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I was never into luxury cars, with the exception of a Tesla that I love I bought because I was interested in the technology more than in the car itself.

But I always dreamed about having a good yacht so after selling my first company I bought one. The person who sold it to me joked about two greatest days of owning a yacht: the day you buy it, the day you sell it.

I did not understand at the time the second part deeply. But it did not take too long. The thing was a pain in the ass. Turns out the more beautiful the yacht, the more maintenance it needs, the bigger problems it has, the weaker it is against the elements and the bigger the storage you need to use, the more people it needs.

After a while I realized instead of giving me happiness it was giving me frustration, anger and pain. Instead of me owning this thing it was the opposite, the thing owning lots of my time and money.

In the end I just sold the thing and I felt like 100 kgs(200pounds) were taken off my shoulders and it was an amazing moment.

In the future if I need sailing I will lend it instead.

Being wealthy could be a trap. It is a good thing to have some psychological training first and prepare. Also learn about investing your own money, never trust others with your money, specially if they are the experts.
Most of my apps spend the majority of the time waiting for persistent storage or network. I'd prefer to deploy on a 8-socket, 192-core, 12 TB RAM monster than to rewrite everything in C#. It'd probably be cheaper too.
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Being located in the US but staffed 100% from overseas sounds strange. Did you guys make a conscious decision to exclude US born workers?

Moreover, please walk me through your "I'll take my ball and go to Canada" ultimatum : if you don't employ a single American, why should Americans care about this particular threat? Are your contributions to the local economy that significant?
> the customer is always right

This is a useful perspective to take if you're in sales. For a support engineer, not so much. When I did Tier 1 for credit cards, the mantra everywhere invoked was instead:

"The customer is not always right, but is always deserving of respect."

Which has always struck me as a much more balanced and sensible attitude to take, when the objective is to solve a problem.

Sometimes that problem is between the keyboard and the chair. It happens. But it's still a problem that merits solving, rather than being a jackass about, because it's still stopping the customer from using your product, and why should he give you money for something he can't use?

Of course, that doesn't seem likely to apply here - pretty hard for an app crash to be a PEBKAC. I've found it a useful enough perspective to merit mention here, in any case. And perhaps such an attitude would've dissuaded the Garadget representative in this thread from so precipitously making a fool of himself, too.
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The richer the country and the stronger its institutions, the less likely cartels will take over sure, but when $40 billion USD in yearly profit (in the US drug trade) are up for grabs, someone's going to be stepping up.
How Upcoming Regulations Will Revolutionise the Banking Industry
Meizu Pro 7 Leaked Render Image Reveals Thin Bezels and Curved Display
Malta's still selling passports if you want in on EU and Schengen :)

http://www.maltaimmigration.com/
I was just reading about a bunch of weird bugs found in dwarf fortress. For instance, someone found all the cats were throwing up all over the place from alcohol poisoning. They looked into it and found the dwarves were spilling alcohol on the floor of the tavern. The cats didn't drink it though. No, they walked through it and got it on their fur. Then when the cats went to clean themselves, they ingested the alcohol. The game then calculated their blood alcohol content to be very high and gave them alcohol poisoning. Because it counted it as one standard of unit of alcohol, and the cats have much smaller body mass than dwarves.

All sorts of amazing, um, features, have been found in that game.
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Games development is as much a crapshoot as book authoring, so I suspect Notch Prime's game would languish in indie obscurity like Robert Galbraith's books did, right up until someone leaks the association.
You can still do that using msg.exe
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I'd settle for better font rendering, and a better way to debug which extension causes Redshift to not work or makes the logout dialog take 20 seconds to show up (with the desktop frozen in the meantime). Extension debugging needs love.
The richer the country and the stronger its institutions, the less likely cartels will take over sure, but when $40 billion USD in yearly profit (in the US drug trade) are up for grabs, someone's going to be stepping up.

Stop it in Colombia and it shifts to Mexico. Stop the routes along all of Mexico and the Caribbean and who knows - no reason to be so sure it absolutely couldn't happen in Canada.
Probably the one tool missing from this list is Impala, which is essentially Hive's successor. Uses the same metastore and runs an order of magnitude faster. Almost the same flavor of SQL too.
The Sum of Your Facial Parts
Yeah, exactly. Their flights are a mass product designed to be as cheap as possible, and not, say, a luxury premium gadget designed to open my garage doors from the comfort of my car without the need to find my _usual_ garage remote key, right? I can use my iPhone for that! How convenient! I will definitely pay $99 for this wonderful appliance, right with my second Aston Martin. /s
This is somewhat OT, but I've noticed a trend -- although I can't say how recent -- of headlines of the form "British [X] do [Amazing Thing]", particularly (but not necessarily) from the BBC. I note that the HN headline has been changed to "UK researchers" (IIRC, it said "British Scientists" earlier) and this BBC article doesn't actually use this phrase in their headline, but it appears prominently in the tagline.

This may be because I'm restricted to English language articles, but I don't see, for example, "Spanish researchers do [Amazing Thing]". Even in English, I don't regularly see "US/Australian/NZ/Canadian/South African/etc. [X] do [Amazing Thing]"; even though I'm sure plenty of amazing things have been done by these folks.

I understand that the popular press is directed towards the masses, but is the nationality/allegiance of [X] really so important? More so than their discovery/invention/whatever? I'm British and, in a time when populist nationalism is causing all kinds of problems, I'm not sure this rhetoric is helpful. Just be proud of the achievement.

How about just: "[Amazing Thing]"?

Or, if you want to associate it with people, to make it more personal and less "stark" (perhaps to sell it better): "Humanity achieves [Amazing Thing]".
I can report my non-stop 21 years usage of redhat based distributions ( well, along other Unices ).

Never was I left down. Fedora from 24-25 version is so polished, I can't believe myself when all the hardware works just as expected and the screen is such a beauty.

Edit: I have to mention that I am also a diehard KDE fan. Plasma 5.8 is just amazing.
It's more of a HN thing than an American thing.
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Were you in such situation sometime? Can someone help me what to do? I have no way to contact Facebook, I can get nowhere after login, can't fill out any form to post a request. I already send them my government-issued ID scan, now I can't send any other ID scan or any other document anymore. This is desperate situation lasting 4th month.
It wasn't ZSNES, it was your keyboard not accepting input from three keys at once !!! I know because I remember this exact thing.
maybe this?

https://dot.kde.org/2017/01/26/kde-and-slimbook-release-lapt...
If we are comparing 2017 android with 2001 Windows we also need to compare the exploits. During times of 2001 windows we saw things like worms that permanent destroyed hardware (or forced owners to replace them), worms that shutdown whole city networks, computers that got infected in less than a second when connecting to the Internet, and botnets that were bigger than the biggest super computers of the time. The harm were big and scary on a global scale, and specific malware were often calculated to cause billions in damages. On the "lower" end there were bank account hijackings and credit card theft.

What are the worst 2017 android malware doing to the world?
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Irrelevant nit that doesn't undermine your point: the Bolt is made by Chevrolet.
Alexanderplatz and others http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/berlin/polizei/die-23-unsiche...
> return :: x -> (a -> x)

> return x = \a -> x

>

> (>>=) :: (a -> x) -> (x -> (a -> y)) -> (a -> y)

> m >>= f = \a -> f (m a) a

>(Incidentally, these are two of the Łukasiewicz axioms for propositional calculus.)

Also the K and S in SKI combinator calculus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SKI_combinator_calculus
For those like me wondering what Garadget (garage door futurizer) is:

> Garadget is a simple and elegant way to breath [sic] a new life into your existing garage doors opener. It helps prevent mishaps so familiar to many of us...

... and then introduces new ones, like: "have I used the correct words when speaking to a company representative, or else I won't be able to open my garage door".

This is a general problem. It's possible that if you buy a Tesla and trash-talk the brand somewhere, you won't be able to drive it anymore, for example.

This future we're living in, I'm not sure I like it. In any case I'm now certain I don't want to futurize my garage door.
I like public transport and hate driving myself.

So I'm bound to big cities
Try to install freetype 2.7. It's a bit of a hassle(you need to get the source rpm from fedora 26 and build it), but will improve text rendering a lot.
Customers are not always right. Making you employees treating them as if they were, or as if the employees were slaves, is morally bankrupt. Grow a spine!

That can actually be a winning PR strategy. Not sure how it is in the US, but here many companies have started to respond with blatant sarcasm and mockery to unreasonable criticism in social media. You'll have a newspaper's support guy answering "brb, getting one of those sweet-paying protest gigs" when someone accuses them of being "paid by George Soros, just like those protesters".

This, however, is not one of those cases. The customer may have been a bit harsh, but his review is completely within the bounds of acceptable human behaviour. They could have reached out to them, and they would have probably been willing to change the review as well.
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>Most financial advisors know nothing

I worked at a bank and can confirm. Most financial advisors even lack the basic math skills, they can do linear functions if they are above average. Needless to say, I'm outta there and in tech now. Just do your homework and decide what to do with your money yourself. You'll save time and lots of money.
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As a non-American living in Western Europe the idea of a landlord doing a "background check" on prospective tenants is terrifying. Never heard of such a thing in Europe. What the hell does "background check" even entail.
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> Almost everyone I know who has a graduate degree in CS came here on a visa. The reason is because employers don't reward graduate degrees in CS with compensation commiserate with their costs.

I think the main reason for that is because the vast majority of software jobs do not even remotely require a graduate degree in CS.

A lot of great research into ML, data science, distributed systems, etc., is driven by people with graduate degrees, but that's still a very tiny part of the programmer-job pie.
By that logic, our alarm at the office isn't a security product because the alarm company can monitor and disable it remotely.
But without canaries, you would have complete outages instead of partial ones.
Belief spurns action. Otherwise we are just relying on luck for money to end up in our hands. At least, that is the way I'm interpreting the above point. We can use both conviction and day-dreaming as a substitute of belief. I think former is what he means in the article. The latter just leads to more and more delusion.
I'm currently working on a webpage that describes central topics in digital communications, via short python programs and their generated plots, rather than stuffing one equation after the other. I'd like to extend it to more more simulations of wireless systems and in general write more content. Eventually, if people like it I can imagine creating an eBook out of it.

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How does this work with landlords that do "direct sells" and there is no office?
Why rejoining the EU is so problematic
Is this a different headline on BBC.com? On BBC.co.uk the headline is what you say, [amazing thing?]
That's not even remotely what he was saying people should be protected from WRT business.
The original post clearly states "no recruiting firms". But Wilson HCG is one - see http://www.wilsonhcg.com/.

"WilsonHCG is a global talent solutions leader that operates on the principle of providing true partnership to our clients..."
Boohoo... poor you.

Sorry no sympathy.
India’s National ID Program May Be Turning the Country into a Surveillance State
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Precisely. Short, one-hour flight, and pretty much the same time zone (barring differences related to when daylight savings takes effect) makes it easy to keep teams in Cyprus and Israel in sync.

Considering the massive shortage of developers in Israel, it really wouldn't surprise me to see deepening ties in the development community.
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For the non imperialists
The two are exactly the same from the outcome perspective; you always treat the customer with respect and try to please them.
I highly recommend the movie Repo Men (2010) to those who want to viscerally feel the implications of this kind of DRM.

http://m.imdb.com/title/tt1053424/
In stark contrast with Russia, where only 1% of those prosecuted don't go to prison:

http://www.thenational.ae/news/world/europe/russias-99-convi...
> e.g. Ryanair

Well, actually:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/sep/03/ryanair-cus...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06zv3xf
Totally forgot, sorry. Right you are.
I also pick jobs based on my moral compass, but I reckon it's a lot harder than it would be if I'd been making 150+k for 8 years.
There's about 3 sections like this in TR (2013). In the rest of the game, any hazards seen on screen are mostly dangerous. I always thought that the extra 'hazard' visuals and noisy audio were there to disorientate the player (along with a bit of shaky-cam) in the hope they'd mis-step the climbing/running/jumping, and thus increase the difficulty.

For skilled gamers (which I am most definitely not) I can see how this 'cheat' is annoying, but for me, who isn't the best at precision movement in 3D games, I found it helped me immensely during these types of sections to simply turn off the sound.
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Just as an aside, Cyprus is in the process of joining Schengen "soon", along with Romania, Bulgaria, & Croatia.
Does the money really arrive at the programmer in the US? The guy at your gated community opens the hand, the states prison opens the hand, the privately paid doctor opens the hand, your university's creditor opens the hand and its all gone.
What good is earning less money, when you have to live in constant fear of getting shot?
2m for a limited time visa. 5m if you want to settle
Dunno. I once tried to check in online, but the service was just giving me errors. Tried for half an hour.

When the service was back up, it wouldn't let me check in because that closes two hours before the flight. There were around 20 people at the check-in, all of which had had the same problem.

They made every single one pay 45 Euro per boarding pass, telling us to file a complaint later.

Filed a complaint, got a canned response "sorry, those are the rules". Didn't feel like suing them.

So, let me say this to Ryanair: "I'm very sorry for being toxic, and ruining the experience. Also: eat me!"
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Functions of type A -> A for some A form a monoid under composition, but functions of arbitrary type don't. The nifty phrase "a monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors" doesn't refer to the function composition monoid, but something much stranger, where the "composition" operation has type m (m a) -> m a, and the "identity" operation has type a -> m a. To understand how that can be seen as a monoid, note that the composition operation composes two effects on the same computation, and the identity operation adds an empty effect.
> clearly, if you can't stomach the stupidity and nastiness of humanity, don't sell to the average human. It's like getting angry at mosquitoes because they bite you, it's the most useless reaction ever. Worst, those particular mosquitoes give you money and you are not allowed to kill them.

This is gold! ;-)

I sell a little object on Amazon; a person returned it with an angry message (non public) that explained that it didn't work, and while explaining it, clearly demonstrated that she didn't understand how to use it.

I wrote her back to say I was sorry of what had happened and that we would try to do a better job of showing how to use the object (which we did).

She didn't reply -- but bought 2 the week after...
I'm in Sydney and was under the impression the scene in Melbourne was much better! The grass is always greener...
4K native with the scaling factor cranked up to match.
Tactical note: Drop the last paragraph. It adds nothing, and takes away from the point you very effectively made prior.

People will most strongly remember the first and especially the last words you say to them. Make sure those words are the ones you want remembered.
I'm also learning RN - are you (planning on) sharing code with the web version (regular react)?
That's why I mentioned it - even beyond basic necessities, money can help a lot in daily life. That is, it can make a lot of worries go away.

Washing by hand is great, but if you are a family of four, it will also cost a lot of time. In that sense a dishwasher is not really a luxury. It saves time, therefore it is a sensible investment.

We don't have that many woods nearby, either. There are some, but they serve a whole city of 3 Million people and their dogs, so they tend to be very overcrowded. We go there frequently, but it is not the answer to everything.

Yes, we won't die if we don't travel. Nevertheless, with kids you want to show them at least something. And just visiting grandparents with a family of four sets us back several hundred €. We don't die if we don't visit the grandparents, but it also doesn't seem like overindulgence to occasionally visit them.

There are articles out there, btw, on how poor people have to spend more on everything. For example they can't afford to travel to the cheap shops, so they have to buy in the expensive shops near their home. Counter-intuitive things like that.
I like how "throwaway2" has gone to the teacher to tell tales on that page
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The problem with this, is that now I don't expect to be able to believe any of the reviews of this product, because their behaviour will make any of their customers who are aware of this event more timid.

To me, this is the seller trying to manipulate public perception by silencing reviews from those with a bad experience. I'll put up with a lot of problems if the seller is responsive and handle issues well, but if I risk having them stop me from using the product?

This seller has demonstrated I can't trust them not to turn off my access to their servers without warning. To me, that is an absolute deal-breaker that would stop me from ever considering their product.

I can understand anger over a customer that rushes to give a bad review without waiting for a support response first, but their response in my eyes made things ten times as bad.