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I've used hipchat post acquisition by Atlassian. Their android client is shit: it used to absolutely nuke my battery. Post installation, the phone which used to last 24-30 hours was barely making it six. Slack's mobile app has been great to me in this regard. Also, their mobile sign in flow is amazing.

The Android app issue -- and it also happened to another person on my team post acquisition when we were forced to move from Slack to Hipchat -- set up a 6 month long fight over keeping slack. I don't recall ever arguing about a chat app before but this was a dealbreaker.
True, but some of the events had multiple independent witnesses reporting what sounds like the same object as it travelled overland.
Ah yes, the company that make Axe/Lynx, they're all about empowering women.
When you say "cancellable promises", that means that you cannot use native JS promises, correct?
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> Nobody told them that backdoors are detected and leaked or cracked

Many experts have told them. They have told them that 'backdoored' is contradictory to 'strong.

The impression I get - being as far away from this debate as any other non-US citizen - is this request for "strong but accessible" "encryption" is repeated by administration and echoed by media consistently. Eventually, every citizen with the limited understanding and memory that we have to spare will be asking 'why aren't our scientists giving law enforcement what they need?', instead of what does that actually mean. In a way I find myself very fortunate to be on the side of the pond where these voices still exist, but reason temporarily prevails.
Dude needs to learn some C# or Scala. Otherwise he will keep being surprised all his life :).
And indeed it was. This specific product was a harbinger of things to come.
Not at the moment. I'm sure I can get this re-uploaded to youtube later tomorrow and follow up with a link.
Businesses don't invest in currency, they invest with it. Businesses don't use cash for investments, either. Investing is buying something that will generate returns, and cash cannot generate any return, kind of by definition. Fiat currencies have no intrinsic value, either, but everyone still uses them. But since one has to keep some cash on hand, a stable currency is preferable.

The only reason people are investing in BTC is that the price is going up because demand is going up faster than supply is increasing. It's not really any different than if Confederate paper money became the hot thing, and stores started accepting it for payment, despite it not being legally currency. Since they only discover new sources of Confederate money every so often, if everyone wants to buy the stuff, the price is going to go up. If this keeps on happening year after year, people are going to start thinking it always goes up and buy it expecting it to go up.
http://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ - is the official one, which seems more accurate.
my first though as to how you would do this, is that you would implement some kind of key bag. You don't ever own your own private keys, theres a copy of them held in a central repository. they are all centrally stored and can be requested by a warrant.

The problem with this of course is that its a truly horrible idea which defeats the whole concept of a private key. Another massive problem here is that you've just created the biggest target for hackers. once the keys are out... everyone is screwed.
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> “Wine — in moderation — had been shown to be good for you if consumed as part of a Mediterranean diet, because it prompts the body to absorb more flavonoids, a type of antioxidant”

> Not a medical research study, but I wonder how oncologists would reconcile their recommendations with reports such as this.

They would point to all the actual studies that show a drink a day is harmful, not beneficial.
I love Redux. I just want it to take less code to use.
How did Slack and Hipchat beat (in the short term at least) Basecamp? Basecamp costs flat $100 per month and has several other tools besides just chatting.

https://basecamp.com/

As an aside, I'd like to see more tools with less predatory scaled pricing.
I work in industry (sort of) and this is very true.

One of the reasons for this is that the people designing the systems don't know how to do anything else.

There's such a huge, huge gap between using ML to do the same thing everyone else is doing (say... image classification, or maybe regression on volume vs sales...) and solving unique business problems using ML.
A lot of European currencies changed to Euro in 2002. A "fork" would've been if e.g. Deutschmarks were still accepted as legal tender, indeed some nostalgia shops/events like a "90's party" would accept this currency, but not the general economy. And indeed Deutschmarks can still be traded to Euros, but at a fixed rate. If a Bitcoin fork had happened and neither currency crashed, you can still trade each other like Dollars to Euros, as long as you can find someone who wants to sell you Dollars (BTC) and be paid in Euros (BTH) or the other way around.
How patronizing. I would happily trade five extra years at the very end of my life in return for fulfillment and enjoyment in the run up. Maybe by some fluke you have not, but I’ve seen advanced old age up close and personal and in most cases, it ain’t pretty. You have the luxury of being young and (presumably) relatively healthy now. Come talk to me in 40 years when you are immobile, incontinent, arthritic and/or demented. Oh, and most of your friends and siblings are dead. Medical technology has enabled us to live to an age where the quality of life is, in many cases, exceedingly low. Not everyone thinks that is “poignant“.
Well I did watch a film on Netflix ("UFOs: The Best Evidence Ever (Caught on Tape)"), but even in that it was obvious some was CGI - they had analysed it and reported it as such.

It's quite an old documentary so videos are pre-smartphones and pre-widespread availability of CGI software. But that'd be the other problem. If you search for "UFO" on Youtube there's loads of footage, but it could all just be CGId.

If these are real, is it alien or highly advanced Earth tech? It doesn't really matter from the perspective of if these aircraft are able to manoeuvre how they are reported to, the tech is obviously centuries ahead of what is publicly acknowledged and available now.
Very good idea. You just made a point that has been nagging me for a while. What many programmers need is a curated list of code with examples from various sources annotated and classified by language.I would give an arm for something like this in Ruby and Elixir
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> but this one is just not well written and the author has no idea about this subject.

Rubbish. The examples are good. The author comes across as enthusiastic. The writing style is fine and engaging. A couple of the examples are from a modern variant of an older language but so what? That small oversight and you completely bash the effort?

You could have said,

"The writing didn't do it for me and the author has more to learn about the subject" but you came out with the big stick instead. You come across like a typical elitist functional programmer. Blah, blah, blah, Lisp had that _forty_ years ago, lame!

I thought the language features were interesting. I'd read up on Kotlin but overlooked the it keyword, I'd love if Ruby got that. In fact, I was trying to figure out which features Ruby has the whole time. Ruby blocks (closures?) are cool with the || operator but having a default it keyword, we should totally steal that. In total I think Ruby has #5 Destructuring, #7 If Expressions, #10 Method Extensions (called Open Classes in Ruby I think) – correct me if I'm wrong. Ruby kind of does pattern matching with the case statement/expression. The Pipeline Operator looks cool. I don't think Ruby has anything like the Cascade operator either.
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My complaint wasn't that it made it hard, it was that it made it tedious. Having to play through large stretches of the game again just to change one decision wasn't fun, and the threat of that discouraged experimentation.
milkdrop was incredible, I'm surprised there's no other visualizer that is anywhere close
Also interesting: goroutines (Go), borrowing semantics (Rust), various forms of concurrency (e.g. blocks in ObjC/Swift with GCD, mutex closures, futures, etc.).
This supposed separation between the technical and the social/political is illusory, and shows a very blinkered and sheltered view of the world.

In actuality the technical and the social are deeply enmeshed, the society we live in shapes the tools we have, and the tools we have shape the society we live in. In this case we see a technology being developed and deployed to serve the interests of one group of people with little regard for how it affects the livelihoods of the other group. This is an ideological act, and (contrary to the whinging of so many technological determinists) an ideological deployment of technology.

If you've detected a change in the tone around here it's possible that more and more techies are waking up to the fact that politics is more than just dinner-party conversation and affiliation signalling.

For more on the topic I'd recommend picking up some Andrew Feenberg, his book "Transforming Technology" in particular.
> The 'value' of a product is different for everyone, and it's what you (or anyone else) will pay for it.

Marx did not dispute that. His point, rather, was that workers are paid significantly less than the actual value of the work that they do (because said value is directly measured by how much their product sold for, minus all the non-labor expenses).

And from there he concluded that the difference is the economic rent that the owner of the means of production is effectively extracting from those workers, by virtue of his ownership giving him the monopoly on them (or rather, by virtue of the capitalist class collectively having a monopoly on the means of production).

And that, being pure rent, it does not serve any useful purpose in the economy, except for the one collecting it - i.e. things would be more efficient if people couldn't collect rent like that, which he proposed to achieve by rejecting the notion that means of production can be privately owned in a way that also bestows ownership of whatever is produced by them.
That makes sense. I can also imagine not wanting to start too quickly with that though, to learn what such a syntax would have to support from Flow and TypeScript.
This might be unpopular (and is certainly counter to the government's desires), but I am absolutely against breakable encryption of any sort. I am absolutely fine with criminals being able to use strong encryption to make data impossible to ever be read by the government.

The bit I take issue with here is that breakable encryption is absolutely necessary for law enforcement to do its job. No. It makes it _easier_ for them to do their job, at the expense of everyone else's security. There are usually other ways to get a conviction other than being able to decrypt a criminal's data. And if in some instances there isn't, I'm ok with that. I value freedom and privacy higher.
Only due to the fact that geohot got destroyed legally peddling his untested bullshit basic ML with no responsibility for the real world side effects the work might have.
> Sorry Linux, none of your distros match up to Apple's offering

Out of curiosity, which ones have you tried?
A nice trick for debugging code generated at runtime is temporarily adding a CC instruction at the beginning of your assembly function, so you don't have to care where in memory your snippet is going to end up
Do I? Nowhere did I bring that up. The TP is a model to compare the possible executions and their outcomes - and yes, human reflexes are not optimized for driving, thus the response is often "crash into other traffic/wayside obstruction", or even "oversteer, flip the car and become briefly airborne". I do agree that "just hit whatever is straight ahead" could be the optimal strategy in many cases, not sure if it makes sense to hardcode it.
Exactly. Affordable, market-rate housing is just old housing that used to be luxury.

It's not that much different from cars. In the US, working class people can largely afford cars, they just buy used.
I'm not sure about mixing prefix (for functions), infix (for operators) and postfix (for pipelines) notation in the same languaqe. Does having all three in the same language actually help readability? If you really want to read things forward, you could always adopt forth, where everything is postfix:

foo do_this_first then_do_this this_must_absolutely_be_last

No need for pipelines when you've got a stack.
"There seems to be evidence that the Clinton emails released by Wikileaks were edited before release."

[citation needed]

For many/most of the released emails, there is evidence that they were NOT edited prior to release. The emails have a DKIM signature. Unless you are claiming that Google's private keys were misused, the emails simply WERE NOT EDITED.

Additionally, there is NO EVIDENCE of a suspicious pattern of emails not being signed.

So please, provide a citation for "evidence that the Clinton emails released by Wikileaks were edited before release". Because the only evidence I'm aware of is evidence which clearly demonstrates the emails COULD NOT HAVE BEEN ALTERED BY WIKILEAKS.
That illegal drug consumption is far more prevalent than many people would assume.

That's why it's dishonest to make comparisons along the lines of "If all the people drinking alcohol would instead be taking cocaine/heroine the situation would be worse" because nobody can say with any certainty how many of these people drinking are already also regular users of illegal drugs. It also doesn't say anything about responsible use, which exists for alcohol just like it does for cocaine and even heroin.

It might just be my anecdotal experience, but the vast majority of users, especially the responsible ones, are very rarely public about their use, even to friends and family.
Usually, you only find out about their habit by accident or if you share a similar "hobby" and know what to look for.

It's a common misconception that illegal drug users all are easily spotted by their lack of body hygiene/low economic standing/whatever other myths the "War on Drugs" has spread to make the illegal stuff seem so much worse than the "good" legal stuff.
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You suggested they could reduce the death rate from 7/bkm to 5/bkm. The uk is already at 3.5, if auto cars also changed that to 5/bkm that would be bad.
> Technology has a much bigger impact on the daily life there

I see this a lot and I'd like to see what kind of technology you think exists here and has an impact on daily life here that doesn't exist/have an impact elsewhere.

Japanese technology that reaches the west is often the high-concept/prototype kind that definitely does not have any daily impact on anything, urban or rural.

The most ubiquitous pieces of technology I can think of that exist here that do not exist elsewhere are:

1. washlets (fancy bidets)

2. suica (cashless payment via touching a card)

and while neither of those exist as such elsewhere, similar things do... and neither of those really impact Japanese society to such a degree that I would consider Japanese society to be a "glimpse into the future of western society."

To me, Western society seems to be much further along any curve of alienization, with automatic cars and outsourced phone support (Japanese being a niche language, you're almost guaranteed to be talking to a real Japanese person for phone support).

One of the reasons I'm responding to this so strongly is that I dislike the continued "exotification" of Japan as some kind of strange, ineffable future-land and really strive to correct that kind of opinion wherever I can. It's nothing personal, but it only hurts all parties involved when Japan is seen in this light.
Unless you are employee #1-5, the correct approach to valuing equity is to not consider it to be worth anything. For employees 1-5, divide the numbers the CEO gives you by at least 10 to account for risk, and then demand a competitive base pay.
In Sweden we have a national id number given at birth which can be Luhn checked just like a credit card, and we use a digital id bound to a device with an pin number. We use them both in conjunction for online banking, filing taxes and all kinds of things and we have a dramatically lower rate of identity theft than the US.

The national id has been here for a long, long time and the digital id has been here for more than 10 years.
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Given that we're now learning that many of the convictions won last century were based on bad evidence and corrupt behavior, I don't really put much stock into those figures.
It's interesting to revisit the press and get a temperature on the expectations (dare I say "hype") around RealAudio. It really was something else in the offering when I first encountered the web as a teen in the mid 90s.
Sometimes I wonder if the current state of software/programming will, in the future, be seen similarly to cuneiform or hieroglyphics, in the sense of it being an archaic, overly complicated form of expression needlessly reserved to specialists. Coding might be something everybody is required to know in the future, like reading or writing are now. What I envision happening is that whatever become the popular languages will sacrifice similarity (in the sense that even across functional/imperative/OOP/etc families, languages are in general low-level/explicit enough that coding in them is similar) in favor of a highly opinionated programming style designed to make it easier to program in.

For example, imagine a language and IDE designed in tandem to compliment each other. You could incorporate all kinds of visual models into the design of the code, and actually make it easy/automatic to include things like the standard library, which you could make very large. The language could require such a high amount of structure that once you learned it to a reasonable extent, there would only rarely be a need to look up how to do something completely new. If kids learned how to use things analogous to e.g. python/matplotlib instead of excel, or jupyter notebooks for science reports / presentations, just imagine how much more productive we could be as a society.

I'm happy knowing that even if we suck now, we can perhaps live to see a future where we don't suck. I just hope it's soon
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Why? I'm not saying go is a bad language at all, it has a lot of good points, as outlined in the source of this discussion. It is however not a perfect language and as such, it never hurts to criticize it, if only in the hope that it will improve in the future. I personally find the mental model required for go quite abrasive, but that's only me, and I won't hold it as valid criticism.

The alternatives vary according to the issue you want to tackle, so I would be hard pressed to recommend a particular one. And go does fill some vacant spots in language space.
How much equity do you have? Is the split written in an official paper or only an oral agreement?
This is a pretty standard way of doing mental multiplication. The interesting thing about the method in the article is that it involves binary not base 10.
Java was one of these Ivory tower languages created at a big corporation, Sun Microsystems. Not unlike Go is today with Google. They will never add obvious features because of corporate bureacracy. And, adding a feature is admitting the language is not perfect. Usually it takes several decades after the language creators are long gone to add obvious features. There is no issue with literal a, just dogma. They are evaluated at compile time in Java, so how could there be perf issues. Most people use something other than Java to get list, map, an set literals.
This is a fantastic site! I've already spent far more time than I should have clicking on "Surprise me..." and discovering something interesting.

If anyone knows of any other interesting Web 1.0 sites, please submit them to wiby.me
Would they welcome Europeans?
8K is largely pointless as a broadcast format and marginal even as a digital cinema format. 4k is already at the outer limits of visual acuity. Someone with 20/20 vision can only resolve about 60 pixels per degree, so you need to be sitting six feet away from a 50" screen to even notice the difference between 1080p and 4k. Unless you're filling your entire visual field with pixels, 8k offers no appreciable benefit.

What does matter a great deal is HDR and 10-bit colour. Human eyes can perceive about 20 stops of dynamic range, but the best cameras max out at about 15 stops and most TVs struggle to exceed 8 stops. A typical TV only covers about 40% of the visible colour gamut, with particularly pronounced deficiencies in green and cyan.

The benefits of HDR are slightly harder to explain than "more pixels are better", but the difference is visible at first glance.
Something that VLC did https://www.roguewave.com/resources/enterprise-blog/archive/...
There many other factors to optimize for, like the people you’ll work with, the technologies you’ll work on, commute, etc.
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Did you open the Developer Tools and check what it says in the console ?
(Right click -> Inspect -> Check red colored text)

b) your location / country is the problem ?
You mean like the hazard (sic!) lights and the horn? Out where I live, having those functional are amongst the hard requirements for street-legal vehicles.
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The irony is it's exactly this sort of all-or-nothing statement that leads companies astray.

There are plenty of environments and team structures that worship the benefits they get from being able to work next to one another, from being able to just ask something rather than get up, or write an email. Even just for the comradely. Just as there are jobs and people and teams who need walls, either to put stuff on or relax (perhaps the wrong word) within the separation they provide.

And how much people need one or the other changes over time, depending on what they're doing. There isn't one simple answer... Except that holding offices as status symbols is pretty toxic when the person who really wants one is actually better off without one. Perhaps a medium-term hot-desk/office allocation based on what people want and need.

There are a couple of interesting models laid out here but seriously, before you turn your office into a warren-line Eudamonia Machine, please step back and talk to your employees.

And if you are pushing for something like that... fire escapes, fire escapes, fire escapes.
If that's a yes you should read about 'Tansen'.

"Among the legends about Tansen are stories of his bringing down the rains with Raga Megh Malhar and lighting lamps by performing Raga Deepak."
I actually thought the same thing, and wondered if it would somehow be possible to automate this kind of transliteration (?) of existing games to a text format... if you could somehow automate the author's thought/abstraction process to generate a text game from an existing game, this could be a HUGE boost for people who need screen readers.