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I never use MechJeb because I feel like it's cheating, however I agree that some base functionality is missing from the vanilla game. In particular dV and thrust-to-weight ratio indicators for your rockets while you build them, as well as flight info while in flight without having to switch to map mode every two seconds (for instance your current apoapsis and periapsis and the time needed to reach them while climbing to orbit, and also the amount of dV left in your rockets when you plan your maneuvers).

However MechJeb is a bit overkill for that, I prefer to use Kerbal Engineer[0]. It's simple and offers a few quality of life improvements without actually playing the game for you.

The other mod I consider vital is the docking alignment indicator[1] which makes docking massively less painful.

[0] https://mods.curse.com/ksp-mods/kerbal/222685-kerbal-enginee...
[1] https://mods.curse.com/ksp-mods/kerbal/220299-docking-port-a...
This is great!

I am fairly familiar with programming having done both AS, Lingo and PHP I understand code when I see it. I am however not a programmer but more a technically oriented product designer and so I don't get to practice as often.

I have been trying to get into javascript and while I understand all the fundamentals it's still not something that I feel comfortable doing which is a shame as it's kind of the language of the internet.

Skimming through this books it looks like the perfect way for me to spend my next two weeks of vacation so thank you so much.

Is there a way to to donate to you?

Having made something as comprehensive as this you need to think about how to break it up so that you keep users engaged and so that you cam maximise your revenue. Selling books is mostly a spike and then long slow ramp towards halt so make sure you keep your content alive.

If I may come with two suggestions.

1. Make a forum for your readers perhaps in the form of an online reading group so that you have someone to go through the book with.

2. Make a step by step email course where you go through the book and have people turn in assignments perhaps even in forums.

3. Let people hire you as a private teacher perhaps build up . a network of private teachers. (Ok that was three suggestions)

These I think would be great ways to monetize.
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isn't "censorship" the main talking point of the BTC-detractors?
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Mostly the same experience, running Debian Unstable on my X201. Keeping a simple environment (AwesomeWM and urxvt, rather than Gnome or KDE; dhcpcd, rather than NetworkManager) probably helps. I put it to sleep every day, often multiple times, and it never fails to come up, connect to Wifi, etc.
Cheers from another happy "Paczkomat" customer. When i shop online (and i do it a lot) i try to choose sellers who provide "paczkomat" [0] as a mailing option.
A bit cheaper, much more convenient and never have to wait or chase the delivery man.
Such a good idea, and they aren't even at my doorstep, but further into the city. You can choose where you want your parcel delivered so it's not hard to pick one on your daily route.

It should be everywhere, but i guess in the states population density is too low in many places.

[0] https://blog.sote.pl/wp-content/uploads/Paczkomat-InPost.jpg
Ok, thanks for the info. Now, i can pass rest of my day miserably.
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Funny thing is the version of AoE that I have in my memory from the 90s actually looks like the new version show here. Back then it was super HD (and did waste electricity and meaninglessly burn CPU cycles). I don't understand people who go back and play the original games from their childhood. The version of those games in my memory is so much greater and if I actually see the originals again I'm thoroughly disappointed.
> It's not private and it's not secret

Neither is BitTorrent.
This is highly interesting. I assume a lot of those are going to be debug and instructions to help the binning process. Some of these might even unlock access to parts of the CPUs we aren't supposed to have access too, opening the doors to custom microcode (unlikely that anyone outside the CPU OEM can do that though) but may allow us to disable "security features" such as the Management Engine. This is a really interesting approach and i would love to see the results ported to other hardware/vendors. The same could potentially be done with GPUs, ARM-CPUs, etc.
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Would you mind shooting me an email as well? My email is in my profile. Thanks!

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=enceladean
His plan was "certainly not before we get to Mars", so don't worry about it happening any time soon. This big valuation will smooth the way to developing the BFR, though - and that's the big deal for SpaceX.
Next time, give Vue a shot. All it does is take an HTML template, fill in some data, and update the data when the original 'source of truth' updates. All you have to do is modify that 'source of truth.'

Yeah you still have to work with HTML and CSS but it abstracts away DOM manipulation without introducing too much overhead. Use it with Bootstrap, or even materialize for a more opinionated but batteries-included CSS experience.

Personally, I tried and hated Angular because it tried to control everything I did. Vue says "make your application however you like, let us handle the view layer and that's it."
Just sort of fell into it. Did an internship at university in $genericbigcorp and didn't bother looking for other/better jobs at graduation. (To be fair they paid a generous joining bonus - well £2000 "generous" to my broke 21 year old self).
> In general, the less intelligent people are, the less they contribute to society

Do you have any data to back this up? Do you have a reliable measure of "contribution to society"?
I'm usually in the same place, and using my Linux desktop. I guess that's why I've always found it hard to get interested in phones: annoying devices with too-small screens, slow data entry and usually a locked-down OS with no updates.
According to their communications so far, its Xbox One/Windows 10 only.
this is incredibly fascinating and insightful.

side question: who composed the music? the guitar track is excellent. :)
Assuming you're in career mode, where are you in the tech tree? Some of the later fuel tanks and engine make it a lot easier to haul huge amounts of mass around the solar system.

Also if you don't do it already pay a great attention to you engine's specific impulse. It's often a lot more important than thrust, at least outside of first stages and landers.

My go-to combination in the mid game is Mainsail engine for first stage from kerbin launchpad (high thrust and good Isp in the atmosphere) and then switch to the Poodle while in space (not-so-great thrust but high Isp in vacuum). Oh and a healthy amount of "asparagus" staging, it's always a bit annoying to set up but well worth it in KSP.

Later on you unlock even more efficient engines, such as the "Nerv" nuclear engine with an Isp of 800 in vacuum.

Finally you can also mine fuel on planets and asteroid to refuel your tanks, I generally like setting up a "filling station" on minmus to avoid having to haul massive amounts of fuel out of the kerbin gravity well.
All of those features can lessen ambiguity in other ways though, so that's probably the trade-off at work.

Weak linguistic relativity is pretty well attested. I've seen people misattribute or assume qualities about unrelated entities that share a name, e.g. assuming that something true of "milk" is also true of "soy milk". That example is similar to the idea of overextending a metaphor, and since every language has its own particular metaphors, that's likely among the most common ways that a linguistic feature impacts our worldview. Whether or not there are syntactic features that do the same is more debatable, but it's plausible that adjective ordering, pronoun systems, etc. might have an effect.
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Begrudge seems like a good fit for Missgunst.
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I learned English playing MMORPGs. I didn't give a damn about the culture, I just wanted to communicate with people. This means I do not understand some pop culture references, but I can speak quite fluently without having cared about English speaking countries' culture.
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Could you quote a couple of them saying so? Because it doesn't match what I know about evangelicals, they don't exactly consider God something you can buy.
Yep I've seen that table plugin (I guess it's the one used on Nuclino?) but our tables are cost tables with calculations, currencies etc so it will probably need to be its own plugin. I can probably base it off this though, it looks better than ours.

Thanks for the reply, I guess I'll play with it once I manage to find some time!
The "real" Germany is back? The author must not have been there in a while.
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A lot of French people pronounce un and in the same way
AoE2 was where I picked up the "turn up where they don't expect" tactic: you can just drop a town center anywhere, so slowly building to a crushing blow from an unexpected direction, while simultaneously not dying when your opponent thinks you should, works spectacularly well.

Turns out this is an extremely valuable life lesson.

This tactic was totally broken in AoM, where they forced town center locations (I presume intentionally, for this reason). I hated it.
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>> Isn't inequality a measure of efficiency, though?

There are so many weirdos living in their little political fantasy bubble that I can't even tell if your post is satire. But in case somebody comes up with an equivalent but more serious looking argument than "living in an aluminium box with no aircon and eating over my own toilet bowl? I'm kind of jealous!" or "the successful should be rich, ergo the less successful should obviously have any dignity stripped from them", let's offer some counter arguments:

What rates a society as a Third-World country is not its absence of super-rich (most countries have these) but its absence of a middle-class. So by your own reasoning Congo and Angola, with their tiny billionaire class ruling over starving millions, are "super efficient". I'm sure you'd enjoy living there and the rest of the world should be kind of jealous.

Anyway. On a more grounded note, in the realm of people who rely on data instead of sophistry, inequality is considered economically inefficient, even by historically free-market organizations like the IMF and OECD:

https://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2015/06/e...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/eriksherman/2014/12/09/income-i...
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I suppose you need to know the radius of the earth offhand.

Or you can easily derive the radius if you remember that a meter was initially defined as 1/10,000,000 of the distance from the equator to the North Pole. So you can easily calculate the Earth's circumference, and from there the radius: 10,000,000 * 4 / 1000 / 3.1416 / 2 = 6366 km.

Wikipedia gives 6371 km as the mean radius.
The desirability of transit is not because people love taking the subway, it's because cars as the main form of transport do not scale well with city size.

Anecdotal example: when we lived in Tel Aviv (bad transit, although probably not as bad as many places in the US) I had several jobs and it would take me 50-60 minutes to get from home to work or vice versa.

This was not just me but is usual in greater Tel Aviv, unless you can afford to live in the city (almost nobody with kids does, metro tel aviv has 3.7m residents vs 450k for the city itself).

We've lived in Vienna before we moved and moved to Berlin after, both cities with great transit (that sometimes smell like piss). Both metros are comparable in size to TLV (metro Vienna 2.6m, metro Berlin 4.5m) and I've had several jobs in either - it usually takes 30-40 minutes to get to work and again it's not just me but the common case.
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This is one of most unbelievably naive, immature, and truly ignorant comments I've read on HN. I sincerely hope you're trolling.

Put down the Ayn Rand fantasy novels and go meet some people outside of your economic bubble. Not everyone can be a software engineer in Western society. I'd wager you're about as responsible for your lot in life as these people.

Read about the history of the industrial revolution. Tenement life in NYC. Try to empathize. Develop some humanity and real perspective for Pete's sake.

By the way, no one is stopping you from living like that if you're so jealous. But it's clear you wouldn't last a day like that, you're all talk anyway.
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>Which technologies specifically?

I think that's part of the issue, security minded folks are often very analytical and come from CS backgrounds and the demand is for people who understand how design interacts with technology to, in this case, create secure methods of actually using a technology.

So, to answer your question, none. It's about the mindset of the designer.
I think you are quite correct to point that law and regulation reduces personal autonomy and that the law is violent in is nature. I agree 100% that the impact of marketing on the result of election and it scares me a lot the new trend to use social mass data to win election. I m more and more in favor of sortition for this reason. I agree also that you have regulation set up by people that seek rent above everything.

I think I fear also the harm that powerful people or corporation do right now and I think someone need to take action. What is difficult is to have the right balance between liberty and regulation.

We see a division between continental Europe and Anglo-saxon country; In Europe we have more regulation and I think less economical growth and less innovation and the US where it seems you have less regulation but often more meant to create rent and crazy companies behavior but you have growth and more innovation.

Thanks for your comments, it s nice to have a good conversation :)
> Scala 2.11 will remain supported for some time

Even though I very much wanted this to be true, that promise has been broken. Scala 2.11 has been EOL'ed 3 months ago with 2.11.11.
Check out Sapir Whorf theory (the "weak" version. The strong one is most likely bs)
As a side note, as a German I could not help but chuckle about John le Carré smuggling this into the essay:

Every time I hear a British politician utter the fatal words, “Let me be very clear”, these days I reach for my revolver.

which is a reference to a (most likely misattributed) quote by Hermann Göring, "When I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver" (or ".. my Browning").
> Google has effectively fractured the ecosystem, pulling off what Microsoft couldn't do with J#, and they got away with it.

Mostly because of the SV love, that Microsoft lacked.

Sun and Oracle were right all along.

> Even so, Scala does in fact have great Android support:

I don't agree with it, because for me having to deal with SBT, outdated android plugins in InteliJ and GUI DSLs instead of Gradle, Android Studio and Studio GUI designer isn't a synonym for great.

Maybe it changed during the last two years, but that was the scenario I faced.
Is there a list of these? Would be fun to know what the Geordie and Scouse ones are
Really sad for the UK direction. Had many friends talking proudly of their goal for a completely isolated/fortified main island.

I was living in London exactly when Brexit happened, so I understand the reasons and respect them. You're right, an exit might be the best for preserving independence and (hopefully) bring economical growth.

Its just that I was born under the EU and grew up with a positive image of what is being built, later growing up and seeing in more detail the good or bad things.

My own country (Portugal) has been affected heavily by Germany and France. However, a thing that I've learned while living in Germany is that their internal politics are even MORE aggressive. Incompetence and failure are fatal in anyones' career around here, so the government officials rising to top don't play around. If one even tries to be corrupt, that person won't last as there exists little complacency. In overall this makes their machine very efficient. Just compare to the UK and the endless NHS discussions.

When Germans seat at a negotiation table, they crush our own politicians from Portugal, making them look like amateurs. I don't fault Germany for having success with EU, I look at our own people so that we can learn and match this game.
Advertising is one thing, reality is different. The main, performant views are native. Some of the esoteric stuff is RN.
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I really wish I had the patience to read this, but the title is just too damn boring and I see no all-inclusive reason to learn German outside of a German speaking country.

If anyone could TLDR, I would appreciate, but at the same time you shouldn't encourage my sloth.
> I find German sounds extremely difficult to pronounce with all these consonants next to each other.

Heh, have a look at Polish, it sometimes gives the impression it could do away with vowels altogether.
Bitstamp sent an email last night to say they won't support BCC, and will also be disabling withdrawals prior to the fork.

Now would be a good time to get your BTC out of Bitstamp, to ensure you get access to your BCC coins when the fork takes place.
GamerGate started in August 2014, so that mantra has nothing to do with it.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/jul/11/how-economics-b...
Telegram for macOS is fine except it could look and feel more native imho
Sorry this isn't clear to me. Are you saying every dwelling that costs less than 15 million US Dollars has conditions like the ones in these photographs? Or do you mean that all such dwellings are broken up into these type of divisions?

Additionally do you mean that people rent their servants balconies for $300 per month? As a kind of servant's quarters?
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> Yep, they just don't care and keep throwing pointers instead references or std::vector/array, #define instead of const, char* instead of std::string and so on.

> I have been preaching how to write proper C++ code vs "nicer C" since the late 90's, but without much success, specially to enterprise developers.

In no practical sense is it easy then. Even if you find it easy to write perfect code, you still have to work with other people that don't and use libraries which have problems.

C++ has so many ways to shoot yourself in the foot I literally cannot think of a mainstream language that is actually more difficult to master. Would you say it was easy compared to Python, Java or JavaScript to write safe code in? Those languages have no undefined behaviour and they all have automatic memory management compared to C++.
Why on earth are you linking to a reddit discussion that links to a github repository, instead of simply submitting a link to your github repo and/or submitting a text post describing the project?
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Honest question: what is it you do that adds value?
Article is paywalled. What a waste of a perfectly good click.
If Intel wants to get us excited about their chips these days, they're going to have to start releasing more firmware and microcode so that we can start trusting their products again.

I'd rather run South Korean tech than anything the United States produces these days. It's sad that politics, and the threat of government spying is hurting their tech industry.
Yeah I think that is one of the more successful projects using Scala.
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...isn't the usability of the tool limited because it's running in userspace, which has fewer privileges in terms of what instructions can be ran?
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Fastest way would be OSCP cert.
Do you mean a 3d render from a fixed point like pieces on a board, or full immersive 3d interaction?

I've not seen a game that does the latter well. The extra degree of freedom, and the extra controls you need to manage it, just ends up confusing.
Spark has been a massive disappointment with their Scala support.

I appreciate they have legitimate reasons and am not critical of them for it. It's just that many users of Spark are doing so through vendors like Cloudera, Hortonworks, Amazon EMR etc. And so, since companies often don't have the money/time to just continuously upgrade production Hadoop clusters often users are stuck on older versions of Spark for a very long time e.g. months or years.

This translates to if you're working in Big Data everything you touch must support 2.10.
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I was amazed at how over-engineered their first rockets were. Having always played career mode I was 'forced' to do the minimum, getting to the Mun with only 2 or 3 engines total.

Flying to other planets is really difficult, something I still can't reliably do with hundreds of hours played. I've only sent probes to 3 of the other planets (Duna, Eve, Jool).

It can get monotonous, but when I play I am strongly motivated by trying to achieve something I never have before. (Or if I'm playing mods such as 'Real Solar System', but that's another step up again in difficulty).
You could still add value without publisher. Many papers are funded by grants, and large chunk of grant goes to publisher. Remove publisher and here you have it - free access, peer review, editing.
Source code review is in high demand. Many companies are happy to train a developer on how to do it.
Here's some fortuitous timing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14872418

(Don't know all the implications yet, but it's probably relevant to my comment.)
So standard software engineer salary in the USA?
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And it appears the quality of their consumer products rose dramatically afterwards.
Fair point, I will fix this. Can I ask what is important for you to see ? e.g.
- What it does
- How is does it
- Cost benefit etc ?
No. There aren't. There are no good cross-platform development environments. There are a handful which might be acceptable for some user-cases; Electron is unfortunately one of them.

If you think there are a plethora of amazing tools out there that people are using to build cross-platform apps, then you're wrong.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8902132/when-an-interrup... has some discussion.

Basically the priority of the Intel design (and most successful processors) is to preserve the illusion of a series of instructions executing one after the other. So the control logic has to keep track of the "waterline", the point before which all instructions have been completely committed and retired. Everything beyond there is aborted on an interrupt.
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Back in 1990 we not only put our real name, but sometimes our address, phone, etc online, either in usenet sigs which are still available, or at the very least in finger