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I'm very interested in what "largest module ecosystem" you were referring to and what you mean by "the amount of lines it takes to do an XHR in the 'fetch' API vs superagent in, say, 2012."

AFAIK, there was a time when the "module ecosystems" were essentially split between requirejs (AMD) on the front and CJS in the back.

Fetch is also not XHR, and has different security defaults and trade-offs.
I think you've described just about every organization > 5 people.
It's really a shame as OSGi is a nightmare.
Maybe the title should have the publication year in parentheses?
Red Hat has voiced their concerns in the following document, linked in their comment: https://developer.jboss.org/blogs/scott.stark/2017/04/14/cri...

Found a follow up in this blog post: https://blog.plan99.net/is-jigsaw-good-or-is-it-wack-ec634d3...

Interesting to see Twitter voting No as well, with the comment "Our main concern is that it is likely that this JSR will prove disruptive to Java developers, while ultimately not providing the benefits that would be expected of such a system".
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Why the scare quotes? You think the government will default on that debt?
Well, you could pull your phone out and use it to do literally any task that an Echo-like device could do. The entire selling point is the convenience of "talk to the air and things happen". I'm not sure why there should be some arbitrary line drawn where you only want to use voice for input when voice is sufficient for output.
> Doesn't buying plane tickets in advance let airlines plan capacity better?

Thereby avoiding situations like an overbooking in response to which they call on the police to remove an already boarded passenger!
I like the concept not the execution. I think it could get better with time. Ill give it the benefit of the doubt.
Yes; Julia isn't unique in being a modern high-level high-performance language. But it's the only one I know that explicitly targets numerical computing, and it chooses its trade-offs accordingly.
Isn't this kind of what happened in the 2008 collapse?

Laws were loosened to allow more people to get into more risky loans to get homes. It incentivized a lot of people to take on mortgages they normally wouldn't qualify for.

I'm not talking about low income earners either. I had several friends who are upper middle class earners who suddenly purchased mansions on the lake, only to lose their house months later when the market collapsed. I also had other friends who suddenly realized the value of their homes went through the roof and took out two or three loans against that value, only to take it in the shorts when the market collapsed. Sure, the low income folks were hit pretty hard, but the middle and upper middle class folks got hoodwinked as well.

While I agree, it would help, it feels like its the same huge mess that we just came out of.
Voted down? What do you mean?
"Eye scroll" was a Samsung feature... The scrolling feature of the Fire Phone was based on the gyro and head tracking, not eye movement.

Eye tracking is not necessary to implement the Fire Phone's "Dynamic Perspective" feature. Wikipedia: "Eye tracking is the process of measuring either the point of gaze (where one is looking) or the motion of an eye relative to the head." You don't need to know either of these things to render correct perspective. You need to know the eye position, not pointing direction. The position is provided by head tracking, not eye tracking.
But most of the MID goes to benefit those who have plenty to save already. Also, I think looking at mortgages as a savings program is incredibly short-sighted. Mortgages are risky and the MID encourages people to overleverage.
Unfortunately Jigsaw is not a replacement for OSGi, this being a valid complaint, since it's a disruptive upgrade for the Java community, while not delivering much.
I didn't even know what shortcodes were until this moment. I think this detracts from the main point, though. Of course automated commercial services will have their idiosyncrasies, but if you want to communicate with people, phone calls and SMS seem to work reliably, worldwide, in a universal way.
If anything, it's looking like Alexa might be the only one that will work across the 3.

You can install hangouts duo on IOS, but likely not on alexa. You can install Alexa on Android (not through google play). You can't install facetime on Alexa or Android.
I think your natural composition skills are unusual, but not unique. I also begain to compose music at a very early age. My knack for picking melodies up out of the air and playing them on a piano when I was 7 years old was how my parents knew that I needed lessons. Naturally, I was surprised later in life to learn that other people had to learn basic things like pitch and rhythm; to me it had always been just as natural as speaking.

I believe the same is true with song writing, in a sense. You're still applying some parts of music theory, but most by-ear learners like ourselves simply grasp the concepts and have internalized them naturally, without needing to be taught. Music is little more than patterns at the end of the day, and our brains are very good at recognizing patterns. What you and I know intuitively, others can learn through training and repetition. Both approaches are valid, and yield interesting (and often different) observations.

I went going through Music Theory classes during my brief adventure with Liberal Arts Majors in college. I felt like I already "knew" the material in a way I couldn't quite put my finger on. It was like I was finally understanding what my brain had been doing all these years. I recommend it if you haven't yet had the experience.
Can I use the Amazon Echo to lead an imaginary life?

"Show me pictures of my family" (stock photos)

"Show me my vacation photos" (synthesizes a photo of me at the grand canyon with my waifu)
Surely the MID would need to be slowly phased out or just capped?
I was thinking the same thing. This dataset is incomplete without answering questions like the following (I use React vs angular metaphor just for convenience sake):
- How likely are React/Redux developers to search for answers on SO, as opposed to Angular developers?
- How good are React docs / tutorials compared to Angular?
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The renting vs buying choice is absolutely a common topic when people consider buying. Also, when comes time to see how much you can afford per month, it is absolutely part of the calculation. In SF, NYC, Boston, etc, it can make a difference of 1000+ a month when doing your budget in the range software engineers look at (which is not an uncommon case, obviously).
The interest deduction benefits higher income people with more expensive houses. Like you say, it has no benefit to those paying -10k in interest.
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Its easy to blame money (boogey) men when you don't understand the finite problems that have held back this space.
Got it.

Note to self: .NET Framework = .NET Desktop.

I don't recall ever seeing the term .NET Desktop used anywhere, I assumed it was some compact version of .NET Framework.
Even if you have debt, you should be taking full advantage of your employer 401k match if one is available to you. In almost every case you will come out ahead even if you withdraw the money early.

So many of my coworkers do not contribute to their 401K at all, which is literally just leaving free money on the table.
Hello everyone! Author here. I didn't expect anyone to find this repo, much less post it on Hacker News!

This project is inactive for two main reasons:

- SQLite is not a great general-purpose SQL engine. Poor performance of joins is a serious problem that I couldn't solve. The virtual table support is good but not quite good enough; not enough parts of the query are pushed down into the virtual table interface to permit efficient querying of remote tables. Many "ALTER" features are not implemented in SQLite which is a tough sell for experimental data manipulation.

- T-SQL, the procedural language I chose to implement atop SQLite, is not a great general-purpose programming language. Using C# in LINQpad is a more pleasant experience for experimentally messing around with data. R Studio is a good option if you need statistical functions.

I think several good solutions in this problem space exist. A local install of SQL Server Express can be linked to remote servers, allowing you to join local tables to remote ones. That setup serves nearly all of SQL Notebook's use cases better than SQL Notebook does. LINQpad is also very convenient for a lot of use cases.

I appreciate the interest! I may spin off the import/export functionality into its own app someday, as I had a lot of plans in that area, but I think SQL Notebook as it stands is a bit too flawed to develop fully.
Assuming that it's true that they're always criticized for new products, it may be because they also sell a staggering breadth of other consumer products. We often see our Amazon search results on Web page ads for days after browsing on amazon.com. It's more obvious when you're being tracked and targeted by Amazon than by other consumer electronics manufacturers. (I wouldn't say I like it, but I'm OK with this contract so far.)
It's not always a choice, though. If I need to rent a car, I need a credit card. Now my credit card company knows where I went on vacation or traveled for work. I have to have an email account, but if I apply for a job, now my email providers knows quite a bit about me.

None of these things are necessarily the end of the world if there's some data protection guarantee. But to say it's simply a choice ignores how much data other people have on us, just by going about our daily lives.
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HDMI-CEC is nice on paper, but seems to be a mess in most cases.

My TV supports it and fails randomly to wake up, googling it at the time, a flurry of other TVs models were mentionned as not working properly. I think there was a ATP episode on the topic, with the same conclusion: it works sometimes, if you're lucky.
hahaha. a la mode.
A new version of Freeciv WebGL 3D has been released today. I would be very interested in feedback about the new version!
My first thought of the "rejectable" call was that this would be a way to communicate with my declining grandmother who would neither understand the buttons or be able to muster a "accept call alexa"
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My father was a high school teacher. When his school shifted to long block classes it was great for lab and shop classes because they lost much less time on setup and cleanup, but terrible for lecture classes because many students couldn't pay attention that long.
Anyone else understand what they are referring to in the Getting Started notebook about a 'CREATE menu'? I don't see it anywhere.
500 dollars/month for municipal taxes? Can you elaborate on those? I might be missing these deduction in the past.
I don't want this to devolve into a syntax flame war, but I'd encourage people to step outside their comfort zone. I find that the native Erlang syntax helps me to think in Erlang, vs imperative/OO/scripting/whatever.

But yes, better Elixir than yet another reheated Algol.
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> If you decide that you want a type system that statically tracks resource utilization, why stop halfway at something that only partially solves the problem?

Because there's a tradeoff between ergonomics and static guarantees. A hybrid system (in this case, static tracking of ownership combined with automatic resource destruction) is a valid choice to balance the upsides and downsides of each extreme.
You can log into multiple Google accounts at the same time. You then get a user switcher in the top left, which as far as I know does not invalidate existing sessions.
MID is a nice subsidy but one really can't speak to economic inequality in housing with calling out use of local zoning regulation as cause of artificially low supply. A lot more people would be able to afford a house or at least have cheaper rent if it werent for the shenanigans going on with development/zoning reviews.
While I also long for the elimination of some of the things you list (mainly patents), I want to emphasize that even in a perfectly competitive and ideal market, the phenomenon of preferential wealth accretion would still happen.

Picketty's explanation is that capital's reward is higher than work's, but I'm not bent on defending that explanation (even if until a better one comes up, I'll stick to Picketty's).

As far as I know there is no counter example of the phenomenon itself (whatever the underlying reason is).
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I found the same to be true. I've been trying lately to give up approaching music from the "I have this idea I want to get down" perspective. Instead, I set up my studio in such a way that I can easily "play around" and come up with ideas on the fly, and then elaborate on those.

Switching from a DAW to a mostly-hardware setup helped with this, as it's easier to "play" with knobs/sliders/keys/pads than virtual objects accessed via mouse/keyboard. Once you get things wired up, it's pretty straightforward: play around, find something you like, track it in, build more stuff over it.

Ever since making this switch, I found the parts that I used to practice/enjoy (like slicing and manipulating samples, for instance) feel much more tedious.

Another benefit is that it's easier to make mistakes, which often have more interesting results than the thing you originally intended. My guess is because this violates your internal "patterns" and forces you to think outside of your normal "music creation" schema, resulting in a more creative/unique outcome.

I've also tried to switch to "totally live" recording (i.e. minimal sequencing beyond loops and patterns, all automation and non-repeating parts done on the fly), and that's a bit more challenging, because you have to redo everything if you, say, screw up a little solo bit.
Yea, it was only a 9 month contract for me. I was definitely glad not to be a FT employee at that place :)
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If the expected utility of the device exceeds the likely set of problems that come with it, people might choose to buy one.

Clearly you've done this calculation but come up with a different answer. Assuming there is some utility there, it must be the surveillance aspect that is the problem. If you got an Echo, what harm do you think you would likely experience?
I do not understand what news with sentiments is. Is there an explanation?
Nobody's talking about semantic simplicity; we're talking about developer ergonomics.
Tangential point, but Amazon wants to eliminate your spouse even going to the grocery store.
Yeah, you may get more specifically looking for the journey or process, but you lose the other 90% of funders, as they soon realize that few kickstarters actually pan out.
I am not so sure. I do not think considering the cost of replacing inventory is unreasonable.
Ive made this exact thing happen. It helped artificially that I could make changes without anyone else's buyin for a time, but over time and with persistence I was able to make sweeping changes with no authority whatsoever. Its hard, its grueling, but its not impossible.
Oh, I never meant it as a gripe at Erlang's syntax myself. However, there is so much untapped power that the developer community is missing because Erlang is immediately dismissed. People will try node.js, but not Erlang. I'm seeing Elixir as a chance for the Erlang VM to finally get wide-wide adoption it deserves.
Sure it does. Think of it this way....

Targeting an all in home payment (principle, interest, insurance, taxes) of 1/3 your $100K income, so $30K or $2,500 per month.

In a world with MID, the ~$1500 in interest payment each month can be paid with pre-tax money. Assume you're in the 30% bracket, that means an extra $450 each month. Now you can afford a mortgage that costs effectively $3000 per month, which comes out to another $50K to $75K in purchase price (rough estimate assuming 4% interest rate).
Well, there are probably some similar devices for sale on Alibaba from very small corporations.
"It is difficult to think of another social policy that more successfully multiplies America’s inequality in such a sweeping fashion."

Tax deduction for employer-insured healthcare?
I started my book on C# and XML back in 2013 doing the self publish route on leanpub. That fizzled out because I just wasn't motivated enough to finish on my own. I was contacted last year by Apress and decided to go with them. Their structure made me actually finish the book whereas I wasn't able to before. My overall experience was positive. I procrastinate a lot, so there was some stressful nights meeting deadlines
http://cobra-language.com/ had it.
This is not what you're taking about because it is not the Echo hardware, but I think Amazon lets hardware manufacturers access Alexa API from their devices, and those hardware makers can charge whatever they want (and could put whatever type of "app store" or "hackability" into their hardware, all of which could call the Alexa voice API: https://developer.amazon.com/alexa-voice-service
This is a really interesting thought. In the presence of must-use types, you'd imagine that types with side effecting Drop impls (like files), would want to migrate to eventually being used/consumed by a "close" method. But doing that safely in the presence of panics would require... exception handlers?...
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Its like municipal taxes. People don't get about the cost of the house itself. They only care about the monthly payment (or well, the total cost of ownership, since the deduction only directly affect you yearly).

This is kind of like municipal taxes. Take the city of Cambridge in Mass, which has an absurdly low tax rate. Compare it with some of the cities near by (eg Somerville). A similar property in a similar location will bring you down roughly the same amount per month. But in Cambridge, the value of the property itself is way higher, mainly because less goes to the city and more goes to the bank (and your equity).

People factor in the deduction when they check what they can afford. If you save 12k a year in taxes, you can pay 1000 bucks a month more, which translates in a significantly more expensive property. If the deduction goes away, property value will adjust accordingly (blips down at first, maybe go up a little slower for a bit until things even out considering inflation and stuff).

People who currently have a property and cut it a little close might be in trouble if they are not grandfathered, and people selling in the short term might be a little sad.
I would never work at a megacorp. That sounds miserable.

And why are you assuming I didn't try managing projects? Of course I did. I would always divvy up the work in such a way that'd I'd have the more difficult portion and I'd keep tabs on people. And when I'd tell my teachers that someone wasn't pulling their weight, they'd say it's my problem. I took _one_ class in college where the professors actually took that into account and docked my teammates. Without threats from teachers, students do not give a fuck. Complete waste of my time in school.
I wonder who's providing their telephony backend. There was some speculation that Twilio was powering Amazon Connect. Twilio's Jeff Lawson was an original AWS product manager...
I have no idea why Google doesn't get more flak, but there is a higher level of privacy standard with Apple as they neither profit from user metadata (advertising) and are the most publicly visible torch-bearer for privacy among the big corps.

I don't trust anyone (even Apple) to have an always-on listening device in my house. Too many shades of 1984. If need be, I'll push a button on my phone/bt headset and query.
Not a web app? That's huge.
How dependent are you on the money you are making? Is that the main reason you would not consider switching jobs?

It might not be a popular statement, but money to a degree can buy happiness, comfort, and freedom. Unfortunately, it can be very addicting -- especially if you've adjusted your lifestyle to grow with an increasing income.

I did the whole golden-handcuffs thing for four years after I started disliking my job, but as soon as I "could" I quit to do my own thing. I gave up a very lucrative position, but my sanity and ability to work on interesting projects was worth far more to me. With my wife working we can cover expenses for us and our child without me needing to pull a lot out of savings each of month. It's been an adjustment spending less, more akin to a detox than anything, but we are both happier now that I moved on.
The poster is emphasizing that their knowledge stems from a completely different industry but similar circumstances might provide useful insights into the issue.
> Has this ever been proven to be a problem in practice, given that a program's stack is typically limited in size? Would the recommended workaround (if this was a problem) be to change variables to use heap instead?

It is occasionally a problem. For example, when writing my old emulator, I statically allocated the system's RAM (which has a fixed size) on the stack at first before thinking better of it and moving it to the heap. But such situations are uncommon.
Poorer young people are paying to support richer older people, many of whom are able-bodied and perfectly capable of working. I think that is a big problem.
Intel declared war on general purpose computing and lost
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I have wondered whether Apple has tried to buy Sonos. Seems like HomeKit + Sonos + Siri + iOS gadget displays could be a great mix.
To state the data you've cited in another way, there are 10 non-clinical workers for every 7 clinical roles. I'm guessing you don't personally know anyone in a healthcare administrative role, but these people are certainly not sitting around all day looking for something to do. They are hiring so many of them because the arcane administerial requirements of our healthcare system are only growing.
Group projects at work are different because everyone has a different role. In school, everyone must have the same role in order to equally learn the material. Any divisions are arbitrary and the consequences of not putting in effort are minimal.
The MID certainly does play a factor in determining how much home to buy.
They started working on this late 2014 / early 2015. Work started on Look in late 2015.

Source: ;)
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I don't disagree that tests are good and necessary. I take issue with the view that tests are somehow free, that more testing is better, or that tests are of such marginal cost that more effort developing tests than the product is considered a reasonable use of resources.

Also, the notion that "they test each other" is likely to be dangerous.
Same experience here. No special setup, no SPF or DKIM, and yet no particular challenge in sending e-mail. I feel the challenges of operating a mail server are often exaggerated. But then, I don't tend to send spam.
The quote is a good way to summarize what economists call "price discrimination" or "differential pricing." I think the practice generally results in a lower price for the people who "do care" than what they would have gotten with no price differences, because they end up getting a below average price. Although my understanding of that is sketchy.
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Native matrix syntax and operations is a huge plus, IMHO.
I'm not comparing it to "NY pizza", if you're referring to common pizzeria pizza. Compared to other Neapolitan pizzas, I have found Una Pizza Napoletana to be really doughy, even on the outside.
Are there employers that still match? I'm only half joking.