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What do you gain by having fluid variables rather than parameters? As I understand it, they serve the same purpose, and the difference between them is just an implementation detail.
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Devs always claim this, but there is no evidence to suggest if you throw additional money the problem that it would be solved any faster.
Federal judges serve a long time, there may still be some picked by the first Bush on the bench. One president, hopefully with only one term, can't have that big an impact on the entire federal judiciary. And federal judges have their liberal and conservative tendencies but they tend to be pretty non-partisan.
I must admit I hadn't thought of Las Vegas as a champion of sustainability, but maybe I should revise my views.
Not only graphics, HAL in Windows NT era was (as the name says) a set of common abstractions for talking to different hardware in standardized way
Great idea. I might get a cheesegrater Mac when my MBP dies and then a cheaper laptop to remote?
Yeah there is no good reason why the US hasn't.

Common usage shows that Americans have no issues adopting the metric system, just very selectively. Americans currently enjoy:

1 Liter and 2 Liter bottles of Coke

Muscle cars with engines that are specified in liters

5K and 10K races

drug prescriptions in which doses are specified in milligrams

750 ML bottles of booze

Monthly power bills that are specified in Killowatt hours
So, why GC instead of region memory allocation like in Rust? (and some other less known languages)
We're not restricted by the researcher's location or their citizenship (many of our users are international) but we're focused on aggregating funders based in the US.
If you can build your own, and don't want to stick to the apple ecosystem; the 4 core intel cpu + 970 gfx starts around a thousand:
https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/VhyP8K

If you can wait until February, AMD Zen is coming out, so no matter which camp (amd/intel) you are in, all prices should go down for the given level of performance.
I am reminded of Fulton Sheen's comments on Jesus - a man that claimed to be God is either a liar, a lunatic, or God; to say such a man is a great teacher but not God stretches the limit of rationality.

You can be a liar (or a lunatic) and still be a great teacher.
Bolt/Model 3 will be equivalent in terms of price

It's an old, yellowed page out of the Microsoft book: "what we have in the pipeline is better than what you can buy today!"

We know nothing of the as-yet-unshipped Model 3. Let's hold off on those side-by-side comparisons. Because if you want to compare, we should weight the "can buy today" column quite heavily.
Because my Surface Pro 4 can run 3 1920x1200 monitors just fine

...

/saunters off to rethink his position on the Surface Pro

//wallet begins weeping in his back pocket
Big fan of both Redux and RxJS.. Really looking fwrd to trying this out- looks like a great way of bringing them together!
Ask HN: What toys have turned into tools for you?
I did an experiment for a friend recently to prove that a USB foot pedal could be mapped to Photoshop functions, in order to retrieve his left hand from command-z on his laptop and put it back onto his cintiq. It worked, of course.

Not really have the same need, I have found myself creating keyboard maps for other programs - my foot has muscle memory for Youtube's 10 second fast forward. When I am in consumer mode, I can lean back with my hands bundled up in my hoodie pockets and not freeze them in this 48 degree New England house on winter savings mode.

What are some toys you have that were elevated to tool status? Computers, commute, cozy, craft, doesn't matter.
> Why am I throwing away hardware that I like and trust for the relentless march to the future?

It's all part of change. It's inconvenient(change) when done well, and absolutely show-stopping when done poorly. Apple took a ham-fisted approach to this, and decided you should go through that right now. Not a lot of choice left to people like you(those with significant hardware investments) beyond using refurb gear, or spending a large sum on a brand new set of hardware and accessories(which will go through this same cycle again in the future).

It kind of all stinks, but there isn't a terrible lot us little people can do about it.
This was standard in Netscape 4.x on, if I remember correctly.
> It's closer to python notebooks than a note taking device.

It's both, and not limited to Python. What mix of capabilities you use in a given document is up to you.
And they say crime doesn't pay
I suspect that agriculture, with its well-defined fields, repetitive motions, and a healthy disregard to the exterior, would be easier to convert to electricity. If refueling a tractor is just removing one battery pack and loading another, it also saves time when the time is at a huge premium.

Locally-generated solar electric power to charge the batteries is also easier in a farm environment, and makes direct financial sense.

The same dismounted tractor batteries, when not in heavy use, e.g. during winter, can work as a "power wall" to supplement the solar power during dusk when days are shorter.
macOS is great because it combines a flawless UNIX system (with homebrew, the only package manager I've been satisfied with) and a nice GUI with apps that work/look great by default.

Linux has a massive lack of good apps. Simple things like a decent calendar app on Linux doesn't seem to exist.
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Instrumentl is used pretty heavily by nonprofits, however nonprofits working in the fields of science education and environment (at the moment). What fields are you working in?
> well-thought-out codebase.

Which in real life means a single developer ownership codebase.
> That said, what is the purpose of offering your anecdotal experience if you acknowledge that it is an n=1 datapoint?

I'm not sure I understand your question...the grandparent of my comment noted an aspect of the article, someone replied to that casting doubt, and I replied (that fwiw) I had observed similar behavior.

Historically one couldn't draw conclusions without an exhaustive study, does that now also apply to anecdotes on forums? I've read hundreds of anecdotes on HN so far this morning, are all of those inappropriate?
Sure.

var st:SoundTransform = new SoundTransform(1.0);
st.leftToLeft = st.leftToRight = 0.0;
st.rightToLeft = st.rightToRight = 0.0;
SoundMixer.soundTransform = st;

Mutes the audio, but if a VPAID component naively checks:

SoundMixer.soundTransform.volume

they will get 1.0. Most don't even bother checking though.
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Look into the Dell Precision 7xxx series. Expensive, and bulky and heavy enough to kill a man with one nice hard swing. But they are meant as serious portable workstations, and come with the fastest processors and GPUs, up to 32 GiB of memory, and bulky hard drives. They're not trendy terminals for hipsters' cloud dev environments. They can be purchased equipped with Ubuntu off Dell's site (in the USA, I dunno about other countries).
You really think that the problem with US schools is... religion?
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Replacing the stock heatsink with something that is overengineered for air (Phantecks , etc), results in minimal need for fan speed, and overall reduction in noise levels.
No offense taken. I've been where that poster has been though. "If you are willing to change your reality" isn't always as easy as it sounds. I could have easily escaped, for example, if I moved away to a different city. But, I didn't want to uproot my children.

I did eventually escape, but there really wasn't a safe way to do so quickly.
This is probably due to the improved storage iops of a PCIe flash drive more than the CPU.
> Not to mention, the screen was full of smudge marks after awhile.

This! I can't even get to the other complaints myself because this one triggers my OCD almost immediately into the experience.
Call me when "brew install visualstudio" works.
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I'm going to go out on a limb and say you just have a terrible personal experience with shitty jobs.

My current (UK) company is great to work for.
... and now you know why the minimum DateTime value in SQL Server is Jan 1, 1753. It's the start of the first full year after the United States (colonies) transition to the Gregorian calendars.

(And, BTW, if you do have a need for older dates, it's very troublesome to project the Gregorian calendar back before its adoption-- use the Julian day count method instead. It's goofy but well-adopted and well-supported.)
A maxed out iMac would depreciate within 5 years, and any particular part would render your entire system unusable for week(s). Three years later and Apple adds a new feature that for the slightest reason requires an entire hardware upgrade because you can't upgrade components individually. Then factor in that the thin iMacs have terrible heat dissipation which means the CPU can't run at full speed without overheating.

That top of the line iMac costs four grand while a Hackintosh costs half that and gets you a top of the line graphics card and the ability to keep on par with the top of the line.
This seems well-researched, and there are some reasonable points, but your section #4 and conclusion really discredit the rest of the article.

Section 4 describes how racism (or tribalism or whatever you want to call it) is really natural and healthy, with no references except your own "common sense".

> Now imagine growing up and looking forward to playing on the same football team as your elders in front a cheering hometown crowd. And then that dream is taken away from you by some unelected judge. At his order, another tribe invades, takes your spot on the football team and dates the girl you were wooing. You are not going to like that very much. You might want to join with your tribal brothers and brawl with this opposing tribe in the lunch room. And of course the other tribe is going to fight back.

What the fuck? Why would I want to fight people for being better at football than me? Why would I start a race war because some guy with different skin than me is dating a girl I like? How can you possibly see this as acceptable? You can argue that it's natural, but natural doesn't mean good.

Do you understand that not everybody thinks like this? If a black guy gets promoted over me, I don't get angry at the black tribe for invading my homeland. That line of thinking is, as you say, cartoonishly racist.

And then in your conclusion, you correctly identify racial disparities, and then sort of argue that's the way it should be. The fact that black people do worse than white people in school is a problem worth solving, not a convenient method of grouping students, right? The only way this status quo could be acceptable is if you think black kids are genetically predisposed to be less intelligent. Your article on racism does bring that up, but I can't tell if it's a belief you hold. If you do believe that, you should be more clear about it in this school segregation article, otherwise your conclusions don't make sense.
I'd recommend ZimWiki http://www.zim-wiki.org/ - a desktop app. Keep can't keep up with lots of notes :-)

ZW is speedy, portable, and extendable.
I tried to find an explanation and only found a fellow seeker of the truth [0] that also couldn't find the answer [1]. He probably tried to search for it more than me.

I found the Apple source code for ncal [2], but no answers there. Also it is funny that Latin line has the month entered in octal (05).

[0] https://hackingtom.blogspot.de/2012/04/date-of-easter-and-nc...

[1] https://xkcd.com/979/

[2] https://opensource.apple.com/source/misc_cmds/misc_cmds-32/n...
Hideous gamer bling or as I like to call it "Lambo vents".
The problem is you either need the equivalent of the Rust borrow-checker to validate that the partition boundaries are respected or the partitions are just hints which makes the scope of optimizations much smaller.

It isn't GC but NeXTSTEP had allocation regions under this theory; that's where alloc:withZone: came from. In reality programmers mixed up the zones and there were way too many crashes as a result. Without some way to enforce the separation you just don't get much benefit.
There is a shortage, but its largely imaginary. It would be more accurate to call it a talent gap. The talented candidates are certainly out there, but there are far more candidates available who are less talented. Increasing the pay rate for talented candidates does not magically convert somebody with fewer skills into somebody with awesome skills.... so therefore there must be a shortage (sarcasm).
The best word I can come up with describe Toyota's car designs is "inoffensive".

You apparently have not seen the latest incarnation. Move over, Pontiac Aztek.
I think part of it is that XMPP dates back to the late 90s, when we thought XML was a good thing (not realising that it is, in fact, a kind of information technology antimatter, which annihilates anything it touches, leaving nothing but bugs and hurt feelings behind).

The protocol in action feels crufty, and the massive number of optional extensions means that you're never quite certain if your client, your server, your correspondent's server and your correspondent's client will all play ball.

Then you toss in the fact that all the big players have decided that walled gardens are just awesome, and the fact that no-one today would touch anything using XML with a 1,024-foot pole — and thus there's just no ecosystem for it anymore.

(as an aside, I believe that in a century our children will consider the digression to XML & JavaScript to be as inexplicable as we do China's decision to scuttle its fleet of exploration)
I'd love to see -- or even better, read :) -- about how you "compose on resources".
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Do they all still have abysmal screen resolutions? All the ones I keep seeing have resolutions from the 1990s.
> Stop trolling

Whoa. That's uncivil and a borderline personal attack, which isn't allowed on HN. Please assume good faith when commenting here.
And even if not, to say that a man is a god does stretch the limit of rationality too.
The new MacBook Pros outsold competing laptops five days after release.

https://9to5mac.com/2016/11/09/2016-macbook-pro-sales/

The article linked here doesn't name any sources, just vague "people familiar withs" and "inside sources."
"People understand you cannot possibly protect them from every single possible negative outcome at a conference."
Actually, they do.
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> It is far far faster to scroll through a web page with the touchpad.

This is true if you are the only one using it. If people are standing around you or over your shoulder, and you are all interacting with the screen - then a touchable screen is more quickly usable than shuffling who-has-the-keyboard-mouse. Not saying you are wrong, but there are scenarios where a touch screen is the "best" of the available IO options.
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Not quite, it handles locales too.
You should (all Java devs) take a shot at being a gopher.
As much as I like Iridium (and own an emergency handset) I think it was much more they learned that if you don't have to pay any of the capital costs for a satellite constellation and launch costs, and the DoD gets into an unexpected war on a side of the planet where they have an extreme need for more communications bandwidth - you can pull off a marginal business using what amounts to a government bailout.

Iridium existing as it is today has pretty much nothing whatsoever to do with it's commercial viability. It exists largely due to the original investors giving away a free network to the current operators, and an "anchor tenant" customer that was willing to more or less fund the network's opex for a number of years.
Would this be a firebase competitor? If so, how does it compare?
Out of curiosity, if you are such a OS X/homebrew fan, why not try a Hackintosh setup?

I don't know if you can get a dual-boot working well with OS X, but worst case scenario you can have a HD for each OS (after all, you have a desktop now and no longer a notebook) and boot the Linux disk in case the Hackintosh starts to show any signs of trouble.
Awesome! Although the dream was to live completely asynchronously and divorce oneself from the oppresive orthodox time keeping system, I think a reminder of time left in a week is useful, as a work week is a real unit of measurement, the human body/mind can only go for so long without rest.

Maybe blocksyear:blocksweek or blocksweek:blocksyear

I hope people fork Maker Time and innovate on it. So happy I shared this today.
Another that my wife noticed - I have been obsessed with smart bulbs for 14 months, brand agnostic. I did a f.lux script that makes the office lights all start faking a sunset every night at 9pm, up until midnight when the flicker out. It doesn't follow the season, it just follows a static day.

It might be completely unrelated, but I have been falling asleep for some time now. I don't expect they are actually circadian invoking quality, but even if just placebo, I find myself winding down as the lights take their last couple hours to fade away.
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Fedora XFCE spin, or CentOS 7.

Edit: Fedora on workstaton / laptop, CentOS 7 on a dev server where a desktop has utility. Not on production boxes.
Even the most common sense things in life need to be researched to appease the clueless. Yet here you are trying to discredit the study as well. God help us.
Software on one OS is not the same on another OS, despite cross-platform apps getting better.

What else could I run Logic on btw?
I'm not saying that I prefer the soldered-in versions, but back when I had a Mac with user-replaceable memory, the RAM would get unseated from time to time as my machine got jostled around in my bag and I'd have to open it up to fix it. I imagine that the Genius Bar saw a non-zero number of people bringing in computers that wouldn't boot because of this. Also, soldered-in saves space and thus helps with their pathological need to make MBPs thinner.

It's hostile to users who want to upgrade RAM, but pretty friendly to everyone else. It gets into the point of this article...when Apple looks at both demographics, the group that doesn't upgrade is much larger. Apple used to make decisions that would cater to the more non-mainstream use cases of their pro users. Now, they're focused almost entirely on the mainstream users.
Let me see... My laptop has a DVD drive, USB 3 (A), HDMI, SD, and microSD. I already had to buy a DVI adaptor, and already had a VGA one.

It works well. I just miss a 4rt USB port.
I would love a sci-fi tv show exploring this idea.
Experience (i.e. the number of memory-related bugs) suggests otherwise.
FTA: And they compared these women's brains with those of 19 first-time fathers, 17 men without children and 20 women who had never given birth.

So the findings seem to be unique to mothers.
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... all of whom pay kickbacks. Meaning you get less car for your money. And even if you're one of the ones who plays the dealerships against each other, that's just to reach a reasonable price, not get a deal.

It's not like Tesla is trying to put the indie repairman out of business, they're trying to sidestep the big car companies' control of the industry even in the distribution side.
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Lots of people die for lots of different reasons. That they die doesn't validate their beliefs.
In defence of my advice with which you seem to disagree.

Avoid math stuff:
By math stuff i mean "category theory", you don't need it to do useful stuff and it's better to avoid it when you learn the language and get comfortable with it. You also seem to imply that (pure) functions are somehow math-y, i am not sure most of the developers see a function definition and think math.

Don't do to much IO:
I didn't say "any", i said too much. It's a way to avoid getting thrown at the deep end of the pool (monad transformers) when taking your first steps. The two most popular Haskell tools/projects, Pandoc and PostgREST have very little IO in them, and yet they are immensely useful.

About biting the bullet:
I think expressions like these propagate the notion that somehow haskell is harder then other languages and you just have to expect that and get used to it, thus ppl don't even bother an run away when they hear Haskell. In my personal experience (following the 2 things above), after 2-3 months of learning Haskell, i was able to do this https://github.com/ruslantalpa/skin which 1 month later became the base for the current PostgREST core. Sure the was refactoring and such (with the help of more experienced haskell devs) but the fact is, a few months into the language i was able propose and implement deep changes to useful Haskell tools. My ability to do those things did not come from me being some kind of genius (I mostly did PHP and JS all my career) but precisely because Haskell gives you such powerful tools and is easy once you give it more then 2 weeks of your time.

What was your path to learning Haskell? Why do you feel like you had to "bite the bullet"?
Yes, xcode CANNOT refactor C++. Let's all just use Borland products pre-2005 instead.
"Basic employment" sounds a lot like "the military" (or, in the USA, national guard etc). While they don't accept literally anyone, they will take mostly anyone and give them a job that they can perform reasonably well. Sometimes this is flying planes, but more often it's mopping floors and keeping track of inventory. To paraphrase a friend, the military can take somebody that's dumb as fuck and fit them into a little box where they perform one simple task well.

Unfortunately it also comes with a substantial loss of rights, which will probably become a feature of universal basic income programs anyway...
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Apple's hardware can't even handle serious VR, so the usefulness of spending time on Metal for it is quite moot.
Yeah, but he also wanted the 1TB ultra-fast SSD option. The comparable standalone SSD modules at that speed go for $800 or so.