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Can't completely agree there. Contextual menus by right-click (or ctrl-click) have been core since OS X came out in 2000. (I would distinguish between "core" meaning extremely useful and effective, as opposed to "essential" meaning the only possible way to accomplish a task. Right click is still not "essential," just very useful.)

And back in the pre OS X days, tons of functionality was "hidden" with the option key. Things like saving the printer profile default were done by holding down option when clicking on the OK button. Again, not "essential" functionality, but very useful and known by those who had been using the system for years.

I think this type of hidden, but not essential to use, functionality goes waaaaay back in the DNA of Mac.
Fair enough, and props if it beats Windows, who have been trying to get here for years.
Stick it in business class overhead bin on your way through.
I believe the UK would nuke a blockading fleet in its water starving it of food. I do not believe it would do so to a fleet starving it of oil from the waters of Qatar.
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Ask HN: How to quit a job
So I am in a dilemma, at least in my heart and head.

I ran a consulting business for a few years, until last year when I found that my co-founder wasn't really up for it and we had been suffering a lot in recent 2 years. It was getting to a point where it was super frustrating and I kinda started hating it.

Eventually, in May last year, I pulled the plug and we parted ways. We had some clients that we wanted to wrap up our work for, so it took us till August that year to clear things. Meanwhile, since I had a family to support, I decided to get another job to cover my bills. This job was done remotely (most of the time) so I could spend time with family and not stress about fighting traffic etc.

Now, around November last year, I started playing with an idea on the side. Started to hack a solution for it in evenings, nights and weekends. It kinda took off around Feb this year where I am making some recurring revenue (nothing major, but good enough for a side project).

So now I am thinking that if I were to focus 100% of my energy on this, maybe I can go from side-project to company status. However, for that I would have to quit my "day job".

So my questions:

1. How should I quit my current job where they don't feel used?
2. Should I jump into a startup so soon after my bad consulting company experience?
I don't think there is an obvious one that stands out. Feels like a couple years before one really emerges. Lots of really early stuff in the hype cycle with blockchain, autonomous vehicles, VR, etc. There are also professional messaging platforms (Slack and its competitors) but they don't seem to have the reach yet to enable a huge company on the back of it. Then it seems that most of these are taking a more closed approach to monetize vs the early platforms.
Depends on the market. They're not so hot in the Chicago suburbs, where buyers have the option of newer construction "modern" homes in addition to pre-WWII vintage homes: https://chicago.curbed.com/2016/9/13/12902744/chicago-mcmans...

There are some metro areas where your only choices are basically McMansions or obsolete post-war housing. Given those limited options, it's no surprise why people prefer them.
test

> asdf

Are you manually applying the italics? Apparently

> asdf

That is indeed better...
Microsoft would disagree, and they have been astonishingly successful with the Surface Pro line.

The iOS11 desktop features are a vindication of Microsoft's original Windows 8 vision. Microsoft didn't /execute/ on that vision particularly well in either Win8 or Win10, but the convergence between handheld and desktop does offer some tangible advantages. It isn't all marketing BS.
If high self-control has a downside, these psychologists couldn't find it
At that point let's just get some symbiotic bacteria under our skin that feeds us proteins, fats, and simple carbohydrates. That would solve lots of problems.
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Check wikipedia again

an AIM120C is 300-400k

an AIM120D is 1.7M (I think it was listed as 1.2M last I checked this page)

According to this http://www.f-16.net/f-16_armament_article1.html
a sidewinder in 1999 had a unit cost of 55k-85k which would be 9L,M, or P most likely. 9X did enter service until 2003

These toys, much like the planes carrying them get progressively more expensive in newer version.

But the cost ratio stay much the same. You get 4-6 AIM-9 for the cost of one AIM 120
The plants taking up space in the grocery store have a pretty fast turnaround time while these basils will take few weeks to grow. Though I guess they could have these "farms" in some cheap warehouse then move it to the grocery store only when they're ready. Ok, this seems a bit more viable now.
If the community does not take status and funding away from failed models, it ceases doing science. As a group, economists aren't letting DSGE go.

There are many economists trying to do the right thing, but overall the area has a deep problem.
you are welcome :)
You haven't given much info. Do you know much about internet traffic? You might be overestimating the organic reach of your domain.

That being said, it's not too bad a deal, you are only out $2K if you have a taste and the domain doesn't deliver.

BUT cut out the equity piece. These type of shareholders are at best pure dead weight and at worst a pain in the ass.

One other note, even with a contract, there are ways the seller can screw you (eg. changing their bank acct details & going incommunicado) so if you are leasing make sure the domain is controlled by a neutral 3rd party for the lease term so you are protected if someone with a better offer comes along.
Can we effectively say fair use is dead? I wish mcmansionhell well, but how much is it going to cost them to fight Zillow?

I wonder if EFF would be capable of helping out.
I wonder what that 40% looks like if you do it by calorie.

There's no way 40% of potatoes or flour (or vegetable oil or ...) is expiring in transit.
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I just want to thank Bob for the amazing "Game Programming Patterns" book. I can't recommend it highly enough. And since I'm also interested in compilers, I will buy "Crafting Interpreters” without a hesitation.
How can you be sure the models are getting better (more accurate) over time?
Well at least nothing that will have me learn how to use it
or to get to accessing common crawl data .
Haha same here. It's becoming a bit of an issue, as my apt is getting filled up.
I grew up in Northern Virginia among these McMansions, and frankly I don't buy the elitism angle. These folks have a lot of money (top 5% at least, if not even top 1%) and are among the best educated in the country. And these aren't dwellings driven by the need for functionality. It's not like people here have big families they need to house (empty nesters can afford them more readily than people with families!). They're designed, instead, to be conspicuous consumption. If you can't ridicule them for lacking taste you're basically saying that taste doesn't exist and everything is always subjective.
In other news... water is wet
The Amazon Echo now doubles as a home intercom system
Intel is already going to be facing tough competition from AMD's Zen architecture too. AMD actually also make powerful ARM chips for servers, so I wonder if they might seize the chance for another angle of attack if it makes sense for them.
I also trained in politics and economics, and worked for a think-tank doing economic impact analysis for a short period. And I will tell you that Cato has a lot of good economists, that are well respected in their field; so do -most- think tanks, and Federal Reserve branches. Every economist has a political view, largely because economic policy is largely political. Krugman is a political hack, but that doesn't mean his papers are trade can be discounted, that would be absurd.

The reason economic theory is so hard is because it's very hard to observe and experiment. You can run a test and verify in physics, math, etc, but in economics this is generally impossible. Even the boom in behavioral economics that happened in the mid-2000s has come under question after more and more data has emerged. There are a LOT of things economists agree on, but there's also nuances on how a policy can achieve a result...because there are so many actors in an economy and we can't test our theory until maybe 10 years from now, and that's even if the policy is ever implemented to begin with.
I've been on two Moscow-Tokyo flights (Aeroflot) that were less than one third full.

I've been on a couple of intercontinental flights using Etihad, Swissair, Lufthanza and British Airways between Europe and Asia, most of which were not fully filled for the long legs between major hubs.

I've also seen a few full flights, so I guess it depends on luck and the seasons.
Yep, that's the way it's traditionally been at MIT as well. The DHCP hosts get things like DHCP-ipaddressspelledoutinenglish.mit.edu. The fear is that it's all going away.
I'd avoid going out entirely with the goal to network - it puts you into the wrong mindset, and people will pick up on it. The majority of people don't enjoy networking for the sake of networking.

Go somewhere people gather. Bars, clubs, meetups, work functions, really anything is fine. Be social. Expect nothing. Followup with the people you have a genuine connection with and they'll introduce you to their friends when the time is right. If you don't make a genuine connection, move on.

If you consistently do this, you'll build out a useful, large group of friends who actually care about you. Hopefully you care about them too.
> Sure.

No. The seats are not being made empty. You're just moving the empty seat next to you. Zero energy impact, save for moving the information around.
FYI your confirmation email uses https://www.minebaseapp.com (not working) whereas the main site uses https://minebaseapp.com (working). I guess you didn't configure your DNS records to handle the www subdomain because that results in a DNS error.
Awww, this is an art installation. That disappoints me. I was hoping that there was a good scientific reason why somebody had to do this ...

ObRobot: ABB Robotics pickers are always good robotics porn ...

https://youtu.be/wg8YYuLLoM0?t=77
Nonsense.

All A2A kills since 1999 have been with missiles.
The F-16 have very preciously few A2A kills using guns.
Let the lexicographers deal with the semantics and meanings words.

Simply put fossil fuels create a lot of problems they doesn't pay for. You are paying with your lungs to line the pockets of Exxon shareholders.
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Not very accurate though.
You can see about half a cm difference in 40 cms (compared to a tape measure beside it.)
I hope so. I feel like this has been Apple's end game for quite while but they have been squeezing out the profit from the movement towards that in the interim. I mean, the new Macbook ribbon thing, what a piece of crap compared to the innovation of a Surface Pro.

But if you can give me a Macbook's power with a touchscreen and detachable keyboard - "Here, take my money!" :)
Now I wonder what kind of comment was it.
seems like it would work better to scare off intimidation type lawsuits if we could show a willingness to pay her legal fees. then if they fuck off, we dont have to. there must be some kind of legal crowdfunding service like this right?
If you're interested in getting better at the terminal, I recommend you learn how to customize it. it'll really help you learn by doing and figuring out what it is you want to learn how to do first.

It's what worked for me, though. There are also some workflow ideas that have really helped a lot. Autocompletion and being about to look through your history for commands is super helpful too.

```
cat $HOME/.bash_history | grep -E 'command|argument'
```

https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions

I just finished a guid on my site about my terminal setup. I hope to read yours once you've customized the pixels out of it.

Aside from things to get your interested in the internals of your shell via bash scripting, you should also consider writing more shell scripts specifically around your workflows. I keep mine in a .files repo on GitHub. Take a look at the install script. It took me over a year to get really fluent in bash scripting enough to make it possible to get better and better at it.

Good luck on your journey!
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The person you're describing is a 23-year old woman who comes from a working-class background. Hardly elitist. McMansions are/were a status-symbol of the upper-middle class, and now they're being attacked from the bottom.
That doesn't explain why they would need a different precedence. `a + b - c` is not the same as `a - b + c` even through the precedence's of + and - are the same (in most syntaxes).
Data please. Briskly relative to other houses in the same size / price range?
I get the certificate hate if you have to pay for them yourself but that seems like an awfully broad statement. Many organizations love to send you off to get certificates. Anytime I need a vacation I simply look for a new certificate to get.
Not necessarily. Intel could easily walk away from some of its margin. Even the latest Qualcomm SoCs aren't particularly fast compared to modern intel CPUs, so intel would still maintain its high-end.

That doesn't mean ARM is inherently slow. Apple's SoCs are much faster on single threaded tasks than Qualcomm and Samsung's, easily approaching modern intel CPUs.
That writing has been on the wall since the iOS style application "launcher" was added to OS X.
I tried iOS 11 on the latest version of the iPad Pro 9.7" and iPhone 6S. I've actually downgraded back to iOS 10 because the beta was still too buggy for day-to-day use.

The existing 'multi-tasking' on the iPad Pro is fiddly, and this was no easier. Apps were locking themselves to the Dock and I couldn't work out how to remove them. Switching between apps was far from "Cmd + Tab" of the desktop. A lot of apps that I still use but haven't been updated in years broke because they're not 64 bit. And it was very slow. Even native apps like Settings and Notes were just hanging for seconds at a time.

The hardest bit is the sheer number of different ways of doing things. "You're in landscape mode, so if you slide down from the top and then slide left in the resulting screen you can see the last notification that popped up a second ago."

I did like the new keyboard, where I could just swipe down to get a capital letter or special character. And the control screen was good, as I could enable "Battery Saver Mode" and the "Personal Hotpoint" more quickly.

But I'll need to see a lot more polish to the Dock before re-upgrading.
The fact that there's such a thing as a nuclear landmine is more surprising to me than anything else in the story.

Edit: Article says it would have been manually, remotely detonated, so that's at least a little less crazy.
I don't know why it would be a blunder. On a jailbroken iPad it's a god send to be able to have a tablet with a mouse and keyboard with a battery that lasts forever. Touching the screen gets "gorilla arm" fast and also makes it dirty. Could also lead to tablet cases with built in track pads. But I can see the "this doesn't apply to me so it's dumb" narrative that seems to circle around Apple opinions so much.
Sure, I've never said this is objective. I hate bad guitar solos and most guitar solos are bad. So, I said I welcome the death of the guitar solo as a medium of transmission of shitty ideas into my brain by mediocre musicians.

But, I disagree with your comparison to "design, UX, business, entrepreneurship, football, tennis, etc."

Those are the thing. You can't have design without design. You can have design without the blink tag. You can't have UX without UX, but you can have UX without mystery meat navigation. You can't have business without business, but you can have business without telesales. You can't have entrepreneurship without entrepreneurship, but you can have entrepreneurship without "Why should a programmer get so much equity? It's my idea." You can't have football without football, but you can have football without that John 3:14 guy (who is in prison for multiple kidnapping charges, BTW). You can't have tennis without tennis, but you can have tennis without the tennis community's infuriating refusal to acknowledge Serena as the GOAT. You can't have etc without etc, but you can have etc without people who misspell it "ect". There are things that make UX bad; mystery meat navigation is one of them. There are things that make songs
bad; guitar solos are often one of them.

What I'm saying is that guitar solos are the unnecessary, usually unwanted, but too often present, part of an otherwise potentially good thing. They make songs worse in a lot of cases.
Sounds like you wanna start a biotech firm.
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Does the dock hide itself, or will it permanently eat the bottom inch of my ipad?

edit: I got blocked for writing thank you in response, so I'll write it here instead. Thank you for taking the time to answer me.
> At some point... god, most of a decade ago now, I guess, it seems like the kinds of people doing web design changed and this new crop didn't care about or understand bandwidth constraints like the old ones did.

This is a cyclical problem because people tend not to measure performance until they notice a problem, which means it's a function of both technical factors and user expectations. The rise of mobile added a confusion point since it basically dropped back to dial-up/DSL-class networking after the overall web community had had a decade to get used to cable modem-grade performance and made wasting bandwidth a direct cost rather than just inefficiency. In the mid-2000s, using a big JavaScript toolkit wasn't great but it wasn't so bad when you could assume that most users had better latency than even LTE delivers and user expectations hadn't adjusted for the post-IE era.

The other big factor is the ongoing decline of advertising as a viable business model. The worst offenders I see are either ads or the measurement tools publishers use to document their site's performance, and that's been getting continually worse as everyone keeps chasing diminishing returns.
Wasn't it possible to use USB mice with the iPad 1?
I like both mcmansionhell.com AND my mcMansion. Weirdly, she calls out fake shutters that won't actually close over the windows, but my 1954 built, 1300sq ft previous house had those as well!
I don't see why/how – they are _completely_ different UI interaction models. Superficially it looks similar, but the one thing that really set iOS apart, was to build UI concepts that targeted finger interaction first (UINavigationController and UITableView are stroke of genius).

Everything from how big the area for a tap is, to how to work with highlights, how dragging work, how things are aligned, what deliberate limitation etc, are different between macOS and iOS.
I'm sorry, but I don't think you have much experience in learning.
In this way you will only remember a fraction compared to focusing step by step on the different topics and purposefully recall all the concepts, ideally putting them to practice starting from scratch without looking at all at the book.
Source: pretty much every research about learning agrees that the conscious efforts of recalling, especially with spaced repetition is the best way to learn something.
Plus anecdotally decades of experience in learning a huge amount of topics, programming languages, human languages and whatever.
If you want to learn something useful I think that it may be helpful for you the course "learning how to learn", already cited by someone else here, in coursera that explains quite well why just skimming and reading a book is a very inefficient way of learning something.
Accordingly to that course and a lot of the current learning research I'm not the one that is wrong.
It hides itself. It's supposed to slide up intelligently, but sometimes it doesn't, so you have to go back to the home screen.
That's a keyboard shortcut, though. No way that is a hidden feature.
mcmansionhell's use is clearly fair use as it falls under both the criticism and parody exceptions. This might be why the Zillow SLAPP letter mainly focuses on supposed TOS violations. Whether unsigned web site TOS off on a page most visitors never see are enforceable at all is highly questionable.
MSFT? It has gone from ~$30 per share to ~$70 per share over the past 5 years.
> Real estate cost alone may trump every other cost savings.

In urban environments yes. In suburbia though grocery stores typically can name their own rent for headlining a shopping plaza, as that brings the highly desired foot traffic.
Must of the previous IOS beta have had similar poor performance. I dont know if some debug mode i running in the background or whats going on, but final version, is always much more performant.
Never heard of this before, thanks for sharing!
That kind of statement is simply an institutional prelude to internal negotiations for an increased departmental budget.
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Right, and I consider it a modal over the search results, not the page that hasn't been displayed yet.
Contextual menus were in Classic Mac OS since at least OS 8.0. If memory serves, there were also extensions (who remembers those?!) which provided them prior to 8.
They're claiming ToS violation.
Looks good to me now.
Have more optimism. AMP is all about performance and fighting web bloat, which is a real problem nowadays. This is how a typical mobile web page looks like: https://i.redd.it/t6u12tcocx5z.jpg and AMP is a radical but effective step towards the faster web. Additionally, AMP Cache loads content in less than no time and saves bandwidth and load on original servers, which reduces costs.
And locally, this could make food safety a guarantee.

No it doesn't.

If a farm has a bad harvest, there are other farms a store can buy from. If the store has a bad harvest. They're competing with their own customers to buy food from the next store over.
That launcher may be indication Apple was thinking that way, but look at their latest U-turns on pro hardware and reinforcing their commitment to laptop/desktop. I don't believe they're going that way anymore.

Also. Did you ever see anyone using that launcher as primary interaction?
I like Iceland's solution for this. They import bauxite and export aluminum to use their geothermal electricity as a resource. Perhaps there are other electricity-intensive operations that could be used to consume surpluses?
Unless you're doing something either destructive or hard to reverse ARKit will be plenty accurate for things like knowing if a piece of furniture will fit through a door or something will hang on a wall.

It'll also help make the ("it's a 55.5inch TV" + "No, it's clearly just a 30 inch one") argument much easier to settle.
Long distance power transmission is almost always done using DC power, so the phase of AC power is mostly irrelevant.
Or proves that people prefer a lower price point over style.

Or that, since 3/4 of US homes are spec rather than custom, developers prefer to built cheaper, larger homes when given the option.

(McMansions are generally cheaply constructed for their price / square footage)
I have a Windows 10 tablet (well, a "2-in-1" since it came with a keyboard using a Surface-style connector), and it seems to behave reasonably as both a tablet and laptop.

It's certainly more integrated than my experience has been with other OSs on tablets: Android doesn't do well as a laptop, nor does iOS; Windows 10 is a desktop operating system, and works reasonably as a tablet. (I don't like Windows 10 for other reasons that have nothing do with mode switching.)

I'm curious why you think Windows 10 didn't execute well on the idea.