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You need both. A visionary alone needs the discipline that comes from having to choose which vision of many and finish it. A financial focused manager will never bet on any but the most obvious ideas and thus lose when someone else makes something work.

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard. The least creative person has enough ideas to bankrupt even the biggest company if you start a team to implement them all as the idea occurs (a car obviously takes more people than a paper notepad, but you should expect to have all those ideas)

A visionary who never thinks about money will eventually run out, or worse bounce between ideas and never finish one. The person who only thinks about money will not invest in the things required to continue making money.

I've heard it stated that you need a visionary CEO and a close second who is a financial realist. The visionary has lots of great ideas, the financial realist reigns them in and forces the visionary to choose which vision(s) to focus on and finish; and let the others go. This works great until the visionary CEO steps down (dies, retires...), when you put the realist second in charge all the visionary projects are stopped, for a couple quarters the company makes more money, but there are no visionary things in the pipe so the company dies a slow death.
Isn't there a new law forbidding the waiving of class action no matter what the eula says?
I did the opposite in 2011. Got tired of having nothing to do but go to bars and restaurants. Enjoying the LA life of having a beach and nice hiking at my door. Lots of diverse industries that need tech talent as well as a startup scene.

Raleigh felt stagnant when I left, with most of the jobs enterprise software in unsexy industries. Grass is always greener I suppose!
Practical example, we use C++ as systems language for projects done in Java (Standard, Android), .NET (WPF, UWP, Xamarin), Swift/Objective-C (iOS).

There isn't much Ada tooling available for those environments, and even using GNAT would be increasing project costs regarding having to implement ourselves stuff that we get for free with the SDK tools that support C++ out of the box.
I don't think that sounded like a good plan, but good luck I hope it works out.
You're speculating. As it stands right now, Uber is absolutely cheaper than taxi's (at least where I am from). What they have to do in the future is anyone's guess.
Do you know if this memory management work might also make it into .NET Native?
They seem to have a couple, which are you recommending?
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Exynos 8895 vs. Snapdragon 835, Performance and Battery Life Tested
There is a GNU cryptocurrency project that aims to give the State the power to tax the users of the currency. How can you trust anything with the GNU label after that?
Code highlighting sounds really useful. Yet need to improve the collaboration before supporting pair programming perfectly.
The BE-4 blew up on the test stand a couple months ago when they tried to test it. It's not complete because they are likely redesigning to fix that. We know it hasn't had a successful test or they and especially ULA would be trumpeting it.

The subscale Raptor was successfully tested nearly a year ago and is twice the power of anything BO has ever made.
Yeah new research is coming out frequently enough that reveals new and previously unknown weaknesses and patterns in the mixing strategies. The teams do a good job of responding quickly to address new issues, but previous trades that leaked information can't be fixed. The information is out there forever.

If you are trying to stay out of jail, I'd consider Monero a good mid-term strategy. Anything else (including Zcash) of probably not even that great in the short term. (So few people use the anonymous part of Zcash that you have a terrible anonymity set). Dash, pivx , etcetera are just plain insecure.
> downside - traffic is horrible.

Pretty sure I hear that downside for every major US city.
That's just semiconductors, which are about half their profit but only about a quarter of their revenue. Their overall gross margin is 46.9% and their op margin is about 25%.
Comma-first makes sense since you're chaining off the right-hand side of an expression more than most other languages, e.g. with |> operators.

That decision will probably save man-years of wasted time spent managing a trailing comma.
You could refrain from becoming a supernode by disabling "Allow direct IP connections" in the Skype settings - but personally I didn't mind.
"Your first homework assignment of this class is to complete the William Wallace Campaign."

But in all seriousness, while I do really like this idea, I have a feeling that costs of development might outweigh the benefits somewhat. Although having said that, if somebody made an Age of Empires style game which was chock full of historical information I would buy it in an instant.
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That's some incredible money, congrats!

I'm not going to pretend this is scientific in any way, but using online COL calculators (http://money.cnn.com/calculator/pf/cost-of-living/index.html), $300k in San Francisco is supposedly (taken with many grains of salt) equivalent to $172k in Atlanta, which you could surely land?
In Perl, no such surprises, because the operators for string concatenation and arithmetic addition are different, as they should be. Motto: different things should look different.

Overloading + is a huge design mistake in many languages and a source of bugs.

$ perl -E'say 1 + 2 . "=" . 1 . 2'
3=12
$ perl -E'say 1 + 2 . "=" . (1 + 2)'
3=3
$ perl6 -e'say 1 + 2 ~ "=" ~ 1 ~ 2'
3=12
$ perl6 -e'say 1 + 2 ~ "=" ~ 1 + 2'
3=3
OSS meaning operational support system?
I strongly agree with this. A recent Google search I did showed companies are already trying this with VR. I hope within the next decade it is common place for students to learn history by being put in the shoes of different people during the events.

I know one famous history lesson where a teacher separated her class into 2 groups based on the color of their eyes. This happened shortly after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. The teacher than treated one group superior to the others. They received longer recess, praise & other benefits. The inferior group was treated very poorly & their grades & attitude suffered because of it. The next day she said she made a mistake & the other group was superior. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/introduction-2/

The students in my school had a history teacher that would randomly surprise us in Middle School with an announcement of our school being selected to send one student to space. He put on a great acting performance to a bunch of gullible students. He did this to discuss what it might have been like sailing across the ocean to discover a new continent. He also talked about the teacher that sadly died with several astronauts in an explosion. Almost everyone who attended my school remembers this lesson.

Imagine if it was easy for all teachers to provide historical lessons with such impact & meaning. The improvements it could make in civil engagement, relations in our communities & maybe it could even help curb the constant jumping to conclusions that people love to do.
But don't hold yourself too much if you think you're not too knowledgeable about something to present about it.

You may be deterred by watching some talks where the presenter seems awesome and seems to know so much more than you. You don't have to be the top expert on a topic in order to know a few things worth sharing.
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The BE-3 is half the power of the Merlin and has only been fired in tests.

The BE-4 is a collection of parts thats never been fired together successfully.

2021 is hugely optimistic given BOs track record.
Partly that, and partly dependencies. For example in one project we use VTK for visualization. The Python VTK wrapper until recently only supported Python 2. So the rest of the project is Python2/3 compatible, but to run the visualization we have to run the Python 2 version.

VTK itself recently does support Python 3, but it's not in Debian/Ubuntu yet. And we'd have to upgrade our code to VTK 7. (Now 8, I believe, seems we've skipped a version.) So... lots of inertia all around, basically.

The result is that in the meantime (meantime being like, 2 years), we compile Python 2 and Python 3 versions of everything.

Not to mention that it's hard to justify breaking user's code that we aren't in control of just to tell them to fix their print statements -- though obviously we'll get there eventually.
>Why do articles like this keep showing up on HN?

Because it doesn't take many upvotes to push something to the front page. (I believe at the time of your comment, it had ~20 upvotes.)

To simplify, you have 2 competing philosophies about cryptocurrencies:

1) the idealists about BTC/Ethereum empowering decentralization

2) the skeptics that believe digital currencies are hype

Each side has a group of people submitting stories. And apparently, each side has enough critical mass (e.g. ~20 votes) to constantly push their opposing agendas to the front page.

E.g. for Ethereum... Whether it's a positive story ("Learn to Write Smart Contracts") or a negative story
(schadenfreude about DAO meltdown), both will continue to make the front page for years. I refreshed HN front page an hour ago and it had 3 stories about bitcoin.

Or to look at it another way, BTC stories keep appearing because there are not enough upvotes for other stories unrelated to cryptocurrencies.
You can't escape the rocket equation.
I use it daily and I think it is among the best IDE I have ever used because of the exceptional code complete and debugging features. It pays a lot to learn the keyboard shortcuts and setup live templates because those will save you a lot of time.
For one thing, titles beginning with 'quant' seem to be missing, though perhaps I did not dig deep enough.
If BCC takes hold, with its 8x block-size increase, I'd say the bar would be going up from "not completely technologically illiterate" to "a bit of a storage engineer"
Coworkation retreat for digital nomads in Indian Himalayas
As a five-time would-have-been infant mortality case, I emphatically agree with you. Mastering our environment and ourselves to turn them towards our purposes rather than their mere natural flow is what being human is. That's how our species rolls!

Besides which, the Neolithic Revolution was 10,000 years ago if some damned primitivist really wants to make appeals to the natural order, rather than to the potential benefits and detriments to human health and happiness.
That was my immediate reaction as well - looks very like a "proper" Land Rover!
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There are a ton of meetups around the Philadelphia area, especially around University city. What I would do is come up with a couple ideas for talks, then go to a meetup, chat with the organizer(s), tell them you're interested in giving talks and ask how many people they think would come to the topicsyou propose.

They vary in how far out they plan, e.g. the Java Users Group has a speaker list booked to the end of the year.

The part I struggle with is scheduling, since it takes a lot of time for me to write the actual talks.
I really wish they would make a proper remaster of Age of Empires II. The HD edition doesn't cut it.
5 tips to address the scepticism when taking technology solution to market
> Inspired by Leonardo da Vinci’s “simplicity is the ultimate sophistication”, LibreOffce developers have focused on fle simplicity as the ultimate document interoperability sophistication. This makes ODF and OOXML fles written by the free offce suite more robust and easier to exchange with other users than the same documents generated by other offce suites.

So, two notes here:

1) Microsoft Office and Google Docs at least have figured out how to make their web versions so that when I copy-and-paste from them, any i following an f doesn't disappear because of whatever they're doing to kern letters.

2) "Shorter XML output" is about 978th on the list of things that LibreOffice needs to do to improve interoperability, and the fact that it's a focus is deeply weird.
I have not yet played a Unity game which doesn't have the "unity look and feel". I don't think anyone is going to be able to convince me otherwise. I am happy to purchase a modern (in the last 3 months) popular unity game tonight. If you can think of one that doesn't run like a Flash SWF, I will buy it.
Stallman has always wanted government funded open source software, so that's probably why
Why don't you shop on eBay anymore?
While I won't say that Monero offers heat privacy, it's clearly much better than CoinJoin or JoinMarket on bitcoin. For one thing they have thousands of users and transactions. The number of people participating in mixing gives you a big shield to hide behind.

For another, they hide balances, and they do actively pay attention to the information leaks, and they employ strategies to fight that. When the drug markets were busted, dash and pivx users were discovered, but Monero users were kept hidden.

It's pretty clear to me that they are at least moderately successful where nobody else really is yet. New strategies may come out tomorrow to unmask everyone, I certainly wouldn't bet my own life on Monero's safety, but they overall are outperforming everyone else in a practical sense.
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I see your point, but then most financial investments could be considered pyramid schemes as people always are vocals about how their investment is great, partly for the feeling of being convinced to be a good investor, partly because value raises if other people are buying. The definition of "pyramid scheme" has to be stricter than that if it has to have any meaning :)

Regarding intrinsic value, there's one thing I hope from bitcoin (or any other crypto that could achieve that) : replacing my bank account. Banking services have got so bad with years, it's really time to disrupt them. Granted, we're far from there yet, and it may never happen. That's why it's a risky investment, with possible high reward (or high loses) and why ... it can't be used as a bank account (because of the volatility). Still going in the right direction, IMO.
? What does that have to do with anything? The idea behind Taler is that unlike bitcoin, it doesn't try to fly under the radar of the authorities. That makes it a lot more palatable for regular people and greatly curtails the amount of undesirable elements using it that are associated with Bitcoin.

Most people don't go out of their way to be tax cheats.
Chrome extensions have been abused this way many times.
One counter-example: 360 collision avoidance is a big improvement to self-flying drones, and it requires additional cameras and a bigger computer to process them. You don't need to pay for that if your drone will only be flown manually.
Budget is basically equivalent to revenue. Public (government) to private.

Value of NASA is quite a bit more than their yearly expenditure.
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This can't be stressed enough. The military does a lot of R&D spending, but it's nowhere near as beneficial to the U.S. or the world than if we encouraged more space programs with that money.

It's unbelievably depressing to me that we could be leading civilization into a multi planetary age but choose not to.
I thought it was interesting to see people who still like Amazon and think it's better than eBay.

I still use both, but for what I buy eBay tends to be easier and better.
How much do we think the CEO position will be genuine, or more of an honorary position to make the company seem stable?
I'm not sure it is overvalued, at least in the medium term.

Ransomware forces people to buy bitcoin while at the same time making the bitcoins spent unspendable (because spending them will get you caught).

If you controlled all bitcoin, the way to make money with ransomware is selling your legitimate coins to people who need to buy them to fulfil their ransoms.

Each ransom paid decreases the bitcoin in circulation which further puts pressure on the price. Eventually the pool of legitimate bitcoin will be tiny, but ransoms will still get paid, so the ransom demands will be smaller and smaller in bitcoin denomination. If we assume the ransoms that people are willing to pay is steady in dollar value then that will push the price of bitcoin up.

There is tremendous inflationary pressure on a fragile bitcoin eco-system. It can withstand high inflation because no-one has their salaries or bills in bitcoin.

Where does deflationary pressure come from? It will have bubble cycles that will bubble and pop but overall even as it gets less popular by users, the actual price can rise and rise if the currency circulates slower and slower. The last few bag-holders might have huge paper wealth before they realise there's no one left to actually buy their coins.

I don't think it's a legitimate investment though, it's still a pyramid scheme by it's nature (Satoshi still owns a large proportion of all coins) and even without that investing in bitcoin is investing in cyber-terrorism and funding criminals. (Unlike the "if you download MP3s you're funding terror" bullshit this one is actually closer to the truth).
Not quite. Things are happening, but perhaps not in the way you'd expect. See https://github.com/elm-lang/projects/blob/master/roadmap.md#... for roadmap notes, and some more notes on how issues are handled in Elm: https://github.com/process-bot/contribution-checklist/blob/m...
Elixir doesn't (yet) seem to be suffering from this despite having a Benevolent Dictator
>If I told you that I could make you smarter, right now, with 100% certainty and safety, but that afterwards... you wouldn't be you as you are now... would you say yes? Possibly, but I feel there's a certain inherent unease with that question. What happens to me if I become other?

This is silly. I don't become some other person when I drink alcohol or wear contact lenses, nor when I break a leg, exercise my muscles, or make any other permanent alteration to my body. A theory of self/identity that "breaks" under new medical advancements because it also breaks under everyday conditions is just a bad theory.
You act like people are forgoing some Epic Utopia City to live in Seattle. Hate to break it to you but every major US city has these problems and usually more. Dysfunction is at every level.
This has nothing to do directly with this blog post, but just wanted to say that Scott Hanselman is probably the best that could have happened to .NET of all things. Better than Linq and async/await together. He's an amazing speaker and his blog is a great resource for everything around .NET. Can highly recommend to watch and follow this guy!
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>which I run under Wine on FreeBSD

No luck with linuxemu?
Take just for example (if it's a feature, I don't know) setting yourself to an away state. In a client-server model you'd just tell the server you're away now with any metadata that goes along with it. Other clients will get that information from the server.

With a p2p model you have to tell every contact's client that you're away and provide any metadata that goes with that information to each individual contact.

To reiterate the away state is just an example off the top of my head, I don't know if this service supports status updates.
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Agree with this, especially with the "it takes quite a bit of care even for simple stuff", but this should not discourage developers to do so.
One of the reasons to build this kind of infrastructure is to set proper standards for smart contracts development which are currently missing.
As long as we are aware that we need to be careful, and we raise the quality of the code and keep on developing tools to improve development as a whole things should keep on moving forward.
This is really about Peachpie, an open source PHP to .NET compiler. (Edit: the title has now been updated) From the comments on the article, here's a set of benchmarks showing Peachpie with a significant performance advantage over PHP 7 in a number of benchmarks: http://www.peachpie.io/benchmarks. That said, it's still hard to get excited about PHP.
thanks for your feedback. I'm a game developer. But lately I want to switch job to web development. And this is the first website I made and published using ruby on rails.
Sad, but we'll probably fix blindness before we'll ever fix our software to be able to accommodate it.
German here. This is a recording of "Willkommen und Abschied" by Goethe. It's a beautiful poem and I find that this recording does it justice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mgd0JYKu14Q
I'm a little surprised Chicago is not on the list. The Chicago tech scene is not huge, but it is growing, and it is definitely much more dynamic than Philly or LA or San Diego. It is the third largest metro in the country with a large hinterland, so cost of living is still fairly affordable. Tales of crime are overblown by the media -- they are mostly outside the city, and normalized to population, is not significantly higher than other large metros.

There are also two elite schools here: Northwestern and U of Chicago, with many other middle tier schools that can supply tech talent like UIC, DePaul, etc. Being the mecca of the midwest, it also draws talent from many excellent midwestern schools like UIUC, Purdue, Michigan and Wisconsin.

Argonne National Lab is also based out here. The major economy is finance for now, but transportation is also huge (Chicago is a major transport hub).

Google, Microsoft, Amazon etc. all have presence here, and startups like Uptake and Spothero are based here. Groupon has kind of imploded though.

I don't think these folks are really looking in the right places.
That's also why Gas stations back in the day, would have signs saying that they didn't accept $50 and $100 dollar bills. It's legal tender, but that doesn't mean I have to take it.
I think feminism is responsible for this. A man's mental health can drastically affect his testosterone levels.
True, but English is kind of a special case, being today's lingua franca in many areas of the world.
Mine are in a bookmark folder. Middle-clicking the folder opens all of its contents in new tabs.
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They could offer keyboard shortcut sets/bundles/profiles/themes that you could switch and revert all at once.
If you're into an unholy union between a land rover disco and a hummer
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Is there somewhere we can dump bug reports, this feels so unready for 1.0.
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Way too much ink wasted on cuteness and too little on explanation.

I got stumped at:

"In particular, the magic happens in get_sneks. The call to pkg_resources.iter_entry_points('snek_types') iterates over all the entry points that were registered under the name "snek_types". So, external packages can define an entry point called "snek_types" in their setup.py, and snek will dynamically load it at runtime."

Wait. What entry points were registered under the name "snek_types"? Where were they regeistered as such? I think I must be missing something, or maybe that registration was hidden somewhere among all the fancy snakes. Can someone help explain this in a clearer way?
Atlanta here. My house cost less than my post-tax salary… you can magically cover 40k paycuts.. in fact in SF that 40k would probably be rent alone.
Who's paying for the TURN traffic?
Welcome Peachpie Compiler Platform to the .NET Foundation
Bill Gates Reclaims His Throne as World Richest After Jeff Bezos Shares Tumbled
FYI, some commenters are organizing offsite their “defense” of this post: https://mobile.twitter.com/KirinDave/status/8902113666986024...
Even cheap keyboard cases provide an incredible productivity boost. Was amazed that shortcut keys like cmd-tab just work.