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Why the hate? Why do people want government to own their lives? Why do they (you) believe government contains solutions when we have observed with our own eyes it failing time and time again to produce worthwhile solutions to problems? And why stand in the way of commerce via onerous regulation and diktat? Is that not a Soviet style vs. an American style? I think the downvoters are simply scared and that's all.
It's not just Trump. The conservative movement has been actively discrediting all sources of information but themselves for many years.

During the election, some of the conservative opinionators (bloggers, radio, etc.) who opposed Trump observed that they had no way to credibly contradict Trump in the eyes of their readers, as they had delegitimatized all other sources of information.
My understanding was that the problem wasn't their termination, which every president does, but the fact that he denied them any sorts of extensions. Am I incorrect? See this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/05/us/politics/trump-ambassa...
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The irony of Trump mandating a no-social-media policy is palpable.
For the most part, those 20% new features are handled and implemented like a fix or patch.
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I think that if you have to move to microservices just to avoid atrocious compilation times that means there's something horribly wrong in the language stack. Microservices should be used to solve architecture problems, not a workaround for compiler slowness.
On top of that, Erlang has a scheduler which reduces the need to rely on the operating system's concurrency model.
who will program the computers that replaced the programmers?
I admire Unix, but I also feel things are getting old.

I have a minimal Unix setup, with lots of little programs that do one thing and do it well. For example, mutt is my MUA (mail user agent). It just reads my emails, but fetching or sending is carried out by other programs. Fine.

Now, the issue is that every little Unix utility that is non-trivial comes with its own little DSL for configuration. Most are inflexible, naive and different to each other. It's hard to script mutt. If you want to do some stuff the author hasn't planned for, you are better off patching the code. Flexibility, and composability, is not as good as they preach.

For this reason, I am migrating everything to emacs. It offers me what Unix only promises but falls short at. Everything is an elisp function and thus easy to combine. Things are more organic. And still minimal.
> it doesn't seem to make sense for any company to roll their own infrastructure

Says someone who hasn't paid AWS a million a month before.

You roll your own infrastructure not to pad your resume, but because the capex spend provides you with a lower opex, and presumably you have capital to spend.

Cloud charges a premium for elasticity. Not everyone needs elasticity. Capacity planning is a skill, you can get better at it over time, and other technologies (VMs, containers, whatever) can help bin pack for better operating cost than you'll ever see in the cloud.
This is particularly bad considering who it's from, his claims to fame include nHibernate and ravenDB, both of which take much longer than a few evenings to learn, with more questionable value as well.
Fwiw at the march in Boston there were chants for science...honestly something I thought I'd never hear.
To make what AshleysBrain said a little more concrete, imagine an image editor program (or a music editor, or a word processor, or whatever) that's written completely in client-side JS. There are starting to be a lot of these, actually. Without a working download attribute, the only way to save your work is to post it back to the server and redownload it. That is a slow, ugly, and unsatisfying hack to get data that's actually already present on the local machine.

Even IE 11 has a way to do this (non-standard, of course, but it does have a way to do it :-). Edge supports the standard way.

As I noted in a different post, though, support for the download attribute has already landed in Webkit Nightly for macOS, and is apparently being worked on for iOS.
The Kansas City area's gone from... 8? 9? fairly large malls to one, that I'm aware of.

We have gained an outdoor version that has the bonus creepiness of trying to look like a nice, organic downtown of a quaint small european city while being full of f*cking cars and feeling fake as hell. Several of those around now. All of them would be 100x better if they'd shut down the roads to car traffic and make everyone park on the edges and walk (including and especially the somewhat older local prototype for the model, "The Plaza"). They're like malls but you get rained on and it takes way longer to walk anywhere, and you might get run over. They're really popular for some reason.

[EDIT] I can think of four really big versions of the above around here now, and a couple smaller ones, and I'm sure there are more. Similar model to a mall, usually developed and owned by one entity, which tightly controls who can and can't be there (local KC example: MeMa's getting kicked out of The Legends because they didn't have enough other locations). They're exactly like malls but worse. I do not understand.
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Well-written and insightful. But I think it overlooks one important fact:

> The question is when Republican congresspeople are going to realize that Trump is a millstone around their necks in many respects

The GOP has been pursuing this ideological war for at least 16 years, but probably going back to Gingrich or longer. Trump didn't come out of nowhere; the GOP spend all that time laying the groundwork.

He's not a millstone, he's just another step along the same path for them.
> If you haven't tried fish, I highly recommend it. It takes a little getting use to, but overall it adds a lot of really amazing functionality that I find really useful.

Serious question (that I've asked elsethread): what does fish offer than zsh & bash lack? A quick perusal of the docs reveals nothing obvious, but … I could be missing stuff.
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> Except that if his administration wasn't so far behind on staffing up the department,

"Except" sounds like you're trying very hard to disagree while specifically agreeing, for some reason. The failure to staff is the silent reason he made the proclamation (as Trump maybe imagines in his own mind).
I don't mean to say it will be behind Scala, I just mean to say that it will end up in the same situation as Scala, a language that was meant to be a "better Java" but could never gain enough traction to take off.
Imagine a power outage. Imagine solar flares. Imagine a town with no backup plan for complex systems suddenly encountering events with 1 in a million odds.
I don't want to switch to slack and wait several seconds before messages update. I'd rather the state be updated beforehand asynchronously.
Definitely was from walking to and from train stations

I don't see how you could possibly know that for sure.
But China is currently propping up the value of the yuan (after a long period of artificially keeping it low to boost exports) and are struggling to deal with their net outflow. I just don't see how their domestic consumption is going to make up for the enormous capital account deficit any time soon, and they're now starting to put restrictions on currency trading for regular citizens...
In my experience, AppDB is mostly useless for answering this kind of question. It's right maybe 30-40% of the time with the rest being one of:

1) Says it doesn't work when it works fine on default settings

2) Says it works and I spend hours and hours messing with settings trying to get it to work before giving up.

3) Only reports a version of my application that is so out of date that I don't care.

Granted I mostly use applications, not games, so perhaps it's better with games.
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I am not sure what are you talking about here (how is setting up inputs for a shader related to SPIR-V, which is IR format for shader code?) but, as I said and you denied, this how you get a game running on a $200-$300 console look the same as a game running on a $1000-$2000 PC.
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Well that's clearly false to everyone else, and again, is kind of irrelevant.
I think for tasks such as JSON parsing, map and flatmap like functions are really helpful. You write less code and the code is way easier to understand (for those who are familiar with map functions).

That being said, map and flatmap force immutability in some way. So you pay a price for this, either in speed or in memory, even with tail recursion.
Who is he replacing?
Parent asked a question; it's not really an accusation.

I used to be on board and would have defended the mindset that asking the question is an accusation in and of itself. But now, over in /r/france, we have this stuff going on:

https://www.reddit.com/r/france/comments/5pv83r/inside_the_p...

At this point, I think it's sometimes fair to ask that question. There is no doubt that HN does have paid shills; if you turn showdead on, you'll often see some of the more egregious ones. The question is about the subtle ones.

Of course, that's what the current administration wants: For nobody to be certain of anything. Nerdwriter made an excellent video about it a couple of weeks ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geEVwslL-YY

Hm. When was the last time a government wanted its citizens not to be sure of what's true, what's false and each others' affiliations...
* There's no "Trump slump" * --- I'm upvoting you.

I get tired of hearing predictions that sound as ridiculous as
CNN mid election like this highlight reel ....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V_w-kDLbl8

I used to "drink the cool aid" CNN was selling.
I think it's much worse and much dumber.

Trump saw an opportunity and went for it with everything he had. He used modern tools and knew how to apply it to the modern public. He knew his audience and his audience also knew how to navigate the new medium.

I doubt he expected to do so well when he started but apparently the old world institutions and cultural protections of pre 1990 are well and truly dead.

Tomorrow someone else is going to navigate this path, and they are going to do it better.
All good points. Java 8 has captured a lot of things that people were missing, and new languages have sprung up that have tried to strike a good balance between terseness and complexity, with Kotlin currently being the new hotness in the JVM. Scala was in the right place at the right time, but its features lack orthoginality and coherency.
If you are interested in a shell with first-class function, list and map values and pipelines that pass such complex data (instead of structureless bytes), you might be interested in elvish: https://github.com/elves/elvish

Disclaimer: I am the author of elvish.
Sure but I'm talking about things like "break things down into lots of small functions to make things more readable!" vs "keeping code together makes it easier to read!" or "make things verbose so it is easier to read!" vs "conciseness makes code easier to read!"

On a lot of those I know what makes code easier for me to read. It's not the same as some of my coworkers. Based on some of your phrasing I suspect we'd agree on a lot of them, fwiw

When the metric used is "easier to read" it becomes far too subjective IMO, things you mentioned are similar but not quite the same
I remember it used to be an advanced OS class about a decade ago. I'm not sure why it would be considered that challenging as opposed to any other graduate-level class (especially the theory ones)...
The Apple model of asking user for permission when it notices that a background app is reading your location could be a good model to follow. That way, when you notice a frequently battery hogging domain in the background, even if it uses web sockets, etc., you still prompt the user to throttle.
Your guess is as good as mine. What would you do to someone that used their money to take away home land that has been in your family for generations because you didn't have the right paper work to prove your ownership in a court of law.

Living out here you realize that the bodies are not buried in dirt.
> doesn't reek of a system of crony capitalism and oligarchy?

It reeks of political corruption. Money talks and Trump talked the loudest AND was populist. As a politician, you can't go wrong pandering to the largest groups (e.g. california). Clinton's promises didn't really make any headlines and were saddled by any comparison to Obama's failures to deliver whatever people imagined he was going to do for them.
Super high pitch noise would get through?
Some VSTs work flawlessly, others can be problematic and others do not work at all. You need to check them one by one, but surely a lot of them work.
(edit):
VSTs incompatibility doesn't just affect WINE but Windows itself from version to version. If you take a look at Reaper (reaper.fm), it has some options to run VSTs in various compatibility modes. This paired with WINE's ability to fake a different Windows version "emulation" should help with more problematic VSTs.
And that sort of scala code is extremely meaningful to other folks, which captures my point. I see scala code all the time that would give me an instant headache but there are people who would find that more readable. To each their own, the is to work with people who are at least somewhat aligned to your sensibilities.
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Doing some playing with react native at the moment and can say it's refreshing (although Swift is nice to use, especially compared to the bloat that is Java for Android)
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Well another example of a mall that picked up on this and saved themselves was Bergen Mall in Hackensack, NJ. That mall was straight up frozen in the 90s up until the late 2000s despite being quite large. Few people went there, especially since Garden State Plaza was so close by and offered so much more.

Their owners COMPLETELY rebuilt the mall to complete with it in 2009 or so and turned it into a mid-upscale property. Completely turned it around.
Newspeak:

1. Fake News == mainstream media against Trump
2. Women's Rights == legal abortion of the unborn
3. Liberal == intolerant
4. Religion of Peace == Terrorism
5. Alt-Right == Nazi
Shopping malls were once quite popular in the U.S. The idea was to provide city-like commerce options to people in small town America. Obviously the Internet (especially Amazon) has made this model obsolete in virtually every way possible. It's inevitable that we'll see more malls closing down over time. I'd love to see some initiative to purchase these malls and appropriate them for other purposes (office spaces, manufacturing, etc). However, it's probably not worth it in the end due to maintenance costs.

As an aside, if you haven't seen Dan Bell's Dead Mall Series you should check it out. The Rolling Acres Mall is probably the most infamous of the dead malls he has filmed and worth a watch if you're interested in urban exploration and urban decay [1].

[1] https://youtu.be/Zov7PEXdVZk?list=PLNz4Un92pGNxQ9vNgmnCx7dwc...
> A one-star review is a grossly disproportionate and unfair response.

If it was an isolated incident sure. If someone cold calls me then I'm going to say "sorry, I'm not interested", but if you're getting 10 calls a day then the response changes. It's a constant problem and I'm willing to lash out at anyone I see making it worse.

As much as we blame it on the app store, we see similar behavior with subscriptions on a heap of websites.

> I mean I hate being nagged as much as the next guy but let's face it: the only reason these apps are begging for reviews is because Apple store discoverability sucks.

Or just not create apps if apple aren't creating a viable platform. It's not something that should be left up to the app developer or the users.

In fact, I'd rather app stores themselves were responsible for review prompts, it would provide better sampling.
Sounds like the article is an ad for a product:

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Apple does static binary analysis + manual testing of apps before release. It's the same way they can prevent you from charging money for things without going through in-app purchases and Apple's 30% cut, or even from showing a website that lets you purchase things without going through in-app purchases (this is why, for instance, Kindle for Android lets you buy books and Kindle for iOS doesn't).
Just wanted to say that I really like the ideas you've expressed on the blog. I've found myself thinking similar thoughts, such as about combining shell, awk, make into one language. Keep it up!

I'll add that my ideal "command and control language" (as I've been thinking of it) would also be one that's strong at expressing data literals. If there are a number of data types like maps, sets, lists, etc., then it should be easy to initialize them with literals (not true in languages like Java). There are so many configuration file formats that I wonder if they could be subsumed into files with literals expressed in this language (perhaps with a "data mode" to prohibit executable code).

I've been wanting to design a language along these lines as well. I'll start by learning about oil, and reach out if I'm interested and able to contribute!
It's not. FF is slower then Chrome. I formatted my Macbook recently so I know it was clean. FF is significantly slower than Chrome, especially on JS heavy sites like Amazon.

It's also worse on power. FF tends to drain my battery much faster than Chrome. That's with <20 tabs open, mostly light weight sites.

I'm still using FF as my main browser but will probably switch to Chrome again.
Love how the one commenter already found a workaround:

Olivier TilleJanuary 24, 2017 at 8:28 AM

>That shouldn't be a problem as apparently "tabs with audio are always considered foregrounded". Source: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink...

UnknownJanuary 24, 2017 at 8:53 AM

>And there's your workaround. Loop a 1 second null audio file for as long as you need to (please don't).
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Kind of, but Jobs was a "product guy," not just a manager type.
I've been APNS spammed by Yelp, Lyft, and Etsy, and by reading the guidelines, they should be removed from the App Store for this. No way to report that either.
As a developer, and the lead for our GraphQL efforts since the day the JS codebase was released, I applaud your efforts. To us, GraphQL offers a smarter way to frame API contracts and gives a significant competitive edge by increasing our dev agility. Spread the joy around!

As a businessman, I am concerned at the commercial realities of building persistence-level products for developers. There is a 'Death Valley' in pricing: you have to be very good at $0/mo (i.e. usable in production), and virtually infallible at $1,000/mo (and even then the first CTO's task will be to replace you). Being that good costs a lot of expensive engineering cycles. You guys a clearly smart, or you wouldn't get Scaphold to this impressive point so quickly nor get YC to support you. Yet other brilliant teams had crashed and burned in this 'Death Valley', with the most recent one being RethinkDB - also backed by YC, and among the most impressive ones for me. I wish you all the tailwinds in the industry, and encourage you to read the RethinkDB post-mortem to harness those winds better -> http://www.defstartup.org/2017/01/18/why-rethinkdb-failed.ht...
User should have a way to enforce throttling on all tabs. e.g. I always have my iPhone on low power mode. Its the users choice, not the developers. As much as I hate saying that as a developer.

As an example - I never listen to audio/video in a background tab, but I have to suffer battery loss because of features that I have no plans to use.
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I would rule that theory unlikely.

The underlying idea of the theory is that fishermen discovered the Grand Banks off of Newfoundland and incidentally discovered Newfoundland itself. When the Grand Banks was discovered is unclear--it was definitely known in the early 1500s, but that postdates John Cabot's discovery of Newfoundland in 1497. The usual claims of preemption seem to describe the date as "1400s".

The biggest hole in the theory as described is that the nonpublication of the discovery is attributed to "fishermen keeping their new grounds secret," so why would they confide their secrets in a (rival) navigator? It also makes somewhat less sense that his voyages would have traveled in a southwesterly direction rather than a northwesterly direction if he knew that the land were to be found more to the north.

There is no real evidence to substantiate that fishermen found the Grand Banks in the 1400s. The earliest claims seem to date to at best the 1580s or so and have a vein of "we totally knew about that place but somehow lost track of it until John Cabot found it again!" Given that the modern claims seem vague as to whose fisherman it was that actually found them (Bristol, Basque, and Portuguese have all been named), it seems more like an attempt to retroactively claim primacy. There's been no archaeological evidence on Newfoundland dating to the 15th century of any presence of cod fishermen--and given the knowledge that by the end of the 16th century the industry did produce a massive infrastructure on the coast, it seems unlikely that the lack of evidence is because we haven't looked hard enough.
> They don't understand that unclear code is probably the number one cause of technical debt. Nobody wants to waste time trying to understand it so they start to attach workarounds and it just keeps getting worse.

True, but once get into the length of variable names in iOS and Android development, you're in a whole new territory. 38 character variables have no place in life.

And extreme's like:

outputImageProviderFromBufferWithPixelFormat:pixelsWide:pixelsHigh:baseAddress:bytesPerRow:releaseCallback:releaseContext:colorSpace:shouldColorMatch

This is 149 character.
Interesting the dice roll forces a refresh to reroll and but the random number one doesn't.

Try 100/100 min/max for the random number generator. Interesting what you can find poking around the JS.

Or -99999999999/99999999999.
If you use your own prompt in order to try and show it to users who have chosen not to see the built-in one, then you're just asking for bad reviews. People who don't want to see your prompt don't want to see it. Why would they give you a good review if you're bugging them to do something they explicitly chose not to do?
That freshman level philosophy stuff sounds great in theory but most of us have to live in the real world with real problems and real consequences.
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I guess that's a large building to enter and experience as a human space, but how does it affect the skyline?

If the horizon crests at ~25 miles at sea level here on earth, what's the distance from which it can be seen. I think that's a relevant measure for the effect of a building on its surrounding community.
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It's a judgment call where small functiosn are more readable than cohesive code.

If the 'idea' of the code isn't easily broken down into abstractions, even mentally speaking, then small functions will just obscure what's actually going on by pointing out all the implementation details that are wound together.