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Oh dear, oh dear. I use Wunderlist on Mac, and very recently wrote to my entire team about how I tried so many Todo apps over the years and how Wunderlist is the only thing that worked out. Now what do I do?
The operative words here being "for me".
If you are using a web framework, and are considering switching to a systems language, and your developers already have a lot of experience in JavaScript, that's when you should consider NodeJS!
I had a lot of JavaScript experience before switching to NodeJS, but it still was a huge step, you have to learn systems architecture, and distributed systems (async programming). I think JavaScript is easier then Java and C/C++, but it's still hard to learn, having the same language for both front-end and back-end makes up for that though.
By which you mean that you _do_ care what they think of your grammar?
Everything is marketing bullshit - I spent a decade running an ecommerce agency and got to see the bellies of many beasts.

For instance, there's a pig related tea brand in the UK which is universally seen as funky and independent and all that shite. They're owned by tetley, who are in turn owned by tata. The ownership structure is sufficiently complex to make them look independent - but they aren't. It's just good marketing.

Either way, this is just one of many examples that spring to mind - oh, also, call centres - in the U.K. you can call pretty much any large business you like and you'll be talking to one of two huge call centre operators.

Then... where do you draw the line? Is private equity backing problematic when its obfuscated? Or just contract primacy?
I've started using Standard Notes, but it kind of feels like it's still beta.
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Sparrow, Sunrise, Wunderlist... all the good apps just get bought and killed.
What do these numbers mean ? My Google-Fu is failing

I was just a little bit too young to get access to BBS in my youth.
Yes, if common sense was common, it would be common sense :).

In my "career" of chess, I still learn things after 12 years. This year my focus is to not downtalk myself before a game against a strong opponent. It is part of my personality to do that. I also do that in more common situations. Chess just provides a way to battle your own shortcomings and improve yourself.

Other things I learn by playing chess... Always play till the end, untill there are no more chances. Only then give up. I learned to lose better, and am still learning that. The less I am afraid of losing, the more freeflowing my gameplay is. I learned to find my way better in chaotic situations and I actually love them. I like to find the moves and game-style that gives a bit of bewonderment and inspiration.

And yes, you can learn something everywhere. You just have to pick your battles and where to fight/play them. Chess fits my personality, it does a lot to me.
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Why, is that supposed to be heresy or something?
Iteration is not design. Debunking design Darwinism
Or he'll ignore all (ok 98%) of his campaign promises while ruthlessly lining his and his offspring's pockets...
You know... Either or...

(Hint: He'll be lining his pockets.)
> When you learn a new language, invariably you'll find a tutorial for how to make a todo app. It's the next step up from hello world.

Very true—see: http://todomvc.com/

I agree, everyone has a slightly different style of working, myself included.
Pets make you more likely to buy poor quality products that you don't need or want?
Ham radio. 300 baud packet over HF (thousands of miles) is still a thing, as are newer data modes such as PSK31 and the JT family. I'm actively working on 1200 baud projects over VHF FM now. Back in the day BBS was very much in. These days the same tech is more often used for telemetry, tracking etc (APRS). Now you can do it all in software, ref https://github.com/wb2osz/direwolf and friends.
A friend of mine swears by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MH_Message_Handling_System
Duncan Davidson (Photographer, Creator of Ant & Tomcat) also works there.
"if you don't stay up to date with your depends, things change fast and sometimes they change a lot."

This, was actually one of the things I liked most about Node.js - npm allows a developer to specify all dependencies (`pacakage.json`), versioned, similarly to maven but not as clunky. I was able to get up to speed project very quickly and easily using just `npm install`. I had one or two versioning issues to iron out, but the advice it provides about what is broken and where was very helpful.
Very interesting write up
Bugger. After 5 years of on-off trying todo lists, I'd finally got to like Wunderlist. Now I guess I'm back to Todoist, which I've never felt any affection for.
> That is truly repulsive, man. I'm not sure why you have such a wet dream about being the smartest and most successful race/ethnicity/whatever, but I want nothing to do with it. It's honestly really off-putting.

And what is more retarded is that you say exactly opposite to what I said: "I'm hoping they wouldn't label it as genetics and instead simply attribute it to access to quality education, wealth, prosperity, freedom and liberty."

I clearly state that it shouldn't be attributed to genetics. Only those who think their race/ethnicity/whatever is superior talk about genetics. You have a wet dream about Jews being a superior race. Read every answer of yours and you'll realize that I'm right. The fact is that most Jews were in the right place at the right time. Given the same opportunity to Indians we would have achieved the same. If you go back in history, you'll find that Science and Mathematics was way more advanced in Ancient India (called Bharat) than in any other country in the World. It was no coincidence that many nations tried to invade India. Even America was founded mainly because Christopher Columbus mistook it for India. Our civilization was destroyed by the invaders (first Islamic invasions and then followed by the British). Our thirst for knowledge, science, philosophy, astronomy and spirituality was replaced by defending our borders and fighting endless battles. We have suffered more than even the Jews. Read about the Biggest Holocaust in World History (And it's a Jew website.. Irony just died a painful death huh?): http://www.jewsnews.co.il/2014/12/31/islamic-india-the-bigge...
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I mustn't be the only who thinks it's ironic to move to a Google product/service in hope of avoiding something disappearing. ;)
The article mentions synchronous performance, but there are no mentions of optimizations. You can do a lot of optimizations in JavaScript and the VM itself is already well optimized. If your naive implementation is slow, my experience says you can speed it up 100x. Then it's not really worth switching to C/C++ assembly for another 10x performance. Then it's better to take the step to pure hardware.
$100 million for them are like $1K for you. So it's not like they are particularly frugal (or need to be) with those.

For what they paid, they got a team that knew how to build a To-Do app, what the challenges are, and how to scale it.

So they bought not having to deal with a dev team that is building a to-do app for the first time.

They also got some existing users (which will migrate) for free, but I don't think they care for that.
RIP Wunderlist, a shame they've decided to sacrifice a product with a good loyal following and brand for their own branded one, but alas. :(
This is built by the Wunderlist people, and that's now dead :(
I was talking about actual in-the-flesh interviews, which are the only ones that count in the end. Recruiters/companies often do phone "interviews" or "pre-screenings" or whatever and those were the "conversations" I was referring to.
So now you've called me a liar as well as having called my CVs "shit". What a pleasant co-worker you must be.

Edit: On that note, perhaps you could post somewhere an anonymised version of your CV so we can all benefit from the pinnacle of CV design.
I suspect most people don't use a Linux box as their router (with the obvious exception of router distros and embedded Linux on routers).

Most people will read this, I think, and think a Linux client won't accept a V6 from a router that has obtained it's delegation via DHCP-PD..
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Or you could directly support the sites you like with the money you now waste on sub-optimal purchases caused by ads.
I bought a System76 laptop 5 years ago, still use it today. It's not perfect and I had some issues in the past but it's still going strong. I did buy it with a UK keyboard layout and back then it was an option, I'm not sure if things have changed since then though.
I like it! I can get caught up in my own hobbies and interests and I forget to keep in touch.

There's a lot of missing features:

* Change friend name

* Add notes

* Remove friend

* Import friends (they are already on my facebook, so why not)

* Send message (can open a messenger link, for example)
>I think your comments are coming off as sassy hence the downvotes, but I don't mind.

Eh. No biggie.

>My argument is more that I believe large injections of money were the original cause of a lot of the problems we have, adding more is perhaps a band-aid solution.

This is more a question of resource allocation efficiency. You're right, the government does indeed waste a lot of the money it takes in, but the answer there is to improve efficiency, not artificially decreasing income. When there is an opportunity for large revenue increase while simultaneously cutting queue times? Still a go.

>I personally believe we need to suffer the short term pain of looking out for our own citizens above all else, most of which would mean popping the bubble and removing the interventionist policies.

If there is a bubble to be popped, the government would be in a stronger position if it first builds up a financial warchest.

>I am worried that this will happen along with the visa changes causing a greater loss of sovereignty than was ever intended...

With my plan we'll suddenly make a number of very rich and powerful people Australian citizens. If anything this brings in new blood to challenge the Murdochs media and their US slant. Plus I suspect the influx of business interests will see a strong swing against any sort of US-lead military adventurism. That's sovereignty right there.

I suppose there would be worries of a soft Chinese / Indian / whatever takeover, but this is mostly avoidable by setting the ticket price high enough to reduce the absolute numbers coming in, then supplement with subsidized tickets for preferred demos.
> "Shit code doesn't have nationality."

It obviously has if they come from a country where education is generally shitty when in comes to know how to code.

I'm not saying that's the case with India since I know nothing about the education there, but as a general proposition, yes, it seems obvious that people from some a particular country can be generally shitty coders due to their education system of course.
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I was about to write something like this.

This is not a monopoly in any normal meaning that word is used. It is the network effect.
I don't think that's a fair target for a laptop startup. I'm thinking Linux devs would benefit more from and prefer something of a thinkpad clone. Added bulk for modularity and maybe ease of manufacture.
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Ouch. This is a good one.

Whilst it's easy to say "Just enable punicode always"
People that use the web in different languages lose a lot of functionality because of it.

I could imagine a solution would be to collect a list of homogliphs then when the browser suspects an overlap it does a search for similarly​ spelt sites then warns the user of the possibility of the site being an imitation.
Of course then also converting the URL in the address bar to punicode.

What other ideas are there?
The abstract states the opposite of the parent. It says that while bacteria develop resistance in the lab to phases that co-evolve, it is unlikely to be a problem in the real world.

>Bacteriophage therapy, the use of viruses that infect bacteria as antimicrobials, has been championed as a promising alternative to conventional antibiotics. Although in the laboratory bacterial resistance against phages arises rapidly, resistance so far has been an only minor problem for the effectiveness of phage therapy. Resistance to antibiotics, however, has become a major issue after decades of extensive use. Should we expect similar problems after long-term use of phages as antimicrobials? Like antibiotics, phages are often noted to be drivers of bacterial evolution. Should we expect phage-treated pathogens to develop a general resistance to phages over time, a resistance against which only, for example, hypothetically co-evolved phages might be infective? Here we argue that the global infection patterns of phages suggest that this is not necessarily a concern as environmental phages often can infect bacteria with which those phages lack any recent co-evolutionary history.
> Admittedly, mine is not Thinkpad

nuff said
Trying out lanes now. It looks really nice, but how limited the basic version is is a killer for me, especially when there are so many alternatives.
> I'm not sure if I'd want to read other people's low-level code

Write-only languages, yay.
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> ...our intelligence resides not in individual brains but in the collective mind. To function, individuals rely not only on knowledge that is stored within our skulls but also on knowledge stored elsewhere, be it in our bodies, in the environment or especially in other people. Put together, human thought is incredibly impressive, but at its deepest level it never belongs to any individual alone. [1]

[1] The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone https://www.amazon.com/Knowledge-Illusion-Never-Think-Alone/...
I can't find any option when configuring their laptops, at least.
Which T is closest to a Macbook Air 11"?

There are many fine linux laptops in the desk-home type, 14"-17". The selection isn't so fine if you're looking for something that'll fit in your lap on the plane or train, and have 8G of RAM. Or at least 4.
That's why I use todo.txt TaskWarrior and org mode are interesting as well. I have to look into differences between then.
Unless you're working a startup that's intentionally "doing things that don't scale" (because e.g. you're still yet to get to product-market fit), I can't see how it makes sense for a developer or SRE to get interrupted by "customer chats".

As for endless alerts, I've been learning that there are 3 types:

• false alerts, which were set up "just in case". The "handling" tends to be "take a look, declare that nothing is wrong after all, mark it solved". Your job is to summarily eliminate these.

• "good" alerts that indicate a temporary problem that could/should be handled automatically in an ideal world, but can't be handled automatically as things stand; your job is to move the status quo in the direction of the ideal world, gradually.

• all the rest. These are the unavoidable alerts. Usually, the best you can do is to ensure the alert message and related logs provide all the relevant information necessary to handle it.

PS: of course, TFA indicates Google has a much more systematic approach, but you probably won't be able to just copy them.
I was hoping it would go into detail about the Blast processing tricks.
In the age of Medium and myriad kinds of blogging platforms and bloggers and Twitter people to follow I see less need for that type of "opinion journalism".

For most events in the world within minutes I m able to follow local people tweeting or writing in their newspapers what's happening.

I rather feel Economist has an economic and political target remaining from the days of the faded British Empire to comment about everything from Commonwealth and ex-British Empire countries .

It's usually to promote a certain angle and push a position rather than objectively investigate.

This "ad" is trying to benefit from post-Trump rise in newspaper subscriptions with a "let's help independent media" wave. Which is a good attempt.
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Taskwarrior on Desktop and Taskwarrior + Termux on Android is the most flexible, private, open and lightweight TODO manager I've ever used. No eye candy whatsoever, just pure power. I've been using the combo for a few years now, give it a look.
For the event to get good PR, it would need to include some of the companies who either got a video interview last week but no in-person interview or the companies which got an invite to interview but don't get through the final round. Those companies are obviously strong companies if they were selected for an interview. But those results won't be out for another couple weeks.
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> For one thing, it goes out of its way to paint fairly ordinary things (the use of regional carriers, and the fact that there are many regional carriers, and many of them have contracts with multiple mainline carriers) as "deceptive" (and implying that code-sharing among partner airlines is also "deceptive").

It is deceptive.

https://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/001804.html

https://hasbrouck.org/articles/alliances.html

> Which says right off the bat that this is someone who doesn't know how airlines really work

Ridiculous assessment:

https://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/001855.html

https://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/001903.html

https://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/002099.html

https://hasbrouck.org/articles/index.html

https://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/cat_airfares_and_airline...

https://hasbrouck.org/bio/

https://papersplease.org/wp/hasbrouck-v-cbp/
Chrome has already won the war of browsers however the new ones (Brave, Vivaldi, UC) are jostling their way with inbuilt ad blockers.

Now, it might seem that Google wants to maintain an edge over these with the new ad-blocking feature but one can tell that it will only block ads outside Google network.

The way I see it as a bigger bet on cannibalizing itself because if Google does not then somebody else will.
It's the difference between "knowing" something is a good idea and actually comprehending why since you've seen it executed successfully and understand the consequences for and against that idea.
Now you understand the core concepts and don't just "know" it because it's "common sense".
Huge difference.
My guess is, that where other blockers by default can easily block all google ads, Chrome blocker would not block Google Ads because it would classify them as acceptable.

I think that guess is wrong. I think Google will block their own ads. There are a few reasons why;

1. They're not stupid. The amount of trust lost in a move like that would be immense. It wouldn't be worthwhile.

2. They don't need to. They just need to make it switched off by default and 90% of users won't ever see it or use it. Only people who are interested will seek it out, and those people are already seeking ad-blocking extensions.

3. Other browsers are implementing it. Google need to include it to stop users who are interested in that feature switching browser.

4. Google need data. They get value from tracking people even if they're not seeing adverts. By blocking the ads specifically, even their own adverts, they still get to track users and derive value from that data. Other ad blocking technology will also block Google's tracking mechanisms, and they really don't want that to happen.

5. Given the fact they have a effective monopoly on adverts on the main web the lost revenue from blocked ads will have a bigger impact on their competitors than them. Google can afford to lose far more ad impressions than the next, much smaller network. They can block their own ads and still drive their competitors out of business. That said, I don't think Google are evil enough to do that. I'm just saying they don't need to let their own ads through if the plan is to kill off the competition.
That's an industry body from big advertisers, like Google. I'm pretty sure "Don't store user data" isn't included in that "standard"
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But that wasn't related to their remuneration, rather the structure of the commuter airline business. The copilot was fatigued by living in Seattle but working in Newark for a paltry $24k. Paying her more wouldn't have helped, in fact it might have encouraged more new pilots to try the same.

On the contrary side in Ireland last month we had two experienced pilots, each earning > 120k Euros, inadvertently and fatally fly a Coastguard helicopter into a rock at night. Accidents happen regardless of pay grade.
Sounds great! I hope it will succeed. The MS cloud is something I prefer to stay away from.
I can relate to this a lot.
The lessons of finding one's way in chaotic situations and learning not to fear them in particular did carry over into real life along with several other lessons.
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Well that sucks. I was just getting used to using Wunderlist. I guess I'll have to give dead trees another try...
It may be interesting to look at a web content benchmark with the best gzip compatible compressors and peak memory usage:

https://sites.google.com/site/powturbo/home/web-compression
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Was the blast processing marketting only in America? Since I had never heard of blast processing until I got on the web years later.
That's a silly website. They only research different forms of ads, but they have (conveniently?) forgotten about user tracking.
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Seems like users need to have an (Office 365/Outlook) account with Microsoft to use To-Do. Big turndown, most of my colleagues are using Macs and have no need for Microsoft (no, not even Office), seems we need to switch (again).
One thing that is great about wunderlist is the truly instant sync. Have you been able to replicate that? I vaguely remember reading an interview somewhere about how they accomplished it.
Maven is a "bad example" - it's horrible. Everybody agrees.
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Imagine keeping the huge defence budget, but using it to plant and irrigate massive forests.
It seems to be mostly working for them, though I think companies that haven't gone so far down that rabbit hole are also doing fine. One of the premises of SRE that I occasionally take issue with is "build your own tools". That's a fine idea, sometimes, but it also results in NIH syndrome, which has a real cost.

Obviously, Google is operating at a scale that no one ever has before (and almost no one else does or ever will), and so, sometimes they have to invent the technologies for doing it. But, the somewhat dismissive tone of the SRE literature I've read that implies system administrators scale linearly while SREs scale drastically higher is kind of off-putting, and misrepresentative, I think. Sysadmins have been scaling systems for as long as there have been systems; sometimes just one person or a small team in the data center, running the whole show for quite large companies.
Technically those are NPM bugs, not Node bugs. And Yarn seems to do a much better job these days.
"The Santa Cruz Mountains, on the left, are the same mountains you can’t quite view from Mountain View."

At Shoreline & Villa, look towards El Camino, and look up a bit. You'll see the mountains. Even easier if you're driving and just coming down the overpass (over Central) on Shoreline towards El Camino.

However, it did take many years of living here before I realized the name is for real.
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