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> But the updates are forced, so that fucks you over as a user

Linux is the only modern OS that doesn't do this, all OS updates are forced it's just some are forced more gently than others.

I have to postpone the the OS X update dialog daily and the iOS one about once a week. This has to be done carefully because if I press the wrong option it'll update itself in the middle of the night.
And it’s illegal to try and screen on anything except ability to do the job. Be very careful if you find yourself thinking in terms of software engineering interviews being a general intelligence test — you are setting yourself up for a discrimination suit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Co.
Which is great but as soon this government is replaced by a new one, this policy will be replaced by the old one.
>Furthermore, Lightning Network could provide a similar feeless system (excluding the settlement TXs).

There are even ways to get around the extreme majority of the fees for settlement transactions! Look up Channel factories for an idea on how even the opening and settlement transactions can be reduced to about 10% of their current size/cost for a single user. And there might be ways of interacting with channel factories to keep those settlement transactions off the main blockchain for the most part!

Also, I'm fairly certain IOTA doesn't have any TX fees, as well as several others that came before RaiBlocks.
I'm selling it as book.

But more importantly: the "fame" sells other services. Look here: https://winand.at/
There is a well-known association between the Godfather movies and oranges. For example, Don Vito has an orange slice in his mouth when he dies in the garden. And yes, the fruit stand scene. There are many more examples.

I'm not too familiar with Mario Puzo's novel and use of oranges but it would be fascinating if there was somehow an innate link between the use of oranges in the movies and the origins of the mafia (what this paper is claiming).
> 4) particles fired at your face by the magnetic field generated by the CRT

> As far as I know, cause 4) has the most impact, dust particles were literally fired at your eyes, and for this reason 20 years ago it was relatively easy to see people with grounded filters mounted to their CRTs (you used to attach the ground wire to the ground contact of the RS232 or parallel port of the PC)

I've always wondered whether this actually worked, since I had the impression that the grounding was BS and all those filters did was reduce glare.
"you're slowly just "recognized" as the lead without any overt assertion from management"
can't you just ask for official recognition or find a new job that is a better fit for what you actually do? there are billions of jobs in software, if you have the skills to should be able to do so
Why didn't he keep the first single-channel solution and just listen on the channel from multiple go routines? I don't see the advantage that a tiered approach gets you over that.
Hiring in tech is not broken. Hiring for a moving target (the tech business changes very quickly) with sub-par recruiting staff is difficult at best.
Could you furnish me an example from Western Europe please then? I am familiar enough with the Romance languages to read Portuguese or Spanish if there’s a university with any/substantial overlap between nursing and medicine.
Bug in crypto where every private key is revealed? Not likely, just saying.
Similarly they write:

>There are in fact some further issues, to do with making sure it's not cheap for a miner to re-exhibit their proof (of having performed a suitably substantial burn a suitably long time ago) on multiple competing chains. Details to follow.

which kind of seems like a major omission, as this is the one thing a proof of X should protect against.
eat wild caught fish

That can have it's own (different) set of problems if the fish comes from pollute waters.
That's entirely believable. Apple has just brought out the iMac Pro and they said they're bringing out a new Pro machine this year. I would only expect the MBP to get component upgrades. Though it'd be nice if one of those upgrades included the option for 32Gb RAM.
Since you are sure, do you have any examples or proof to back that ?
You want too see public projects on my github profile? I'll work on my public projects during office hours, deal? There are companies which become hysteric on the mere mentioning of the words "public", "open source", and "GPL" and doing it, while already employed, will undoubtedly initiate multiple meetings with a bunch of security and legal guys staring judgmentally at you. I hope such companies are more forgiving when candidate has no public github/gitlab/bitbucket.
Kind of like how literally every book nowadays is a "New York Times Bestseller".
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> One problem with relying on the OOM killer in general is that the OOM killer is only invoked in moments of extreme starvation of memory. We really have no ability currently in Linux (or basically any operating system using overcommit) to determine when we're truly "out of memory", so the main metric used is our success or failure to reclaim enough pages to meet new demands.

The problem with relying on swap instead of the OOM killer is that, instead of the OOM killer, the user gets invoked in moments of extreme starvation of memory and the whole machine gets rebooted. The OOM killer is far gentler; it only kills processes until the extreme starvation is resolved.
Jeez, the click-bait title.

British supermarket chickens show RECORD LEVEL of antibiotic-resistant SUPERBUGS.
It's almost like you read the two words "third party" in my response, then triggered a canned reply based on the existence of those words.

What insurance would you need when sending a Bitcoin donation to a site where thousands of researchers already benefited by retrieving scientific journal articles?

I didn't write, "cryptocurrencies will replace all third party payment systems." I gave a single example of a situation where third party payment systems don't function and Bitcoin does.
> we can't run it on a schedule, b/c it requires prep (moving cat food/toys, floor mats, etc)

If you have one of the models (I think it's the higher end ones) that supports the "lighthouse" that can do a circle, consider getting one. I have one of those by the cat's bowl, and I schedule the Roomba to start right before I leave for work so I'm reminded to go around picking up toys, etc. The cat usually sleeps most of the morning, so she normally leaves them alone long enough for the Roomba to finish.

> it's not all that thorough. it naturally leaves some stuff behind because it pushes some dirt / dust around while scooting around the floor

FWIW in my house (about 80% carpet) it does great. I was a little nervous last fall when I pulled out the upright vacuum for the first time after 3-4 months of letting the Roomba handle things, but what I got was much less than a normal week pre-Roomba.
Boost, too, provides a number of intrusive data-structures, if you're in C++ land.

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_66_0/doc/html/intrusive.html

There's also intrusive_ptr, an intrusive reference-counted smart-pointer class template.

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_66_0/libs/smart_ptr/doc/html...
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The real hard part is we don't have enough funding to recruit more staff and I don't think we'll have an exit until we hit version 18.0 and that won't be for 16 more years. And even then, I hear some projects get to version 24.0 before being able to be self sustaining.
> I find that language mode regexps so often get confused that they're more annoying than convenient.

For what language modes do you have that experience? I haven't used emacs myself much, but in other editors, most syntax highlighting descriptions are pretty good. The only exception to this rule is highlighting Haskell, which is apparently a monstrous challenge that no-one can even do remotely well.
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Are you equating support for open source with left-leaningness?
Seems like they just had a misunderstanding of how range worked. And now they have complicated code.
I was ready to complain about there being no vim mode, but there it is, right in the github readme, "Supports Vim mode". Me and a couple hundred users have been begging typora to support vim keybindings but we've been ignored so far. I'm definitely going to give this a try when I get some time.
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Personally I stopped working on "projects" a couple of years ago after I had to abandon a mildly popular (that's probably a bit of a stretch) project. Nowadays most of the programming I do outside of work is either learn new things or tackle challenges that I find interesting (often using the new things that I learnt).
I once believed in open formats and the practicality of switching between closed and open source, but years of experience has convinced me that no two complex applications will ever really be interoperable for the long tail of complex documents that use a larger than average number of the applications' features. I waste too many hours trying to fix MS Word tables and embedded grapics so that they will render correctly in LibreOffice, too many nightmare experiences jumping between video editors, and vector graphics apps, etc. Programs like MS Office are so complex that only a Singularity-level AI will ever fix them.
I already did that. v1 was a short-ish prototype to play around with an idea. v2 is the fully realised vision. As a matter of fact the game is feature completed (save from minor features), and it just needs balance, polish (oh boy, does it need polish) and better UX.

I'm aware that my audience is niche, if only I was appealing to them!. At the end the looming feeling is whether any amount of balance/polish is going to make it appealing, or should I consider it a lost cause for good.
This is practically impossible. That’s like saying you should give out equity and make sure to never raise money again. Even investors in early rounds that put in $500k are later putting in millions upon millions to hold their stake exactly the same.
Actually a sizeable percentage of the public do support it because it has much better support for their native tongue.
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Fascinating. Anyone using this for their side project or in production?
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prepare to be downvoted by bcash trolls..
"When your favorite mindfulness app says it’s based in science, check twice. Few actually are."

As far as I know, none of them are is based on science.
The commons was developed thousands of years ago in order to be dismantled hundreds of years ago to illustrate why capitalism is inevitable.
They won't get around to it, because stopping the mining of all cryptocurrencies that sci-hub could use to pay for uptime is more work than stopping sci-hub.

Since stopping cryptocurrencies is harder than freezing third party payments (evidence: see Wikileaks), this is a single, narrow example of the usefulness of cryptocurrencies. Researchers get the convenience of sci-hub's frontend for longer than they would if sci-hub had relied on a third party payment system.
That doesn't make any sense (i.e., you can stipulate this maintenance of %age, but you are crippling your ability to raise money). Predefined IPO data is similarly unrealistic, as there are too many external factors.

What does make sense is to have a risk conversation with these early people, and be willing to give up enough equity to have that make sense to them. So, if your target is to give them 0.5% "at exit", you're going to be giving them, say, 1-2% initially. And do this in the best way, tax-wise, for them in your jurisdiction.
Check Bear app for how to deal with links in the editor.
The screens used don't support variable refresh rate and double buffer everything.
If you drop below 90fps you are getting a 45fps lock with Asynchronous Warp cheating Frames to remain at 90hz.
If you aim for 60 you get 45. The Async Warp effect has bad side effects outside of stationary / tripod like movement. Your view shifts correctly, but everything inside your view stutters. If you imagine being in a VR Rollercoaster, your head would move and interpolate 90hz, but the rollercoaster would only update every 45hz.

VR really sucks in the sense that if you don't get the full experience, only having 80% or 90% may induce nausea or rip you out of the experience.

PC Perspective has great articles on this, going into every detail.
I'll look into the lighthouse! And yes - I've been really happy with how it does on carpet. Most of our apartment is faux-hardwood, where it doesn't do quite as well.
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Indeed, VNote is inspired by Vim when I used Vim to edit Markdown notes for about a month. VNote utilize many code editors' features for note taking, such as Vim mode, vertical split, and shortcuts.

The obvious differences to code editors may be:

1. In-place image preview. Preview of formulas and flowcharts will come soon. This really help user to focus on the content without a side-by-side live preview or alternating between read/edit mode frequently.
2. Note management. VNote handle stuffs like images, attachments, and tags in the future.
How common is it that paying the ransom doesn't work? Seems bad for the business model of ransomware, though I guess competing malware writers don't necessarily feel compelled to keep the market intact if they can squeeze out a bit more for themselves without the effort of writing a functional decryption routine.
The law has caught up with that a few decades ago (well before Steam). Pretty much all of those games can legally be advertised in Germany (sale to adults was always possible "under the counter"). For some reason the publishers are overcautious. Probably because none of them wants to see a headline "X has fought to allow swastikas and gore in games".
Tip #1: be content with your current salary. Otherwise you'll have to do something outstanding, so that your higher ups will pay you more even though you're "just a developer".
I have a dozen friends that are extraordinarily rich because of this “worthless” equity.
Not enough IOPS
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Thanks for the clarification. You learn something new every day.
A random result from Google http://blog.digg.com/post/141552444676/making-the-switch-fro.... My day job is writing large scale node services that service over million concur. clients doing fairly intensive data acquisition/processing so I am not hating on Node :)
What will the value of Integer.valueOf(127) == Integer.valueOf(127) be in Java?
VNote is inspired by Vim, so there is no reason to not support Vim mode in VNote. However, the Vim mode is implemented by myself one feature by one feature and it does not support the `.` and macro yet.
What bothers me most about these is that they often charge money. In Buddhism the teaching of mindfulness has been offered through “dana” (donations). Teachings so close to our hearts shouldn’t be commercialized in my opinion. If they are, they lose a lot of their essence. Hard to explain :)
Yes, I am. That's what matches my personal experience.
I felt the same way up until a year ago.

I'm in my 40s, been developing for over 20 years professionally and was programming in assembly since the late 80s in middle school and felt the same way.

I kind of stumbled into a job as a lead. I was looking for a job, thought I was applying for just another senior developer job and I started asking my version of the Joel Test * to my now manager. I realized after a lot of questions about architecture, strategy, and mentoring that he was looking for someone to basically create a modern development shop. Luckily I knew enough to talk intelligently about it to make it through the interview without planning.

It's been a great but humbling experience. The great part is that I'm only working on green field projects and I don't have to deal with the technical decisions by others. I was able to mold the department in my own image - I'm always reading about best practices and asking advice from former coworkers.

The humbling part is that I realized two things, I'm good at teaching and working with the smart developers who had been there for awhile working on a legacy system that were just learning newer technologies, but I sucked at figuring out the types of people when I was hiring that were "smart and gets things done"

I was even worse when it comes to the project management side of things. Luckily, the developers who had been there for awhile were self managing and knew the business process inside and out.

Alan Kay said that people who are really serious about software should make their own hardware. I feel the same way about becoming an architect or team lead. If you really want to be a good developer, you should really be a team lead. As a team lead, you have more leverage than as an individual developer.

* https://myers.io/2017/04/04/the-joel-test-for-2017/

* * https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/10/25/the-guerrilla-guid...
Likely because Russian doesn’t have articles.

> ”There are no definite or indefinite articles (such as the, a, an in English) in the Russian language. The sense of a noun is determined from the context in which it appears.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_grammar
Social scientists seem to dislike it (possibly because it's a singular answer and thus cuts off future PhD papers), but Frontier Thesis and similar frameworks of people-as-reflection-of-environment seem one of the more solid results from those fields.

As you noted, how can the entire culture and environment around someone not shape their person and way they go about living?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier_Thesis
I believe the common rule is that paying works, as per the business reasons you mention.

The issue is the victims on aggregate would rather not support the viability of that business. If no one has to pay, the business dies out. Perhaps a pipe dream, but less money at least means fewer actors in the space.
FWIW many companies have parallel tracks for ICs and management. The upside for ICs is that you can become as senior as a VP with zero reports. The downside is that there is no comp bump just for managing people: it's only extra overhead so it becomes a labor of love at these companies. (You do it because you enjoy shepherding people's careers, not because it will get you a raise.) At some companies I've even seen PMs prevented from managing people until a super senior level in order to keep them focused on execution and the org structure flat (another byproduct of making management offer principally intrinsic rewards is that fewer people do it and those that do tend to be better at it).

Context: employment at both Facebook and Google
Same issue using geth. Switched to parity and it worked.
It's really, really hard to make a completely correct mode based on regexes—just consider the challenge of writing a regex that correctly highlights the syntax of regex itself, which you need for JavaScript, Ruby, and lots of other languages.

Heredocs in shell, metaprogramming tricks in Ruby, reader extensions in Lisp, nested quotes, etc etc etc—I might be weird, but I feel like I run into these edge cases a lot, when editors think my parens are unbalanced when they're actually not, and so on.

Auto-indentation rarely formats things the way I want, too, and I very rarely need anything more advanced than shifting blocks in and out.

I also just find it a bit strange that we have culturally started to believe that editing code is nearly unthinkable without different colors everywhere!
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Take a look at https://raiblocks.net/

Feeless, near-instant, scalable, no mining.
Apart from minor hiccups (see https://www.reddit.com/r/RaiTrade/comments/7qev9q/can_we_be_...) and the fact that security is not tested throughout, this could be the future.
I’m Irish. WTF is Irish step dancing or Irish stepdancing?

On the correlation of irrelevant things to performance in a demanding job you know law school is at best as related to the practice of law as Bar review courses right?
Your heart doesn't seem to be in it. Don't fall for sunk-cost. Cut your losses and go for something where polish and quick iteration is the highest priority (removing all fluff like configuration files and clean and structured code). Take inspiration from Notch's live coding sessions. Try to make each version essentially "finished", without large set of "boring grunt work" weighing your motivation down (like polish is weighing you down now). Don't stop iterating on the basics until you and a few friends (online or offline) really love playing with it. Focus on pure childish joy, and be brutally honest with yourself if you don't feel it. Don't hide away for months without getting user feedback. On the bright side, now you have a chance to learn from your mistakes! Good luck!
> In no place in the US is this true

Induced housing demand is common in the majority of cities across the US. The act of creating urban housing makes an area in higher demand than the housing just built could actually supply. The action of creating 100 units of supply simultaneously generates ~120+ units of demand.

Most people refer to this as "gentrification", even if that label isn't totally accurate. It obviously doesn't last forever, you can't generate more demand indefinitely. But it absolutely does happen -- we see the results all the time.

And to be clear that's not an argument against new housing -- we obviously need to build more housing. But it's a common observation that new 'market-rate' urban housing does not lower prices, but raises them in short and medium length timeframes (yes even in non-coastal cities, yes even in small towns, etc).

We see this in Seattle too. Seattle rents are 4.5% higher than last year, or 50% higher than they were 5 years ago, according to the articles own data. They'll be even higher next year, and Seattle Times will write an article about the winter slowdown in leasing, and rents will rise even higher again a year later. Until the bubble pops, the cycle will continue.
I understand what you're saying but keep in mind that when Catalan is not available, the language that tends to be used isn't English, but Spanish.

Knowledge of Spanish in Catalonia is not by any metric bad.
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If Fred’s companies want to compensate me without equity, I’m happy to consider it. At this stage of my career my annual compensation is approaching 7 figures, balanced however you want between bonus (with reasonable targets), equity (properly risk-adjusted) and cash twice a month. I’d even be willing to consider deferred compensation properly escrowed with the time value of money factored in.

Somehow, though, I don’t think Fred’s companies are going to be willing to pay me what I can demonstrate is my current income (via IRS filings if necessary) without equity being a component of the compensation, in fact without it being the majority of the overall package. I’m okay with that, because I only work for companies where I strongly believe in the product and the team.

This may all sound fairly entitled, but if you’re as lucky in your career as I’ve been, your job has an opportunity cost that is measured in things like spending less time on my own projects, my family, and general self-improvement —- and this opportunity cost is pretty high.
> you'll never get rich on a salary.

Actually, if you get a nice salary and live below it, you can take the extra money and invest in an index fund. That will get you rich much, much faster than chasing lotto tickets. Especially since startups usually have salaries so awful you can't possible do a start up and invest in sensible investments.