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How can I give them a chance when they kill the crucial functionality of the app that I liked?

For example, I was a heavy Sunrise user. It worked wonderfully on syncing all of my calendars and showing them all to me in one nice feed with a slick interface. I didn't have to sync my various calendars to one central service and feed all of my calendars to one company. It synced them all to my smartphone, which was a feature I was looking for. Giving all my calendars over to Microsoft... no, thank you.
This. Plus at least two USB 3.1 Type-C (Thunderbolt/DisplayPort) ports with USB Type-C charging would really make it stand out.
There's a really nice, feature-complete open source clone of Astrid in the Play store. It's not quite as charming, though.
The 5.x fixed a lot of my UX quibbles with the completion menu, and made syntax highlighting, and now they're further improving the completion quality and the menu. I'm so excited!
It was only a matter of time before this happened, I've been trying to come up with ballpark estimates as to how much they could have sold the /9 for but I can't seem to find too many numbers on how much a block of ip address actually costs.
>ZDNet clarified with Microsoft that the app is not just for Office 365 users, as the original blog post about the launch seemed to imply. Instead, anyone with a Microsoft account can use To-Do, even if they don’t have an Office 365 plan, the company confirmed

Wonderful. More things that can be lost with a single password.
As if it was a big secret.
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And as rectang points out, what is the baseline? I.e. how does this pass rate compare to engineering students generally?
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Sorry if I was somehow disrespectful - I'm unsure how my question warranted a downvote, I'm quite genuinely interested why - so happy for critical feedback.
Oh FFS. I just started using Wunderlist this week.

All I want is a todo list where I can assign tags. So maybe I would do something like:

* buy softener salt #shopping #home
* fix garage door weatherstripping #home

I can have saved searches for #shopping and #home. That way I don't need folders, I don't need projects. Tags can do it all.
That's almost exactly my situation. I solved it by stealing the time from that period after the kids go to bed -- in other words I go to bed earlier and wake up earlier. I couldn't do that in previous years because I was needed for morning routine but now that the kids are out of day care and all going to the same school I can leave early.
And if someone's too lazy to install an add-on or on an unfamiliar computer, disabling Javascript is a simple as going to about:config, typing in "java", and double-clicking "javascript.enabled" to set it to false.
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Absolutely agree with you. Unfortunately in the US, auto makers and the peripheral industries have the politicians and most of the public opinion in a death grip

It isn't worth holding our breath for even a token bike highway project LOL :(
Your definition of isolationism makes no sense. The alliances that France had with the UK and Russia at the start of WWI served France's own interests, for example, yet France wouldn't be painted as isolationist. Countries make alliances that serve their own interest - how often do you see countries making alliances for net loss?

And despite you quoting several people including terms like "forbearing at all times, and in every way ... intervention and interference", I have already furnished you with more than a few examples of the US actively intervening and interfering. The US not only meddled a heap in the Americas, but also outside it's own area (like the Philippines and Japan, already mentioned). Neither does 'non-intervention' square with things like backing Cuba in a war of independence against Spain. That's the living, breathing definition of 'intervention'.

You seem to be missing my point that the US was politically isolationist with respect to Europe, but it wasn't isolationist outside of Europe.

> Afghanistan was for our own interests; we were attacked by a group sheltered by their government. Iraq was not. Syria is not. Balkans in the 1990s was not.

This is all total propaganda. Iraq was 100% in the US's interests (or perhaps better put, the incumbent government's interests), and the US fabricated a casus belli to invade, against the wishes of its allies, and with no quality intelligence. Syria is a leftover from the Iraq debacle; the US would lose considerable international reputation if it just shrugged and walked away from the consequences of the clusterfuck it caused in Iraq. There was no alliance requiring that the US invade unilaterally in the case of Iraq, and the consequences of that populist action are now tearing Europe apart. There is more to national interests than conquering territory and acts of military revenge.

If the US got itself involved in conflicts that weren't in its interests, then it'd be much more involved in sub-Saharan Africa. Or filling eastern Ukraine with gung-ho marines and reverting the annexation of Crimea. I don't expect any nation to act against its interests, but if people are going to persist with the myth that the US really is the 'world cop', then it's a corrupt cop who looks the other way when there's no kickback coming its way.
You're thinking of far IR (typical black body radiation at room temperature for most materials) near IR is what has to be filtered out in web cams and what a lot of these LIDAR devices use, it behaves almost exactly like visible light.
I deleted the app based on this allegation.

However, can some explain to me how this differs from other app analytics? Or, is the main issue that they failed to disclose this data collection and failed to offer an "opt out" toggle in settings?
What are your goals?

If your goal is getting a job, looking around in your technical and geographical area and see which languages are used most, which pay the most, which will result in the most interesting jobs.

If your goal is purely educational, try Haskell: you'll learn about functional programming and use a much more powerful typing system than most languages provide.
I don't understand it either, but the article makes a stab at explaining why:

"Verifying the functions of these glycoproteins requires precise measurements of the normal growth rates of crystals over time. Yet this is difficult to do so on the Earth because of the natural convective flow around the growing crystal induced by gravity."
Why are people surprised? Taking all the coursework in Math, Programming, Algorithms, Operating Systems, Computer Networks, Security and Cryptography, Distributed Systems, Databases, etc., and also learning and internalizing all that knowledge is a significant time investment. Yet many people here would be offended at the idea that you can't be a proper engineer without a CS degree, and would insist that all you need is a three-month JS/Angular bootcamp and then you're golden. A formal CS degree in itself may not be a requirement, but the time investment in acquiring the knowledge sure is.
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Your English is pretty good for Indian developer.
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This has bothered me for a long time. Why are PC trackpads so awful? Why don't PC makers just do what Apple does with their trackpad?
Is it just me or all apps now seem to either use..

* Material design

* Apple-like design

* Dropbox-like design

Even when I goto Dribble, its the same thing, different colors.

And the worse thign is, even when I am designing something. I conform to that norm!
If they pay 2-4x the average salary, it's not surprising that they get the 5% top of developers, no?

In any case, this isn't an India-specific problem; the fact that most candidates to a programming job can't program has been reported in various countries, which is why Fizzbuzz is still a thing.
> Pre-boarding bumping is legal. There's some discussion about whether post-boarding bumping is legal, with many people saying it isn't.

Honestly, I see no difference regarding the intention of the law. Essentially it is the same. You would only be able to argue that Dr Dao might have thought that once onboard he was not able to be bumped and made arrangements based on not having been bumped. But I don't think this happened in this case.

Yes, you can argue it legalistically, but I don't think Dr Dao was making this argument, nor does it make sense in the spirit of the law.

> $800 is not "what they have to pay by law"; it's the maximum someone would be able to claim if they had to force the claim. There's nothing stopping the airline offering more.

"
Compensation for Passengers Denied Boarding Involuntarily

For passengers traveling in interstate transportation between points within the United States, subject to the EXCEPTIONS in section d) below, UA shall pay compensation to Passengers denied boarding involuntarily from an Oversold Flight at the rate of 200% of the fare to the Passenger’s first Stopover or, if none, Destination, with a maximum of 675 USD if UA offers Alternate Transportation that, at the time the arrangement is made, is planned to arrive at the Passenger’s Destination or first Stopover more than one hour but less than two hours after the planned arrival time of the Passenger’s original flight. If UA offers Alternate Transportation that, at the time the arrangement is made, is planned to arrive at the Passenger’s Destination or first Stopover more than two hours after the planned arrival time of the Passenger’s original flight, UA shall pay compensation to Passengers denied boarding involuntarily from an Oversold Flight at the rate of 400% of the fare to the Passenger’s first Stopover or, if none, Destination with a maximum of 1350 USD."

https://www.united.com/web/en-US/content/contract-of-carriag...

Compensation depends and is customer-specific. So would need to be resolved with the customer - who could always claim the maximum amount or agree to alternate arrangement.
What about the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB)?

According to wikipedia they have criticized Microsoft for enabling Do Not Track by default in Internet Explorer 10.

They also went against Mozilla for planning to turn on blocking of 3rd party HTTP cookies in Firefox.

They even blocked AdBlock to attend an event of theirs.

So I am sure they will just LOVE that Google is making all of its competitors dance to the IAB's tune. I wonder who is pulling the strings behind IAB when Google goes and does something like this.
based on [1], prices seem to hover around 10-15$/ip. So, 80 million maybe?

[1]: https://ipv4marketgroup.com/broker-services/buy/
> At the time of writing, the [google] queries “Larry David net worth” and “how much is Larry David worth?” both turned up the answer $900 million and credited Business Insider

> The Business Insider story says that “it has been estimated” that Larry David is worth up to $900 million [...] Then it cites CelebrityNetWorth’s lower number, $400 million, and quotes Larry David denying he was worth even $500 million

The most valuable asset Google could possibly develop at this point is humility.
Disgustingly irresponsible reporting. All this will do is encourage racial discrimination in hiring.
how many of them have crashed in the last 10 years? 20 years? Ever?

Republic has never had a fatal crash. American Eagle has had 2 in the last 20 years. none in the last 10. after 11 million flights.
also, it was constrained by a queue. Usually 1 phone line therefore only one person could be on at a time (cooperative multitasking if you will). busy signals (when was the last time you got a busy signal anywhere?) and auto-redials. good times!
I'm an Indian, and the article is factually correct in that most engineers are unfit for software development albeit I wouldn't quote an exact figure.

Perhaps your experience was such because most of these "engineers" remain unemployed, take up another profession or join the Indian sweatshops (ie, TCS, Wipro, HCL, Infosys, Tech Mahindra, Accenture etc..).
While the 95% claim might be somewhat accurate, I would not trust any studies by Aspiring Minds, which conducts the AMCAT employability test. My college's training and placement department recently forced everyone to answer it ("for practice"), and the quality of the questions was surprisingly poor, from English questions that were grammatically incorrect themselves, to computer science questions with all options incorrect and the worst: computer programming questions about obscure C# APIs (along the lines of "what are the parameters and the return type"), a language which pretty much no one answering the exam has ever learnt.

It's also almost exclusively used by the kind of third-grade mass-recruiting consulting companies that have given Indian developers a bad name. Which is not a surprise, since colleges (including mine) have picked up on this, and now specifically train students for such exams. Even for technical roles (supposedly, although I think spamming StackOverflow hardly qualifies), the online test rarely contains a computer science / computer programming component, and new recruits are commonly expected to undergo year-long training at their own expense even after being hired.

My dislike for Aspiring Minds is hard to put into words. It's strong enough that I would refuse to work for a company that uses them, out of fear of the unchecked incompetence of my future coworkers.
I think it's patented.
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I didn't know that. Thanks for info. I had set up a sweet broadcast CRT and Mega Drive with RGB, along with a 50/60Hz switch on it. Looking forward to enjoying demo on real hardware. I'm looking into Mega EverDrive X7.
$11-15 per IP and that was what I was seeing three years ago. So if that lower end is still valid (would seem unlikely) then something over $90 million.
I was thinking the same thing, but after re-reading it carefully, I think they simply mean "Why doesn't very cold water kill fish?"
(OP here) I've set up a quick website with more detailed descriptions and some screenshots: http://tuskarr.tilda.ws/

I'm absolutely aware of the rite-of-passage thing, but I'm doing this because I NEED a proper, working todo app. My life will crumble without it. And I'm prepared spend my time and money on it. In any case, there's no going back to Wunderlist now.

As for marketing, I'm not worried. All I want is a working todo app, and it will be great if it turns out to be useful for other people.
I switched to an Acer R11 Chromebook for something small and handy and cheap. It runs fast enough for browsing and shell stuff. Keyboard is decent, and it isn't flimsy.

I've also install crouton for a full Ubuntu environment, which I use occasionally. But mostly I'm ssh'ing into my workstation and servers.

My only annoyance is the caps-lock key, which is now the Google search key. You can press Alt-Search for caps-lock, but it is slow and a little glitchy.
Google sometimes gives out pretty dangerous advice as well: http://imgur.com/a/bsP98
What are you trying to achieve?

Change the way you think about programming problems: Haskell

Enterprise Development: Java. Maybe Scala?

Apple Ecosystem: Swift (and actually, it seems like a kind-of pleasant language for general server-side use).

Low-level: C++. Or maybe Rust (although not yet given that a serious whirl)

Edit: oh, if you're broadly happy with JS, Typescript is worth a look and might (depending on your circumstances) be something you can start using day-to-day fairly easily.
> Other ad blocking technology will also block Google's tracking mechanisms, and they really don't want that to happen.

Good point. After using uBlock Origin for a while now, "ads" have become synonymous with "tracking scripts" to me. I'd bet Google's adblocker wouldn't block Google Analytics from running, like uBlock does.
Meh. "write code that compiles" means to me the ability to do zero defect keyboarding. That's not so important - being able to interpret the compiler output to say - Oh, I typoed that variable name/I missed that semicolon/etc. - that is what matters.

For me, the more problematic evidence comes from the interaction colleagues and I have with actual Indian engineers. Westerners are far from perfect, but I've had a lower success rate with Indian outsourcers. As I understand it, Indian cost of living is at most 1/2 that of western countries, so I would expect a 1/2 price differential for the same quality. But that doesn't seem to happen. I'd guess it's due to upper management failing to see the difference between the Indian quality at 1/2 price and Indian quality at 1/10 price, and choosing the latter, making the former scarce.
Not sure if anyone saw this: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/04/a-198... Basically RPi + tcpser == Internet BBS. I ran a PCExpress BBS - AMI Express for PC -- (USR Dual) for a while, and feel very lucky to have been a part of that era. Have been thinking about doing something on tcpser. Still part of that a bit, as we still make modems at the current gig. Get nostalgic every time when I hear them training up.
Disgustingly irresponsible reporting. All this can do is encourage racial discrimination in hiring.
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I am not sure profit-maximization is ever primarily concerned with fairness. Google is probably not the exception to this. However, like many things Google this is something that will improve user experience (no more shitty, malware infested ads, by default) and undercut their competitors. So, most of their users aren't really going to be up in arms.
"slightly" out of spec you mean pulling 7.7 amperes from a part rated to 5.5 amperes, and that might (due to dust and other factors) pull all the 7.7 amperes from pins that are supposed to have only 1.1 ampere running trough them.

Just look in the AMD own official forums for threads created before they made driver patches, for example in one thread a guy put a photo of his molten blockchain mining rig, and then there was several pages of people calling him a nVidia shill, and noone helping.

The handling of the incidents were so bad I stopped visiting AMD forums entirely, it was just pure hostility to anyone with any problem, even unrelated problems.
Microsoft charges $0.004/h for a static IP. That's $35 annually and $280M/year for 8 million addresses. So perhaps the sale will give MIT a billion?
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Where I live, my 14 mile commute requires traveling on a highway. To avoid the highway (not an interstate, legally can bike on, but too dangerous for me to cycle on, people here are dicks to cyclists), would push the distance to 20 miles. East of the highway is a no-go because of wetlands, west of the highway is the only option but due to some other wetlands and farms pushes me much further west.
In the article they say that convective flow does not occur in micro-gravity which makes it possible to accurately measurement the ice crystals as they grow.
System76 should make sure you can disable the Intel Management stuff.

I know Intel claims otherwise, but an always running background OS feels like a back door to me.
I agree completely.

Many projects (and individuals) do not have the discipline to use C properly.

If you need to use C, you need to take the time and care to use it properly.
120hz, 144hz, 165hz and 240hz monitors are all becoming more common.
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Closely followed by the top 5 "todo" apps in the app store with four star ratings or higher.
I miss those days

I miss live-chatting with the sysop if he was around

I miss gaining access levels and discover new files/areas

I miss re-loging at 12:01am to have double turns for my attack in BRE

I miss the discovery involved, how you would need to come up with interesting/new content to maintain you UL/DL ratio

I miss the epic mail convos we had in my BBS community

I miss GT's
Thanks, I'll give it a try. I only use Mac OS at work, though, where my needs are a little different.

In the documentation for MailMate, I don't see the kind of filtering that I use with Pegasus Mail. This is one of the things I miss most in all other clients: I prefer to collect the mails in my inbox, without filtering. When I close the inbox, Pegasus runs a large ruleset with hundreds of rules, moving all the read mail to archive folders and leaving the unread mail in the inbox. I've not yet seen any other client capable of doing this.
I don't think that's silly at all - its precisely what I'm planning to do so I can work up to cycling the ~20 miles each way to work (NB not every day!).
> Thoughts?

Sure.

> Facebook. Network-powered monopoly.

My ass.

In next to no sense of the word does FB still have a monopoly. Most people have left for 'greener pastures' and while most other social networks center around a different mode of content sharing, people are much more fluidly moving across networks than they did back in the "fb vs myspace" days.

> it's

its
Page doesn't load with default umatrix config.
All you've done is move the problem. What happens when the unit test fails and you want to step through the process to see why?

You also seem optimistic, unit test don't catch new bugs, they just test for typos and the bugs you already knew about.
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I meant compared to soda.
You think if a sysadmin does not understand the topic a software engineer magically will? I think the biggest obstacle of understanding systems the level SREs do is lack of proper documentation and formal education. This is why Google introduced the SRE university and also created the following doc.

https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html

What I mean by proper documentation is that you do not have all the knowledge in one place. I have spent countless hours of preparing to SRE interviews by reading source code and hunting for additional write ups that explain various OS functions, file systems, networking details. The amount of text you have to go through to get the knowledge is intense. The best way to become an SRE is to be hired one at Google or Amazon and just learn from your senior co-workers. Catch 22. :)
In case of this project (btw, here's a temporary website: http://tuskarr.tilda.ws/), it was impossible to quickly throw it together. I had to think it through in one single chunk.

The app combines four intersecting concepts:

1. Infinite timeline with addressable days.
2. Recurring tasks that support this infinite timeline.
3. First-class subtasks, which have all properties of normal tasks.
4. Contexts, which hide tasks from the list based on certain conditions.

I simply couldn't create a working mental model that accounts for all possible interplay of these concepts without speccing it out in advance.
Luminar has announced an interesting lidar as well, but no word on how the cost will come down since it's a 1500nm lidar, requiring indium gallium arsenide and other expensive and exotic metals.
This was (indirectly) on HN yesterday... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14150854

I'm seeing numbers between $10-$20 per IP, but this is also probably a bulk sale so there might be a discount... Say +/- $250 million?

Perfect time to sell them off as the IPv4 shortage tightens and IPv6 hasn't reached critical mass yet.
> they are capable of pursuing a long term strategy

Except when it comes to chat/text communication. In that case they run around like chickens with their heads cut off.
Yes, you still can on Android. But Google has shown that they don't see anything morally wrong with using misleading updating tactics. And the range of what you have control over is shrinking.

I commented about it about a month ago[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13950975
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> A very common misunderstanding, and very easy to solve.

If it were that easy to solve, I would think Linux installers would take care of this.
I fail to see how you have pulled Trump and Bush into this, are they both subscribers?
The MIT lidar has really bad resolution and range iirc