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I've never been an engineering manager so this is my perspective as a software engineer:

My attention is my ability to concentrate on what I need to do right now -- not what the company needs in a broad strategic sense, not what the stock is doing, not what might be on the horizon in a few weeks. All of those things are important to me but my attention can only be on one at a time. And I think the reality of serious software engineering is that sometimes you need to concentrate on the code and not on the other things.

Protecting my attention means knowing when I need to be in the "zone" (asking if you aren't sure); giving me plenty of warning if I'm going to be involved in things like requirements meetings; totally insulating me from any corporate politics except where I've asked to be informed or it directly affects me; and escalating appropriately (HELO phone?) if I'm too busy to answer e-mails/chats.

I absolutely think you want engineers in requirements meetings, but I also think that if you have an engineer who should be in the requirements meeting and she's super busy implementing that autonomous social-graph API then hey, move the meeting.
>Does anybody still buy that rhetoric in this day and age?

Any parent that doesn't allow their children watching porn?

Any company deeming it NSFW?

Any public establishment (library, cafe, etc) where they will throw you out if you watch such a thing (but not if you watch, say, SNL skits or cat videos)?

In other words, the majority of society.
I wonder how long the iphone would last in China without WeChat if they were to ever decide to just not publish their app in the app store because of this.
Yeah, having read it I can't help but feel that a simulated annealing approach might end up generating a better result. If only because the limiting factor for simulated annealing is how quickly you can generate random duties and check some objective function, and not how quickly you can solve some NP complete problem for a large number of variables.

Of course having found a couple of good combinations of duties with simulated annealing there's nothing stopping you from trying the integer program on those (+ variations) to try and find a better version.
Half the range cuts you off from many markets. See, range below some 700km is better handled by a helicopter than a jet because of the time it takes to get to and from the airport. There isn't so much market between 700 and 1100 km ranges... And the speed is ridiculously low - typical for turboprops say Pilatus PC-12.

And as others have pointed, it is really an abuse of jet engine. Operating it at this speed and altitude means deeply sub-optimal fuel use. The thing will be costly and scary (one engine) to operate.

I don't think this will get anywhere at all. It is much worse than even the Eclipse, that offered a much better plane at a similar cost (1.5M initially in 2007 dollars ~$2M now), and still bankrupted. And there are many more good light jets on the market now than in 2007.
I'm surprised health care isn't on the list.
You're saying that the projects built once but not again?
I don't think Twitter and facebook have allowed people to communicate across social/educational/economical boundaries. Yes you do get an odd an interaction here and there, but by and large both these platforms have become giant echo chambers where you only hear echoes of voices and opinions like your own.

Honest question, do you think an average internet user, interacts with and actually enagages in an intellectually honest way with people outside their own educational/social strata on any sort of regular basis?
Population growth in non-human species is quite well documented and is in fact not exponential, although the early stages look exponential.

It is in fact a logistic sigmoid function. It is amazing, in that it is not what you'd expect : clearly the vast majority of species have the ability to correctly estimate the carrying capacity of a habitat and only overshoot by a little bit.

So the Malthusian argument is incorrect, probably, if humans are like other animals (and since population growth curves in many localities do indeed look like S-curves I would say that this ought to be the default claim). Human population size will by itself stop just shy of the carrying capacity of the planet. Which is exactly what you'd want to happen.

In all likelihood, this will happen without active measures from governments (which won't work anyway due to the global nature of the required policies), with or without popularizing contraceptives, with or without female labor participation, ... (not saying those aren't desirable, just that they aren't necessary)

The alternative requires an assumption that humans are hugely different from the species that we evolved from, and since this certainly isn't true in the biological sense, why would our population growth be so very different ? Humans are not the first large animal to "conquer the planet", and reach population numbers in the billions, with some fish well on the way to trillions even today, and we aren't the biggest species in terms of total biomass by a very long way (amongst non-plants that honour likely goes to ants, but even pathetic species of bacteria dwarf their numbers). Will we be the last one ? Perhaps, but it seems unlikely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_function#In_ecology:_...
XNA died due to internal Microsoft politics, nothing to do with technology.

Window Phone 8 redesign was a consequence of WinDev, led by Synofsky winning their usual disputes against DevTools.

Nowadays they even support MonoGame on XBox and already apologized the process didn't went out as it should have been in first place.

EDIT:

Here they welcome MonoGame into XBox program

http://news.xbox.com/2016/03/14/letter-chris-charla-idxbox-u...

And here Unity is listed as one of the official Windows 10 game middleware

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/games/uwp
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You know about the kernel but not how to use your compose key‽

The fact that the kernel is mirrored on GitHub doesn't mean they use it in any sense like the way most projects use it. The real point is that the way Linux is developed has no relation to that GitHub mirror, so it's an example of open source development outside of GitHub.
The same reason that OpenJDK exists.
The intent is not to provide that trail for you, but for the company. And this has many uses beyond going after a disgruntled employee.
Our department is still using it, but it is crumbling. E.g. the macOS clients are outdated. Even when there were still updates, they would come months after a new OS X release.

(It must be a lot of work for the AFS maintainers to keep everything up to date.)
I mean, I am inexperienced for my age due to taking time for an advanced degree. This ought to be balanced by applying for junior to intermediate positions, though.

I received similar feedback from recruiters, saying that once you've been in industry a couple of years, employers view you as specialized to exactly what you've done before. Apparently it got hard to even sell my resume for non-embedded roles.
It is easy to create perfect covers via Photoshop for less than a couple hundred bucks. Content for ultra popular books should be easy to get as well in great condition.
A dyson sphere would block the light of stars sitting behind it on straight line of sight from us. That doesn't happen with dark matters. It's transparent. Unlike dyson sphere.
SF has new owners, all the crapware and other worst practices have been gone for months.
Worth mentioning also that in the early through mid 90s, projects hosted their own version control servers, but you needed an account on the development machine to actually have access to the repo. Most people only had access to release tarballs, not the full history, and couldn’t (e.g.) make diffs against CVS head.

OpenBSD developed anonymous CVS, which gave anybody the ability to get the full project history even if they weren’t a developer. (That’s actually where the “Open” in OpenBSD comes from—it refers not to the license, but the development process.)

Here’s the anoncvs paper: https://www.openbsd.org/papers/anoncvs-paper.pdf
OpenBSD’s latest release song was actually about this topic: https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#61
I don't think anyone is claiming that GitHub can't host a mirror of a big git repo. That's not what parent is claiming is "too big".

The problem is that the tooling for reviewing changes on GitHub doesn't scale and also doesn't match the model that Linux uses (deputies). Hell, I would argue large projects like Kubernetes and Rust are hitting these same issues.

Also, that is just a mirror. The real hosting is on https://git.kernel.org/.
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Ed Burns, the series "script consultant" (if that's the right term) was a Baltimore cop, and David Simon spent many, many hours hanging out on street corners with Baltimore corner boys, first convincing them he wasn't a cop, then getting them to talk to him.

The Homicide book is an excellent start to his writing about Baltimore, and led to the series Homicide: Life on the Street, which paved the way for The Wire. Apart from the research, he has such a fantastic ear for dialogue - I can hear real voices when his characters talk, not least because many of them are based on real people (for example, both Jay Landsman [The Wire] and John Munch [Homicide] are based on the same real-life person).

It's so good in so many ways, but ultimately for me it shows its characters as rational and understandable, whichever side of the law they are on. Series 4 and 5 are not as strong as the first three, but still head-and-shoulders above most other shows. I know some people will prefer Breaking Bad and The Sopranos, but (good as those shows are) The Wire is peak TV imo.
Yup. Email the message is a protocol. Email the application tends to be more like a bad TODO.

Personally, Im like to have something that integrates email, SMS, social messages, etc into a single pro-sumrer friendly experience. A given conversation can, and often does, span the various mediums, but it's still a single conversation. When someone sends me a message with a link I shouldn't have to look in multiple places. It's 2017. Is that too much to ask?
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the very first slides talk about the deprecation and removal of old APIs. if there are any HN readers who influence go, consider Rich Hickey's argument [1] regarding deprecation and code removal.

Bottom line: he proposes that one should never take away a function/API (particularly when you are a library or programming language).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyLBGkS5ICk

edit: superficial word choice
It's not recent at all, it's just something that happened since GitHub first launched, but they had that issue for years. And the recent development is having new owners who stopped that bullshit.
There's a good story about that...
https://medium.com/@JohnLeFevre/the-roadshow-aka-the-worst-p...
Moving forward, would it still be that different from mainland China if HK were part of the UK?
Ok, (3), (6), and (7) are actually reasonably ambitious. The rest seem like making a business out of small conveniences.
This sounds more palatable to me. I definitely know it has traction and I wouldn't be surprised to see it powering quite a few of the bigger services but it still feels like a big part of the earlyadopter phase yet. This is line with what I have seen. I know it's "out there" but it's not exactly "RHEL" yet ;).
I was thinking about this in relation to the pirate radio history of the UK. Maybe people are apathetic because everyone knows no matter how "Nanny State" things get, smart people can skirt their draconian tendencies no matter what?

If the more fascist members of society are placated by technical placebos, why not allow them to pretend they are actually in control of the "situation"?

I'm personally keeping a close eye on lifi. In the US the FCC restrictions on the range of wifi networks restricts mesh networking substantially. If it's just invisible gigabit light communication from rooftop to rooftop, it could be a huge gamechanger.
There was/is nothing magic about epicycles. Epicycles was part of a model which described the movement of the planets. Now we have better and more precise model, but that does not mean epicycles was "magic".

There is nothing magic about the the word "dark matter" either. Yes indeed it describe a phenomen we don't understand, this does not mean it is magic.
This is definitely the line of rationalisation I'd use to explain the trend. The person replying to me wasn't entirely wrong in questioning whether it would continue, however.

E.g. I can certainly envision post-work economies, where the "penalty" of having multiple children is much lower, as they are essentially guaranteed a good life. I wonder which direction society's value system would evolve in that scenario.
It sounds like you've run into some bad apples, likely due to "promoted too early" syndrome, which is unfortunately pretty common. In my experience, code review by senior engineers is extremely valuable whether or not they're currently writing much code.
I think you're right, it's not exactly rare to have these kinds of problems on Amazon.

Here's an interesting example: Stroustrup's "A Tour of C++".

A purchaser warns: "Buyer beware: Amazon is selling counterfiets":
https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R26ANHFODF42VE/re...

Notice the top comment on the review is from Stroustrup:

"Thanks for warning others about this appalling fake. I'm shocked. After seeing your explanation, I have contacted Addison Wesley."

I'm not sure if the books were really outright fakes or just a "print on demand" of very poor quality. I wouldn't be very happy either way though as a customer.
The bigger problem is other reviewers assume that if the manager approves the review then there is no need for them to do as thorough a review.
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First company I worked for used CVS. I worked there from 2006 - 2013. They always talked about switching to SVN, but never did.

After that all companies I worked with used Git. I never really understood was SVN added to the game...
You fail to mention how medium's UI discourages non-"narcissistic Silicon Valley" developer from creating posts? As far as I can see they have tried to remove cruft so you can just focus on the writing. What about that is alienating?
If a Newtonian model of gravity doesn't "explain" gravity, then neither does general relativity. These are all different models of reality with different levels of model complexity and predictive accuracy, but there's no fundamentally binary difference between them in their power of "explanation" etc.

So new models like "dark matter" or "MOND" are all just different models that model observations better than prior theories but currently have the problem of being difficult to unify with the rest of theoretical physics.
There is also the part of "Please, insert insects, grain, live worms and lots of dirt in your machine". The problem is that powder processed protein could be more expensive than eggs.
Apparently, this site isn't intended to be a contest/perf-comparison. It's supposed to show that solid PWAs are doable with all of these frameworks. Looks like the authors are working on clarifying this: https://github.com/tastejs/hacker-news-pwas/issues/36
I don't know that this logic holds up if fuel costs are lower. It might work if the blimp is significantly cheaper than a plane (likely), and fuel is cheaper (or can use, eg, solar).

The cost for crew is about $100/ticket. So if you figure $500/ticket (cost from NYC to London a few months out, coach), then you have about $400/ticket to cover food, fuel, maintenance, etc.

So if fuel is cheaper, I'm not convinced it's actually (that much) more expensive.
"Richard M Stallman will tell you of the days when people mailed tapes back and forth"

There's a story of an AT&T source tape being left on a street corner by an anonymous donor in the early days of (I think) BSD.
Looks pretty cool! Do you have something for iOS as well?
Doesn't look like it's survived into 2017 looking at its press releases, but Aeros was supposed to be building airships with the main advantage of not requiring a runway for delivering cargo:

http://aeroscraft.com/press-releases/4591577189
Epicycles were wrong. They were an incorrect theory attempting to fit the math.
> such laws generally don't apply to war. they don't even apply to soldiers.

There was never a formal declaration of war on Iraq. Just saying.
> such laws generally don't apply to war. they don't even apply to soldiers.

No declaration of war was made on Iraq.
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wow! that graph is not what I would have expected (not sure what I would have expected, but... typescript and scala are dwarfing other languages... wow)

But it's dwarfed by c, c++, and javascript. Graph when you add a bunch of other languages:

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=go%2Ctypescri...
Ebay has evolved during the same time periods that Amazon has evolved, though my observation is that in the opposite direction toward increasing trust via transparency in the market. On Ebay, increased transparency is aligned with the common interest of trustworthy power sellers. Amazon has one power seller and increased opacity is in its interests.
Their installation Guide has some previews:

https://www.arcanoae.com/wp-content/uploads/wiki/ArcaOS50_In...
It's very simple: "Just use sourceforge".

And Berlios!
>Otherwise, few bat an eye that between them Google and Facebook (and perhaps 2-3 other players)

Big difference there between the one government that can put you in jail and you cannot divorce without leaving the country (sometimes not even then), and some fragmented web services you can point your browser in a different place.

Enormous, meaningful difference worth fighting over.
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consumers cant choose with their wallets.

you cant choose with your wallet to buy a model S because your wallet is not fat enough.

most consumers cant choose with their wallet to buy "fair trade happy animal farm" things because their wallets are not fat enough.
> Aliens is a bit different from your typical action movie in that the heroes are getting their butts kicked the entire time

Yeah, especially the first scene at the beginning when they start to get into the Alien lair and get their ass massively kicked. That whole scene was awesome from beginning to end.
I see it differently. There are tons of things done on email that email (the application, not the msg protocol) wasn't designed for. For example, email is not a collaboration tool. Yet so much of human (team) productivity depends on collaboration.

Email doesn't tread well. That is, it's only good for focused single topic conversations.

Email keeps passing a copy of previous msgs back n forth, instead of centralizing a single copy.

Wave was a step in the right direction, and Google lost its nerve, and vision. Foolish.

Yes, it's being extended. But a screwdriver as hammer isn't typically a best practice.
There are privately-owned A380s and 747s that are essentially mobile palaces.
I'd hope it does avoid necrosis, though.
Yes... my comment wouldn't make much sense if that wasn't the case.
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Have you ever heard of Charles H. Duell?

He was the Commissioner of US patent office in 1899. Mr. Deull's most famous attributed utterance is that "everything that can be invented has been invented."
I'm not much of an expert on the topic, but have also played with writing N-body simulations. At some point, obviously N^2 is unfeasible, so most simulations seem to use some approximation, such as the Barnes-Hut approach [1]. That approach divides the simulation space into an octtree. One can then use said octtree to approximate the force of distant quadrants by simply using the center of mass of an entire region. Due to the rate at which gravity drops off over large distances, it's "accurate enough", and fortunately the majority of "N" is "distant".

A good (but pretty shallow) overview exists on Wikipedia about other approaches [2] (under "Calculation optimizations").

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnes%E2%80%93Hut_simulation

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-body_simulation

EDIT: It's occurred to me that you were referring more to stability of the simulation, rather than what optimisations are used. I have less information to offer on that part, and I agree that it would be a huge problem, if complete accuracy was desired. I suspect, however, that in the kinds of simulations we're talking about, it's more about a general result such as "the whole galaxy should be divergent", not whether a single star went left or right when interacting with a black hole.
Yes, but he deprived MPAA and RIAA of revenue, so that's fair game.
Yup, but to be honest very few actresses can play such kind of roles. Sigourney Weaver is just an extraordinary fit for these kind of characters.
It has been a long time since I went really deep into this topic, so I can not remember where exactly what paper or book had the numbers.

Almost all of Africa was in some way effected, but that leaves you with the same problem. Why is Botswana doing fantastically well when Zimbabwe is going down the drain. Why is Tunis doing better then Libya?

We also have to account for the fact that all of these countries were pretty poor before the Europeans arrived as well. So you can really only blame Europeans for them to continue to not do very well.

Colonization is still a very important topic, but more in the context of how it shaped the institutions in those countries. The question we are trying to explain is why are all these countries unable to make sustainable institutional changes NOW.

> A country not affected by colonialism would be Japan which did quite well throughout the years.

Well, first I would argue that Japan culture has been far more effected by the West then the culture of Nigeria or Botswana. Why the Japan is a pretty special and unique case is a separate debate.

The same pattern does not hold for south east Asia for example. The countries not colonized are not doing better then those who have.
Self-hosting. SourceForge was certainly popular at one time, but it didn't own the market, certainly not to the extent that GitHub currently does. Many projects were simply run on whatever hardware and connectivity the project could scrounge up. For a project I founded I initially bought a used SPARCstation on EBay and installed CVS, Apache, Mailman, Bugzilla, etc. I traded consulting time with various local ISPs in exchange for bandwidth.
This is the problem with letting Labour be held hostage by one out-of-touch lunatic. You get an election where the Conservatives hold all of the cards, and can do basically anything they please as long as Jeremy Corbyn is the opposition.

Labour is so out of touch that even this draconian, insane law will probably not stop people from voting Conservative this time around. Labour has allowed itself to be infiltrated by antisemites and radical socialists, and nobody in Britain is voting for that.
Because our calculations are made with poor assumptions.
So true.

Coming from times when I had to download my PHP libs from SF and trying to get some fixes landed, everything's much different and better now.

I get everything via a simple npm install and landing PRs has never been easier.
I don't think this is a real solution. I need to talk to my friends and family privately without installing conspicious hardware on their house.

The right to encrypt and the right to privacy too are precedents that need to be defended, otherwise as soon as the law catches up and learns about the loophole, it will be closed quickly.