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That is, if what they are writing works,

You make a good point, but imo in real life there is more nuance to it than just works/doesn't work. Which again I've seen with the same collegues: the software works, sort of, yes. Despite some annoyances and known bugs and corresponding workarounds it does what it's supposed to do. But it's oh so brittle. So while you could argue that it works so there is no problem, in fact there is: on every single change which has to be made half of the software falls apart and it takes insane amounts of patching to hold things together. Sure, afterwards it works again, but adding more of the same code, no matter how fast it was written, made things surely not better.
I admit this is of course like the worst example and I'm sure there are indeed occasions where the code quality doesn't have that much of an impact. For instance especially in small applications/tools/extensions this is true.
Does anyone here have experience in dealing with scaling? It seems like this is the biggest problem with Shiny. Since R is in general slow and single threaded, Shiny apps have a major limitation.
I don't think calling software "Cocaine" is such a good idea.

I would have problems telling my boss we're using that while keeping a straight face, not to mention all kinds of misunderstandings.

It doesn't really strike me as a really good name, either..?
>I'm surprised that SF residents are willing to put up with this crap. Why don't they stand up and demand better service from their city government? Perhaps it's an example of learned helplessness.

It's politically fashionable to coddle those who commit property crime. It's a form of virtue signalling, since it suggests altruism for the lower class. You see the same thing in Vancouver. There's very little political will to stop the rampant property crime that occurs here.
Illinois is the real time bomb. My prediction - California will eventually pair property tax hikes (from 1% to 2% on every property in the state; limit prop 13 basis to one property per person) with pension benefit cuts (10%; reduced COLA) to close the gap (after many articles like this one followed by much public wailing and gnashing of teeth). But once the political calculus is settled, at the end of the day, the money is there. California property taxes generate ~ $40 billion annually so you could double them and (factoring in a resultant decline in home prices and local economic activity) still pull out another $30 billion or so in annual revenue. But Illinois (Chicago) has much less ability to raise property taxes, which are already %-wise relatively higher on lower absolute property values, and the state's pension shortfall is significantly worse.

The author doesn't mention it in this article but California's other major problem is Medi-Cal. Free health care for everyone in California below the poverty line. The Feds pay 95% of the bill currently under the ACA medicaid expansion but if/when they start to pay less then California has tens of billions of dollars in new liabilities to contend with. Combine one/both of these problems with another market crash - which would mean lower pension returns, but also decimate California's capital gains dependent tax collections - and it starts to look like a fiscal 'perfect storm'. I give Gov. Brown a lot of credit for talking about the need to build up a rainy day fund but I fear it's far too little too late.
> At that point, what's to stop Yellow Cab from creating their own Uber clone and eating Uber's lunch

Their own incompetence
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I admire your effort in finding something that salvages that obviously wildly misguided prediction by Krugman. But really: if any measure says Internet had no large economical impact on our lives, it's just a bad measure.

And yes, GDP is suffering from some problems. There's huge informational resources that can not be valued the way GDP is calculated. There are many other criticisms of it[1]. OTOH, is somebody gets money for digging a trench in the morning and filling it up at the evening, GDP increases, even though nothing useful were done, the money was just wasted. Don't get me wrong, GDP is a useful indicator, but it doesn't show everything.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_domestic_product#Limitat...
Looks like damage control by CEO. There wouldn't be so much backslash towards latest MacBookPro if Apple were to keep all Mac models on annual refresh.
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more like, dunning kruger effect. The sort of persons who are least qualified to regulate the internet or computers are also the persons most likely to THINK that they need to do so and introduce legislation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
I think that it still does have a solid viable place.

It makes the most sense for base load, as well as night time load (which is mostly the same as base load).
> Tim Cook is Apple's Ballmer - An ops. guy, great for the bottom line but fundamentally stuck in the past.

"Stuck in the present" might be a bit more fair :)
That doesn't look like React, render() takes what looks like props and state. Is this a similar framework to React, or just poorly-written React?
Yup, and to my (and many others' surprise), this thing works actually very well. Not every single app will run but all of the basics for what we need here (mainly gcc) seem to be fine. And it runs graphical apps as well: run an X server on Windows (Moba XTerm or so), export DISPLAY=:0 and of you go. Only tried it with SublimeText so far and that worked out so no complaints yet.
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It can be done within k8s ecosystem using periodic job. That is the pupose of this repo.
Same goes for "Go saps all the fun out of the coding". As an ex-Ruby programmer, with Go I've never had so much fun programming since tinkering with C in college. Go just doesn't get in the way of implementing ideas, which is the core of the fun.
Maybe people just don't earn them, since not having to pay for treatment they can now spend time on reading books and watching birds instead of working. I don't say that happens with everybody, just one possible scenario. That's the thing with such global measures - they can't capture things they are not designed to capture.
> People make things much too complicated.

Pretty much the story of modern civilization. Just step outside and check the temperature, and look up at the clouds and guess if it's gonna rain later. Wear a sweat shirt or waterproof windbreaker if in doubt. Or you can just not care about getting mildly cold or wet. I say this as someone who spent 25 years in Minnesota.
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>Many drivers drive for both Lyft and Uber so what exactly is that brand? The app? I don't see a lot of brand to be loyal to.

I believe this is incorrect. Many drivers stick to one because they get a guaranteed wage if they're online for 50 minutes per hour and pick up every call they get.

As for customers, switching costs might be low, but unless there's a reason to switch, why would they?
What is O(n log n)? Time complexity? What about memory requirement? Last month I decreased memory requirement from 16GB to 100MB in one implementation of a "stable&fast" algorithm.
Really, using a function just because it's O(n log n) without understanding its characteristic is like a blind surgeon randomly amputating limbs because maybe it will help.
But that's fine for me, I have more work then, fixing software bugs made by incompetent* programmers is quite nice.

*incompetent - those who think they know something and are not willing to learn anything new
So now their little copy and paste story doesn't hold water. The DHS gave a bullshit explanation and now they're caught lying. This is a criminal government.
Iridium went spectacularly bankrupt and was bought by a new corporation that was formed to acquire all of its assets... And with a little bit of engineering for better handheld, maritime and airborne terminals you know what they discovered? Rich people actually DO like to be connected in the middle of the ocean or anywhere that cellular service is unreliable. I would challenge you to find a private yacht on the planet with a value of >$175,000 that does not have an Iridium phone on board. Or a cargo ship of any appreciable size (likely to have both Iridium and Inmarsat terminals on board). Most private jets too.
It's not all about environmental regulations. Coal plants, particularly the older ones most at risk of closure in the US, require significantly more labor per MWh generated than cleaner sources.

Here's a recently announced coal plant closure:
http://www.cortezjournal.com/article/20161001/News05/1610099...

...

the local job options could be pretty limited in far-western Montrose County once two of its major employers close their doors, eliminating what are currently 55 jobs at the plant and 28 at the mine.

...

According to the EIA, the Nucla plant generated 416,150 MWh in 2015 for an average annual power of 47.5 megawatts: http://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/browser/#/plant/527 That's an abysmal productivity per employee (or a fabulous job source, depending on your perspective): 0.86 real annualized megawatts per employee at the plant ; 0.57 megawatts per employee if you include the mining jobs.

A well-sited utility scale solar farm like Desert Sunlight can produce an average annualized power of 147 megawatts with just 15 full time employees, for a ratio of 9.8 megawatts per plant employee.

Replacing old coal plant generation with equal MWh from favorably sited solar requires only ~9% of the number of permanent employees, if Nucla is a typical case for an older coal plant. That's a nightmare number if you're relying on the coal industry for your livelihood, or a great opportunity if you're looking for cost reductions in a competitive electricity market. The fixed O&M costs for solar are already the lowest of any utility scale electricity source; once the capital costs get low enough it has winning costs across the board in any reasonably sunny area. That's for instantaneous cost of generation, anyway, which still has plenty of competitive opportunities in most regions before storage has to be considered.

Every industry loves to brag about "creating jobs" when beseeching governments but that's another way of admitting to "creating costs" (that are then passed on to buyers). The explosion in solar and wind jobs is a temporary effect of rapid expansion; most of that employment is in installation rather than running installed plants, manufacturing equipment from raw materials, or mining the raw materials. There's a lot less work in operating a solar plant than building it and the operational phase is a lot longer. If the American solar industry had already reached steady state (just enough construction to keep new capacity matched with retirements), I believe that the full life cycle labor intensity per MWh would be significantly lower than that of a steady state coal electricity system. And the labor intensity is declining further because a few major trends in PV tech (higher module efficiency, longer module life, longer inverter life), though not explicitly about reducing labor inputs, imply significant further labor reductions.
Give an up-to-date KDE a shot.
How does it do that without dropping open connections (does it drain)?
I can find other potential bias that would explain the difference in outcomes, like for example internal competition. If female and male doctors move different within the profession and compete on different aspects (a common finding in many other professions), the outcome will also reflect that. The result might thus simply be explained that male doctors compete more for medical positions in areas outside of elder care.

If that data is true, then we should see a reversed result in other medical areas. It could be that if you wanted the best result of surgery, pick a male doctor. If you want the best result afterward, pick a female doctor.
I think we are experiencing a fatigue in general when it comes to IT and technologies.
Sure technology evolves but you can learn only so much at the same time. People prioritize. If the technology is not appealing to me I won't use it but at the same time if the technology is massively used and pushed by corps and startup hype I have to at least take a look.
D did not attract enough people nor it has a backing of multi billion dollar corporation.
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Can't wait to try this out. It looks very good. It also looks very simplified which I like.
>Having a VM in picture decimates video and storage performance.

No, using shit virtualization software decimates those. You can pass through both the GPU and the disk directly to the VM.
I haven't downvoted a single thing in this thread. Other people are doing the downvoting.
That and the iPad Pro were real duds. Good concepts, underwhelming execution ("let's just slap iOS on a big-ass screen, it will do").
I don't think this is true. C++ matrix template libraries are competitive with anything that Fortran can do.
I get your point. One of my points is reading somebody else's code isn't for beginners. This looks aligned with your last sentence.
The problem is that there are a lot of s*s who go into marketing because it's easy to get away with being a bullshitter.

Unfortunately those are the types who are most vocal and up front, who you as technical founder always seem to meet.

I'd kill to meet a marketer whose skills of marketing (and selling) matched mine as an Developer.
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same reason a robot can't make 'art'
You can't say we reinvent our craft because at this point all we have is some vague empirical ways of pseudo-sciensing the shit out of everything. We don't invent yet-another-new-form-of-concrete either, but we do constantly rewrite our tools because apparently we can't stick to a good way of organising them that has worked for us in the past, we constantly lay abstraction upon abstraction with no second thought (web dev frameworks, everywhere!), and we provide half-assed, incomplete, untested "tools" for everyone else to colour up some bar on a mildly popular website.

Software development is not engineering, at this point, it's fashion. That's nothing to be ashamed of. Fashion has been developed and affected even mathematics. The difference is mathematicians had already figured out a solid, rigorous foundation for their work that allows them to indulge in fashionable techniques and tools. We haven't.

This is all irrelevant to the point I was making, though. :-)
Project Blue Beam. I wrote about half of this (and felt stupider afterwards): http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Project_Blue_Beam
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Why Gitlab CI? What makes it better than Jenkins?
>Oil is on the way out

Oil production and consumption is higher than ever and projected to keep increasing to 2030 (though I do not personally believe this).

The demand growth is driven by the transportation sector, particularly in the developing countries.

Despite the recent successes of electrical cars, auto fuel consumption is still rising, and the absolute growth in conventional auto sales is, incredibly, almost one hundred* times larger than growth in electric car sales (an extra 3.1 million conventional cars were sold worldwide in 2016 cf 2015).

And even though you could argue that we can see the beginning of the end for petrol powered cars, industries such as construction, mining and agriculture - not to mention air travel - are much harder to convert to electricity.

Sooo... I expect we will be reliant on oil for a while to come yet.

*edit: sorry that is probably wrong, according to some sources the electric vehicle market grew by almost 300,000 vehicles per year... although that depends just what is counted as "electric". In any case, electric cars have a huge gap to close just to arrest the climb in conventional vehicle sales.
>"so if we are to harness the tech in trees to figure out how the heck are they able to move water from roots to the top, we'll have a revolution on our hands"

I guess the problem is not one of replication (see [1]) but of throughput. A pump that replicates the tree transpiration process would be too slow for any real energy application.

[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/s/410833/synthetic-tree-hau...
Follow the links in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13213342 and have a look at the latest workshop proceedings: https://riscv.org/2016/12/5th-risc-v-workshop-proceedings/

The user-level ISA is fixed. The privileged-level ISA is in flux, but people obviously think there's enough there to make real hardware. To be fair the main problems with the privspec are to do with virtualization, and likely the first crop of hardware won't support that or will have only interim support.
I just want to mention that I loved the idea of BlueOcean at the begining. It looks sleak an works well with pipeline. However, for us it's unusable in production setting.
I know that it's still in beta, but as one example it doesn't support parameters. When user starts a job through BlueOcean it will fail.(Officialy they don't plan to implement it any time soon as I found out) That means It stays disabled in our jenkins. PS: For now its just a presentation tool for management :)
That one thing you want to achieve in 2017
Is the compiler smart enough to do strength reduction and get rid of the multiply when indexing? FORTRAN compilers have been doing that for multidimensional arrays since 1954.
On the contrary, it makes a lot more sense to build something in technology you have expertise in than it does to "use the right tool for the job". I'd rather have less tools to maintain at the expense of them being slightly worse fits.
Yes, and also when it is unrelated to your main service.
Well also don't forget that a Prius still burns fossil fuels to run. The Teslas aren't just shinier versions of hybrids.
This is a good suggestion. I'd also add answering questions on stackoverflow to this list. Often times you'll know the answer, but need to refresh yourself with the documentation before answering. Great way to keep skills sharp and help someone out.
Except when anything slightly unexpected happens (sleep etc), your external drive is not cleanly unmounted and you risk heavy data loss, whereas internal drives are always handled properly.
This is really not hard using expression templates.
Yeah it just looks like... a car.

Headlining a review with "it's ugly" just seems like a bad idea. Tastes change, and not everyone thinks the same things are ugly anyway. Focus on what it does, how it drives etc. and let people make up their own minds about whether it's too ugly to be purchased.
There was a fascinating discussion about Greece on HN about a month ago. Based on what some Greek posters were saying, it seemed like the Government has effectively nationalized the housing market by raising property taxes to 5-6% (through purposefully inflated appraisals). If you're a Government in desperate need of revenue then it makes sense, as land and houses are the only assets you can't move out of the country. That may be the endgame for many of these heavily indebted cities, states and countries.
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Consider also refurbished thinkpads.

Not always the fastest machines or the best battery life but for the tiny amount of $$ you pay you will get a surprisingly good development machine.
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I'm using a Thinkpad T460 with the latest Ubuntu and everything works out of the box. Even the smartcard reader works with my ID to sign my tax form.

Battery life is 12-14 hours of real work with the big battery (which costs something like 18$ more than the regular one).

I still use a Macbook Air for iOS development but I now boot the Thinkpad for everything else.

(Oh and if there's an engineer working for Spotify in the crowd, thanks for the Linux app!)
I like blue ocean - but wouldn't moving to something like Concourse CI or GOCD be a better idea in the end?
I guess my queries linking the dataset to HN posts contributed to this post success :)
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The response is weak and uninformative because it's posted on an internal message board, which might as well be a public Reddit thread as far as an exec is concerned. Did you expect him to post a picture of Jony Ive posing in front of 25 iMac ID prototypes? If he says anything else he's said too much.
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No, they chose between performance and thinness. Battery life would have been fine with a battery the size they used before.
What is 'build = (): string => {' ?

Or specifically ():, I know arrow functions.
Well, that's Jenkins in a nutshell. You usually need to extend Jenkins with lots of plugins because they provide functionality that should have been in core in the first place. Then you realize that those plugins are not properly sandboxed and often do not work well together (especially with multi-configuration builds), not to speak of how updating Jenkins becomes a nightmare with plugins breaking left and right because of some internal API changes which are not yet properly handled by some plugin.
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we too found that it doesn't support all of the original jenkin's features after we tried it , and its disabled at prod .
> "Meanwhile, there's little consistency between apps (and Elementary tries to remove menu bars as a concept, what's up with that?), and everything feels put together randomly by people with widely divergent ideas of what a kind of desktop environment to aspire to."

This is the product of dictatorship style development on one side (Windows, OSX) Vs democracy on the other side (Linux distros).

Democracy implies diversity.
Dictatorship implies uniformity.

Can you have the uniformity you are looking for within a democracy?

(or some would argue that anarchy would be a better metaphor for the Linux scene)
As a long-time Thinkpad user I would begrudgingly recommend one (begrudgingly because QA-wise they are the shadow of their former selves).

Compared to older Thinkpads, they do not have a wobbly battery or noisy fan any more, and you may still get a decent keyboard (or you may not, it's a bit of a lottery).

Thinkpads now have at-least-FHD matte displays available. And it's possible to upgrade the disk(s), RAM, and battery. The battery is now hot-swap-able, and battery models are compatible across most models covering 2 generations. I'm using both a T550, which I like, and X260, which is a PoS by design, and being able to grab any extra battery and swap it mid-way through a trip without switching the laptop off, is quite nice. Fedora is running on both without any issue.
I think the consensus is that Jenkins offers more power and flexibility at the cost being more complicated to set up. GitLab CI is easier to get up and running with and superbly integrated with GitLab (as one would hope).
It's Preact, the screenshotted code is from the Preact homepage.
Interesting. Swift runs circles around Python, except Regex-DNA. Problems with string manipulations?
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It's more like "an opinionated step-by-step guide to bootstrapping a startup, so i can use it myself", with "study case" of actually building one (as the course progresses).