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I wouldn't put it as "danger", exactly. It's freedom. The language won't trap you, pretty much ever. You need to write directly to hardware registers? Fine. You need to drop into assembly for a bit? Go for it. However down-and-dirty you have to get, you can do it.

Whereas with some other languages, if you ever need to get more down-and-dirty than the language is designed to allow, even for just a little bit of your program, well, too bad - you're not allowed to.
As someone who spends all day in IntelliJ there's no way it's 10x as fast, hell for me it's flipped the other direction.

VSCode is easily 10x faster than IntelliJ. If I'm writing Java I'll happily use IntelliJ but anything else it's VSCode or vim.
Ugh, pure overhead, exactly... Apparently someone produces some technical looking but actually vague document every week as a result of these meetings. Some date is thrown out, and _something_ is always deployed by that date, albiet buggy and destined to get rolled back. Eventually, someone figures out that the implementation doesn't actually work at all, and we go back to the weekly meeting with the "new requirements", and repeat until the thing actually works in some semblance of the manner that we need -- or run out of time, scrap it, and move on to more pressing things.

Maybe I should try scheduling some late-night meetings with the senior guy... He's sharp as hell, but we never get too technical during the meetings because that would just confuse people.
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I don't think nicotine itself is that bad for you, it seems like nicotine inhaled via cigarettes is an entire different league to other nicotine/tobacco forms.

Cigar and pipe smokers as a rule don't have the kind of compulsive many a day habits that cigarette smokers do.
Ok, then please forgive my ignorance. Basically that's what I was asking for (links or sources with deeper informations on the subject).

Of course I made the mistake to use “only“ where it should have been “so much“ or something. Sorry again.
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While I agree I think the one unfortunate side effect, that i do not have quantitative evidence of, is that more people are vaping who would not have picked up cigarettes.

It could be purely anecdotal evidence but it sure seems like it.
I just find the situation depressing. Most sites have no 2-factor and with the advent of U2F and TOTP, I wish more sites that are offering real services, would offer these standards. I can understand them having their own (maybe) if their app has a larger purpose. For example the gaming system called "Steam". I have no problem using that because a) activating 2-factor (their 2-factor) provides instant access to trades vs waiting 2 weeks and b) the app has other uses that are something I might use when out and about.
I don't understand what the difference is to a stock - those investing hope it will continue to go up but it's a risk. And they hope to sell at the right moment.
I work with a project that contains tens of thousands of classes that span about 3m lines of code. Jump to any symbol responds to a fuzzy search in about one second. Jump to class autocompletes instantly as I type, and a rename takes a few seconds to update all classes in the project, including references from xml files and comments.
At this point I'm convinced that this e-cig FUD is a combination of intentional misinformation and general population not being able to think clearly about degrees of things. One would think that "a significantly less harmful thing is better than a harmful thing" is a tautology, but apparently it's not obvious to everyone.
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> One does not just quit smoking.

Plenty of people do.
Well, I have a deeply nested tree of let blocks intermixed with lambda abstractions (my front-end, which uses a continuation passing style, generates very inefficient code). If I alternate between beta-reductions and inlining, then I need to do many passes to end up with something small and sensible (and this takes a lot of time). So, I guess I have to do both types of steps in a single depth-first pass. I'm about to rewrite my optimizer this way, so I thought perhaps I'd better read up on it first to prevent unnecessary work :)

Yes, checking what to inline is tricky, but I'm not there yet; my code is still very simple and everything can be inlined in principle (unless of course intermediate results would cause problems, which I'm not sure about).
[Firebase founder] This new database has been in the works for 2.5 years, since shortly after we joined Google. It was developed in close collaboration with the Cloud Datastore[1] team, and uses Google’s core database infrastructure.

We built it because we know it can be challenging to build complex apps with our original database -- Firebase Realtime Database -- where we optimized for ease-of-use & real-time sync over querying functionality. For more info, see this comparison between the two[2].

This is a open beta launch, so the product has limitations[3] you should be aware of. We’ll be working to remove/raise these before General Availability.

A note on naming: Firebase launched in 2012[4] with a single product, the original database. As we added products (Firebase Auth / Firebase Hosting / etc), we began calling the original product ‘Firebase Realtime Database’, or RTDB for short. If you haven’t followed us lately, we’ve grown to become Google’s app platform, and now have 16 products to help you build/grow apps.

We’re grateful for the support HN has given us over the years and we hope you enjoy Cloud Firestore!

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I mean, Java applications work ludicrously well. They're not slow, and they really do run on anything. I'm straight up double-clicking .jar files on Mac and Windows without any problems (on linux double click is kinda a myth so I just "java -jar" it). There are good Look&Feel jars for swing. I just wish Swing itself didn't feel like enterprise programming. Java requires me to be so verbose it feels like I'm doing WebDev again.

I'm convinced all of the mud slung on Java is due to enterprise programs and other software not motivated by quality (more of a "you have no choice but to use this to interact with our hardware/service and we CBA to make multi platform so you're stuck with our lazy java. Oh, and we come from the school of abstracting things to hell because creating more red tape impresses upper management.")

IntelliJ is I think the first application that showed me that Java is Good, Actually™ by delivering on those mythical promises of compatibility and speed.
Yeah, the radioactive element comment is more statement on how our products are slowly decaying. But if I was to choose one with a half-life similar to the lifetime of the products I've worked on I'd go with the isotope: Sodium-22 with a half-life of 2.602 years.

Edit: Going by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_radioactive_isotopes_b..., it seems that most of the halflives fall in the 10^(n where n <= 6) seconds category which is smaller than a human lifetime.
Isn’t that the JDK, the jre is smaller from what I remember.
IntelliJ faster than VS Code? I don’t think anyone who’s used both products could make such a claim with a straight face.

I joke with my coworkers that I know they’ve fired up IDEA because I can hear it. Whenever it’s on, their fans are dialed up to full blast.
> Some aspects of evolution when applied to humans we call progress.

And that is key. Indeed, competitive pressure drives evolution (but isn't the strictly sole driver or the mechanism of evolution itself). The most important point is: evolution only values survival/reproduction, it doesn't value "progress".

There's a very strong argument that humans now understand evolution enough to make conscious decisions not to just play the natural competitive game. We can actually make a better world by refusing to follow that natural game. Life in competitive natural circumstances is brutal, painful, and short. We value progress as in human (and non-human even) flourishing, happiness, scientific progress, etc. and we get those things best by refusing to just act like competitive evolution but instead by rising above that. For example. we have no evolutionary benefit in caring for the least among us as an entire global human society but when we do so, it's because we recognize the ethical value.
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I would love to use this at some point. I would also contribute towards the development of this framework. I love Go and I don't want to switch to JavaScript when I want to write a iOS/Android application. Everything has to begin somewhere. This is probably a first step to something fine.
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We've been using MessageBird to send transactional SMS's for over a year now. It was much cheaper than our previous provider and their support is first class. Congrats to them.
Isn't a main advantage of using the web stack to build desktop apps that you can share code with a web hosted version?
>> Visual Studio Code (often hailed as "one of the best-optimized electron apps")

Is this some kind of joke? VS Code is a glorified text editor that ate your CPU trying to blink the cursor: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/22900

Microsoft has a real IDE, and it ain't written in JS.
> does that mean you would exclude them from the problem? would you say then there is no need to fix the problem there?

Where did I say anything close to that? I merely said the problems need to be analyzed and confronted on a culture-by-culture basis, not treated as a singular 'US gun problem'.

The US is a big, highly varied country and those gun deaths have varied causes and root problems.

> there are a LOT more gun deaths in the US per capita

Averaging out via per capita across the country is a useless statistic, in terms of actually confronting the issue, if there are massively disproportionate events in certain areas or sub-demographics with different incentives, causes, etc.

Legal gun control is not the only way to solve this problem. Especially given the US's unique legal history with firearms, current ownership rates, and the fact they are the world's biggest manufacturer and exporter of firearms.

Even if they did a total ban on legal firearm sales to civilians there's still billions of guns in the country... there has to be more than that. And yet I see plenty of people perfectly satisfied with their politically-dead panacea solution.
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> It isn't "due to C." This is a popular meme on HN, but it's incorrect in its focus.

You can call it a meme but that doesn't change my opinion.

> Some attacks will be harder to employ, some less, but on average probably about the same quantity and seriousness will occur.

This is unfounded, I don't really know how to respond to it other than that nothing has ever really worked this way in security. You don't get less secure in one area because you were more secure in another.
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The AMEX lounges are fantastic--way better than most lounges--but they are getting too full. If day passes are part of that problem then this is a good change.
Stretching the truth is pretending modern OSX/MacOS has any significant legacy in the old Mac OS 1-9. It doesn't. Youre talking about the lineage of the brand, while I'm talking about the lineage of the source code.

As I explained in my post it's a reskin of NextSTEP. That's why all the Objective C libraries are called NSTextField and such - NS stands for NextSTEP. In fact it's why OSX is largely written in ObjectiveC at all as that was the NS development language. The legacy Mac OS compatibility layer was a user level subsystem that was dumped years ago.
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Sorry, but I have a noob question. What do you mean in #2 by
"Pushing new updates remotely, without having to resubmit your app"
I've noticed that, at least in some lounges, United has cut back on both allowing per-use payments and using lounges when you're flying on another airline. United is in the process of expanding some lounge capacity but it often feels as if airlines/etc. sell more lounge usage than they can really handle at busy times. Which must be very tempting to do as it's basically free money until your customers start leaving.
I'm the author of this framework. I think Matcha has a really cool approach to building UIs. Everything is built on top of interfaces, so its very easy to reuse and customize components and layouts. Its not quite production ready but I can any answer any questions.
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20+ days is nothing to write home about with unlimited PTO. Many jobs in Europe have anywhere between 21-25 (or even 28) paid vacation days per year. As a standard. I'd imagine in order to justify unlimited PTO you would have to be able to take at least 30-40 days per year without any issues.
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This was done be a guest teacher. The author was not the classroom teacher. This means that the students were more curious and interested to begin with. To maintain this type of rigorous style throughout the year would be almost impossible. It could be used more, but not exclusively.
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Our society's tendency to moralize or rationalize issues has made it tough to talk about harm reduction.

Moralizers focus on the corrosive elements of addiction and rationalizers say that e-cigs are still harmful but they miss the point that many people who smoke e-cigs are better off than they would be if they used cigs to get their nicotine.

E-cigs offer a better path to cessation through better control of the nicotine concentrations than cigs do, and e-cigs are probably one of the least harmful ways to get nicotine (and they're certainly cheaper than gum and patches).

I was very disappointed that the Obama administration tried to apply such heavy-handed regulations to the industry, it has its place and I think we'd be better off tolerating e-cigs. Give people an alternative to caffeine.

I think most productive people are dependent on some stimulant or at least most people find their productivity is enhanced through stimulation. Whether it's coffee, nicotine, or amphetamine, we should be honest about why people use it and focus on access that doesn't cause undue suffering.
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Could you please list a few examples of these 3rd party FreeBSD applications that you have in mind? Thanks!
Sure vim beats out both of them but I'm constantly having to wait for VSCode to catch up with me or my cursor will start inserting characters at the wrong spot. IntelliJ works as fast as I can think (minus the boot up time).
I'm curious how large the project is and whether it's the same project on both editors.
But this is what will happen eventually. No programmer with more than 5 years of professional experience really likes working with Javascript; they just put up with it. As soon as you can work in <insert your favorite language here> and compile it to WebAssembly, with the added bonus that it will run pretty fast, the popularity of Javascript will diminish drastically.
I amazed by seeing this type of frameworks and code written by a single person. How can one person write this type of framework. I want to learn this. Anyone please provide suggestion how to make myself better like this.

How much time and dedication he devoted in this is really amazing.
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They don't seem to like double-click on the Linux Desktop. AppImage? Yeah, just go to the console, make it executable, then run it from there.
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There is a video about a split brain patient (somewhere), while they are shopping.
The left hand might put a box of cereal into the shopping cart, but the right hand puts it right back on the shelf. I wish I cod find the video.
I've recently written javafx with kotlin. It was a very pleasant experience.
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Ok, so by "not a thing" you mean "abstraction", rather than something which does not physically exist.
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I want to throw in a thumbs up for Guacamole. I deployed it two years ago to allow us to demo our software for big enterprise clients who can't easily install things on their office computers. I can rapidly deploy an Azure Server 2012 VM set to kiosk mode with our software installed in under a minute.

Enterprise clients can then login from anywhere and get a fast controlled demo of our software.

A few months ago I also threw out our crappy old Citrix deployment and replaced it with Guacamole. When hurricane Harvey hit we had 50+ engineers working remotely without a single hiccup. It was a lifesaver.
To counter the positive feedback about this technique, I'd like to point that when the person on the learning side (answering the questions) has not asked to be taught anything, the teacher (asking questions) can come across as a condescending prick. This is especially true if the content is a matter of opinion, not statements of fact. I have become sensitized to this and it makes my blood boil when I notice it happen.
I'm gonna make such a claim with a straight face. I don't know if it's VSCode's vim emulation or what, but on every platform I've tried it on IntelliJ beats it, while VSCode is busy catching up to where my cursor is still after chaining like 2 vim commands.
Chilling read. I have never heard of this but it's making me much more eager to have children.

Does anyone know why the daughter was powerless, or not their guardian herself? This felt like a hole in the narrative.
> but it often feels as if airlines/etc. sell more lounge usage than they can really handle

oh, so exactly like actual airfare tickets?
I believe we're in a small golden age for science fiction. There were completely wack aspects to Interstellar but it's still the most "science-y" science-fiction movie to make a mainstream impact since... 2001: A Space Odyssey, basically. I was so happy. I'd say that an executive producer and scientific advisor of the movie winning a nobel prize in physics is a sign that this is about as serious as a Hollywood-budget science fiction movie can get. It's great. Part of me wants to make a sarcastic joke about corn fields and bookshelves, now, but fuck it, those shots of the wormhole alone more than make up for it!
That's kinda different since the quotes I pulled directly contradict the headline.

The headline should've been: "Australia confiscated 650,000 guns. Suicides and maybe homicides dropped."
This is one of the most infuriating things I've read in a while. How did our legal system end up i this quagmire?
I am! Thanks for the kind words! I don't hear from people using my stuff too often, so it's always good to get some positive feedback :)
If you take any amount of VC money the expectation is that you're going for >$1bn exit.

Also remember that the Series of the investment doesn't necessarily reflect the stage of the company but rather the number of rounds of investment it's had. In this case MessageBird expect to hit $100m of revenue this year.
Definitely not "proven" to be dangerous, in fact evidence is more compatible with (low dose) nicotine being quite safe.

Best summary I'm aware of (note the many caveats): https://www.gwern.net/Nicotine
>E-cigs offer a better path to cessation through better control of the nicotine concentrations than cigs do, and e-cigs are probably one of the least harmful ways to get nicotine (and they're certainly cheaper than gum and patches).

Alternatively, e-cigs have made nicotine consumption cheaper, faster, more convenient, more socially acceptable, and available at much higher concentrations than tobacco. The aggregate being that nicotine addiction could very well increase overall, even if smoking rates drop. Most people don't realize that it's not really the smoke and lung cancer that leads to a majority of smoking deaths. It's the cardiovascular effects of nicotine leading to heart disease. Equating that to caffeine is ridiculous.
Given that description, would you mind elaborating on what you would consider a prescription, in the context of HN?
That argument still requires evidence that those personality differences exist, aren’t learned (other primates have learned behavior, too – see e.g. http://www.radiolab.org/story/91694-new-baboon/), and are significant to the very complex behaviors under discussion.

The other area it ignores is the degree to which humanity’s distinctive advantage is plasticity. We can learn to do things like be comfortable in an enclosed space full of strangers – imagine a subway full of baboons! – which doesn’t mean that biology can’t be a factor but does mean that it’s really important (and hard) to critically test those assumptions.
> Add to this the disastrously central role that C has played in our ongoing computer security nightmare

Hindsight is 20/20.

C was simply the pervasive language when the internet happened. C was designed when the world was a friendlier place, where buffer overflows did not exist. It was embraced by everyone because of its speed and simplicity.

No C programmer was raised/educated to have security in the front of his mind. Hell, many programmers of any language still don't.

Stop bashing C and start using Oauth instead of inventing your own authentication schemes.
Here's a First World Problem if I've ever seen one. I thought it was something security related, but it's just people without $550/year Amex accounts no longer being allowed to pay $50 for on-demand access to the Amex lounge.
This!

It reminds me of a great Clay Shirky essay:

http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2013/11/healthcare-gov-and-the-...
A lot do. E.g. Tononi's IIT.
3) Compilation is much faster than C++.