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> for no good reason.

There was good reason, to move to the latest version of a particular software, since that's kind of the whole philosophy of Arch, in fact the reason I originally switched to it in 2011 was because I had enough of me not being able to use the latest software on Ubuntu.

> Why should users of older distros have to add a symlink, when before Arch everyone could be sure that '/usr/bin/python' if present would be python2

If you made no effort to detect the actual version, it's wrong to assume that. It could've just as well been python 1.
It hasn't been confirmed yet[0]. Their evidence so far is that they saw something shiny in the diamond anvil. The shiny thing may not necessarily be metallic hydrogen, and could just be the coating.

There are also questions that they reached as high of a pressure as they said they did.

Metallic hydrogen has been created in the lab before. Of course, in these previous cases the metallic hydrogen didn't last long(neither did the test apparatus) as the necessary pressures were reached using explosions.

The first confirmed production of metallic hydrogen used a giant gun to shoot a large bullet at a small container of liquid hydrogen at ~7 kilometers per second.[1] One unconfirmed attempt even used a specially designed bomb to compress liquid hydrogen[2].

[0]http://www.nature.com/news/physicists-doubt-bold-report-of-m...
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallic_hydrogen#Shock-wave_c...
[2]http://web.archive.org/web/20120321111752/http://lateralscie...
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I don't completely agree. If you're working on an SPA that targets higher-income (e.g. better internet) consumers, a developer could be forgiven for doing as much as possible using JS. I choose to sacrifice the <1% of my target users who have JS turned off or have poor connections to benefit the UX of the other 99% of users. I think the time and resource investment in strictly adhering to these guidelines is cost-prohibitive for many lean engineering teams, particularly those at early-stage startups.

I get that the web was designed to be optimized for HTML/CSS first, JS last. However, the web was also not originally designed to support web applications as complex as the marketplace currently supports. As the web matures as the only universal application platform (to compete with various native platforms), I think a paradigm shift is required -- towards replacing as much markup with programmatic code as possible. Such a paradigm shift is required for complex web applications to compete with native environments going forward.

Of course, none of this applies if your organization just requires static websites. Choose the right tool for the job, and all that.
Sure, but in its effect, which is what we care about, that's a distinction without a difference. The internet can't handle that kind of sublety—at least not without a lot more context.
Backplane easily replaces the service discovery+custom agents+elb+nginx+firewall management code+cert management code+...... so if you have a process instance/scheduler like kubernetes or use auto scalers and want to save time and headaches and stop dealing with all of the above then Backplane is for you. The tunneling also allows us to bridge private DCs and cloud services for those transitioning to the cloud.
For readers looking to comments to decide whether to click through, this is about secret management (passwords, private keys, API tokens) in web/app development, as opposed to other types of secrets.
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I'm so annoyed when the best guy is not in the office to help me when I need. Slack is not the same as both of us sitting together at the computer.
I think they are screwing this up.

By offering people medicore, local salaries, they are losing a massive opportunity to clean up on the great talent in remote areas.

Why would someone want to live in a low-end city (assuming they are mobile) - when they could live the same 'quality of life' in a much cooler place?

Assuming a degree of mobility - the whole point of living in a 2cnd tier place is that you can save a lot of money, which makes up for the '2cnd tierendess' of the place.

Montreal is 1/2 Boston. There are a good batch of great devs in Montreal. I could double my salary and move to Boston? I'd probably just do that. And still save more.

If they paid a 20% premium over other Montrealers, they'd be able to attract the best talent - and still save a lot of money over Boston/SF/NYC.

Paying 'regular market wages' for remote localities is not a winning proposition - it doesn't take advantage of the fact they are great startup, reasonably well financed etc..
If only. sudo, as configured out-of-the-box on Ubuntu, gets out of your way and lets you work (Except if you haven't properly authenticated in the last 15 minutes); polkit is similarly out-of-your-way.

Sudo is also (relatively) easy to configure: "this command line can be run under sudo by anybody", "this command must not be run under sudo even if they know their password", etc.

UAC is always-in-your-face about everything, often unexpectedly - it hijacks your desktops at inopportune times, and there's no way to tell it "Yes, this software can do this again for the next 15 minutes without asking me again".

UAC is very, very far from being the graphical popup equivalent of sudo. If it had been, people would not have complained as much. (Someone always complains. But in the case of UAC, most of the complaints are justified)
Has the same problem as Expert's Exchange had back in the day.

Idea: A registrar service that helps to identify and avoid awkward lexical ambiguities like this one. Or one which generates them!
Software companies with no hardware talent are no fun to work for.
I personally like the Bitbucket UI. Except the useless overview page. The rest of the UI is great IMHO.
There are some skeptics. "Their main concern is that Silvera and Dias really only have one data point: a single measurement of the reflectivity of their sample at high pressure. While that could indicate metallic hydrogen, it could also be something else, like the alumina coating they used on the diamonds to prevent hydrogen from leaking into the crystal and making it brittle."
http://www.forbes.com/sites/samlemonick/2017/01/27/theres-re...
OMG, so much smoother than what I do now. Thanks for the link.
Yes, though without the negative connotations the term "hawala" carries in the West because all transactions are still fully documented and the broker gets a much lower share (for pure monetary international transfers in the hawala system, fees can go as high as 60% with 25% already being considered a "good deal"). And one does not have to pass high/drunk armed guards and is not paid from a huge pile of cash that just sits on the floor in a corner of the room.

PS: Sorry, no source for the numbers but my own experience in Northwestern Africa.
You just sound like a grumpy old man set in his ways, honestly.

No matter the discussion or behavior of other commenters—even if it's about editors!—it's never okay to be uncivil. This type of comment is uncalled for. The rest of your comment stands very well without it.
I'm currently writing a java server after working on an erlang server and I miss erlang daily. "Concurrent" libraries like vert.x feel just odd with their callbacks although lambdas made this a little less awkward.
In using cowboy directly, it would be a mistake (at least from personal experience) to rely of cowboy for anything other than your api endpoints and/or dynamic templates. Static assets, including html, are best served via nginx, with cowboy serving requests to your application. I've never had a cowboy + OTP project not lean on nginx in some way (yet).
This is unfortunate. One of the nice things about Arch was you could count on it to run on the older (32bit) systems.
> but to a little transgender or asexual kid

Kids are weird. They often do a ton of weird shit at least until puberty. I think this trend with the internet-bound millennial left (at least, I haven't seen anyone else do it) of taking every possible aspect of someone's personality (like a child expressing that they wish they were boy/girl) and classifying/medicalizing it is just as harmful as overdiagnosing kids with ADHD and getting them strung up on amphetamines. Not everything needs to be turned into a medical issue or have a big deal made of it. Now, instead of just doping kids up on amphetamines, we're also giving them hormone blockers or even HRT. And no, that's not a bogeyman; it's not hard to find celebratory videos where the parents give their pre-pubescent kid their first round of hormone treatment.

According to [1], 80-95% of kids diagnosed with Gender Dysphoria completely get over it by the time they hit puberty (and [2] says 88-98%). It is almost always, as we used to call it, "a phase". Any diagnosis made before puberty is extremely likely to be a misdiagnosis.

So forgive me, but I don't really buy "Think of the (transgender/agender) children!" as a compelling argument, since the actual occurrence of permanent gender dysphoria in children is low bordering on negligible, with many persistent cases potentially attributable to parental treatment rather than any sort of neurophysiological disorder on the part of the child. See [3] as an example. I think encouraging children to see themselves and having dysphoria and to seek treatment is extremely harmful, given that in the vast majority of formal diagnoses, no medical intervention is necessary. The whole thing just reeks of projecting identity politics onto innocent bystanders in a way that is demonstrably bad for their mental and physical health.

[1] Cohen-Kettenis PT, Delemarre-van de Waal HA, Gooren LJ. The treatment of adolescent transsexuals: changing insights. J Sexual Med 2008;5:1892–1897.

[2] http://www.acpeds.org/the-college-speaks/position-statements...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/oct/21/boy-living-l...
Good points. Messaging has become super easy to set up so the natural tendency is to just do more of everything. Send every message through all available channels which means you might get one email, 1 sms and 1 push notification.

Looking at whether users like these kind of messages would be interesting. I personally turn off the push notifications but I enjoy getting the emails from Mint. I really dislike when companies don't give you an option for what kind of notifications you want to receive. I would imagine this is pretty similar for all consumers.
Agreed. Based on their calculator, moving from Dallas to Ft. Worth is a 20% pay cut. That's ridiculous; Dallas and Ft. Worth are essentially a single market. If any difference at all is justified it should be pretty small.

As it is, for me the calculator gives me roughly what I was making in Dallas, a bit less (at the top end) than I make now in New York, and a Lockheed entry-level salary if I were to move to Ft. Worth.
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Kinda makes me think of how you can increase the quality of vodka by running it through standard charcoal water filters (I think there was a mythbusters on this).
Does it matter? America doesn't care what other countries do. America is unique, or close to unique in the western world in that:

- It taxes its citizens and permanent residents abroad.

- It doesn't require employers to give vacation time, sick leave, personal leave or parental leave.

- Other nearby countries have to clear incoming travellers with it before they can allow them on a plane to their territory.

Just off the top of my head.
> In North Carolina, the legislature requested racial data on the use of electoral mechanisms, then restricted all those disproportionately used by blacks, such as early voting, same-day registration and out-of-precinct voting. Absentee ballots, disproportionately used by white voters, were exempted from the voter ID requirement. The legislative record actually justified the elimination of one of the two days of Sunday voting because “counties with Sunday voting in 2014 were disproportionately black” and “disproportionately Democratic.”

I welcome any other sources you might have showing that this is factually incorrect.
Do you by chance know what your company's tax obligations are? We'd love to open up for international remote work, but we also don't want to run afoul of any international tax obligations (i.e. local payroll taxes) due to remote employees.
"Tried" and "persevered" are two different things. The people I know who've found success in these endeavours have only found it by sticking to it and grinding until they got somewhere.

They had to endure multiple failures, but each time they failed less than the last. Success was really the one where they failed the least, and after that they can chart their own path, they're finally above water.

> have you ever tried to intentionally change a culture? It's damn near impossible.

Yes, I have. It's not impossible, it's just very hard. It requires stubborn determination.

Don't expect anyone to care about your project unless you make them care. Don't expect anyone to pay for your project unless you ask them to. You need to engage, you need to evangelize, you need to promote. Relentlessly.

For example, I haven't heard one bit of promotion from you in all of these comments. Not a peep. Does that mean whatever you're doing isn't worth mentioning?
Looking at this from a technological perspective, it reminds me of the shift from categorization to tagging in information categorization.

Instead of being 'Male or female', or 'Gay or straight', now there are a range of different adjectives people can apply to themselves (cis/trans, gay/straight, male/female, a/bi/homo/pansexual, a/bi/homo/panromantic, and so on).

Rather than having to fit into one of two boxes, people who cross those boundaries in one way or another can specify that specifically. I think a lot of the confusion a lot of people have these days with regards to gender and identity politics is the proliferation of new terminology to describe the wide variations in preferences and identities.
Oh please. You can do plenty of SAT prep at the library. My parents certainly couldn't afford an SAT prep course for me. The effect of such courses is vastly overblown—they mostly just sit you down with the same books you can get for free at the library (or for $20 on Amazon).

There are plenty of "oddball" extracurriculars that rural poor students can engage in. My admissions essay was literally about hiking with an ancient backpack covered in duct tape.
It's not entirely true. Copland microkernel was in (hidden) in System 8.5 onward, and provided preemptive multitasking, file mapping, timers etc. It's just that the only real 'task' on it was the old cooperative OS.

So not entirely true -- it's "only" true from the standpoint of typical User Experience.
Yeah. "No pain, no gain" also comes to mind.
Ubuntu does this now with Xenial.
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That's great! You should definitely add that to the docs.
I just went to the same page and was extremely disappointed when I saw that it required Windows.
A benchmark comparing it with similar solutions (esp. Neo4j) would be much welcome.
No, I'm not. But I am assuming that access to the source we're talking about would have an appreciable effect on global supply. This isn't the first time this has happened: the plummet in oil prices in the last few years is in large part attributed to an increase in supply of US oil production. I don't remember the details off the top of my head but I recall reading that the drop in prices has also been accompanied by a halting of the momentum of consumer interest in things like fuel efficiency.
The training/testing data for ImageNet are not all tiny thumbnails. It's just that the models work better/are more cleanly defined with uniform inputs, so images are scaled/cropped down to the 224x224 or 299x299 or whatever dimensions. Inception-ResNet works fine on huge images, it just doesn't use all of the pixel data.
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It seems more a question of when rather than if. So what will you be using instead?
I'm not sure they would go that well together; high pressure inhibits cavitation, I'm pretty sure, and cavitation is the primary mechanism by which the ultrasound method extracts the various compounds from the wood. Maybe if you used higher energy ultrasound?
> a string of code and break it down into an array

break -> breaks

> There a three kinds

a -> are

> starts with a " and end with a "

end -> ends

> couple of tokenizer for a

tokenizer -> tokenizers

> a generic function that tokenize a single

tokenize -> tokenizes

> by means or regular expressions

or -> of
The rationalists say that a major purpose of language is to communicate facts about the world.

The postmodernists say: "What are 'facts'? What is 'world'?"

So with facts gone and the real world gone, that leaves only one purpose for language, for saying anything at all: to get others to do what you want them to do. (This is a simplification of Wittgenstein's "language-games" of the form of e.g., the Builders' Game.)

I've always maintained that Derridean postmodernism is, in actuality, a form of long-form trolling whose main purpose was to provoke traditional philosophers by baffling them or getting them to fruitlessly debate the propositions. In this it's sort of a language-game: Derrida produced words, and the philosophers reacted in just the way he intended them to when he wrote the words. Whether it was for his own amusement, to show those stiff-necked rationalists that they're not immune to cognitive or deductive traps, or whatever -- who knows? But the interesting bit is that trolling survives as a valid intention for Derrida to produce the philosophy he did, whether or not he took his own propositions seriously (though if he did, he would have to consider whether the academics he was trolling existed just in his own head).
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>> I wish I had known about this sooner.

A common occurence these days, with the rapid rate of innovation. It's like we're missing some efficient product discovery tool.
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Netflix is not a good example for one big reason: their cost of running servers is dwarfed by their other costs, possibly by two orders of magnitude. Netflix can and does waste money on servers.
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New study invalidates conventional explanations for racial wealth gap in the US
What kind of spaniels? I've got a working English Springer, healthy so far, from healthy working stock, but reading things like this makes me worry.
That can play a part.
Or, in the case of international money transfer: They see through the existing system and just openly do what most banks have been doing all the time behind the scenes, passing most of the savings to the customer.

The only problem I see with this specific business model: As soon as enough people use it, this method of transfer will be the norm and all the big banks will offer it too, thereby invalidating the justification for the existence of the new players. (Mind you, still a great win for the customer!)
But the point is that the problem of the last-minute substitution of a smaller aircraft for maintenance issues isn't something the kiosk software is going to fix. Hell, the kiosk software can't even attempt to remedy simple problems like there being a lot of people needing the flight which departs in thirty minutes stuck in the queue behind the people on the flight which departs in three hours, never mind figure that it's probably not fair to prevent someone who's missed the cutoff time by thirty seconds as a result of the queue from trying to run to the gate.

Disgruntled business people missing part of the trade show they'd bought the flights for, the couple of club scheme members the algorithm prioritises boarding the flight instead of being offered the option of cash compensation and masses of free points for flying tomorrow they might have actually preferred and a VP getting a flea in his ear for the worst airline service ever probably leaves everyone strictly worse off than before. Not to mention how much more incredibly rude it appears to the average person if an airline informs people they can't board the flight they're waiting for via the passport scan machine rather than a sympathetic human that's just going to ring a couple of people to check whether there's anything that can be done.
Link to the study in question: http://www.demos.org/sites/default/files/publications/Asset%...
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They've been finding scrolls for years even as far North as Jericho. Hopefully this finally put to death the Essene theory.

Norman Golb's book Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls details the findings.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Who_Wrote_The_D...
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Gitlab only have mobile site. I want desktop version.
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TMMM contains truly insightful and universally applicable knowledge and insight into building large software systems.

It also contains truly insightful knowledge regarding building operative systems at IBM in the seventies.

It's one of my favourite books on software development. However, it requires some insight and preexisting knowledge from the reader in order to tell what's what.
>implying Wikipedia is the authority on freedom of speech

None of this is censorship, because Breitbart may still sell their merchandise using other storefronts and have not been impeded from publishing their authors' work.
The only good thing about post-modernism is the fact that it illustrates the vacuous nature of academic philosophy. If the field had anything worthwhile in it, it would have built up some kind of institutional immune response to that kind of bullshit. And no, I don't mean an endless stream of convoluted rebuttals. I mean post-modernism just wouldn't enter any sensible conversation in the first place.

I find it amusing that fsmoud scientists from Feynman to Dawkins often jab at philosohers in their works, probably thanks to post-modernism.
I have no idea why you would think that, when they refuse to document what gets communicated back to Microsoft, make it impossible to turn off telemetry for home users, and even refuse to let you postpone reboots after updates.

It is wishful thinking to believe that "they want to be more open, but just can't". They are open sourcing only where they are weak, and that's just not true of the OS (or Office or SQL Server, for that matter).
> Then you go on to compare the USA to China, Russia, and Brazil. High standards.

I am comparing one country to another, one that does better than the rest. You know, how any comparison is made in any discipline. You can't just hold up an imaginary standard that no country fulfills to make your point that X country could be better.

Some people live in the real world.
Most people (think: GNU wizards) who do projects like this don't want to monetize; not for capability reasons, but for philosophical and social reasons. They think monetization is against some principal of free software, or their morals, or that people will stop using their software if they do, or, simply: they're lazy and just want to code, without worrying about menial things like income.

And then, when they can't afford to work on their project anymore, they want our pity. They don't have mine.
I don't know you, but personally for something as sensitive as an editor that I use to work on code, I do NOT want automatic updates or the editor to connect to random websites to pull code I have not inspected.

I would rather have a directory with a few plugins I vet, and scp that around the place if needed. I am actually getting a bit get-off-my-lawn with some extensions in emacs that are all "manual installing is not recommended just use melpa"