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> Thiel owns that attorney.

Maybe, but that sounds like a pretty big logical leap.
I was confused about how a monitor would cause problems until I understood that it is a very-high-res display.

I am happy that my dual-display setup at home works the way I want it to. Before getting my current desktop PC, I had not used GNU/Linux on a system with more than one display, and I had heard horror stories of how that did not work out very well. Fortunately, for me it just worked(tm).

Speaking of monitors, Eizo makes a monitor with a 1:1 aspect ratio, i.e. the display is a square, 1920 by 1920. I would so LOVE to have one of those, but of course it is prohibitively expensive (at least for my monitor budget).
Cool sounding feature, but in practice remote code sharing and working on the same code is to extreme programming as 'phone sex' is to sex. :)
I saw a tweetstorm by a longtime Go user who listed all the flaws and inconsistencies of the language. In the end it didn't look much better than PHP to me. Which is surprising, since PHP is a "grown" language and go has been "designed" by some longtime languages pros.
People don't consume more in a deflationary world, per the economists, because that dollar you've got today is worth more tomorrow, so you put off as many purchases as possible. Fewer people would take out loans as well, because the loan would become harder and harder to repay over it's life (which means fewer opportunities for investors)
I object to the postmodern relativism embedded in your comment. "Better" can be universal in science and technology. Cleaner energy, faster processors, and less disease are not socially constructed forms of bullshit. These improvements are real.

Technical progress, in fact, is the only progress. Moral fashions comes and go, but we remember new scientific principles and how to apply them. Far too often, I see people try to slow the development of technology to suit the current moral fashion. That infuriates me: technology improves the human condition far more than moralizing ever has, and slowing technology development creates incomprehensible amounts of human misery.
I’d settle for $100 bills for travel not being a hassle to obtain. Go into a teller and they often don’t have any or at most one or two in many banks.
I've been looking for a way to import passwords from Chrome into Firefox, and was unable to find it. It is the only thing preventing me from using Firefox. Can you point to some place have any link where this is documented? (I'm using Firefox Developer edition.)
Screen sharing is such a drag using Skype. Everything goes slow as poop even on the fastest of MacBooks. Yet for a lot of purposes doing a screen share is super valuable. I imagine Live Share is much leaner much alike watching somebody changing a Google Doc in front of your nose.
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As a programmer, I struggle with the lab notebook. I'd like to keep it digitally along with my other notes, but the legal environment for IP in programming makes it scary for me.

I've been deposed before, and I'm completely terrified of my notes being used against me. Either as evidence of me somehow attempting to steal IP from my employer (because software patents are a fucking joke) or as evidence that I stole IP from somewhere else.

Curious if anyone has advice around this - thanks! I might just be irrationally afraid.
Congratulations to the Mozilla and Rust teams!

Accounts like this one really help people who advocate investing in and building new tools to help against the heavy-handed application of phrases like "a bad workman always blames his tools" [0][1].

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/a_bad_workman_always_blames_h...

[1] https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/a_bad_workman_a...

Edit: formatting and typo
I think what GP is referring to is Arab scholars' role in preserving classical science and literature after the fall of the Roman Empire in the west (so that, as the narrative goes, it could be brought back by European explorers to trigger the Renaissance).
Your superpower is both a blessing and a curse.

It's likely that your weekend projects are things you find interesting and it seems likely that the things you find interesting are bleeding edge. It's never going to get better. On the other hand, any good dev team would value someone who can not only find the bug, but patch it.

You need to get somewhere where using the latest and greatest is encouraged..
What if I said he's asking for 30% equity?
It looks like you can do it here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/import-bookmarks-data-a...
SoftIron.com. Cheapest option (OverDrive 1000) is $599.

https://www.solid-run.com/marvell-armada-family/armada-8040-... - $369. You can get it in a case too (https://www.solid-run.com/clearcloud-cloud-iot-core/)

https://www.phoenicselectronics.com will sell you a Gigabyte MT30-GS2 (Cavium ThunderX 32-core) 1U system for around $2k. If you want to provide your own ATX case - much less.

Gigabyte XGene-1 designs based on MP30-AR0 in 1U are literally $1k. http://www.nextwarehouse.com/item/?2465024_g10e
It would require carbon paper and a 2nd notebook at least to cover 'backups' and in that sense, I highly prefer electronic note taking.
Many controllers are not hard-realtime. Think e.g. of microwave ovens or smart locks. Often you might be willing to trade a 10ms GC pause of Go for much lower chances of memory corruption or crashing compared to C.
Your statement is so wilfully ignorant of how insurance markets work, how the broken US market works in particular, and what the specific political motivation is for removing this mandate that it is hard to know where to begin, so I will just call you a liar and move on.
Why not trade the stock market instead? APIs are available from the major brokers... It is much more liquid, you have the government protection in case the broker disappears with your money... With the same effort you can build generational wealth if you have an edge...
You may want to consider checking out Mike Duncan's podcasts the History of Rome and Revolutions as well. History of Rome especially since it was the ending of that podcast at the fall of the west that encouraged the creation of the History of Byzantium podcast.
"Get ready"?

For an article written in 2010...maybe

One written in late 2017? Shadow IT has been a major issue since the prevalent rise of easily-accessible cloud services, possibly the prominence of BYOD, and several other factors. It's been around for decades, but 20 years ago it was more like, "I got this buddy in IT that can help".

BYOD can (or can not) be a shadow IT issue - if done right, it's no issue at all (since usually all folks are doing with their own phones is checking work mail - proper security on the backend can mitigate most/all issues on the forend).

The worst aspect of shadow IT, though, is the simplicity with which people can just spin-up cloud servers/services and expense it on the corporate card: that is the realm that is most worrisome from an ITOps/SecOps point of view - since those external resources are being started (and likely never stopped - and almost certainly never patched/updated), the business has an incomplete view of the infrastructural landscape (often dangerously so).
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> Having multiple (side-by-side( locks for a single structure sounds like a recipe for concurrency bugs & deadlocks.

It is, however, often necessary in order to reduce an undesirable level of contention. For example, hash tables often use fine-grained locking (with one lock per bucket) in order to increase actual parallelism and to prevent the hash table from becoming a serialization bottleneck.

Another common example is the implementation of FIFO queues with two locks (one for the head and one for the tail), which allows threads that read from the queue to avoid/reduce contention with threads that write to the queue.

This is both normal and frequently necessary for performance.
MORE of these headlines instead of "Go is slower than Rust" or "Rust has more bells and whistles than Go".

I develop in both Go and Rust.

I use Go as main replacement for .NET/Java web tier...no need for install specific Java or .NET run-time library.

I use Rust when there's heavy disk reads and writes...and I know it's a nightly job which should never segfault and never finish the execution since it crashed.

GO = useful for rapid prototyping and a good .NET/JAVA middle-tier replacement.

RUST = you CARE about performance.

You can use both with FFI/C - use Go as the carrier and use RUST where the functions should squeeze every bit of performance to do something...
Maybe it depends on the graphics chip? In some OSX/model combinations, the initial switch from integrated to discrete is terribly expensive and laggy. If the browser is somehow triggering the switch, I can see how it could be stalling.

It is definitely not happening for me on Sierra 10.12.6 on high-spec MBP-tb late 2016, this FF version really flies. CPU is not low, but FF and Chrome have always been hogs in my experience, as long as they are responsive I don't care too much. I guess it also helps that it killed a bunch of extensions...
Not everything scales.
I think the post was quite clear that it meant "behaves like it is invite only", as others have explained. I have to say, if your job is improving how Twitter looks to developers you are IMHO not doing a very good job of it right now, a lot of your replies appear quite tone-deaf to me.
Which is why we need a replacement for Jpeg. While bpg / HEVC is a lot better, sometimes i wonder if we can do more. While I can shrink a 100kb Jpeg to 50Kb Bpg and looks better, what I really want is something 100Kb Jpeg quality at 30Kb or less.

But given bpg or HELF isn't even being used yet. I know i am asking for a lot.
I think you're not understanding me. If "Facebook is a treat for democracy" is said sarcastically, it has the same meaning as "Facebook is a threat to democracy."; sarcastic might be the wrong term, I can't think of the right one at the moment.
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That sounds good, but in practice, such organization will amount to the destruction of the meritocracy and the elevation of a certain set of political views to the status of job requirements.

A tech union would, I think, inevitably devolve to the kind of organization that denies the existence of skill differentials.
gensim is one of the best libraries for word vectors and summarization. For parsing and NER, Stanford CoreNLP works best in my experience.
Likely they mean high RAM consumption?
A lot of complaints usually affect niche or rare use cases in the language (or you learn them fast).

Though I guess the same applies to PHP.

It's a lot nicer to write webapps in Go though since you have control over global state and not the per-request state of PHP, which makes for some easier solutions to problems (work-queues are easy to implement/use on the server-side unlike in PHP)

Also the stricter type system compared to PHP is nice in addition to static linking making it more portable than PHP (minus not being portable to shared hosters)
I never use bookmarks, at all. Tabs in Firefox work that way just great.
You know what? I believe every word Tesla said. Especially about attorneys specializing in extorting companies into settlements. I applaud their decision to not give in to extortion and fight the battle in court until the end.

Side note:

From non-USA perspective, guys, sincerely, you're crazy. Everybody is suing everybody for what often times seems total nonsense. No offense or disrespect meant, just an honest bafflement -- how can somebody get promoted, then leave, and then sue? Wow.
I think the author is saying "more complex" relative to higher level languages like Go. They mean to put Rust in the same category as C++. It could be rephrased as "prepared to accept languages like C++, D, and Rust with more complex syntax"
And then what happened? There is a well-circulated comment that "Spain translated more books into Spanish last year than have been translated into Arabic in the last 900 years.". I have no idea if this is true. Can anyone rebut or confirm?
They took a decade to really get going with it.

See the chart midway through here:

https://www.theverge.com/2012/4/23/2968686/google-joins-lobb...

Before 2009 they weren't spending all that much. The company was flush with cash at least since the 2004 IPO.
I agree that this is a tail risk situation, I don't mean to imply "no issues so far" is enough to make it safe.

Three Mile Island isn't evidence of safety just because no one died, what matters to me is that there was no realistic route beyond "shielded meltdown". A lot of the fears raised by opponents of nuclear appear to be outright impossible. (Sadly realistic fears, mostly around hot waste disposal, don't seem to get as much coverage.)

The coal number is deaths from health effects of coal burning. Estimates vary widely, but 7,500 is a minimum and 10k is conservative. It's worse per capita and per watt in other countries, too - US plants are cleanish and US coal is low-particulate. Moving China onto nuclear power would be a vastly bigger gain (even per watt) than the US.

Accidental deaths are nontrivial for power sources, but don't dominate pollution effects. Coal is mostly pollution-derived because it's so dirty, oil is a mix because rigs are dangerous, wing & solar are wholly accident-based simply because there's no lethal pollution there. Nuclear causes approximately zero deaths of any kind, but again, tail risk.

US source: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-other-reason-...

Global deaths/TwH source: https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-ener...
In some countries you get taxed on the imputed rent (the amount of rent that you would be paying gets added to your taxable income).

https://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/03/taxing-homeown...
Really a new day for Apache Spark now accessible to Microsoft developers to use along with all Azure cloud-native services.
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Many controllers have almost zero memory headroom meaning your GC pauses get an order of magnitude slower if not more as you have less than 2x your working set.

Also, most of the applications never allocate because they can't even afford the overhead of pooling/freelists that come with a stock malloc implementation.
Which link lacks this material?
>A full 81% of us feel stress surrounding the notion of Black Friday, and 45% of us believe it is the most stressful time of the year.

That is just an insane statistic that jumped out at me. Is this what peak consumerism looks like?
Kinda surprised they picked that name considering Drip [1] has been around for a while.

[1] https://www.drip.com/
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Network throttling is present, but only in responsive design mode. And responsive design mode has the same features with Chrome, but its a bit wonky at the moment.
> The second target should be robust performance under Android

That's going to be hard, given Android and Chrome are both Google products.
I haven't read the article, but the branding absolutely sucks. When trying to generate income, Drip, is hardly the connotation I'd want. They should have gone with Flood or Tide. Something big and powerful MADE of Drips. I get what they were going for, but it seems like a tone deaf misfire.

EDIT: And, as u/aronarduino pointed out elsewhere in this thread, the name is already taken (and the TLD drip.com) by a well established tech product.
Not sure if it's using hardware acceleration right now (i.e. in v57), but there's a new rendering component (WebRender) coming in one of the next releases which does everything on the GPU.
As a foreigner here in Sweden I've heard about this mystical bubble which will burst sometime soon causing morgage rates to skyrocket. If I was going to buy something, say in North Stockholm, how long would you recommend waiting?
Personally I'd find it irritating, as I do with Google Docs.

This is a neat gimmick but I don't think it'll revolutionise anything or end up being the status quo in the future.
Does being Persian mean not-Arab? Sorry, that was a mistake on my part.
A Wordpress alternative in Go would be pretty cool. Is anyone working on such a thing?
I assume this refers to the overhead of the JVM itself. How high that is and how much that matters has been subject to debate, but I think it is objectively higher overhead cost than the Go runtime.
Isn't it inherently bad to buy "as good as you can afford"? Employment is rarely stable throughout a 30-year period. Shouldn't people be much more careful when maxing out their mortgage relative to 'the good times'?
From the article (emphasis mine):
> It doesn’t like the term [shadow profile] because it sounds like Facebook creates hidden profiles for people who haven’t joined the network, which Facebook says it doesn’t do.

Facebook absolutely does, but can get away with claiming that it doesn't since it is a little different from the "profile" you create when you sign up. This makes your experience more personal and amazing as soon as you do sign up, among other "benefits" (in quotation marks because cui bono?). They also need it for their ad network. LinkedIn's builds its shadow profiles even more aggressively.

> Can't users who don't use facebook file a restraining order?

I doubt you could prove standing in the US (it would be difficult to claim "harm" in the US's legal sense of the word). In Europe you'd have a pretty good shot, though I haven't seen anyone try this tack yet. But Max Schrems' successful suit would be an excellent precedent for anyone who wanted to try.

BTW I like FB, though I haven't been on in weeks.
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I actually think that in the long run Rust and Go will have a similar relationship between Ember and React. They'll have fundamentally different approaches, but they'll steal the best ideas from each other (for example, Glimmer is heavily influenced from React) and they'll both end up serving their domains better and maybe overlapping a bit more here and there.
What was key is that Islamic scholars translated the Greek works and made them available in Europe. I'm not discounting the amazing engineering works done by the Greeks and Turks.
Like AA games/game engines, and some micro controllers sure. Desktop applications like text editors where waiting for JITs and high pause times are annoying unlike things running on server as well.
> I've only read that they couldn't continue it due to a: aggressive regulations by incumbers preventing entry of new ISPs (such as Fiber)

The truth is the exact opposite. Google got very favorable treatment from fiber cities: https://techliberation.com/2012/08/07/what-google-fiber-says.... See also: http://crosscut.com/2014/12/google-fiber-never-come-seattle-....

The difference between Mountain View and Kansas City isn’t that that Comcast has somehow managed to out-lobby Google in Google’s own back yard. That’s absurd.
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I have a precision 5520, and if I'm using integrated graphics I get 8+ hours even with the 4k screen. The build seems quite sturdy but I've only had it for around 6 months so far so can't say too much about that yet.
TLDR: I do not recommend using bcache with btrfs, but this is a sample of 1.

I've been using bcache (SSD) with btrfs (4TB hard drive) for while, and am in the process of ripping it out. What I found is the filesystem gets wedged if there is a heavy write load (lots of files) such as running debootstrap. This happened with both write-through and write-back. The symptoms are all requests stall and a kernel log message about hung btrfs tasks. Only a reboot (typically needing sysrq keys to complete) works.

The problem did not occur previously when using btrfs without bcache and the same workload. It also doesn't occur during "lighter" workloads.
You seemed to have missed the part that said "the ACA's individual mandate, which is the foundation on which guaranteed-issue health insurance works.".

Without the individual mandate, insurance companies have three options for pre-existing conditions. First, they can not insure them (which would be illegal). Second, they can raise rates for everyone who does have insurance. Third, lobby to have the pre-existing conditions section of the ACA repealed (which will now be much more palatable politically because in the mean time everyone rates will have sky-rocketed in the mean time).

Since #2 is the likely outcome in the short term if this bill passes. Startup employees who have health insurance may see a windfall in the future with the options change, but they'll lose out month after month with increased insurance costs.

But #3 would be up next, and the insurance companies will lobby hard, noting that they have been clear since day 1 that covering pre-existing conditions is only possible with an individual mandate. So long term, repealing the individual mandate and not covering pre-existing conditions look pretty much the same.
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Yup, I can’t count how many times I kept bugfixes, improvements, or tweaks to myself because the submission process is too complicated and user hostile.

This is honestly a problem with any submission process involving patch files. I’ve submitted a few via mailing list and I can’t express how much I dread seeing source controled this way.
You might want to read what Dustin Kirkland wrote here on Hacker News about this about half a year ago.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14026353

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14027489
I started at the Avicenna and Al Jaziri wikipedia pages and did the equivalent of DFS on outlinks until I stopped seeing new pages.

It took a while, but now I know more about 10th century hydrological engineering in Northern Africa than I did before...
Does anyone keep a coding journal?

I recently bought a dedicated Moleskine to record algorithms and design patterns I use at work and university. It's been really fun to record multiple solutions and then be able to review my writing several days or weeks later to note an optimal solution.

Looking for formatting tips similar to Bullet[0] journaling, but for more STEM-related notekeeping.

[0] http://bulletjournal.com/
The shamefulness of sex isn't even from Christianity (or Judaism), but rather a bastardized version of an Organized Religion.

There is a whole book in the Bible that is all about sex (Old Testament: [Song of Solomon](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Song+of+Solomon...). The only difference is that sexuality is supposed to be shared and enjoyed in a marriage.

Then of course we get (big R) Religion, where humans use it as a means of power over other people. This is where we get the things we associate with religion today.
I tend to believe claims of the form X is used by Y% of Z, but not give much weight to them because they are usually less impressive than they sound.

For example, I recall IBM marketing once claimed that OS/2 was used in some very high percentage (it was close to 100%, if I recall correctly) of Fortune 500 companies (or some similar group). Did that mean OS/2 was taking off in the enterprise, displacing Windows left and right?

Nope. It just meant that most Fortune 500 companies had at least one OS/2 system. Take advantage of its excellent DOS multitasking to migrate a few legacy DOS systems from dying old hardware to a single new machine under OS/2, and your Fortune 500 company counts as using OS/2 even if that is the only OS/2 system you have.
Hey Abdin,

I sent you a reply that may have gone to spam. Sorry about that.

Cheers,

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Inability to find the valid metrics you want is not justification to use invalid numbers.