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> What if spending so much time on quality

Your reply includes the very fallacy that I mention in my comment that you're replying to. Namely that better quality code requires more time. Again, I say, that's not really the case. If you write better code you will spend less time debugging, adding features and iterating in the future, and I would argue it takes less time to write better code once you're in the habit of it.

But of course any number of things are possible, they could have written better code and failed. They could have written even worse code than they did and failed. Who knows. My point wasn't "Facebook should have written better code and then Zuckerberg would have another $10 billion." My point was that the comment I was replying to was based on some assumptions that, for me, aren't true.

> It is curious that the world is full of compromises like Unix, QWERTY, C, VHS, etc., all of which had arguably superior competitors that failed to catch on.

But it's the arguably superior that matters here. For each of them there are circumstantial reasons why they beat out competitors, and it's usually not really because of the mythical "worse wins" baloney. In reality there's usually a number of reasons that combine together for a given result, and that's certainly the case with, for example, VHS vs. Beta. Costs of tapes and players, Sony's tight control of Beta, camcorders, etc. all combine together.

Anyway, we're way off on a tangent now. My point was it's a fallacy that writing worse code is a short cut. It's like driving badly vs. driving well. You're still going to the same place on the same roads.
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The Guardian article is an interesting one and is about a union performing studies internally that leaked. It shows that Unions can be horribly sexist or racist, just like society at large can also be. I think the point remains that having a union to talk to is useful for many reasons and they absolutely should help resolve sexual harassment cases; the fact that they haven't in these examples does not prove that unions can't be a good thing.

Maybe women only Unions should be a thing; they have more of a right than anyone to ask for better pay and conditions being paid a lot less than their male colleagues.
I'm certainly no Cameron supporter but The Investigatory Powers Bill was passed under May's government. It also had no real opposition from Labour. We are still subject to EU law and there has already been a ruling in the CJEU (in December 2016) against the UK's surveillance which will have consequences for the IP Act. And the 'porn filter' (Digital Economy Bill) is still being debated so hopefully something can be done about it.
Argh, this is one of our problems. Evite is a perfectly good system for invitations and event planning, in many ways better than Facebook events, but it is difficult to get all the Facebook-only people to use it. It sends invites, updates, and reminders over email, which is apparently Not Done these days.
Compared to Angular 1 at least. My team hasn't done a serious app in React yet, so I don't have a baseline to compare to there.
I'd also recommend taking a look at nsq.io. Super easy to setup and supports almost everything.
Facebook still does not (officially) know my phone number. It keeps asking though. It also keeps telling me which of my friends have already done so, among them a number of my friends who I know for a fact have not, after asking them (because they are similarly distrustful of Facebook).

Same with a lot of other "all of your friends are doing it" UI elements: my best friends IRL (and of Facebook) have healthy levels of internet paranoia, so I know for a fact that they haven't.
> both Theresa May and Ruth Davidson higher net satisfaction rates higher than Sturgeon

In Scotland? I'm extremely skeptical.
SNP are explicitly pro-Immigration. As you'd expect - the population in a large chunk of the land area of Scotland is worried about the effects of depopulation eroding small rural communities.

From their website:

The SNP believe that immigration is essential to the strength of our economy and adds greatly to our cultural fabric. We propose a fair, robust and secure immigration system that meets Scotland’s social and economic needs.

Therefore we will seek, as a priority, the reintroduction of the post study work visa, so that those we have helped educate are able, if they so choose, to make a contribution to our economy.
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Many effects are already known to different people, but no one thought to use them for some novel application.
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Agreed. I too think that the bullet journal is a great wat to keep track of todos and goals, both medium and long-term ones.
I do not know about the app though.
Uber isn't stopping them.
I expect that would be a plus point for some.
> But this, not so much. x86 is way too power hungry (especially for EVs) and way too expensive for automotive use.

it isn't a power or efficiency problem. it's a margin problem. vehicle electronics have margins that consumer devices don't. just look at the price of 95% useless in-car satnav.
Scotland already has three banks issuing their own bank notes (backed by GBP on deposit in their vaults). Independence wouldn't change that, except that the names on the notes would have to be changed from Pounds Stirling.
Because (a) we've been enduring a stream of propaganda for decades now which promotes the idea that unions are for lazy people who use longevity of employment over talent or drive to get promoted, and (b) anyone who has been part of a union in the US knows that if you have to strike against any powerful company, then you may be without a paycheck for up to a month of two, which completely eliminates the value of being in a union in the first place for most people.
I'm pretty sure that Malcolm Gladwell clarified his position on the 10,000 hour rule during Tim Ferris' podcast [0]. He was saying that the 10,000 hour rule was meant to clearly indicate that becoming successful requires a large support system.

Which seems to make it easier to understand why kids who start really early can become successful: they don't have to worry about all the things adults have to. Conversely, it explains a little bit why being an adult makes it harder to become world-class at something.

[0] http://tim.blog/2016/06/21/malcolm-gladwell/
If you/your wife/MIL grew up in an urban community, this might be easier. For instance, I grew up in rather dense urban communities in India, and for the longest time, my family did not even have a car (my dad had a 2 wheeler). So I don't find it that weird to live in an apartment with the whole family.

For Americans that grew up in Suburbia though...this might be different.
I like the 4dx approach. Lead measures vs Lag measures.

you pick a long term goal and associate a metric to it.

Example: weight from 180 to 170
That's your lag measure.

Your lead measure are the activities you get done daily.

- Daily caloric intake

- sleep schedule

- exercise routine

- water intake

- intermittent fasting

Your lead measure influence your lag measure but as the name indicates, it takes time before you notice the effect.

Focus on your lead metrics and adjust when they are not working.
I would still use Usenet if my ISP hadn't shut down their NNTP server around 2005. I can't bring myself to pay extra for a third-party NNTP server, mainly because it was something I had gotten used to having as part of my internet service.
I can't help but mention that one of the methods is called a Weiner Filter.

Heh.
Parallelism of sgd across multiple machines is a,highly non-trivial task.
Still making it only anecdotal - and even more obviously biased (I'd hazard a guess that the interviewees are quite far from the norm in how they learn...)
>"What has the author done that is equivalent?"

Being able to build something equivalent is not a requirement for criticizing things.

In fact, some of the best and most valuable criticism often comes from people who have no idea about how the thing they are criticizing works.
That "no training or setup, tons of free users" model? You can't sell into the enterprise like that. And Trello can be very useful in the enterprise - into an environment that doesn't really think twice about paying $1000/year/user. Enterprise is a far more lucrative market than freemium. And if you need to keep doubling your revenue on a regular basis, that's how you get it.

Don't let the SaaS thing fool you about sales. Salesforce is SaaS too, but they're a lot more like Atlassian than Google, business-wise.
It's difficult fix "structural problems" when the monetary policy is decided by others, and not following your interest.

Whoever thinks the Euro is a success has not been paying attention and probably don't understand how monetary policies (and money) works.

The Euro-area countries has been forced to follow procyclical policies, in a time when govern spending was necessary.
> Oddly - European nations that don't use the Euro are generally much better off

So is it that countries that took the euro were hurt by it, or that countries with already strong currencies chose not to take the euro?
Possibly. And maybe I'm overstating the chance they'll be refused because of course Theresa May will be aware of that. At the same time I expect the Tories to be ultra-sensitive to the reality of the Brexit vote, where people were also quite certain Remain had it in the bag for very long.

At the same time, note Nicola Sturgeon's statements about how this isn't up to Westminster. Legally, of course, it currently is. But she's setting Theresa May up to use a refusal as a "look how undemocratic Westminster is" if it's refused. Look for attempts to bypass Westminster if it's slapped down - which may be serious, or may also be designed out of expectation they'll cause unfavourable reaction to another Westminster slap-down.

Their massive majority of Scottish MPs also mean they will be able to paint any Westminster refusal as England dictating Scottish issues.

It's very much a lose-lose for Theresa May in any case. If a vote is accepted, then it will be a constant distraction during the Brexit negotiations, for example, where any whiff of results negative to Scotland will be exploited for what it's worth...
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> this is not the 'Brexit horror' story the indyreffers wanted.

I think its going to kill a lot of people when they see 'Brexit horror' not materializing. The UK has a powerful economy (number 5 in the world) and as such can certainly work out beneficial trade deals alone. Its not a Greece-like mess that benefits from the Euro and the Euro's backers. Without the shared currency and having a land border with other EU nations, its questionable if the benefits are worth it. At least, they come with liabilities.

I certainly see the various pro EU political argument at work here and many have validity, but the economic one is fairly weak sauce. If anything, the UK has a stronger negotiation position as its own entity, assuming they play their cards right. If Scotland wants to go independent then fine, but using brexit as an excuse is very questionable.

>even soft Nationalists see the tactics of separatists.

I wonder how many separatists are being honeydicked by Russia. Russia has been funding separatists and far-right political parties in the West for its own gain for quite some time now. Perhaps people are starting to see through their ultra-tailored Facbook newsfeed, hysterical yellow journalism, legitimately fake news, and other biased media. I suspect the Trump win the US is showing people that yes, an electorate can go crazy with outsiders and extremist policies, but that doesn't mean that's actually good for the electorate.

Ignoring Spain's own separatist fears, the EU members probably are fairly wary of any separatist talk right now, especially after seeing what happened in Crimea, and don't want to encourage it and certainly don't want to signal that separatism is a quick way to EU membership. Not to mention NATO membership, are the Scots ready to invest 2% of their GDP into defense (nearby $4bn)? We've probably moved towards an anti-separatist attitude in the West for the foreseeable future due to recent events. According to the guardian, the yes/no spread is the same was it was in 2014, so the idea that Scotland has become more separatist is questionable:

Between August and December last year we polled over 3,000 Scottish adults and found yes to Scottish independence on 46% and no on 54% – just a fraction different from the result two years earlier.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/27/shift-...
They must have meant 'in all of UK' by 'net'. In Scotland, impossible!
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Interesting. Another aspect of HN that I've noticed are stories that are not censored but actually promoted. Some time ago, I've noticed that some stories were few hours old and had 4 votes yet they were in top 15 position on HN. I never understood how that's possible without some kind of manipulation.

I've collected some of these anomalies. Peruse them and analyze them in this album:

https://imgur.com/a/6OvnE

Maybe OP can find a pattern in these.
The original, open, non-privacy-invading web is still there. There are many sites sharing and hyperlinking academic research and relevant practitioner information that do not have advertising and do not track you.

We are the ones who voted with our clicks to use the likes of LinkedIn, Facebook, and Google.
So... what do you use to search the web?
> given the electronic precision required to detonate a hydrogen bomb's explosive lenses correctly

Please do explain that. As far as I understand, the explosives and the radioactive materials are all there in the warhead, the "precision" only affects the "quality" of the explosion (i.e. the number of "megadeaths" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megadeath )

Only the first few atom bombs had the missing part of the radioactive matter outside the of the bomb when the bomb was fully unarmed, technically making the explosion impossible, as there isn't enough mass for an explosion without the missing part.

But since the early fifties, all the material needed for the nuclear explosion is always in the warhead.

Note that in the event here discussed (it was an explosion of the fully equipped H-warhead missile in Damascus, Arkansas, US)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Damascus_Titan_missile_ex...

really nothing "special" happened: one of the technicians just accidentally dropped one metal socket during his maintenance work, that was all:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/bonus-vi...

And that was enough to cause the explosion of the rocket. Would any "expert" before that event claim it was all that was needed?
So the author left a comment on slashdot and received an ignorant knee-jerk response from someone with an inflated sense of superiority.

That's not reflective of the industry! Thats the slashdot community and you should expect such treatment. There are several sites like this and unless you have a pension for online flame wars its pretty much a waste of time to read :(
Copy pasting my comment from below:

I'm aware (excruciatingly aware...) of that. Our numbers are ~10X better despite a process disadvantage.
And as always, Nvidia is twiddling the numbers, they exclude the cost of memory access when calculating 1 top/w, whereas we include it.
Can you elaborate on why England is a sinking ship? I ask because you're not the first person I've heard say that, but apart from a referendum 6 months ago, what has changed?
Intel has spent billions of dollars in M&A and in R+D and still has missed ARM Holdings, just acquired by Softbank last summer.
Because it's a rather complex issue that was boiled down to in/out. I voted to remain in the end but I can certainly see a lot of the arguments from the leave folks.
None of this code was meant to be understood without background knowledge of the algorithm internals - and some code just is that way. You don't go reading rbtree.c without first reading about Red-Black Trees in your algorithms book.

If I recall correctly, the file you grabbed these from had a lot of comments that thoroughly explain how it works. At least many other files in the redis repo do.

They could have named it "FIRST" or whatever FRST is short for. That would have made zero impact to the code quality but a longer name would make things clumsy. It's a file-local helper macro and not a part of any public interface or a crucial piece of the architecture.

Feel free to disagree, but picking two nasty lines out of context in an otherwise well designed and implemented code base has zero bits of information about the quality of the project.
geohot's gonna be all fired-up.
* The Scottish economy is about 50x larger than Montenegro, so "fairly small" is relative. Similar-sized Denmark, Sweden and Norway have their own currency, let alone tiny Iceland.

* The EU and ECB aren't particularly happy that Montenegro is using the Euro without being a member anyway...(see your wiki link)
That's an interesting point. I hadn't even considered the possibility that a single user would have the power to drop a story by hundreds of positions. If that's the case then those users do have a lot of power.
Google is the company I seem to rely on the most. It is the one I fear the most as well. The leverage that company has on media is so disturbing (albeit Facebook is coming close).

Yeah I have tried replacing various things but Google's best product IMO is Google Maps (and Waze of which they acquired) and I haven't found a suitable replacement.

Search tied with location with directions is my favorite technology. It is so awesome to instantly get directions, traffic, know what is nearby with reviews, hours, phone numbers, etc.
This isn't pedantic; it's of the level that it "sounds wrong" and will be immediately noticed and distracting (for a brief moment) to any native speaker, not just pedants.
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To allow other countries to decide you monetary policy is courting disaster.

"strongly discourage" is as easy as not accepting payment tax in pounds.
I remember a few weeks back I was looking for a comment reply to my comment. The original post got flagged and the comment itself didn't appear in my comments block!

I was really disappointed as the comment I was looking for wouldn't even show up in search.
There are public relays which you can use (automatically unless you disable the feature), so NATing and firewalls shouldn't be an issue.
One huge factor in the U.S. is how broken the healthcare model is. Older employees tend to need more healthcare, if for no reason other than more commonly having families, and the employer is paying for all of it — and at a significant multiple of the base cost anywhere else.

I've heard plenty of stories about people who left startups or consulting because they needed BigCorp's insurance plan. That's understandable for the worker in question but puts a strong pressure on the employer in favor of hiring single 24-year olds.
In the first part of your reply, you indicate that you're bad at orders of magnitude, at least when defending Bitcoin.

In the second part of your reply, you do the same thing.

Let's be clear. (500 x 10^6) W x 4000 ~= 2 x 10^12 W. I will now factor in your fantasy that everyone stops using centralized currency: (500 x 10^6) W x (4000 - epsilon) ~= 2 x 10^12 W.

Fermi problems require being confident in how to multiply large numbers, and disregarding non-multiplicative factors that are much smaller.
Political realities can ruin your reputation with some customers. The business goal is to maximize profits even if that means not hiring black people in the southern US, or LGBT in Russia for example
Simple filter for tech articles:

$clickbait = /Deep/;
> You just need to be able to spot an actual issue.

My problem with the article is that it's extremely hard for humans in general, and critics in particular, to accurately model the alternative. I think that's the heart of what the commenter is talking about.

Unless you've worked at Facebook's scale, it's really difficult to tell what happens. (I don't work anywhere near that scale, so maybe take my opinion with a grain of salt.) This critic is reading signals and attributing them to a failure on Facebook's part, but who knows if an alternate scenario (a) actually makes things better, or just results in different trade-offs; or (b) is even feasible for a company of Facebook's size to do. I have no idea. There are only a handful Facebook-sized enterprises that have ever existed.
I chose to replace duplicity with borg backup because I needed to backup a headless server and I found borg pruning to be much simpler to script than duplicity.

`borg prune -v --list $REPOSITORY --prefix '{hostname}-' --keep-daily=7 --keep-weekly=4 --keep-monthly=6`

Now, if I just had laptops to backup I would have chose deja-dup over borg because I could have configured it in seconds.

A nice project would be to code a TUI front-end to borg init/create/prune/check commands that is as quick to setup as deja-dup and automatically adds systemd units or cron jobs to the system, with an alert triggered when something fails.

Yes I tried backupninja with borg but encountered some problems with it.
>My only concern for Scotland is that they wouldn't be able to gain (re-gain?) EU membership then would be left out on their own for many years. So I definitely think the Scottish leadership needs to better plan out EU entry relative to the last referendum.

Previously they said that if the UK left the EU, and Scotland left the UK, they could take on the UK's EU membership. This seems to be what they're aiming for with saying they want the referendum before the Brexit process is complete.

That said, it's never been confirmed that would actually be allowed, and with the UK government likely to trigger Article 50 this month, I'm not sure the door is even open for that. And given the EU's fairly strict and slow entry process, as you say, Scotland could be left outside of both unions for many years. I'm not sure if they'd even satisfy the EU's economic requirements on their own.
It takes some time to get used to but is completely worth the investment.

If you want to know if I had a productive day or not ask if I started my day in Complice

It doesn't try to reinvent the productivity wheel, it uses what works. Pomodoros, long term goals, tracking, weekly / monthly reviews, positive reinforcement, optional social accountability.

Plus the guy building it is always adding new things while keeping it familiar.
> UK has a powerful economy (number 5 in the world)

Not 5th any more:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4056296/India-overta...

(yes the mail is unreliable but I thought I'd pick the most Brexity source)
Is there something like Syncthing that works like a RAID system? I'd like to use multiple computers in different locations and use them to backup and expand my storage size.

Basically redundant but distributed storage with N node fail tolerance. Preferably interfaceable via a "/mnt/cloud" directory so I can use it from my laptop and easily write backup scripts and store data into it.

If this existed I'd have something big to work on setting up next week.
pthread_cancel to abort a syscall is usually internally implemented by sending the thread a signal (on glibc, it's one of the real-time signals below SIGRTMIN), causing the syscall to return EINTR. So it's the same logic as SIGALRM, essentially.

(And for some system calls, like certain NFS operations, they aren't interruptible by a signal of any sort other than perhaps SIGKILL.)
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This post seems to have become a victim of "disagreement downvoting". Whether or not it's correct I think it's a well made point, I wish the moderation system worked more for contribution than consensus.