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> Oh, no, absolutely no real life example. Note that something that huge is not something I encountered (gladly, 20 devs was the biggest team I was in). I'm trying to answer the question "in which circumstances people doing this may be right", which is my usual approach when I don't understand a behavior (provided it's not morally questionable behavior, obviously, but it's not the case here).

Well I've been on teams on two where the software architect would insist on abstractions and dependency injection absolutely everywhere so it's probably not team size dependent. :P

I find it funny how some people promote the "you aren't gonna need it" principle but yet abstract absolutely everything in the incredibly slim chance they might want to swap something out in the future. I feel overabstraction is a very, very bad and common thing yet it is rarely mentioned compared to e.g. avoid goto, avoid comments. Overabstraction bloats your code and makes it really hard to understand.

> And now, people in all those teams keep coming in and leaving company, and you have to make sure no knowledge is lost when they leave, and that new people can make changes fast. If you split all of this in 30 files with a clear separation of public api and internals, it probably helps.

I could imagine how if you were dealing with Amazon's scale abstraction would be more common and more useful than in other places.
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Meat cattle are usually slaughtered at 3 years, which is the sweet spot of quality and quantity of meat. There are also many calves which are slaughtered around 4 months for things like veal
This is an article about CIA literature. The Anarchist Cookbook is not illegal in the US.
Slip falts have much lower risks of tsunami. It most definitely could happen, but a large earthquake is far more likely.
A typical newspaper article might be 2-5Kb of text you actually want, and 10Mb of Javascript and ads that you don't.
You should add an sillcock key set for water access... they're handy.

http://www.homedepot.com/p/HDX-4-Way-Sillcock-Key-UWP0002D/2...
Is that very low? 4€/hour at 8h/day, 22 days/month is 700€/month. I don't know how are the salary levels in Italy, but that's quite a bit more than the minimum wage in Portugal, and only slightly less than the minimum wage in Spain at the time.
Work life balance, lower expectations at work and no internal competition. As bad as it sounds like, that's what I need since I burnt out not a while ago. The pay cut was mostly made on stocks/bonus. I lost a lot of those by leaving my previous employer. My base is actually slightly bigger now. In other words, it feels like I'm really getting paid for what I do everyday and that the salary/productivity expectation is at a sweet spot on both sides.
Seemingly. I've never used such a fast compiler
I don't think it even needs to be meat...just synthesizing the raw amino acids would probably be much easier, and dogs probably won't care that much since their primary sensory pleasure in eating comes from the proteins themselves.
You make a damn good point. I was talking to some of my more conservative friends the other day about the potential for civil unrest at some point in the future, and they said something along the lines of "rednecks have guns, they'd win the war". Problem is, while I'm not really a "gun person", I'm not anti-gun either. I don't go around bragging about my gun collection or how much ammo I have, and I also don't go around in public showing off or even talking about the four rifles, two shotguns, and the handgun I own. Even my closest friends, while knowing I own guns, have never seen them unless we've hunted together.

It never really gets talked about much, but if the people who like to brag about their guns somehow think they're the only ones who own guns, they're going to be very surprised in an actual emergency situation. Plenty of people quietly own a gun and would be willing to use it to defend their property again criminals.

I mean if you think about it, how many people own a bicycle? Now how many people are dressed in spandex in public bragging about their VO2 max? There are a lot more quiet, casual bikers than there are braggadocios bikers. You just only hear/see the ones out bragging about it.
This is hilarious. I like how they slowly go from 'be lazy' to 'outright violence.' Why don't we make these for our modern conflicts? North Korea, the sprawling Middle East stuff, those crazy Russians around Georgia/Ukraine...

"Call in sick and throw tools in the sewers. Threaten your boss by telephone and cut up the upholstery of vehicles. Put nails in battery cells. Paint seditious slogans. Burn down a warehouse."
Is there a 2m radio model that you would recommend?
22 or 26 hours of flying doesn't really make a difference.

If someone reinvented supersonic flight, and gave it a 20.000 km range, then that would be absolutely fantastibulastic!

That would be about 3x the range of Concord, so I guess it will never happen. Boom claims to be working on a 40 seat plane with a long range, but I doubt there would be any economy in that.
Certain aspects can be certain, sure, but overall effects are beyond our understanding. We just have too small sample size ...

But while we disagree on what we know you're right that it's not clear cut and one can argue we already know quite a bit - e.g. those immediate effects is something I can imagine we have good grasp on, I've not studied that in depth as most debates are about ultimate consequences.

Thanks for new PoV!
Sorry, i didn't mean it in technical terms.

But as best i understand it, the basic conceptual design of the GB/GBC and the NES is pretty much the same.

Neither device do much if anything without a cartridge inserted. This unlike say a modern game console that have quite elaborate firmware that loads even without any game media present.
35%? I think you underestimate the bad blood and ill faith in the US political system. Both major parties are mere parodies of genuine debate. I will concede that 35%, being Trump's approval rating, I assume, is an easy and valid lower bound.
maybe people are bored with technology news
Yes, but shrinking the pie means that finite resources such as housing (land) becomes cheaper. Even if my piece of pie gets smaller in absolute terms I might still be better off than before because the price of housing and domestic services have gone down.
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Other people have complained about the number of participants, but that isn't the issue (it was run as a crossover study, so 13 participants should probably be fine).

The issue is that despite purporting to test fancy pink noise synchronized with brain activity, the control treatment was no noise rather than unsynchronized pink noise. That means that it's impossible to tell whether the synchronized noise was more effective than normal pink noise would have been (or even possibly just earplugs, although it looks like the earphones they used do a decent job of blocking noise: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0046H8ZHS ).
I'm flattered that you've been "investigating", but I'm not sure what that tweet has to do with your accusation.
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While modern agriculture is significantly more efficient, the food surplus and over consumption is also massive. So, I am not sure the numbers are that different.
> I only need to aim in your general direction

Maybe I'm just bad at trap/skeet but in my experience you still have to aim with a shotgun! ;)
That depends on your state. I took one for my first license but haven't had a driving test since when I've moved between states. I have had paper and oral exams since then, though. But that only shows I know the laws and rules of traffic, not the ability to drive.
Haha, dude, this isn't the movies. In the absence of medical care, it's more important not to get shot than to shoot someone.

Because if one of them hits you, you're a goner. It's not a rational option to try to steal shit because someone out there will shoot you, and then you'll die. It won't matter that you shot fifteen people before you got shot because life doesn't have a K-D ratio.
I used "pink noise" on Android, with a logo somewhat like a human tongue. Super simple but it avoided a subtle clicking sound that repeated on a tone generator app I downloaded. I'll check out pzizz as well, thanks!
Would highly recommend storing the most important stuff in a bug out bag backpack, packed and ready to go at all times. Can't assume you'll be able to use your car.

We recommend the Kelty Redwing 44 backpack: https://theprepared.com/reviews/best-bug-out-bag-backpack/
Obviously the people who tout their gun ownership are just asking for trouble...most notably they are just begging to have their guns stolen.

(edit: people keep responding to me as if I have left myself vulnerable...uh sure, you know the LTE tower I connected to HN from)

Still, you cannot separate emergency preparedness and self-protection. Anyone who questions this should look back at Hurricane Katrina or the LA riots.

You should expect some of those people living under onramps in SF will attempt to upgrade to Pac Heights in the event of an absence of civil order...
Try Stylish? It's pretty decent, and if you know any CSS worst case if a site you're on has no style, you can set one for that site, I think some of the styles are generic towards all sites too to try to do the best to darken them or lighten them up.
I'm a business owner and I rely on advertising, and I would still ruin advertising.

1. Advertising gives advantages to the largest richest corporations and stifles competition from superior small businesses.

2. It makes people stupid, they don't take the time to investigate products before buying, because they are literally brainwashed from hearing the same bullshit every day from advertisers.

3. It wastes our time. It is 2017, it is the information era, if you want a product you open a web search and look for it. Advertising is no longer necessary or relevant, and it is stealing moments from people.

There are more reasons.

Advertising is already dead, and if your business operates solely on advertising then your business is in real trouble. I started telling people this a year ago and they laughed at me. Get off that flaming wreck now while you still can, or sink and burn with the rest of them. The smart people are already looking for new revenue models. Adapting to new conditions is a critical part of survival skills, and if you can't do it you won't survive.
Great, now who would be held responsible for that?
> It claims to micro-analyze facial expressions, intonation, non-verbal signals while the candidate is interviewing. This is vile, hostile interaction in my opinion.

Is your objection to the use of those things in general, or just to the use of an AI instead of a human to evaluate them?

I'm curious because these things are just, I think, the components that go into demeanor and humans routinely use demeanor to judge how much trust to put into what someone else is saying.

In fact, one of the main reasons that witnesses in a criminal trial in the US testify in person in front of the jury is so that the jury can see their demeanor and use it to judge credibility.

I'm pretty sure almost every human interviewer uses demeanor evidence, albeit not consciously. Short of eliminating face to face interviews I doubt that there is a way to stop such judging because it is almost completely unconscious.
turn around time is said to be on the order of 20 minutes

And for how many sorties can it sustain that? Even if you had enough F22 pilots to keep it going...

Send just enough Sea Furies to force the F22s to scramble until they are forced into deep maintenance - then waltz in with your main force, game over.
> Obviously the people who tout their gun ownership are just asking for trouble

> And I have a Glock 17 and a years' worth of ammo, so I don't need to stockpile the other stuff, you are doing it for me.

Uh-huh.
> people don't block ads because they can't stand the site of them.

Oh yeah? Where do you get your research from?

I guarantee people are blocking ads because they hate ads and everything else is secondary.

You want some proof? TIVO sold millions of devices because of the ability to skip ads. People hate ads.
Hadn't seen sendnda.online. I'll have a look.

The "stack", methinks, is pretty irrelevant. I did mine in plain Node.js. Storage to SSD filesystem. JS mostly so I could reuse some open-source contract automation work I'd done under the Common Form umbrella.
Right, but I guess my question is: how would this be an intersection of usability and utility? Might be if Qubues ran on any computer I own.

I doesn't, so this is more of a parlor trick thsm a practical way to police extensions.
Or Jordan Belfort for that matter. Not sure if "idiot" is warranted though; it's not like they made their money through dumb blind luck.
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The major thing overlooked here is mindset. After 14 years in the military and experience with several armed conflicts and humanitarian disasters, I have seen that pretty much all your plans and preparation will go out the window, so you need to learn to move adapt and improvise.

If you're going to survive any contingency scenario you need to be resilient, excruciatingly innovative and mentally tough. Think more like MacGyver and less like Dr Strangelove.

Be minimal, learn how to forage and scavenge, learn how to blend in and get along and take nothing for granted.

The most successful trait I've seen in survivors it's to know when to stay put and when to move. Whether it's hiding from a mob or a bear, or finding a different county or state to go to.

Take risk when necessary but not unnecessarily.

Again, having the right mindset, through intentional training is the key. There are all kinds of survival schools and the best ones will teach you this. I suggest adventure traveling as a start. That means you go someplace with no plans and the most minimal of supplies.

Edit to add: The key problem with most prepper folks and this article is that they take an approach of "alone and unafraid." Things like stocking up for months and having all kinds of weapons. In practice this is just a great way to get your cache raided by a group of scavengers. In reality you need to find or create a small community of survival minded people that can work together successfully over a long period with a variety of skills. As humans we need groups for survival, so the best bet in a crisis is to build a resilient flexible community until things settle down.
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I do since 4 years ago as a developer :)
What's your website? I will post some feature requests to ad blockers to block the advertising you're using.
What you're talking about is, in more modern times, called "fast casual". It's not quite fast enough to be fast food, because it's actual real food, but it's cooked in an efficient enough process that it can be served within minutes.

Noodles and Co, Panera, Culvers, etc.
I'm in a simmilar boat and there are no 1on1s, should I try to introduce such a thing? how?

I'm new to the company and manage ~7 people and do a lot of product too.
Agreed that "fabricated out of the whole cloth" is an exaggeration. Rather than go into it further, I think it's better to encourage people to read history and learn stuff than it is to get into the usual culture war about this.
Are there certain classes of products that similar things happen to in the US?
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Yeah, totally, small and medium teams don't need all of those. That was my initial point about implementing our own flux-styled store layer for react, instead of using flux (the actual lib) or redux, which are made for such giants.

We have a big problem with small companies wanting to imitate giants and go with elasticsearch/kubernetes/rabbitmq/whatever from the start when they clearly don't need those (and the same goes for code architecture).

I just won't say that the simple architectures I write are how everybody should write code and that giants' devs are bad developers for solving problems I don't have :)
"Would you be nervous with an artificial intelligence evaluating your interview skills?"

Yes, because the prospective employer should be evaluating my job performance skills instead.
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Yeah Googling around it looks like there have been some places called "XYZ Waffle House" around NYC, but not actual official Waffle Houses.
In a democracy, it is important for normal people to understand what our governments have done in the past, in order to know what they may be doing today.

Today, Venezuela is on fire. The opposition claim this is due to government ineptitude, and the government, at times, claims it is due to foreign interference.

If this sort of thing were going on, even if we agreed with it, our governments could not tell us that they were doing these things, or they would be less effective. So we must study history to understand what may be contributing to events around the world.

It might help us decide how to vote.

Though as demonstrated in the most recent US election, nothing really changes, just the wall paper.
>> I also think most of these points fall into the "code is data" ide[a]

> That was my point. Lisp s-expressions are used in Lisp not just because one can implement macros with them.

Right, and I held up macros as an example of manipulating the ast.

I may be wrong, but for many types of data, you would not typically use s-expressions - other than as an intermediary representation - your sql is "compiled" to binary datastructures, as are your images - and the machine won't be "running" s-expressions directly either. I think acknowledging the complex nature of our systems can be a benefit - and insisting on a simplistic abstraction can do the users (programmers) a disservice.

>> The fact that you have to choose between not being able to represent text (ascii) and a variable length encoding, also makes s-expressions less appealing today, than it once was.

> It's not clear to me what you mean with that. Can you give an example?

Ascii can't represent international text - but is a simple encoding to work with.

We've pretty much landed on a complex (by necessity) representation: variable length Unicode with support for different reading directions.

While a the high-level the parsing rules are similar "give me the parenthesis-like grapheme, parse numbers based on various local representations" - Unicode s-expressions aren't really simple any more - they are opaque binary streams that need parsing into reasonable abstract syntax tree-structures. Even utf32 doesn't really change this.

And I think languages like nim (or even to a degree python) show that such structures can be made pleasant, intuitive and powerful to work with. And doesn't limit us arbitrarily to simple symbolic data (eg the unpleasantness to work with a megapixel bitmap represented as s-expressions) - and helps lift our minds from "we can/should force everything to be text", to we should be able to work with our code and data in many representations, accepting the underlying tree structure - and (subjectively, obviously) I think that on the program/dsl/logic side, s-expressions are less human-friendly than something more like python.

It's one important reason why many of us don't prefer s-expressions for pseudo code.
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"Maybe the good life is not about trying to achieve some sort of illusory balance. Instead, maybe it’s about pursuing your interests fully, but with enough internal self-awareness to regularly evaluate what you’re not pursuing as a result — and make changes if necessary. Living in this manner..."

...IS balance. Period.
There is a specific niche that BuckleScript and Reason can fill, and that is the sort of front-end projects that use React+Redux+ImmutableJS+TypeScript/Flow.

Instead of bolting on typing into Javascript (Flow and TS both do a good job of it btw), you could simply use a language that was designed with it. There is a huge difference in native adoption of such a core language feature vs using a transpiler that ultimately leak Javascript semantics.

If you're using immutable values through ImmutableJS-like libraries, or by just being careful to not mutate stuff - then you should try working in a language that has immutability baked in. Having confidence that you've been careful to not mutate anything in your code vs using a language that simply disallows it in the normal course of programming brings a tangible difference.

You can call BuckleScript/Reason as just a better version of Javascript with all the good things baked in. But it definitely is much more - you get to use Variants (Sum/Union types in other parlance), and more importantly, writing value-based immutable code (instead of reference based mutation) lets you rely on equational reasoning to understand your code. Your functions are pure and can be seen as though they are equations, and your whole program is a composition of these equations.

A good thing about BuckleScript/Reason vs transpiled languages like CoffeeScript is that we're fully free from Javascript's semantics. You are solidly inside OCaml, and Javascript simply doesn't leak through. You don't have to worry about JS scoping rules or how `this` works, or how ES6 classes are ultimately prototype-based. Except for a well-defined foreign-function interface that lets you use all of npm libraries or your existing JS code, once you are in the typed immutable world of OCaml, then that's all you need to think about.

All of this applies not just to BuckleScript, but any Typed FP that runs on the browser - Elm, PureScript, and I believe Scala.js as well.

But one big advantage (or disadvantage, depending upon how you look at it) of OCaml/Reason/BuckleScript is that it allows mutation if you need it. You can start out writing purely imperative code just as you would in Javascript, and slowly adopt immutable programming as you get comfortable with it. You can also rely on mutation when you need to optimize specific parts of your code.
you presume I have some desire to use my gun or create a situation to use my gun. No. It is an insurance policy. Like all policies, it can also fail, but I would rather have it than not.

my original reply was more a play on words as to what one can expect from others...you should assume desperation and access to weapons...this is America not Lichtenstein
One bit of advice. Traveling solo gets rough after a while (say 3-4 months) because of the loneliness factor. Easier to do in 'bursts' in my opinion. In fact, I think a model of going on sabbatical every 1 to 1.5 years or so makes more sense. You could easily do that in between jobs.
You compared the effects on "millions" of global poor vs. "millions" of poor americans, but there are order of magnitudes difference in the size of those groups. Arguably the gains to the former is also greater than the losses (the rural poor of south and east Asia gained food security, the stakes are not nearly that high for the American poor).
Thanks for pointing out Bard, I'll take a look!
This is a large part of the reason we went with rabbits for our house pets. That and the horrifying breeding situation going on with dogs right now.
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