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It's also an incredibly cynical ploy that'll probably damage belief in democracy more than anything. It's not a vote on whether Brexit happens because she called it after she'd already irrevocably started the countdown on that by triggering Article 50. It's not a vote on how Brexit happens because, as far as I can tell, she's consistently refused to be specific about that and no real negotiation with the EU has happened yet. (Edit: and the Tories have confirmed this is their election strategy: https://twitter.com/DMcCaffreySKY/status/854329597793632257) It lets May claim a democratic mandate for whatever she wants to do without giving voters any insight or say in what that is.
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One could make an argument that you could get enough via a donation subscription service like patreon and offer your backers something extra like a set of plugins or the newest build compiled for their platform.
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My wife's home town in Belgium looks amazing in 3D at Google Earth.

https://goo.gl/I4b46I

Unforutnately, all of Sweden is still entirely flat. I wonder why.
Well, their crawler uses Chrome anyway, so it wouldn't notice, I guess.
That's fair. Sorry, I hope I didn't get too carried away. Thanks for the dialogue. :)
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You're being a bit of a bellend. We can hold conservative views and not be fascist, the same as you can hold relatively left-wing views and not want socialism. Life isn't black-and-white, you know that I'm sure and labelling doesn't help anything.
Indeed, as a maps fanatic, Google Earth/Maps is an awesome toy for me. Could spend hours on it. It's incredibly impressive.
Slightly off-topic, but I previously used f.lux and switched to redshift-gtk. It has a system-try indicator and auto-start built-in.

http://jonls.dk/redshift/
Navigating 3D maps in the desktop browsers has always been clunky with UI controls for panning, tilting, zooming, and their unclear mapping with the mouse buttons. They solved it by assigning the left mouse button to set an anchor and middle mouse button to "operate" the camera. Very simple and intuitive - I'm impressed, good job.
Devil's advocate, what exactly can this do that we couldn't do 10 years ago?

What achievement are we revelling in? That they've managed to replicate something a desktop app could already do in javascript?
I don't see how it does that, In effect it makes them stronger by giving them a general election she gives them an indyref. All her arguments against one fall away.
>Many skilled jobs are leaving the US

Where would you (or other interested commentators) say the skilled jobs are going to?
There's also Swift's approach, which looks like exceptions but is really similar to Rust's approach under the hood. Swift also requires failable calls to be prefixed by "try" which makes them even easier to spot than the postfix "?" that Rust uses.
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I think opposing it is a really bad idea. As a supporter of Brexit and someone who actually doesn't like the Conservatives, any party thinking they'll get votes by opposing Brexit will certainly not win them from me. I'll just not vote.
>I think one of the biggest challenges for Twitter is on-boarding new users.

This is worse than ever, they invest most of their effort in getting you to follow their cherry picked celeb users for your country. Then they spend the rest of their effort trying to ban you.

- Don't give us an email > account locked

- Don't give us a phone number > account locked

- Don't change your egg avatar > shadow banned
Well, head of AI and SVP of engineering could be representative of an internal shift in focus, so relatively easily explained - maybe they weren't moving fast enough with autonomous vehicles? Head of comms is easy too - lots of press recently, so this could be anything from vanilla burnout to a replacement of someone who can handle it better. VP of Growth could also be as simple as they're not growing at the rate expected, so someone has to take the hit.

Could all of it be related to the same thing, and that thing being their culture? Sure. But couldn't it also just be that these things happen, and everyone is so focused on Uber that it's getting an inappropriate amount of attention and analysis for things that really do just happen on their own from time to time? I'd argue yes.
That's because he fired missiles in Syria and detonated the MOAB in Afghanistan. Whenever a president commits an act of war against a publicly perceived threat, their ratings get a temporary boost.
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Much, thanks.
I don't think anyone fears a Corbyn victory. This is likely to be both a landslide and a damp squib.
> instead of just a library I can link and use

Because that does not work for most newer languages which usually include an invasive runtime. Rust is an exception there.
A much better way to curate your own newspaper is to use RSS. Just saying.
Microsoft earned the ire directed at them for leveraging their power in the industry to make it hard for open source to thrive. If we're going to "go there," I'd argue that Oracle should be the recipient of any residual anger towards "old" Microsoft. They're the ones doing the most damage to open source for the past many years now.
Because i wanted a cheap ($250) semi-disposable laptop to use when travelling. Has 1080p screen; great battery life; HDMI output (to present at conferences). I use it mainly on long plane flights (3-23 hours), in hotel rooms and at conferences.

Why shouldn't I buy a chromebook and put linux on it?
India & China, where else? Here's a personal anecdote: my graduate supervisor retired a few years ago, and there was a reunion. His first students did extremely well, they were at places like Dow their whole lives. It went downhill from there, except for his last graduate student, who returned to China and started a contract research organization over there. The government with all its wisdom wouldn't issue him a visa, though.
It's very unlikely that anybody would go to prison, even if the charges were proved.

What this will do is remove any risk of the tainted elections being voided, resulting in a string of difficult by-elections.
This is like that "If a tree falls in the woods..." thing.

If a political party announces policies and the press don't report it, did it actually happen.

The information is out there. Unfortunately with our media the way it is, you have to go looking for it.

https://twitter.com/LabourEoin/status/854301186756882432
Space launch can be done in many different places, but the higher the latitude the more fuel you have to burn. But even staying at the lower latitudes, there's still a bunch of popular launch locations to choose from.

Real estate isn't worth much if your country's economy goes down the tubes.
Yes, and we already do. The security concern is more about individual items within the defense budgets.
The fact that Uber facilitates payment, for one, and that's handled external and prior to the ride, so you don't have to worry about the hassle at the end. Also the infrastructure around tracking who needs a ride and where they are is nice.
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(1) It's not whether to Brexit or not because that has already been democratically decided by the voters. (2) If there are any counterproposals (i.e. another party saying "we'll do Brexit this way") then she'll have to clarify her strategy. If not, it doesn't matter anyways (the democratical choice of a single option is that single option).

The only problem I see with this is that the election is only 6 weeks away, too little for any credible new stances to form. Beneficial for her & Tories, but undemocratic and bad for the country.
Mind elaborating on that? It strikes me as an interesting thought.
Powershell is also curiously missing for the Windows or brave/adventurous Linux folks. Functional piped objects make some problems uniquely trivial.
I do not directly (the world is a complicated place) support, financially or otherwise, Apple or M$. I boycott them both whenever I get the chance.

I am relatively cool about Google.

I do not live in the past, but I still like to point out what happened, whenever I get the chance. They are solely to blame (with a minor role by Sun / SCO) of the mess we are in. As I already mentioned, Apple is simply evil, but is not to blame for the destruction of OS.

For me to change my mind about M$, BIG things should happen. I think the minor grievance of referring to them by M$ can be endured, even by sensitive bystanders.
That's a common misconception about Ballmer. The stock stagnated and they did miss mobile. However, if you look at their financials, under Ballmer revenue doubled and net income increased. Ballmer may not be the best person to identify and capitalize on new trends, but if you want someone who can make money, he's your man.
I'm not sure what "beta is too late" even means, considering that it now occupies the exact position that Aurora did, that you claim is a sweet spot.
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this is the funny thing - Labour has bent over more and more to gain the backing of middle-class wannabe socialists to the point where it has alienated its core constituency. There's not really a good party for the working class any more.
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> they were involved with Monkey Island as well

Gilbert invented Monkey Island.
There are more older people in total.
If I sleep poorly, I'm adding a zero at least to those numbers. Only a 1-2% reduction from bad sleep ... in my dreams!
Well, in the case of CompuGlobalHyperMegaNet, it would be a problem since the Junior Vice President was the only employee :)
If you enjoy this, Matousek and Vondrak have a better one.
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It's not quite as simple as that. Much of the country is prosperous but still voted leave, many working class people live in cities and voted remain, and it's quite hard to define working class now in a country which gets ~10% of its GDP from industry and most of it from services.

There's stronger signs of a generational split, and a rural/city split than a simple rich poor split and of course each area has substantial numbers of voters who think differently. Lots of rich people voted for Brexit, lots of people who are not nationalists voted for Brexit lots of people who are not particularly racist voted for Brexit, etc. The reasons are varied. I disagree with Brexit and think it will end in disaster (esp. for labour as you point out), but the view above is unduly reductive.

Unfortunately such a nuanced reality doesn't fit into a sound bite and people prefer to neatly put their opponents in a reductive box, so here we are talking about cities vs countryside and rich vs poor.
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"Then on Brexit, he went against the wishes of the members and supported Tory policy."

This is slightly simplistic, since the Tory party was split on the issue of Brexit.
Very similar (although not exactly) to how macros work in Elixir (which is mentioned)
How difficult would it be to wrap your code in VSTi plug-in and produce a DLL? This would make it easy to hook up to midi controller and other devices using any realtime VST-capable host.
Somebody will probably create an Electron app that wraps the web app, just like with Google Play Music
What an incredible quote. I wonder if his obnoxious opinions on philanthropy came up while they were dating. Certainly sounds like an awkward conversation to me.
It's understandable that they took a hammering over it: it was a tentpole pledge, they couldn't stick to it, and they then apologised for it: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-19646731
> I think work isn't linear some weeks you'll only have 30 hours of work and that fine go have fun with the extra 10 hours but other times there will be 70 hour sprints to get the product out and I'd expect you to show up 100%.

If there isn't enough work to do there are only a handful of reasons:

* Too many employees / work contracting too quickly. Some people need to go.

* Some folks are working 60-80 hours and some are working < 40. Folks need to delegate more and/or the work needs spread out more, or the employee skillset doesn't match the work coming in.

* Management isn't delegating enough of the very low priority stuff so someone does a medium priority task for 6 hours then goes home.

Likewise, if you require me to work 70 hours in a week when I worked 30 hours two weeks prior, that's piss poor management on your park. If I'm paid for 40 hours, I will work 40 hours. If my latent perfectionism has me stay longer because I want to finish something before I go home, that's my choice. You saying "well we need to meet this arbitrary client deadline so work a double shift three days this week" or "I don't have enough employees to meet my contractual deadlines, deal with it" is your problem, not mine.
"When the thief looks at the saint all he sees is pockets".
Not to imply that Jobs was anything like a saint, but this kind of attitude is telling.
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Why compose classes, abstract base classes, etc. when you can compose simple functions!

It's true that abstractions in functional languages can seem foreign and hard to understand, but generally they have some purpose, being grounded in mathematical practice. OO abstractions and patterns OTOH, taught essentially in "elementary school" which possibly makes them seem easier to understand, do a very poor job of solving more problems than they create.

Learning a functional language is often a transformative experience that lasts throughout a career, whether you even use functional languages or not. It might make you do something as simple as partitioning which functions have side effects and which don't, even if the type system doesn't enforce it. Or use a form of quick/fuzz testing, even if it's not the standard test suite. Or make parts of the data immutable for scalability, auditability, etc. Or...

There really are few things as satisfying as developing a large codebase in a functional language. A lot of the frustrating maintenance work just goes away. But even if you don't, functional principles can yield similar benefits in imperative languages.
I think the relevant issue with using a phrase like "M$" is it trivializes your argument. It makes your argument look childish, regardless of the actual content.
Yes but this is a general election where we're voting for a party, not pro or anti-Brexit. I despise the conservatives, but I support Brexit. So I'm certainly not voting for the lib dems. I actually like every single Liberal Democrat policy besides their hard-line on doing everything they can to ignore the result of the referendum. It's a shame because I don't feel like labour are in a position to really take the country forward right now.
Because there are Linux sellers selling laptops on that price range.

I got an Asus delivered with Linux for 300 €.
An "app". Just a glorified browser page without chrome. You can achieve the same thing with a shortcut.
I can more easily pick up the phone and call someone. Wtf do you accomplish in twitter?
Which Chromebook model are you using? That does sound good for $250
Read it out loud (even whispering).

For me it's a bit easier to prevent my mind wandering if I do that.

Obviously, try to read it away of your computer on either your ebook reader or a physical book. If you read on a tablet/phone, don't forget to stop ALL notifications.
I'd like to agree, but this does nothing in Chromium on desktop, does nothing in Firefox, and won't run in Chrome on my Android phone. It's not much more than hearsay to me that it exists at all. I think a certain amount of HN-grade irritation about that is understandable.

(I'll try it under Windows when I get home, and then maybe feel more celebratory.)
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It looks like a very good shinny little toy to convince those who have not Chrome installed yet that Chrome is a good browser.

It surely is, but for me, it seems weird that a huge company like Google will give you these marvelous toys for free and they don't take anything in exchange.

What I mean is that putting people in a g-bubble like this is bad. I also wonder what the shinny 3 dimensional thing can add as a value to a standard map. In term of education for example: people don't even know how to read a map without a GPS and a map app now. I don't say that map apps are bad, but I don't know...
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i'll say on any post here that's even slightly related: learning functional reactive programming (in my case via Bacon.js) improved my code, and my thinking about code, by orders of magnitude. Now, the only bugs are related to me not fully understanding/encoding the business logic and i can make complicated changes with extreme confidence, and as you can see i'm eager to tell people about it.
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Grow AND Die. If it lives, it must die. Only then can we move forward to the next iteration.
> I'm going to assume your post you're under 30 and in the UK judging by your support for Corbyn.

Nice assumptions there, shame they are incorrect other than my location. My point is that Corbyn is a bog standard left of centre politician in a left of centre party.

If you honestly believe the press have nothing to do with the image of him being a left wing loon then I honestly don't think you're paying attention. He is continually painted as a terrorist sympathizer for his views that talking and treating others as humans actually gets shit resolved (you know, diplomacy), he's quoted out of context time and again to paint him into the fringe left rather than where he actually stands.

That said, I agree that he's not the right candidate to get elected in the UK and he has been particularly ineffectual at providing any meaningful opposition to either Cameron or May both of whom I think Thatcher would think was a bit extreme.
I love Louis CK. That's one of his best bits in my opinion. Also perhaps one of the most accessible ones, as his humor can be a bit puerile :)
I took the class at Harvard created by the authors of this. As they pointed out, it's not a textbook, it's a reference book. So it's very hard to learn electronics by reading it.
If we are citing polls now then most brits were against brexit.
It's actually using native code via PNaCL. I know it only works in Chrome, and it'd be nice if it was WebAssembly, but maybe they're using stuff that WebAssembly does not yet provide, like threads, simd, etc..
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I thought maybe they were living at higher altitudes.
No need to apologize, I just don't agree.

In the time I've been alive, I've seen more and more employers gravitating towards fewer hours, more lenient work schedules, etc. My first job was basically a minimum of 10 hours a day, and 6, sometimes 7 days a week. Nowadays, companies (especially in tech, mind you) are realizing the difficulty in recruiting / training / keeping personnel and are competing on benefits to the extent that 'unlimited' vacation days, telework, longer maternity and paternity leaves, etc. And before the obvious counterargument is made, this isn't limited just to technology (though it does seem to be blazing the trail.) Tech, agriculture, finance, business, and any industry in which recruiting and keeping talent are tricky are basically trading dollars for perks, and often, the result of that is that employees get to keep more of their personal time for themselves.

Sure, this hasn't affected every industry, and for industries where labor is a commodity, it may never occur, but just as sure as you believe your scenario is the result of capitalism, I believe that the increase in perks / time / accommodation is the same.
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This is old, and widely recommended against (e.g. https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2013/07/22/applied-practical-cry..., if you trust tptacek.)

It's still a good reference manual for 90's crypto, and very useful if you want to know what mistakes to expect when reviewing crypto code; but you really shouldn't read the book as a handbook unless you have enough knowledge to spot the many, many parts that will lead you astray. (tptacek's page, linked earlier, has a bit of an overview.)
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"Google Chrome is required to run the new Google Earth. Please try this link in Chrome. Learn more. "

GFY.
Completely disagree. Media companies are utterly dependent on Facebook and Google for revenue. If Twitter had succeeded in growing as Facebook did, Twitter would also be a platform that media companies believe they must be on. They couldn't afford not to be on Twitter.

In fact, with nearly 320 million users, media companies already believe they need to be on Twitter to reach their audiences. With a billion users, it would only be more true.
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Yes it would be great if a high-pressure glass line and group head could be made so that the water, steam and extraction could all be seen happening through clear walls.

The "low fi" alternative is a glass teapot. :)
* They didn't know how to read maps before

* They still can't read maps and gps today, they just follow instructions