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Majority of managers do not want people that see through their bs. After all they need to manage. Someone who sees through their bs is not as pliable as an inexperienced hire. They want the naivety because it is exploitable just like ignorance. Remember most managers are trying to move up and if you pose a risk, they won’t have that. This is also part of the reason why there exist so many collaboration tools. If we placed collaboration above competition just maybe the company would be a better place to work. Instead of this competitive minefield where everyone is just looking for the next opportunity to step up at the expense of others and at the expense of collaboration.
Don't think there is anything wrong or ignoble teaching people JS. It's an excellent start.
There is also Mononoke, a HG server being built in Rust: https://github.com/facebookexperimental/mononoke

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I do follow you now.

Here is my feed: dat://73bf68c7e480d53f231d0f077e2865afa098d0b6b1bd3eb65364b9b7cb149d0c
Yeah, but when I was driving 12km/h over the limit I got a huge fine right there and then. I wasn't told to drive under the limit up the road while the police reviewed my behavior. I think that's what OP means, one rule for megacorps, another for the rest of us.

edit: My question is that when you have a company that has a track record, why do government contracts and private enterprise keep begging on the same street corner, instead of looking for work elsewhere, that is to say, why do they keep going back to Windows and not invest elsewhere as investment would lead to an acceptable (to them) enterprise Linux (Red Hat++ exists!)
"Android's location tracking is a feature and I believe is not turned on automatically."

It's not but they insist that you do in an unclear way every time you open google maps.
Thanks, but I don't see how that link contradicts my objection. Can you point me to how they're tracking the workers that didn't end up being overqualified because they were excluded by the hiring managers?

From what I can tell, they tracked the jobs they took, but not the jobs they were denied for, so I don't see how they could've accounted for the selection bias.
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This is when it pays off to just minimize the use identifiable information.

Finally there might be a drawback to just collect just because it seems to be valuable and might be exploitable tomorrow. The vast majority of companies never even recovers the development cost of collecting the data, no wonder they don't have the energy left to secure it.
So which is it? Just for future reference http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2015/10/ways-to-say-yes/
What's an MVP? Is that like an SoW?
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> Call me when Apple starts exercising prima noctis.

https://pando.com/2014/03/27/how-steve-jobs-forced-google-to...
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If only Spotify would learn i dislike autotune, and focus less on the artist/genre/year of music.
> You said that using functions for everything was, and I quote, "perfectly good".

The "perfectly good" quote is accurate. I never said "for everything".
Sorry, by customising I meant change the option list - eg: it comes with rear camera, but you want to add 360 camera instead. Even the colour of the car is set to "black" only and only the base trim is available.

To be fair, the information currently available is more marketing level than practical. Right now it seems they are closer to long term rental than an easy lease. This thread is filled with alternative services that on paper look much better, so we really have to see what Volvo end up to do in practice to compete.
Why can't Tech Giants just deliver, you know ... tech?

Why do they need their prying eyes on our data?

In the old days of the internet, companies provided the hardware, and universities designed the protocols (which were federated), and ran the software.
Pyramid schemes?
I'm guilty of this, matter of fact I'm sure a good number of us (developers) are. Though lately I find myself looking up documentation aside so I can read through examples and find more information. Some languages / libraries are better documented than others, and sometimes Stack Overflow fills a niche. I noticed one library that was not afraid to document things recorded on Stack Overflow that they made into official documentation and made a reference back to Stack Overflow which I thought was perfect since you get the context behind that documentation, as well as it solved a real problem.
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Thanks. The UI seems to resemble Firefox more, though, which is strange.
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Honestly, 12.5B look like a ridiculously small amount to me for an infrastructure project stretching along 550Km and involving an unproven, technically very challenging technology.
> This might be excessively prurient

Wait what? What do you want those screenshots for?![0]

[0] - https://duckduckgo.com/?q=prurient&atb=v71-6__&ia=definition
Oh nice. So your work will allow programmers to work in vr? Or more generally to have a VR office for collaboration.
The only reason I've heard is that companies are worried that a gap may be due to time in prison.
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It always disappoints me as a C# dev is the lack of top level application products like WordPress and friends. All the top lists in Matt's post are either infrastructure or development tools.
> Having to do these things in order to survive is extremely exciting, it just that the excitement doesn't feel good.

That's just called stress and I'm not sure I would equate stress to excitement. What makes the video game more engaging, relatively speaking, is that the stress factor is virtually eliminated. If we want to make real life more engaging, so to speak, perhaps we all need to focus more on how to reduce/eliminate stress.
Ah interesting, so even though the screen / lenses are only a couple of inches from the eyes, they focus at a distance of ~2 meters?
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Tunnels are very, very expensive.
Can't register, only shows cryptic:

"Unable to register. Please try again or contact Movies Anywhere Customer Service."

Turns out after digging through the site:

"Eligibility. Only legal residents of the United States, all U.S. territories, and the U.S. associated states of the Federated States of Micronesia and Palau (collectively, the "Territory") are eligible to register for a Movies Anywhere account, provided that the Movies Anywhere Service is subject to availability of Digital Retailers and Movies Anywhere Content in the Territory."

Another incredibly useless waste of time, just like Youtube Red.
If someone would re-implement Age of Rifles, that would be fantastic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wargame_Construction_Set_III:_...
Are you allowed to tell us the name of the game, so we can have a look?
I wouldn't say it is false, I was just simplifying.

If you take no outside money (yet), have no employees (yet), and don't buy many goods, you don't really have any benefit of either not paying VAT, or getting limited liability. This is for people who have a side-business of "making websites". You can register a simple business ("Gewerbe") when you have to write an invoice, or start making regular income.

Of course, if there is real capital investment involved, or once this is not just a side business, you have to do more.
I'm obviously not a medieval expert but how is that even vaguely related to this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droit_du_seigneur
When I last tried, the adblocker wasn't as good as ublock. If I were to switch now, I would miss easy access to my passwords, referrer control, zotero, and RES (a bit, a userscript would do).

Some of the adblock issue is possibly an engine problem (there's some pre-script hooks that Webkit-forks don't support).
Exactly, unwillingness to engage in proper debate is more of an authoritarian strategy than my line or questioning.
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I use it religiously now, so much quicker to program with imo as you don't need to find out the return type. Surprised it's less used than async/await though, which I think MS massively overhypes the usefulness of (and is annoyingly making a lot of classes have async behaviour by default which can result in very weird random hangs).

Although I imagine a significant number of class declarations would contain no var or async/await simply because of their nature.
No. I'm saying we should identify people with potential for advancement. People overqualified for their current position are almost certainly ready for advancement. It's not a counter offer because you've already identified them before they felt a need to shop around.
Its the chance to wrap the world in another layer of data, surplanting whoever currently holds acces to the user with another device- and squeezing all those who are engulfed in your reach to become organelles of your ecosystem.
Need feedback on a mobile startup idea
Hi, I am thinking of an app and wanted your advice. Here's what the app does: It enables small shopkeepers and their customers to record transactions where the customer buys goods on credit. e.g. a customer pays 20 bucks for a 100 bucks item and the shopkeeper records that amount in his app and sends the customer a notification to accept and save that transaction and the amount of money owed through the app. The customer receives the message on his app and acknowledges that he owes the money or not. This helps in keeping record of pending transactions between the merchant and the customer. We are planning it for small grocery stores and their customers.
What do you think? Is it feasible? Would you buy such a product?
Yes, we can do that if you are in Europe
Hmm, yeah that's a good point. I'd not looked at the individual repos too much, but you're right, there's not many (popular) products written in C#.

However, I guess my lists are limited by what is on GitHub, Paint.NET springs to mind, but it's not open source.
I had RTC2: Triple Thrill Pack installed from GoG via Wine on Mac. Experience was mildly annoying mostly because of graphics. Now OpenRTC2 works wonderfully well. Thank you so much! I'll definitely recommend it.
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It depends a lot on the country. Sometimes you're resident if you're present for (365/2)+1 days per year, but my understanding is that if you do that you're going to get some really tough questions about your intentions when time comes to naturalize. Tax authorities will likely be somewhat more willing to consider you resident.

Of course, you can also just buy your way in if you have cash. Malta sells EU passports.

https://www.ft.com/content/6f98892e-fbf3-11e5-b3f6-11d5706b6...
I laughed at ascii-string protocolls- then i realized how great self-explaining interfaces are.
It seems their tech doesn't pay their bills quite as well as advertising?
If you don't want to live in NL it won't fly, I imagine. But then, if you don't want to live in NL why are you doing this?

If you want to spend 4-6 months a year there for kicks just go as a tourist; you can spend up to 90 days at a time in Schengen twice a year.
Thanks for that list, I've seen a few of those, but quite a lot of new ones in there, reading my way through them now!
Iguess it's the pre-compilation requirement. Might change with the new version, but I think the inertia was lost for the language long ago.

Here in the UK C# seems a lot more popular than Java, but I must admt I'm getting more and more js jobs these days, which fills me with a slight dread for the future as I really dislike programming in it.

I think Unity has helped C# become more popular for the masses again.
A lot of game studios are also not ran by professional management (especially at the time, it's been slowly getting better in the intervening 20 years). I've worked for many different companies & a lot of stuff is really just decided/made up as they go without much process.

Even succesful studios like Rockstar are not necessarily well managed, often success/money just papers over a lot of issues (plus burning out their staff with insane working hours to compensate for lack of planning).
It's more of a person-to-person thing, and not really something we can offer much advice on, as we don't know your personality, or your bosses.

A few years ago I had a manager that would claim that we did BDD all the time because we wrote user stories. We did no unit testing of any kind, and it put us in hot water with a potential client when they asked to see our BDD framework. I had tried to tell him on a number of occasions that there was more to BDD than writing user stories, but he never stopped, and it made the company look a bit silly. It wasn't a personal thing as we got on really well, and he relied on me a lot for support, so not sure why he didn't take the correction on board.

All you can do is privately tell them that the term is incorrect. If they continue to use them incorrectly then that's their problem.
Any chance someone can provide code examples, maybe in a bunch of different languages (elm, haskell and even js functional)? Would love to understand this more
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Sure, but things happen. People quit their jobs. The organization grows. I suppose there are organizations that will absolutely not need a more qualified candidate in the next year or so. I haven't seen that organization yet, but I suppose it exists.
So I'm the authoritarian for questioning a platform that censors non-PC content, and whose CEO plans to run for president of the US? There's plenty of evidence that Google has done the same via YouTube.
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Oh. Right! Thanks.
Ask HN: What are your views on India based development agencies?
We are a mobile development agency based in India I understand there are plenty of us on various platforms.

How do we work on changing customer's perspective?
e.g. https://pedestrianobservations.com/2016/12/15/second-avenue-...

> The total length of the project, from 96th Street and 2nd Avenue to 125th Street and Lexington, is about 2.7 km. At $2.2 billion per km, this sets a new world record for subway construction costs, breaking that of the first phase of the same line, which only cost $1.7 billion per km.
I read MVP as: Minimum Viable Product.

Essentially, the first draft of a product that does what it needs to do to show capabilities to others. Similar to a proof of principle

EDIT: Thanks for the clarification @kweinber, an MVP is put into production whereas a PoC/PoP is not
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Does anyone really think Uber or Lyft will be less expensive than transit once the venture capitalists' subsidies to undercut (and undermine) the market run out?

Heck, in NYC even the shortest, most subsidized Uber ride costs almost twice as much as a subway or bus ride. And given that most transit riders are towards the lower end of the income spectrum (even more so in other cities than in NYC), do you really think they're going to switch from $3 bus rides to $20-50 Uber rides?

The danger I see is that the upper middle class stops using transit in favor of ride hailing services, and then starts to resent their taxes funding it, leading to funding cuts, service cuts, and fare hikes - badly damaging the less well off.
I still use var in that scenario, because if you need different types you have to suffix numbers with an identifier anyway:

var i = 1; //int
var j = 1f; //float
var k = 1m; //decimal
var l = ""; //string
var m = ''; //char
If the AV is already slow, they might decide to just label any UPX binary, since (let's not lie) most malware will be compressed with UPX or other tools.

IMHO an AV that doesn't know how to unpack UPX is almost like an AV that doesn't know how to unpack ZIP or RAR... and yet they universally do the latter.

You'd think that after reporting a false positive once, an AV vendor would whitelist the hash of the binary, but no. Some of them were re-detecting malware time and time again. Until we stopped using UPX.

I have a feeling that your false positives are caused by the fact that UPX (and other compressors) naturally create very high-entropy files, and AVs which do signature-type comparisons would like to reduce signature length as much as possible, so they also choose very high-entropy portions of malware to be as distinctive as possible while remaining short; but that also increases the chances of such sequences being found in other benign high-entropy files.

I'm almost willing to bet that your re-detections are not detecting the same malware, but new ones' signatures as the AV vendor adds them --- which coincidentally happens to match some other high-entropy portion of your binary.

Then again, the quest for speed and high detection rates (while false positive rates seem to be less of a concern) among AV vendors has lead to some massively embarrassing mistakes, like considering the mere existence of a path as detection of malware:

https://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002133.html

(The original article with the ridiculous claims has sadly vanished, but the Internet Archive remembers...)
Direct comparisons aren't the only reason why words appear next to each other...
I worked on Pharaoh and a few other games at Impressions, though I wasn’t one of the original Caesar I, II, and III team (or Lords of Magic, etc.). Nevertheless, we keep in touch though a Facebook group. Many remain in game development. My understanding is that the Pharaoh IP is in a quagmire. I think that’s part of the reason that Tilted Mill made Children of the Nile as a separate property. Children of the Nile really was the spiritual successor to Pharaoh. The chance of Impressions alumni resurrecting any games together is slim because of the different directions we’ve gone and the chain of IP ownership issues with Sierra, Vivendi, etc. I’d love to see Pharaoh and the Caesar games on mobile devices, though!

Children of the Nile on GOG: https://www.gog.com/game/children_of_the_nile_complete?pp=fe...
> I don’t buy it. A huge amount of my understanding of technical topics is visual/graphical (but definitely “conscious”!), and takes significant ...

You're quite right and I'm sorry my comment seened much more "everything is text" than I really wanted.

To me the central thing is not those verbal reports, it is the recording into symbolic memory. The symbols need not be verbal, they can be records of our internal representations of geometry or whatever. But whatever they are, they are "parsable" -- i.e. it's not just neural wiring that makes you able to do stuff like catching a ball, it's stuff that you could re-interpret (imprefectly) into a verbal report.

And you are right, if the thing was a record of geometry, then you are almost always better off drawing a picture than trying to describe it in words.
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That could happen. But if your technical leaders are rejecting patches for ego reasons, you need to correct that regardless of how you organize your code. Worst case, some people aren't cut out for technical leadership.
Yeah, it's nuts. Those emails are the worst texts I've ever seen Google produce. Anyone got a translation?
russia.... rofl.

Just leave that part out of the scentence already >.> like this it just reads as some narrow minded click bait.
But my point is that he didn't flip thousands of coins. He made thousands of calculated decisions. His thousands of decisions resulted in success. Others, with their own thousands of decisions did not. I don't see the "luck" here.
See project veritas and wikileaks as well.
> If everybody has autonomy in a shared codebase, you end up with a heterogeneous spaghetti of unrelated design decisions and styles overlapping everywhere.

"everyone writes it" in the long term can still allow specific people to write/fix/augment/refactor/etc specific parts in the short to medium term. i think it's a good goal to never have a part of the code that less than two or three people can maintain, but preferably more (depending on size of team(s) and codebase(s), obviously). i think this generally results in better quality code, and higher bus factor is inherently a good thing anyway.

i used to be kind of against style guides and style checking. but a not-too-rigid set of style norms, the willingness to bend or discard them when justified, and a generally well-behaved group of people that can collaborate well and agree that shared understanding has a lot of inherent value... those things together can get you a good codebase where "everyone writes some of it", or at least everyone can deal with most of it, even if people might have areas of expertise. nowhere near a panacea, and not even necessary depending on the team, but it can be useful even if it means people give up style tics they love or tolerate ones they hate. it also mechanically eliminates a lot of the temptation to nitpick a whole class of things that probably doesn't deserve nearly as much nitpicking as it'd get in code review, because everyone thinks their own personal taste matters more than it actually does (me included, that's why i used to not like style guides).

all the above is much easier if everyone's able to keep their ego in check, be collegial, enjoy the challenge of justifying decisions and accepting constructive criticism, etc. i guess that can be an unfortunately difficult setup to come by, but i've been really lucky on that front, by and large.

> To solve this, you normally end up with a hierarchy of authority, where most people have to have their work vetted by seniors.

if you have what i described above, peer level code review with team leads and managers for the occasional tie breaker should work fine the vast majority of the time.

> In this process, people lose autonomy and can't fully act on their own vision.

if you work on a team, you have to work toward shared goals and vision. if a person wants to fully act on their own vision, they should be self-employed in a company of one (though they'll still be subject to market forces). if you're collaborating, you're necessarily involved in a shifting balance of autonomy, delegation, and being delegated to (which is often but not always where the autonomy comes in).
Ah, thank you. Couldn't get past the "Most Valuable Player" association; it is called a Proof of Concept in my industry.
C# developers overwhelmingly prefer putting an opening brace { on it’s own line (query used)

Putting it on it's own line seems like a waste of space to me and doesn't contribute to the readability.
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It is interesting that people still think it is acceptable to call people crazy for claiming US government agencies are complicit in corruption.
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