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>C has Unices but so has everything else

Most runtimes aren't making syscalls directly. They go through glibc, musl, etc. So the're going through C to get to the Unices. In otherwords, they don't have Unices: they have C.

>So things like ...

Sure. But fundamentally the network effects and critical mass tipping are predicated on the value of the platform, not the value of the language. The platform is the primary component. Otherwise, how could Javascript become so popular? Or Visual Basic? Or Emacs Lisp? Or R? They're all ostensibly warty languages but they carry on through the fantastic and very valuable platform they give access to.

To adapt a cliche from politics: "It's the platform, stupid."

Firefox is not a platform. It can be a great public works project to demonstrate the power of Rust. But there's nothing sticky or network effectful of Firefox using Rust.
I have given up on social media too, but not for "Stallman" reasons but rather it makes me unhappy.

Hacker News is the only place I visit and thought HN the websites too. I have visited HN every night for the past 4 or 5 years. It gives me everything I need, I need to stay away from politics though because I don't agree with majority here and discussing things makes me depressed.
Uninstall it.
And there's the BAFA INVEST program (http://www.invest-wagniskapital.de, German language only) that refunds/grants 20% to any EU-based angel investor who invests in German startups. It's actually a really great and pretty unbureaucratic program.
255 would be the limit of the counter.

But the limit set in code could be any value supported by the counter.

int8 TOTAL_POST_LIMIT = 250
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> I stop reading immediately

Intention can be inferred; when the stranger is being intentionally obtuse, they aren't being "open".
> -XX:MinHeapFreeRatio=5 -XX:MaxHeapFreeRatio=15

TIL. Why are those XX flags?
Yeah! Sadly, if you wanna do actual Python (3.x?) stuff on aws you're better off rolling your own or paying premium to "have it all solved" on heroku :((
No, and dealing with the government is quite an adventure, even for natives (as I am). I certainly do not recommend, unless you have a Bulgarian native co-founder or/and lots of money to spend on good accountants/representatives.
Nvidia’s Game Code Redemption Process Checks Hardware, Stifles Reselling/Sharing
>A programmer who wants to use a ML-like language that doesn't need that feature should instead be using Haskell or F#

Or ocaml...
The iOS version doesn't work very well for me. It often uses the location of when the picture was stored. If you receive a picture from someone showing Big Ben while you're in New York, it'll show the picture when you search for new york. So searching for places doesn't really work, searching in contents also seems to be much worse than Google.

Another point where Apple apparently lags behind in the AI game.
Another great example is the last post on the keras blog [1] "Using pre-trained word embeddings in a Keras model". You take advantage of a large pre-trained network for a text classification task.

The OpenFace face recognition library also offers this technique. You take advantage of their large pre-trained network for face embedding: transforming a face into features distinct enough for classification. You then train another few layers for recognizing your own samples.

1: https://blog.keras.io/using-pre-trained-word-embeddings-in-a...
I remember hearing a story on my internship that a previous admin (departed before I joined) did something similar, but intentionally.

The company printed labels using fully computerised process machines. Labels for things like medicine bottles etc. So obviously they need a lot of precision.

Now, the company had been an independent UK firm for many years, but had recently been acquired by a US company doing similar things.

The admin (of all trades, sysadmin, DBA, etc.) was going through the DB and noticed how the label dimensions were stored to something silly like 6 decimal places. In the UK, we were using millimeters. That kind of precision was never needed nor used, so the admin cut the column down, dropping the decimals.

Except he wasn't on the UK server. He was on the US server.

And since the US used inches, even 0.1 of an inch is quite a considerable difference for printing a small label!!

He went home for the weekend, the Americans came in and outright panicked when their process machines had useless data. My supervisor got phoned up late at night and had to remote in and restore the values from backups.

Now, imagine how angry he was when the admin did exactly the same thing the following Monday!!

Hooray for the metric system :D
http://fortune.com/2016/10/28/google-cloud-business-2/ states their "other revenue" was $2.543 billion for its third quarter. A chunk of that is from Cloud. So it is definitely the largest share but not sure if it is quite 80%.
I've had a few procedures done over the past year (root canal, extraction, wisdom-tooth extraction) all under local anaesthetic. Quick and painless, just like your experience.
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I don't think your analogy works, quite.

Principally, the food is a scarce resource whereas the equivalent to software would be where the community were competing amongst themselves to make a single great sausage; that sausage would be placed on a table by the kerb and people outside would be able to take away as many molecularly identical copies of the sausage as they provided energy to create. The community can socialise amongst themselves and you are free to join in but there is no requirement to do so.
Well, one of the author's points was that it didn't work for him as a marketing platform. Perhaps he was doing it wrong?
So basically you have a very nonstandard workflow, and expect the protocol to be optimised towards your needs?
Ah, this explains it. I tried to use an import statement a couple days ago and it failed, so I assumed it still wasn't supporting ES6. Good to know!
Thus the problem.
>I felt cold to the core and started sweating horribly and spontaneously

Isn't that low blood pressure ? I felt that once when I had food poisoning, collapsed to the ground after having insane stomach pain for an hour trying to get to the phone to call ambulance, fortunately by the time I got up it cleared up.
SummitDB is primarily a general purpose data store. You use it if you need to store various types of application data such as user records. It's aims to be a fast, durable, and consistent. It's kinda like Redis but with indexes and Raft.

Tile38 is specifically a geospatial/geofencing database. You use Tile38 if you have a traffic heavy proximity based application. It aims to be very fast at geo queries and geofence detection.
I'd say it doesnt matter if they were educated or not, only if they can work in the US, which means they provide value to the economy, because they produce more than what they cost. If someone is educated and paid for it himself or with the generosity of another state, why does it matter?

Saying that bringing employees drops wages salaries is similar to saying the US shouldnt export things because it increases the price of local goods. Its simply not good from an economic perspective, its not really up for debate. I've never heard an economist saying immigration is bad economically for a country at any level except living on welfare.
I'm with you, in that I avoid anaesthesia when possible, but be careful making sweeping statements about "most people" without having some data to back it up. My off-hand guess is that "most people" would prefer GA.
Immigrants are a bargaining chip used by businesses to steal wage, e.g. Techtopus was called "wage theft".
How to reset your body clock and get better sleep with hiking boots and a tent
I suspect it depends on your diet as well. I am less good at brushing/flossing than I used to be, but have a healthier diet (less processed foods) and go sometimes for years without needing anything beyond plack removal.
3 words: Don't do it! Unless you are focused on Germany and German market and you are forced to live in Germany.
I used it for analyzing some organisational customer data.
It worked very well if you can convert your (offline) data to one of the supported formats.

Yes, price is an issue if you are a heavy user of web services with masses of calls, but especially for corporate environments where it is difficult to set up a machine but the amount of data to analyze is reasonable I can really recommend it.
As far as the speaker, I'd like to see Apple try something like the bone conduction tech that Xiaomi uses in their MIX phone. It'd give them a seamless, all-glass front with the only holes in the phone the speaker grille and charging port at the base of the device.
Npm-publish-all
On empty plots, yes it makes no sense. On rooftops with greenhouses it adds the benefit of additional insulation. That alone is already enough to make it worth it.
A command line utility to bump the version and publish all the modules inside any folder.

##Use cases

You may working on mutiple modules and want to publish all of them with automatically bumping the version
There might be scenario where your jenkins wants to publish all modules
Then every other alien races are also racist and think first and foremost about the well being of their own race. It's only a problem for the human race apparently.
I don't know; at the time, I generally had high blood pressure, and I don't know anything about what might cause it to raise/lower in the short-term (obviously losing blood would, but I dunno if a controlled, intentional blood-drawing for a donation would be enough)
The future is mixed-race (and so is the past)
MIT modified LLVM compiler optimizes code “better than any compiler”
Now I know who to blame real-time for this cold morning.

It was you, Minnesota.
I didn't mean specifically in the tech field.

My peers in undergrad computer science were as you described, except I would estimate 60-70% Americans, 95% male 5% female.

I now work for a small-ish company with ~25 developers on a few different teams. All men.

I understand that this is anecdotal, though not uncommon.
So you want to be a developer…
Raspberry pi fishbowl car controlled by goldfish
Carnegie Mellon creates a poker-playing AI that can beat the pros
Looks nice. Lots of gratuitous bouncing when using the scroll wheel to zoom, though (Firefox 48.0, Win7). The effect is somewhat unsettling.
You can now write add-ins for Outlook on iOS
> Most people would rather suffer through the pain than add extra risk to the operation.

That might be true when people are making decisions about their kids. I question whether it's true of people making decisions for themselves.
I use Node a lot, and I find myself reaching for the async library any time the project reaches a non-trivial size and there's a lot of communication going on between services. I don't find it all that hard to read (the async.waterfall method looks somewhat like promises chaining) I suppose I should spend a weekend or two steeping myself in promises and es7. It's mildly annoying to have to learn a new async paradigm every couple years, and like others have pointed out, the Node core hasn't changed - its still callbacks.
React scaffolder
Survey on attitudes about water consumption
They usually specify a warm-up time on the datasheet. For most 12A_7 preamp tubes it's 11 seconds
Very nice, although default of Fahrenheit, really? The date format is ISO rather than US by default. Maybe a master switch [US|Countries in the 21st Century] 8-)
Well, it's not exactly the same. You can install another compiler on Unix, or compile it, and ignore C if you have time and talent.

On the browser we are stuck. It's sandboxed and restricted by the network so you can't install whatever you want. The user will install only what he wants, and he usually knows jack not does he want to wait more then 3 seconds.

So unless webassembly becomes the savior, JS is on terrible, horrible only path to the Web plateform.
I am in favor of testing the way you complain about. The advantage is primarily that you can refactor code without getting bogged down in having to change tests. An API is a) more stable, so you are maintaining compatability for that surface anyway, and b) uses your code under exactly the preconditions that really matter.

If doTheFooThing() is called from somewhere else than that somewhere else should also have tests. So I find that an argument from "purity" more than practical consideration about bug probability.

Also, if you only test doTheFooThing but not the API then you could accidentally refactor yourself into breaking the API in a backwards-incompatible way (or not be bug-compatible, which is sometimes required, or at least you should detect it and check logs and warn consumers). So the API tests are needed anyway.

There's a balance of course, if doTheFooThing() is an important internal cross-road, or if it is algorithmically non-trivial, or important for other reasons then it should be tested in seperation. But between only semi-integration tests (hitting endpoints and checking responses), and only lots of small unit tests that break or needs rewriting for the simplest refactorings but doesn't catch subtle API breakage, I'd want to work with the former any day. The units of code are often trivial where mistakes are not made, and the mistakes comes when stringing them together, and then it is more difficult to trust the human capacity to figure out failure scenarios than just run the real handlers.
And how will you combat the corruption?
On the one hand - you're right. Google is good, I use GCP, they are competent and good to work with.

On the other hand "someone who has an entire product devoted to that one area, and has many years of experience and is probably the largest provider on the planet for that service" also describes Enron at the time.

Google's no Enron, but Size isn't the metric one should use.
Yes, I worked at a company where tech department was severely under-manned, and we had to be great at "SRE" type stuff. (I will definitely be reading this book, I even applied for this SRE position at Google while I was still working there...)

The number one problem was that (starting in Year 4) there was nobody else with the knowledge to be on-call. So, I was on-call 24/7-365 for 5 years. Realistically it was a small enough company with localized (mostly east-coast USA) clients, that things going wrong in the middle of the night was pretty unusual. I had a great boss who mentored me to be able to handle these things by myself, and he mostly put the right tools in my hands so that it was possible to avoid getting woke in the middle of the night because anything went wrong short of a disk going bad.

It happened often enough to be a good reason to want to leave! It was my first serious job, and for all its faults it was a pretty great job until my boss got a better offer. When he left, it seemed that there was no choice but to implement vSAN and VSphere. And then I actually didn't need to be woke by disks going bad in the middle of the night anymore.

When I did go, there was nobody prepared to handle 75% of the incidents I would have been needed to work on. (I assume that many of those things just stay broken now when they go wrong.)
Any real world success & failure stories I can read upon ?

> Some EU countries have tax laws that look through said structures, attributing earned income to the shareholders. That's one reason.

Even if the company is not tax resident of said countries ? Mind pointing me to the laws/countries.

> doing it right also requires a great deal of additional paperwork (+ extra overhead expenses)

Any estimate ?

This is very informative. Thank You.
"Secret" is not the right concept. It's not that people didn't know the price, it's that they didn't see the implications of the price for opening a new market. That kind of insight takes imagination as well as knowledge.
Nice! Although it would take a lot to get me away from https://darksky.net/ now.
I'd bet $200k that Eric, Sergey, and Larry have all spent hours with this deal.
Former Norway PM held at Washington airport over 2014 visit to Iran
My default was celsius. Firefox, language de
US style lawns definitely don't make economic sense. That stuff only happened because of cheap energy, which in term is artificially cheaper/subsidized due to not including negative externalities. In Europe lawns don;t make sense, Asia neither.
How else do you suggest they learn? China == cheap education.
react-scaffolder is a command line interface which brings smooth developer experience (DX) for React devs. react-scaffolder provides a better way to generate react projects with react-boilerplate. With this tool it's possible to continue generating boilerplate code with heavy customizations once a project is initiated.
Snap signed a contract - how are they going to leave that contract? Yes, maybe if there is significant breach by Google, but that's lawsuit level.
You mean like on the SE? God please no. Having the device taper at the edges makes it feel less bulky.
Looks very similar to Windytv (https://www.windytv.com/). Are these websites somehow related?
The current U.S. federal estate tax threshold is so high ($5.5m for an individual, or $11m for a couple) that it only hits the wealthiest 0.2% of estates, not your typical small businessperson.

In addition, a large proportion of the "family farms" complaining about the estate tax are sham farms, essentially real-estate investment vehicles that throw a handful of cows on them in order to qualify for farm subsidies and property-tax exemptions. This is an especially popular kind of "family farm" in exurban Texas. There are genuine family farms, but they are much rarer than the number on paper, and typically don't, coincidentally, happen to hold as much prime investment land.
I bet they'll remove all analog inputs / outputs, i.e. no microphone or speaker and even the charging connector. To talk on the phone you'll need to use AirPods + AirMics[1]. To charge the phone you'll place it on a charge mat[2] and Tim Cook will hail it as an Apple first.

People will complain, talk about how they've jumped the shark and won't be buying any more Apple products, and then proceed to by them in droves.

[1]: AirMics will have a new ad campaign featuring Michael Jordan.

[2]: The phone will come with one and additional mats will cost $59.95 from Apple or $19.95 from third parties.
Others in this thread have suggested that no physical presence is required.
Is avoiding pain really a good reason for GA? At least in my dental procedures (and I've had quite a few for my age), the operations itself where uncomfortable, but the painful part was afterwards, when the anesthetics wore off.
This is the #1 myth of social media startups - that you can be in the red at this phase and easily turn it all around. People forget that Facebook was ~$50m in the black before they even took a series A.
Yeah, that part surprised me. I use Twitter primarily as a way of keeping up with creators whose work I enjoy. I regularly click links from them, because that is why I follow them. I was surprised to see that with 50,000 followers, not a single one actually wanted to consume what this person creates; or perhaps their followers find other avenues to consuming the author's content.
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I think there is more to it than that now. I think how you market on Twitter is totally unique from the way you do it anywhere else. Success on that medium, depending on the thing you are marketing, can become predicated on a number of things.

For example, I've witnessed game developers who were making truly beautiful things, who got stonewalled because they wouldn't drink the current koolaid. That flavor of koolaid at the moment happens to be the results of the election and defining where you stand. A few years back, I saw great indie companies getting blackballed because of anything less than purist views on subjects like gamergate.

I do think you can penetrate and market well on Twitter, but it comes with quite a few ifs. Maybe this comes, for the first time, with having a marketing platform with instant human feedback (note: I did not say customer).
As a lead developer/eng manager, I tend to discuss in my 1-1s with my team things that are of concern to people, changes people liked, changes people didn't like, and why to everything. I will ask for feedback on how can I better help them. As a company, we also ask each person what is one thing the person can do to improve. I will also ask what ideas people have to improve the team, or observations they had that are of concern - sometimes people don't feel as comfortable sharing their thoughts in a group setting, especially if someone is overbearing. It also is an opportunity for the team members to step away from product development craziness and reflect.

I also give the monthly performance review then too, but I try to de-emphasize that because the numbers aren't too important except as a rough bar of the feedback being given upstream to higher management.

The one on ones that I have with my director of engineering and VP are geared towards a variety of topics, such as feedback they have heard about me from other co-workers, things of concern that I have done, things I can improve upon, things I am doing well, and suggestions for things I can try to apply to improve team performance. My director of engineering is also interested in the performance of each person, the contours of their situation, and what I am doing to try to improve their output, while the VP is a little more interested in the higher level aspects of overall team performance and management.

1-1s are as useful as the people involved make them. A good manager is important because if the person isn't trying to make use of the meeting to draw out more information on how to improve the team dynamic & help the person get better, then it is a waste, but on the flip side, the person must be cognizant to a degree, and be willing to make the effort to improve.
You know, the author of this blog post echoes my thoughts almost verbatim. I am feeling like I am swept away in filthy, roiling, floodwater every time I switch to my Twitter tab. It has become exhausting, and a detriment to my actual work, so I am going to take a sabbatical.

Facebook to a lesser extent - that platform is still a useful means to communicate with family who are scattered wide.

By far, I am really enjoying Instagram at the moment - it is SO much more peaceful and non-confrontational. I only have a tiny couple of hundred followers, and am following about the same number of friends, musicians, guitar makers, tea manufacturers and such. It is just nice to sit back and scroll through my feed and see uplifting images with NO arguments or one upmanship or sniping going on...
Sounds great, but maybe defining what is impact investing higher up in the page would be helpful for people not familiar with the term and what it entails.
I'd like a solution that doesn't require a case so you can lay your phone flat and not have the protruding camera make it wobbly on your desk.

It's like 1 mm or something, does anyone really notice/care if the entire housing was 1mm thicker to provide a flush back? How much more life would 1mm of battery provide?

Finally, is there some design consideration I am not thinking of that this protruding camera is an advantage in scenarios?
But ensuring 5 years of guaranteed service at a fixed price is reducing their risk. It prevents Google from pulling the rug out from under them, or from the price going up and they have no option but to accept it.

I imagine part of their plans are to move away from the dependency, but while it exists - this is exactly how you reduce your exposure to that risk.