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You'll want to check out "react-blessed", a way to use Blessed through React -- which enables common UI code for both web and terminal.

https://github.com/Yomguithereal/react-blessed
With slight hinting, and rgba subpixel rendering enabled, I found font rendering on Linux to be comparable to or even better than on Windows >= XP with ClearType. Definitely better than Windows 8+ DirectWrite. What you won't get without patching is Windows 2000 style aliased + hinted fonts, or OSX style rendering. But I think most of the complaints originated years ago, when you needed that kind of font rendering on CRTs.
> This is such a weird American phenomenon, the whole roommate thing

I think you're just sheltered; in every country in Europe that I lived in or had friends live in (Poland, UK, Portugal), students and young professionals flatshare. Or live with their parents, but it comes out to the same thing. If you're not already independently rich, you can't afford a single bedroom flat on your own.

The simple fact is that a two bedroom flat split two ways is always going to be cheaper than two single-bed flats. There's obvious efficiency in using the space effectively - no point in every single person having their own kitchen, bathroom, living room. Also, it makes sense that most flats built are 2-bedroom or bigger; that way they can be used both as flatshares for young people, and flats for families.

You don't have to live with someone you don't like - you get to pick your flatmates.
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>> people with self-determination, i.e., a country, have decided

> You know that's just flat out false, especially considering you've personally never been asked about it.

Assuming the country in question is democratic, and you are of legal voting age, then yes, you have been asked about it.

If you don't agree with certain laws you are free to vote for somebody who follows your views or stand yourself.
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Well yes but this is a nitpick in my opinion. Drug possession in personal amounts is not a criminal offense. So they are no longer "super illegal" you could say. It's in the same category as a driving offense or something like that. Same in Czech Republic.
You're biased, you mean?
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Incredible... the most eye-opening difference was the majority of Americans believe global warming will harm people in the US, but very few people believe it will harm them personally. And this isn't limited to west/northeast coasts-- it covers the entire country. What would cause people to think GW will harm others but not themselves?
Former gaming-addict here.

Does the fact that people tend to spend more time on the multiplayer component of a game rather than the single player play any role in this 'not caring about AI'.

I mean, I really did not enjoy playing against AI because they are quite stupid in most cases, and the only way to make a singleplayer become harder does not seem to be to make the AI smarter, but rather have some 'modifiers' against the player.

For example in L4D, the damage you take from a hit by a common zombie on normal difficulty is 10HP (out of 100HP), but on expert the same hit is worth 20HP.

Other things to make it harder would be to spawn in more NPCs and just get the player more busy, or speed up the events in the game (like tetris).

But in all games with a decent multiplayer, it is just _way_ more fun to play against other human beings rather than shooting a bot. Because it actually poses a challenge.

EDIT: typo fix
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right, I get that. But is it like.. 10% of Chicago? 1%?

If it's 20% of Chicago but has 50-100x the national per capita average, that's pretty crazy. If it's one house where everyone in the house was murdered (1 murder per capita!), well it's not really representative of much.
I love this. I've been thinking about the error we've made in stuffing so many enterprise interfaces into the browser (I say this as a web developer).

Somehow we decided to trade-off upfront training (no longer required) for long term speed & productivity (no longer available).

An interface that can be used by anyone with almost no training, is almost certainly a low productivity interface.

I haven't expressed this very well. But, in short, I love this and would download and use it tomorrow.
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I wish the author all the best, but I also think this article is a bit heavy on the self-loathing side.

If you get burnt out multiple times you should really change something because it seems the working environment is not a good fit.
Well that does it. I wasn't convinced before, but now I am.
I'm also stuck with Disqus and want to switch for the same reason. Here are some ideas to get your own comment system running: StaticMan[0], Isso[1], Netlify GoTell[2]. This article[3] brings up some more ideas.

For my small blog with 1-2 comments a month I'm thinking about implementing a small form and include comments manually using front-matter options or a separate comments file. This would make the comments fully static which is big plus. Spam will obviously be the biggest problem, so something like Akismet is necessary.

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> I equally roll them at people that talk about it happening as if they've done the calculations themselves

The two positions are very different though. There is an overwhelming consensus among specialists that climate change is happening (https://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/). Why would you roll your eyes at someone that base their understanding of the world on the current scientific knowledge?
Speaking as a proponent of remote work, I think the reason is that remote workers are less productive in a _non-remote enabled culture._ And by default most companies are not remote enabled. They don't even understand what that means.

This is totally reasonable, as we still have very few examples of large, successful teams that are fully remote. Many of the ones we do have aren't actually companies, Linux kernel development being a good example. I don't think we yet have a single case we can point to of thousands of full-time employees working together remotely. Which means at the end of the day, enterprises still have to build or lease a huge box and stuff it full of people -- there is no well-understood alternative. They naturally end up building or leasing boxes that are nearby boxes built or leased by similar companies, and here we are.

The only real barriers to ever larger remote teams, though, are information, training and precedent. I doubt the tech industry will ever be more concentrated in a few megacities as it is today. Remote work in one form or another is on a 30 year upward trend.
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> Why accept it? Westerners don't understand how their economies work to pass surplus value to the non-productive

Why do you think it's a question of understanding, rather than a moral obligation to help others?
And soon will win the big brother award for accepting DRM ?
Sure, but it means that guy should make 2x of what he gets at home just to keep up, and we are talking about same person with same skills, connections etc.

So the real rational decision would be to start company with access to VSs in US and hire developers in Ukraine. Which is exactly what is happening.
Good luck getting hired after that.

I 'left tech' a few times, but the money is good, I have the skills, so its an ideal fallback. Take care not to burn your bridges, no matter how tattered they may seem.
You could go and learn Clojure, or Haskell if you're particularly masochistic, but even C will do the trick.
Be warned that it will be frustrating at first, it definitely takes some brain rewiring.
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But the idea is that you take a remote job based in (rich country), get paid like a (rich country) developer, but only have costs of a developer in (poor country).
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What difference does it make if someone has been asked or not? The rules apply anyway, consent or consensus is not required.

Sovereignty works not only for full democracies, but also for monarchies, dictatorships, and various kinds of representative decisionmaking.

But the main point I was trying to make is that if "you were born in England and lived there all your life. Then you fly over to Thailand on a tourist visa" then whatever social contract Thailand people have established in Thailand doesn't matter - you are not entitled to its benefits, you are not part of their social group (yet?), you don't have an inherent right to be part of that group, and it's up to them whether they will extend their social contract to you at all and if so, on what conditions. In this regard it doesn't make a meaningful difference how Thailand decides it and who gets asked. Self-determination of countries is a thing even if those countries are internally governed very unfairly - coming from outside it doesn't matter, you anyway wouldn't get a say on how they're governed.

Again, it doesn't matter of all or most people there were asked on that - if they don't like their system, they're free to change it, but until then whoever or whatever rules there gets to make the rules how Thailand will handle travel across it's borders.

Unrestricted travel is not a core human right, the right of national/regional self-determination is considered more important and overrides it. There is a right to decide who visits in your territory, and there is no inherent right for a visitor to come if they're not invited.
The problem with this analysis is that it ignores current valuation. What if somebody offered to sell you 1,000 shares of ford right now for $1 each? Would you buy? Of course you would because you know that the value of one share is much higher than $1. So despite whether you think Ford has room to grow, it's very possible that the market is simply undervaluing it as a company, all things considered- assets, brand value, liabilities, etc.

The question isn't necessarily "can this company grow?", it's "what is the value of this enterprise as a cash-generating vehicle?"
Why must a table be used in such a way, only for tabular data? Sorry if I seem obtuse, but I don't really see the purpose behind semantic elements. Tables were fine for layout with much fewer things that you needed to get right. Wikipedia still uses tables for the layout on the Main Page, for example.

I don't think there is any 'meaning' in the tags that we use, and any meaning implied there is invented as a way to try and match concepts on the screen to things we recognise in real life. I can mean the same thing to a user using tables, because they don't know that it's a table. Can I put a comment like "This table is for layout"? That would also convey meaning, and be a lot easier than messing around with CSS layout.

After a while of trying to get CSS to work with table-like layout, I think I'm going to move back to just using tables in future. At least, until something better than CSS+HTML comes along.
I have focused so hard on income as one leg of the financial security stool.

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-sim...

I'm in a position to retire now at 45 if I chose (or was somehow forced to). Big income, reasonable (though far from Spartan) expenses, and regular long-term investments lead to a secure financial position for my family.

I happen to (mostly) really enjoy my work, so I expect to keep doing it until our kids are off to college, at which point we should have well more than enough to retire in style. THAT is what (and when) there is to spend it on in my case.
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Ok but you mentioned someone making a 1% improvement in existing revenue. For THAT.
It also exists in spanish press.
Disclaimer: i'm a developer of Hops Hadoop

I agree Hadoop is no longer MapReduce. It's HDFS+YARN. That's it. Distributions package up Spark/Flink/Kafka/PrestoDB with the HDFS/YARN core.

At Hops, we've scaled the core HDFS by >16-37X (
https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/03/06/hopfs-scaling-hierarchic...) and we have a distribution called Hopsworks with support for Spark/Flink/Tensorflow. Nobody uses MapReduce on our platform.

The thing that has killed Hadoop, imo, is Kerberos. In Hops, we have switched to using TLS/SSL certificates instead of Kerberos, and that enables us to implement dynamic roles. Dynamic roles allows us to build a software-as-a-service platform, where projects are securely isolated from one another.
Two factors perpetuate this:

1) Americans have a self-hating working class.

2) American home-owners are politically organized, and constantly lobby to prevent the construction of both new single-family houses and apartment buildings in general.
Key quote (for me) from the interview:

"A social network is disempowering because you put a lot of energy into it, all your personal data out there, and tell it who your friends are. You can only use that information inside the silo of that particular social network."

source: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/604052/webs-inventor-tim-...
If all else fails, just create a new account with a new email address and add all your details. Surely, your friends will re-add you, and if they don't, it was probably not meant to be.
Who would use a garage door opener that has to connect to some clown company servers?
Open Source.com had a few of these up the other day. Have a look through their articles.
Sorry but what are we supposed to take from this? It sounds like this person was helped every step of the way, including immigration, but fell into depression and mental health issues around the same time they transitioned gender. But apparently the only thing that changed was other people's perception of him/her? I doubt it.

Now they post a long self indulgent medium post rambling on about their career, which turns out to be a job ad / guilt tripping combo.

Nobody owes you a job, everyone goes through struggles like this sometimes. The fact that it even occurs to someone to post something like this is a sign they believe it'll work. That's privilege.
People don't like hiring people that have track records of long absences for work and mental breaks. I'd have 0 problems employing a trans/gay/gender fluid person but hiring someone with a documented history of sudden long absences would be a problem. ESPECIALLY in a startup where everyone has to be pulling their weight all the time-you can't put the effort into developing and integrating a team member just to have them check in and out of work randomly.
When will Africa get a region?

Seriously, we have companies willing to pay big money to use a region closer to us.
A better idea: work as a consultant, get a Hadoop-related assignment, accept it, learn on the go and swear A LOT in the process, still deliver on time.

You've got paid AND you got to know some Hadoop! (Worked for me; YMMV)
Spending ten bucks on a lottery ticket doesn't hurt most people while winning the lottery can have a live-changing impact. Every action is rational for a properly chosen value function.
I sympathize with the author, but I'm guessing the stints of unemployment have more to do with the potential for flight risk giving the sporadic employment history.

IMO, a mediocre but reliable developer is more ideal than an all star who you can't rely on.

Best of luck to the author though - I hope that sunnier days are ahead.
Lol, this reminds me of the time many moons ago when a highly experienced tech showed me how to receive and display (good ol' NTSC) TV on a scope
Companies pull this kind of stuff, then wonder why there is a push back against globalization. Americans need to benefit from globalization, too! If most American work is displaced by foreigners, it really screws our society and economy, amplifying inequality to insane levels.
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Variety? Also, theatres, cinemas, shops... Most of all, the fact that no matter what sport/hobby/game/activity you're into, you can always find people to do it with.
I'm starting a project which will have a React Native app part, and I don't know if I should go with Django, Laravel or DRF on the backend... It will also need a web part. The database will be Postgres.

My last project I did in Go and felt like too much "stupid" typing, even though I understand the reasons things are that way, and I love the tooling around it, it feels kinda verbose for websites..

-- edit --

One of my doubts with Django is that I'm not sure my SQL will translate well into a "model".

Suggestions?
Yeah. I wish we had something more decentralised, like e-mail, but for social networks. Like, a standardized social network protocol that most people use (popularity is important here). There is nothing special about what social networks like Facebook do, the biggest challenge is probably serving so many requests and storing lots of data with high availability.
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Thanks! I'll keep it in mind.
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Aliexpress is build on escrow. I don't think amazon is even trying to beat that kind trust.
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It's not about "press" in general, but about "quality press" which BBC aims or claims to be.
Actually I tried, but it's blocked by my company's firewall ('game' category)
Tim Berners-Lee is not the equivalent of the W3C (though he did vote for EME).

I think the main reason to allow this is that otherwise the only effect is that the same thing will happen in a non-standard fashion with Apps and other binaries being the way to access protected content.

That said, I'm not happy with it either and I wished that the web would remain DRM free, the only reason it has the adoption that it does is because it was open from the beginning.

Finally, the way to vote as a consumer is with your feet: simply refuse to access DRM protected content and it will go away all by itself.
> tons of beer

This sort of thing confuses me. It's not difficult to get fancy alcohol anywhere, especially wines and spirits, since they have better shelf lives, but you can get niche beers as well.
> H1Bs are used as a cheap source of labor and nothing more.

Really? Even at companies like Google and FB?
Given he didn't optimise his tax bill when he sold Mojang, I doubt he wants more money. Afaik (read an article somewhere) 30% of the $2.5bn he got went to the Swedish treasury.
Whilst that could be true (there's a distinct mountain shortage in these parts) it doesn't entirely solve the city road/bike path problem.

In cities that are renowned bike friendliness e.g. Amsterdam or Copenhagen most of the cycling is low speed on the excellent cycle paths. Most of the riders are on utility bikes in their everyday clothing (as opposed to dressing to go fast and get sweaty).

If people are just peacefully commuting at 20kph (12mph) I would feel a bit of an arse if I went hooning past on a time trial bike at 50kph (31 mph).

Editor's note: Actually I'd be over the moon if I could maintain a 31 mph average for 10 miles! :)

The small town I live in actually has pretty good segregated bike paths but I only use them when I'm commuting slowly and not when I'm training.
Exactly. I'm from Cambridge, MA and as much as it pains me, I'm not convinced he could have Facebook into what it is today from here.

There was a time not that long ago when it wasn't obvious who the social winner was going to be.
Even email is no longer really decentralized. Google and a few other email silos now make up the bulk.
In Half Life, when they yell "cover me", one tries to flush you out and another cuts you off. What's really interesting is what all the other soldiers do: they run to random positions. Early builds didn't do that and the AI was just plain mean. Game AI is a constant balancing act between being good/engaging and not killing the player.

Civ is the same: the AI has routines that try to win, but also a whole bunch that role play.
Careful, your politics are showing. You're advocating a sort of leftist, post-national, globalised, post-structuralist agenda. Everyone is allowed a political opinion but it comes across as slightly disingenuous to couch it in factual / self evident terminology.

> populist nationalism is causing all kinds of problems

That is not a factual statement, it is a subjective political opinion. People on the other side of the fence think the opposite. From whence do you derive this claim to objective truth? Most of your point seems to be built on that statement, but its subjective nature makes it fall apart.
I've never had to scan ID or provide a previous landlord letter for a NYC rental. Also there's usually no app fee just a $50 credit check. But all the other bullet points ring true. I've also lived in trendier Brooklyn neighborhoods where the competition is high. You must be prepared with a cashiers check for a down payment. Shit goes quick here.
What if they're never on the same network? I don't bring my work machine home, or my personal laptop to work, and yet they have to sync passwords somehow.
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