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In the most common usage "be yourself" means "don't be fake", or "don't try to be like someone you think you're supposed to be."

This phrase is more complement than advice. The intent of the person saying it is, "I like you, and others will like you too."

Occasionally, but far less common, it is actually meant as advice. This might happen when the person saying it has seen you (or someone like you) being stiff, awkward, or overly self-conscious when attempting some new skill. In this context it can be interpreted as, "don't stress", "don't over think it", or "you can do it any way you like."

It's one of those phrases that only has meaning in the context of the person speaking, like the greeting "how are you doing?" (usually not an actual question, in the US).

In most cases you can safely disregard it.

Personally, I usually choose to interpret it as "relax, you're doing great," and if I ever say it that's how I mean it.
> but I'm not exposing anything personal and still reap the benefits of in-store discounts.

... except you are. It's an identifier that allows separate transactions to be correlated.
Why something that they don't know? (Actually curious)
What should we use instead for the times when a weed killer is necessary?
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I would not do a project before a basic phone or email interview. They should be screening candidates before sending projects.
> and stateless tokens provide a mechanism to achieve this

without revocation. What's wrong with tieing a client to a server, or co-located server? Either they are close enough to share tokens / sync fast, or not?
I'd imagine it will be at least 5 years away when most popular Java software use this feature and java users see the effect of this.
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I don't have a specific book but instead I have the advice I was given three years ago before our first kid was born: "Pick a book both of you connect with and ignore the others". Up until that time my wife and I would look at any book with the word "baby" in it, read a few pages and assume it was THE book. The problem was that we typically never agreed on one which led to conflict which is something you don't want, you have enough stress already.

Looking back though we didn't really gain anything from books, it really was all on the job training. It's scary as shit and you'll reach limits of stress you never knew existed but even with all of that it is still awesome.

With a newborn the routine is pretty basic: eat, poop, sleep. If you are having issues ask your pediatrician. If your child is unhappy think about why that might be. Things are very simple in their world so don't over complicate things and think as if they were an adult (we were guilty of that).

Good luck and enjoy the snuggles while you can!
Is there any evidence that design and engineering are really oil and water?

In my experience most of my work has cross-over between the two with a continuum of how much design skill is needed. For example in previous jobs we have had many cross-discipline roles like Technical Artists, Technical Designers, Gameplay Engineers and Rendering Engineers. Various art positions like Lighting Artists will even get in on the act writing shaders alongside engineers. Level Designers will very often be required to write scripts. In general the closer you are to the squishy human stuff the more design skill and knowledge its useful to have and visa versa. In my current role I'm engaged in experience design and engineering.

More generally it feels like there is a lot of gate-keeping between design and engineering. Neither is too keen on the other muscling in on their turf. I think this notion of the designer-engineer being a unicorn is mostly bunk promulgated to this end.

Designers having a working knowledge of programming and programmers having a working knowledge of design really does help collaboration and project resilience. Specialization will remain a thing but it should be looked at in shades of grey rather than black and white.
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One of the key tasks of your contra espionage Is to identify who your opposition is - having an avowed FSB officer with a public day job do naughty stuff is just amateur night - let alone getting caught.

Oh and employing criminals as officers FFS Beria must be spinning in his grave at that incompetence
I've always wondered if you take the digits from Pi, do they represent a pseudo random sequence or not?
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> Particularly galling to U.S. officials is that the men worked for the cyber investigative arm of the FSB - a rough equivalent of the FBI's Cyber Division. That the agency that is supposed to investigate computer intrusions Russia is engaged in hacking is "pretty sad," one official said.

This is why the FBI not engaging in their own grey-area shady offensive cyber techniques is so important, if they plan on making statements like these and expect to be taken seriously. Even if the FBI always find ways to get away with it legally, it still doesn't help their case when claiming moral high ground.

There is nothing Russia loves better than to dismiss claims against them because the US does it too - and the Russian public eats this "US double standard" up every time. They just see what Russia does as more explicit. Without giving Russia this easy out I don't see how enforcement like this is going to be effective. They show no signs of slowing down. Unless some new sanctions are planned?

Finding legal avenues instead of hiring shady Russian criminal hackers might seem like a big difference but the end results are hard to distinguish.

Last week the FBI let a pedophile who ran a hugely popular darknet CP site go instead of revealing the full details of their own hacking: https://www.wired.com/2017/03/feds-rather-drop-child-porn-ca...

Consistency really does matter...
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Last I heard, goatse was an email provider.
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Business partner has been talking about building a CNC router, this thing is basically perfect for that.
> I'm not sure why you're singling out Monsanto, to the exclusion of the government meddling.

I'm sure you meant "to the exclusion of the [lack of] government meddling, [quashed on behalf of and directly coordinated with Monsanto by a public official.]"
> the place to put your additions to instead of your private bookmark

My private bookmarks won't get deleted by a zealous reviewer five minutes later.

It can be hard to contribute to Wikipedia without enmeshing yourself in the politics of it to protect your contributions from deletionists. This gets covered every few months on HN.
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My very coarse understanding of a blockchain is that it's essentially a public ledger that cannot be modified. Can somebody explain or point to a resource that explains how you build on that to create things like what is described in the wired article?

Lots of VC money seems to be flowing to blockchain-based startups and I've never understood how you build on a public, immutable ledger.
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The latter makes sense to me. Auth is a cross-cutting concern.
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> They want you to make an effort to make them feel good.

There are much better ways to make people feel good than lying to them when answering such stupid questions.
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As if Erdogan needs to be defamed... He's doing a fine job all on his own.
> SO hits which are mostly just noise.

I completely disagree. I'm an experienced dev from C++ learning Android/Java dev. Literally 90% of what I need is on SO (the rest usually from mkyong), thanks to google some of the answers even bubble up to the search page so I dont even have to click on them. I would be much worse off without SO.
Ah this makes the whole thing so much clearer. Thank you. (Why couldn't the article have this?)
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It doesn't seem to be reporting anything for a while now (on apps or website). A quick search on Twitter shows several people complaining. No official response from Google or anything though.
I'm not really sure what your point is, other than an apparently fervent desire to prove JWT's worth while speaking down to me. I didn't say that JWT couldn't do that... You're the one who set up the strawman of untrusted parties, then gleefully knock it down after I address the issue. You have contributed no other valid feedback to my proposal, just a defense of JWT which is not an answer to anything I ever stated.

I just want you to know that such tactics are not very appreciated from this side of the conversation.

What does JWT provide that using bog-standard crypto primitives in the way I described doesn't? Other than a name and a standard?
>Have you ever seen a really effective kindergarten teacher? Or salesman? Or engineer? They are naturally inclined to do what they do and have the instincts through education and experience to just do what others need to think about.

I disagree, certainly great salespeople, teachers and engineers make what they do seem natural and effortless, but whenever I talk to them I discover that they put a lot of thought, effort and practice into molding themselves until their craft seems natural. In fact, Tom Hopkins, one of the greatest salespeople who has written several sales books told about how he didn't seem like the person who was right for the job, and he was making no sales, but then he decided to research, work and practice until he got good at it.

In fact I believe this whole thing about "be yourself" or "be true to yourself" is a bunch of modernest rubbish. There is no "true self" to be true to. We are in control of who we are and we can choose to mold ourselves into the image of what we want to be. We are not at the mercy of some amorphous inner "true self" that this decides for us.
See, this is why I didn't bother to answer your question in detail: despite me supporting with sources my factually accurate statement concerning lower crime, you simply hand-waved it away with no evidence of your own, as I suspected that you would.
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Certainly `f` for functor. `k` is more for values than types (you usually know a continuation is some kind of (->)) but they'll often return `r`.

> I love the use of w for comonads: the rationale is apparently that it looks like an upside-down m.

That's my understanding, yeah.

> Is that an indexed lens ... parameterized over a monadic type?

Presumably further parameterized by the focus, the source structure, the target structure, the focus again, the transformed focus, and some third structure.

> I'd like a link to the video/article.

Me too :-P I see a couple references in a google search but I'm not sure where I first heard it.
>It is a disaster in terms of democratic values to block a Minister 30 meters away from the Consulate and send her back.

A minister of the Turkish government is not entitled to campaign in the Netherlands. She was asked not to do so, yet the consulate arranged for a rally and she attepmted to address that rally. She was therefore escorted out of the country as she abused her privelege of being there.

It's not as if a Dutch politician were blocked from campaigning a pro-Turkish message; this is about a member of a foreign government campaigning to Dutch citizens in the Netherlands (ironically campaigning for the furtherance of a regime which is increasingly undemocratic).
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I wouldn't be so sure.

http://www.monsanto.com/products/pages/seminis-performance-s...
I disliked the attacks on games that work well as games and are enjoyed by many players, or on attention to graphics (when for me the graphics were one of the big things that made Child of Light so fun to play). Games are a visual, interactive, skill-based medium; people who are less interested in these things will be better off with other media and that's fine.

By all means explore new possibilities for the medium, putting the focus in different places. But don't throw away what makes games great, especially to please an audience that was never interested in games in the first place. Games are a wonderful thing already, and dismissing the current state of gaming as "boring" or "murder simulators" is as mean-spirited as it is trite. (And the claim that games that appeal to non-gamers could be being made if only it weren't for diversity issues in the industry is not one to throw around lightly).

I found her whole focus on diversity inconsistent and unclear - at times she talks about the importance of having distinct perspectives on games and gaming, yet at other times she talks about having diverse teams develop games, which run rather contrary to each other. What made Child of Light great was that it mines this rich cultural seam of European fairy tales, playing with the (ugh) tropes of the genre. That kind of backdrop is even more important for a game than for a book or film, because culture is harder to convey in a game; the player has a lot of freedom so there's less chance to show them important details, instead you need to be able to pull out motifs that you can rely on the player to understand. The king, the sword, the jesters, the knightly mouse, the sisters, the golem - the game works because all these things are dripping in cultural connotations and every element of the game - the writing, the music, the gameplay - is embedded in that cultural context. It's the kind of work that only a culturally homogenous team (not necessarily by birth culture perhaps, but people with years of living in the same shared culture) could produce.

I'd be very happy to see games from other perspectives - but I think that perspective needs to be shared across the team. There are times where her essays read like she wants to insist on within-team diversity, which I think would destroy the ability to make a game like Child of Light - particularly given that the culture in question is an inherently European one with traditional concepts of nobility, gender roles and the like (which the game is acknowledging and buying into even as it plays around with some of them).
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At second glance it looks like you're right. When they say "add support for Java 8 language features directly into the current javac and dx set of tools" I read that as directly adding Java 8 language support into the javac already in the toolchain, but the comment bitmapbrother quoted links to a tool that operates on Java 8 bytecode[1]. I guess they are adding Java 8 bytecode translation as a part of dx or as a build step between javac and dx.

If they aim to translate all valid Java 8 bytecode (and not just classes emitted by javac) then the situation is at least as good as we would have got with Jill.

[1] "Command-line tool to desugar Java 8 constructs that dx doesn't know what to do with, in particular lambdas and method references." https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/blob/master/src/tools/an...
Yup. Starting to think it's time for us to learn.
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You can achieve this by executing the native program in a child process. Apex is doing something similar to support golang in AWS Lambda, here is more info http://apex.run/#understanding-the-shim
One could ask why underage pornography is illegal while this isn't. In both cases someone suffers and the act being recorded is in itself illegal, plus the video is viewed for amusement/pleasure of the viewer most of the time.
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Pretty cool. I did look at my calendar quickly to see that it's not April 1. The "How we made this" part makes for a great parody of cloud computing.
Clickbait, but then I wouldn't expect anything better from NYT.

TLDR: Don't "be yourself"... because that somehow means telling attractive people that you want to sleep with them and telling your in-laws that they were boring. Instead, "be sincere"... which is anyone not willing to twist things to make a clickbait headline would think "be yourself" is.
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>and with mods you can light fires, ride dragons or do whatever you want.

Not to pick on you directly, but this rebuttal seems to come out every time an unfavorable comparison is drawn to Skyrim lately, and it honestly makes no sense to me.

If the comparison is to the base game, which everyone experiences regardless of platform, why would anyone ever consider mods in that comparison? Of course you can do things that aren't in the game if you change the game. I can also add custom reticles to any game I want, provided I have plastic wrap, tape and a marker, but that doesn't imply they're part of the game.
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I have not seen any evidence that GC is the primary bottleneck in Haskell, or that a form of compiler-driven manual memory management would be faster.
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Linux is still a small share of the Gaming market, I don't think MS feels it is a threat at this stage. As for GPU DRM, is there any indication that manufacturers are moving in that direction ?
To add an anecdote the other way: I fell from a late 90s playground jungle gym and manager to land my tongue on a sharp point left over from welding the thing together. Damn near tore it in half and had to get stitches. They pretty quickly replaced the entire thing with one of those plastic constructions.

To be fair some kid managed to get a skull fracture on the plastic thing so maybe making things more obviously dangerous is safer.

Tangentially related: ask your neighbourhood woodworker how he lost that finger. Good chance it's from the bandsaw, which is a relatively slow moving machine so it seems safer than e.g. a circular saw while in fact the inverse is true.
The VA took MUMPS and created a DBMS out of it, which would allow one to define the schema and then use utilities to automatically update indices.

It is much nicer when the system remembers to do that for you.

There were gotchas in the language that required you to understand it and play ball its way. Not unlike other languages I've seen. The payback was trememdous flexibility and performance on minimal (for today) systems.
> Which usually results in a huff and/or an eye roll from the cashier

Why do so many people online seem to need to demonstrate that they are some how persecuted (even if in the slightest, most inconsequential way) for taking a particular stance on something. It happens in this way so frequently that I honestly don't believe it at all. For years I've been doing exactly what you describe -- saying, "no thank you" to data requests at checkout -- and I've never noticed anyone appear to care in the slightest.

It doesn't make your story more believable or you more sympathetic nor does it make society looks any more crazy. It's just a weird detail that is probably not true and doesn't need to be included.
Now, I just assume you're being sarcastic :). But, if you would like, I can build docker image that does the same thing for a price ;).
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I don't want to sign up for potential spam, so I am curious what prisma is.
At most of the companies I have worked for, the difficult part of my job is taking the pre-existing code that barely works under the old internal proprietary framework and rehabilitating it into the new internal proprietary framework with a bare minimum of new development.

Showing off that I know how to write (or recognize and copy) good code from scratch does not signal for that. I can't tell you how many times I have had to code something that is objectively incorrect because the old version did it that way, and the customer doesn't want the new version to be different.

The problem with the whiteboard interview is that you can't show an old, crufty code base on it, and ask the candidate to sketch out how to implement a simple feature request without overhauling the whole thing to use industry best practices. And you can't show an existing relational database schema that is pathetically ill-designed and ask about a new report for the customer. Those are the sorts of problems businesses have. They don't suck it up and pay the big bucks for a software pro until after the amateurs have already tried fixing it with an Excel spreadsheet or an Access database. And they don't want you to mess up the solution they already have, no matter how much baling wire and duct tape is holding it together.

Not everyone that can write code can also work well within an existing codebase. The only situation in the wild that I would trust to indicate that skill for my company is someone who actively contributes to an open-source project with a lot of other active contributors. A one-person side project that shows off everything you can do all by yourself won't reassure me. In fact, if it's too good, I might be worried that you will want to overhaul working code just because it's really, really ugly, and you can detect multiple code smells when you look at it.
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I've seen this in practice too. Lots of unit tests for small things that actually make the overall codebase brittle.

I think it comes from a pretty decent practice of coding from the tests outward. However I'd argue the long term value of many of those tests is minimal.
Who was the senior official? What was the purpose in them squashing it? Was there a conflict of interest? This raises many more questions than "shouldn't we be pointing a finger at the EPA?"

I want to know why this was squashed and what interest this senior official had in squashing it.
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> make what they do seem natural and effortless, but whenever I talk to them I discover that they put a lot of thought, effort and practice into molding themselves

Absolutely. These are trades that require heavy training and hard word. But the essence of the parent comment was that the immense amount of effort required to become proficient in these trades would be insurmountable if not for a deep passion for the subject.
It's curious to me that anti-globalism in the west is so often supportive of authoriatirian rulers and religious extremists elsewhere. It's not as if there's any inconsistency in denouncing Trump, Putin, and Erdogan in one breath. Reminds me of European Communists like Sartre that campaigned for equality in the west while refusing to acknowledge the horrors of Stalin's rule.
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What programming languages do you know? If you know one or some algol-like one their syntax is very similar to each other and very different from lisp-like langs.
> great parody of cloud computing

I don't get it.
The pro/anti GMO has too little science in the debate imho. I take the Nye position: from a "people starving" vs "GMO boosted yields" perspective, I take GMOs. On "Monsanto, etc make too much money", I realize that creating new strains is hard and expensive.

But. That's not to say I'll defend all their practices (like this one) or will not admit the anti-GMO crowd has some very valid points.
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