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I just learned (or read, at least) the other day that spinach can cause them, I imagine other foods as well.
That becomes more of a case of common courtesy, really. Same could be said of people who wear too much perfume or don't wear deodorant. I also am not a fan of the smell, raw, burnt, or vaped, and the whole culture of "weed sommeliers" wafting different scents with this one being "fruity" and this one being "musty" is a bit silly to me.
Two thoughts. "Are you looking for a job?" is probably the wrong way to start the conversation with a good worker who could be lured away for the right price or with a more interesting project.

And I bet not one of the jobs being advertised listed a salary.
Not to mention this very site, which still works fine on my 2011 Thinkpad x120. That being said, I have the same feeling. I can run a modern web browser because I use Arch, but it's slow and my poor old thinkpad gets very hot when I try to view the internet. Sites I avoid: most news outlets, all social networking sites. Sites I visit: this site, aldaily.com, software project websites and documentation, various technical fora. There's still a good internet out there, I just can't participate in the mainstream internet on my old laptop.
Yeah, this is ThoughtWorks' Technology Radar[0] with an axis missing.

[0]: https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar
I don't understand why people say this. Aside from the default subs, the rhetoric of HN is rarely any better than Reddit's.
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Well, under terrestrial Earthlike conditions, anyway.

In the deep ocean, the evolutionary pressure towards sight is so slight that most animals gradually lose it (there is too little light).
High resolution textures and detailed models coupled with good optimization that makes it run like a charm maxed out at 4k.

I don't have very good screenshots available at the moment unfortunately but this should give you an idea of what's possible:

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/10059888168078...

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/10059888168007...

Here's Dark Souls III which looks pretty great at 4K but unfortunately doesn't manage to run at a solid 60FPS on my GTX 1080:

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/84843325410407...

And here's an older game, The Witcher:

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/84843969116367...

Those hold up pretty well at 4K. In contrast I present to you Wolfenstein: The New Order which often looks very mediocre and yet manages to run worse than DOOM:

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/10059888168132...

Note the low polygon count on some of the models and the very low resolution of certain textures.
Would my reply be acceptable without the first sentence? Or is the entire thing too personal?
The country I am coming from does not have this kind of distinction.

It just feels that the US system is really unsatisfactory in actually resolving an incident. Is Amit a baddie or not? Who can tell. Here we're in a state of limbo.
It took me a while of thinking 'Isn't it obvious that it's not dwarf fortress?' before realizing that I am way too into that game to be the intended audience for the joke ;)
Did it ever? I normally find with most Google services I have to open up Chrome, and figured it's probably just them trying to get me to switch browsers.
I was thinking of some sort of Lovecraftian nightmare monster with any arbitrary amount of tentacles
If I may jump in, here, for my 2 cents, I've never developed anything commercial with Closure, but I learned it, have played with it and have quite enjoyed it. Having never done any Lisp(-based language) programming before it didn't come... naturally. My guess is that the parent commentator didn't include it for that reason.
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Most people get a lot of information from their environment from passive sonar...how "echoey" a room is, for example. People can take this ability much further.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH0aihGWB8U
I have used Talend in the past, sounds like a fit. But this seems to fit a different need around job management.
Yup. I think he would have been smarter to do a Groupon-style IPO, where he wraps it in Christmas paper, gets everybody hyped up, and quickly sells off his personal shares before everybody that they've bought a box full of dog turds and the share price falls by 80-90%.

I'm of course happy he didn't, as he deserves to go down in flames. If we're especially lucky, he and Shkreli will end up sharing a cell. But we're probably not that lucky.
Is that really true? There are many photo luminescent creatures there, so light must be important to them. I'm thinking they appear to be blind to us in normal daylight, perhaps because their sensitivity is to extremely low levels of light. In their environment, they can see perfectly well?
Perhaps the bigger issue here is fragmentation. Here you are, a young language with a lot of promise whose primary appeal is Java interop and whose target market is enterprise Java and already you're dividing your efforts to offer something which your target market will likely have zero interest in. Why not wait until you have real market share in the job market and only then worry about native? Kotlin is a very niche language. That's it's appeal.
I heard once that he is burning the code on discs once in a while.
I think this question should be discussed alongside the question of why US healthcare is so expensive and inefficient compared to the rest of the world.
There's no such thing as a 'verbal contract'.
There's an argument that isn't racism here.

In AU->US outsourcing, the motivation for outsourcing is not to drive down labor costs, because labor costs are clearly higher in the US. The only reason to outsource from AU to US is if people in the US can do it better.

This is the opposite when we talk about outsourcing from an advanced country to a developing country. The rationale is always cost, and specifically cost of labor.

It's always about driving the cost of labor downwards. And so workers in the outsourcing country resist---absolutely---because the ultimate aim is to undermine their wages and living standards.
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Hey IanCal,

I'm from Hyper.sh.

We've seen a few people on Hyper.sh using Apache Airflow for job scheduling but I agree that Jenkins would do a good job of it too, especially if the headache of maintaining a VM cluster would go away.

If you do try the plugin out we'd love to get your feedback. We've have some vocal early users of the plugin, but we could always use more!
In the video on the linked page they show several blind people using the watch, they seem genuinely surprised at the information they read from its face. Do you suspect this to be faked?
Eh, I think that just means the role of the CEO is not one you're cut out for. I know people who spend their entire workday and their entire work-related interactions outside of the workday being fake, because that's what they need to do to succeed at their job. They come out of it completely exhausted, and they have friends they can recharge with, privately. But if they get an urgent email or IM on the weekend, it's back to being fake. And they're not even CEO-level.

It's a job skill. The job of CEO requires a lot of skills, almost none of which are the ability to come up with and execute on a great initial idea.
That data is just wrong, and not what people get paid in major IT players, which are more likely to get these projects.

The empirical formula for a new hire is $3000 * years of Experience. The median starting Salary is $4500 ~ $5000, and the salary usually caps out at $25000, and people above that payscale are usually considered architects.
This only applies to drivers that decline fares in their current rate class. Standard Ubers, Uber XLs, etc. Uber Black drivers that decline UberX fares when there are no Uber Black customers are simply marked as inactive. They can set themselves as active again and accept fares again almost immediately. If they continue to do so, then there is a wait time simply because they're not offering the service they're contracted to do and they're creating a longer wait time for Uber customers.
Scenario one stands out to me. There will be a lot of hardware between you and the other party in your call and trouble can happen at any of them. The connection quality you get will depend on the worst performing hardware in that chain.
Visualisation of data retention in Switzerland
There are likely no significant financial gains to be made outsourcing to Australia. It is super expensive here for everything.

Not an even comparison.
I suspect it says more about the author than the data or lack thereof.
I have a valid American licence for a while more, but I missed the window for taking only the written exam. Therefore, I am required to take the classes nevertheless. I understand that winter driving is part of the standard lessons, though I considered taking the class during the winter just for the experience. (Of course, if the winters have as little snow as this past one, it might not make a difference).

He's Norwegian, and very comfortable. The differences on his caution and mine is striking. He drives faster than I would, in mountains, with little to no sliding. Average "snow speeds" are faster here, but I'm sure some of that is because folks use snow tires instead of the "all weather" tires folks used in the states. But to be fair, I'm actually luckier than immigrants having no practical experience with snow and cold and I'm sure most of my previous caution will transfer over nicely.
Relating to this...recently I needed to hook up a web app to a JSON RPC API and also extend that API, having to work with a legacy system. It was interesting to note that there was only one POST verb used in the entire API and the data format was always the same. At first I grumbled and was annoyed by the use of this system as it was old as hell but after some point, I was like, "oh, i don't have to worry about verbs now" or where to grab from params, query string, headers or body... so it was actually easier. I still hated it though because it wasn't REST because I was pretty biased with the status quo.

What I'm trying to say is having more choices or more ways to do something isn't necessarily a good thing as it makes it easier for people to do it so many ways that they can screw it up or just make it weird for everyone else. REST is kind of weird that way and I agree with this article for the most part.
I was working on a WebRTC client in Angular a few years ago and basically Firefox was weird.
Hey! I just played Inside. It's made by the same creators of Limbo which was a hit a couple years back. The whole game took me about 3 hours but it was great. Puzzle focused but they were just difficult enough that I never got frustrated and blended into the game enough that they almost didnt feel like puzzles. Check it out!
This makes it sound like they only received notice last October.

Not true: https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2015/10/08/npapi-plu...
No, they're too expensive. UberX is cheap enough to compete with car ownership.
US and Switzerland Sign Privacy Shield Agreement
It's not too complex to implement.
Think of uber's USP a taxi in X minutes ,the smaller the X the more rides they get.

Analogizing to the past ,let's say you hailed a cab before Uber and had to choose how much the driver would charge, would you do that?

A metric based pricing (distance with some initial price) is much more time efficient for the rider and driver.

I know that travelling X miles will cost y $ across the board. If I have to not only choose type of service but quality of service that's one more thing I have to do.
Given that we know I will pay close to $Y for X travelled any cost plus price around Y seems logical to me.

Issue with tech coming into play is the cost X is significantly decreasing ( threatened by reducing driver pay)

If we take into account driver pay as a separate part of cost per ride, then eliminating that makes most sense.
They exist, but if you read OP's statement "Our engineers refuse to engage in the dongle shenanigans" you can also see that they just didn't want to have more hubs to juggle in the course of their day.
One particularly odd exception I've encountered: lots of older Buick models have the fuel door hidden under the rear license plate. The rear license plate on these models is mounted on a hinged bracket that folds down to expose the fuel port, which isn't obvious at all by appearance.

I found myself rather confused by this when I noticed at a glance that my grandmother's car didn't seem to have anywhere to put fuel in it.
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Trump Administration Threatening to Release the Private Data of Immigrants
The Victorian science race to reach absolute zero
Would love to hear thoughts regarding the boot camp vs. higher ed question. In many cases it's not one or the other, but I'm curious where people think education is headed.
Interview with Walter Stewart, the “terrorist of the lab”
I'd love to see a more widespread version of something a company here has done and something that would be cool to have - I tap on my phone what I want/need and pick it up on the way home. They have only 1 location for now which makes it suck, also their mobile app is a react app that lags a lot.

I assume people will still want to go to the store (me including, it feels relaxing to have a walk around, thinking about different combinations of food, discovering new things) and I'd love for that store to be something like the Amazon's new store.

I envision a lot of specialty stores and return of manufacturing - the more we go towards certain things being common, the more "handmade" or "manufactured" ones are appreciated.
I think you're right and you can spot check it by looking at some of the photos of the laid off workers in various articles about this move. They all appear to be in their 50s at least.
Of course, tribalism is the primary motivator here, but I think there are a couple other economic and moral arguments to be made against unbridled globalism.

From an economic perspective, much of international economic growth is based on confidence rather than rational analysis of economic situations. Credit markets underpin everything we do, and we have seen what happens when a lack of confidence undermines an entire global credit system (e.g. It causes a global economic crisis). A steady outflow of jobs from a currently wealthy country could potentially undermine consumer confidence in that country, which would in turn decrease consume spending and the tolerance for risk in that country, which could prompt a credit shrink in the short- to medium-term, meaning that in aggregate, everyone might be worse off. Now, in the long-term, things would generally even out, but it stands to reason that achieving that globalization without such a rock to confidence in wealthy countries (perhaps in a slower or government-assisted way) immediate negative effects might be mitigated and the ride might be smoother for everyone.

On the moral side of things, one could make the argument that it's morally inconsistent to allow manufacturing and services to move to countries where labor laws and political/societal conditions are sufficiently transgressive in the eyes of the public. This is kind of a tricky idea to pick apart and is a bit fuzzy but I'll try to give an example. Consider a company that makes shoes in a country with strong labor protections for children and low corruption in government. If that company were to move operations to a country where children are regularly exploited to drive down manufacturing costs (and the company makes use of this cultural/societal condition), a resident of the former country could make a strong moral case that this company should not be allowed to continue selling its goods in that country, because the supply chain is tainted. This is a very common situation (Nestle, for instance, is notorious for these kinds of ethical violations). Once again, in the long term increased industrial economic activity in a region will generally cause it to become wealthier and improve labor protections, but in the short- to medium-term it is not unreasonable to oppose the transfer of manufacturing and service operations to places where workers are not entitled to rights that people in a wealthier/more-protected country might consider fundamental. This is unlikely to be the case for offshoring IT jobs to Bangalore (although one could potentially find gripes with systemic corruption in India), but is more common in textile-exporting countries in South-East Asia.

I'm right there with you in thinking that one human being is no more entitled to a job than another just by the section of ground he happened to be born on, but we live in a complicated world that is in a suboptimal configuration, and unbridled globalization might not be the most effective way to achieve more equity universally.
I disagree with this though. I've been smoking and vaping for years and every time my throat feels weird.

I've been making these oils that is just Hemp or Coconut Oil with the flower infused in it. It lasts a lot longer, but takes much longer to start. Around 2 hours whereas smoking is right away.
I would trust the ThoughtWorks Radar over this but it's nice to see a competitor and a different angle. The market has room for more providers of this kind of information, it just has to be higher quality.
I fear: somebody wrote an upvote-bot.
Yet to find a reason to want more than 1080p? Come on...

You're part of the fringe, not the other way around.
Introduction to gRPC
25€? No. Maybe 5-10€ depending on how complex is the question and of course depending on the programming language. Of course the response time is essential, let's say within 1 hour( I could use a break and come back late with a solution).
Maybe a subscription model or even credits is fine by me. The answer would be fiddle or written solution( there's your pricing model).
Also I would like 2 independent answers like others said( with extra € )
Stack overflow is a good place but sometimes it takes too long( there is bounty of course you can't 'buy' more rep).
Choosing who will answer it is also an option( maybe from which country, for various reasons)
Nice idea, give it a go!
> If you need smooth scroll

Why would I need smooth scroll? All it achieves is slows down the scrolling so it takes me longer to get to where i want to in the page.
Obviously the correct answer is "you type the question how to balance a binary search tree in stack overflow and wait for an answer"
> - nobody is using it

There is a lot of legacy Delphi code out there. I make a good living by supporting some companies. And they have no intention at all to replace / rebuild any of it because that will be much more expensive. As is often with legacy code.
This is a good review. Nice pictures, and some real-world usage scenarios, especially concerning battery life.

I really wanted to like the Switch, but the addition of and focus on motion controls during their January press conference really killed it for me. Alternate input methods for games have failed, but Nintendo keeps pursuing this. My worry about the fact that the console supports motion controls is that games will use them. Motion controls killed the Mario Galaxy series for me, I couldn't get past the first hour or so without having so many frustrating input problems. I have a Wii U and Nintendo's games insist on using the microphone for stupid gameplay mechanics, like blowing on it to move platforms.

Nintendo makes really good games, but they're tied to crap hardware and forced to use really awful input gimmicks. This feels crummy to say, but I kind of hope the Switch fails so that they're forced to go third party, drop their crap hardware division, and put out their excellent software on game consoles I actually want to own and use.
Yes, I believe it is faked. I worked in the braille community for years and micro-actuators that actually work are like a holy grail. If they had one that actually worked, they would be plastering their site with descriptions of their new world changing mirco-actuation mechanism. They don't show a real video of it actuating. It just makes no sense. Its like if you invented fusion power and spent the entire time showing videos of smiling kids next to dish washers, and never even tried to explain the breakthrough for the containment material.
Kotlin is not just for android apps.

Kotlin is getting first class support on next generation Spring web framework with functional programming support - https://speakerdeck.com/sdeleuze/functional-web-applications...

it's almost done with first class support for vert.x which is a high-performance reactive webframework https://github.com/vert-x3/vertx-kotlin-common

The reactor project (erlang for the jvm?) is building first class support for kotlin https://github.com/reactor

I think its going to be a great year for building backend systems on jvm.
Well the bigger problem is it's (apparently) what the customer demands. The problem being that we, the old and better developers, didn't come up with a better solution than these kids.
Yeah, last two weeks were insane, so many seemingly important events in a batch.
I think you really underestimate how lazy some people (like me) area. I live in New York, have no access to a garden, and the only room that gets much light in my apartment is my bedroom. Even if cannabis were legal, I would never bother to grow my own, because the plants smell quite strongly.

I also enjoy trying a wide variety strains, which wouldn't work out so well if I was cultivating only a few plants.
Actually you can but it is a bit clunky. Go to Browse > Dag Runs and select the 'Create' tab. This pulls up a form where you type in the Dag ID, enter the start time (set to now but keep in mind it is the local time of the web server), and a Run ID.

Totally agree there should be both a simple Start Run and Stop Run button.
It works like this: https://hackaday.io/project/12442-molbed-modular-low-cost-br...

It is a tiny magnet inside a solenoid. At each end of the solenoid there is a steel part, which the magnets stick to when on or off. To switch state the coil is energized. Hall effect (or other) sensors can tell where the magnet is and what state the pin is in. It doesn't use any power when it's holding state but switching can consume a relatively high amount of power.

The clicky pen mechanism is actually patented, and it also can't be made as small as you'd like for this.
What do you mean by hangouts equipment? (genuine question, I didn't know they had hardware)

Update: Never mind, I googled it :) very cool. So it's reliable? I'd love to suggest something like this for my organization. We waste the first 10 minutes of every. single. meeting. just getting situated. It's very frustrating.
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It is said that restrictions boost creativity and I've seen artists do amazing things even though their tools were complete crap. Question is how important tools really are. I would argue that vanilla Unity tools are nothing special and yet it's the most used engine in the world and people make amazing games with it.
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> Craigslist remains an institution, even if its impact is beginning to lessen.

Is it? It's a private company and so is not subject to the same disclosure rules as a public company, so no one outside the company can actually say how they're actually doing.

Meanwhile, as a publicly traded company, TWTR is required to publish all sorts of information about the site's popularity, for critics to play armchair CEO with.
So is Switch next-gen handheld or home console? Will 3DS series be discontinue?
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And the interface is fundamentally the same, no matter who made the car.
Clarity in Code: Readability