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This simple story (I know the whole story is not simple especially ones can make profit) gives me some hope. I am building a service by using elixir/phoenix (yeah it seems an opposite direction to the OP's) and is very frustrated from making decision in every module or line of code because my obsession of good practice!

Thank you for sharing. I will be relaxing, writing shit and getting the service done.
>I have not heard of any major security incident recently with Firefox.

There's a reason that pwn2own (the hacking competition) has much higher bounties for finding Chrome vulnerabilities than finding Firefox vulnerabilities - http://blog.trendmicro.com/pwn2own-returns-for-2017-to-celeb...
Doing joins?

More seriously, I'd turn the question around. BASE requires you to think hard about a lot of things that ACID gives you for free. The benefits are better performance and scalability. But if you're not certain you need that performance, why go through the extra trouble?

(That said, it also depends of the data model. If you're certain your data is key/value without any relationships and will always be key/value, a key/value store is likely appropriate. If you have something more complex, I don't see it.)
Organic food is vastly more popular now and thus Whole foods had more competition from the likes of Walmart and Costco in the organic produce space. This has driven margins down and that has cut into their profit margins.
So, hypothetically, if Apple/Google decided to reduce their 30% cut to 0%, would you still perceive them as "repugnant" "middlemen rent-seekers"?
There is very limited technical documentation on xthin so it is hard for the community to accept and test it. If Bitcoin were to implement xthin (or an alternative proposal such as compact blocks) it would be much better to release outside of the block increase. again the main contention is the mechanism for change that the Bitcoin unlimited enthusiasts want to impose, a contentious hard fork

And to clarify, the software may have been released (in Bitcoin unlimited's release), but is not used by the Bitcoin network as a whole. Very few nodes are running this implementation. And to many is untested/unproven
Much more than LAMP was used. I know LAMP and cannot use it to make $3700/mo.
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Hmm. Heading there Tuesday for Sonar. Hope it'll be safe.
Yes, it's about networking and the ability to delegate.

I've been struggle with it for years. Felt like if I entrusted some part of work to someone else, they wouldn't give it 100% of their attention. Then I realized that it's true most of the time, but the trick is it they don't have to in order to finish the task.
I think "original provocation" is a little hard to claim when we are talking about Jerusalem. Even in recent history, the '48 Arab-Israeli war, pan-Arab forces attempted to crush the nascent Jewish enclave.

Also, I find your Holocaust allusion extremely tasteless.
You aren't going to like the answer to that question, but the appeals court seems to favor Oracle in this case.

They specifically said that Oracle had a strong position, but that they were required to give Google a chance to present full evidence on the fair use issue.
It's not a bribe when Microsoft is offering substantial cost reductions and tax revenue.
This sounds true and similar to what I thought it would be, based on how laughably bad were the Russian "illegals" caught in 2010. It is virtually impossible to fit in having been born and raised in a different culture. Even simply the accent is almost impossible to overcome (women seem to have better luck defeating the accent than men and you have a chance up to the age of 17 or so).

The Americans is a cool show, but the real life illegals could not fool anyone.

These days Russia probably has no need for this type of presence, since there are enough Russians living in the US and enough of them support Putin that a small percentage may choose to work as spies. Same for China.

Another interesting detail that came out of the 2010 illegal bust was that America is so diverse and people are so respectful of privacy, that one of the spies was doing just fine with an American name ("Jack Ryan" or "Patric Foley" or something like), fully American "legend" and a heavy Russian accent. People wondered but nobody asked any questions.

P.S. And who needs spies when you can have a whole administration? :)
I've heard the whole paycheck thing before.

I used to shop at Whole Foods when I wanted junk food. Of any store they usually have the best selection. I'd rather shop at Mariano's though. Better price and better produce.
FYI, Classpath exception does not remove GPL from OpenJDK, or enable anyone to create a non-GPL JDK. It allows you to create Java programs that are themselves not GPL.
I will look closer at the SQL language then but what about efficiency?
But in the case of API's, the signatures and the semantic meaning are the same
I thought Hacker News was above Nazi-comparisons, but if we are sinking to that level, perhaps we should also compare similarities between left-wing groups engaging in politically motivated acts of violence and the Nazi brownshirts.

For example, consider the group UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks called:

> more than 100 armed individuals clad all in black who utilized paramilitary tactics to engage in violent, destructive behavior designed to shut [Milo's speech] down.

http://news.berkeley.edu/2017/02/02/campus-condemns-violence...

(But I'd rather we avoid Nazi comparisons altogether. They can be an effective way for an author to get attention but they can be used by both sides and they rarely lead to useful discussion.)
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It's not a myth if you watch it happening nearly every day.
There is a massive irony in the fact that Google yields better search results for iOS and Mac apps than the AppStore.

I've gotten to the point where I use the AppStore only in absence of alternatives.

If Apple wanted to get more into services, the AppStores would be an obvious and easy way to demonstrate their ability and willingness to provide, if not valuable, then at least usable services. And all they do is botch it.
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Iceland's geysers certainly do.
There were: Sipani Automobiles Ltd. and Maruti Udyog Limited.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sipani

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maruti_Suzuki
Does anyone know what's going on inside the White House in terms of who is working on these drafts and why the first differs so drastically from the second?

We have no reporting on this, only these "leaked" drafts.

The two drafts differ substantially. I don't see how the difference has much to do with the immigration order debacle. That certainly happened in the meanwhile but if anything it seems the second draft has changed to reflect the confirmation of new "agency heads".

The second is noticeably less ambitious too. It's written as if to have little to no effect whatsoever on the status quo.
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I think they should report extensively on that to fight against the Accenture report. Not that the report is wrong, but if we want to switch to Linux everywhere, we'll have to fight on other grounds that practicality, robustness,etc.

Could you ask these people to explain why they think investing in LibreOffice is worth it (and well, just remain silent if their experience is bad :-))
The responces like yours give me immense satisfaction. That's the reason I wrote it.

Thanks a lot.
Continuous war since 2001 and all 8 years of the Obama administration is the real normalization we should be afraid of.
> I don't understand why organic food is this expensive in the US in places like WFM.

I have been wondering about this myself, products labeled 'organic' have varying degrees of quality that I assume are reflected in distributor price. Now, while in my experience WF tends to mostly have higher quality organic stuff on their shelves than my other go-to stores, my intuition is that their markup is pretty important.

When I think about it, it seems apparent that WF and similar stores simply have a strategy of luxury: the higher prices are a statement, in addition to improving the perceived value of the products to the buyer, they also secure a relative exclusivity.

In other words, they've gone a little bit apple-store of food.
You would think Microsoft would fear the precedent.

Attention Governments: Go deploy Linux on your desktops and Microsoft will appear tendering huge sacks of cash. Tell your friends. Don't let them leave with a dime.
> I thought Hacker News was above Nazi-comparisons

> [makes Nazi-comparison]

Edit: Parent changed

> Downvoted without response? I guess I shouldn't be surprised, groups that resort to tactics like those at Berkeley are hardly above trying to silence discussion here with downvotes.

into

> (But I'd rather we avoid Nazi comparisons altogether. They can be an effective way for an author to get attention but they can be used by both sides and they rarely lead to useful discussion.)

The latter I can agree with.
I'm willing to engage in discussion at any level the community prefers.

I'd rather not have it at this level but c'est la vie.

Response to update:

> The latter I can agree with.

Are we still flagging political posts here?

Perhaps we could agree to flag Nazi-comparisons, at least.

In that spirit, it's fair to downvote my Nazi-comparison, but only if you also flag the main post.
That would be cheap for a gallon!
Haha, good point. But I'm sure you will, it's just a matter of time and the number of attempts.
> It is improper to speak for others in this way. If Leo and Sunil want to post about their plans, they may do so.

ICYMI, the departing executives in question did post about their plans, and (similarly to the OP) with a bit of reflection on their part:

https://hackernoon.com/after-6-incredible-years-at-buffer-im...

https://medium.com/@sunils34/parting-ways-with-buffer-ee016b...

There doesn't seem to be any reason for customers to be concerned, and the contemplative style of the post is by no means new. On the contrary, it would be a matter of concern if the post wasn't primarily concerned with a retrospective on how they got to where they are today as well as individual styles, goals, personalities, and emotional fulfilment.
> [...] very hard to sift through for the normal customer.

Maybe it's just me but I find it completely impossible to sift through it. The search is completely broken, there is no catalog worth going through. The only think worth looking at are the lists curated by Apple but then again usually I'm looking for something more specific.

In practice the only reliable way to find a good App, is going to be searching with Google, reading reviews outside of the App Store and eventually following a direct link to the App.

It's incomprehensible to me how anyone not just a normal customer would out of their own free will sift through this virtual garbage can. Many of the apps you'll see in search are so obviously scammy and questionable looking, you'll even get the disgust you'd get from sifting through actual garbage.
In all fairness, there is hardly anything to be done about it. You just can't come up with a full MS Office replacement fast enough to be relevant.

Short of completely dismantling Microsoft, or even seizing their assets by governments (two options I don't approve of), I don't see a way to break that monopoly as long as this kind of Office Software is relevant.
Lot's of comments (1600) on Heise: https://www.heise.de/forum/heise-online/News-Kommentare/Von-...

Several comments mention "läuft wie geschmiert" which can be translated as mobbed-up / bribed.
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Even Wal-Mart sells tortillas with a bare minimum of ingredients these days and they are dirt cheap.

I can't find them listed online. Not sure if it's due to ethnic tastes around here or what, but they are definitely there, and they are very good.
my experienc eis different. When a user has a problem he goes to the colleagues he knows and then, if he's a little pro-active, he looks on the web. Pas that, in a big company, they'll just leave it there "too complicated". I don't think people ever bother to reach the person who k nows the support contact at microsoft...

And fact is, Excel or Word, are quit known everywhere so you don't need much of support.

So no, I don't think there's much of a need for support...
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Isn't this a spoiler? I haven't seen the puzzle in a while.
> I don't shop at WF because the parking lot is too small, always full, and there's just no place to park anywhere near it.

Classic! I wish people in my hood were like you and bailed out instead of lining up and blocking the traffic to enter their parking lot, totally pisses me off!
I think this shouldn't be used to store application or user data, but could be actually useful for less important data used by cron scripts and scheduled jobs for which you would otherwise use a small local database or text files.
>Imagine that you've just taken out a 40 year $500,000 mortgage. How happy are you going to be if next year your house is now worth $250,000 but you still owe $490,000 on it?

The thing is, this is exactly what happens with everything else that an American consumer purchases with a loan: cars, boats, RVs, everything that is purchased with a credit card.

As has been said before, a house is just a wooden box that you leave out in the rain for 30 years. But yet we expect that this box will become more valuable over time...
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In general SQL is fast enough. In many cases it's faster than scripting languages or even faster than compiled languages (particularly when it comes to dealing with list or set data structures). RDBMS like PostgreSQL for example tend to be highly optimised and efficient pieces of software.
It's not just IT issues (the IT crashes down not that often, don't let the media fool you!). It's massive staffing issues. There are way too few people employed at the public service desks, and it's easier to hide this by blaming IT. This was the case years ago, and it still is.

The lack of staff is especially a problem as the employees have to be trained in a lot of different areas of law and procedures (because the Bürgerbüros/KVR are quite generic and offer all different kinds of services), so you can't just shift employees around... and Munich has the added problem of extremely high living costs combined with extremely low, un-competitive pay.
>'Putin isn't Hitler!' 'Trump isn't Hitler!' Wow, congratulations! You
have failed the most basic lesson of learning from history in order
not to repeat it!

>I wrote about this fallacy extensively in Winter is Coming and elsewhere, but am happy to recap it here. Of course Putin isn't Hitler, and Donald Trump isn't even Putin—no matter how much he would like to be. The point is that no one is making comparisons to the monster Adolf Hitler became in the 1940s. But in the 20s, even for most of the 30s, Hitler wasn't Hitler either! There could be no more important lesson to understand than how a race-baiting demagogue came to power in an educated and liberal country like Germany and how he transformed that nation into a fascist death machine capable of World
War and unimaginable acts.

-- Garry Kasparov
Are you implying that those groups are coordinated with an
American Political Party? Which one? Can you provide more information about that?
> WordPress was pretty damn good

Building your own userland SQL Prepared Statements 'replacement' using string replacement is not "pretty damn good".

WordPress is notorious for refusing to drop support for ancient, unsupported versions of PHP.

WordPress is a fucking terrible solution to any problem, from a technical point of view.
Tolerated, certainly.

> UC Berkeley Police Chief Margo Bennett said Wednesday night [after the incident described above] she wasn't aware of any arrests by the department.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/protests-violence-prompt...

Imagine:

> more than 100 armed individuals clad all in black who utilized paramilitary tactics to engage in violent, destructive behavior

No arrests?
Whole Foods has a store brand (365) that's good quality for the price. You do still have to shop carefully, because their idea of quality is more about making you feel like you're saving the planet than health.

One thing that surprises me about living in SV is how downmarket Safeway is here. I thought it would be like Publix in the South (nice, but not especially nice) but mine sells nothing but corporate brands, carbs, more carbs and Bud Light. People must like baked goods.
I heard the IT crew was left out of all hearings regarding this new proposal. So it's just "la la la cannot hear you" -level professionalism on the part of the council members.
PWAs are the future :)
If that's true, the process is wrong.
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Well, they used the license used by Apache Foundation when they developed Apache Harmony.

They couldn't change the license
> "I invented a new religion for you last night. God has a number in mind. If the sum total of all good acts minus the sum total of all bad acts exceeds this number then everyone goes to heaven. Otherwise, everyone goes to hell. Imagine then. Something you do could send everyone to hell."

Yes, imagine community where everyone is policing everything everyone else does. What you do is no longer a question of your own personal responsibility before God. Now everyone has a stake making sure you are behaving only In Good Way (tm).
I think Oracle has a few features that postgres don't have.

Warning: conspiracy theories ahead - I have a suspicion that the biggest reason is so that their field agents (i.e. oracle-friendly DBAs : ) out in the field can always find some reason to choose Oracle over anything else.

Also: and this is based on once working with a Oracle shop and also listening to Microsoft guys: licenses fees can be a blessing in disguise, they aren't going to pay them anyways, their customers will and they will add 15%
The solution is education.

She should be thankful, not so long ago people would loose their life being stupid and those genes wouldn't pass on. I guess idiocracy is inevitable.
A lot of that farming in California provides the vast majority of national or even global supplies of various fruits and vegetables. California's Central Valley has a long growing season and very fertile soil, the combination of which make it about as ideal for growing crops as one can get (with the sole exception of water). Agriculture's here to stay; it's just a question of how much water it'll get.

Water usage can be reduced through smarter irrigation methods, and we have a ridiculously-long coastline that could be put to good use by building some desalinization plants (solving not only our own water crisis, but also the relative aridity of Nevada and Arizona). Even importing water from elsewhere is far more reasonable than shutting down California's agriculture.

That said, beef does take up a disproportionate amount of water statewide, and really ought to be moved out-of-state (and I say this as someone whose extended family has a vested interest in Californian cattle ranching). Alfalfa might benefit from California's soil and sunshine, but the cows themselves don't exactly need to be here.
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> Basically you only need 3 things to run Linux: kernel, initramfs and rootfs.

And networking, fully functional networking.

If you've missed out the FW packages for your wifi drivers, you will have a hard time using your package manager to get those missing bits ;)

Probably not an issue for servers, but for those who'd like to do "complex" desktop/laptop install with ZFS/btrfs roots or whatever, it's an easy mistake to make.
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In my store, they did lower the price of milk, eggs, flour, sugar, potatoes, and their house brand of cheeses. They really did try to lower the prices of some, some of the basics.

They do have a lost liter wine for $2.49 a bottle. They hide it. Forget the name.

I despised Whole Foods for years. It was just like throwing away money. My father couldn't even pass the stores--he would take a side road just to avoid the parking lot, even when he had a tumor in his liver. My dad didn't understand high prices, or throwing away money.

Anyways, a relative whom is too old to drive, had me take her there. She bought all the expensive items because she could. I didn't buy anything, until a few years ago; they really did lower the prices on certain foods.

(If anyone from corporate happens to read this--get rid of uniformed security. Hire undercover on the stores with high customer theft. For what you charge, I don't want to see security guards. While I'm at it get rid of the time clock sensors the Janitors scan. The job is degrading enough, you don't need to micromanage them. If I'm paying extra; treat all employees well. Yea, I do notice.)
Perhaps a middle ground is like what you can do on Android, by default is a walled garden without the capability of installing from third party sources but you can enable it with a very big and scary warning
Exactly, and they also maintain a higher image of Quality/Luxury by not carrying a lot of products you'd find in most normal stores likes Safeway or similar (1).

1: Those stores that have carts that you can actually use to shop without being a CEO.
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Nethack has great code! It's very easy to follow and has tons of comments.
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From a personal friend who is an organic farmer: (a) organic food is hard to do in large fields, since the plants can easily catch anything, and the farmer looses the entire crop.It happens much more than non organic. So the farmer must use very small portions of fields, each with different type of plant, and thus minimise the risk. So no economy of scale (b) you can't use the same plants again and again on the same field, and the cycle of changing plants each time requires to build, dismantle and rebuild another infrastructure each time (c) can't keep in refrigerators long time, so what is not sold quickly, is lost
What if an independent app store, fails at adequately stopping malware from getting through? Is Apple going to ban the entire store then? Does Apple get to do that job for those stores instead? If the latter, does the App get reviewed both by Apple and the independent store? Does Apple get a cut in that scenario?

How do you install independent app stores to begin with? Do you install them with he App Store? That would put them at a disadvantage similar to how Microsoft put other Browsers at a disadvantage with IE. Do you provide a choice then when you setup the phone?

Purely from an anti-trust perspective I can see why the idea of independent app stores might seem appealing at first glance. Thinking about this just for a moment brings up so many questions though and I don't see how you can possibly come up with satisfying answers that lead to good security and a good user experience.
I did:

"[I] decided to make a little tool to help me scrape the posts of my competitors and publish them to my group on a regular basis."

And

"I had created a spicy mix of public domain content, some supposedly copyrighted content from unknown authors, [...]"

I found this particularly striking:

"Usually it was the content of some authors that were difficult to track and attribute to. Sometimes it was blatant plagiarism."

So you were/are well aware of the problem. But instead of Doing The Right Thing (find out source, ask for permission) you just declare that to be difficult (and yes. It is. Full ACK).
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