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> ...but that is the definition of bike-shedding (aka law of triviality)
> A committee won't vote for my nuclear plant because the bike shed is red.
> The bike shed's color has concrete effects on adoption.

Not exactly.

> Parkinson observed that a committee whose job is to approve plans for a
> nuclear power plant may spend the majority of its time on relatively
> unimportant but easy-to-grasp issues, such as what materials to use for
> the staff bikeshed, while neglecting the design of the power plant itself,
> which is far more important but also far more difficult to criticize constructively.
> -- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bikeshedding

This part is key here:

> A reactor is so vastly expensive and complicated that an average person cannot
> understand it, so one assumes that those who work on it understand it. On the
> other hand, everyone can visualize a cheap, simple bicycle shed, so planning
> one can result in endless discussions because *everyone involved wants to add a
> touch and show personal contribution*.
> -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality
> -- https://books.google.com/books?id=RsMNiobZojIC&pg=PA317
Yes and there are plenty of houses that couldn't get water from the municipality and got their water from a well. My grandparents had a well for 30 years.
I love the fact they discuss hardware as a deployment strategy.

I considered the same thing at one point where I needed to suggest a bullet-proof way to run some Python code internally at a range of customer sites. A Raspberry Pi plugged into their network isn't a bad fix. The amount of time saved by pushing all configuration issues on to the internal IT department outweighs the hardware cost by a few significant digits.

I'm not sure the sheer cheapness of hardware has really sunk in yet. A lot of problems might be better solved by snail-mailing small computers to people.
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Its random really. Whatever the illustrator is interested in haha. We got another animal initially and it was um... kinda ridiculous. So considering the serious topic of the book I campaigned for the man-of-war as the animal.

Aside from being a beautiful creature, as a nerd I find it REALLY interesting.

Wiki - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_man_o%27_war

Specifically this tidbit:
>the Portuguese man o' war is not a jellyfish but a siphonophore, which, unlike jellyfish, is not actually a single multicellular organism, but a colonial organism made up of specialized individual animals called zooids or polyps.

My post explaining why I chose it (plus link to awesome photos from NG) - http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?e=[UNIQID]&u=b2a9f2c796e2...
I get annoyed when people ask something of others without having made a very basic effort themselves.

You'll notice for example that even my initial comment pointed the guy to the answer (i.e.: it's in the third paragraph of the link).

Now, both requirements aren't opposite, someone could have made a comment like this: I like Bezos's notion of a Day 2 company, how it differs from Day 1, etc.

Basically, I like people to show that they aren't asking someone else to do the work for them (or, if they are, at least they made some attempt).

That's at least as reasonable a position as the one you just expressed IMO.
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> It so far appears not to be hurting them. In the slightest.

I feel like that is tough to judge because the public has only known them by one name as far as I know. If they switched to this name from another name and saw no difference then we could surmise that the name has had no affect.
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Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4369934
There is also the fact that if the trial went public, she could seriously damage the company with NON-discrimination claims. For example:

"Campbell also raised concerns that what Magic Leap showed the public in marketing material was not what the product actually could do—admonitions ignored in favor of her male colleagues’ assertions that the images and videos presented on Magic Leap’swebsite and on YouTube were “aspirational,” and not Magic Leap’s version of “alternate facts.""

That could kill investment. I'd wager her lawyers knew this and it's likely considered a "good" legal tactic to force a settlement.
Interesting. I really feel these sorts of searches could be automated. Given a database of all known objects in space, attempt to infer likely objects that have not yet been observed. Then automatically direct telescopes to make observations at the inferred location. If they find something, then pass it along to a human for assessment.

Piece by piece the database would grow in coverage. As it does, its power to make predictions of unknown objects should grow, until we've reached the limit of our current instruments' ability to observe.

Yeah?
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And now it is Visual Studio vs Visual Studio code vs Visual Studio for mac 3 different applications with really similar names.
The declarative markup is interesting for custom datasets. But without some sort of UI builder it's unusable by clients.
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It's absolutely essential. I travel a fair bit and I have been woken at 3 in the morning by work colleagues.
When people are bike shedding, they aren't doing it to waste time, they think that they are adding value because of `list of bad results of wrong colour here`.

So here's my question to you: could you be wrong about this having "concrete effects on adoption"? And if you are wrong, is this just bike shedding?

And to continue the bike shed metaphor, it's about people ignoring nuclear power plant design whose worst case scenario is nuclear meltdown. For CockroachDB 1.0, what's the equivalent, data loss? So are you discussing something technically trivial (colour is easy to understand) over the design (technically complex) that would prevent data loss? If the answer is yes, aren't you bike shedding like a champion?

tl;dr Bike shedders don't know they're bike shedding and think the discussion is very important.
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Sounds a bit cherry-picky/anecdotal to me: I regularly build open source projects using multiple versions of VS, and have created some, and it either works out of the box (because the project maintainers spent time on it - both on project system and on portable code) or else at least doesn't take weeks. Likewise on linux/mac: building from source usually works. But also not always (it is better than in 1995 though, where I'd spend hours figuring out exactly which dependency still needed building and hoping I'd find the correct patch etc. Things seem more unified now, at least to me). Also since VS2013 (possibly VS2012 as well, don't have that anymore to test) you can actually have one single project file for any version up to the latest since they all use the same format.

Don't get me wrong: configure/make is way more mature but you almost make it sound like nothing works at all with VS/msbuild which is imo often just because people don't really know how to work with it (which in turn might be because of lack of documentation/proper examples/...), or because project maintainers don't care for VS support, and/or because there is no standard dependency managment (yet? cmake does a pretty good job, vcpkg looks promising).

such as python

Wasn't that just 'msbuild path/to/python.sln'? At least for the core, might be different for other modules. But I definitely remember getting a working python.exe just by building the supplied project files.
Thank you so much, glad to hear it!
It's not even based on the same IDE. It's based on MonoDevelop/Xamarin Studio and really all that's different is the name.
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An important difference that a lot of people seem to ignore:

Ma Bell's users were Ma Bell's customers.

Google's users are not Google's customers - they are Google's product. Google's customers are advertisers, and it is there where Google has a monopoly, and talk of "cost of switching" is meaningless in that respect - other advertising venues are meaningless for most advertisers.
I didn't claim cross-dc consistency. I said failover, which is shockingly hard to make many competitors do. The key here is that only one DC can take writes but the failover works transparently with your client (also with clear SLAs).
Ok stranger on the internet :). How about this. You pick 20 hedge funds. If over the next 20 years they return more to investors after fees and such than the Vanguard S&P 500 Admiral fund you win, otherwise I do?

I'd even let you change your list Jan. 1st of each year as long as we agree that any hedge fund found to be a fraud of some kind counts as a zero in your sum.

This is actually a pretty good bet for you given how poorly one would expect stocks to perform over the next 10 years
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Correct. While I live in the US, english is absolutely my second language. I meant property taxes :)
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Mongo (similar to 'mongolism', another term for Down's syndrome) has done just fine, despite (or thanks to!) their name.

There was similar criticism about their name in the early days, but it has waned as mongo has grown. This will too.
Isnt this just something google threw out there some years ago that no one picked up on?
The same thing happened to "Outlook" for Mac.
Totally agree. REST is a good idea for some use cases but now people want to force it into everything.

But this seems to be the case for a lot web stuff.
I greatly prefer it, although if postman doesn't have any annoyances for you, then insomnia might not be better for your use case.

Mostly the environments & variables make insomnia pretty fantastic.
Some observations having put some time in on Wall Street between tech stints...

1 - There are a lot of jobs a few years out of undergrad or MBA that pay low 6 figures.

2 - The hedge fund jobs that are mid to high six figures are much harder to get. It's not "Graduate, sit and wait"

3 - Most of the comp is in bonus, and there is tremendous job risk. (Base salaries top out around 100K) If you make $750K for a good year, and then have 2 bad quarters, you're fired without any bonus, and good luck getting the next job due to the weak track record.

4 - The industry goes through purges every 6-8 years where masses of people get laid off. (2008 was the last - they're overdue)

5 - The industry is cutting employment over time.
I don't see a contradiction but a difference.

You say: dismantling it would have other bad effects that would be worse than the direct bad effects of the monopoly

I wanted to clearly state that it's not some sort of abstract "other bad effects", it's that prices would increase for the consumer if the monopoly was disbanded.

My thought/critique of ghaff's comment involves physical last-mile infrastructure. Alternatives to regular natural monopolies exist, but we'd have to have some pretty tight regulations on how, say, land beneath or above roadways could be used.

The idea of having monopolies at local scales that compete at larger scales makes sense to me. But replicating last-mile infrastructure seems wasteful/bad/hard to solve (multiple companies building overhead power lines? multiple companies laying wire beneath roadways and apartment buildings? how do we deal with public land being used for private infrastructure purposes?) without some sort of regulatory control.

Looking at it over sufficiently long time horizons and saying "well, it's all temporary anyway" kinda buries the purpose of even having a discussion.
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Artificially planned mixed use "downtowns" (for lack of a better term) require some sort of anchoring force: location, food and shopping, employment, etc. If that force here is based on google doing something--and they fail or just stop--then the development will fail.

America is littered with these kind of developments. In growing markets with strong demand, worst case, you just turn the retail/office space into lofts and rent them. But in areas where demand isn't high, you get empty strip malls.

And if all google is doing is building apartment/condo buildings in a hot real estate market, this isn't some digital moonshot vision of the future. They are just building apartments in a can't lose environment. Anyone can do that.
"Most things on the web are half-assed,"

That's my impression too.
So, to be clear: BBR only applies to the edge nodes (the client and the server) whereas CoDel and other AQM are (mostly) for the routers in between, especially bottle-neck points, right?
Sometimes writing a custom rule makes sense, but it should be an exception and not the rule. Otherwise, you risk creating a sub-dialect only your team knows. That becomes a problem both for new hires, which have to take more time to ramp up, and for current dev switching jobs as they'll have a hard time abandoning what they learned.

That's why I like sticking as close as possible to AirBnB's guide[0], not because it's better than anything else, it's just that most developper seem to agree on it and it's familiar to most dev.

[0]: https://github.com/airbnb/javascript
Quite the opposite. Even when there is a benevolent dictator its likely that most people will resent and fear concentration of wealth and power because the situation is so rare as to be unbelievable. Many of Rockefeller's contemporaries were also aspiring monopolists but didn't care too much about screwing the little guy so they could luxuriate in opulence.
They're subsidized by building infrastructure. If the state builds a bridge that allows a homeowner in town A to commute to work to town B, this directly increases the land value in town A. The state paid for this bridge, not the homeowner. This is what the subsidy is - having access to state-provided infrastructure by virtue of location. Why should the homeowner have exclusive right to that increase in land value?

This is the gigantic pitfall of overly-individualistic property rights - that socially beneficial infrastructure development doesn't happen, because nobody has the power to siphon off enough of the value created to make it worth doing.
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AFAIK, it was called ".NET Passport" a decade ago, meaning almost all of them are Microsoft Accounts.
I have never used one. Even when there is a queue and a person monitoring offers to scan for me I still queue. I'm never in that much of a hurry and I enjoy being as nice as possible to the assistant. I completely avoid stores that have self-checkout only. The time saved is often negligible or sometimes it is even much faster depending on whether the person I am casually racing has tried to check out some disallowed item eg. booze. or the machine has a fit which seems to happen a lot. I also get to people watch when I queue. I don't care when it is slower since I have been waited on - which is also nice. Why on earth people would want to do it themselves is beyond me even though I am very much a type A, am quite impatient and really dislike queues in general.
For early morning plane flights and the like I set a second loud alarm across the room.
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I think it's an excellent name!

Also, biologists would argue that cockroaches is a magnificent creature, highly adaptable and very fit (in 'survival of the fittest' terms).

I would pay for and deploy a cockroach db — because of its name.
My product depends on WIX, which in turn depends on .NET, so there was no reason not to go with .NET (I started with WinForms but then converted to WPF). Web can be interesting but I just have a harder time coming up with ideas for products than I do with desktop.
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That leads to cleaner code for the frontend frameworks, better interoperability and simpler debugging. Web server error codes are for web server failures and application level errors are communicated via a 200, properly. I run in to this all the time and once we adopted it (for all our APIs), life has been better for customers and our internal teams.
Well that's what was using on Linux before I installed Atom, although it's hardly a replacement for Sublime (which gets used on the Mac at the office for real work). Really, I've tried just about everything.
> not-builtin types like jsonp/hstore is a bit tricky in EF so far it feels like, but doable?

and no support for spatial data types. it's why i'm still mostly using SQLAlchemy and Python - i'm a big fan of .NET Core, though.
And the performance of the generated executable is....
One thing I like about Lovefield is the ease of choosing a storage layer: lf.schema.DataStoreType.FIREBASE

You can use it with in-memory (no persistence, .MEMORY), IndexDB (local persistence, .INDEX_DB), or Firebase Realtime Database (cloud persistence, .FIREBASE).
SOAP works that way. But that has its own set of problems...
Funny how just about every country in the world ended up with a telephone monopoly.
What Go borrowed from CSP - channels - is definitely awesome. But it was Go's interfaces that was the real game-changer for me. Very under-appreciated.
These persist primarily in areas that were annexed by the city and where the neighborhood never put up the money to form an improvement district to pave their streets. The city seems to not maintain them at all, even as gravel roads, to encourage the landowners to eventually pay up for improvements... but it hasn't really worked out.
Any information about when this architecture will make it onto Tesla or Quadro products available to "mass" market?
Issue new shares to reflect the agreed shareholding structure and do it with the aid of a lawyer.

Right now, based on the information you provide, you do not have a 50/50 split. It still stands at 60/40 and if there is ever any dispute over it, its your word against his.

Handshake deals and verbal agreements are alright but your best friend in business is a solid, written, legal contract

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This idea is pretty hard to square with economic incentives for infrastructure development. If the state builds a freeway or a fire station or other development, one major effect is that it enables a lot of valuable economic development. For public goods, it's hard to capture that value - even though it makes society better off, it's not worthwhile for any one economic actor to do it.

Property taxes (specifically on the unimproved value of the land) offers a way out of this dilemma. If you can do more valuable economic activity with a piece of land, you can and should pay more for it, so it'll be worth more. So if you spend $10MM/yr in financing for building a bridge, and it increases land value in the catchment area by $100MM, and you have a 12% land-value tax, the state responsible makes more money.
"MIDI isn't tab though. It requires note velocities and durations for a start, which tab doesn't."

This is entirely incorrect. You can get velocities (Mezzo-forte, mezzo-piano, etc.) and such is expressed if you hover over the note itself in Guitar Pro or Tuxguitar. Sure they change the granularity of it, but the general range remains the same and for all practical purposes sounds the same if played properly.
Most my friends in SF pay between $2.5-4k USD (3.4k-5.46k CAD) per month for their apartments [tell me if i'm wrong?]. I personally rent out two 1BR upper-scale apartments in downtown Toronto [one loft space for $1.9k CAD ($1.39k USD) and the other a 1BR+Den for $2.275k CAD ($1.66k USD)].

When it comes to lifestyle, money generally goes way further in Toronto than it does in SF; you're getting paid less for a reason.

Oh also...enjoy your free healthcare [PS i'm Australian, so don't go thinking I'm a crazy maple syrup drinking Canadian who just loves this place because i was born here]
I disagree that it's tough to judge but that's because they've raised a considerable amount of capital ($53 million over three rounds):

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/cockroach-labs#/enti...
I can't reply to my sibling post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14301909 , where this comment probably belongs, but I hoped I might be allowed to clarify that my badly worded response was not meant to be meaningless snark. What I meant to say in response to

> Doesn't buying plane tickets in advance let airlines plan capacity better?

was that whatever airlines are doing to plan their capacity doesn't seem to work very well. In support of this vague claim I adduced a news incident, very very snarkily (for which I apologise), but honestly in a spirit of discourse rather than simply of attention grabbing.
Well, since this discussion has already gone down the tubes, we might as well spend some productive time making fun of other DB names:

- SQLite: SQL database with no sugar. Less calories!

- MySQL: A selfish database.

- IMB DB2: Released in 1983, but never got promoted to DB3. Probably abandoned software?

- Postgresql: Gesundheit!

- CouchDB: A database for lazy people. Part of the NOSQL family, the Zen database family, that achieve SQL by not achieving SQL... like I said, lazy.

- Microsoft Access: It's very accessible. Ironically, most people that use Office don't know what it is, or that it exists, and thus, don't use it.

- dBase: De-bases your data.

- Sybase: Pronounced sigh base, which is the sound people make when you suggest it.
You're suggesting every consumer physically disassemble and inspect every device they purchase (after acquiring sufficient training to do so in a meaningful way)?

I'm not at all sure what you expect someone to do about a lightning strike...
I wonder how many deaths have been caused by people fumbling around in Apple Music's interface on their mobile device while driving. It's a sad but true reality (at least in my life) that I like to listen to music while I'm driving. Sometimes I want to hear something really specific, and having lost confidence in Siri to to play the right thing the first time every time (and not cut me off in the middle of what I'm saying, or ask about searching the web for something), I've opted to navigate the interface one handed while glancing back and forth between the road and it. I know its a bad decision to do this, no matter the interface in question, and ultimately my own responsibility... but that said, I just wonder if there was a driving mode that made it really easy to select an artist/album/song one handed with minimal button sniping or wondering why or how to turn on/off shuffle or other buried features, if it would save lives.

Ultimately, I just want CarPlay on my phone so that I don't have to rely on whether or not the specific model vehicle I am in has it, but in its absence, I wish Apple would make a "simple" mode where all the selections are large buttons and nothing is too buried. Is that so much to ask?
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Java doesn't require a VM per se, there are plenty of commercial JDKs that compile straight into native code.

In case you want to state that a VM is like a language runtime in that case, C++ also needs one for handling exceptions, RTTI, global constructors/destructors, floating point emulation,...
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