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I see most firms start with NET30 now, but many have begun pushing NET90. We started putting terms in our contract that show bill due prior to work commencement, most don't pay attention and expect you'll just fall in line. Those are usually customers we don't want. The smart ones that actually pay attention will usually counter with a tiered approach. 50/50 or 40,30,30 with milestones. It can easily make or break a firm. Nothing more frustrating than a small business that has issues with finances not because of money, but because of erratic clients.
Yeah, my mental model for the app has been that the main list of decks "lives" in the center, the settings live on the right, and the actual studying happens on the left (you'll see that it also slides in from the left - mirroring the exit animation).

You're not the first to mention this, though. I should probably change it.
Toronto :(
Where was all the equipment in the new factory made?
> While I'm excited to see AMD's offering, as a scientific-HPC user I can't help but wonder how much marketshare AMD will be able to gain without more information on supporting software - specifically good compilers + math libraries (cf. Intel compilers + MKL).

My take is that AMD's newest offering will be very well received by everyone who has a relatively tight budget but needs a small supercomputer on the desktop. This means data analysts and people doing all kinds of structural analysis work. As some optimization algorithms fit the definition of embarrassingly parallel, the expected turn-around time of anyone doing that sort of work will benefit greatly from the extra speed, bandwidth and core count of AMD's Ryzen/Threadripper/Epyc line.
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This smells like prep for a sale.

But I would warn them, based on prior experience, that having a pile of cash can turn you into a target for takeover from someone who wants your cash. Once the companies merge, all that cash becomes 'our' cash and they can use it to buy themselves a couple extra years of burn rate.
I buy 3d prints off shapeways.com. It's been a great experience.
If you use redux with a type checked language like TypeScript or Flow it does.
Also, there is absolutely no abuse of power in Banks' society. This would certainly be a problem in a fully-automated capitalist society. I think Banks is a great inspiration, but it is not a world we will get by default. It needs active political effort.
The narrative around that is crystal clear. He filed a police report, and when the police went to Uber they gave incorrect information. They cooperated exactly like an accomplice giving a false alibi, actually.
Of course there are; I wasn't suggesting those as appropriate fonts. I was using them as extreme examples of stylistic mismatch.

Proportional fonts have less mismatch when used for code, but they still tend to look "wrong" to me. A font like "Input" is attractive and offers proportional and monospaced versions. You're still left with the larger problem: fighting the font to line up data across multiple lines.

Maybe you don't care about that, but in both my hobby and professional projects, I've found that alignment makes the code easier to read and easier to work with. I would need a very compelling reason to abandon that, and I haven't seen one offered.

Going back to your original comment, you said:

> Proportional fonts are so much more legible and nicer to look at.

You also provided a convenient reply, which I think applies here:

> You should just use better fonts.

Hack, Input Mono, and a zoo of others are very attractive monospaced fonts. You aren't stuck with whichever ugly ones you're thinking of.
I buy that stuff by the gallon. If you live in a high humidity area it has so many uses.
> The legal definition is different than the dictionary definition.

The legal definition is irrelevant, since the use in the title is not referring to the legal offense at issue in the lawsuit (which is not the crime of robbery, sure, but also not the crime of theft that you spend most of your response discussing the definition of for a jurisdiction other than the one relevant to the article, but instead a tort, likely—though unspecified in the article—conversion or something similar) but a common-language description of the event.
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I think the poster of that claim is confusing "plain" logical replication and multi-master replication. There's a lot of infrastructure in common between both, but the conflict resolution part of async mm didn't make it it into postgres 10...
Oracle is in most people's list too.
'The Sierpinsky gasket makes me wanna cry.'

I can't hear the name Sierpinsky without thinking of 'Mandelbrot Set' by Jonathan Coulton.
It depends a lot on where you are, and whether you knew the identity of the car.

I once lost my phone in a private hire in the UK (these are essentially less tightly regulated taxis that cannot pick people up off the street, they must be pre-booked only, and are what Uber operates as), and having emailed the office kept getting told that he was going to hand it in to the police as lost property "tomorrow" for a number of days. In the end, I told them that unless he handed it in within a further three days I would go to the police and make a complaint of theft against the driver, with all the emails between me and their office as evidence that a) they knew who the driver was even though they wouldn't tell me, and that b) he had it. Surprisingly enough, it got handed in within a couple of hours after that.
Really poorly written. Spends far too long in getting to the event, and really confusing about the court proceedings.
> This might very well be the beginning of Uber's demise.

Yeah they may start losing money every quarter.
From the press release (https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/201...):

"...where there is not certain and irrefutable evidence, to conclude that there is a defect in a vaccine and a causal link between the defect and a disease on the basis of a set of evidence the seriousness, specificity and consistency of which allows it to consider, with a sufficiently high degree of probability, that such a conclusion corresponds to the reality of the situation, are compatible with the Directive.

Such evidentiary rules do not bring about a reversal of the burden of proof which it is for the victim to discharge, since that system places the burden on the victim to prove the various elements of his case which, taken together, will provide the court hearing the case with a basis for its conclusion as to the existence of a defect in the vaccine and a causal link between that defect and the damage suffered."

If I'm interpreting this correctly, this seems like it's meant to protect the victim.
Thanks! I will check them out.
That's not what they were trying to argue. They were trying to argue that the video of the car leaving as soon as he got out (and him continuing to walk away) proved that he was expecting the car to leave as soon as he got out, therefore he was lying to the court about having intentionally left a backpack in the car.
Not really, Island people in some areas of Asia have bountyless fish, fruit and vegetables and the lack of a proper job doesn't seem to depress them.
I can believe they aren't up to Apple's standards for their laptops.
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And minimum seven years experience with existing factory dog.
Shh, don't be difficult.

Only stone-age humans are natural. You shall not use bronze, and iron is right out. Fossil fuel is Cthulhu.
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I do this. I also keep the most valuable stuff with me (re: backpack on) while doing this.

But also generally the driver gets out with me to help get the luggage out...?
> if there are laws and regulations overdue for overhaul or discard, that is a debate we have first using established mechanisms.

While this is all hunky-dory in the abstract, it's usually more complicated in reality.

Established mechanisms are not always equally accessible to everyone (in practice, not in theory), nor are they equally effective for everyone. There's a reason protestors take to the streets* instead of calmly writing to their Congressmen about their problems.

We can debate ad-nauseum about whether or not Uber crossed the line, but let's not pretend that changing (or even starting a discussion about changing) the status quo is straightforward.

* Yes, I know that protesting in the streets is also an established mechanism, but I hope you get my point
It doesn't really seem like this guy was qualified to make such a pivotal decision like choosing the database your entire system will run on given his self-submitted breadth of experience in the opening paragraphs...
How about adding a very dark twist: pay people to not breed. Everything else would just be a buildup for universal suffering just a few generations down the line.
Ugh, I didn't stop to consider the special education component (and its cost). That's my bad.

This reminds me of a similar theory in regards to affluent towns with low taxes that have minimal social programs, that "export" their elderly to nearby cities with higher taxes but have programs such as Paratransit and Meals-on-Wheels.
No I would think the minimum requirement would be 20 years of experience with the same factory dog with the sort of requirements that go on these days with businesses -- it's only going to get worse.
The guy makes hot sauce, what do you expect? I thought it was a pretty good read. Although I'm familiar with FYM from Dota 2. (Love Team NP)
FTA: What Uber told the police.

"The Uber department responded that they had no record of a trip from the vehicle with that license plate on December 5th, 2016, just after 11 PM, and the driver had not driven with them for 2 years."

"Sufficiently cooperative" (per you) and outright lying are two very different things.

FTA:

"Why would Uber not have the information on the driver for the police? Uber asserted that they don’t have the ability to look up the drive information of my trip with the information provided (license plate, car make and model, name of driver, time and date of trip, and pickup and drop off location of trip) as it was a violation of privacy. "

Uhhh... what? It violates privacy? Your either complying with the police or you aren't. "There was no warrant" would have been an OK answer, but that wasn't what they said.

They aren't being muddled or unclear here, they are literally avoiding giving answers that would make them look bad. Maybe if they had been more honest and responsive the items could have been recovered rather than the blame falling on Uber.
> _"These unification feats are both great intellectual achievements as well as noteworthy goals, but they have led many to believe that unification is the only thing that really matters in physics, and perhaps in all of science."_

The whole essay is motivated by an opinion that is pulled out of thin air, and attributed to some mysterious "they". No evidence of who makes this claim. I've not seen any good physicist (much less the lot of them) claim that unification is the only thing that matters for physics.

> _"The obsession with unification has led to an ignorance of the diversity of discoveries in physics. In parallel with the age of the unifiers has existed the universe of diversifiers. While the unifiers have been busy proclaiming discoveries from the rooftops, the diversifiers have been quietly building new instruments and cataloging the reach of physics in less fundamental but equally fascinating fields like solid-state physics and biophysics."_

Duh! The American system of science funding necessitates sales and marketing. When your research creates tangible applications, you needn't go around proclaiming how you're doing deep things. Conversely, the only way for people doing abstract/theoretical work is to keep trumpeting ceaselessly; given the precarious funding situation, their supply could be cut off at any point!
I agree, hence I wrote "Universities are not trade schools (nor should they be)"
I'm not saying it's not hard, but success is very much possible.

E.g. Shopify handled $15.4 billion worth of transactions[1] in 2016, and that's just one platform.

[1]: https://www.shopify.com/2016
My understanding is that the EU PSD2 regulation indeed is supposed to make banks adhere to a standardised API. That being said, I wouldn't expect a super easy to use REST api with documentation powered by readme.io.
Source code still available here: http://incubator.apache.org/wave/source-code.html
> How does multi-master replication solve write scalability issues? I'm not familiar with the postgres implementation, but don't all writes have to happen on all servers?

It doesn't generally. You often can increase the total throughput because independent transactions can be batch committed when replicated, which can increase throughput noticeably, but that's more like a constant factor improvement than a real scalability improvement.

What it does however often allow you to do is to:

a) Address latency issues with writers distributed across the globe. If you have masters on each continent your total write rate can often be massively higher than if you have application servers from each of those continents write to a centralized database.

b) Partially replicate your data globally, partially not. Quite often you'll want to have some data available everywhere (typically metadata, security related data, etc), but a lot of the bulk data only available in certain places.
> Once the C++11 standardization process took off, D was pushed away into irrelevance.

No doubt about it, many existing C++ users feel this way. I've read the same comment many times. Most programmers, however, are not C++ programmers, and they are not looking for a better C++. They are looking for the best programming language for their needs (which means in most cases they won't go anywhere near C++). Your comment about D being irrelevant doesn't make much sense.
the exact scenario that you described plays out in Argentina among other places.

in the US, it would look a bit different, though.

neither party is clean, and so both agree to leave questions of cleanliness off the table.
What's the usefulness of this?

Part of the reason I ask is because while I would trust a UI designer to design the layout, colors, for an application, I think font design isn't as simple because there's a lot of factors that go into it, in some ways scientific and some ways artistic. I wouldn't trust someone who isn't trained in font/typeface design to use a tool like this.

Also: On Safari, this took maybe 5-8 seconds to load, and bogged down the entire browser for that time. Afterwards it took a lot of power to render something else on the page. For something that is only showcasing a font demo to take up that much power is pretty crazy.
Etsy is a company that needed to stay private
This interested me however it appears to be abandoned ... last commit was on 2013-10-25 and comments like the one at the end of this comment thread:

https://github.com/chetan51/sidestep/issues/62

indicate that it is abandoned ...
If I have luggage in the truck, I'm always concerned that the driver may simply forget and drive off. Leaving the passenger door open until you get your luggage is good advice.
Given the history of trying to build public support for moving UBI from $0 to >$0, probably the former, even if you switch the non-UBI factors, after wealthy interests who aren't on the benefitting side of redistribution get their propaganda in.

“People will always vote for the candidate that promises to increase public benefits they receive” is an attractive myth that doesn't actually play out in practice; in the US, it doesn't even play out in practice in primary elections within the major party most favorably inclined to public benefit programs.
> I only use Uber as a last resort now.

I really don't get this. You are livid with the company and yet you will still continue to pay them. Why would they do anything different then? Why are there situations where you absolutely have to use Uber as a last resort? What did you do in those situations previously before Uber came about?
This is the tipping point Jobs was afraid of: The AppStore rules were created to ensure no single developer could become the portal that wrestled control over the user experience from the OS the way Chrome did for windows.

Now both operating systems are being subsumed by messenger apps as the vast majority of the experience, thus earning the future value and trust of users.
I'm displaying my single use of Uber to date, but if the driver steals your phone, can you ever give him a one star review? I thought a couple of one stars and he never drives for Uber again. But if he inoculates himself from reviews, that is quite a hack of the system.
Any anecdotal stories about losing items in traditional Taxis? The first clerk didn't think that ever worked out, wondering about that claim...
Thank you!

I probably don't have the bandwidth to support a full-blown API, but making a web app that makes bulk creation faster is a priority.
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Based on some of the areas where there was difficulty (moving from NetApp, Postgres) it seems as though AWS might have been a better choice. EFS is a drop in replacement for NetApp and Aurora Postgres would step in for their own Postgres server. Especially since they are still dependent on AWS anyway.
I guess they haven't heard of METAFONT.
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One thing that strikes me as strange is how we have had a persistent release of negative information about Uber through many different kinds of media outlets for the past few months.

This is not meant to cast doubt on the problems at Uber highlighted in these reports.

However, It seems like the drip of negative information was intentional, perhaps with the goal of having him resign.

Uber was guilty in the public eye almost immediately.

Even today the media narrative is that this is good for Silicon Valley culture as a whole. Implicit in this line of thinking is that most SV companies have the same culture problems. I find that to be troubling and largely incorrect.
With an anti-globalist Democratic candidate, there would have been be no substantial Perot support.

Maybe so, but then the Bush argument would have been 'did I not just defeat Communism and win a great victory in Iraq? Your labor provincialism would snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.'

Being a resident of California I think the country would have been better off with Jerry Brown, but his expression of support for Jesse Jackson at the wrong time put paid to that.

I've got to say as a Euro that while I support that sort of pro-labor welfare state agenda on a policy level, I feel Democrats in the have a bad habit of overestimating its popularity at the strategic level where elections are won. There large currents of irrationality and historical animus at play in the American electorate that the Republicans have been better at leveraging into electoral results even though those same factors are a disadvantage in governance.

This discussion is sort of getting into the weeds and I have other stuff I want to do today, but I'd be delighted to follow up if you wanted to drop me a note via gmail.
> linear programming style

Maybe you should stop writing your programs in Forth?
Call me wrong if I misunderstood, but isn't reference counting also kind of GC?
I dont think PISA ratings are that useful, but it does show USA ahead of Russia and China for Reading and ahead of Russia for Science so hardly evidence that USA is worse.
I found it too densely informative. After the 2nd or 3rd attempt I ditched it and just jumped into programming. Personal preference possibly. I think erlang's difficulty is exaggerated. Just jump in - the immediate little wins will lubricate the process.
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Not without conscious effort on the part of the developer. I almost wish there were a Typescript-first re-implementation of Redux.
To be fair I think there is still going to be a lot of appetite for a service like Teller once PSD2 launches to unify these individual bank APIs. They may not even all work the same way. It'd be much better to have one entry point than develop for multiple different banks' implementation.
More specifically, it aims to be POSIX `sh`-compatible, which gives a large speed boost in many cases.

There's a `checkbashisms` command in Debian's `devscripts` package to ensure scripts will work correctly under both shells.
Once upon a time I heard a concept in motorcycling of the sacrificial jerk. This was when you deliberately rode behind someone who rode like an asshole. In turn they provided the upper boundary of your willingness to break the speed limit and for you to ride like an asshole, in hopes that they'd attract the ire of the police instead of you.

Leaving any motorcycle safety conversations aside, I think Uber has been the sacrificial jerk of the rideshare industry. Lyft probably would have attracted some of the same issues if there hadn't been someone more brash and more willing to flout their law breaking ahead of them.

Now Uber's explosive expansion and the resultant "they're gonna do it anyway, may as well accommodate 'em" reaction of the regulators has more or less normalized the good parts of the rideshare industry. Lyft and perhaps other competitors-to-be can benefit without taking nearly as much flak. Hopefully you're right in terms of the ability to provide a much bigger net positive in that situation.
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This is a tired argument. Yes, it's harder with a taxi. Less proof / information about exactly which taxi you were in.

But Uber doesn't get to simultaneously claim to be safer than taxis because of the data being tracked whilst also not using that data to help prevent and prosecute crimes.
I'm sure that those are designed such to eliminate as much drag as possible while also providing steering capabilities on descent?
Well it's a secret :-)
We are not saying the same thing. His investors asked him to step down for a reason and that reason was not profit or rather lack thereof; they've had ample profit reason to fire him for years. The reason the Uber board asked him to leave was not a capitalist reason.
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> I remember hitting some edge cases where some bespoke shell scripts don't work correctly on Ubuntu because DASH is a "slim" Bash alternative, so it doesn't have all the "bashisms".

People say that, but usually the reason their scripts are not working is that they are using bashisms while retaining

#!/usr/bin/env sh

or

#!/bin/sh

rather than doing as they should when writing shell scripts that are using bash features;

#!/usr/bin/env bash

I think it boils down to a lot of people being unaware of the difference between what is POSIX compliant and what is not, or even that there is such a distinction to be made.

I write most of my shell scripts targeting bash, but I always use the hashbang that invokes to bash, and I also name my scripts like somescript.bash when it's a bash script and somescript.sh when it's POSIX shell.
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Your expensive rent, you can thank AirBNB for that, and they should be burned to the ground. The simple fact that the author glosses over is ridesharing, despite its scofflaw roots, has been legitimized and codified into law, because it is good for people and the people want it. Whereas what we're seeing with AirBNB is legislation to strictly curtail their activity. Because their activity is bad for people, and people who are locals don't want it.
did anyone else notice this blog post is on site that sells hot sauce?