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> If her contributions to community management software are valuable, what does it matter her politics?

Because she has chased away other good developers by bullying them and is now in a position of authority.

> I reiterate that if you are looking for a place to host your code where a) nobody has political opinions or b) everybody agrees with you about everything, you will never find it.

What? We had exactly that for decades, code hosts that were completely neutral on politics. I don't care if people disagree with me, as long as it has nothing to do with the projects. In fact, it's what made the open source world special, no one gave a fuck who you were as long as you produced good code. Now it's been invaded by people that think meritocracy is a bad idea.

Your building up quite a straw man there.
I would be curious to know how this compares to Material UI.
Has anyone tried both?
what a slow, clumsy, and flickering website of a modern ui framework
Do we know if Gitlab has a position on Opalgate? because if Github continues to be fully SJW-converged in a heavy handed and obnoxious way, that may be an obvious place for people to migrate to.
pilom's answer was good, but a good metaphor is to compare light bulbs;

Does a 100W light bulb use more energy than a 75W light bulb? It depends on how long each bulb is turned on.

The same relationship exists between energy sources. Does 60GW of wind power create more energy than 70GW of solar power? It depends on how much the wind blows and how long the sun shines.

If you divide the actual energy production by the ideal amount of energy production (aka if the wind blew steadily every minute of every day), that will give you your capacity factor.
And what was wrong with GNU date?

$ date
Fri Dec 16 11:12:17 CET 2016
$ date +%s
1481883140
$ date -d @1234567890
Sat Feb 14 00:31:30 CET 2009
$ date -d 'Sat Feb 14 00:31:30 UTC 2009'
Sat Feb 14 01:31:30 CET 2009
$ date +%s -d 'Sat Feb 14 00:31:30 CET 2009'
1234567890
$ date +%s -d 'Sat Feb 14 00:31:30 UTC 2009'
1234571490
It looks like an HTML ad creator, not a "website designer".
> The efficacy of SSRIs isn't dose dependent

This is rather surprising, given that most pharmaceuticals are, and contradicted by the experience of people I've known who've been prescribed them and advised to taper withdrawal - which is then experienced as reducing effectiveness.
Snapchat was a teen sexting app before it was about 'Stories'.
> but if you really didn't care about politics, you would keep using GitHub until they kick you off of it for thoughtcrime

I do care about politics, but it is irrelevant to my projects. The time to care about losing access to your source code is before you lose access to it (like backups). Github has shown that there is a signifact risk to hosting my code there so I'm moving off it.

> It honestly just seems that you want a platform whose politics you agree with, and don't want to use a platform whose politics you disagree with.

No, it want a platform that doesn't get involved with politics. Just like I don't care about the politics of any other service I use, as long as it doesn't interfere with my using it.

> Nonetheless, it's still a politics. Politics is unavoidable, it is a consequence of being able to think and disagree.

So you'd be happy to shop somewhere that doesn't allow gay people?
Exactly, this is HN, you can't just say that kind of things and not post a link :)
Favorably. 84% is 16% loss. batteries are 20-30% loss. hydro can compete, but the southwest has lots of sun and hills. not so much with huge supplies of cheap or free water.

the southwest is nice, because 300+ days of sun. cloud cover may reduce efficiency, but might actually improve it. clouds reflect more light from the ground.

There are many options for storage. Trains are very very good. You need to beat 80% to beat a train. Some things can do that, but they're not cheap, like land in the SW.
Did the author try to use the components from a low end phone? Generally it looks good but all the jumping, flashing and crashing do not signal version 1.0.0.
Escaping this rock is no relief either. What happens when there's a Muskovite Empire on Mars and all the rich people move there to let the poor die on an old planet stripped of resources to make that possible? Transfers of wealth like that are already happening - let's not make it interplanetary.

Humanity has changed so much in the last few generations and we are still catching up. Maybe we don't understand the consequences. We definitely have to figure out it soon because we'll either never make it to another planet or we'll just bring it all with us.
And to move is to risk a quick death. I wished existing brands stopped innovating so much. That's e.g. what got Pebble killed.

Doubly so when a brand reaches infrastructure level - like Github, or arguably Dropbox. Just don't screw with the product that's working well. Not breaking things isn't expensive.
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They don't ask for your religion. They ask if you are member in one of a few religious communities. You may say that this is nitpicking but it's really not. They don't care about beliefs but just perform a service for those communities that asked them to do it. That tax is best to be thought of a membership fee that happens to be collected by the state.

If a religious community does not want to participate in that scheme they can. Plenty don't use that service.
Why not use superconducting cables?

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/182278-the-worlds-first-...
I always assumed advertising is misleading, massaging data and presenting it in favorable light.

Here is a drop in the ocean. How many cases then FTC didn't detect the stuff?

Here it must have been really gross / blatant.
Exactly, this nonsense of mostly just counting publications must stop. If at all, there is only a very light correlation (or perhaps even a negative one, who knows?) between the number of publication and the quality of a scientist's research. And what's so crazy about it is that everybody knows this. No one has ever been called a great scientist, because he published many articles. Such scientists may be called prolific, but that doesn't necessarily reflect on the quality of the content.

The same for counting quotations, by the way. This may be different in STEM fields, but I'm in the humanities. In the humanities bad papers are sometimes quoted as often as brilliant papers, because everybody wants to correct the authors. I've seen more than one colleague literally make his career by writing a polemic and obviously wrong book (books=often improper peer review) and then sneaking a few apologetic articles in which they half-retracted their claims past the reviewers. What's worse, I know postdocs who are actively looking for such untenable topics that will surely stir up a reaction. We're talking about theses, conjectures or claims that nobody defended previously, because they are so obviously wrong or flawed. I've also met people at the postdoc level who literally replied "Who cares, it's one more publication" when I raised doubts about their main claim in an article and mentioned that it might not 'work' for purely formal reasons (but adding that I'd have to check, to be polite).

I'm sure it's a bit less drastic in CS and the STEM fields, but in the humanities publication counting almost enforces mediocrity and the publication of uninteresting, pointless papers with vastly overlapping topics - and it's completely obvious that it does so.

The situation is particularly frustrating, because the system makes it harder to publish good science. Good science needs larger studies and/or better formal underpinnings, both of which take more time and more effort than duplicating fake papers about fake problems.

Well, enough ranting for today, you get the point.
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Would 'stuff' be an appropriate synonym?
Why JavaScript on microcontrollers makes sense
what amazing time to be alive :)
Will there just be one company in the future called Amazon?
Every life extension discussion derails into debates about foreverness; and therein lies the problem: humans of all backgrounds (even today) are dropping dead of health problems at 60 years of age. Thus, foreverness is science-fiction with our current understanding. Baby-steps first perhaps? Regardless, many agree foreverness is not possible - and if it was - I would not want it.
Regarding 3 I believe it's matter of doing it sooner rather than later. You can pretend that things don't have a type, but it's a lie.

The only thing that languages like JavaScript do differently is to hide the types of variables. This forces the person reading/writing the code to keep track of what is on what variable at all times instead of having a compiler do it for him.

I understand people have difficulty with pointers and such, but not types. Without that knowledge you can't go anywhere.

From my point of view there is absolutely no advantage in hiding types when you always end up using them. Better to face the fact and teach them early on.
> To clarify: I'm not against managing (downloading) dependencies. I just want two separate steps: [download things] and [compile things].

Fair enough, but if you have outdated dependency artifacts, it doesn't make sense to compile without fetching them, and so I think it's reasonable to make the 2nd step depend on the 1st one (and thus make it execute automatically)

I understand that keeping the 2 of them too-close might inadvertently conflate the 2 concerns (the build step becomes impossible to run without the download step) even if the design goals explictly thought of them as being able to be run independently, so this might be an argument for "builds should only build", but I'm not sold on it yet

> And then there is build reproducibility. If external network is involved, the whole reproducibility idea goes out of the window. Remember the left-pad farce? Part of the cause was idiotic split to microdependencies, but part was that everybody used external network for their build process.

Well, the build systems that I have in mind are Stack ( http://haskellstack.org/ ) and Nix ( http://nixos.org/nix/ )

Both of them have an heavy emphasis on reproducibility, and yet both of them automatically download dependencies.

(the Hydra Nix continuous integration systems OTOH run build and test steps with limited/no network connectivity, to enforce that separation of concerns)

(the microdependencies btw wasn't a problem that caused build non-reproducibility, microdependencies only made it worse when the shit hit the fan)

Also, there are 2 different reproducible build failures: it doesn't build (bad) or it builds but the artifact is not identical (worse)... downloading dependencies from the internet can only cause problems of the first type, if you have a sane way of fetching them

sane means: either you have the hashes of the dependencies to check, or you can trust the archive to always give you the same files when you ask it for a snapshot... and for security reasons you'd still check the crypto signature on the hashes to verify that nothing has been tampered in the mirror from which you downloaded

(Unfortunately, not only Npm but also Hackage afaik have that anti-feature that allows you to reupload a "bugfix" with the same version number... so we cannot always trust that the systems that we're using are sane, which OTOH is impossible also due to DMCA or other law/court shenanigans: if your dependency violates someone's copyright, it might end up disappearing from the snapshots)
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retry :

Strategies_for_Engineered_Negligible_Senescence, here :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategies_for_Engineered_Negl...
I think the fact that the subjects suffer from Progeria (a syndrome that causes early ageing) is significant. There are other effects of ageing (such as damage to DNA in mitochondria from oxidative stress reducing a cell's ability to generate energy) that may not be displayed early alongside other symptoms of progeria and that this treatment would not do anything to alleviate.
> Even increase by dozen of years may result in wars and chaos

Care to explain? I don't see why humans living on average a dozen years longer would inevitably lead to "wars and chaos" and a breakdown of social order. Indeed, we saw lifespans increase by two dozen in the last 80 or so years and nothing happened at all.

The usual arguments about overpopulation don't seem to apply to developed countries; if anything it's the opposite. So what's the big deal? And why do you assume that any negative externalities created by life extension technology are inherently unfixable?
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One thing the author has pointed out on reddit was that many of the components have a property to wait to fire until the ink animation is done.

That looks like the cause of the delay and "sluggish" feeling some people are reporting. If you don't set that prop, it's very quick even on a nexus 4 which tends to be my baseline device for "web apps" right now.

Why you'd want to set that I'm not sure, but it's there.
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No. But whenever somebody says that to me, it's a bad sign...
Still works fine for me, for e.g. Nature articles.

Is it some particular journal(s) that you cannot access?
I'd recommend ringing your provider and ensuring that you have some form of password on your account. Most providers should allow this and it will make sure that whoever is calling regarding your account will have to mention this password.

This doesn't fully secure your account as some level of social engineering can always be used to circumvent this. This has become apparent in the news when members of the hacking group Lizard Squad apparently pretended to be store employees of the company calling on behalf of the customer.

Securing your phone number is not an easy task as the infrastructure behind providers isn't as secure as it needs to be.
Free user manuals and guides online to download
It's a little island in the middle of the pacific everything except maybe sheep is going to be expensive
Cheers! Copy/paste fail. I'm usually good about testing, but obviously not this time.
In that case, please don't put everything in an "unsafe" block, so we actually gain something from it :)
Indeed. As someone with no real language background it allowed me to get to a state where I can create my own DSLs.

An alternative would be to use something like Xtext (which also allows you to create langauge tools, not just the language itself). I played around with it and it's very nice (granted you'll kind of need to embrace Eclipse) but ultimately decided that ANTLR was "enough".
>We can build them and priding how they react, but our explanations are all based on other things we don't actually understand.

You can say this about anything. This is science; making models and evaluating their predictive power. The models don't have to capture the underlying "truth", if it even exists.
I find the ESP8266 quite good, specially its successor ESP32.

Given the programming languages we already could use on MS-DOS, both those chips are quite good.

However, I bet Google is trying to put Android into those areas that are now moving from C and C++ to Java.

This is the same game currently being played in HPT, it is cheaper to get Java developers, even with the increased hardware costs, than to keep writing trading systems in pure C++. Hence the pressure Oracle has got into improving Java's story in regards to AOT and value types.

So if a business is just going to deploy a couple of units, the difference between $15.15 (ESP8266) and $39.95 (Raspberry PI 3) might not be significant, when adding the salaries and respective development costs on top.

Of course, the best approach for those that care about Java and IoT is to just use a plain GNU/Linux distribution like Yocto and standard Embedded Java, instead of Android Java fork.

But overall I agree with your dismay.
We started by connecting multiple terminals to one computer.
Then we moved on to the PC where 1 terminal was connected to one computer.
Now we are in the age where 1 terminal is connected to many computers.
how did you know it's lousy exec play that caused the problem?

Amazon is heavy with their advertising and this have a huge mindshare with potential customers and even non-customers alike. No amount of extraordinary exec play would have changed that in favor of Cisco.

Cisco was dedicating $1 Billion to the project, AWS made $2.5 billion in Q1 2016. Think of that for a second
They do charge different kinds of vehicles different prices to drive on toll ways and many cities have freeways w/o tolls and a parallel express lane you can choose to pay a toll to use.
It's impossible to "hold them to it" because it's so easy to get out of.

People changing jobs because they want better lunch isn't comparable. That's a choice they make on their time, at their leisure and having weighed up many other competing factors.

A pledge like this one in theory demands absolutism. Bad behaviour happens, you quit, regardless of how inconvenient or impractical it is for you at that time.

In practice, because the pledge has had absolutely minimal thought put into it, the authors filled it with weasel words to get a big list of signers. If someone was wanting to quit their job for lots of other reasons perhaps they can use this to justify leaving and make themselves out to be super virtuous. But if they didn't actually want to quit their job then they'll just say that they objected internally and were ignored, but that satisfies the pledge. Or that they made some token change that "minimised" the data collected.

Ethics is a deep, complex field of study. This is the opposite: a highly partisan and political document that exists only so people who don't like Trump can show that to the world, which I expect they were loudly doing anyway. It will only increase mistrust amongst conservatives, who will ask awkward questions like "Where were these tech guys when people were talking about databases on issues that matter to us, like gun control?". Why weren't they signing pledges in 2013 when Snowden revealed what the Obama administration was doing; why is this only a big deal now someone we like got into power?

Pledges like this speak for everyone in tech. They shouldn't do that.
Does India need its own vernacular internet?
It looks decent and also seems like highly influenced by backend driven ui approach.[1]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypk-72mhYBk
Ah, didn't know this one ... and even has a linux version, great. Thought macaw was the only option there (light app to be ran on wine), apart from adobe (which are getting too heavy, and thus way too problematic to run on wine).
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This isn't true anymore. Blueprints were removed from Inferno quite some time ago. Inferno uses createVNode calls, which are very much like createElement calls.
Another great feature of React-MD, fully accessible.

I haven't had time to fully test that claim yet with a screen reader, but it does seem to work well using the key oars alone which is something often overlooked.
10 USD for 1 hour of play is a lot of money in general. That's not akin to:

> "it always saddens me too see the rejection of people to basically pay for anything on the AppStore."

Because the point is that the value one gets out of it, is too little for the amount of time it is fun. That is, of course, assuming there's no replay value.

There is replay value however I, for one, prefer a difficult game, and prefer one difficulty only. I know, game designers want to make everyone feel 'awesome' these days. All kind of ladders, including for single player! I don't like that. Give an immersive first time experience where the player has to overcome difficult hurdles. Getting stuck? Tough cookie, practice and get better, and you'll feel awesome once you progress further. Compare WoW TBC with how WoW has every difficulty for raiding these days. By the time you get to the highest difficulty it isn't epic anymore.

On a different note, 10 USD is a lot of money for poor people. Then again, those people are unlikely to have an expensive iOS device.
More detailed changelog: https://github.com/antlr/antlr4/releases/tag/4.6
> if you have outdated dependency artifacts, it doesn't make sense to compile without fetching them

I am sorry, I'd contest that. There are often cases where one might not want to use the most current version of some library (incompatibility, undesired features, etc.).

This entire forced update approach is already unpleasant enough in the context of applications (most notably on Android and IOS) but becomes unbearable for software development. While one might argue it could still make some sense for the former, as average users might stay forever with old versions and potential security issues, that argument should not be valid in a "professional" context - where the "users" know about the implications - as it should be given with software engineering.
It was invented by the Republicans, back when they were called Democrats.
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Programming with this will take forever. I think, instead of making the visual cues map to one token at a time, why not make it more high-level. I dont have an idea how that is supposed to look, but it will make it a bit faster if it has visual templates for constructs like if/else, switch/case, for/loop or a function block, where you just go in and add in the comditions and operations.
Also, if you can add some kind of zoom out feature that makes some larger details smaller so you can look at the program or a subset of it from a higher vantage point.
This has the potential of being really useful.
Another thing I can think of in relation to the template stuff is to make the language really expressive and clear, since the user won't be typing most of the boilerplate except for maybe the variable names and operators. One more thing, map keyboard shortcuts to templates.
I'm also a language designer by the way. Peace. ;)
Signing a pledge is not "action". Actually quitting would be action. But there are lots of signatures from people who work at large companies that make even larger databases. Why didn't they quit already? Why didn't they quit years ago? Why are the only issues the pledge talks about things that liberals care about? Why not also pledge to never make a database of gun owners, to make the conservatives feel included?

The industry is wary of being "political" for good reasons - engaging in shallow political campaigns and especially being seen to both biased and powerful is a good way to trash the reputation of the field. Software engineering isn't as respected as medicine, but it's at least better respected than journalism and politics.

The worst case scenario is that this kind of crap becomes widespread and software ends up being like the social sciences: riddled with political extremism (there are basically no conservative social scientists) ... yet unable to see it because all people with opposing viewpoints were systematically shit on and excluded for decades until the point was reached where there were none left.
You can enable this on the Vive through Steam VR, and has a couple options:

- Show borders of things the camera sees on top of the 3d

- Show camera view aside from your controller in the "menu/system" screen

It requires more bandwidth through USB, though, so it might not work.

(I know there is a third option, but i cannot recall what it does)
Don't worry, the treatment won't be available to all, unless it's a cheap pill with no IP constraints on it. Imagine the profits for the producers of a life extending miracle drug.

It would be more like spice on Dune. Hmm... if I recall correctly, the fremens (who had unlimited access to it) were a bloody waring bunch.