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Not necessarily, depends on the rent. However, there may be better things to do with the space. Take a look at Japan and their highly successful 7-11s. Don't confuse them with 7-11s in the US, they are quite a different league. Basically it's a question of "how many goods and services that cover people's everyday needs can I put per square meter". Banking, post office, travel agency, adapters, amenities, underwear, ready made food, food to be cooked, drinks, alcohol, movies, holiday gifts, nowadays even seating - it's all there, even in the smallest ones measuring 20m2.

Now, they have a similar problem to WiFi: People coming in and reading Manga or the occasional Soft porn magazine without buying anything. Why even sell that stuff - hardly anyone buys is anymore nowadays is my guess. However, they studied the effects and found that it's still worth it to have them there in the grad scheme of things: It reduces theft significantly, because robbers typically won't go in when the place isn't deserted. They then even started offering free parking spaces for taxi drivers so they can rest there, which again curbed theft.

In a cafe, there's even more reason why you want tables to be occupied even if people don't spend money: An almost full coffee shop with a handful of tables free is more attractive to potential customers than an empty one.

So yea, it really depends on the property - in very frequented city centers on the first floor WiFi doesn't make sense. But even there, have a look what Japan does on third or fourth floors and up - Net/Manga/Theme cafes where you pay per hour, offering infinite entertainment, computers, fast internet, sleeping compartments and even showers.

I often wonder what makes Japanese so much more innovative in those areas compared to Westerners, but I think it has to do with Japan having a comparatively very deregulated zoning and licensing system for these sorts of venues.
Sounds like something Facebook would do. When I interviewed they told me that even though I was an industry candidate, they always try to make sure everyone gets two weeks before the interview to study. I don't know how this didn't set off BS detectors internally but there you have it.
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There is a complete list of google products and services and what's been canceled and when: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products

Google canceled a whole bunch of things, some of which a lot of people used. Now a lot of people are perhaps rightfully sceptical about all their products, if that product is not part of their core.

They still have quite a lot of stuff though.
There's still some legitimately good content, both on the channels and in print, but you just have to wade through a mountain of keep-you-engaged filler content to find it. The 30 for 30 series had some really high quality, poignant documentary content that, more often than not, transcended sport to become a commentary on other walks of life. I especially liked "The Two Escobars" because it recontextualized an event from my childhood (the US victory over Colombia in the '94 World Cup) that I remembered very differently. And here's two articles [1][2] that, while long, I found very engaging reads. But I see your point that the constant bombardment of drivel you get on the channel and online could give the impression that there's nothing of value there.

[1] http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/10984370/portrai...
[2] http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/12728744/how-gol...
I agree with you about education and immigration - I would love to see more OECD countries adopt Germany's position on university fees and foreign admission.

But I would not say it's worrying to find the opposite view as the majority opinion on HN. I want to see a diverse range of opinions expressed frankly but respectfully - and that is the tone of sparkling's comment.

When I disagree with the top comment on an HN story, below it will often be a great rebuttal.
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> However, people love highlight reels. That's why Sportscenter is so huge.

Which is rapidly being replaced (to some degree) with things like twitter, instagram, snapchat, subreddits, streamable, and other social media/video streaming websites.

It takes next to no time or effort for somebody to roughly cut a highlight and post it to social media. Meanwhile ESPN sees diminishing returns polishing various replays and putting it in a half hour program that repeats 6+ times every morning. It's to the point every team/league even has their own social media accounts, and post the best highlights themselves. If I can see the major highlights directly from NFL's instagram account, why bother waiting halfway through sportcenter to (maybe) catch the right segment?
Can't you just tell them what you're doing..?

"I like to wander around campus a little during lunch to recharge. Thanks for asking though, maybe dinner?"
> ESPN would be in trouble without pushing progressive politics. The business model simply isn't holding up.

I agree that ESPN's decline has more to do with over-extending themselves on rights deals while cord-cutting has become "a thing" than politics. However, I don't think you can discount the politics angle as a reason that a sizable number of people have finally decided "you know, I can do without ESPN." The amount of people who I've seen, online and in person, citing the absolutely insufferable, constant politicization of ESPN (and the media in general), regardless of which side of the aisle these people sit on, leads me to believe that a lot of people are simply exhausted and just want "sports". Barring that, they're quite willing to just drop ESPN. I think it really is a legitimate factor here.
Well to be precise the National Review is referred to as a minion of the alt-right. Also it's a quote from the Nation so, as a liberal I think they shouldn't have wasted the keystrokes.
The notion of measuring one's quality of life by "productivity" seems very strange. When one is focused on micro-optimizing what one does, it is difficult to dwell on the bigger and more important questions (such as what life goals might be worthy of pursuit). On the basis of the obliquity principle [1] most metrics that we try to optimize for are probably corollaries of a life well lived.

Further, the irony of articles that try to justify "downtime" as an enabler for better productivity is very funny.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obliquity_(book)
The Nation is not exactly a great source to use on this particular topic. It also has virtually nothing to do with the "alt-right" I know a lot of moderate people that stopped watching ESPN simply because sports is an escape and ESPN has attempted to make it not one. I guess "the alt-right" is now what the left is using on everyone on the right because people associate it with racism. To be fair, the alt-right is entrenched in racism...but that's not the National Review, nor is it conservatism or libertarianism. It's like when people on the "right" call everyone on the left a Communist. Not even remotely true, though some are. Blanket statements and broad categorization of political views is not good for political discourse, it's actually part of the problem, imo.
I'm also a cord cutter but the only thing I miss is ESPN. Seems like more and more of the college football games I want to see are on ESPN rather than broadcast channels and Sunday Night Baseball and Baseball Tonight are institutions for me. However with MLB.tv (my favorite team isn't local), Amazon, and Netflix (streaming and DVD) I have more than enough content to watch and can't justify the full price of cable just for ESPN. Might not even be worth $15 for me but I would definitely spend five or ten a month for streaming ESPN.
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Who says this isn't the first sign of the bubble bursting?
Because everyone who has been constrained to other databases has done things like "SELECT start, end FROM reservations" and then tried to write the where clause to find the range, had bugs (this person reserved a room for longer than the expected time).

And the end of the day, they ended up selecting all the start and end dates and then building their own interval tree ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_tree ) and doing overlap detection themselves.

If they were using a database with good stored procedure support and had the skills to write the stored procedure or function in the database, they might then fight with writing the overlap detection there... but they likely found it a profoundly unpleasant experience.

And then here's PostgreSQL. It has it native. Hours, days, weeks of time spent writing, testing, debugging and otherwise fighting with this problem now suddenly become something along the lines of "SELECT isempty(daterange('2017-04-30', '2017-05-07')) FROM reservations" or something to that effect.

It represents a significant time savings when you need it for things that are more interesting than reimplementing data structures that aren't in the standard libraries.
> most of the 100 laid off were reporters

What I was thinking when I saw the lay-offs is that this is exactly the wrong move for them. I understand why ESPN did it, to cut costs, but they're cutting them in the wrong area.

ESPN needs more reporters and more people doing direct content production.

ESPN needs to go back to content producers (sports leagues) and tell them that they're no longer able to force effectively 100% of the population to subsidize subscription costs for the percentage of the population that watches their sport and that their license payments need to be renegotiated to compensate.
The one good, albeit tragic, thing about the existence of North Korea is that it serves as a constant reminder of what society can become if we're not vigilant about educating each generation about the dangers of certain ideologies and modes of social organization.
My wife has been making cinnamon apple slices with our dehydrator, and our 2-year-old son loves them (on the occasions where I don't eat an entire bag before he gets to them). They're a much better way than juice to get a snack in, and while they still contain the same sugars, they also have all the fibre as well.

We soak them in lemon juice to keep them from turning brown while dehydrating, but since he loves lemon juice (and will drink it out of the bottle if we leave the fridge unlocked), this is a pretty huge selling point for him.
The National Review made a famous issue "Against Trump" and constantly has editors slamming Trump and "the new right." The "new right" is actually the "alt-right." Trump himself openly attacked the editors and everyone that is Alt-Right essentially despises the publication. The Nation doesn't even pretend to approach things objectively.
I see the politicization as an effect, not a cause. They are trying to get market by becoming "more than sports." MTV tried to become "more than music" in the same way decades ago. It's a not a trend limited to cable but there are many examples.
> crippled phone

The phone doesn't determine if you can tether; and even if it overrides the carrier's instructions and tethers when told not to, they can (and do) still tell the difference in usage and shut you down.
A generic sports channel like ESPN seems to appeal primarily to the gambling crowd. Someone willing to wager on many games a night will watch whatever sports-ball game is broadcast. Daily Fantasy Sports players fall into this group as well. The question for ESPN is: Is this market large enough to sustain the network?

Localized networks like the various Regional Sports Networks, Fox Sports (insert City or State Name Here), Big Ten Network and Pac12 Network are stealing the casual fans of specific teams. All of the major sports offer streaming of pretty much every game a fan of a specific sport could want.

It's telling that the first new program ESPN added following the layoffs was a simulcast of MLB's Intentional Talk. Yet another talking heads show with a TMZ bent. I don't see this ending well for them.
When you have a functional programmer in the audience...

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I would said depend wasting time on what right? And still we are here commenting on HN. :)
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> the best food comes from people who actually eat the food themselves

The linked article is literally about two american expats in china who started a restaurant to recreate the chinese-american comfort food of their youth.

...and people right here in this thread are smearing the whole concept of "chinese-american comfort food" with this crazy authenticity frame.

I mean, come on folks: orange chicken and chow mein are pretty decent food on occasion. Lots of people like them. Their existence has in some small way advanced the way people (not even just americans) think about food. Don't eat it if you don't like it, but don't dismiss it as a "cheap cash grab" either.
I don't know about that. Formatting a CV is so fiddly and LaTeX is at its best when you can relax your grip and let it do its job. I'd recommend writing something really simple. Take ten minutes and write up the notes from your last meeting. They'll look amazing, and there's basically no formatting required beyond perhaps bulleted lists. It's hard enough just to get over the hump of having source code that's distinct from your finished document, without jumping straight in to the least rewarding part of LaTeX, which is trying to make things look just how you pictured them.
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What is "political" about it?
Ziferblat (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziferblat) aka "anti-cafe", is a bit like this and there's a few in the UK.

It's an interesting mix between cafe and working space as it has a pay-per-hour model with tea/coffee and snacks available at no further charge.

Although there's no partition between "quiet" and "loud" area, it's a big enough space to support both (in London at least).
That's not accessing memory, so there's no reason it couldn't be (reasonably) efficiently pipelined without decoding to µops.
Well… you can't really ignore sizes, with mixed-signal ICs. Transistor sizes determine current flow, which will ultimately determine things like pitch, duty cycle, etc. You at least need to know in differential pairs and current mirrors the ratio between the involved transistors…
>However, I don't think you can discount the politics angle as a reason that a sizable number of people have finally decided "you know, I can do without ESPN."

I don't. In fact I agree entirely with the notion that ESPN is shooting itself in the foot by constantly pushing politics that play well in NYC & LA, but actively turn off viewers in the rest of the country. I'm just saying it would still be failing; albeit more slowly if it "just stuck to sports".
Author here! This project came from me wanting to be able to extend Markdown with things like sidebars and live code examples. I've also found that it integrates better with React than similar projects, allowing for things like `pushState` links or customised rendering of headings.
This. I'm a huge baseball fan. I haven't watched SportsCenter in about a decade. I get my highlights from Twitter or a daily email blast sent out directly by Major League Baseball.
Is it possible that ESPN/sports channels are facing a demographic change and are guessing that mainstreaming their content, by appealing to non-sports fans by way of personality content that's just like an entertainment channel? This would be no different than the weather channel that changes from hardcore weather data to reality shows about bad weather.
> No doubt there are some folks using them, but as mere mortals, do the rest of us really need all these features to control our small amount of commodity hardw

They aren't for mere mortals though, they are for compilers.
Companies are perfecly happy paying their sales staff huge bonuses for 'value delivered', the fact that programmers are at the beginning of that value chain in many cases and bad at negotiation actually makes them cheap. Even the good ones.
To each his own I guess. When I find time to get on those hackerrank type sites, I find the algorithm practice and refreshers to be both enjoyable and time extremely well spent in terms of maintaining fundamental CS skills. It doesn't matter if my job doesn't have me implementing graph algorithms every day, it affects the code I write (and decide not to write) all the time. Learning how to weld a few 3rd-party APIs together just isn't enough to be a truly good professional.
I did something similar for a few months (right down to becoming a nocturnal WoW troglodyte). It started when I quit my job to go traveling, and continued after I returned. For me, it was due to a bit of an existential crisis - my 'life script' had always been 'work hard in school, get good grades, get into uni, do well at uni, get a job'. I'd finished the script and was lost. What now, and why should I care?

What dragged me out of this state was the one-two punch of getting a job and meeting a girl. Neither ended up being particularly good for me but they got me started again.
One thing I've noticed, if you're on a phone with force/3D touch, you have to hold much longer than usual on the left edge of the screen to do a hold action, because of the app switching feature
"Trivially solved by <doing some work> instead of not having to do anything if you used MySQL" is precisely the ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ answer that's just a snarky way to ignore constructive criticism.
>There's "need" and there's "need". The person without the solid computer science background may very well be able to solve all the problems at hand, but the person with the solid CS background is far more likely to come up with the fast elegant solution that doesn't fall over in obscure corner cases.

I know the plural of anecdote is not data, but I'd say that the typical PhD that I have interviewed has generally poorer useful coding skills than the person from a similar background who stopped at a masters or even BS and then wrote a lot of high quality code during the time the PhD was doing a whole bunch of theoretical work.

>To use a concrete example for early in my career; I spent days and days trying to solve a problem by building a bigger and bigger pile regexps and if-else statements. Then my project manager (who had a PhD in CS) came along a just wrote a custom parser that solved the whole thing.

It's MUCH easier to come along after someone has already spent days exploring the problem and can demonstrate the dead ends, then say "oh, you need a custom parser" than to start at the beginning and do the same thing. USUALLY writing a custom parser is overkill and it takes a decent amount of digging into a system to know when it's not. If you start out writing one every time something looks like it can be solved by an "if" statement, you'd never get anything useful built.
A Taco Bell taco is no farther from the original conception of the food than a Big Mac is to the original notion of a hamburger, frankly. People are all bent out of shape in this thread because they're applying odd notions of "morality" to something (food) where it doesn't apply.

Cultures appropriate food, they always have and they always will. It's a good thing, not a bad thing, even if sometimes you personally don't like to eat the specific items. We should be celebrating the chalupa, not smearing it.
No kidding. I miss the old days of ESPN. Doesn't help either that ESPN isn't showing good games anymore and that it has big competition now.

For football, this past season they were only showing the MNF games. In the Bay Area, NBC Sports Bay Area has broadcast rights to all the Giants and Warriors games. IIRC, NBC broadcast holds the rights to the Sharks. In San Diego, Fox Sports San Diego has the rights to the Padres. I can't remember the last time I tuned into ESPN to watch a game I wanted to see beyond "Oh that's on, I guess I'll watch."

Even ignoring the broadcasting rights, sports talk on other channels have become vastly superior to ESPN. My two favorite segments on sports this year (ARod + Pete Rose discuss batting, Isiah Thomas discusses dribbling) came out of Fox Sports and TNT. I'd pay good money to hear more detailed analysis from former players, rather than talk endlessly about how Tom Brady looks like he's from NSync with his haircut.

In my opinion ESPN just got too complacent with their status and is digging themselves into the grave. I swear I can go on for hours over all the things ESPN is doing wrong in the sports media today.
Learning to lead dungeon groups (and later raids) was critical training for me later being able to take control of projects, manage subcontractors etc. So yeah, some skills learned in an MMO absolutely do carry over into real life.
This sounds like when someone says don't make paper airplanes so you don't waste paper. How the fuck is it wasting it's being used to make a paper airplane. I get teachers say that just because they have rules or whatever but how fucking stupid do you have to be to buy that. I'm justing writing whatever pops into my head and it's kind shitty writing or whatever but the point I'm making is in response to a really fucking dumb thing so I'm not trying make my writing all fucking pretty and shit.
I've probably spent more hours in this game than any other game on my phone, over its lifetime.
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Sure, when anxiety and exhaustion from your schedule stop you from doing anything productive (actual work) or healthy (meditation, walks in the park etc etc).
Do you have anything to back up this opinion?
I see your point, but in the case of North Korea exactly the opposite is happening. For decades the political elite had an iron grip on the country. But then sanctions help push the country into more of a free enterprise system, and that is weakening the government's power.
I don't have a problem with Harold Reynolds (technically no longer with ESPN) because he sexually harasses women (I do, but I'm not changing the channel solely based on that). I have a problem with him because he's an idiot and I lose brain cells watching him. The same is true of so many network talking heads.
If you're using an active "jammer", then yes it's highly illegal.

However, if you build a RF blocking wall, then it is legal.
(2003) My favorite thing about this thread is that Guy Steele is involved, and Guy Steele has a far better name than anybody else has ever had.
My own understanding is more simple... people care mostly about application availability and x86 was chosen as the primary platform for Microsoft Windows so anything that didn't support the x86 instruction set was at a disadvantage. These days with interpreted or JIT compilation, things are less certain but those days running things on bare metal mattered.
Is there any systems out there that would let me program on a ZISC, today?
No it's not actually possible to waste time in the literal sense. In specific situations someone can claim someone is wasting time but it's just some lame manipulation. If you were wasting time you wouldn't be doing whatever it is your doing in the first place.
I'm implying that if a business situated in a certain location is attracting people because of WiFi, then maybe there's something in it.

You can see it as a problem, or you could also see it as a potential opportunity.
And you also still have to connect to remote servers to collaborate with other developers, run your SCM, CI/CD, servers, etc...

If you can do your editing locally, and connect to something more beefy when needed, whoopty do. It depends on what your needs are. Personally, a really nice screen and touchpad are huge features for me... at home/work a physical switch keyboard (buckling spring or cherry-mx browns)... who cares?

I want more, you want more, but there's no need to poopoo on someone else for not aligning with your own sensibilities.