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I like that this article places a portion of the blame on the founders or recruiters who try to hire new employees. In order to attract the best talent, it is easy for these people to say everything is going awesome and the options will be worth a million dollars. I think the blame for missed expectations and dilution is often placed on VCs. But in reality, it's the founders and the board who decide whether or not to take VC funding and who should communicate clearly and realistically with employees to keep expectations in check.
That's just a matter of speed no? It's not an impossibility result like Turing's; classical computers can compute whatever quantum computers can. That's the Church-Turing hypothesis.
Why do you think that having access to source code implies having access to customer data?
> (not upgradeable)

True, this is a real issue, and I agree we're paying premium_price^2 for the newest MBPs.

However, in this day and age of networked computing and fast WiFi why would 256 GB not be enough? Did you check the performance of the XPS SSD compared to the MBP?

I take it the RAM is DDR4. The 16 GB LPDDR3 RAM means more battery life. The resolution of the 2015 MBP 15" is also in between 1080p and 4k, a sacrifice, for battery power.

The graphics card isn't upgradeable on either machine. And I did look at the XPS. I'm not going to buy a machine which makes a lot of noise, and the XPS has coil whine. Why don't you compare to the 2015 rMBP? I tried out the butterfly keyboard of the 2016 version in store and I found it far too noisy (the travel also isn't a good aspect). Do you really need the graphics card? Have you looked at eGPU?
That's RSS.

Too bad it was a mess of half-articles, intro paragraphs, fake submissions, and a very rare full article mixed in there somewhere.
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>I suspect the country does better when the government isn't passing all sorts of new laws.

You're entitled to that opinion. You're not entitled to rewrite the rules to enforce it on everyone -- that's supposed to require a Constitutional amendment.

>When one party controls Congress and the other controls the Executive tends to be good for the country.

Right now we have one party controlling the House, the Senate, and the Presidency, despite the fact that they got strictly fewer votes for both the Senate and the Presidency. In fact, they only control the House because it hasn't been readjusted for population size since 1910: actually restoring the original ratios of voters to Representatives would create hundreds of new seats in the more urbanized states.

This is undemocratic, and no amount of whining about the procedural finery of the American regional-federal system changes that. The majority of Americans are disenfranchised by our existing system, which no longer operates according to anything like nonpartisan rules, but instead operates to ensure perpetual Republican government.
This kind of scam, though, works just fine if they change their phone number every day, hour, or minute...and with VOIP, there's little added cost or complexity to do so.

There really needs to be something for phone numbers similar to rfc2827 for ip spoofing. Or, better still, a reliable way to map a phone number to a legal entity.
The nice thing about Mass Effect 2 and 3 is that Renegade often means harsh pragmatism and "big picture" thinking, not just being an asshole for no reason. Going all the way renegade is still hard without being a jerk, but it's easy to end up with a balance of renegade and paragon while not making truly bad decisions.

In the first game it does usually mean being an asshole for no reason, so that one's hard to play other than nearly-pure paragon. Except for hanging up on the council every time you talk to them—they give you plenty of reasons, and you should definitely always do that.

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There is also an iPhone app that has a lot of the same functionality. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/zipbooks-free-accounting-inv...
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Score Voting and Approval Voting are good. There's no solid evidence that Proportional Representation is better than good single-winner methods for legislatures.

http://ScoreVoting.net/PropRep.html
We measure success or failure of such economic policies with statistics, not by political opinion polling - Yes. Hence we need to check the data to see if worked instead of picking political points like blood of citizens or Gujarat riots.
Getting a little off topic here, but I've bought several XPS 13s (note not 15s) for work and have been pretty underwhelmed by the performance. Not sure if it's a thermal management issue or what.

Based on the Ars review of the HP Spectre x360 [0], though, I'd probably add that to your list as well. I'm eager to try one myself.

[0] http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/10/hps-new-spectre-x360-...
I see UBI as this:

* Wealth redistrobution
* Basic standard of living
* Safety net

That's pretty communist in my mind. I know the purists out there will wave their hands and say "this is just an attempt of the bourgeois class in an attempt to lul the proletariat into a false sense of safety while what they are really getting is life-long survitude to their masters" because that's what my communist friends think. I think that with a rational look at this you can see it as an attempt to level a playing field in a communist fashion. Everyone starts off at a level playing field where they cant go hungry and have a basic standard of living.

From the US that seems like voo-doo communist magic.

Also, I find it funny that the communist, who argues for the rights of the lower classes, is asking... I'm not going to say it. You put it best.

"You're a lot more likely to riot if your kids are starving."

Or in other terms:

"You're a lot more likely to <do what I want> if your kids are starving."

It's funny how that works out.
I played around with my friends surface pro and the surface studio at the MS store and while the build quality on both have been excellent, the touch & dial interface has left a bit to be desired.

I feel like the recent output has been releasing new features for the sake of doing it because it is possible, not necessarily because there are significant usability/ux improvements.

I found the dial & touch to be a bit fatigue inducing and less efficient than using a keyboard/mouse for anything beyond the first 20-30 minutes of work. Touch works on smaller screens because the physical effort to swipe a finger is minimal, but on large screens, it's fatigue inducing. I'd be guessing that Apple has tried these other input methods, but hasn't quite figured out how to address usability in this context of a large screen.

The fatigue issue of raising a hand to a screen (even if the studio is laid down flat) is pretty huge, or resting a dial on the screen taking up pixels becomes an interference to either constantly move on/off or keep stationary next to the keyboard.

Most people working hours a day on the computer can keep their hands within several inches, but the other input methods do feel gimmicky for general purpose use. Not to discount the dial entirely, as there was an old 3rd party Apple accessory maker who released a dial exactly like the surface dial over a decade ago, but targeted film & music makers who would use the dial for scrubbing video/audio.

Microsoft is definitely upping it's ante, but there is a certain touch of refinement that feels missing, while Apple is slowly degrading in their small touches of refinement that bring user happiness.
> He's a billionaire elitist who's claiming to drain the swamp of elites. And then appoints more elites to cabinet positions.

"Elite" is a worthless word. What makes someone "elite?" Money? Political experience? Pinball skills? News outlets like NYTimes will jump all over his appointments regardless because if they are successful, accomplished individuals they will be labeled "elite," and if they aren't they will be labeled incompetent.

The whole "drain the swamp" line is about rooting out shady, questionable, secretive behavior like Loretta Lynch meeting on the back of Clinton's plane or Holder running a bunch of guns to Mexican gangs. It's not about wealth or political views.
They'll be sold in small quantities to deal hunters on places like eBay, which will then be used like any other gift card.

If you want to save a bit of money, you can find gift cards for all sorts of gift card on eBay for a bit of a discount. Lots of this activity is legitimate, with the cards being sold by people who got the cards as a gift but would rather have a somewhat smaller amount of cash. Scammers can just hop right in to this market.
That's not at all the same case, you're being threatened. I'm impressed at the dishonesty on this one.

Imagine you're at a hotel, you can access their WiFi but you have to pay for it. Imagine you're at another hotel, you can use their pool but you have to pay for it. Are you being extorted? No. That's a better example.
If only willpower were enough to bend prices into personal preferences
I don't have nerves nor time to write drivers... no way in hell I'll buy Surface device and fiddle with Linux on it. I think you can get much better laptops for same price, plus I have opportunity to install FreeBSD on them, where on Durface it isn't possible, or you have to sacrifice certain functions/components.
I had literally the same idea. I had actually started researching webrtc. the tech looked a little fragile so I decided not to go forward. I hope you can work out your kinks and get it running, because I would be interested in giving it a go. It's like trying out my idea without putting in any of the work!
Linux works poorly on my SurfaceBook pro. When I connect a monitor to the DisplayPort, Ubuntu freezes at the login prompt. If I just use the laptop screen, it's usable, but I get OS errors.
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My dad is technically illiterate but all he needs is a web browser so I got him a Chromebook. It is more than enough for most people and if Google can keep it malware free it is a big accomplishment.
I'd say that the single minded pursuit of any political ideology to it's logical conclusion has been proven not to work. I think this applies in both perceived directions.
iOS 10 added APIs for this functionality, but it's probably of limited use since the shadiest scammers can very easily spoof caller ID.
the big cities will tend to steamroll over the priorities of the rural voter, and urban voter priorities differ from rural voter priorities.

in a way, it seems natural that rural voters will lean a little toward whatever party is out of power in the cities.

e.g. urban voters are happy to add more land to parks and monuments, while rural voters might be happy to leave the land open to hunting, cattle grazing, logging, etc because that's their livelihood.

urban voters may be happy to rearrange water rights so that water flows into cities more easily. rural voters probably prefer to use the water locally for farming.

in rural California, a voter who perceives that Los Angeles wants to take water away (hurting farms), might start supporting whatever political party pushes back on Los Angeles even if the voter disagrees with some of that party's positions on other issues
Exactly, and I don't think vim is a good platform to build an IDE on, despite a long history of people trying. I'm not an emacs guy, so I'm not speaking from experience here, but my impression of emacs is that it's already an IDE in the terminal. It's got a bit of a reputation for being a massive pile of elisp hacks, so maybe guile-emacs is the future there?
I see good things there:

* S3 compatibility

* NFS support (this is really neat)

* Proper distribution and fault tolerance built in

I like the benchmark numbers:

https://github.com/leo-project/notes/tree/master/leofs/bench...

Seems to be used in production at Rakuten
You're right that Haskell has different things that make it great, but you're wrong about the "lost" part of it. Lisp has never tried to be what you're describing outside of the occasional research project or sidecar optimizer.

What Lisp has that very few other languages have is the confusingly named "homoiconicicity." Lisp data and lisp code are, by and large, the same thing. As such, it's quite easy to write compiler extensions ad hoc for every given usecase.

This is different from Haskell's babel of language extensions, in that these extensions tend to be razor thin and custom fit syntactic abstractions that provide an opportunity for code reuse or performancs optimization with less leaking of underlying structure.

I've always called it "meta-syntactic" programming.

Lisp sits off in its own little world, and probably has more akin to Forth and Factor than Haskell.
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Hi :-) I sent SlackHQ a heads up about this so they'll have an opportunity to let me know if that's a problem.
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Important not to underestimate the 'upgradeable' aspect. The extra cost to order a T560 with a 512gb ssd instead of 500gb HDD is $380 while a 512GB ssd is available from $130 at newegg. You should just order the base HDD and RAM, put your own parts in, and save hundreds of dollars
>>>> eg: If more than X Android users block a number it should block automatically for everyone.

Apps like Truecaller[0] have this functionality.

[0] https://www.truecaller.com/services/truecaller
Thanks for the feedback!

I see, do you mean while you're searching? The search is performed after a timeout whenever a key is pressed in the input box. Maybe forcing an enter press or button click to update would make the experience better?
Service dogs that are not "seeing eye" / "guidedogs for the blind" are not particularly common in UK.

His dog has a distinctive handle that's only ever seen on guidedogs for the blind - that handle isn't used for other service dogs.
Most people joining companies don't even get the entire capital structure disclosed to them. There is no way to know exactly how much your options are worth. You're trusting the company you're joining blindly, which can be a very dangerous thing.
some other ways that deaths occur in police custody: suffocating, heart attacks induced by tasing, beating, denying/delaying medical treatment for existing injuries, denying access to prescription medications, leaving someone handcuffed on the floor of a van and driving around recklessly until they break their neck
tl;dr Walmart running a couple of pilots to test the concept, results unclear.
JIRA taints their perception, for me at least.
>British police do not push through congestion with parping, wailing sirens. Instead they somehow unzip it, opening and closing a rolling, convoy-sized gap in the traffic. The clever work is performed by a swarm of police motorcycles, which zoom ahead, blue lights flashing, to halt traffic at the next two or three junctions. Sometimes they create temporary chicanes so that the convoy can cross to the wrong side of the road for a few hundred yards. (Passing through north London, I felt British pride as pedestrians asked motorcycle officers just who we thought we were – a wholly reasonable question. I felt a stab of embarrassment as we hit the M11 motorway and headed at speed up the hard shoulder, leaving stationary commuters to fume in our wake.) In the absence of sirens the loudest noise is the buzz of motorcycles catching back up with the convoy then overtaking it at speed, on their way to close off new junctions ahead.

There's an interesting short documentary about the Metropolitan Police Special Escort Group: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5TkSE_5GsE
I've read that that's how it pretty much works in a lot of Japanese companies (i.e. even when you're pretty much of no use because of bad luck (illness, accident), they give you for example a janitorial job where it's understood that little is expected of you).

That's completely at odds with Western individualistic culture though hence it's rare here. Netflix is not really an exception - if you are the "weakest link", they will just fire you after your yearly review instead of waiting for a panic fire of bottom 10-20% of staff when stock price plummets (like most other corps do).
HERE is what used to be Navteq. They were in the digital mapping/navigation market for cars long before Google was a PhD thesis.
This is why I like Google's version, where you can work on personal projects. You are still around if people need you, but you can work on other things as well rather than burning out trying to work on one thing for 40+ hours a week.
It's a bit harder to recruit people who speak Japanese in India to call center jobs...

And even marks in countries that speak good English (Sweden) aren't going to fall for a scam call that is made in English (this is the Swedish tax agency, apparently we can't speak Swedish though)

One of the great things about living in a non-English speaking country is that they are unable to outsource their support phone line. Also helps with incoming scams.
Expanding on the entry for those who have an unpopular political opinion - Take for example the current narrative that anyone who voted for Trump is a bigoted sexist homophobe.

I know many people that did vote for Trump, and while I personally didn't vote for him (and it's telling that I feel I need to get that out of the way), I believe that many, if not the vast majority of people who voted for him did so either:

- Because they genuinely thought he was the lesser of two evils;

- Or because they genuinely feel that he will at least try to do something to help people in their economic situation.

However, the narrative pushed by almost the entirety of cultural institutions such as popular entertainers, high-profile tech leaders, etc. makes people who voted for Trump legitimately feel like they are the target of a witch hunt.
>Meaning seats are won during low turnout primaries vs general elections. Meaning voters have no meaningful choice.

And at that point, we might as well institute California-style jungle primaries everywhere, which at least ensures that a real "general election" takes place (albeit at an awkward time) followed by a runoff for the "lesser evils".
Take a look at Shen [1]. It's a Lisp with optional typing, optional lazy evaluation, built-in Prolog, pattern matching and more.

[1] shenlanguage.org
Anyone who gets a lot of this crap in your phone, I recommend TrueCaller. Been a lifesaver, gets probably 19/20 of the scam and spam calls (at least for me, YMMV).

I got one of these WAY back in the day from some doofus saying he was from the FBI and he was outside my house. Yeah...no cars out there for 2 miles in any direction, told him he was a bloody idiot and hung up. He actually called back and tried to get me going again! Gotta give him points for determination.
It is pretty cool! I'd love to see how it did on the other parts of that track as well, if that was tested
Looking through the other comments, I now see they were looking for automated currying. I was confused, as currying is trivial—as per your example—and also built in as a named function in Racket.
Yes. Depends on what you mean by close though.
HERE is nice because you can download complete countries to work offline. Google Maps only lets you select a rectangular area and limits it size to a much smaller area.
In the long run that's not likely, because vim isn't nearly as extensible as emacs is; thus it's unlikely that the long tail of emacs functionality exposed by spacemacs will be duplicated in vim and those exposable by spacevim.

If you want an extensible editor, use emacs. If you want a vi-like extensible editor, use spacemacs (or just evil-mode on its own). If you want a lean editor, use vim. Torturing vim (and writing tortured code to torture vim) into a simulacrum of emacs just doesn't make sense to me.
«to review a .XML UI you need to apply patches, compile/build, play with it etc.»

That's also assuming that you have an XML or designer friendly UI toolkit at all. A lot of Open Source is built with GUI toolkits that use essentially 100% code and don't have good designer-friendly tooling (because the programmers were busy scratching other needs first). That definitely narrows a lot of designer input to designers that also can code.

A lot of people give Electron flak, but if there is one benefit to Electron becoming more common in the wild for open source projects, its the relatively much more designer friendliness of HTML/CSS(/SVG/etc) as opposed to classical C++ macros and duct tape UI toolkits.

For that matter, and bringing things a bit more on topic, I'd think Inkscape could be a good application to "dogfood" their own tool and own code a bit further and build more of their UI/UX elements in SVG itself. (Maybe even in a way that others could piggy back off of for future applications.)
> Wifi connection has all sorts of problems - access hangs for ~30 seconds every couple of minutes or so. This is very intermittent, and seems to be a problem with our home connection, but other devices don't appear to suffer.

Which macOS version? Did you check /var/log/wifi.log?

Strangely my MBP 2010 has a similar issue, while my new MBP 2015 doesn't.
The latest version of Ember has improved performance considerably although generally it's considered slow compared to modern alternatives like Angular 2, React, Cycle, etc.
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Perhaps the English-speaking ones, but Indian call-center talent won't be nearly so plentiful for targeting, say, France or Sweden.
>The idea is that a large part of the electorate in the US doesn't want the economy managed at all.

It's pretty crazy to claim that providing Delaware corporation law, bailing out Wall Street, funding the IMF and World Bank, maintaining the neoliberal trade regime, and acting as one of the world's major tax havens isn't managing the economy.
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Indeed, Qt can actually look native (and use native controls where available) on all 3 platforms. Gtk, not so much.
Seems like a good use for predator drones.

Yes, I am kidding.
Every time I need to use Gimp to make a collage of two screenshots to file a bug report I want to smash my monitor and throw it out of the window.

Gimp workflow/UI just does not stick in my brain. I can get back to using Photoshop after skipping a year and it will feel like I've left yesterday. With Gimp it is always a painful 15-minute struggle to figure out the right combination of controls to press.
I see more young developers on Chromebooks and that's not because they hate Apple it's because the la tech marketplace hates to pay them enough to afford a MacBook pro
They are not Turing complete, thus no computers at all. 'Quantum computer' is an oxymoron.
I think they don't really do much in the way of targeting. I get a couple of these fake IRS calls every week.
That is also no longer a Universal Basic Income.
As a user of Gimp of 10+ years and counting, here's some thing that have bitten me several times:

* The multi-window interface. I know you can change this, but there's no good reason for not being the default since the beginning. God help you if you close the layers window and don't know how to bring it back.

* That you cannot save to any format that it's not XCF, but that you have to export to them.

* The sliders to select tool properties, such as brush width. I can slide them (but not all the way from 100 to 0, that requires 6 slides!), I can use the up-down arrows, and I can type a value. But if I want to slide and I click it wrong, I have to enter a number. So now I have to click somewhere else first, and try again. It's frustrating.

* Overlap in functions between different tools. For instance, the perspective tool and the cage tool.

* Fine-tuning a digital tablet. I doubt anyone knows the difference between "screen", "window", and "deactivated".