
Good point. I wish the large corporation I work for would do this.
You can pretty easily pass it to select and get just the properties you care about, or you could output to a different format with the various out- commands. I find it pretty good as a shell.
I generally pass over mentions of new text editors because they seem to be either orthogonal to what makes Vim great, or else to approach Vim with the approach that it's mostly wrong—think of Cream, for example, which seems more about onboarding newbies than appealing to experienced users (which is fine!). I think of Neovim as an improvement for Vim scripters and coders, while aiming to provide mostly the same end-user experience, so I haven't really bothered with it. I'd discounted previous mentions of Kakoune, assuming that it was more of the same, but this discussion (and in particular greenspot's deservedly top-rated comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13166784 ) made me take a closer look, and I think I'll give it a try.
As an aside: there is a rather splendid explanation for stars going green in Ken MacLeod's SF novel Learning the World:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_the_World
I don't think it's just information access issue that is issue. The way I see is that there are many people considering working and living in China as bit of risk considering government's decisions and policy can change fairly arbitrarily, which of course the one of prominently seen effect of that is change in government firewall blacklists.
Just to be contrarian:

Innocent until proven guilty.
Except for WeChat? Wasn't there an article a while back touting how WeChat is ahead of Facebook in terms of user experience?
I love how this community of "disruptors" is obsessed with following the HN commandments.
Pretty much the other way around here. I don't know anyone who uses Instagram to directly socialize with friends. Not that many even have it. While snapchat is ubiquitous below a certain age threshold. I've never seen scandalous content, nor expected it. It's always been about sharing the mundane moments of your life without caring about being boring. The performance is indeed a total mess tho.

Facebook is demoing their own iteration of stories ("My Day") here. I've been using it a bit too. But few are it seems.
Well I assume in a companywith that many teams they would have already came across a need to manage their own simple, internal CA. Maybe you can be the person to set it up, trust me it's scarier than it looks
Safari is webkit.
I have a degree in Graphic Design but a career in Front-End Web Development, I'm constantly asked to make design decisions (by people that may not even know my background). I feel I'm also able to see the bigger picture when I'm approaching a development problem, and I try to push modular development by asking the designers for modular designs.

All in all it's been incredibly useful to, at the very least, be able to speak design language when interfacing with the team.
To prove psychotherapy is effective for depression, you would have to gather up thousands of people with clinical depression, give half therapy and let the others go it alone, which raises serious ethical questions and makes it difficult to find volunteers

This is no different from an RCT drug trial.

I agree that a blind study is impossible. But yes, I would still love to see randomized trials comparing an actor to a real psychiatrist (as well as to nothing at all). At the very least, if actors are equally effective, we can save billions of dollars by replacing expensive psychiatrists with struggling actors.

The problem with correlation studies - particularly for subjective in-my-head issues - is that the thing which causes people to see a shrink might also be causing them to get better.
https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS

A series of 6 small books that cover the JS fundamentals in detail.
The price is at its highest point since 2014. The last time it was this high was an obvious bubble, whereas the current price is after a sustained rally.

http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-price-trading-highest-level-...
This uses Skype for Business, formerly Lync, which is different tech than Skype-the-consumer-app. Skype for Business connects though your own network infrastructure, and uses your own servers (or Office 365 hosted ones). Quality is about as good as it gets - depending on the latency and bandwidth of your network of course.
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I mean... it should be, but every business I've ever worked at has had difficulty cleaving between "the kind of access that developers need in order to do their jobs" and "the kind of access that would be abusable." It's legitimately difficult to do, and there's no way to make your system proof against insider abuse without serious trade-offs.

The purported "God-mode" that Uber had years ago, and showed off at parties, was a real problem with their culture. The ability of devs to get read access to some production data is much less of a huge deal.
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Would love to try this but getting the following error

http://imgur.com/a/l4iqP

I'm running chrome 54.0.2840.100 (64-bit) in ubuntu 14.04 with nvidia proprietary drivers
>To be fair, this is the very thing that makes mental illness ... mental illness

True, but the use of the word "illness" is troubling. I had relatives who kept pushing for me to go for a diagnosis. I refused for years as I did not want treatment. My condition may have its downsides, but it has its upsides that make me perform better than others. People only see the downsides.

Mostly, though, I think it was because they want to justifiably apply a label to me, and I was not willing to oblige them ;-)
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Before the web programmers often did designer because the whole idea of designers wasn't really so clear cut. Back in the 80's I never met anyone who just designed UI, they were also the developers of the UI as well (I did this for 10 years). Once the web appeared and UIs became more important to marketing, designers with art backgrounds took over. Eventually other specialties appeared to consider the UX, usability etc, which was not art. But in the beginning its was mostly programmers all the way down.
Note, it sounds like Kakoune is trying to be a text and code editor first. Not just a text editor, like Vim is out of the box. Completion and code related tools appear to be first class citizens.

With that said, it's purely speculative on my part, i clearly don't know - Kakoune is new to me.
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https://git.oschina.net/
https://coding.net/
http://code.csdn.net/

These are more towards team collaboration. imo China doesn't have the ecosystem for open source. Too many people just take the code, rebrand and market it as their own product...
I love fun, kinda dumb demos of really sophisticated technology. Nice job!
I don't usually recommend reddit, but http://reddit.com/r/fitness is a subreddit with some of the most knowledgable and caring people you'll ever meet.

Everyone is very helpful and supportive in each other's progress.

I would repost this question there.
this is very much true.

Outside censorship, the working culture of China is also quite different. It's quite common to do overtime in China. work-life balance is less respected. People accept it as the normal and are proud of it.

My friend worked for an accounting company. In busy season, she had to work till 5a.m. in the morning of the next day and present her report to her supervisor at 8 a.m.

she took her toothbrush, pajamas, sleep bag to the company because it doesn't make sense to go home at 5 a.m. and back at 8 a.m. as commute takes long time too.

There is another friend working for Alibaba. Once they wanted to release a messenger app to catch up wechat. The entire team was shipped to a different city during Chinese new year, they are disallowed from leaving until the product is shipped.

I also went to a talk by Xiaomi at standford, they were very proud of having official 6 day work week.
Something ironic about an "open" culture being critical of a "closed" culture.

Reality is the American's tech cultural is at its core a very closed community. Even within America, trying to create a startup outside of the Bay Area, which is insanely expensive area to do business, will require exponentially more effort, luck, etc.