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I didn't notice much positive coverage of Chavez except for maybe the very beginning of his rule.

I think people forget too that Venezuela was not exactly a paradise for all of its citizens before Chavez either.

There's a reason he was democratically elected, which is a warning to pragmatic individuals of all political bents. Democratic systems need regular hygiene and built-in immune responses, as my country (the US) is currently finding.
You're not going to be able to do it, at least not in the same way as Delphi. Go lacks the complete OO and component functionality that allows Delphi to provide its level of integration between the IDE and the code/components. It's not just a language that was popped into an IDE, rather the IDE and the language were created to work together as one, and it all revolves around proper class support/RTTI.

Chuck Jazdzewski, one of the original developers that helped create Delphi, did a series of blog posts that details some of the thought processes behind Delphi:

http://removingalldoubt.com/

We sell a Delphi-like IDE for web applications (Elevate Web Builder) that uses Object Pascal, and the only other language we would even attempt to implement with the IDE/compiler is C#. It's the closest in terms of features/behaviors to Object Pascal, with the main difference being multi-cast event handlers (delegates) in C#, which is really just a compiler-syntactic-sugar detail.
Just a reminder that low life expectancy is largely the product of high infant mortality rates bringing down the average. If you were to survive to adulthood in the ancient world you would probably not die at 30, but something more like 60.
The line you quoted does seem to go too far (I'm sure there are some redesigns out there that improved things), but your listed examples really compound it.

Google.com has only ever had tiny tweaks, yet if you read the recent HN comment thread on Instant Search it's enough to show that even these small changes were significant regressions.

Apple.com, as has been mentioned, is a different case.

The rest have pretty categorically disimproved with each iteration. I doubt many would disagree here.
I live in a house with a washer and dryer.

After we had our first child there was a stretch where my wife and I were both sick for about 2 weeks and the laundry ended up building up significantly. We had probably 10 loads worth to catch up on and it was going to take all of at least one day, maybe two.

Threw it all in the car, went to the laundromat and had it done in 2 hours.

Laundromat's are now how I explain "the cloud" to non-technical people.
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> We can't win, can we?

"All day": There's your problem.
Whatever we do, we should not do that.

I spent quite a bit of time traveling through Central America. The third or fourth time you hear about massacres by us backed armies, or hear people tell you that they were made orphans when their entire family was murdered by death squads who were armed by America, you have to question the wisdom of backing armed rebellions.
tcpdump/wireshark simply provides timestamped packet capture in a pcap file or console listing... reasonably hard to analyze manually as one needs to manually do deltas on all the timestamps.

tcptrace takes the output from these collectors and provides some time based statistics. but from what I've read, xplot is required to get a timeline of the individual packet interactions. I am in the process of loading it up to read the man page and give it a try.

I still don't think tcptrace was the tool I originally saw, but will check it out.

http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2006/04/17/debugging-tcp-... provides some sample output... but not the timeline I had in mind.
Oops. :( Let me try that again:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14900342
Not the same thing at all, but my local laundromat is also a restaurant/bar, and hosts really terrible standup.

I'll frequently grab a bite while doing my laundry, and the "comedy" is a useful inspiration to get it done earlier in the day, so I don't have to listen to it. (It is really, truly awful.)
Wow. How much of that is due to drug cartels and gang violence though?
Which is like wading through treacle, I'm convinced we have taken as many steps backwards as forwards when it comes to desktop development.
An analogy:

I pay a certain amount of council tax, of which £X is spent emptying my rubbish bins at the curbside and in the street. I could look at it as buying £X of services from Veolia. If I bought the same services myself, how much would I pay. Am I getting good value for money?

Or I could look at the overall benefit of living in a society where there isn't rubbish lining the street wherever I walk. I feel like the people who say "we make a net contribution to the EU" look at the arrangement as a cash transaction without taking a holistic view of the resulting environment.

Of course, I'm sure some economist could come along and put a price on living in a society without rubbish lining the street, but to most people that's not a monetarily quantifiable thing. So I'm sure someone could put a price on all of the below points, to varying extents. But I'm fairly certain when people talk about "net contribution" they are not doing this.

So, that acknowledged, intangible benefits of being in the EU I feel, off the top of my head:

- common standards and lack of trade barriers that let companies in the UK make things and sell them abroad, paying tax in the process

- common standards and lack of trade barriers that let me buy something made anywhere in the EU

- ease of international travel for leisure and cultural exchange, including immigration, aeroplane safety and standards

- living in a country where I can eat cheaper summer fruit because migrant work can flow

- (very specific) I'm friends with instrument makers who do business in the UK and the continent. The import/export tariff situation (as things are currently looking) means that they won't be able to do business

- living in a country where researchers and academics can travel in the EU to do whatever they need to do

- not having to think about travelling to meet with colleagues and vice versa

- contributing to a bloc which enforces environmental standards that align with what I consider to be Good Things (although the CAP is arguable)

- ditto animal welfare

- ditto human rights

- ERASMUS

You can't eat money. My life would be incalculably less rich for having grown up in an insular country without many of the above. Maybe I'd be a few pounds better off. How much happiness could I buy with that?

I'm not saying that the EU is perfect by any means. It could do with a bit of reform, which the UK could have helped with.
I believe Reddit had already surpassed Digg by then. Digg's redesign may have been in part an attempt to respond to reddit's rise, rather than creating it.
What if the government shuts down internet access ? Then how do you buy bitcoins? Or sell the ones you have for a local currency?

I don't see how Bitcoin is a great solution here when it depends on utilities managed by the government for its liquidity...
> Diesels are going to be a problem for decades even if we stopped all sales right now.

Is it really a problem? From what I understand, car emissions are a small percentage of overall greenhouse gas emissions (trucks, container ships and planes are a much larger part), and diesels are a still smaller part of that.

Then, diesel engines tend to last much longer than gasoline engines. Granted that burning fossil fuel is something that we will have to stop doing in the near future - isn't it more environmental to continue using cars that already exist, rather than generating even more greenhouse gases in manufacturing new ones, even new electric ones?

I'd say diesels are just not the most important thing to be worrying about right now. There is other low hanging fruit available to create more environmental gains without even thinking about diesel cars.
Blame the young, beautiful people all you want for not slaving away over a 4 year degree that puts them in the same position as 1 year of self learning would get them, OR blame the business yuppies who keep coming up with the SaaS business models that don't need anything more than plug and play code monkeys.

I understand memorizing data structures does not make a good engineer, but honestly who is still asking for cream of the crop engineers, especially at the entry/junior levels?
Venezuela has one of the biggest petroleum reserves on the planet, and is responsible for 10% of America's oil imports. That is a lot lot lot lot lot lot lot of oil.

Only a geopolitical fool would allow a crisis/opportunity like this slip by without at least claiming a little side action. Even Goldman Sachs has skin in the game.
So do they take the coins from the laundromats and put them in the slot machines?
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yep. vigilantism flourishes when institutional security systems are broken or abusive. i totally agree with both your claims.
I think:

> I contribute to an Apache project

Has been the primary souce of pain
This is so cool! What kind of tools are you using for the heuristic rules?
I would be surprised if existing capital controls wouldn't prevent you from doing just that. Not every country is as liberal as the West when it comes to moving money around.
Private prisons also need constant influx of inmates to keep profits high, therefore the system has no incentives to lower the crime rate. If there are not enough new criminals, they must be created, and planting evidence is one way of achieving that goal.
Can easily monitor status of each competing/potential split at https://www.btcforkmonitor.info
No probs, OOI what has your project decided to do? Is switching to Preact deemed acceptable?
Hu80 linked to what he uses. http://www.kiwix.org/. Not sure if you will get a notification or not since he replied to my comment.
I like http://basscss.com/ - @2kb... and ace if more is needed...http://basscss.com/ace/
This is not true. The medical field does a lot of research which is totally unrelated to drug development. Pick up a random collection of medical journals and look for yourself.
>their mind set has been focussed on selling their dirty Diesel cars at all means

Or maybe it's because that's what people buy, since diesel is cheaper than the upfront cost of an electric car.
I wonder how well will self driving cars adapt to Indian roads and traffic conditions.
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And if you don't want a new wave of refugees coming to the us, you shouldn't be backing a civil war, either.
3D printing is much more convenient than casting. Also I assume metal printing would make better weapons than plastic ones.

No fear mongering, just making an observation.
There is also a huge emphasis on being a "taxpayer."

"I paid taxes this year, therefor I am entitled to do whatever I want with public property."

It's one of the reasons something like the autobahn can't work in the US. Some Americans just love to drive 20 mph under the speed limit in the left lane because "I'm a taxpayer and this is my road! I can do what I want." A no-speed-limit highway in the US would require one lane per citizen.
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Which should make you question all of the American news on what's happening there.
Ask HN: Starting blogging when you're not an expert?
Hi everyone,

Does it makes sense to you to start a (technical blog) when you know you're not an expert in any field ?

I would like to start a blog where I could put articles about things I'm learning (frameworks, programming languages, concepts...) but I'm afraid it won't be relevant for anyone as I'm don't have any real advanced knowledge in any fields in particular.

Just to be clear : I don't expect/want to make money of it or to become suddenly attractive for recruiters, I just think it could help me learn more, faster and to improve my communications skills.
How big is the topic database? It seems to insist that i should talk about "Technology" and "Cloths".
Sure if you're okay with it being completely broken every once in a while.
Excellent comment
A lot. However drug cartels often also fill in as a form of local government in the areas they control. Additionally they are often just as well armed as the police minus things like helicopters and armored vehicles.
> "I am very clear on this. We won’t allow any technology that takes away jobs."

What a stupid thing to say.

So no ATMs then, get to the bank to withdraw money by a human ? Oh they already did that some months ago.
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MailIt doesn't provide a SMTP server.

Instead it takes your existing SMTP settings, so you can take the advantage of your existing reputation, or your provider's one.

(assuming you already have an email account somewhere, and it can be gmail, outlook, [popularprovider]...)
The outcome will likely depend of how many miners switch to the b-cash chain. I can see both sides dumping to try and convince the market that theirs is the real bitcoin and that the other will be worth(-)less. Likely to be a lot of volatility but b-cash proponents who favor growing the blocksize are big enough in number that I think both will survive, at least until that chain hits real scaling problems.
I wouldn't regard PHP as solid or corporate. Rather it's usually a sign of a business which started out as a website made by less-technical people. (Which can be the best kind to join as a technical person, as it means your skills are likely to be complementary to what they already have).
This is the component-based nature of Delphi/Lazarus. You can find/buy components that implement entire chunks of your application in one shot, including code editors (SynEdit).
enabling protection from tracking and fingerprinting also speeds up browsing. kill 2 birds with one stone.

as mentioned elsewhere in the comments, it's a good idea to set up the default browser in android to use the maximum of privacy and security settings together with the uBlock Origin addin.

these urls provide some good starting points :

https://www.linuxfestnorthwest.org/2017/sessions/security-an...

https://www.privacy-handbuch.de/handbuch_21.htm

the 2nd url is in german but it has great tips (spurenarm surfen = surf without leaving traces)
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murder rates for that region, by country: http://www.insightcrime.org/images/2017/January-2017/17-13-1...

Edit: Though, of course, countries like Mexico and Brazil would look more alarming if this map was broken down into provinces/states.
It is even more surprising that by just adding a few privacy features, they can start targeting the corporate market.

I would gladly pay them.
95% of export income in Venezuela is from oil. It's the lifeblood of the country.
> Other videos are only ~6 minutes long and play an unskippable ad every 45 seconds.

Can you please give an example. I've never seen anything even close to this.
Should it also question all German, British, Australian and so on news on what's happening there?

(Oh right they are all the U.S. sockpuppets of course)
look at Pushbullet, as a browser extension.
Not particularly, no. One should merely be conscentintious regarding the potential for bias in all accounts of everything, but not to the point of self-confirming paranoid delusion. Being critical, even skeptical, should not depend on one's perception of who stands to gain or lose from something (in no limited part because even informed observers can end up being very wrong about who eventually profits from an undeniably complex sequence of events).
Thank you, this is great!
> How so? If the government regulates that you shouldn't dispose your chemical waste into the river because that's bad for everybody, then it's still your problem to figure out what to do with that chemical waste, after all, it's your waste and not theirs.

It's your problem to figure out how to dispose it safely, sure. But if they want to e.g. audit where the waste is going, that would be widely seen as something the government should do/pay for themselves. And that's how it is with a lot of banking regulation: complying isn't the expensive part, measuring and demonstrating that you're complying is.
Not to say anything about gun control, but being Latin America, they could as easily, have been communists arming themselves to overthrow a right-wing government.

Would you also be supportive of them?
Part of the reason why we have different browsers is the variety of features they support. A browser extension inherently is closer to the unique part of browsers that make them different.

What value does this really provide? The times that I've gotten into browser extensions were really working with features that are unique to the given browser.
Yes. This is what people don't understand. I call it "gratitude-ware".

You give me an invoice, and I will pay you 500$ for a pixel on a page.
Are you just looking for an excuse not to do it? People write about things they don't know much about all the time. Just start. People will read it, or they won't. People will find value in it, or they won't. No matter what, you'll get the practice that's required to improve.
Pretty good argument against socialism as well; since it seems that they piled on the expenses until they either had to compromise services or compromise fundamental property rights. The obvious choice for one's own term in office is to compromise property rights.

Now, say, what country do we know of which prospered under a non-socialist government which recognized the right to keep and bear arms, and strong recognition of property rights...

P.S. Consider replying before you vote, it'll be a heck of a lot more convincing than a decreasing counter of non-argument.
Are there any specific vitamins which have been shown effective in treating cancer or other serious conditions? In general research into vitamin supplements hasn't shown any benefits, at least not for people with working digestive systems who eat proper balanced diets.
By chance is it Brainwash in SoMa?
Because people only ever vote 1 star or 5 stars. 3 at a push for neutral. They map to up, down and no vote so may as well just be that
Respectfully, I disagree.

Their tech is not the cars themselves as much as the robots/software building those cars, so they have slowly moved from being car companies to robotics/tech companies. They build computers with wheels.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa5_tudyAF8

While the Americans do have a taste for disruption, these Germans have a taste for getting things done well.

The wise thing to do is collaborate, which I hope we'll end up doing sooner or later despite all the barriers that some politicians are trying to raise between us.
What do you mean by "knowing core algorithms and data structures" then? Because for me that phrase would definitely include knowing how to implement your own red-black tree, hash table, linked list and so on.
This is the best writeup I've seen on the topic:
https://blog.bridge21.io/before-and-after-the-great-bitcoin-...
How is that different from just about any other kind of foreign-domicile financial asset? Just buy US bonds, for Christ's sake...
>prolonged civil war is worse than either side winning outright. Order over chaos.

That really depends on what timescale you care about and who's side you're on.

Would Korea be better off if the US never got involved? What about if the Chinese never stepped in?

What if the US had tried harder to prop up the Shah in Iran? What if the US hadn't backed Saddam in the 80s?

What if the US had never backed the Mujaheddin against the soviets? Backing them caused a lot of bad stuff but bleeding the USSR to death may have averted continuing the cold war and another Vietnam somewhere else in the world decades later.

Time only goes one way. You never get do-overs. You just get to make the best decision you can for the current situation.

I'm also in the camp of "we're not world police"
What do you mean by "right-wing"?
Syria being a dictatorship that makes people 'disappear' without official statistics, though.
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I wrote this guide to answer the most common questions I'm asked about how to counter offer. Most of my clients and readers are software developers, so I thought this could be useful for HN readers.

It answers questions like... "What if the offer is way below what I would need to make the jump?" "Should I counter even if the offer is already strong?" "How do I use another offer as leverage to negotiate the offer I really want?"

Even if you're not negotiating an offer right now, you might want to bookmark it for next time you're expecting a job offer.
I saw my first laundromat/bar in college.

Thought it was the best idea I've ever seen implemented.
Yeah indeed, because they wouldn't have been able to arrest them if they had guns of course.. \s
Onboarding is a millions times easier.

With Slack you need for every chat a new login/password and 100 clicks for sign-up, skip tutorial and email-verification, WTH why? Getting users into Discord is one single click. With Discord you have one login and you can have different names per server.

And Slacks admin pages are just a confusing pile of mess, my .vimrc is light-weight compared. Slack is so overrated and people just use it because everybody does.

Discord has never been sluggish for me.

However, both are timewasters.
Would you happen to have a reference on that?
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Move all your savings from your bank account into bitcoins ( as long as you have à internet access, that's correct). Then all you need is to store your wallet in a secured cloud storage.

Once internet is completely gone of course all you're left with is buying diamonds or gold, put as much as you can in your luggage and just run.
> How do you become a "senior developer" without knowing this? That was one of the first data structures I learned about when I was 15.

I swear I've interviewed several senior developers who couldn't even vaguely describe what a linked list or a hash table was. I don't know how anyone can say that's not a bad sign.
Thanks for linking to this.

FYI -- It's not immediately clear, but the details of how this works and the status checks are provided at the bottom of the webpage.
> Are you really trying to insult Tesla

No. Tesla is not a person.

> by pointing out that 1 American factory today produces one third of the amount expected of the whole of China in 4 years time?

35GWh/p is the projected capacity of Gigafactory for 2020. The factory is by no means finished and currently behind schedule. The bloomberg article I linked to compares the projected capacity of Gigafactory with the projected capacity of the new Chinese factories that, too, are currently in production and are ready at about the same time.

Just look how how not one press release of Tesla lists current capacity of Gigafactory.
When you say things like "treated like a monkey expected to do tricks on demand", you're playing status games.
I believe there's a few things under .NET that try to wrap multiple UI libraries to varying levels of success too however none of them are as mature as Qt for a nice multiplatform UI in my opinion.
I disagree, I feel every comment was sufficiently justified by the text of the parent comment. My only regret is including the "Do you say 'All Lives Matter...". I shouldn't have made that a question targeting the parent comment, and just noted that the protestation seemed comparable.
https://bitnodes.21.co/nodes/ is also useful to follow what's happening.

It looks like 25% of the nodes in the Bitcoin network are suddenly running "Bitcoin ABC" (the implementation supporting bigger block sizes) on AWS... someone somewhere has started a bunch of (spot?) instances it seems.