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This discussion is flawed as it assumes Switzerland is like the rest of Europe. The buying power here is at least two times the buying power of people in UK, Germany or anywhere else in Europe. It did not take part in both world wars and did many strategic things right in the last 200 years.

You can read more about Switzerland in my blogpost "8 reasons why I moved to Switzerland to work in tech": https://medium.com/@iwaninzurich/eight-reasons-why-i-moved-t...

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That's why I called it practical. It's more like a long term investment where everyone wins (not only you). That's why it can be considered selfless.
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But is that life worth $7500? More seriously, is a life that costs more to save more valuable?

I think the answer to both of these is an unqualified 'no.'
Appreciate the recommendation, really (I’m one of the devs at Snipcart). We’re actually going to publish a piece on how static & JAMstack set ups affect clients in modern projects real soon—we have a strong dev shop/agency background so that aspect’s always been interesting to us. Would love to hear your thoughts on it so we’ll try to share on HN too; we’ll be focusing a lot on both “static” CMS & headless/API-first CMS like Prismic & Contentful. Have you tried these BTW, or do you find them overkill for small-scale projects?
I've used Pony in production. Not a language I would describe as just a prototype, when the compiler is almost as advanced as Rust's.

As to the ease of compiling it... I've always compiled it from source, to track some bleeding-edge features, and compiling ponyc is a breeze.
Ruby's main repository is on a subversion server at svn.ruby-lang.or and GitHub is a mirror. See https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/community/ruby-core/

The wiki and the issues are also lacking from GitHub because they are on a Redmine server at https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/

GitHub was written in Ruby (and Rails) so the issue tracker already existed and they felt it wasn't worth migrating it. I can understand why they don't feel like hosting all of their knowledge base on an external server when their one works well and their main repository uses a different technology.

I don't understand why they're still on subversion. Maybe some custom build tools they don't want to migrate to git?
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Basic Category Theory (textbook)
I wonder if that's an actual requirement, or whether answering no will just guarantee a baggage search. You could also receive the goods and then pack them yourself to avoid that.
There is no such thing as "evolutionary instinct".

There are instincts that become ingrained as part of evolutionary process, and they are those instincts that correlate with genes that propagate more.

Thus, the genes that you inherited from your parents may activate an instinct that will make you sacrifice yourself (or at least reduce your chances to reproduce in the future), so long as that results in a larger portion of those inherited genes in the gene pool down the line - e.g. because some of your siblings, or even more distant relatives, survived to carry them on.

It's one other reason why "survival of the fittest" is really a very misleading way to put it - it's about "survival" of a particular package of genetic traits, not about survival of the species, much less individual specimen.

Evolution is a game of information propagation, in which actual living beings are heavily parallelized delivery channels, information transmitted is the configuration of channels, and there's non-random noise (environment) affecting signal propagation through those channels. The "winning" configuration is likely to involve some channels that do not transmit data directly, but are dedicated to performing error correction etc for other channels, that do transmit information about the entire configuration.

In fact, over time, you may even end up with a configuration that can dynamically allocate channels for error correction, if and when the noise becomes noticeable enough (i.e. environment gets more hostile), so as to not waste valuable bandwidth when it's not necessary. And then we call such things "altruism", "heroic sacrifice" etc.
I recently posted this in 3 tweets:

1. Switched my notebook from NixOS back to Debian. NixOS’s advantages are not actually advantages in my practical reality.

2. NixOS being such a niche distro makes it _such a pain_ to use random binaries from not-yet-packaged software, which I do often enough.

3. Also, the Nix packages I use are sometimes a bit broken. That also happens in Debian, but I don’t know enough Nix to fix stuff myself.

Beware: I’m a Debian Developer, so my view is obviously biased. That said, I think the trouble I had is representative for trouble other people might have with NixOS. In total, I used it for about half a year, I think.
When was the last time you tried Snipcart? We (Snipcart team) noticed a few hiccups with dashboard perf and made some improvements a short while back. If you give it another go for another project, don’t hesitate to let tell us if you think it’s still lacking. Also, we do monthly fixed fees for merchants with >20K/monthly sales.
This looks nice. Are you involved in it?

I took a look at the Umsatzsteuer [Value Added Tax] part as I had to read it some years ago when I started freelancing:
https://lawly.org/gesetz/UStG%201980/4.1#12-steuersaetze

The Inhaltsübersicht [content overview] list at the right side is yellow on white which makes it hard to read.

In comparison with the place where I've read the German law before, there seem to be surplus list elements in the HTML:
https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/ustg_1980/BJNR119530979.h...

It's nice though that by registering I could download the content for off-line use. AFAIK gesetze-im-internet.de does not provide that.

Are there any other relevant differences between those two services?
I am continually frustrated with how European trains are more expensive than flying. I remember taking a lot more trains 20 years ago and I miss that. I need to do a lot of travel the next weeks and I also have a lot of reading to get done, and would give anything to be able to afford the 3x times prices of trains, but alas I'll be flying because it's a 75€ flight vs 150€ fast train. Of course there is always the 15€ night bus but I can't handle 12 hours without being able to stand up and stretch at will, which even at least a long-haul jet allows.
Thanks! Do you have any references to back this up?
This is a really interesting point. Apple seems to have stopped pushing suppliers as much as they used to.
From the introduction:

This is not a sophisticated text. In writing it, I have assumed no more mathematical knowledge than might be acquired from an undergraduate degree at an ordinary British university, and I have not assumed that you are used to learning mathematics by reading a book rather than attending lectures.

... the list of topics covered is deliberately short, omitting all but the most fundamental parts of category theory.

... Each new concept is illustrated with a generous supply of examples, but it is not necessary to understand them all. In courses I have taught based on earlier versions of this text, probably no student has had the background to understand every example. All that matters is to understand enough examples that you can connect the new concepts with mathematics that you already know.
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This whole discussion sounds so academic and methodical, as though there's some formula or algorithm that, if we can just figure it out, will give us some kind of 'ah, there it is' moment.

Man is clearly dynamic, and has a spiritual side that can't be measured. One minute I'm altruistic, and the next I want the last seat on the bus. One day I'm giving away my old TV, the next I'm duking it out with some old lady at Walmart on Boxing day to get a new one.

Go figure.
We might make an adjustment for Oakland since it is a fast growing city and market rates there tend to be higher.
You've tapped into why value investing will always work.
Aren't pretty much all court cases of copyright infringement with file sharing hinged upon the fact that the sharing was public?
This is why Larry Ellison is the richest Californian: nobody wants to experiment with important business data...
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While products and variants are still defined on-site (unless you’re using a CMS plugin), we—Snipcart—did ship out-of-the-box inventory management in the dashboard a few months ago. Keep us in the loop about that feature next time you try out the product. Feedback always goes a long way for us!
Product Life Cycle: Innovation to Death in 3 Weeks
I am in Norway and all I have to do is put a sticker on my mail box, which basically says "No unsolicited mail" which stops the postman from filling my mailbox with junk mail. I usually take off the sticker during Christmas or near black Friday, so I can see if I am missing out on any good deals.

I wonder, if it would make sense, to have a service, which would receive all your mail, sorts it for you, throws out the junk, scans the rest and email that to you. In Norway, I rarely receive any important physical mail, especially since the government has started a secure email service[0], where you can receive your payslip and other important documents from government departments. The senders are pre authorized and pay a small fee to send an email to the user but the service is free for the user of the service.

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If you read the description of how it works, it says it only searches for base64 and hex blobs, so I doubt it would be any higher than for any other code.
Car seats are uncomfortable.
Me too...it's amazing how much I learned from it about creating composable code.
Weird, I have several Chrome extensions published and I've never paid anything.
We have recently hired great people in Belgium based on the calculator rates. Of course there is no objective market rate, there are likely people getting paid more and less.
Apple is a company that is following the process they learned when Steve ran the show, without any clear understanding of why that process exists

Apple created Apple University years before Steve died, to understand clearly why they became so successful. They even hired a top professor from an Ivy League university to run it.

Whatever ails Apple these days is not caused by them not understanding how they became great. It's caused by the lessons of the past not being applicable to the reality of today.
This site looks great. Unfortunately, it is the exact opposite of low-traffic.
Could you elaborate more on #3?
People will find things to do, because we are human. But pointless work that goes nowhere is demotivating. http://evonomics.com/why-capitalism-creates-pointless-jobs-d...

The question is, what's inspirational work? I think it's easy to come up with examples of inspiring work.
And they don't really have to let you in the country.
i am in my mid 20s. I never got enough money to pay all of my monthly food and rent. So no, i did not saved before. And i am still not saving.

Retirement and all is great, but living for another day trump it. This is the life of most of people my age.
The new map is basically a JS version of google earth
The 4 classic mistakes of programmers in their first "real" job (all made by myself, too, of course):

1) Spending a lot of time building something yourself, where you could have just used an existing library. Example: Writing XML parsing code using the plain DOM in every single DTO class, rather than using a mapper library.

2) Starting a huge refactoring or rewrite of existing code, for no other reason than you think you know better, while being too new to the project to realize where the real problems or reasons lie.

3) Over-engineering. Typically in building a flexible, powerful framework, where a simple hardcoded implementation would have been sufficient. Example: PO asks for a page with statistics about how often X has happened per month. Built a framework for displaying any kind of statistics simply by supplying a where-clause. Was never used for anything but the original request.

4) Giving unrealistic time estimates by assuming the best case for everything. For any kind of complexity in the requirements, there's always something that does not work out as expected, so plan for it. Also, in most cases it's better to give an estimate that is a little longer, but realistically and reliably achievable.
Well a computer with enough GPU performance to work with VR would be a nice start. Apple don't currently have anything available other than hacking an eGPU set up together.

The "current" Mac Pro is over 3 (4?) years old now. Users can't upgrade it because of the proprietary GPU cards and Apple don't seem able to keep it relevant themselves.

It's difficult to have a professional relationship with a supplier where the best options for macOS are either a dodgy Hackintosh or a used 2012 Mac Pro with a new GPU.
Work is an especially odd situation as "your way" is not necessarily to benefit you. Oftentimes, you both have the same goal ("what's best for the company"), but you disagree on how to reach that ("A is best" vs "B is best"). Once you realise and agree on that, conflicts become easier to resolve.
I understand why a full size RJ45 is a nice thing to omit because it's fat and actually prevents good slim design.

Why you wouldn't just throw in a legacy USB jack though is really odd. You can do anything with an adapter, but I just want to jam that old thumbdrive right in, without adapters or docking stations. I'd certainly give up a type-c port (if there are several) for a legacy usb port just to be able to do that.
I liked and recommend "The Transhumanist Paradox"

https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-8064-the_transhumanist_paradox
Privacy compromised in using the new Gmail for iOS
With the latest redesign of the Gmail iOS app, we cannot disable read receipts to the sender as Gmail for iOS loads all the external images and the delivery pixel.

There is no way to disable the same on the iOS app.

Don't understand why has Gmail made such a decision
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We value directness https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/#values so I expect us not to hold this against you.

I think you make a great point. I do want to add some nuance:

1. We currently have great people all around the world. Many of them used to be in expensive locations but moved.

2. Because we're remote only the problem of concentration would be time zone only. But for practical purposes South America is a similar time zone as North America.

3. We have one career path (junior/intermediate/senior/staff/etc.) that is available to everyone based on performance.

Thanks for the comment, it is interesting and I'll share it with our Sr. Director of People Ops.
I find it amusing that the list of features not present in the Lite mode exactly matches the list of features I do not want.
Try it. With actual evolving populations with inherited strategies, and without hard-coding group selection.

Without hard-coding the groups as separate evolving units, you'll have a hard time.

In general, it is easy to show the group behaviors you want if you can treat the group as atomic for the purpose of the model. But you've just moved the goalposts, your 'individuals' are not the unit of evolution any more, and you've simply set the required behavior in the fitness function.

So try it and see.
> amazon treating poeple like cattle

Did a day onsite with Amazon, didn't get the position, asked to reapply later... and within 2 months same e-mail address is hit by 6-7 unique Amazon recruiters. Many for the same hiring event.

Desperate, or dysfunctional? Who knows.
i would contest the fewer surprises point. it may be convenient when it's your main language and you deal with it every day, but for somebody that only touches it once in a while it is riddled with quirks and warts. one has to constantly keep mental model of both languages in his head when developing to be productive.

trivial example:

{ a: b
c: d }

guess what this transpiles to (hint: not an object)

this is about as far from least surprise principle as you can get.
Internet of S
At the end of the article the author admits that while this is a worthy exercise and might sometimes be useful, using a framework such as react does have a lot of benefits.
A great book that makes algorithms accessible
Hasn't stopped me or you from doing anything. But being upset about this is like being upset and saying "not all men" or "not all white people." It doesn't matter that you don't associate with the nasty parts of how somebody is describing a unit as one. Of course it's going to be overly simplistic and broad and miss a lot of the details. But complaining that you think it is unfair to do so because you're part of that group and aren't what is being critiqued just makes it sound like you want to ignore the bigger issues to protect your ego because part of you is in the group being discussed.

This is about groups of power or privilege, nobody is in danger or under threat because they perpetuate these socially regressive parts of America, so we have to discuss America as its worst elements, even if we ourselves don't think we contribute to them.

Which brings us back to the original comment you took objection too. Why do Americans keep voting for a party that is hostile to marginalized groups? Because the America we live in is okay with this. And, as Americans, it is all of our responsibility to at least accept that this is country we currently live under. Agree with it or not, America's culture of racism, misogyny, and profiteering at the expense of others comes from Americans. You might think you're better than that (and you're probably right), but as a whole Americans have decided that their country is not.
Google Maps is the best for businesses, but the site is extremely slow (lite mode or no) and, at least in the Netherlands, they're behind with road data. When I want a map I use osm.org; when I want aerial I use bing.com/maps; and when I need opening hours or find the nearest restaurant I reluctantly open Google Maps.
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They do, actually. Not that hosting a few dozen kilobytes makes it any better.
A plus one from me. I've used WSL for the last couple months to run a bunch of ruby and postgresql based stuff and once I got past a few teething problems upgrading it from ubuntu 14.04 to 16.10 it's been excellent. The performance of linux ruby under WSL is MUCH better than windows ruby. I'd recommend WSL to any ruby dev on windows simply for that.

A co-worker is also using it to run cross compilers for embedded linux hardware devices (various patched versions of GCC and such) and it's been flawless for him, which I found quite impressive too.
I get coordinates quite often to enter them into my Garmin GPS.
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What makes Forstall so great? If he's truly worthy of that comparison, perhaps Apple should buy him along with Snap; it would be hilarious if Snapchat turned out to be the NeXTSTEP of this generation.

Wouldn't Fadell be just as good?
This sounds like a process for giving any citizen standing to challenge a law, which I think would be a very significant change to the way the system works today. It naively sounds like a good change, but I suspect there would be some ill effects - e.g, companies asking over and over about slightly different ways to manage taxes to try and find a loophole, people on both sides of the Obamacare contraception mandate trying to prove that loopholes did or did not exist in the law...
This might answer your question. Written by a Mac user attempting this switch.

https://medium.com/@searls/warm-takes-on-microsofts-surface-...
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Girara: an interface library
Funny how we keep seeing these post from developers that aren't Mac OS/iDevice developers.

NeXT's adoption of UNIX was just a way to fulfill expectations of the newly created workstation market.

No serious NeXT application was a pure UNIX one, just like on Mac OS X.

I never saw a NeXT full of xterms and vi, rather with applications that took full advantage of the desktop frameworks, including the devtools.
Pony is developed entirely on Github, using the issue tracker and pull requests: https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc
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> Caveat: You can develop for free, without getting listed, but then you can't automatically update the extension.

There's a comment on the post disputing this possibility.
Please. Zip code is a well known proxy for race given the history of racist housing practices. Don't believe it? Ask yourself: What does a person from Harlem look like?
"There exist only two kinds of modern mathematics books: ones which you cannot read beyond the first page and ones which you cannot read beyond the first sentence." -- Chen Ning Yang
> The problem is you need to get people to actually follow it and in california for some reason no one does.

This problem isn't specific to this law. There are many laws which aren't being enforced, but do exist. I'm from NL, and we're known for using bicycles a lot, and this is true. Yet bicyclers don't use their hand to show the way they go, they drive through red light, drive without light, and drive on the wrong side of the road all the time. And they get away with it because the cops aren't enforcing the rules.

> It's a completely fair law; it's easy to follow, and it benefits everyone. blocking intersections DOES CAUSE GRIDLOCK. IF YOU STOP BLOCKING INTERSECTIONS, GRIDLOCK WILL GO AWAY. Get this through your head!

Another reason it isn't working is due to selfishness plus ignorance. Inform drivers. Heck, teach it during driver license exams.

So,

1) Inform the users (in this case the general public).

2) Enforce the rules.

I would like to add laws need to be simple to explain, but I'm not so sure on how to describe that point.
So by your admission, the 6.8 million people living in the outer boroughs are living pointless lives?
Fedora 25 KDE spin seems to work just fine on my 1440p monitor.