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> But a manager that is pushing you to work 70 hours a week isn’t a manager who plans ahead for unexpected work. No, this is a manager who solves problem by telling you to work harder and longer.

This seems like a little bit of a leap to me. Is it obvious that these two aspects of a manager are inherently related? In my experience, I have also seen that solving a problem by throwing longer hours at it is a net-negative in productivity. You may hit a tight deadline or put out a fire, but it tends to be followed by a period of lower productivity from exhaustion. Overall, your team has picked up increased volatility with a lower average output. You'd be better off if you could predict and catch the problem early.

I could imagine a team, though, that is accustomed to putting in 70 hours a week, and a manager that carefully manages the process to make sure that those 70 hours are as predictable as possible. The post would imply that all managers who ignore one aspect of a healthy team or project (sane work hours) would be ignoring all aspects. I don't know if that's a fair leap, but maybe in practice it is true.
I dunno, I'd rather use "vanilla" React/Redux/JSX than try and get those tools to fit with custom elements, shadow DOM and the html import/template stuff.

The web components specs look poorly thought out to me. They seem superficially like good ideas, but when you actually bother to build something with them you hit the rough edges and missing pieces. I do not appreciate that Chrome rammed them unilaterally down our throats, or that their Polymer evangelists continue to flog these technologies as though they are somehow an answer to the vast majority of problems web developers face.
Get them to understand why the architecture does the things it does. If they can tell you why you used technology x or design pattern y then you've had a good onboarding.
I was a little disappointed to see there wasn't any internet connection on Windows 2000.

All I wanted to do was to open Firefox, goto https://bellard.org/jslinux/ , and fire up the Linux emulator ...
>Philosophy of Science, I think, is almost a completely bogus field.

A coherent philosophy of science is required for science to be based on valid premises. I don't know what you mean by this, unless you're referring to something recent which I don't know about. The past philosophy of science has been extremely instrumental to creating the scientific method; Karl Popper is science household name.

>On the other hand, it's very political, and a lot of it is mental masturbation.

There's nothing wrong with political philosophy, and arguably political philosophy is some of the most important from certain perspectives (pragmatism?). There's also nothing wrong with mental masturbation; by the same measure art, abstract mathematics, theoretical computer science, theoretical physics, poetry and a vast array of human literature is also mental masturbation, yet few would deny its value.

I have a hard time dismissing Hegel and Marx because their work involved political philosophy.
We need your product: email me at discusalternative@icouch.me

Your solving a big problem: having commenting that protects user privacy. We are happy to pay if the product works in our use case.

Totally off the parent topic, but you do seem to be building something that is incredibly useful, at least for us.
I'm utterly horrified that she attempted to dispatch the possum with a BB gun. The animal suffered far more than it should have.
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ModernCalc – Gnome shell extension
Gnome-shell users please give some suggestions for the extension: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/900/modern-calc/

At the moment I don't have enough time to work in it but later I'll add more features, fix bugs, create modules and implement other gnome-shell extensions I have in mind.

When I created it I had in mind a side pane calculator but I changed it to a modular extention in order to support more than just a calculator, that's why there is a converter, but I plan other modules than math related.
It seems unlikely that anyone would've cared. The big problem is that they lost everyone's SSNs. The timing around the reporting isn't really why their company is under the guillotine.

Whoever dismantles their company could try to frame it that way, but the rest of the industry will see through that. It won't be a good situation for us to be in.
I'm being kind of harsh, so let me restate: my experience with Philosophy of Science has been very sub-par. I took a class on the Philosophy of Time and a lot of it dealt with relativity. Now, I don't think you need to understand Einstein to understand the gist of relativity, but if you're studying it for 10-weeks in a formal environment then, yeah, you probably need to have a grasp not only on Minkowski spaces, but on the metric tensor as well -- and the accompanying math. These topics were merely brushed over (with the kind of brevity you would see in a Netflix documentary) and it left a bad taste in my mouth. At the graduate level, a few (Philosophy of Science) grad students didn't have a grasp on Bayesian inference -- but were attempting to use it in their arguments freely.

Maybe I'm being unfair, but I just think science should be left to the scientists.
I'm grasping at straws, but it seems relevant to this branch of the thread...

Wasn't there recently an uproar in the U.S. about a [state/municipality/or some such] that gave copyright over to their [regulations/building codes/or some such] to a private entity? Thus, citizens had to pay to know what the law was and couldn't make copies.

This seems right along the lines of what op was talking about.

My memory is too fuzzy to get a good search result so if anyone could help out with the specifics I would appreciate it.
You should never be using frameworks. http://www.catonmat.net/blog/frameworks-dont-make-sense/
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Oh, yea. Although, this sort of thing is actually fairly common for my industry (defense contracting), so I'm not sure any of us will end up anyplace better.
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It is very much slow. Compare typing a message in slack to typing a message in sublime, or even visual studio. There is a long noticeable delay when sending messages, when changing channels, opening threads, attachments, scrolling, searching.

I've a high end workstation on windows 10, and a gigabit jnternet connection. There's no excuse for the delays we see. Another major issue for me at least is their editing system. If you send a message, and edit it "too soon", the UI pretends to edit it, and some seconds later comes back and gives you a modal dialog saying it failed to apply the edit, and undoes your edit. The delay is _huge_ - 10-20 seconds.
> Not a popular opinion, but should insider trading be legal?

Isn't this legal for members of the United States Congress? I can't recall the specifics, but seem to remember some special exemption for them from insider trading rules.
because philosophical papers can stay 'at the bleeding edge' (under active debate) for a really, really long time.
High Sierra also does not allow backups with Time Machine to APFS formatted drives.
(I found shooting rats pretty ineffective for controlling them - you never see them as they are nocturnal and subterranean. If you see a rat, it means you've got hundreds!

A gun is an effective way to kill rats that have been caught, though. I'd recommend a good air rifle over the .22 though; much quieter and cheaper.)
This is fascinating. It's a well-written post and their plan makes sense to me, but I imagine there's a tough choice ahead for framework authors (the Laravels and Drupals of the world) about whether they want to fork their communities, stay with PHP7, or try to target both with the same codebase (in the near term or long term)?

At any rate at least the fact that the HHVM folks are communicating the strategy effectively and transparently should help everyone involved make reasonable decisions.
How on earth are you supposed to live on the internet then? Become a domain name registrar? You can't really avoid them, can you?
This is totally a shame.

I'm watching the conference where there are saying that "that is not yet another frameworks" but come on, that IS TOTALLY A NEW JS FRAMEWORK.

Let tell to a recruiter that you work 3 year on angular 1, 2 year on angular 2, but no really you feel you are ready for web component but you already failed your job interview, because you are a distancied old programmer working on old'good angular 4.1.3

Guys at ionic, you should work to correct your current version totally buggy (I know what I say, I will soon release my first app that I worked 5 month full time on)

Next time for sure I will stick with angular cli and a naked cordova
I get what the poster is saying about "gauging market interest" and all that. And about how videos and landing pages can do a lot to help you do that, and much lower cost, etc.

But if they think that such activities are somehow a form of actually "building" something, they're horribly, horribly confused.

"Don't Build When You Can Just Bluff" might have been a more accurate title of their posting, in that sense.
IANAL.

The legal term for that the government is seeking is "declaratory judgement"[0].

"A declaratory judgment, also called a declaration, is the legal determination of a court that resolves legal uncertainty for the litigants. It is a form of legally binding preventive adjudication by which a party involved in an actual or possible legal matter can ask a court to conclusively rule on and affirm the rights, duties, or obligations of one or more parties in a civil dispute (subject to any appeal)."

Here the government is asking the court to declare that the subject matter is off limits, and not available to be released, as a matter of law.

Declaratory judgments are probably best known here on HN with regards to patent litigation. If a company receives a 'cease and desist', alleging the non-licensed use of a patent, that company might file for a declaratory judgement that their product does not actual infringe on the patent.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaratory_judgment
I wish you guys would build a multiple rows of tabs UI, like Opera for desktop had. It was self-balancing (since you would eventually run out of browsing space), but in a better way than having everything just made tiny per column.

The one UX challenge you would need to solve though, that Opera did not, is how much horizontal space to use per tab, after it gets cramped. No-one would be happy with any particular default...
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> And people that contribute are incredibly smart -- far smarter than software engineers, by comparison

Comparing a software engineer to someone contributing to the advancement of an entire field is not really a fair comparison. This is like comparing someone who has a job in "compliance and ethics" to someone making advancement in quantum computing.
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I'm also windows 10, and find it impossible to blame. I've run discord on the same machine on a much more active group, and it's far more performant.
People, are you seriously this crazy about Paul Graham here?
I really don't get it. Hacker News is like some sort of PG echo chamber.

"Background: Paul Graham is probably one of the most influential technology pundit[s] of our times."
SERIOUSLY? Small hint: he's not.
It takes less time to boot Linux in Chrome on my laptop than it takes Reddit to load a discussion on my phone. That's pretty amazing. Not sure which is more amazing: How slow Reddit mobile is or how fast Linux boots in JS.
That's pretty suspicious trade. The trader shelled out 150k in cost of options.
I never understood the need for CoffeeScript. I especially don't understand why someone would want it now.

Compilation of JavaScript is a terrible idea. I have worked with loads of different compile to JS languages. The compile step is a huge pain. The language has to be much much much better than JS for it to be worthwhile. I think that even JSX or TypeScript don't cut it... Close but still not worth the hassle! I used CoffeeScript for 6 months, it was a very lucrative contract but I had to quit in part because I really didn't like CoffeeScript.

What I love in a language is simplicity and unfortunately, you cannot make something simpler by adding a layer of complexity on top of it. It might look simpler at first glance, but it isn't once you start debugging, messing with source maps and buggy source code watchers.

If there was a native CoffeeScript interpreter inside browsers, then I might consider using it... Otherwise, no.
That's not really fair though, as credit is only one facet of the data they collect on you.

In most of the US it's against code to live in an apartment without electricity. In order to get electricity, you have to open an account with a utility, who opts-in to submit all your data to Equifax.

Their Workforce Solutions division does the same thing with employment data-- so simply by applying for a job from a participating employer, you're consenting to ultimately let the employer report that you work for them, what your current salary is, your SSN and all the rest of the juicy PII.

Fall on hard times? Need some government assistance? Applying for food stamps will also result in your state agency making an inquiry with Equifax to confirm your location of residence and last reported income. If you didn't have a profile before, you do now.

There is no way to opt out unless you work for yourself, live in a home you paid cash for, generate your own power/gas, and never use credit. So basically Unabomber life.
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A checklist is a mere piece of paper without the discipline to use it every time.
There is a nasty edge case if you concatenate scripts and use an IIFE in a script
I'm upvoting this, primarily because it accurately reflects what usually happens when a new standard is proposed. Apparently the rest of the HN community is either unaware of this, or dislike being reminded of it.
Of what little of the article I could stomach, sounds like Armstrong is as remorseful as ever. I just wonder why Outside magazine still picks up the phone when Armstrong’s PR agency calls. I mean, is there anyone left that cares?
I'll admit I was being slightly factious and open data is making everything much easier these days. But geospatial analysis is mostly just math with a bit of programming while data collection often involves trying to deal with county and state level employees operating with a very high power Someone Else's Problem field and then trying to explain that scanned photocopies of old maps is not quite what I was expecting when they said that they had all their maps 'digitized' :)

But I'm the sort of person that much prefers dealing with math to dealing with people.
I'm comparing people of equal experience in either field. A philosophy undergraduate is, in my experience, much more intelligent than their engineering counterpart. This probably has to do with the fact that in philosophy, writing clear arguments is of primary import.

Whereas in engineering, most examinations are problem sets -- where the worst that can happen is a clever gotcha' (see whiteboard interviews).
I hear this a lot, but in ~4 years writing JavaScript without semicolons, I've had to do this maybe two or three times. I just don't feel like starting a line with [ or ( is very common, to the point that it's a complete non-issue to me.
You can, and it's very unfortunate that the apache devs don't consider these things vulnerabilities.
(I reported a DoS via password hashes a while ago.)
That and PATENTS:

https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/blob/master/hphp/hack/PATEN...
Not all the time... Before, when nginx was event and Apache was prefork or worker, yeah. But with the Event MPM, performance is pretty much neck-and-neck.
It's also bogus. If there is one theme repeated over and over, from Aristotle to modern-day philosophers, it's that a philosopher is so much smarter than any other group, and that it's a humble sacrifice to go work in a field that won't pay very well.

The vast majority of philosophers don't advance the field in any meaningful way.
Could you please stop breaking the guidelines and post more substantively than this?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> One important take away for me was that this project aims to replace paypal, not bitcoin. Its target is to establish an open source payment infrastructure that is better than paying with credit cards, paypal, etc...

Well actually if you read the initial paper from Satoshi Nakamoto, bitcoin was invented as a replacement for paypal, not money :

> Commerce on the Internet has come to rely almost exclusively on financial institutions serving as trusted third parties to process electronic payment [1]

But bitcoin became really popular among the libertarian movement which hated the Fed and other central banks because they saw them as threats to freedom, and now people mostly think about bitcoin as a replacement for money.

[1] : https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
So you are OK with the works of Karl Popper? Because as an outside observer, that's what I consider the phenotype of the philosophy of science.
Does such ordinance covers private property?

I know quite a few people that have setup bullet traps in their basements and pretty much have an indoor range even in restricted states.
Thanks; we don't feel that the framework authors have to make a choice here:

- short-term, those of us working on HHVM - not the frameworks - need to make sure that HHVM can run the frameworks that Hack developers require

- long-term, we expect Hack and HHVM to continue to diverge from PHP; it's unlikely that targeting both HHVM and PHP will be a practical long-term strategy
This is an extremely short sighted article. It points out potential weaknesses of frameworks and then concludes unilaterally that they should never be used. This doesn't help anyone. Without the Rails framework my job would be significantly harder since I'd have to piece together several libraries for ORM, HTTP requests, DB Connections, etc. This would be significantly more cumbersome than just using a framework, since any one of those libraries could go defunct just like a framework could. My only other option if I can't use a framework is to write my own implementation of _every single core feature_ of rails. No thank you.

Use frameworks when they are appropriate, stand on the shoulders of others who have made significant contributions to the community.
That is, I think, the wrong question. Or rather, the wrong approach to take.[1]

Philosophy is not that kind of human endeavor. There is no "state of the art"; instead, Plato is as state-of-the-art as he ever was[2][3] and every publishing philosopher has novel ideas (or at least hopes they do, although they might also like to learn that some ancient sage has expressed support for their notions).

My personal way of viewing philosophy is as a conversation. A philosopher starts by finding other statements that they like or don't like. Then, they add their own thoughts, modifying previous ideas or attacking or supporting them, all with the best arguments they can muster. From all this, you, as an innocent bystander, can pick out the threads that best let you sleep well at night.

[1] And if I've ever written a more philosophical paragraph, I don't know what it is. I wish to submit it to the Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts, blah, blah, blah.

[2] I'm sure I'll be vigorously attacked by analytic philosophers at this point. There are very much schools who would like philosophy to be more akin to the sciences or (even better) mathematics (but without all the icky evidence and formal proofs and such). But then, the only particular sympathy I've had for analytic philosophy I've recently discovered due to an interest in Daoist philosophy.

[3] Except for Epicurus. He seems to have won on some topics---his physics; if you're a materialist, you're Epicurean even if you don't already know it---and everything else seems to have been misplaced. Which is the interesting part, dang it.
It's tangled up in chicken wire, so an axe presents most of the same problems as a shovel.
Making them work harder for the same grade doesn't mean they still won't be bored, though.
Classical mechanics is 'done and dusted'. Aristotle or Plato are not. They can still be discussed and actively debated about today.
I have a T420s, and after maxing it out RAM/HD-wise, managed to get one of the adapter boards so I could put a FHD IPS screen (the same model you mention) in it.

One of the reasons the guy stopped selling the adapter boards was the huge proliferation of "fake" screens being sold as specific models.
Your argument is that the top philosophers are smarter than Carmack. That seems suspect.
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Another way to look at it: you will only draw developers who share your appreciation for whitespace-significant languages.

I have worked on two startups with a fellow programmer who knew Python but not CoffeeScript. He picked it up very quickly, along with Emblem (indented Handlbars alternative, useful for Ember projects) and indented Sass. Once we told the text editor to insert 4 spaces in place of tabs, we had much less to worry about in terms of stylistic disagreements.
Good idea. The site should also include unconfirmed accusations, because apparently we live in the dark ages of the internet.
But it's equally naive to state that it's a 'fundamental issue' that writing a bunch of text to disk requires a lot of I/O, and that compression doesn't help.

He didn't just say filesystem smarts were redundant with controller smarts, he said no data layout could avoid the problem. That's a big misstatement of the problem.
I really liked CoffeeScript, it's a good way to generate sane JavaScript. But I have switched to Elm for larger projects. The maintainability it brings is a lifesaver.
This is a horror story. This is how she dealt with the first animal:

> I had to ram the blade of the shovel into the head of that animal about 30 times before it actually died.

And the second:

> I emptied an entire barrel full of shot into the possum, aiming for its head. After 50 pulls, I ran out of BBs.

> I would have sharpened the knife first, but now I was just committed to using the wrong tool for the job. It was terrible. I stabbed and stabbed and stabbed, grunting and screeching a little with the effort. At one point, the possum grabbed onto the knife with its teeth and had enough life left to gnaw at the tape with such ferocity I thought it would wrest the knife from the broomstick.

And the eight babies of the second animal:

> I grabbed each tiny sneezing possum, plopped it into the bucket, and covered the top with an old piece of plywood. When it was over, I put all eight bodies, along with their mother, to rest in the municipal green bin. Thank God for Bay Area household composting.

This is little more than the cold recollections of a murderer. She exhibits no growth, no regret. She admits that the small amount of compassion she would have for her chickens would be due to "peer pressure."

At least this article is an excellent resource to share with would-be urban farmers.
Because fundamentally, every single premise established in Philosophy is rejectable, and in practice, every premise is routinely rejected. Unlike physics, where there is one tower and it is built high by many hands, in Philosophy, there are many towers and many builders, all having made very little progress on what are incredibly hard problems. There are too many different schools and too few means of empirical refutation to achieve the kind of unity you're looking for, unfortunately.

Sometimes, however, they do borrow eachother's tools at least.