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This has absolutely nothing to do with design documents.
As a developer you are not supposed to start working on whatever you like, you need to follow the big plan.
Is it really like this in google with developers wasting their time just writing design documents on whatever they like that will obviously be rejected rather than doing the work that is expected from them?
I don't think this is very productive with people working on a whim instead of following a plan in a coordinate way.
If a given PR would be acceptable except for its maintenance burden, and you do not expect the PR submitter to provide sufficient help with maintenance to compensate, you could request the difference from them as payment for acceptance of the PR.
NASA animation shows the rapid decline in the Arctic's perennial sea ice
The U.S. has fallen to fascism, where will you go?
One problem with this would be that copyright holders would expect more from the state in terms of enforcement of their copyright when they pay for it. I don't see how that could reasonably be achieved, so it would be difficult to convince people to this system
Do you mean basically this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Science_in_Engineeri... ?

Canada is not on the list so that's why I'm asking.
EDIT.COM was actually just a shortcut to QBASIC.EXE with the /EDITOR flag
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What is Firefox's sync lacking?
See the video again, the Tesla car stopped way before the other cars stopped, probably it is because the speed wasn't more. the car at the extreme right stopped _after_ the accident car turned twice, tesla almost stopped in an instant.
Something to consider is that many people in CS grad school pay no tuition at all via grad assistantships, either research or teaching.
1) You have to train the machine with the known solutions. From the article:

"The team spent 75 days continuously recording both audio and video footage of 22 bats that were split into two groups and housed in separate cages. By studying the video footage, the researchers were able to unpick which bats were arguing each other, the outcome of each row, and sort the squabbles into four different bones of contention: sleep, food, perching position and unwanted mating attempts.

The team then trained the machine learning algorithm with around 15,000 bat calls from seven adult females, each categorised using information gleaned from the video footage, before testing the system’s accuracy."

2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decipherment_of_Egyptian_hiero...

"The decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs was gradually achieved during the early 19th century."
I start a lot of things like that (currently trying to learn Rust). A lot of the time other things take over in my spare time and I never actually get anywhere. Having a job where you can put consistent practice into new technologies makes a big difference. I week at work is probably equal to more than a month of my spare time.
The website he links to has contact info on it, if that helps. :)
This NASA animation... source CNN ?
Indeed. It's highly customizable.
I think we need to change the scales and put it in context:

http://mortgage-x.com/images/graph/fhfb_contract_rate.gif

According to the data, yes really.
This is very tricky moral and philosophical ground. Sure, from a practical perspective most educated people believe the evidence that the holocaust did happen and Google ranking conspiracy sites highly in a way lended Google's credibility to those sites. The holocaust is a case I think most people can agree on. But isn't it kind of a dark road to go down to silence a dissenting opinion even if it is "crazy"? First this, then maybe people start demanding they down rank the global warming deniers and then before you know it a political party that is not in power, porn that is too weird, etc. Does Google really want to be the one that has to decide what the truth is? Then again, do we really want average people to be the ones to decide what the truth is? That's the simplest course but is not working that well right now. This is a tough question I don't think we have the answer to yet.
Sound like Java also. Python is fairly easy to at least learn the basics of how its cogs are spinning. I'm not saying it can't happen in Python but to me it seems that it happens more often in Java community.
Your feeling is probably correct. The NY Times ran an interesting piece in June covering research indicating that some cases of PTSD might actually be the manifestation of traumatic physical brain injury: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/magazine/what-if-ptsd-is-m...

Obviously this is an area that warrants careful study, and not jumping to conclusions. I don't doubt that many, perhaps most, cases of returned soldier dysfunction (sorry for the clumsy phrase) are the psychological after-effects of being exposed to the horrors of war. But this new research means we also shouldn't immediately rule out physical damage to the brain as a possible cause. Incidentally this research brings us full-circle, back to some of the theories during WWI about 'shell-shocked' soldiers.
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I think Stas Sergeev wanted a place to do bigger changes to dosemu at the same time as Bart Oldeman has been stepping back / busy with other things.

So Stas made a dosemu2 repo on github, with the additional benefits of being a more modern development environment than sourceforge.

It's worth having a play with, some of the older more knarly parts of the source are getting dealt with.
We're already living in a world where copyright enforcement is nearly impossible and the effects seem minimal, if any. People do want to reward creators in general.
art but it is not an industry and also psycholgists. apparently it takes a human to understand a human better
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I am from Kerala and genuinely curious - why Kerala? And why Argentina for that matter?
I suspect the "wizards" are likely to be those who own the means of production.
Does it count as escaping now he stuck in Russia?
It has nothing to do with WeChat. qcloud is developed by TEG (Tech. Engineering Group), and the cloud service for WeChat is developed by WXG (Weixin Group).
"While taxes are paid" is, technically, some sort of limited time.
Far away from where American agents could find, or effect force, on you. Militantly independent local governments and financial systems, et cetera.
I recently started playing ALttP again too and one thing that was really neat to see was the hitboxes of the swords. You can only hold your sword in four directions but youcan riposte by bumping against your enemy's sword and then hit their body without touching their sword. The precision in the synchronisation of what's seen on the screen and what's actually happening was so simple, yet so fascinating.
How is it amazing? Nobody ever said producing medicine is expensive, being able to sell it is.

This is at best a puff piece attempting to defame Shkreli instead of pointing the blame where it belongs.
Actually BSing in tech makes you look very poor if you don't come out with a convincing answer.

(I listened to a training video given by a Marketing Cloud consultancy at my work. Someone asked "what is FTP" after seeing that as an option to upload files. Lots waffle including "the cloud" and no actual answer. The person asking the question was no wiser, and my opinion of the consultant went way down).
I was a long time Firefox user until the start of this year. I think I started using Pheonix as my main browser around 0.5 or 0.6. However over the years Firefox has got heavier and slower and taken way too long to evolve. It sucked when I realised I hadn't opened Firefox for a whole month. Now I just stay in Chrome as it is, for me, the best browsing experience. It is fast and looks good. It might be a large program in terms of install size but it doesn't feel bloated. The UI is snappy, scrolling is instant, etc. I do miss a few things about Firefox but not enough to slow down my whole browsing experience. I have moved on from the huge UI changing extensions. Now I just keep things minimal with just a content blocker and one or two other things for convenience.

What I don't understand about Firefox is that Mozilla have a lot of money but progress seems very slow. Sure they get there in the end (or most of the way) but it just seems to take forever. Why?
So this is what Google Ultron looks like. Neat.
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That's... scary.
Yes, I'll almost certainly star a project if I forked it. I certainly star way more than I fork, I assume most people would do the same.
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The Austrian side of my family fled Anschluss [1]. Within this context, the hyperbolic ("I am upset about our political system") and literal ("I will likely be killed soon") uses of the term "fascist" are meaningful.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anschluss
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> wouldn't schooling for education

I agree that there are not-yet-mainstream concepts for schools/universities/etc. that should be covered by public money as well, at least partly. Currently, this exploration happens entirely in the private sector, which is simply inadequate (read: too small and too slow) for the society to move forwards with its educational system. A society should actively invest into improving their education the same way they improve on science, and that investment is clearly lacking in Germany and many other countries. We advance the educational topics, but not the educational system itself.

But: Investing into classic schools and universities is still better than not heavily investing into education at all, which is the only real-world alternative I've seen so far. (And I would be glad to be introduced into a real-world third alternative.)

> Yes there's some education conferred along with the schooling

Some? Maybe I was just lucky, but at school and especially at university I got a very good foundation and always felt well prepared to educate myself later on (through books, websites, technical manuals, and so on). Contrary to conventional wisdom, I learned more about critical thinking and judging sources in school/university than anywhere else. Not in all lectures, but in enough lectures that I would otherwise have missed. Without that initial foundation, educating myself later on would have been much harder.
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Interesting. Oddly enough, I used to have this massive custom sofa which was a real PITA to move... could only fit in storage unit if stood up on a roller dolly and so on. I bet there'll soon be an app using CV/ML to figure out if a sofa will fit/which way to move it. ;)
That's where I saw it. I guess this is the source https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13276504
Unwanted mating attempts haha

Ayyeee
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Is it harder to create a brain than a body?

Is it harder to create generalists than specialists?

The fine grained resolution we have with respect to actuation and tactile sensing might be harder nut to crack than honing down on the regularities in our cortex. A teacher for example needs to guide your hand when you learn to write or prevents you quietly from drowning when you learn to swim.

Even a truck driver might be more a generalist than a specialist. A truck driver jumps out of his truck to unload, fill in papers, prevent people hitchhiking in the back, prevent theft, taking detours, finding an address even with errors in the administration.

I also doubt sincerely that we will be able to tune the AI in such way that they will be content with all the jobs humans do not do anymore. Are we able and willing to codify a society on intellect? Will we be willingly creating unambitious AIs for particular dull tasks?
>"How would you even unseat Chrome?"

I won't directly mention the project that's best placed to do that, as it's not yet ready for primetime, but let's just say Chrome may not have the performance crown in the next 5 years.

Also, aside from on the Mac, what's holding back Firefox? I accept that the Mac version seems to have more problems than the Windows or Linux versions (I have no technical explanation for this, it's just what I've heard anecdotally), but on Windows it seems to be a solid choice. Is it just about momentum for Chrome rather than superiority at this point?
That's what Valve is doing for their games (see their Source engine docs.)

However, you don't always send the entire "world", but a delta-encoded version of it (the server keeps a history of the world state and a timestamp for each client, so it can send only what has changed since the last acknowledged packet.)

Depending on the game you have to do a bit more work (interpolating changes so it always looks smooth even if packets are dropped, latency compensation, etc.)
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As a parent: caring for a child for any amount of time is the obvious thing. It would require almost complete human replication in ai form
Sorry. Couldn't make it past the first sentence. Was that written by a random word generator?
My previous comment seem to be disappeared(this isn't a surprise on the worst forum ever) so, quick and short reply:

> The point of functional programming is to avoid shared mutable state by eliminating all side effects

Nope: FP = use only mathematical expressions. Rust can't describe or simulate mutability with its features. Which is what FP langs are doing(mostly).

> and using a rich type system that's hopefully easy for the programmer to use.

Rust's typesystem isn't rich at all: it only has a struct, an enumeration and a pseudo-typeclass.

> Rust avoids unsafe shared mutable state, without requiring the avoidance of all side effects, and by using an even richer static-analysis system that tracks exactly what side effects are safe.

Look for category theory, uniqueness types, the disjoint-check(only in Nim), the actor model and software transactional memory. Rust isn't the only one in this game.
One thing that annoys me at present is NoSQL experience (or similar).

I know enough about relational databases and NoSQL to know that unless you have a specific use case, relational is likely a better choice. If you are not scaling beyond one server, and want to view your data from different angles its almost certainly a better choice. As such I haven't really got a great deal of NoSQL experience. I will build a better application than someone who does resume driven development, but won't get past many HR drones.
This would be a matter for each state who controls their own electors. They don't have to be elected by popular vote except by the laws of the specific states.

However the aftermath of openly question the authenticity would be devastating to the country - and therefore unlikely to be attempted. The best strategy - given where we are is to build enough doubt to weaken Trump's mandate, yet not enough to throw the entire system into chaos. Though even that is an extremely risky game.
> this will add Google to the list of companies which take contributions from OSS and make money off it.

There is nothing wrong with making money off open source software if the license allows it (and most licenses do allow it).

If developers don't want other people to make money off their project, they are free to use a license that would prevent it.
I don't have the newest models, either. On my devices, there's an enclosure fixated with a philips screw. I removed the enclosures, so the SATA bay works essentially like a pc card slot for me.
When you are interviewing for a specialist post (and most posts are specialist to some degree) you are looking for evidence that the candidate can do that particular job. Therefore a course that indicates that they have the particular skills required is highly desirable!
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Nobody ever mentions that UDP has one additional feature that TCP doesn't: preserving of message boundaries.
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Not everyone needs to be a senior developer on day one. I know I've got plenty of work which isn't making the best use of my skills but still needs doing, so the next hire will probably be a bootcamp graduate who we can slowly train up, and who will find the grunt work interesting while we do. We get the easy stuff done for less, and they get to develop their career, which seems like a pretty good deal to me.
> But it's subsidized; so people who aren't getting an education are paying for those who do.

This is just another way of saying that the society cares about this issue!

To put an analogy: When a society cares about parenthood and children, non-parents pay some share to parents. This is how financial solidarity works. How else should that work? By telling parents that they do a great job, that you appreciate what they do for society, but not giving a single cent to them? That would be hypocritical, not solidary.
It depends on the service. Some services are only aimed at business which have their own domain, but yes I agree this is a pretty drastic step to take.
Git is intended to work over email.

How do you close an email PR ?
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Yeah, this is what I do, too. Also keep in mind, though, that you'll need to exfil your fork if you think it might disappear at all from Github. They yank the original repo and all of its forks for example if they get a DMCA notice. Years ago, I set up automation that pulls repos that I've forked, so for me, the act of forking ensures I get a copy of the code imported into my personal Gitlab instance on my home LAN.
You are not answering his concern at all, just talking about your preferences.
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What stack?
Ask HN: Side projects to generate leads for mobile app projects?
I run a mobile app agency, sales is always challenging. It's difficult to get leads about projects. People suggested that I try paid lead services - I didn't and it is actually 0% effective.

I have come to realize that cold emailing doesn't work. Also the work that our agency has got till now has all been through client references and from personal network. I do keep tapping these for leads but they are not very frequent.

I came across few strategies where the agency works on few side projects which can generate leads. A good example is by crew.co - they've create two such side projects:

1. How Much To Make An App - http://howmuchtomakeanapp.com/
2. How to Build an Online Business - https://crew.co/how-to-build-an-online-business/

I am leaning to spend time building such a project. Could anyone recommend any similar ideas for such side projects?

Thanks!
Simplicity can never happen without enforcement. If there is no way to automatically enforce the use of this simple subset of C++ then it's impossible to use it on a real project where you have more than 1 developer. A lot of people seem to think it's a trivial, handwavable exercise to come up with this subset - but no-one has ever managed to actually do it. http://robert.ocallahan.org/2016/06/safe-c-subset-is-vapourw...
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I have strong hopes for Servo performance wise.

But my guess is that Google will become more and more monopolistic, more and more close in disguise. And closer to the big companies interest with DRM and such.

And if Mozilla keeps being Mozilla, they will be a natural alternative.
FinTech Made in Switzerland (2016)
Your graph shows the same as the one from smallnamespace: 2003 was a good year to refinance because rates were at a bottom.
One time someone posted a "concurrency challenge", and I spent a couple minutes typing out the STM calls that solved it. They balked, for some combination of: that doesn't work in C++, you're not really following the spirit of the challenge, etc. Later they posted a 100+ line solution using condition variables.

Lesson: the "real requirements" typically include that the solution doesn't require learning anything new or weird.
FinTech Made in Switzerland (2016) is the first documentary film about Swiss FinTech. It seeks solutions to the challenges of advanced economies to stay competitive in the digital age. All interviews from the research phase of the film are accessible in full length on the website of the film, www.fintech-documentary.com, which makes the project the first interactive knowledge portal about Swiss FinTech.
For me it just never works. It never did during the last 3 years I tried it. The tab just don't sync, and I don't have the time or will to play the debug game.
To back up your point, they already have been:

* https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–U.S._RQ-170_incident

* https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/dec/17/skygrabber-ame...
This is an important data point surveys like this ignore.
Very odd incentives.
You refer to the interviewers as 'peers' but that's very much not the relationship that exists in an interviewer. The context is different, therefore the behaviour is different.

What you're describing is a confidence bias filter, dressed as an objective test.
One notable thing about the dominance of Chrome (and the decline of Firefox) is that WebKit is now a de facto standard. The desktop and mobile versions of Chrome and Safari are based on it, and according to Microsoft, "any Edge-WebKit differences are bugs that we’re interested in fixing." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Edge). That covers every major desktop and smartphone browser except Firefox.

At some point, developers are going to target their stylesheets for WebKit only, because Firefox rendering differences are going to be seen as nuisances that aren't worth overcoming in order to reach a tiny minority of users. Firefox will have to work toward WebKit compatibility as Microsoft Edge does.

WebKit is doing pretty well for something that was originally part of KDE.
Part of what you're describing is displayed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd6qN167wKo
Define "supported" and "long"...
It seems to work by printing lots of `=` beneath, and then hiding the overflow. Inspecting and changing the title's width reveals more `=` and makes it possible to display half of one.
Hosted vs unhosted really.

I mean you can ask, why use EC2 instead of your own machine at the local data-center?

Managed services typically already have taken design considerations for failover, DR, and scaling, so you don't have to.
Why are css content characters not copy/pasteable?

That seems broken.
Firefox already does that, started long ago. They even added support for -webkit prefixes for the same reasons.
Is anyone else concerned that this means IT can choose to hold back the version of Chrome in their organizations? Auto-updating Chrome has been low key one of the best solutions to the pain of backwards compatibility with older browsers. In the past we not only had to worry about compatibility between browsers, we had to worry about compatibility between browser versions. Further, auto-updating Chrome as dramatically reduced the time from new web feature implementation to widespread deployment and thus usability. I take it that turning off auto-updating will not be widespread, but I'd rather not risk it
If I have been correctly informed, because psychopathy (and narcissism?) are over-represented in positions of power.
As I can tell you from experience, they don't work all of the time, and it is a source of frustration for front-end developers I know who need to work with it.
I don't understand what the outrage around this is. Google's goal has always been to organise all knowledge around a query box, and that's exactly what it's doing. If it understands that the holocaust did happen, why should it display that it didn't?
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