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> Browser differences in javascript by not having a good specification or strong governing body.

Its the browser implementation that was at fault. The ambiguity in specs was and is minimal to negligible for the past 8 years (since I started following). But like you said, not relevant today.

> Not having block-level scope despite convention in other C-like languages.
> Optional semi-colons.

Its a feature, not a bug!

> typeof inconsistencies.

Maybe. Never faced it.

> Another problem with JS changing so much is developers picking up the language at various points in that development.

What I see constantly changing is JS frameworks and preprocessors, not the language itself. Newer folks tend to learn some JS framework first before the language itself (just like I did) and the constant change can hurt and impede progress and confidence. The language itself has been well documented and forgiving in my experience.

So yeah, point taken. You do not like JS. I do. Let's make peace with that.
How about giving us a short article on how to propose new ideas to you, and what happens if we do.

Assuming a reader has a usable idea(s) - a best-case scenario but the only one worth providing information for - what would you like them to do to present it, how can they feel safe doing so, and what happens after they do and you like it.
It won't; this move was done to benefit a media company known as Sinclair. This company has a decidedly pro-Trump stance, and they require the local stations they control to air pro-Trump commentary.

Make no mistake this is a political move, and one that is right out of a fascist/authoritarian playbook.
Congrats on shipping. I went through your docs and it's very clear and comprehensive.

Also love your startup / MVP friendly pricing => https://www.sanity.io/pricing as compared to the other most popular headless CMS (you know who they are!).
Hey, nice work there, both on the idea and execution. And, since 'don't be evil' companies spam us mercilessly on every occasion, a single guy pushing some spam up their arses should get some reward for his work.
> but they didn't even call themselves "Southwest Monkey".

Yes they did, and I quote their FAQ:

"How long does Southwest Monkey track flights?"

> They called it "SWMonkey".

I think they changed their name after the letters (and presumably forgot to change it there).
Keystone pipeline spills 210,000 gallons of oil
ChromeBook would be a good example.
1x is 100%, I believe they were telling a very witty joke.
I was raised in one of those places where Old Testament beliefs are still championed and they believe in a literal bible. They absolutely believe as I described it, though they would not connect those beliefs together like I did.

There are millions of Christians like this in the US alone, let alone the rest of the world. I'm not sure what you're trying to push with your interpretation of christianity, but it's certainly not common, given that it assumes their god doesn't exist.
I always preferred Kierkegaard's contemporary, N.F.S. Grundtvig. If Kierkegaard was "you have to be a good Christian before you can be a good person," then Grundtvig was, "you have to be a good person before you can be a good Christian." As the ideological founder of the folk high school system in Scandinavia, he's had a long and lasting impact on the importance of education.
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The Numenorean story could easily fit in a few Game of Thrones sized seasons, but the problem is that Tolkien left more of the broad outlines of the story than something with the level of characterization and dialog that would make good drama. So you'd have TV writers filling in the blanks. And I don't think I'm alone in fearing just how terribly that could go wrong. Think of the last two seasons of GoT only far worse.
> successful businesspeople (at least in America) tend to accept that full legal compliance is impossible

This REALLY depends on the level of law. Local rules? Maybe. State or federal laws? Playing with fire. Case in point: Lyft, Uber et al versus Zenefits.

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice. Do not break laws.
There is no easy guide. Speak to the people doing the work, and target your innovation to the existing revenue streams (that is, if your product benefits an insurer, why are you pitching it to the patients?).

As someone in the industry I do of course have a wishlist, but, you know.

As to clean: a self cleaning toilet and a roomba living in the corner is a huge step away from treating your toilet as an always-on medical lab.
Culture has always played a part in what we call "racism" and it is disingenuous to pretend otherwise. Especially it is disingenuous to claim that racism is rare, yet that it alone, and not anti-multiculturalism, was responsible for white flight.
no, there was another one, where people post problems along with a dollar amount that they would pay for to have the problem solved.
> The modern left-wing view of racism is as a systematic, structural power relationship between races.

Incorrect. More correct would be: the dominant modern left-wing view is that there exists now in much of the world, and has historically, a systematic structural power imbalances between groups identified as “races”, that this disproportionately harms some of those groups, and that this is bad thing.

That the confluence of all those things is the proper referent of the label “racism” rather than that label referring to racial bias which is a component of all that is far more controversial even within the left.

> For example, divesting from your neighborhood out of concern for your property value when PoC start to move in does not necessarily reflect an individual racial bias. It could be a purely rational economic calculation based on other people’s biases. It’s still the bread and butter of the system of racism.

Uh, yes, because it's a product of someone's racial biases, it's still a part of systemic racism even by the simpler and more common definition of racism, because its a product of racial biases within the social system.
Note the new rules only permit one entity to own two of the top four stations in a market, addressing the only real consolidation concern (that the natural scarcity of radio channels would allow natural radio monopolies to form).

But as far as I can tell, there is nothing about newspapers that makes them a natural monopoly. Why should anyone regulate combinations in that area?
> I just think it's possible for employers to disagree with your view and not be presumed "-ist."

So do I. There are more ways to be wrong than being an "-ist".
Or you can say "that's absurd" and move on with your life.
JavaScript and PHP are badly/barely designed languages, period; no amount of excuses and comparisons is going to change the fact. Anyone with a bit of experience in either Ruby or Python will tear their hair out when doing JS, because they know it doesn't have to be that difficult. These days it's looking more and more like C++ every day...
I think it's going to be the Last Jedi. It might just be because I'm older but I feel that Snyder's DC films don't hit any emotional notes and the action is over the top but still somehow flat. They just don't resonate with me or my friends group.
You know were building a HSR now? It will take 15 - 20 years to complete, but we're building it.
Sagemath is awesome!
Cars are only better in cities designed and planned with them in mind, but now Denver and many other growing cities are feeling the pain that cars and roads simply do not scale. Retrofitting transit is much more expensive with the existing infrastructure and massive sprawl that would not have existed in the first place.

And it's hard to argue that cities should be designed for cars - longer commutes, more accidents, more pollution, worse pedestrian experience...
It might be unprecedented for the White House to publicly discuss preferred merger conditions, but the agencies involved report to the president so its probably naive to think that kind of politics has not always been involved.

This is a combination of a powerful company who thinks this is their moment with a lax regulatory regime and they have to take it no matter what, and also we have a president now who doesn't care about keeping up appearances or abiding precedent, so all the gross behind the scenes stuff is getting vomited up into public discourse because neither one of them care about hiding it.
> Taxation without representation has been a sore spot for quite a long time :-).

For non-American readers: this is why the USA declared independence from Britain.
So basically working vsync, alpha blending, render to texture and some basic shaders like blur, where even Intel GPUs are overkill?

Then you are in luck; even Intel GPUs under Linux do support OpenGL 4.5. 4.6 is in the works, the only missing part is the SPIR-V support and I don't suppose you need that for fluent or material design.
This member of the color-visible community isn't impressed with the new set of colors either. Of the 8 colors, 5 of them are some shade of blue.
I argue that if an interview question asks you to implement parseInt(String foo), it's your responsibility to handle inputs that aren't a properly formatted integer gracefully.

Or at least to point out to the interviewer that your solution fails to handle unexpected input, and ask if they want you to add input validation logic, or if they are satisfied with the answer.
Piggybacking on this—what can make it worse is that some chips might not properly power back on reliably, in spite of the manufacturer's claims.
Interesting. Congrats on shipping.

Here's what your homepage crawl looks like :) https://listly.io/en/try/data?key=iJlJndur
Perhaps there is some middle ground, and a fresh perspective with modern tools at a lower price might be more valuable in many circumstances.

And perhaps "years spent in industry" is not as universally correlative with cost-effectiveness as some claim.
I noticed that, but instead of jumping straight to "why should I make a service for rich fools?" I thought to myself "what other similar use-cases are there?"

If you buy an engagement ring and the proposal gets rejected, you get stuck with a depreciating asset which is hard to sell for anything, let alone for what you buy.

Still too high-net-worth for you? Insurance for used-car problems that you don't have to buy from the used car dealer that sells you the car. There's an inherent conflict of interest in a dealer selling you a car and then selling you the hedge against problems with that car.

I watched a Charlie Rose interview this week with a famous comic writer who was proud to work in comics, as opposed to painting. His logic was that average people feel dumb and that they are "missing something" if they look at a painting and "don't get it". When you look at a comic and you "don't get it", you are more likely to think the comic is trash and that there is nothing "to get". Similarly, I think the pretentiousness of art gallery sales people is a pressure tactic to get you to buy something you don't really value. I don't think insurance-after-the-fact solves the incentive mismatch for fine art.
Scientists hope to bring back 50000-year-old cave lion
For a translation of his humor into English, see The Humor of Kierkegaard, ed. Thomas C. Oden. Some of it is laugh-out-loud funny, like his description of the ridiculousness of state religion:

"Rather than taking part in official Christianity with the thousandth part of my little-finger nail, I would rather engage in the following display of seriousness. A flag is purchased at a hardware store, it is unfurled; with great reverence I approach it, lift up three fingers and swear fidelity to the flag. Thereupon, rigged out in a cocked hat, a cartridge-belt and sword (all from the hardware store), I mount a hobbyhorse, proposing in union with others to make an attack upon the enemy, with contempt for the mortal danger into which I am evidently casting myself, with the seriousness of one who knows what it signifies to have sworn fidelity to the flag."

Kierkegaard's "Attack upon 'Christendom'" [277-78]
You are not going to find the Nvidia drivers on the live CD.

I assume what you saw was the Nouveau driver, which is enough to have you up and running to be able to download the proprietary ones using GUI.
Last time I tried developing for WordPress I gave up in frustration. What an incomprehensible mess of spaghetti code.
I looked at them [0] but I don't see anything to do with "get me paid faster" (aka collections or factoring) but they seem to have a "demo wall" to get any meaningful info.

I assume what they do is show you data you already have but maybe don't appreciate fully, e.g. if BigCo pays you on average 30 days late you can see that before you embark on some new project. Cool, but not necessarily getting me paid faster. Helping me avoid risk perhaps.

Maybe I missed it but if you know more, maybe you can give some examples of how they solve this? Genuinely interested since I too have this problem on occasion.

[0] https://www.tesorio.com/
You probably don't need a high yield if you just nuke a volcano or super volcano https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_winter
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I hold the highly unusual view that voting to elect representatives is a inefficient and ineffective way of accurately determining the will of the people.

Our current system predominantly favors white, rich, cis-gendered male christians who are good at manipulating their constituents and getting rich people and corporations to give them money. This seems like such an awful set of criteria that it is hard to see how just picking randomly could fail to be better. (There is evidence that sometimes it is better to choose randomly than relying on ineffective criteria: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/oct/10/random-...)

Even if you eliminate the problems of campaign finance and winner-takes-all in elections we are still left with the distorting incentives of re-election (though enforced single terms could help with that.)

State representatives that want to be successfully re-elected, need to bring home the pork and this incentives wasteful government spending. They also need to avoid taking political stances that might cost them the election, even when it has popular support and would be beneficial to our society (e.g. gun laws, criminal reform and the legalization of marijuana).

Removing perverse incentives of re-election and moving to random selection for one of our chambers of representatives would mean less pointless pork barrel spending, reduce the incentives for corruption, and lead to a more representative demographic sampling with a better personal understanding of the economic and social challenges we face as a society.
I'll break the news to you, the current President is a racist. He is not just a little casual racist, he is pretty damn racist. Let's not tap dance around the issue anymore and let's just call him what he is.

He is also dumb, but that has nothing to do with being a racist or our discussion.
My inner frustrated cyberpunk novelist says that this will be resolved when Congress admits Amazon as the 51st state.
"greater consolidation" == "easier establishment of monopolies" (probably)
Personally, I would put most of the batteries on the flatbed. Have beds at either end that are charging while they are loaded/unloaded, and one truck autonomously juggling a 3rd bed between both locations.
I remember when they bought and/or sold just about every gaming magazine I liked in the late 90s and 00s, notably Computer Gaming World (and maybe Computer Games Strategy Plus?). Ziff Davis has always felt like this treadmill of companies, with every decade looking different.
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Students Earned $1B in College Scholarships Using Their Smartphones
I think you missed the main issue I find with ORMs, it's near impossible to debug the SQL it's using. I really think they're an abstraction too far.
really cannot be separated from notions of class and capital and commodity-form without rendering the term "Marxist" nearly meaningless.

The Intersectional claim is basically that inherent markers like race have become a functionally like a marker of class.

Separating Marx from those things is like separating Jesus from Christianity.

You just keep on asserting this without specifying why -- probably because you find it particularly embarrassing. So you're saying there's something magically special about the very specific formulation? Many atheists have noted that Jesus has many similarities to many other religious/mythical figures. The principles are usefully generalized. As is the with religion, the fact that there are these patterns is significant in itself.

"Marxism" in such broad-brush terms is certainly not meaningless in any case. Use "collectivist" if you like. Anyone who throws individual rights under the bus in favor of the interests of the group and says phrases like "By any means necessary" or "all power comes from the end of a gun" is a party to ideologies which have played out in the deaths of tens of thousands to tens of millions of people, across different cultures, in different times, again and again throughout history.
I look forward to reading that as a fellow DNS Engineer that works at large scale and has a passion for security.
I agree it might not be an issue for professional programmers, given the right tools.

But there are plenty of people who would recommend Python over JS as a first programming language for exactly this reason. Python gives better error messages and has fewer WTFs.

I think JS could be a good teaching language if it were not for the confusion over types, which is an important thing for a beginning programmer to understand.
It's even more concerning now, considering how much control and visibility into our lives companies have, thanks to mobile phones and digital tracking.
Um, no. The tests were rather deliberately located away from cities and avoided creating the firestorms required to raise the massive dust clouds and create the effect. They were also not near-simultaneous.
duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15712744
If you stand on the left of the escalator you better be a tourist, some crimes are simply too grave for society to bear otherwise.
And how do you get your spacecraft up out of the gravity well and out to the asteroid, so you can move it into orbit and start recycling it into elevator? It sounds suspiciously like you're solving the bootstrap problem by tying strings to your bootstraps and pulling those instead.
Have had this for years.

mvn org.owasp:dependency-check-maven:check

Java FTW again :)
One can use sourceclear.com for Python support.
Sold by Anker but fulfilled by amazon. It supposedly makes sure your product isn't commingled.
Thanks! paidlabs looks useful if not a magical silver bullet...will definitely check them out.
war is peace

freedom is slavery

ignorance is strength
> we all do racist things, but very few of us are racist

That's confusing because you're using two different definitions of the word "racist" in the same sentence. At some point we should do everyone a favor and use two words when we mean two things.
> And even going 3 stations from Shibuya to Shinjuku will cost you 2 dollars on the Yamanote line. You could easily spend 10 dollars a day on a daily basis just getting around the city, and multiply that by the number of people who use the system, and it's a fortune.

Fun fact: Shinkansen tickets are about the same price as Acela Express tickets. Except the Japanese trains are unsubsidized while Amtrak is heavily subsidized (Congress pays capital costs). And the Japanese trains are fast and reliable, while Amtrak is the opposite of those things.

Also: minimum D.C. Metro fare in peak hours is $2.25. Metro is also a disaster, with tunnels catching fire, etc.
> Never read a more US-centric comment on HN

In case you aren’t aware, English is spoken in many places other than the United States. Most obviously in England.
We use Closure Library. It has some error handling code.
You mean Google, a company that was founded in the late 90s, is responsible for an FTC rule originating 42 years ago?

Your entire premise is incredibly flawed; religious rights and low taxes may be part of the same constituency, but opposition to media mergers is not a strict left or right issue.
Some distros do not enable subpixel rendering indeed, due to patents and them being based in the US. The users have to download a -freeworld package then, if they want it.

With HiDPI, that doesn't matter anyway.

Another issue are fonts themselves. If you have a document that uses Arial or Cambria or another proprietary font, and you don't have it installed, you are going to get something substituted, which may or may be not metrics-compatible. Do not expect pixel-identical results then.
If the status quo continues, the billionaires will continue advancing their dreams of greater extraction, while many people lose jobs and industries, live in homeless camps on the side of the road, decline in standards to turn formerly first-world countries into third-world poor ones and a few of the white-collar, hangers-on prosper willfully oblivious. At some point, the people will reach a sudden and "unexpected" breaking point to rebalance austere extremism. This is why Roosevelt offered a slice of bread instead of crumbs while the rich got to keep the bakery.
That's quite impressive. It's the first I even consider how secure Chrome can be aside from "it runs on Linux, it should be safe!"

That aside, I wonder how much effort it takes to produce a hardened Ubuntu that behaves somewhat like ChromeOS, but you get to use any browser you want instead of just Chrome. Then you just run it under a tiling window manager (or minimal WM) to force focus on the browser, or on app at a time, while still having access to development tools (I guess the security aspect falls short here?) and maybe some office software.
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There has certainly been politics in the sense of what is too big or what would be too monopolistic.

But from what I’ve seen there have never been specific demands from the WH. Especially not _before_ the merger was submitted.

If you can find a counter example I’d love to see it. I haven’t seen any listed in the coverage I’ve seen.
Whataboutism: you say ”this is bad” and I say ”but what about <other bad thing>.”

Logical smooth sailing: you say “this is the worst” and I say “can’t be the worst because here is something worse.”
One can use sourceclear.com for Composer.
A lot of specialised scientific toolboxes are written in Matlab. That's the case in neuroscience but I bet there are also other disciplines where it's hard to escape Matlab. Mathworks tried to emulate Jupyter by creating Live Editor but I still prefer Jupyter.
Less than you might think.

It's treated like real-estate with RF "zoning rules".

But very wide swaths of the RF spectrum are essentially a free -for-all. You could argue that the most valuable parts (UHF) are used for stuff that could only be described as "non-essential" e.g. cat videos.
I believe the reason that the root post is the top-voted comment is that it poses a helpful question: how do we fix this?

My suggestion is that people stop being so damn concerned about their moral status and start caring more about actually fixing things.

A system with de facto separate and unequal schools is just as bad as a system with de jure separate and unequal schools. Whether that's the result of an emergent phenomenon or explicit planning has little effect on the people stuck in the system.

If someone's fragile moral ego gets in the way of an accurate description of the problem... well, that person's ego is the problem.

FWIW you see the same problem in flailing engineering projects.
Those words aren't used the same way as "racism". To wit:

Are communist Americans also capitalist because they part of systemic structural capitalism?