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> The company is placed in a precarious position because it now only has junior engineers in the given technology. Did I tell you that time the place I worked accidentally lost most of their customers phone numbers, because their PHP driver for mongo would convert numeric strings to numbers, and phone numbers would overflow the default integer, resulting in no fatal errors but simply negative phone numbers?

Hate to be one of those guys, but a really simple integration test would have caught this.

I think my larger actual problem with the article is that it brushes over the flaws of a generic, adapted solution. You mention that the differences between a bunch of languages is the standard library, for instance, and you know on some level, you're right. An if statement is an if statement and a lot of these languages are quite similar.

But there's always the want to find 'the jumper that fits' if you get me, and for good reason I think, it can be a waste of time hammering squares into circles so they fit the shape of the solution. These generic adaptable technologies become overcomplicated I find as a result of the push to make them adaptable.

I'm a big fan of specialised technologies if used sparingly. If your stack reads like the tag list to a question on stack overflow, perhaps that's overkill, but in the critical areas for your company, I think you're well served using something that is very close to what you need and needs minimal adaptation.
Is hand-editing lots of HTML a common issue for web devs? I'd think more work is done elsewhere.
What reason do you have to doubt it?
If you're into graphics pipelines, here's a few interesting videos of Gaffer node networks rendering with Appleseed: http://www.gafferhq.org/demos/
If we can figure out a decent economic system, then there won't be problems giving people a decent wage. Sure, if we keep doing things the way we are now then nobody will get a decent wage, but that's a very fixable problem.
Good call, I read it long ago when I was growing up, cover to cover in one sitting having picked it up from my Dad's bookshelf with no real idea of what it was about. I really should reread it and see how I feel about it as an adult.
Ignoring the match itself, the commenters seem incredibly sexist. They repeatedly ignored/interrupted a woman saying she'd actually talked to the player to comment on whether or not the player was 'mental' or 'still drunk' or otherwise.
I am one of those people! Thanks!
AFAIK you cannot buy new guns in Brazil, but the homicide rate in Brazil is way higher than in the United States.
No no, Rust is the new Ada, Go is the new Pascal!
he could do some ML with the real bots to try and detect behaviors
Aye, mate - no true Scotsman, as far as the aYe can see.
Good feeling, though, cause the other side didn't stay classy as well, thus we can all, trench in and drill to moral rock bottom.

If only we had some tool, that no side would subvert, doctor, hijack and decry - like science and reasoning.
You're in high school, so you aren't old enough to sign contracts. Get a job at In-And-Out, it'll be funner.
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>Right; Tensorflow is managed well, and working on it might lead to a job

Tensorflow's management is not relevant to its popularity. It's been well demonstrated that companies are tripping all over themselves to use anything put out by Google and/or Facebook, regardless of its applicability to the company's actual problem space or the quality of the product as compared to competitors. There are a lot of people out there just itching to find any excuse to blow millions of dollars deploying any open-source project touted by Google or Facebook, often blissfully unaware that these projects are born out of necessity, not amusement, and that Google/FB would've happily been using a mature, out of the box solution if it accommodated their needs.

The point is saying "Look at an independent guy's project. It's not even as active as some of Google's projects, and they're just one of the biggest companies in the world! Hah!" is really, really unfair, and doesn't say anything about anything.

>Obviously money isn't everything, so maybe there's a better criteria for judging projects, but at least on the "lasting impact on the world" front appleseed seems to fall short...

That the project does not now appear poised for world domination doesn't mean it's not significant, influential, or important, or that it won't eventually go on to have a larger-than-expected impact. This is particularly true if it explores an interesting or rarely-used paradigm, or is otherwise noteworthy for its technical excellence.

KDE's Konqueror began as a custom web browser for their desktop environment and easily could've been classified "yet another open-source timesink". But its engine, KHTML, became the foundation for WebKit. If someone is interested in making something interesting, there's no reason to begrudge it.
"Collective labor action" is another kind of threat used against managers who might otherwise accept a better offer from other workers. We've surrendered and begin to encourage unions to perform their extortion in open court to reduce the body count.
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Yeah, I don't reply with "proof" to people asking for "Proof!?!?" because I expect them to Google it, because people like you have become the single biggest scourge of the Internet.

Reddit admins threaten r/The_Donald with a ban for brigading, reddit admins say "We've had to change our algorithms because of r/The_Donald's brigading and vote manipulation", and yet people like you still crawl out of the woodwork asking for "proof?"

Show me proof you tried looking for evidence, and I'll hold your hand the rest of the way. Otherwise, http://bfy.tw/9tSv .
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While I certainly don't want to take business away from Minifree: If you are up for refurbishing the laptop yourself, you can substantially beat Minifree's prices. Especially for older models (that Minifree no longer sells) like the X60 that are easy to install Libreboot on compared to newer models that require a separate SPI programmer.

Also, FWIW, Minifree no longer seeks the RYF certification nor advertises it on existing products. I don't expect them to respect your freedom any less, but because of the FSF/Libreboot conflict they no longer seek the cert.
No. Those two statements, they lose money shipping and they make money on volume, can both be true at the same time. It's an accounting thing, they're booking a certain amount of shipping revenue on each item they sell (even if shipping is "free") and they have certain costs associated with shipping. In this situation, what "they lose money on shipping" means is that the fraction of income which is booked as coming from shipping is less than the costs they incur doing that shipping. They're still net positive on selling shipped goods because the margin in other aspects is high enough that it covers the loss in shipping.

Companies do it this way to determine what parts of the business are doing well, and what parts need improvement. They might choose to improve profitability in shipping by making shipping cheaper in some way, or by changing the wrap they use from individual sales (thus reducing expected profit margins).

So yes, they lose money shipping. And yes, they make money selling things which are shipped.
Key quotes:

"DataScript asks the question: "What if creating a database would be as cheap as creating a Hashmap?"

Mentat is not interested in that. Instead, it's strongly interested in persistence and performance, with very little interest in immutable databases/databases as values or throwaway use."

and:

"Datomic has a beautiful conceptual model. [...] Many of these design decisions are inapplicable to deployed desktop software; indeed, the use of multiple JVM processes makes Datomic's use in a small desktop app, or a mobile device, prohibitive.

Mentat is designed for embedding, initially in an Electron app (Tofino). It is less concerned with exposing consistent database states outside transaction boundaries, because that's less important here, and dropping some of these requirements allows us to leverage SQLite itself."
Lol he wasn't saying you hurt kids, look at the context
>Still, I have never had the data I've given them come back to haunt me.

Are you sure? Facebook has a patent on lowering your credit score based on who is in your friends list[1]. They also feed data to credit score companies who directly examine your posts and use it to tweak your credit score yet further[2].

It's totally possible that your use of Facebook has affected your ability to buy a car or house, or get a job[3]. The lifetime cost of your mortgage could be $20,000 higher than it need be due to your use of Facebook. Maybe you got passed over for that job that would have been in the perfect place for raising your new child, due to your posting. How would you know? Did you really think they were going to tell you?

Maybe you're not at a time in your life where these things have happened to you yet, but I have bad news. The data you've submitted to Facebook will never be deleted. It's invisible baggage, following you everywhere. Honestly, you have no real idea of what impact it's having on your life, because it's not in the interest of any of that data's consumers to tell you what they are doing with it.

[1] https://qz.com/472751/facebooks-new-patent-lets-lenders-reje...
[2] http://www.ajc.com/news/national/how-your-facebook-profile-c...
[3] https://www.creditkarma.com/article/why-some-employers-check...
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The problems I mostly have run into regarding html are because we have started shoving random javascript and javascript-esque things into it and over complicating things, often needlessly. The author says it himself "That's fine for plain HTML", referring to validation.

This is why back in 2014 I decided that I was going to focus on making as many of the webpages I make pure html5/css3, and keep javascript completely out of the picture if possible and now if I do break that rule I make it LibreJS compatible.

For an editor, I am an avid emacs fan, but for templates, I have of late become enamoured with asciidoc and asciidoctor, originally using them for sysadmin documentation things, I am beginning to realize my method of writing web pages (sshed into a box using emacs and updating with cron jobs calling asciidoc and bash scripts) might actually be good for just normal web stuff too.

Of course, there are some downsides, but I never really was a wysiwg sort of person anyway, because every time I've gotten my hopes up about some wyswig, it failed me in countless and unfathomable ways.

I feel like people have veered too far away from the core purposes of html and css, html for content and structure, css for design and display control.

We've gotten to the point now where I can visit any random top 500 alexa sites and anywhere from 10-50 javascripts are trying to load. It's ridiculous, and I think a return to simplicity will be key for most websites, because lets face it, you probably really don't need crud for $project.
Routing networks in FPGAs are complicated, but essentially unrestricted. You can emulate a multi-bit lookup table by hooking up multiple LUTs to the same inputs, and you can emulate a wider lookup table with a tree of lookups and multiplexers.
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The Cuckoo's Egg. Plus ca change.
Complete list of Facebook urls for blocking (hosts file)
I am looking for the complete list of domains/urls Facebook is using to create the ultimate block list.
Currently, have the following list on GitHub

https://github.com/gergelyvarga/block-facebook

Any help is greatly appreciated.
I've done exhaustive iteration like this to generate truth tables (with feedback -- sone outputs wired to inputs) from a bunch of C if statements for controlling room combining in audio systems that supported truth tables but not code. It does work.
Why?

There are studies who say that 90% of developers are male.

10% from 209 is 21.
Could adding friction to spending improve people's mental health?
I feel like this is always missing. Robots don't scale down, which is a real issue.
When I was in similar shoes ~8 years ago, my first jobs without "prior formal work experience" looked like this:

First, rewriting ugly perl script to ugly python script for businness of father of one of my friends from high-school. I knew my friend was writing enterprise java in their family bussiness since he was ~14, and he knew I am a decent programmer because we worked on a class project.

Second job was creating a webpage for my aunts language-course. (Based on this, I realized, that working for family is more trouble than worth)

For my third job, I was a intern/junior windows sysadmin for ~two weeks. My father overheard their IT guy that they would have large workload due to some QE testing and that they wouldn't be able to do the usual windows/workstation maintenance work. So they hired me to help out on his recommendation.

Another job was rewriting some legacy app from outdated Borland Delphi to QT/C++. This was through a differend friend of mine heard of his fathers friend problem, and managed link us through. The resulting app was not very good, and I don't think they actually used it. But they did pay me for the effort :-)

Last, a friend I knew in my local church had a spare server-grade tower lying around under his desk for some reason. So we decided to connect it to the net through a guy working at local ISP. We started hosting the church pages and some local missionary organization an I was sysadmin there.

In the end, everything I did was through friend of a friend, and usually the work I did wasn't really good. But if you look at the bullet list of the stuff and squint a little, you can make a decent looking CV out of that.

Windows sysadmin here, Linux admin there, desktop C++ app somewhere else ... I remember when I applied for my first internship at a corporation, the hiring manager was actually impressed by my "prior formal work experience" ... I just smiled and waved [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvYBZRwwGB4
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That age old "I have nothing to hide" argument. AKA "they're nice people, what could go wrong".

This is not the point. The point is:

Information in the wrong hands can become dangerous, period.

People change. Companies change. You have no guarantee Facebook will preserve the vision they have right now. You have no guarantee their new CEO won't have a different opinion... (wont be a "Trump").

Also you have to realize, how much pressure from authorities they have to handle. A Russian friend of mine (I'm originally from russia) used to work for "VK" which is (was) the biggest social network there. They literally got calls from surveillance agencies on a daily basis. At some point they were unable to fight the pressure and surrendered, the CEO was forced to resign and leave the country (Pavel Durov, he runs Telegram now), the stock were sold and the social network is basically controlled by the government now.

I do agree the article is a bit over dramatic. But that's just to gain attention from non-tech crowd I guess, who continue to happily post kitten-pics without thinking of the consequences.
Well done! I expected another boring clone, but this thing was really fun to play. Good work.
I don't think so. Certainly from time to time, but not on a daily basis; in my experience, it's writers/editors that need a decent HTML editing tool.
Same with pot in the state of WA. Totally in support of it for medical purposes, but it is a powerful psychoactive drug which needs to be understood much better. No dog in this game either--but in WA you're either a hippy or a knuckle-dragging hater.
I've never encountered this problem to the effect I needed a build step for HTML. I wonder if frontenders who work only with HTML/CSS find it helpful? Whereas they don't have the concept of breaking up code into templates or partials with a server-side language.

No disprespect to the author, what you've done is cool and your presentation is awesome. My biggest concerns are:

1. Onboarding & rampup time that's now added to my team just to write HTML.

2. Turning away potential hires who don't want to work with an over-engineered tech stack. Much opinion can be formed just by adding to your job requirements "we use a transpiled HTML processor"

3. Technical debt & tech lock-in. Will this technology be a detriment in 5 years? Do we get enough from it right now that it's worth future legacy costs?
Facebook profile you posted doesn't match any of the other profiles you posted. Try again, young (old?) hacker :)
Reporting climate science videos sounds like memeing to me...
it's not as simple as I'd prefer for 2d but that's exactly what I want for 3D. Thank you.
It's scary how quickly all "data" in articles suddenly seems to have gotten unreliable.

I hope this leads to a resurgence in journalistic integrity. I would gladly pay for news I can trust.
> "Which is why we cannot mess with immigration."

This context is the proper use of the H1-B visa. Providing technical talent for which Americans can not fill the role.

But almost all of H1-B is abused where immigrants are used to do jobs that can be done by Americans as a means of lowering wages.
Reminds me of that good ol' folklore: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Lin...
> Gone are the hordes of single-digit-IQ trolls and hate speech spewing masses, replaced with thoughtful commentary

Perhaps this is because Vimeo's reach is incredibly small when compared to Youtube.
Once again the dangers of proprietary software in the businesplace raise their heads. I wish people with the ability would work on contributing more to the open source cad projects, because at one point suffering under autodesks draconionan and expensive licensing I tried to get a business to start switching but the open source stuff simply isn't up to snuff in most cases.
Who do you think consumes child porn? Pedophiles. Maybe you need evidence for that, but in the ordinary course of evaluation most people would agree that child porn is consumed by pedophiles.

Gay pron is viewed largely by gay men to fulfil homosexual fantasies. If someone wanted to not engage in homosexual activity, viewing a ton of gay porn is obviously a bad strategy to anyone but the willfully ignorant. Fortunately, homosexual activity is between consenting adults and does not involve torturing children. Pedophilic activity is very different.

(Also, the downvoting shows that you're wrong, you can't come up with a reasonable argument so you try and punish dissent)
Already answered on this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13568088

It is means justified by the goals, but not the crime by itself.
> Heinlein, 'Time Enough for Love'

Not within the last year, but I've probably re-read that between five and ten times. I think I first read it as a teenager in the early 70s, or in the Navy in the late 70s.
i've also heard the opposite: cancer is nearly an occupational hazard of (people who've historically been named) saints.

i have zero research to back that up though.
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Even then, it's not telling the whole story without knowing the cost per worker and the value per unit. When you take costs into account, you can get a situation where lowering production will increase earnings.

Taking your numbers and plugging in some values like 75 per worker and 0.01 per unit would increase earnings by 250%.
Awesome. Been looking hard for open source datalog-supporting data stores and data processing systems for a couple of years now. This is at least something in this direction, although I might ultimately wish for a full-fledged database or system that could run in a distributed fashion if needed.
No, Lottie uses json files from an After Effects exetension called bodymovin. Maybe in the future someone will write an exporter for another program that can plugin!
I think the ultimate success of the reaction to Trump is dependent on the Left positing a new, viable economic alternative. Neoliberal Capitalism has failed to create the circumstances necessary for large swathes of the population to survive, and any attempt to return to it is just going to create the same crisis of democratic institutions we have now. Marginally cheaper consumer goods, easy access to opiates, and temp work as an app-directed member of a servant class can't replace being able to afford a place to live, healthcare, or to take care of your children.

Right now, I don't see anything like a new vision of the future coming out of the Left, just (in my view)a justified horror at the direction the country is heading. I've been trying to think about what something better might look like, and I hope people more versed in these subjects than I are doing so as well.
Prosecuting the consumers (vs. the producers) of child pornography is an attempt to increase the risks of obtaining it, hopefully disincentivizing demand. This line of thinking and policy is akin to prosecuting customers (as opposed to the providers) of prostitution, or prosecuting users (as opposed to makers and sellers) of controlled drugs.

We can debate about how effective or ineffective or smart or misguided this is, but that's where it comes from, and is a frequent tactic to split the customerbase into two parts: the ones who may have been interested when the risks were lower and are now dissuaded, and those who are not deterred by the risks and choose to pursue it anyway.

Society can then point to the fact that everyone was given this choice to paint the latter group as not only morally corrupt, but also risk-taking, thoughtless, irresponsible, or simply people who "had it coming". This is a common way of providing for a permanent underclass in ways that promotes good societal mores, doesn't discriminate along ethnic lines, and doesn't disproportionately punish the economic poor.
Pretty sure it's going to be his unique talent of making employees feel valued within the business, his charisma and sharp ability to clearly convey his business ideas and cohesive argumentation skills when asked about the giant holes in them ...
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They are also paying less salaries, so depending on their margins they might be making more profit that way, which is the actual thing that counts and not output volume.
But can you pull your videos from anywhere, or is it tied specifically to youtube?
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The profits from shipping are an accounting construct which is essentially a tax on items sold. They assume it will cost X dollars to ship an item, so they book X+margin (possibly 0 margin, depends on how they structure) at sale to shipping costs. If it costs more than X+margin to ship, they lose money shipping even if they net a profit. I said this elsewhere, but the purpose of this construct is to allow Amazon to keep track of actual vs estimated cost of shipping. The purpose of reporting it is to tell analysts whether shipping is a boost to, or a drag on, profits.

In your scenario, smart companies say "how can we improve shipping to get that dollar back".
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Why are you asking me as if it's my problem to solve? If you're trying to imply that Google can't do any better than robots taking things offline, then you're going to have to try harder - back in my day we had human moderators on internet forum boards and they did a damned fine job.

Google's done it the way they have because it's cheap compared to paying a bunch of moderators, and mostly because they really don't give a damn as long as YouTube still generates ad revenue for them at the end of the day.