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>But the things that have crept in seem to have because they work.

Keep in mind that things like Agile and Scrum might have had buy-in from team members because a team member adopting it wasn't as high of a cost as the same team member leaving the job. You might be able to object, but you'll probably be overridden.

There's some amount of reprogramming that happens there to keep the team cohesive, so people might begrudgingly adopt new habits. So in those cases, "it works" is barely sneaking in because everyone was forced to make it work.

It's not as easy to prove/disprove as more objective things like program performance, size, or correctness. There's a whole lot of flavors of "it works" out there.
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Thread about porting X68000 games to the Atari Falcon: http://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=24111 (bullet hell shoot-em-up video on page 19)

(Atari Falcon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Falcon - it's quite a lot better than the original ST, but still doesn't have sprites or multiple playfields)
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For example, the size of bedrooms, bathrooms, kitchens, closets, and garages has increased greatly in the last 100 years.

Have you been to the UK recently? :)

I don't know how much of an increase there was from about a century ago, but for the last few decades it's very much been going the other way. But the UK is something of a basket case when it comes to housing; people want to spend all their money on a mortgage.

Tangentially related, not long ago a minister suggested that people could keep a "jerry can" or petrol in their garage and was roundly mocked not only for the fire hazard, but for the casual belief that everyone has a garage.
I'm originally from one of those former GDR states (they became states after reunification, during the GDR they were smaller districts - "Bezirke" [0]).

The countryside is slowly dying, even though it still looks pretty nice in the tiny villages (albeit a bit dead). In the towns it can be a bit depressing. I grew up in a town with >35,000 inhabitants just 5 miles from another town of the same size, and lots of villages all around (you can never really get lost in a German forest, just continue walking and you'll get to the next village or town soon). Those same towns now have ~25,000 inhabitants - and the distribution has shifted towards a lot more old people.

In Thuringia, for example (the geographic center of Germany, home of Goethe and of Queen Victoria's husband Prince Albert :-) ), the state capital Erfurt (206,000) is doing well, and Jena (108,000) with its Carl Zeiss optics manufacturing [1] and a good university is too. The rest - not so much. Even though cities like Weimar (65,000) look pretty nice and still attract tourism and the population is stable (not shrinking already is a success) they are not exactly the "place to be".

So the larger cities are doing well - same as everywhere in the world: People are moving to the urban centers. Better services, better/more jobs, better everything (well, except for space and cost of living).

By the way, since we are talking about very good food: This is a sad topic. Germans prefer "cheap" most of all. I have an Italian friend who represents Italian food companies in Germany. He told me they (Italians) sell the good stuff to countries like Spain or France, and the lower quality products to Germany. The reason is not that they dislike Germans, it's the German buyers themselves: In all negotiations the most important topic by far is price, quality doesn't come close. When I visit family in Thuringia it's even worse. I can find okayish food, sure, but it's not easy. Even the Asian fast food in my big West German city is a hundred times better than similar food in a Thuringian town (and they are pretty bad, since they have to offer full meals for 4-8 Euros, no comparison at all to the Asian food I'm used to from when I lived in the Bay Area). I also have a friend who owns a pretty nice middlish restaurant in Thuringia. He has become pretty depressed over the years, and his place is really nice and had good food too (and I say that as a picky eater). His place is not as good as it used to be, he doesn't care all that much any more because it's just not worth it. He's just too old and too well-connected locally to go somewhere else and do something completely new.

[0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bezirk_%28DDR%29

[1] https://www.zeiss.com/carl-zeiss-jena/home.html
I’ve found that there are times where I’m frustrated at everything and nothing is interesting now that I’m not always seeking 30 second bites.

Unexpectedly, that’s turned out to be a key hallmark sign for “I need to take a nap”, and sure enough, I usually end up with 20-30 minutes of hard REM sleep and then I’m interested in the world again.
It’s actually the reason Michelin ( which is a tyre brand) invented this guide in the first place : to incite people with cars to hit the road and visit good restaurants outside their town.
Don’t limit yourself to this FAQ.

1. Head over to physics.stackexchange.com.

2. Sort all answers by votes.

3. Start reading (read the corresponding questions first).

4. Emerge three days later slightly enlighted with a stubble on your face.

5. ???

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I think you may be conflating two ideas. You seem to be talking about green thinking, where most of the thread is talking about using automation to even out the grid when energy consumption is below minimum production levels, which may very well happen during the day and at unpredictable times in a solar-heavy grid. Sure, we can adopt green habits now (especially since negative prices are still a rare problem), but it doesn't actually address the discussion at hand.
You have removed three words from my comment along with all context and then suggested an entirely different meaning.
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From the Article:

"During this time, they'll charge a small rent to its clients who stay in Trinity Place in order to have a budget covering taxes, insurance, utilities, and general maintenance."

Its basically the charity version of Section 8 Housing where people pay the minimum needed to maintain the property.
Cannabis in the UK is a class B drug. Possession with intent to supply carries a posible 14 year prison sentence. Possession alone has a maximum 5 year sentence, although for an uncomplicated first offence the fine would be a band B fine (100% of weekly income).

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Certain things, when used in a routine, make computation impossible at compile time. If the routine is marked with 'constexpr', the compiler will verify that.
Index funds don't have to do the majority of trading as long as they cannibalize the trading that would have occurred. Say that the majority of investable dollars is held in index funds that rebalance once/year, only trading then. The effect on liquidity & prices is that fewer trades are made and relevant information on the stock's future prospects takes longer to get reflected in the price. This opens up profitable investment opportunities for active fund managers to move in and buy up underpriced assets before the passive investments get in there, which then corrects the pricing imbalance (but not before the active fund managers have made a good profit).
What about this is specific to men?
You don't really give details, so this is pretty scatter shot:

1. Look to your health. This is a complex topic and I have zero info about your health, but the short version is a sound mind in a sound body. Health issues of various sorts tend to erode cognitive function.

2. Find a way to take control of your life, to set goals and carve out space to pursue them. The problem isn't that social media (etc) clamors for our attention. The problem is that we feel obligated to give it. Use notifications for your purposes, but don't let them make you a slave to social media or other people. There are various techniques for doing this, but I think the essential detail is exercising agency on your own behalf.

3. Take a break from your life. Go on vacation or change jobs or move to a new place. Getting out of your usual context can help you see it more clearly. This can clarify where the problem lies.
I just did this because my MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013) / 16GB / 1TB machine finally developed a hardware fault they want motherboard replacement money to fix (occasional but frequent hard resets).

After checking the cost of a new MBP (basically almost same specs as the old one, plus touch bar!) and then noticing a Dell sale on before Xmas here in Sydney, I decided to replace it with a Dell XPS 15 9560 (laptop version, not the split-part "2-in-1" version, in black, with max memory and hard disk) for about ½ - ⅔ of the price of a Macbook Pro, but with better specs. The physical build of the machine takes some getting used to but I prefer the keyboard immensely, the black/carbon fiber finish is excellent and the high-grip "don't fall off table" feature is also great. As I have been focusing on family over Christmas and also have a company to run I am time short, so still setting up Gentoo, but set myself the somewhat uncharted goal of ZFS root (achieved!) and am enjoying the setup so far. Yet to finalize optimum video setup as the machine has two chips, X11 does not yet want to function correctly with the closed source nvidia-drivers on super-new kernels, but it works awesome for angband and X does work fine with the open source i915 drivers. Current notes on the Gentoo wiki at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Dell_XPS_15_9560
How much you're spending on a meal is not necessarily related to the quality of the food. You can have a Michelin-starred meal for just $2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Soya_Sauce_Chicken_R...

I've had a $5 plate from an inconspicuous family restaurant taste far better than a $250-per-person meal at a location where you had to reserve 3 months in advance. There are some ingredients that are worth the cost, but you can certainly appreciate and love food without having to spend an average individual's weekly paycheck on a single meal.
Another likely bias is that success is probably measured by peer review, and peers are more likely to overvalue soft skills.
Are you asking for examples of failure resulting from one or more people overstating their confidence in achieving expectations?
This comment is correct, I've heard the property described as "probabilistic consensus".

However, this part is wrong:

> Because of finite propagation delays and network packet loss, there are normally multiple valid chains at any given moment in time.

How often forks occur is a property of a specific system, not of "blockchain" in general. Bitcoin, for instance, usually does not have multiple chains. They do sometimes happen but generally the orphan rate is quite low. Ethereum has a much higher block rate so propagation delays are more important and forks happen there much more often.

There's an improvement called Bobtail [1] which makes the network much better at estimating how much work has been done. A blockchain which adopted Bobtail would still have probabilistic consensus but would almost never have forks.

Casper, Ethereum's proposed Proof of Stake system, is designed to provide "finality", what the rest of us call "consensus". Once adopted, and assuming it works, we'll have a blockchain where you can be sure that every block you see which you determine is valid is a block which the rest of the network will also decide is valid (assuming less than 1/3 of the network is byzantine).

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.08750
I usually direct people who ask about this toward Andreas Antonopoulos and Tom Lee (of Fundstrat). Bitcoin's value seems to mimic that of social networks, which suggests that Metcalfe's law applies. I don't trust governments, especially in the US where we have rampant crony capitalism, and I'm anti-borders, anti-military, and anti-authoritarianism.

There's plenty of good information on Reddit (/r/Bitcoin is pretty good, /r/btc is more like InfoWars), but of course you need to be able to wade through the BS. I'm a Bitcoin maximalist (and have about 80% of my holdings in Bitcoin), with some ETH and LTC, and a long list of alts that I think might have potential.

I also don't recommend investing in Bitcoin (or any other cryptocurrency) unless you have a high tolerance for risk and can afford to lose it.

Here's an aantonop playlist if you want to binge: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPQwGV1aLnTthcG265_FY...
This looks like a PR piece to make people afraid of investing in the S&P. Some people have suggested thought that since investing in index funds makes the companies that are apart of the index fund to not compete with each other due to their shareholders. I'm not sure if the previous statement is even valid or real.
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Do you have any ideas on how companies can better assess soft skills during interviews?
they could also precision land explosive (like a ring of C4) onto the opening of a martian lava tube, then precision land an airlock onto the opening, the astronauts could look inside and find and plug any leaks inside the tube prior to adding atmosphere to it.
Well, you can't just blame capitalism for problems happening with government granted monopolies. You must at a minimum get some evidence that it isn't the monopoly causing the problem.

And because modern economies are to a large part composed of government granted monopolies, with almost all problems being in that part¹, nearly all "capitalism is bad" commentary is simply bullshit.

1 - Both governments tend to grant monopolies on problematic areas, and anything that a government grant a monopoly on becomes problematic. So, it can hardly be different.
A slightly better pointer might be the wiki of the subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/rational/wiki/index
This one is interesting because it deals with a young short seller, Chris Drose, that caused a lot of share price decline in a stock I once held, likewise by writing an article for SeekingAlpha.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/27/business/drug...

This is the other stock he did that to, but his article was retracted... of course, only after the stock tanked huge, and continued to tank more afterwards. He must have made a fortune.

https://seekingalpha.com/news/3189718-bearish-sa-article-que...

I am amazed by how effective that is, and how he was able to get away with that.
Uber drivers aren't obligated to accept hail requests.

As Uber gains dominance over regulated taxis (which are obligated to serve everyone), the level of accessibility to transportation in certain generally unprofitable areas may decrease.
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There’s something wrong with your machine. I can squeeze a full days’ work out of it if I need to, and Apple claim up to 10 hours.
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Bray is just outside London, not in the middle of nowhere in Burgundy (which itself is quite out of the way).
Well, the neighborhoods you are discussing, which do have higher social trust, do have a strong ethnic identity, so I think that this may reinforce my point rather than hurt it.

I must admit that I have a more pastoral and conflict-adverse personality, so the idea of New York as an ideal is difficult for me to comprehend. I'm OK with that: there are obviously many people to whom this idea is obvious as well. My long term conclusion is we should allow these types of folks to separate and establish different political units that satisfy these needs: some of these could be relatively ethnically homogeneous, some less so. I would expect, but am willing to admit this is speculation, that you would find higher trust and cross-class identity in the more homogeneous political units.

I appreciate you taking the time to thoughtfully reply to my comments.
Or, take advantage of the holiday sale of 50% for an year: https://www.nytimes.com/subscription/multiproduct/lp8XKUR.ht...

We in tech(I presume most people in this community is in tech) thrive because of good contents. Might as well pay for them. :)
A button that calls you an Uber is as easy to build as a button that calls the taxi dispatcher for you, but I don’t think the elderly appreciate the taxi experience of demanding cash because they’re pretending the card reader broke.

(You can already get a voice assistant to book a ride for you too.)
> Reduce Operational Complexity

If I hook everything into slack I have a simple interface that can cover and reflect all my needs!
or spend money for content
> If I visit a site for the first time without any ad blocking enabled, and realize it provides no value, how do I reverse my exposure to those ads? How do I claw back whatever data their tracking scripts collected about me?

The exposure you are talking about is a non-issue, particularly given every site you contact has that same information (even without Ads).

If you are concerned about that level of privacy, you should be using https://tails.boum.org or a no logs VPN.
"Synergy" is a precise term as well.
I've been following the MUI changes closely. I'll say the following with the utmost respect for their authors:

Flow, and probably TypeScript, work best when you do things "the Flow(/TS)" way. MUI authors insist on writing code as they would without Flow, and then inserting Flow in after the fact.

Typed JavaScript does not work well when it's treated simply as vanilla JavaScript with annotations. To be successful, it should be treated as a different (yet similar) language, and written within the confines of what the typed language supports.

The frustrations from the linked attempts at upgrading Flow in MUI stemmed from an insistence on supporting defaultProps through HoCs. This works fine, but requires some slight hacks to get it typed properly. The authors were not willing to make the exchange of implementing these hacks in exchange for an easier upgrade path, as they would have changed the generated documentation.

The contributors of material-ui did not experience an issue with TS because their codebase does not use TS, it only provides external interfaces for it. I am confident they would have experienced similar issues with TS at some point, had it been used for the safety of the library itself instead of just its external API.
Yes, you're describing discretion and reiterating the author. They never suggested lying, merely being mindful of the circumstances when disclosing truth.
As someone here has already mentioned, it's more likely due more tech and indian tech especially moving towards clouds for the derivative cost savings ( less manpower ).

This happened in the US as well. Lots of IT positions got cut as companies consolidated much of their backend to cloud services.

But I wouldn't hold my breath on cheaper indian tech industry losing any steam and I'd still betting H1-B visas are only going to be delayed.

India has seen an increase, not a decrease, in FDI ( primarily directed to their tech sector ). It means that foreign companies/governments/etc are still investing in the indian tech sector.
I'm much more to the left than the right. But I would still say that "charitable housing" and "affordable housing" are terrible solutions to the housing crisis.

It's better to just allow anyone to build housing that's safe and healthy. Especially, housing for drug addicts or the abused sounds great except it puts people in a weird situation - what happens if they stop being in that category? What happens when the only housing available is for drug addicts and you just happen to be poor?
Because "it's a freaking plant" doesn't address the full scope of properties.

Opium and poison sumac are plants. Should it be legal to sell both for smoking, or mix them in with other goods entirely unregulated?
There's precedent in C++ for keywords that give the compiler hints it doesn't necessarily promise to act on: inline.
> Is it 0.01%, 0.1% or 1%? Who knows.

I said it wasn't common which you are acknowledging. Simply because less some small percentage of people can mange it doesn't make it repeatable.
You can pick a password in proportion to the threat. A short password is sufficient to thwart "casual attacks" (someone snooping around by accident). You can increase the entropy of the password as needed to thwart arbitrary compute. (Although to get enough entropy you'd probably want to generate a GUID for a password, write it down, and don't lose it.) What I'm trying to say is that your company wasn't necessarily being stupid.
I get a lot of value from my undergraduate business degree and resent your characterization of my education and career choices.
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Actually, the rise in blood lead levels in Flint in 2014-15 does not seem likely to create a very large effect:

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/01/raw-data-lead-...
Could you please not rush into an HN thread after 3 sentences to post a quick dismissal of somebody's work? This is just the sort of reaction we're trying to learn—as a community—to suspend, in order to have more substantive conversation. It takes effort, but it's worth it, since internet forums are a shallow wasteland otherwise.
My site https://officesnapshots.com doesn’t really fit into either of those molds.

We sell our own advertising space, self-host it, and use static jpgs for the graphics.

The ads are also targeted against the content (office design) and tend to be for products like office furniture. In a roundabout way this targets the readers but only because if they are on the site they are likely interested in learning about new products in their field.
Have you read much Drucker? You cover some of the same ideas.
Ask HN: Looking for an affordable starter kit to teach IOT to 4th-8th graders
I am a volunteer STEM teacher for 4th-8th graders and I would like to teach arduino/iot/etc to them. Any suggestions on an affordable ($25 or less) starter kit that I could get for each of them? Also want to know if every person needs a computer or if we can work with 1 computer for everyone. I am new to this space but would love for them to learn IOT!
Thanks everyone!
> ... at the end of the day a job is about money.

This is short-sighted. A job is what you make of it -
you can get lots of different things out of it. Otherwise pro-bono work, internships, etc. couldn't exist. If all you're in it for is the paycheque in 2 weeks time, then that's all you're likely to get out of it.

When you look at a career as a whole - from both sides of the relationship - then it is beneficial for both you, and your employer, for you to increase the value that you provide to your employer. That can mean learning more so that you can be more efficient, do more (volume), do more (variety), do higher valued things (ie. via promotion).

Also, you're not wrong that you can learn in a big 'boring' corp but the conditions have to be right for it to happen, and those conditions are often more prevalent in companies that have knowledge or skills gaps - which is more often the case in smaller organizations (doesn't have to be a startup, could be a historically-under-funded/under-recruited IT group in a well-established corp).
I would recommend Thinkpad T470s. I have used both Lenovo T460s, T470 laptops and Dell XPS developer edition with Linux. I personally prefer the Lenovo.

Here is a detailed review of T470s
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Here is ranking of Laptop brands by Laptop mag, Lenovo rank best laptop brand.
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Hang on.. What should I do first?

+ The most valuable thing?
+ The riskiest thing?
+ The simple thing?
That latter case has been an issue. Poor people mixed in with people who have drugs and other issues should not be mixed together, specially poor families -ie kids exposed to all that comes with substance abuse.