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> but they are generally a legitimate news source

Generally they aren't. Infotaiment plausibly.

Just because you mix a smattering of fact with logical fallacy does not make it legitimate, yet people believe it... if that doesn't fit the bill of "propaganda" I don't know what does.
Good luck with that... the problem, as I see it, is every company is different.

So you take 10 agencies, and you get 10 different core software platforms, and even when the platforms overlap, they are using various point-release versions that each of the the top-mother-hen-accountants just loves and won't let you touch. She doesn't care if it's hard to support, insecure, or if it's fundamentally unrecoverable if there's a catastrophic disaster -- she just wants what she wants. No amount of offering of features, or give time to training her staff will suffice. You'd need a dedicated staff of software devs, QA team, and IT support staff for each client.

I don't mean to be so cynical here... but it's like every agency / startup with 50-500 people that I've ever been at. You're stuck on the old crappy system until they change the accountants... you've got a very limited window when the top accountant / CFO changes that you can actually push to enact technology changes. If the new accountant is over 40... just forget about it, you're going to be stuck on tech that reeks of 90s UX that simply won't integrate or sync or even allow you to do batch imports / exports of the data (we tried with one of these old systems and hit an issue where they recorded time in like 7 places in the DB and if you didn't update them in the right order the system freaked out... suffice to say we didn't have the staff to build and test and support any integrations).

I still have one client who insists all of my expense reports be printed out. I can't just scan and email, I have to send paper copies of everything... I work remote, so... I'm literally mailing them in, waiting like 2 months, then -- assuming I filled everything out correctly and tagged it with the correct project code -- I get paid. This is a company with over 300 employees... and again, with them, I have to track my time in the Project Management Tools and the Accounting Tools... and the Accounting Tools to track time only work on Windows (but not Windows 10), so I have to fire up a specific VM to get Windows 7 (with the right service pack) to enter my time. Also the Accounting Project Codes are different from the Project Management project codes. It's such crap.

I expensed them for a copy of Windows 7, made a backup of that image and expense them for offsite storage (incase Windows Update accidentally runs), expense them for overnight tracked postage, and I charge them like an hour for the week just to add my time -- and they have 300 employees! It's so freakin' expensive and moronic to let the accountants run anything...

/rant
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There's got to be something about this pattern of prominent people publicly losing their minds in the worst possible ways: ESR, Scott Adams, Jontron, even Bobby Fischer.

This is the same person who lost his shit over a sweater (http://blog.dilbert.com/post/146361457021/the-humiliation-of...). Chugging too much Infowars?
I was at the same MHacks I think! My team won a smaller prize, but we didn't really do anything with the app afterward. It's pretty cool to see a hackathon project with a successful exit. This is very good marketing for hackathons in general.
Here's our blog post about the pricing and cost breakdown: https://goo.gl/WwQLYc
Alternatively, we'll have flying cars and fusion in 20 years.
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Email me and I'll see what we can do ;)
A couple 1"+ spiders moved into my buggy basement in school and made it much more tolerable.

We got along well. They liked to play this game where they would hide in my shoe. They lost :( . Then the mosquitoes came back and I moved out.
Would love for you to try it - if you go here, you can do a 2-cup mini subscription as well:
https://www.suddencoffee.com/?trial=true

We have a lot of customers who go through a similar experience. They use Sudden maybe 1-3 days a week when really busy and then pour over on others days when they have time. The pour over is still pretty enjoyable if you have the time.
We've been using calibre app on Vecteezy and its helped us keep track (and improve) our site performance. Its a great tool and continues to improve!
A cafe latte is mostly milk, and Starbucks-style coffee shops sell a 20oz/568ml 'large' size - two of those a day and you are over the average.

(I haven't been to the US for a few years, but I seem to remember Starbucks selling an even bigger size as well)
Hiking with Geeks lands in major cities to get geeks onto the trail
To be fair, I think a modern day professional carpenter would much rather work with modern power tools than what carpenters had to use at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. Modern-day miners much prefer using their heavy machinery than swinging a pickaxe and pushing a trolley. I can't see many modern-day blue-collar workers volunteering to go back to the old ways in order to increase employment counts.
Higher order lawyers - where you can do with one HOL in a day what took a month with regular lawyers (just like Python vs Assembler).
How these taxis will consume energy: electricity generation in the UK comes from three main sources – gas, coal-fired power stations and nuclear. A small but growing proportion of electricity is supplied by renewables. Gas accounted for 46 % of electricity supplied in 2008.
According to this recent Reddit comment, advertisers are starting to lose control over Facebook groups, too:

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/60tsu4/twitter_c...
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Can't imagine the fierce debates that are coming over that, particularly in countries like the US, which have strong ideological aversions to such things.
We haven't measured them but they should be equal to any high-quality specialty coffee. I know that regular instant coffees have considerably higher levels of acrylamides that are caused by poor quality coffee and processing at extremely high temperatures.
This echoes my experience and thoughts exactly.
Jihad making you thirsty? Coca Cola

Bud Light "Down for Whatever" ads beside a video of a firefight in Syria

Domestic truck ads would go great beside VBIED videos considering how few VBIEDs make it to their target.
I'm not sure how well this would work out in the US. Any standard parts would be stripped off those things instantly. Have you ever seen what happens to a bike after being locked somewhere for more than a couple days? It disappears piece by piece until nothing but the frame is left.
> Just enumerate the activities a programmer performs and see how many of them can be automated.

I decide the instructions and the robot pushes the buttons for me?
rick_cheese?
Super Mario Run Available on Google Play Store – Tell Me How
Fxruby-enhancement: a new Ruby wrapper for FOX GUI TK: complete, stable, rubyish
As a barista, the most important thing to me is that you're happy with whatever your drinking :)
True, but in this case the user owned the file^ that was being worked on

^ everything is a file...
> Designers will be hit the hardest. Followed by developers.

They have already been hit hard, by Wordpress and Facebook.
It uses qsort and bsearch in practice
Currently we promise 4-6 month shelf life. We recently started to flush the tubes with nitrogen. As long as you keep the coffee in dark, cool and dry place it will last probably longer - we're still not sure since the oldest samples haven't gone bad yet!

Edit: when you open a tube it will age much faster.
> Even if all browsers banded together and refused, all that would mean is that premium content would not be available in browsers, and that would lead to a significant devaluation of the web in favor of proprietary apps

Not everyone sees this as a bad thing. Horses for courses; the web doesn't have to be the platform for everything.
> I pay for NYT and some stories are amazing. I finish maybe 5% of the ones I start reading and I probably attempt less than 5% of what they publish.

Well, hopefully you finish more than 5% of my reply...

> Meh, sensationalism. How is any of this pertinent to me as a 29 year old engineer in SF? Other than making me afraid of my own shadow and riling up negative emotions.

Seriously? Those are the only thoughts that an article like that (it's finely written, just read it) can evoke on you?

Makes me sad to read your statements, I can only hope that you're not representative of a "29 year old engineer in SF"

I happen to be 31 years old, an engineer and also live in SF... a terrorist attack in London, does happen to be pertinent to me.
I have given VSCode a try, and if I had not so much time customizing emacs, I would probably switch.

Most of the time, the difference in performance is insignificant.
Lotus Notes was a thing at one point. It didn't seem to stick around.

Excel would sort of fall in that category.
Fourth Amendment has been trashed and killed by the previous two administrations. With all of NSA and FBI's "interpretations" of what reasonable spying means for an investigation, the 4th just doesn't do much anymore to protect people's privacy. Most of the judges either haven't figured out what's happening and how the agencies use their new tools or they are complicit.

The Fifth Amendment is now getting killed at the federal court level, and I'm not sure what are the chances for the current or even future Supreme Court setup are to revert this.

And now we're watching the First Amendment die in slow motion, too, both from attacks of the current administration, which basically says that the 1st amendment is a bad thing and "makes us weak", as well as from all the different groups out there who seem to "take offense" for everything that happens, and want to be in "safe spaces."

And because the media is consolidated in a few large companies and all they care about is profits, it's easy to take down content that "offends" various groups.
drinking water is but hot water for brewing coffee comes from big tanks that get really gross
"Monospaced fonts went out in the 1970s."
The "collective wisdom of newspapers of record" hasn't managed to save them from their own costly mistakes, generally speaking, when you look at their current financial state.
This is the best interview I have seen with him https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6NpHbMFaQ8
How IDEO Helped a San Francisco School to Redesign Its Food System
Atwood's Law: Stuff that is now written in JavaScript
Too bad to see that Beacon shut down. With Trump's election, this might have been a prime moment for community-funded journalism.
It definitely does work well for backpacking and based on your amount of usage - sounds like something that could work well. Definitely have run some campaigns with a travel focus. However, the bursty demand you mentioned is what we hear from travelers and backpackers - that makes it a lot harder to serve (it's hard to get in front of you right around when you'll need it).

A big part of our mission is serving coffee for everyone's need - we have some people who use it camping, we have others who use it on the way to work. There is room for both.
When I was starting to work on Sudden I knew that the biggest challenge would be around the perception of instant coffee. It's a lot of work but we have a pretty solid plan and traction right now!
It might take a few tries to get that right.

We might see, say, "Unambiguas English version A", as an experimental or academic version.

Then a trial "English B".

And maybe on the third try, they'd get it right, say, "English C". We could call it "C" for short.

(I know, I skipped BCPL.)
my business does millions in revenues and i watch him and others. mainly because i find a lot of what they say is true, and i'm looking for information on how to get to the next order of magnitude in revenues.

their audience isn't just wannabes, it's also successful people looking for guidance/validation/vindication/whatever. it's not just "motivation", it's also "information".

talking shit on the internet to successful people isn't new. you're not doing anything new. it's actually really tired. so very, very tired. yawn. zzz.
If it were only paying members whose votes were counted that might work?
news has been about sensationalism at all cost.

Sadly, newspapers in the 19th and early 20th centuries were even worse, and unlike today, you had no way to independently research if you were being lied to. (Hearst was a classic example.)
There is a version of this in the automobile space - Car2Go - in a bunch of US cities. I used this a few times in Miami where they had Smart FourTwo's scattered across the city. As a member, you could walk up, unlock it and drive it anywhere. Once at your destination you'd just park it at any public Miami parking lot. Too bad the service is no longer in Miami - it was pretty awesome.
Phalcon Now Supported in Google App Engine
Hahaa! Awesome. The circle or die cut one?
It's the unfortunate thing about the US. Although I don't think it's impossible, having any decent quality bike would definitely get stripped like you said. The only way I can imagine this being implemented is if there are bike lockers that completely enclose the bike. Unfortunately, that would raise the cost of the rentals to probably more than people are willing to pay.
The US has a per-capita GDP is close to 5x higher then Chinas. Why would theft be exclusive to the US instead of China?
Point. But it does show that, abstracting away disk IO itself, the system bus and processor handle IO best at 128 KB blocksizes.

It's easy enough to start substituting in disk specifications for read or write and continue the experiment.
How is the speed now? I never had data issues but I definitely had speed issues. Btrfs was really slow compared to ext4/xfs back when I tried it. And I mean orders of magnitude slow. I had an application that did a lot disk access and switching off of btrfs brought the runtime down from a week to just hours. I want to like btrfs, but after that I just can't trust it for high disk load situations.
Are you referring to adding an execution policy to many of the STL fn calls?
Did they send you punch cards through the mail?
He was my favourite character in those books. :-P
He spent 20 years building technology to empower users, and Apple decided that user empowerment is an an area they no longer want to be in. That's wow a new era in computing, that is all in on changing users into mere consumers
Inside a top secret underground Cold War nuclear facility in Chongqing, China
Hello Mr. straw man.
With all the ad profiling and targeting going on, is it really a coincidence that certain ads appear next to somewhat extreme content? Maybe some brands and extremist groups do share the same audience?

That fact can be hard to swallow for the marketing department of a company: 'Apparently 80 percent of our customers are white supremacists or hate gays.' Or something like: 'It seems that 1 in 3 of our shampoo buyers like beheading videos.'

Consequently those companies pulling advertising on Google and YouTube should stop selling their products and services to extremist or similar inappropriate customers. Or put a disclaimer on their products or in their TOS: 'This product can not be sold to, or used by, viewers of beheading videos, Muslim extremists, Paul Ryan voters or Breitbart readers.'
Talking Shop in Screenwriting and Music: John Wick (2014)
I use tmux-resurrect too. Saves just one session, but does the job for me.
Guessing that it's probably more rare to watch something again than it is to watch something new.
I just felt a million sysadmin voices cry out and be suddenly silenced at the thought of developers caring more about maintainability than them. Sysadmins are the ones that have to maintain all the crap that is thrown over the fence at them, whilst the developers go chase the new shiny.
Totally. If you can make instant coffee that tastes even okay, it would be revolutionary for backpacking.

Coffee is the most important thing my partner and I check to make sure we have before we enter the backcountry. And it's always instant, not out of preference or cost concerns, but weight.
I was eleven or twelve when I first got turned on to the bull spun in news stories. A few friends and I were going around our small, one light town on our BMX bikes when a writer from the local newspaper started interviewing us. She was making a dumb fluff piece but we didn't know and we were excited to be in the paper. I recall feeling duped and angry when I read the piece; misquotes and context spun out of whole cloth. I've always hated people misquoting or misrepresenting things I have said..

It was an important lesson I'm happy to have learned. Once you know what to look for, you can see it everywhere.
It's not perfect but burning gas emits less CO2 than burning petrol or diesel. It also keeps all the pollutants out of the city, so public health should increase.
Firstly, I think it's easy to confuse the two narratives of not doing enough work and working too much.

From most of the GaryVee content I watched recently the general feeling I took away is that many people are looking for the "quick fix" when really they just need to put in the hours. Not necessarily unhealthy hours, but hard hours never the less. And that they just need to do, and not think or plan in many cases. Try this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRj144Gd7EA

Secondly, personally I found it really enlightening watching Casey Neistat's youtube VLOGs to see when he was very intentionally carving out time for family, and other things like running. You would see him intentionally rush home so that he could spend an hour with his baby daughter before she went to sleep - even if he had to go back out to work afterwards.

Of course, that's easier than it might be for some when you can ride a skateboard home from work in 10 minutes and a similar time to where his Wife works (he would carve out date time etc as well in the middle of the day). Never the less I thought it was good to see the very intentional time carving, especially from someone clearly so busy and juggling a lot of priorities (starting a company, a daily vlog, a new baby/family and a personal life).

Despite all of that, it certainly was having impact on his life but it seemed clear to me the impact would have been much worse for some people not taking that very intentional and active effort to carve out time for these things.
It's a sad industry that has enshrined culture that the more experienced/senior a person is, the lower quality their work is, because they have to make it artificially inaccessible to make themselves appear more elite.
Yeah, shout out to mdadm and the md driver. I've been using it for years and years and it's rock solid. Being able to grow arrays (online) and convert plain drives into mirror sets is great. I feel that md and lvm are underappreciated by a large number of Linux users…
Snap judgments, trolling, and bias are the monsters terrorizing digital culture
Why Are So Many Tech and Telecom Companies Bad at Respecting Your Privacy?
echo me too
me too
That's assuming people are going watch things multiple times. Most people, including myself, are one and done.

I've always rented the movies I've watched because I know I won't watch them again, so the savings is win on the whole.

I guess there's something to be said for TV shows, as people often watch those over. I generally don't watch TV series, the exception being a couple Netflix series that friends have begged me to watch, so I don't have too much of an opinion there.
Some of us, for financial reasons (like emigration, bad luck, divorce, child support, or all the aforementioned) will be coding until we drop dead or get kicked out and can't get work.

Trust me, most of us in this situation are probably acutely and painfully aware of the nightmare scenario, but we've got the tiger by the tail and can't realistically let go. Such is life.
But you could interrupt the CPU from the graphics chip based on scan line (just in case that's the part GP was interested in), for instance to do a classical graphics/text screen split or replicate sprites.
There were tools like this for android back when the first android phones were being released. I had a few cools things set up, like making the ring volume silent when I got to work, but then when I upgraded phones the app (there were a few) never got reinstalled because they were never really missed.
> "wow, I piped grep, had I done this by hand in C this would have taken me days"

Exacly. Pipes and grep functionality are great abstractions that have saved people countless hours.
https://youtube-creators.googleblog.com/2017/03/restricted-m...
Yes, I'm 35 and really feeling that pull these days. Currently working at a startup (it's 5 years old, so that moniker is debatable) and everyone around me is 25, being exploited 7 ways from Sunday because they don't care and are certain it's all gonna work out for them. And a lot of them were born into money anyway.

Crazy work hours, do more with less, etc etc. If something needs to happen, fuck you, drop everything and do it. Of course this is said in a sunny, positive, optimistic way but the reality is the same. I'm the only person on my "team" that should realistically have at least 3 people on it. Soul crushing. I just wanna work 9-5 or 9-6 or whatever and leave it at the office.
There is a similar scooter-based startup in SF called Scoot. There are official docking spaces with chargers in a number of garages but you can also leave them in the street within designated zones within quite a large portion of the city - they're marked in blue on the vehicle map [0].

Being able to go point-to-point and not having to think about paying for the time you're at your destination is very convenient.

They added a pilot program with a handful of mini two-person electri "quad" cars as well. Seems to be a partnership with Nissan. I haven't gotten to try out any of those yet, they are not usually available when I've checked.

0: https://scoot.co/locations/
Ah ok I missed the boat then :(

I could imagine it being difficult to send to Australia. We have strict rules on food and plant matter coming in and I am not sure what this would be classified as.

Thanks for the reply!
I know this is software and software is unlike other stuff, but if we were talking about a sport shoe, car design or other 'thing', where a lot of time, effort and money had clearly been spent then I would consider it unethical to copy it too closely without being clearly innovative in some area.

It's not just an 'idea' that you are copying, it's the actual design and UX implementation.

Imagine you were talking about MS Word or Photoshop...
129000$ for the DGX-1, for anyone interested.

Saves you debugging your way to a workable 8*1080ti, when you look at it from this angle. Not sure if being able to swap out the cards is what makes building them yourself worth it in addition to the cost saving.
all files ending with py with "import flask"

https://github.com/search?q=filename%3A%2A.py+%22import+flas...

use advanced search to specify stars:>20 etc.
Oh, totally, there should be articles correcting the common notion, for the people who'd care enough to read them. This site didn't strike me as targeted at lay audiences, though.
Thanks. Most of our monitoring is public on http://monitor.gitlab.net/ the things I showed are not because we're still working to make Prometheus work with multi process applications. I'm not sure the Json is public.