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Ask HN: Bad meetups?
The last two tech meetups I attended (different groups on different technology) were really disappointing.

In one, the presenter seemed to be high. It was an intro talk but I don't think he ever even explained what the technology was. He just jumped around from one unrelated topic to another.

More recently, I attended a talk where the speaker spilled beer on the podium and did not have a presentation prepared so he sort of stumbled his way through the talk until the last 10 minutes where he covered everything pertinent.

I was annoyed for each of these because I traveled quite a long way to be there and didn't feel like the presenters were respectful of the audience's time. At the same time, I am grateful for the groups and the ability to learn in a group environment.

Am I looking at this thing the wrong way?
Western identity has become so enmeshed with liberalism, progressiveness and democracy that few are willing to step out of that safety zone to question the reality on the ground while those in power continue to rehash tinpot ideas and hysteria about safety.

A similar statement from a third world official would be met with an unequivocal flood of ridicule and accusations of backwardness.

Too many value the comfort of easy judgements. This will be met with apologism, muddying the waters and sophistry.
Of course your extra wage goes straight into maintaining that status with uncomfortable clothes, overpriced cars, a big house in the suburbs to support your trophy family who you then spend hours of unpaid overtime avoiding...

I mean you do you, but any job is going to involve a certain amount of doing stuff; personally I find CS algorithm puzzles a lot more fun than status games.
For a perhaps more well-known example, see the Raspberry Pi Foundation. They sell, obviously, Raspberry Pis - a lot of them. They are a charitable organization, which is a type of NPO.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi_Foundation
Could part of the problem be that EU politicians view the British POV as not only arrogant but very greedy? Historically Britain has benefited greatly from the EU, pulling off deals granted to no other EU country. Now they try to make those exclusive deals for their post brexit but don't bring enough to the table. This short clip by School of Life [1] explains just how privileged Britain's position in the EU has been.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgu6pFz5oxA
>Good. You don’t get to be isolationist and racist without losing the benefits of trade with the rest of Europe.

Actually you do. It's all in the power relations.

And Europe is plenty racist in itself anyway.
If you have Google Play Services installed, it will try to use it. If you don't, you can install the apk from here https://signal.org/android/apk/ which should auto update. Their permissions list is still kind of whack and everyone else on android except you is going to have Google in between every message so...
Dude,

You failed the level 1 question.
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Spam malware can scan IPs to find open SMTP ports to send spam so some ISPs and hosting providers lock down these ports to avoid getting their IPs blacklisted when a compromised host starts sending a bunch of spam through an open relay. I can see this being used to send email out from some restricted hosting providers.
What do you mean by "work"? You don't get to just not pay VAT by having the transaction take place across a border. (At least, not when that border is on the boundary of the EU).
There is no hard or soft Brexit, there is only complete Brexit which is what was voted for. Soft Brexit is a fiction invented by Remainers to try and derail the process.
Do you have any sources that reversing article 50 "should be impossible"?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39291512 seems to give a good spread of opinions, including:

> "They might try to extract a political price," Lord Kerr said, "but legally they couldn't insist that you leave."
Confusing the real goal with the stated one.
Homeopathy is the beloved little black sheep of natural health. I would say half of natural health industry people don't believe in it, know it doesn't work, but they have to go along with it. Otherwise, to admit (as countless studies, and the federal government have done) that homeopathy is completely without merit, would threaten the entire house of cards that natural health is built upon. I remember last year when the FTC announced their enforcement action on homeopathic OTC drugs, there was an unusual silence from the natural health community. Almost a shrug. From the inside it was laughable at the lack of concern for homeopathy's future.
Ah OK, I didn't really know how they compare. I suppose it is an attractive proposition if it really is an all-electric alternative to a BMW 3 series at a comparable price.

I love the minimalist interior of the Tesla, and I sure would love to own one.
Britain is a net contributor to the EU, so it puts in more than it gets out.
You shouldn't read this book to learn modern practices. You should read it to improve your way of thinking about problems. The book is timeless if you think about it this way.
My guess is that the public mood is going to shift quickly when it becomes clear how big a loser UK is going to be in any exit deal (or no deal). The conservatives will have to necessarily put the deal to vote in parliament or likely a referendum and post defeat the government will have to resign. EU membership against becomes an issue in the General election and voters elect a party which promises to get UK back in EU.
Sorry, you cannot kill something that's already dead, and LinkedIn is just about as alive as MySpace.
I watched a talk once from CppCon where the presenter was showing different bits of code and asking the audience if it was a 0-cost abstraction or not. This was at CppCon and there wasn't a consensus.

Sure it's possible to do high level things while knowing what the machine will end up doing but if you have to be a guru to be able to do so... then can you really say that?

I'd say "C++ strives to be a language where expert C++ compiler writers can feel what the machine will actually implement while you code high-level abstractions (provided you're using the compiler you wrote yourself)"
How do people fake seizures? Do they just flop around on the ground?
I know HN isn't the place for jokes, but this one genuinely made me chuckle.
That's what VAT deferred transactions are...I'm giving up on your dear sir.
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And being anti-uncontrolled immigration doesn't make you racist or xenophobic either.
Nor is willing to control your own borders and who's welcome or not the same as a "phobia" (except in the sense that everything that prevents something is a phobia, e.g. taking an umbrella out in the rain is "hydrophobia").
You call yourself a 'good person' in your bio, but you show little evidence of that. A good person would be charitable and assume good faith.

Boudewijn Rempt is a good person.
>But the EU will suffer relatively less than the UK.

Well, the EU is not in any great shape itself, and has been going from bad to worse before Brexit was even a thing.
I don't think leaving the EU so you can trade more widely with the rest of the world makes you isolationist.
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No.

Legally, the hired professional is an advisor. The board/management are collectively responsible for picking a good advisor and double-checking his/her recommendations.

Bottom line: no one takes responsibility for anything (unless they're on the board) and you are on the hook for everything.

This also applies to lawyers, property professionals, medical professionals, engineers, architects, and so on.

Of course this is outrageously unfair, but the reality is that winning compensation for incompetence and malpractice is incredibly hard and expensive - and most professional contracts include explicit disclaimers of responsibility in an attempt to make it even harder.
Elixir for the backend as others have said, and the frontend is React on Electron.
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That's an interesting counter-argument, thanks.

But I still don't think I agree with you. The problem here is that it's left up to police to decide what is a "dangerous ideology". It's not something that you can decide in advance and make objective criteria for. The potential for police to abuse these powers (either through corruption or simply being over-zealous) is enormous. This is how you end up with a Green Party politician being added to the register of "Domestic Extremists", to give one of many examples.
The analogy doesn't extend other fields, so I would be skeptical that it holds in computer science and software engineering.

Consider, for instants, a data scientist who does great in Kaggle competitions but has a poor understanding of probability theory. That data scientist will not be able to estimate or control the error in their models effectively, and will not even know that there is a way to do so. You do not want to hire that data scientist for a senior role.
I never understood how it was legal for these officers to carry drugs around (in their pockets? trunk?) for the purposes of planting evidence.

Shouldn't they face possession charges? Unless they are transporting newly acquired evidence that is associated with a documented investigation to the police station for storage they shouldn't be allowed to carry drugs around.
There is no fast charging network to support the Bolt. The supercharger network is a huge competitive advantage for Tesla.
Currently running Slack App, Atom App, and Spotify App on my MBP. According to my system stats, I'm consuming 3GB of RAM across the entire system (OS and all of the above).

So what I would like to know is wtf everyone is doing in these apps to create this CRAZY amount of resource hogging they keep bitching about? Or are they rockin chomebooks? Seriously? I want to know where all of this nonsense is coming from?
Of what? Cash or all benefits (including intangible ones)?
Ah, neat! Thank you :)
Are other European countries that aren't in the EU also racist and isolationist?
Can I buy something rather than donate ? Its hard for me to donate using my company account - but very easy to buy stuff. It doesnt matter even if its a license to email you 10 times a year.
Why I choose Delphi : No Garbage Collection :-)
> similar to how Emacs figured out how to work around slow startup

By dumping binaries, creating emacsclient, but mostly by waiting 25+ years for fast computers w/SSDs to come along?

I love emacs, but slow startup was a problem for multiple decades, IMO.
"smaller players like Hyundai"

With around 5M cars every year (8M together with Kia), Hyundai produces more cars than Mercedes (2M) and BMW (2M) combined. It's hardly a smaller player. Hyundai/Kia is actually the 4th largest in the world, only some 25% smaller than VW and Toyota (10M each).
I lost two teeth over the course of three years because the fillings kept falling out and they had to drill more to get it back in. I hate the current practice of dentistry being to 'make things worse to make things better'.

I can't wait for those things that grow enamel back naturally to fully work and become mainstream.
OK, so I have decided that my example of not having the intention to commit the crime is a bad one as it has been flagged up by everyone regarding how in the UK you can indeed be arrested for this.

heres my solution to the situation in the UK. If you are EVER planning on sleeping it off in the car, get a breathalyzer locking cabinet for your keys.

http://www.alcolockgb.com/

this way you can prove unambiguously that you are unable to operate the vehicle even if you wake up and are over the limit... there.. problem solved.
Now lets get back on track about the right to read all communications.

even if they backdoor all chat messages, you can still use your own encryption within that channel. Everyone can do this using free open source software and even custom keyboards in android (I don't use iPhone so I don't know about them).

What happened to good old fashioned spycraft following people around and occasionally plutonium pelleting someone in the leg with an umbrella.
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It seems like time of mainstream native mobile apps development is over. I used to get a multiple job/contract offers every week to write another iOS app, but they stop coming during last year. Nowadays I might get one offer every other month or so.

Does anybody else feels it same or is it just my own case?
Don't worry. They'll use your money to fund the banks without any campaigns.
I actually think there would be plenty of support for Britain staying. I think there's still concern about what happens if the UK makes a success of Brexit, coming back and making some concessions (on our current priviledged status) is a better story for those that fear the domino of exits.
I think that the parent post could be better written as:

> Python (which I suppose includes Django), and Vue.js

it's too easy to read it as:

> Python (which I suppose includes Django, and Vue.js)
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Next to the other guys argument why apple is a poor argument. As much as I dislike Apple they are actually in the middle price range of laptop's with that kind of specs and quality.

Same for the phones. Apple ain't expensive if you assume it is a quality product.
I think you underestimate just how far we've allowed natsec expansion to taint even the most benign agencies.

As a constitutionalist, the real problem as I have condensed it is that the balance between providing for the common defense has completely overshadowed things like securing the blessings of liberty. Our gov is increasingly leaning authoritarian, and the populace has allowed it.