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> Also note their updated Firefox on iOS

I was under the impression Apple didn't allow any web rendering engines on iOS except the one mobile Safari uses, thus Chrome, Firefox, etc, on iOS are just wrappers around the Safari engine. Is that not the case anymore? It would be nice to see these speedups on iOS.
I hope so. I worry Rothfuss has gone full-GRRM; got too successful before the series concluded and now it's up in air if it will conclude.

The only real hope I have is that it feels like Rothfuss wouldn't let his series be finished by TV in the way GoT has for ASOIF. Also Rothfuss claimed to have a 'finished manuscript' in 2014, so there is hope.
From a recent talk on the latest JDK GC, it seems to require even more tuning parameters than before. So the best performance achievable may be higher, but with more manual work. Which is along the same trade-off curve, with malloc/free on one end, and a very simple GC on the other.
I think Brendan must have worked with quite a lot of brilliant jerks in the ZFS appliance days at Sun/Oracle. The Fishworks team was excellent but some of the top heads were quite toxic.
It depends a lot on the pricing of that $100K. If that's based on price at time of vesting you run into big problems -- that's not how ISO's work currently but it's unclear exactly what is going to change in this bill. Say you get $50K/year in stock at the valuation based on the time you join the start-up and the start-up has on paper 10X growth in 2 years. In your 3rd year, your $50K of stock is $500K on paper so the last $400K would be over the $100K limit and immediately taxable even though you cannot sell the stock yet. If the tax is setup to make $100K of value at time of employment contract exempt from taxing as ISO's, then the problem is far smaller as the tax events are predictible and manageable.
I think you meant David Allen, rather than Cal Newport.

Cal Newport seems to think GTD is flawed because it doesn't help you prioritize meaningful work: http://calnewport.com/blog/2012/12/21/getting-unremarkable-t...
Students have a number of opportunities available to them in both academic and private settings, so I doubt a significant amount of them would opt into a program like this. Another comment suggested AmeriCorps, which seems to be aimed at students.

As for the second point, I would argue such a situation already exists in the private space. If Walmart is the only employer in your area, and you can't live on SS/Disability/Pension alone, you've got a similar situation -- work for a low wage or go hungry ad infinitum.

A public works program with a mandate to improve both the worker and the public good presents a more attractive alternative to a private corporation with little care for the individual worker.

Prisons, at least the one's I've visited, have no such mandate to improve prisoners, thus the forced labor.
Another reason for small (not tiny) interfaces is to help with unit testing, when different smaller interfaces could be mocked in different ways.
Per the article and my understanding from other secondary sources, the tax-at-vest clause applies to RSUs as well as NQSOs. RSUs are frequently issued by companies that do not have a liquid market. So, tax-at-vest is still problematic for that class of employee compensation.
Here's The Economist on this tax bill:

https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21731166-house-republ...

tl;dr: it's bad, but includes a few good things, and could potentially be improved.
> why am I wrong ?

I'll bite.

Does it work? Is your approach effective?

In your engagement with the senior folk, do you just complain? Or do you suggest changes that you know are affordable and achievable? Are you arguing so you feel better about trying or are you genuinely attempting to affect change?

Also, has it occurred to you that the higher ups might not be the fools and cowards they appear? Is it possible that they are operating with constraints that they just haven't chosen, or are prevented from, sharing with you?

Obviously I don't know your organisation and it is, of course, possible that its staffed with incompetents. And that by sheer good fortune just you and a small group of your immediate colleagues are the only rational actors. Or it may be something else.
> people from the Southern Hemisphere have a lower caloric intake

Do you have a source for this claim? In America, while not in the Southern Hemisphere, the CDC's Obesity Prevalence maps [1] show that obesity is concentrated in the southern states.

2017 Fattest Cities in America [2]:
1. Houston 4. Memphis 5. Tampa 6. Las Vegas 7. El Paso 9. Los Angeles 11. Tulsa 12. Miami

[1] https://www.vox.com/2014/11/17/7230641/maps-charts-obesity-w...

[2] https://www.mensfitness.com/weight-loss/burn-fat-fast/the-fi...
> The rate of loss only accelerated, and the recession of 2008 dealt this frail fund a killing blow.

Recessions aren't all bad. They have a cleaning effect, sweeping up the cruft and inefficient operations, while exposing the outright frauds in the process.

It's amazing the fund lasted as long as they did...

Interesting read regardless, too bad it wasn't longer as the usual articles typically are on this site.
The bigger problem in my mind is people getting past the Industrial Age idea that you need a "job" to be a worthwhile human being, and that the nature of said "job" determines your value to society.

I don't really mind if there's lots of crappy poetry and tremendous non-enumerative attention to child rearing and looking after the elderly. I don't mind in the slightest if someone decides they just want to watch TV all day à la "Fahrenheit 451".

But in an abundance economy where the marginal cost of production is essentially nil and money is more useful as a signalling mechanism rather than a store of value, it's the mindset that will be most psychologically dangerous.
Yes, however...

Flying is much more SPACE efficient. With good computer control you could stack hundreds of "roads" worth of capacity vertically.

Can save time (and thus indirectly energy) by flying directly from A-to-B. This is ignoring the time gained by the likely much faster cruising speeds, as well.

Flying doesn't have to be THAT inefficien, either. Plenty of general aviation aircraft, especially slower ones, can achieve MPG that is really not that bad. The Mooney M20, for instance, cruises at 180mph and burns 10 gallons an hour - so 18mpg. Not bad given the speed! A car going that first will be consuming much more fuel.
> Having said that, we need a term for something like this.

I think it's a form if "appeal to authority," which is not always a logical fallacy. I think it fits even if said authority will not or cannot explain certain statements.

If say, a Bruce Schneier told me to avoid certain software or a certain processor, but didn't give any details, I would still heed his advice and defend that advice by appealing to his authority.

In this case, of course, it depends how much trust one would place in Matthew Garret as an authority on moral judgements concerning Free Software matters.
In other words, there are actually knobs that have you choose the GC, and then choose settings within the GC.
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> UWP/UAP is a new UI stack from the Windows team. That is different with the existing .NET technology stacks.

Which is what I meant with "mess created by Sinofsky regarding .NET, UWP and C++/CX.". I do have UWP experience since WP 8.

Thanks for the link about the talk.
Infrequent 50k IU doses are commonly used too.
WIP = work in progress.

Generally, in process management/improvement texts like on Lean or Theory of Constraints, you want to limit your work in progress to prevent backlogs and problems.

I have 100 books I want to read, that's probably an underestimate. I have 10 open right now at home (I cannot read one book straight through most of the time). I will not open another book until I have finished one of those 10.

Since I can only read one book at a time (the actual act of reading) and I only have about 2 hours a day to read, if I let my list grow larger I'd never finish. Many of these take approximately 1 hour/chapter and have 10-20 chapters. So I've got around 100-200 hours of work ahead of me, spread over 50-100 days. Adding another book to the queue means another 10 hours, or 5 days, to clear the list.

(Until I wrote this I actually hadn't put this much thought into my reading, but this is approximately what I do.)

In order to keep moving on any project you have to limit the amount of concurrent activities that you are doing so that progress can continue.
And the active funds would have noticed Enron how?
Hiten Shah just tweeted, “it's a superb comprehensive post”. Bootstrapping SaaS
> - New tabs do not inherit current container

Middle-clicking or Ctrl+clicking the New Tab button does inherit the current container. It also opens the new tab to the right of the current tab instead of at the far right of the tab strip. These actions are one in the same, so any extension that opens a tab to the right of the current tab (like Always Right or All Tabs Helper) also make the tab inherit the current container.

It's strange that such a useful feature is barely advertised at all in the UI, but it's there.

But your other criticisms of using containers as profiles are spot-on.
Instead of taking supplements, you could eat more fish, which contains a lot of vitamin D. This would also give you the necessary DHA and EPA.
I just want better bike lanes, better mass transit, and less dependence on planes to get around in the US. Those three things would rock my world.
I'm not a native speaker and I couldn't shake the feeling that in first problem when order of sentences is reversed (<implication> if <condition>) it was supposed to mean 'if and only if' not just 'if' (it wasn't).

Now I know why I hated 'if' after the condition in Ruby.

And don't even ask me about 'unless'.
5/5 as well. Even though I have only very limited experience in database design being a project/application manager professionally.
> In particular, although it is still a little taboo, I would recommend talking to a therapist even if one doesn't seem to exhibit any explicit pathologies.

it is? wow that's sad. there's all kinds of therapists and lots are pretty crappy but I don't see the benefit to society by creating a "taboo" around the entire concept of talking about your personal problems to a paid advisor.
I agree. With the ability afforded by technology to quantify and manage work, I think a modern day equivalent of the WPA could be held to a higher standard than the original WPA.
I have gone through a few different versions of these calculations and got similar results. Even if the driverless tech costs more it is still around half the costs of a human driven car.

On factor I have not seen fully addressed is the ability of driverless cars to run near 24/7. Given than demand is variable and human drivers could share cars like taxis what is the worth in practice?
“why is Rust not chosen as main language” seemed like an unnecessarily accusatory way to express that idea, especially given that language choices are usually driven by a number of factors rather than a single benchmark.

I've seen a lot of advocacy over the years like that which has seemed to inspire more backlash than adoption. I generally prefer something constructive in the tradition of showing a better way to do something — i.e. in this case, perhaps show a Rust crypto library which delivers better performance so people could judge whether that kind of thing is enough of a draw to be worth migrating or, in the case of Rust, taking advantage of its embedding characteristics.
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Grey bar for me on OS X, 59.0a1 (2017-11-13)
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I prefer not to make assumptions, particularly as it relates to the finicky nature and opinions of millions of people. It actually doesn't even matter what the people who didn't vote think because they removed themselves from the voting pool and lost the only ground they had to stand on when they had their personal chance to prevent Brexit from happening.

The result came out to be what it was maybe because they chose not to vote, maybe if they had voted it would have been a different result and yet they still chose not to for whatever reasons made sense to them at that time on that day.

I also agree huge constitutional changes should be difficult, but so far Brexit has overcome every challenge and roadblock including a democratic referendum that may not have been the right referendum to hold, that may have even set the threshold too low, and yet it was what it was, with the ground rules declared in advance including the simple majority requirement, and still passed. Clearly the people in favour of Brexit were the more determined part of the voting public to make their voices heard.

Whether it was the political will of the people that did vote, or the political apathy of the people that didn't, that hardly matters now.
This won’t happen unless we build it together
Took me forever to find (I now digitize and save my records but didn't then) but it was 30 ng/ml. Sounds like that is actually not deficient by most standards. My doctor was a little woo at the time. I started taking 1800 iu.

I do have extremely pale skin, but I yeah, a lot of it ends up covered in the winter.
That's true if the system continues to work as it does today, yes. But I think the entire model of venture finance is changing towards crypto anyway, making most of these specific points moot. Crypto assets will have different regulations in some form; so I think we should look to shape regulations around cryptocurrency rather than try to cling to an outdated funding model and its associated tax dodges.

Does anyone have data on the number/size of round A funding events vs ICO funding? I have a suspicion we're seeing a transfer from one into the other.
Every single review that I've read has mentioned that it does not work 100% of the time that the reviewer expected it to. That's the first thing that makes it obvious to me because they chose to champion something that does not work over something that does. Biometric security implementations are all gimmicky.

The second thing is their claims and their focus on marketing around security. This was easily beaten in its first week in the real world! So it's not really that secure is it?

The third thing is that Apple has a long history of choosing gimmicks over actual functionality. The OS X dock is just one example of this.
DotNet Standard 2.0 was just announced in August

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2017/08/14/announcin...
> Bob and Mary are staunch members of <political party>. While they never discuss it at work, Mary deeply resents the views Bob posts on social media.

I'm assuming Bob and Mary are members of opposing political parties?

Even if that is not the case, is it really mandatory to friend/follow co-workers' stream of consciousness on social media?

Wouldn't it be more productive (from Mary's perspective) to segment professional from personal views by not actively following someone who's personal views she has disagreed with in the past, to keep all future interactions focused on work-related topics?
> Are there any specific extensions you need?

Keysnail. It requires the ability to override C-n, though.
Do you like the act, or the result?

That is, do you like "seeing people actually called on their BS"? Or, do you like people stop doing BS things as a result?

IMO, the latter is much more interesting than the former. Being a 100% Alice guarantees the former, but does not guarantee the latter.
In Cincinnati, not a particularly HCOL place, with 30 years and a master's she would have made $77k.

https://www.nctq.org/districtPolicy/contractDatabase/distric...
You mention banking. To me that's like a culturally totally separate universe, with totally separate profiles of people.

I don't think my experience applies to that universe.
There's research in neuroscience and psychiatry that conclude humans do not make decisions based upon hard facts.

Whether it's due to our culture or a human truism regardless isn't understood.

Just presenting a spreadsheet full of red and saying "We're screwing the pooch." makes me people uneasy. It doesn't give them context, which I think is the key.

People want to feel they have a rounded understanding. Standing on a soap box blasting off about your personal pet peeves is annoying.
If the vim stuff was the only plugin I needed, I'd move over in a heartbeat.
That's massive by the standards of modern democracy. Can you name any issue which more people have voted on? Far less people than that vote in most governments.
> it is impossible to have a truly binding referendum: they are all advisory as nothing can bind parliament, even a referendum result

That may be the case in theory: Even if Parliament made a law saying a referendum was binding, it could later undo it. But they didn't even pretend it was binding, although there was a precedent from the alternative vote referendum, which was explicitly binding according to the act authorizing it.

That also would have saved all the High Court hoopla that followed.
There is a provision in the House version of the tax bill to not tax the exercising of options until there is a liquidity event. In that case you wouldn't be taxed on the unrealized gain until you could sell the stock.

I still think with options it should be as you've pointed out a tax-free event until you actually sell the equity for cash.
Yes, that often happens and it's clearly unethical. What's your point?
If products like Google Allo took off with their "response suggestions", we could just stop talking all together and let Google have conversations with itself on our behalf. This seems to be the future these companies are aiming to drive us towards.
Unfortunately that is extremely light on information. Is there any other source?
I've tried Tridactyl, but the plugin not working on Firefox pages is the same frustration I had with vim plugins for Chrome.
> PS: where I currently work is wasting public money and I feel obligated to do something as a Libertarian!

do non-libertarians feel that there's nothing wrong with companies wasting taxpayer money?
That's the fallacy of active management, though. Given enough time, these active funds make enough bad decisions to wipe out the good ones, especially when you factor in the fees. We've got plenty of data on this phenomenon.
Yay! I am happy about this. I feel as if there are a ton of monopolies and trusts today that stifle competition. Does anyone else feel similar?
the dexed plugin allows different bit depths. There were a lot of FM synths from yamaha from the DX5, DX7, DX7s, DX7II and they all had differences in one way or another. The user Power DX7 on youtube has some really in depth looks at the sonic differences between dexed and his dx7s. He also has some great intros into how FM synth works, which had eluded me for a long while. I gave my dx7s away, but sometimes I think about getting a korg volca FM to replace it.
How about taxing the options when they are actually sold, and gains are actually realized?
The EU also has vastly different anti trust laws. There's no point pursuing some of the cases prosecuted in the EU in the US, because you would lose.
That's the issue - there's no real path to making these legacy plugins work. There are open issues for a keyboard api for FF that has had very little movement over months, so while I'm sure it'll eventually get to a point where I can use FF as I used to, that not being the case now has given me little reason to stay with FF and so back to Chrome I went.
I'm sorry but in most areas of online life the system monopolies of Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft are crushing our freedom and choice in tons of ways. You DO have to use Google Docs(for your PTA, your kids soccer team, your communication with your accountant or your church), because everyone else does. Most people won't be running their own mail server or Diaspora. There are many many examples of this by now, and this technolibertarian babble among many of my colleagues in Tech is getting pretty old.
Amen and kudos for mentioning clinical depression as a thing that causes extreme irritability.

I know a few Bobs. They are hard to deal with. They get promoted. And eventually you might want to trade them out for a different Bob - which can mean just flat out leaving an organization. They aren't likely to go, so that means it's you.
Admitting that you have a weakness has always been taboo, if for not other reason than than it gives people a way to attack you.

If people were all nice, then it wouldn't be a problem. But there are far too many opportunistic jerks out there to not worry about exposing your vulnerabilities.
> How long does it take you to write the VCS?

"Hm, I can do it in 2 weeks."

> Too long. Work on the feature X.
The use case for this is that you want to leave your gmail/youtube/etc all logged in, but not let Google track you all over the internet. My primary use for this feature is this specific use case. I created a "Google Spyware" container and configured Google-related things to open in there. If I go to google.com outside of that container, I'm a non-logged-in user. If I open it in the container I AM logged in, so I get all the convenience of staying logged in without the downside of all the surveillance. Of course there are other means to track me, but this is a big step in the right direction.
I was super deficient being a programmer inside all the time. My levels were literally zero when I went in because I felt like I was dying, bones hurt, extreme fatigue. 10,000 IU 3 times for three weeks fixed it. I've been taking 2000IU every day ever since, and my serum levels still don't go above 20.
I'm reminded of the argument[0] that conscious beings that evolved on worlds like this will be very freaked by the discovery of stuff above the ice. Seeing planets and stars, we humans have always had some sense that there's more to the Universe than Earth.

0) The Killing Star by George Zebrowski and Charles Pellegrino
I would be careful with the term "rewritten". CoreCLR is really old (Silverlight), before it was bound to UWP(x86/arm) and before it was cross platform ported to other operating systems. There was heavy code stealing from the .NET Framework, but the split is already long time ago (like 2005).
if they modernise their developer tools I would jump back to FF. Chrome has got too much power is not abusing it.
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I think that effect is somewhat overrated. In the end, its best to let people get what they want. In that sense, not having information doesnt let people choose what they want.

Limiting what can be offered is more likely to prevent people from being able to get what they want.

Its possible that investors are very risk averse and so, are willing to pay a big premium for the preferred shares, one that employees are not willing to pay. In that case, employees actually win out on the deal, as they might not be as risk averse (as its only a small part of the compensation).

But in that game, the employee is barred from buying unlimitedly (min 1mm in assets) and also from knowing what everyone else is getting (which investors know).

I cant emphasize how big a loss it is to not let employees invest. Employees know a lot of things investors don't and share that information amongst each other, but can't give market signals because they cant buy or sell or disclose freely. I.E. if you saw a company where employees are all buying shares now, its great for both employees and the general public AND investing in general.

Not only that, but not being able to sell and exchange shares between employees means you cant hedge bets as employee. For example, you could pool a bunch of startup shares that way. Thats only for investor groups today.

Sometimes when I think the US is supposed to be the pinnacle of economic liberalism, I shed a few tears.