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Biased projection of hate.

Java helps students get jobs right out of the university.
agreed. I took a break from fb and got several of these per week.
For OP's case, I wouldn't have jumped to async, but instead either to multithreading or multiprocessing. Pool().map makes this really trivial. Taking their example, and tweaking it slightly:

import requests
from multiprocessing import Pool

def fetch_things():
pool = Pool() # defaults to number of CPUs
urls = ['https://example.com/api/object/1',
'https://example.com/api/object/2',
'https://example.com/api/object/3']
return pool.map(requests.get, urls)

print(fetch_things())

Output (because those URLs are nonsense...):

[<Response [404]>, <Response [404]>, <Response [404]>]

It's just as easy to do it in threading. Just switch that "from multiprocessing import Pool" with "from multiprocessing.dummy import Pool"
To be honest, real black on real white is horrible from a design/UX point of view.
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> The drone needs to have an air worthyness certificate and be flown by a full pilot in order for the FAA to allow it.

It's highly dependent on drone weight and usage, but most drones are in the <55 lb category, which doesn't require either of those things for commercial use: https://www.faa.gov/uas/getting_started/

Drones above 55 lbs do require a section 333 waiver and a part 61 airmen certificate, which is basically a mild step up from the part 107 UAS pilot training requirement. Both are significantly easier, faster, and cheaper than even the cheapest private pilot's license.
> few (only?) non-NeXT Objective C projects

I worked on another, the Infopark Fiona content management system (formerly NPS). We started with the GNUStep foundation and later switched to libFoundation and a bunch of custom frameworks for Web and DB.

That experience made me realize that conventional wisdom was, as usual, wrong. It's not true that language is unimportant and only the frameworks count. With the right language, you can easily build the right frameworks for your needs.

There was/is also a bunch of telecoms work in messaging with GNUStep.
Maybe I'm cold-hearted but I believe in something called "personal responsibility." They chose to throw their money into something they don't understand, now they get the consequences of that decision. You can be sure they'd be all about accepting the consequences of their decision if it panned out the other way and they made a fortune. I feel zero sympathy.
The problem is establishing a level of service good enough to get significant numbers of people to choose the bus. Over a large area with moderate population density.

If waiting for the bus takes longer than it would take to drive, people are going to acquire a car as soon as they can.
I have no debt, some liquid assets, but still rent. I know I'm better off than a lot of the country but being in the top n% of income in the wealthiest country in the world but enjoying little of the amenities besides basic infrastructure seems difficult for me to think of myself in any way as "wealthy." Unencumbered is ahead of many but I think I'd far rather have $400k income (and, more importantly, the social status and connections that kind of occupation or niche implies) with $1MM in debt than some low six figure income with much more in common socially with the homeless and nonfunctional mentally ill.
Gambling is also very illegal in china.
Of course it's achievable, if you just look at the money. This is a vastly wealthy country, the money's there to provide for every social program imaginable.

It's not culturally achievable because Americans buy into a just world fallacy for every social ill: all the wrongs in the U.S. are because whoever's suffering deserved it. For all the people who say capitalism is our national religion, I'd say this fallacy is one of our ten commandments, right after "screw you I got mine".
Thanks for that link, now I can clearly see that from the power-user perspective WebExtensions is a dead-end. If you look at the RESOLVED WONTFIX issues linked in that bug, you will find a lot of them are rejected based on political reasons. For example: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1246706

Listen, I don't care whether features that I need don't fit the WebExtensions security model or whether they are confusing to a clueless user. If you can't support these features as part of WebExtensions, please design a separate set of APIs. Fine with me if you market extensions targeting these lower-level APIs as "dangerous, use at your own risk".
> Was there a safe route if you wanted to ride a bike? 5 miles is a pretty short ride.

Houston is humid subtropical, with oppressive levels of humidity even into November:

https://weatherspark.com/y/9247/Average-Weather-in-Houston-T...

(Source: former resident)
Im going to openly state that i am not an expert in business dynamics but I have worked in a few industries that seem to have a system that, while being technically not being a monopoly or breaking laws (usually slowly carved into being legal or they are working at deregulating it to be that way) are doing really shady unfair scheming in order to have the dominating company. This is the goal of a capitalist model. so trying to make your company be the only option is a big success for the people that profit from that company. Its not good for innovation or society in the long term but in America that is the system that is there. This is why regulations have to get set up though, because a company (pretty much 94% of them) if just were allowed a "free market" will at all cost and no regard for what the negatives for society , will work to make a profit and get to a level where least amt of effort and cost bring in max profit to them. It's not evil or even always conscious it's just human nature. look at the millions of people that built the railroads and cities and slaved to make an empire for a small few as they die penniless and broke. Its not right or fair what Google did, but the dude saw someone talk smack and it not only hit ego but could cost profit, so he smacked back. There needs to be a different model altogether, not a shaming someone for doing what any of us would in that spot.

As they say dont hate the player, hate the game.

I am also not saying i have an answer to finding that model and i dont think with the current climate of tribalism, it's not going to happen until im old or dead. So if you dont like it, stop bitching and try and fix it. You do know that Karma isnt a real thing? some amazing people have nothing but crap happen to them all their life, others are disgusting pigs and have nothing but continued success. Yeah sucks, now buck up cuz google being a meany, is really not a news story. Go find a job creator to create the guy a job.
I'm curious as to what things DT cannot access. Is this a general issue (and if so have you spoken to the DT maintainers?), or is this because the systems you are working on are doing something unexpected?
I'm also curious about that. If you ever find the answer, please, come back to tell me.
For non-Americans who are having trouble imagining this, note that the movie "Office Space" was filmed in Dallas. The stop-and-go traffic in the intro? That's every day, twice a day. The only difference between Dallas and Houston is that Houston has even fewer sidewalks.
Zones are still cool, and they live on in illumos and especially SmartOS.
There is absolutely nothing legally binding about a Wahlprogramm. Our constitution is quite clear on that, Art. 38 Abs. 1:

Members of the German Bundestag shall be elected in general, direct, free, equal and secret elections. They shall be representatives of the whole people, not bound by orders or instructions, and responsible only to their conscience.
> I still question those numbers, and even more so whether or not he can work effectively for that amount of time, though.

I agree completely with you here, the numbers are obviously padded vs what many normally think is "work". But the reality is that many actually work far more hours per day than they realize if the use a similar definition of "work" as what's used for Musk's number here. How many of us lay in bed thinking about a tough work problem? While quickly snarfing down food sitting at your desk, are you not reading emails or similar? Do you go to networking events and talk business? That's all "work" technically if you're being liberal with the definition (and honestly, it's not unreasonable to call that "work").
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And also the new scapegoat. AI is gonna fire nukes, AI is racist, AI is the end of the world. Not the men behind the algorithms and their functioning, blame the AI.
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If you are fine with a company profiting out of your personal information and habits, I am not, and I think is a reasonable choice to assume that people are not fine with that.
If anything is trendier than microservices, that is bashing microservices.

Before this comment pool spirals into that, I'll just leave this: It all depends on your project.

Did you have a bad time with microservices? Maybe the implementation was wrong. Maybe the project doesn't fit the model. Heck, maybe the project would STILL be screwed under a monolithic approach. There are so many variables to what classifies a success/failure in the microservice world (like most other things in software development, actually).

What's important is to not have a polarising opinion: "microservices suck", "microservices should be used for everything". Analyse your requirements. Imagine your professional project a few years down the line. Educate yourself on the subject (there are books on the subject!). Make. Sure. It. Fits.

I've personally had successes and losses with microservices, just like I had successes and losses with other architectural styles.
This article challenges that view by showing that nearly all of the technical components of bitcoin originated in the academic literature of the 1980s and '90s (see figure 1). This is not to diminish Nakamoto's achievement but to point out that he stood on the shoulders of giants. Indeed, by tracing the origins of the ideas in bitcoin, we can zero in on Nakamoto's true leap of insight—the specific, complex way in which the underlying components are put together. This helps explain why bitcoin took so long to be invented. Readers already familiar with how bitcoin works may gain a deeper understanding from this historical presentation. (For an introduction, see Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies by Arvind Narayanan et al.36) Bitcoin's intellectual history also serves as a case study demonstrating the relationships among academia, outside researchers, and practitioners, and offers lessons on how these groups can benefit from one another.
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Any good resources for convincing management that this is a useless practice with absolutely no benefit to real-world estimation or productivity?
As a counter-argument, why NOT use Java? You have multiple free and open source implementations to choose from, and there’s a library on Maven Central for almost anything you’d ever want - and if you don’t like the language itself there are many alternatives to choose from.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AHdYZOSDEs
Some clever peeps could clean up here
Ask HN: What is your side project this month?
> When I ask this, I’ll often hear about benefits like tracking, accountability, visibility, estimation, managing dependencies, status checks, notifications, executive roll-ups, and reporting. I hear very little about improved collaboration, better insights, improved quality, more effective retrospectives, and increased team motivation / sense of ownership / clarity of mission. I almost never hear about improved end-customer outcomes.

I agree with the author. Enterprisey tools for enterprisey use cases are probably detrimental to developer efficency, motivation, and probably also in some respect to end-user outcome.

But what the author doesn't address is that those enterprisey behaviors aren't there for fun. There are tons of levels of management that need to see those charts. You could argue "then fix that!" but then please tell me how to do that instead of telling me what tools I could use once that is done. I'm going to argue that for a lot of enterprise development this isn't possible.

I don't hear a lot about huge teams of mediocre developers developing large scale software with managers on all levels having the level of insight necessary to keep stakeholders happy - while doing all tracking in a simple trello board.

Now I'm not going to argue that TFS and Jira are nice and nimble. But the alternative to these aren't Trello, they are Trello + fifteen different secret steps you need to take to complete the now ad-hoc process.

"When you finish an issue you need to email the QA lead with the build number to test in, then email the required translators to fill in the necessary translations, then move a thing on a board somewhere, ...."
Unless all these things are magically not required, then I very much prefer digging a deeper Jira pit where all of this is at least encoded and enforced in the system rather than in a wiki or email somewhere.

It's not management that pushes these systems on developers. Management push the process (because you lose track of e.g. which translations were missing and you had an embarassing release somewhere). Developers then use the tool in response, because to developers, software is the answer.
I think the heavier doses require a prescription, but you're right. You can just get it OTC at your pharmacy most of the time.
> At least to me it seems like there are only negative aspects of doing microservices

You (and others) have cleanly expressed the downsides, so here's my version of why microservices are valuable:

- Code is forced to have well defined APIs; you can't reach into a library's internals and rip out what you need when that library is implemented as a separate process.

- You can scale only the parts that need to be scaled, when they need to be scaled.

- You aren't tied to any single language for your application.

- Horizontal scaling is easier than vertical scaling, beyond a certain point.

- You gain a lot of extra fault tolerance.

Of course, all of these benefits only come when the microservices are implemented well; however when they are done well, scaling and reliability are easy. Since both scaling and reliability directly impact the end user experience, they will be given more weight than the microservice tech debt.
I'm not sure what the general point is you're trying to make. Mine was to answer, in my experience, whether or not wait times and general 'hassle' is higher in places with more socialized health care than the US. My (limited) experience in NL, and that of those I know here and in the US, is that wait times and hassle are much lower.

It could be that this is due to irresponsible MRI'ing and unneeded operations. If that were true it would be very interesting, since that's the opposite of what people assume when they think of socialized medicine.

I would also assume that it would be more expensive per capita, which it doesn't appear to be: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.PCAP?end=2014&lo...

It could be that all these super-fast decisions are more expensive, but kill a lot of people sooner, thus saving everyone on healthcare. This also doesn't appear to be the case (life expectancy at birth is higher). https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.IN?location...

Anyway, to answer your specific points:

- PPO vs HMO: Nice that you have a PPO. That option wasn't available to me. In the Netherlands, I can pick my insurer freely, my employer has no say in the matter (costs are 100-150 euro a month). Some insurers have in-group agreements, some do not.

- On getting MRIs: I can't tell you when it's correct to order an MRI or not. All I can say is that both MRIs were hits for a torn meniscus, and both operations also bore out evidence of this. Both times it was also a textbook case of a torn meniscus based on my symptoms. Both

- Researching Surgeons: Yes, I researched both surgeons (and hospitals where the surgery was performed). In the US I had fewer options (Kaiser only), in the NL the specialist gave me a list of other specialists who I could get a second opinion from, should I want to.
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What tools are used for parameter estimation? E.g. I made a model that describes my system behavior, then collected a lot of data and next need to find the constants in the model that make the best fit. Thank you.
I would think Houston also has worse pollution and more humidity than Dallas.
ActivityPub: from decentralized to distributed social networks
Also worth mentioning IdentityServer: https://identityserver.io/
I checked search preview and got 'Jira sucks' ahead of 'Jira success stories'. So yeah I'd say it is a meme now. I don't know if it really sucks that much. I do think it suffers from that crm configurables disease. I can't believe how much time people/companies invest in this stuff, almost certainly people-lint. Often the case is where it is adopted along with Agile as a new shiny methodology with no in-house understanding of either. In one case I've seen is my team had created a shed load of data migration issues as tasks and the business were only communicating issues to the vendor. It was a mess but it wasn't Jira's fault.
That sounds a lot like a guilty by association. If some people in a group of people hang out with some people who are bad, all of them are bad. In this case, you claim the author associates with groups which in turn are associated with /r/The_Donald, which I presume you think of as bad.

All the while, you are indeed not saying much on the contents of the linked article.
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I have worked on a project that had millions of users which began to implement a microservice architechture over a monolith. It was completely unnecessary since the monolith could easily support a load of a lot more (we did test that).

I stopped working there (partly because they wouldn't hire anyone to work on the monolith) and afaik the monolith is still in production (or at least the majority of it) since the microservices took so long time to develop I guess someone pulled funding.

I have to say my experience with microservices is a bit limited, but every time I have seen someone do it I just think it is too complicated for very little gain. It takes massive resources to develop it and I am not convinced it's the design that makes it scale better.
>On the other hand these inferences can often be used in better ways. For example, colleges can identify "at risk" students and make sure they get extra help.

I like that last sentiment. We shouldn't lie to ourselves about the truth, but we should use it to help make the situation better for society as a whole, not to discriminate against certain groups.
That depends on what kind of work you do. All over the world the average worker is getting paid far less decade by decade if you account for inflation.

Is that really a problem with taxes? Or is that a problem of the ever expanding wealth gap? Assuming the salary for your job had kept up with inflation, and that you got a fair share of the productivity gains over the past few decades, you would be above the poverty line.

But let's say your taxes could be reduced to something like 40%. Obviously some public services would have to go away. I certainly wouldn't want that to be medical care or public education.

Maybe in your country there are problems with corruption and the taxes aren't be used very effectively? Again, that's not a tax problem, that's a corruption problem. If you were getting the benefit of those services, it would be less money out of your pocket and you would have more to spend.

> currently just socialist

I would also be careful with this category. There is no European country that is socialist. They are all capitalist, with private industry making up the bulk of the economy. There are a few social safety nets and services. But that's not socialism, is it?
They hijacked the back-button to redirect to a dating site :/
Alternately if you prefer a dead tree version, here’s a PDF: https://gitlab.com/dustyweb/talks/raw/master/activitypub/rwo...

As an aside, this is a big week for ActivityPub, since Mastodon is going to begin rolling out ActivityPub to their ~850k registered users.
I, too, expected to read about all the open source projects from FB.

Always surprises me how often the React devtools icon lights up indicating a React-based site. Maybe there are false positives, never investigated.

I don't really follow who's using React, but was surprised to see it on Dropbox.com.

Wonder how high the percentage would be if it included the library code for all FB projects?
Come on Emma_Goldman. Don't do that. Why possibly alienate a potential reader of Foucault? You don't know what path jstewartmobile took to get them to this point. Though it may not be universally true – and it certainly might be unjustified – the Continentals (Derrida & co.) aren't exactly known for their lucid crystalline prose.
I think the idea is that you build transit and the land next to the transit stops becomes more valuable. Apartment buildings get built there, shops move there, and so on. Takes a while, but in a fast-growing city it should be doable.

Also, not all transit is the same. Buses require a lot less infrastructure. If Google and Facebook can make buses work (using nicer buses), why not other big companies?
I actually implemented React's UI Router in polymer, works the same as in Angular 1/2. The biggest issue with web components in general are problems with Shadow DOM support.
Which means you need to do elements without shadow components up to top level - that is indeed annoying and reduces the pros of components.
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The history described here offers rich (and complementary) lessons for practitioners and academics. Practitioners should be skeptical of claims of revolutionary technology. As shown here, most of the ideas in bitcoin that have generated excitement in the enterprise, such as distributed ledgers and Byzantine agreement, actually date back 20 years or more. Recognize that your problem may not require any breakthroughs—there may be long-forgotten solutions in research papers.
Most of the time when people talk about "Houston" they're really talking about Houston + suburban sprawl. Pearland to Kingwood is 40 miles. The area is huge, and there aren't common trip starts and trip ends.

I'll compare to two cities I do know that have more public transit:

* SF/Bay area handles similar distances with BART and Caltrain. Try to imagine the bay area (and transit) if there was no bay, the western part of the peninsula was as heavily developed as what's along the bay, and the metro area went further inland. Although the bay causes many transportation woes, it does linearize transit which means more overlapping commute patterns

* Chicago. Buses and trains within the city supported by density and the huge fraction of jobs in the Loop area (small geographic area, huge fraction of jobs). Metra rail serves the suburbs, and taking Metra generally involves driving to a Metra station.