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I've been lucky enough to join a company that is largely agnostic. The devs here seem to be mostly Ruby and JavaScript, but a bit of Python too. I've not done much dev yet outside of a few bug fixes, but simply being out of my element has helped considerably.

My only gripe with C# and .NET is that it's tied to Windows, a fact that immediately locks you down to a single tech stack. Sure, you could write any mainstream language on Windows, but no one does because the language and frameworks aren't optimised for Windows. You're writing code as good as what's written by others on the Linux stack, and your development environment is largely as good as what everyone else is using, but you feel isolated.

For me, it's this perception that leads people to think less of .NET at a platform. You're the guy that drove a Ford to a Volkswagen convention, and even though your car is as good (and in some ways better) than what everyone else has, you'll still feel like an imposter.

In terms of getting over that feeling, I don't think any particular language will help you get over it. My knowledge of JavaScript is alright, so I'm picking up Node/Express at the moment. For the past few months I've been working through Django too, so my ultimate aim is to be in a position where I no longer feel limited by a different language or platform.
Actual mac devs targeting Apple operating systems.
I am in the Army National Guard and we all pretty much use personal laptops for unclassified administrative tasks. I didn't like taking my expensive laptop out to the field so I picked up a Surface Pro and rugged case on eBay.

It is awesome for the field. It's way more mobile than a toughbook, and still pretty resilient with the rugged case on. I can hand it to others to review documents with ease. I wish the Army would contract Microsoft to replace all of their laptops with LTE surfaces that could connect to a secure base station. The signal units would have to setup and operate the secure base station.
> I am not comparing anyone to anyone, I am asking a simple question, that I think can be extrapolated to all news of this sort.

You were literally comparing in the line I replied to.

> Why do we assume certain news stories to be true/false?

Because that's how we build our world model.

I would venture a guess and say that what you claim to "know for a fact" in life is to 99% things that you yourself have not verified. That is not to say that you are incorrect, but merely that we build up a reasonability ranking based on trusted networks, authority, plausibility, etc. We decide - not what is true - but what is probable enough to work with, as a world model, as a basis for discussion, as frames of reference.

Bill Gates the last decade tries to cure polio, that's his thing. Now there's a story about him and his wife using their money to pay off a debt related to polio, of a sum a fraction of the amount their charity uses annually to fight polio.

You are free to not believe it, but there is no reason not to. There are no conflicting reports.

> All it takes is a tiny bit of research to show that almost all diseases are cured (massively in society) by clean water, nutrition and clean living conditions. But Gates isn't doing that, he's supporting vaccines.

> Now this changes the argument from "do we believe Gates is altruistic?" into a vaccine debate. See the problem?

No, I don't. Getting clean water, nutrition and living conditions set up for millions upon millions of people is both vastly more expensive, but also ridiculously more time consuming, while vaccines are cheap and fast. On top of that, the prior doesn't negate the need for vaccines, so then we're still back to square one.

In short: They're trying to do the most within the budget to reach a pre-defined goal.

You are employing the Copenhagen Intepretation of ethics to ask why they're not doing Y instead of X, when that wasn't the scoped target.

We can illustrate this differently, just give me a random link from news you read daily, and we'll replicate the questioning to see the effects.
> But it worked, and the core software stayed secure

are you sure? How can you be sure that your custom patches didn't affect the security of the core product? qmail wasn't designed to be extensible. It had no plugin interface.

Of course it's possible that you didn't make a mistake back then.

Just as it's possible that I didn't make a mistake when I was 18 and wrote a patch to Cyrus imapd to allow authenticating against an SQL database.

But TBH, when I look back at the code I wrote back then, at least in my case, I'm quite sure I f'ed up in various ways.

Thankfully, I never shared these patches with other people.
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they claim they can't show an actual screenshot.. because "the system could then be vulnerable to hackers."
Comments like these makes me sad I don't get a monthly supply of extra upvotes.
It sound awesome. May I ask where are you located?
In most cases that won't require a fundamental change in the architecture though. And when it does, then the bridge is rebuilt in accordance with the new requirements.
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> And thanks to our laws, people can simply have children in the US and they are automatic citizens.

Under which law? I thought this was debunked time and time again as an urban legend.
I think we have to ask ourselves, why do we need apps that run on the local machine anyway? 90% of my CPU time goes to Chrome/Firefox. Outlook in one of those runs better than Outlook native on Windows. Play music in the browser works as well as any native music player. Netflix in edge runs as good as the UWP Netflix app. I suspect there's a lot of code reuse among them. There is no mass market for desktop apps anymore.

Even things like slack run better in the browser than outside as an independent app, because they anyway use a browser engine to run for compatibility.

I use vim and VS code for editing. Vim doesn't need a new framework, and VS code bundles an entire web browser engine within it (electron), again, for cross platform compatibility.

All the internal company tools like code review, ticket management, etc. which used to be native apps, now run in the browser, too.

So let me ask again, why do we need a new app framework at all? What we have with WPF is good enough for the rare app that actually needs to run natively. Everything else is a web app already.
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about 25% of all bitcoins are lost and this number can only increase.
“suggested video feature”

It will be interesting to see the shift in the suggestion algorithm since so many more videos will be non-monetized.
Phonegap is creating a native app based on the static html pages is fetches from your website, so if you need to update\change anything in the app logic and structure - you will need to publish a new version, just like a regular native app would work. Webview is actually a container that works with your back-end webserver all the time, so whenver the changes are made on the webserver - it is applied seamlessly to your application, without the need to redeploy.
Clojure! the thing I like most about a lot of the libraries is how they seem to blend so seamlessly. I don't know if it's an artefact of just being a lisp or just a lot of the developers sharing a mindset, but the whole experience feels less janky.
Indeed, it sounds easier to start a bank. Probably more profitable also.
as much as gold and diamonds are. Stones traded at high prices.
It surely does, depending on the interest rate and risk.
Unbound does it natively, and BIND and the rest use DNSCrypt's shim
One of the most sickening things I've ever read.
Investing with Madoff was also a speculative endeavour. He never guaranteed anything.

People invested with Madoff hoping they'd make money. People invest in BTC hoping they'd make money. Some people may have even pulled their money from Madoff prior to collapse and made a killing. As some did with BTC.

The difference is Madoff knew the people he stole from, and they knew Madoff. BTC sellers can't put a face to the wallets buying their coins.
Regulations will only affect organisations who have to operate within the confines of hose regulations. Bitcoin was designed specifically to operate outside of regulations. Crypto exchanges were never part of the plan. Nor was speculation by the likes of Goldman Sachs. Their involvement has been detrimental to Bitcoin and has brought with it the very worst of investment-culture. It's been the wild west for bad players for too long. That's going to stop. And that's a good thing.

Bitcoin will survive for the simple fact that as long as something somewhere is illegal, Bitcoin will have value.
It helps a lot against all the ISIS videos that show ads where Google is getting a lot of heat in Europe.
Have a CI/CD pipeline that does the following:

- unit tests each service

- all services fan-in to a job that builds a giant tar file of source/code artefacts. This includes a metadata file that lists service versions or commit hashes

- this "candidate release" is deployed to a staging environment for automated system/acceptance testing

- it is then optionally deployed to prod once the acceptance tests have passed
Isn’t it fair to report a massive drop, just as it’s fair to report a massive spike?
First, BRLUSD went from 0.488 at the start of 2013 to 0.309 now, which is only a 37% depreciation.

Second, and more important, unlike crypto, BRLUSD paid 10%ish interest rates every year since then, so the total return of a US investor who invested into BRL currency forwards at the start of 2013 is +2.67%, a far cry from an 80% loss.
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> I wonder how the press is so sure that "fears of regulatory crackdown" are the reason for the drop.

You'll notice that this is true of all race-calling journalism.

"The market was down on news that the Fed ..."

"China's announcement caused the market to ..."

"Iron ore prices rose again after production figures from BHP and Rio Tinto showed ..."

They're not performing exact science. They're hitting the daily quota and moving on. Something that makes for a good, plausible story is usually the limit of what you'll get from a journo in a hurry.
No idea, never used it, but it seems like an obvious choice to use with Office. An employer that won't buy you the software you need to do your job seems ridiculous though.
I've been using Clojure on the backend for about 5 years now and find it an absolute joy to work with, having come from a Java background. You get full access to the masses of Java libraries out there as it's on the JVM. Great community support, too.

As an addition, there's also ClojureScript for the front-end. It's come a long way recently, and I've been using it for the last couple of years in production (check out reagent and re-frame if you're interested).
There's barely any volume in futures right now.
Designed to fail?
Reporting on price drops doesn't help the price going up...
I suffer from the same thought patterns. Did you find any way out of them?
Either-or fallacy. The regulations before proscribed levels of ownership, joint venture requirements, and contraband goods but direct Chinese interference to limit outside interference and benefit local competition have grown a lot worse under Xi compared with Hu and Jiang. Prior to that, China had no choice but to accept FDI join ventures, so for example, that’s why you see lots of Chinese manufactured Fords, Buick’s, Audis, and Volvos driving around. Once they have mastered building quality cars, then they’ll impose quotas and other rules to try and encourage buying local companies over joint ventures.

There was a time when Western companies were flying under the radar during the first half of Hu’s term allowing JV market share to expand significantly.

China’s economy hasn’t been communist since Mao.
I don't need radical UI redesigns of Thunderbird, but I do see how a redesign does make it look nicer and "modern", even when the underlying functionality is the same. On that basis, my vote is for a UI redesign as long as it doesn't offer too many opportunities for criticism (especially those that cannot be addressed easily by customization efforts of the community). Thunderbird, like Firefox, has had support for Themes to change the entire UI/chrome. Some themes may have introduced issues, but I have tried a few in the past and found them to provide the flexibility that some users like.

As for Thunderbird itself, I have only two wishes:

1. Support Exchange calendaring natively and reliably. I've used different extensions (like Lightning along with DavMail or Exchange Provider), and have always had to revert back to OWA (Outlook Web Access) just to have a usable calendar. Without this, I cannot even recommend Thunderbird within my organization (where almost everybody else is stuck with Outlook; this is not the only factor that makes Outlook attractive to users in the recent years — Outlook also has good integration with Skype and Skype Meetings in the calendar, where people start chats on Skype based on calendar events).

2. Make it perform better. Most people who are Thunderbird users surely have been using it for several years and use multiple mailboxes, with each being at least a few GBs in size. Very few users adopt regular archival, folders, inbox zero and other approaches. I have multiple mailboxes, with a couple of them where the Inbox is about 1GB or 2GB. Thunderbird takes several minutes to startup and show its screen. I know it uses MSF files for the indexes, but it doesn't seem like it does an optimized load of the mail data (mbox) file or takes a lazy approach to loading information that may not be recent. Downloading mail content from IMAP also seems to be slow, though that could be a combination of the servers (across providers) being slower, the protocol and Thunderbird's design/implementation.

P.S.: I donate regularly to the Thunderbird project to show my support. Here's the link for the English version of the donation page (the donation goes only to the Thunderbird project and not to Mozilla/other projects) — https://donate.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/
> Did I create a job? Yes. Did I grow the economy? Doubtful.

Probably depends on the salary range(s) involved and how deep into "mostly discretionary income" the original employee was (and, I guess, how much they spent v stashed that discretionary income).
It's also up around a 1000% since the start of 2017. If that isn't a healthy correction, what is?
Yeah! That said, Overdrive has its pain points and could do with some savvy competition. I imagine that licensing and marketing would be the biggest hurdles.
> Currencies in this sense are defined by governments, and each type has limited boundaries of acceptance.

First paragraph is all about the nation state. Currency is the state. Why would they give that up?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency
For reference, this is the "contract" which TWiT are arguing. It's a reply from Ev, to an e-mail from Leo. The full contents are at the bottom of the filing[1].

>Just got your letter. Don't worry: We're not expanding to audio or video under the Twitter brand. That news story was the result of an over-zealous production company (and extremely sloppy reporting by AP). See our post: http://blog.twitter.com/2009/05/were-not-making-tv-show.html

There's a world of difference between "we are not" vs. "we will not". I am not eating a sandwich right now, but I will most definitely at some point in the future. One would have to be a fool to interpret this as an agreement to never expand into audio/video in all of perpetuity. Furthermore, Twitter's own trademark filing (since 2007) lists "video and audio" as part of the goods and services provided by their brand. Perhaps this argument should have been made in 2007, or when it was published for opposition (which is basically the USPTO's way of saying 'hey, if you are concerned about this trademark infringing your rights... speak up!') in Feb of 2008 (however no such filing was placed according to TTAB's records), not 2018.

[1] https://www.scribd.com/document/369311229/TWiT-vs-Twitter
That happens to me when browsing normally on my home Internet connection (no VPN). I think it's because Google thinks I'm a robot (I frequently don't even touch my mouse and check the CAPTCHA box using my keyboard, or just move my mouse cursor in a straight line to the CAPTCHA), so it appears we've entered an era where you're punished for being too efficient at using a Web browser.
if the traffic is encrypted how can you tell whether it's http or plain dns?
>YouTube dictates to advertisers how things work, and not the other way around.

They could but if you look at 2017, the stuff YouTube got in trouble from advertiser for is the stuff they got in trouble for from large segments of the public or the media. YouTube doesn't want to take a stand forcing advertisers to accept PewDiePie's Hitler jokes, some guy making fun of feminism, or Logan Paul filming suicide victims. If they do, they'll get destroyed by the media and advertisers will leave anyway.
Crashing implies an event that leads to serious damage. The U.S. housing market crashed in 2007/2008 resulting in people loosing their homes, companies going bankrupt, people loosing jobs... If Bitcoin goes down by 50% nothing like that happens. People just loose money, but Bitcoin/crypto is not yet linked to reality. It's all artificial and therefore: Bloomberg, who cares?
I think you'll find that your employer will move to a newer OS more quickly. Windows 7 is already in extended support, and that ends in 2020. Microsoft is doing their best to reduce the need to support legacy products, so a custom support agreement for Windows 7 is going to be extremely expensive.
You could argue that:

* Bitcoin reached the price of 10k 2 months ago, at the end of November. The Bitcoin has only lost "one month" of its price, for the moment.

* There has been a dip in the price of Bitcoin every January for the last 3 years. It fell from ~1200 to ~700 in January 2017, for example.

I'm not saying that this is not the "final crash", just that what's happening for the moment isn't really surprising. I saw numerous people predicting that the price will fall at least back to ~8k.
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Isn't the real problem that when you search for a video on YouTube the first result is usually fake?

Actors can and will still make fake accounts to remove traffic from the monetized accounts (and therefore from YouTube).

YouTube needs better search results.
As mentioned, JS devs seem to favor Macs heavily and the majority of popular JS-related tools seem to be built for *nix first. As a Windows user, I frequently ran into annoying friction. Like some step in a complicated build process failing because someone used `&&` in an NPM script.

That said, I've switched to a WSL environment (native Linux on Windows) and it has handled everything I've thrown at it so far, including make scripts, GUI apps, etc.
For now, however the 1929 stock market crash right before the Great Depression was only an 80% drop. Saying it's up from 4$ / coin is also true, but does not mean much to the people that bought at 20,000$.
The first part of this paragraph (up to 'however') seems to be saying that training with their modified images did improve the ability of the resulting networks to generalize, while the remainder of the paragraph seems to cautioning against assuming that this means the problem is solved.
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I recall hearing a Peter Theil interview a couple of years ago where he hypotheses that social awkwardness is over-represented in successful founders because such people have been conditioned to heavily discount mainstream opinions. More socially integrated would-be entrepreneurs are more likely to listen to all the nay-sayers, "that's will never work", "who would want that?", "come join this investment bank/management consultancy with the cool kids" and never start the company.
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I feel like Semper Augustus bulbs and the first bubbles of joint-stock companies give us the flavour of bitcoin and ICOs respectively.
Not sure, but this is what I've found:

https://bitconnect.com/images/referal_bonus.png
This is obviously a response to an earlier post. This seems to happen a lot. Posts inspiring links, inspiring even more branches. It'd be interesting to apply one of those bioinformatics algorithms for computing the phylogenetic tree of DNA to the stream of links featured here on HN.
I've built my own search engine that caters 90% of my needs. It's not that difficult.
I really wonder how all this unspoken communication is going to change with self-driving cars.

On the German Autobahn, the amount of observing and consideration is very high, and if people are new it can be very stressful. You basically have to keep in mind everyone around you, their respective speeds, potential moves and how a move from you will change their options and responses.

One common situation is when you come up behind a slow car on your lane, but the lane to the left (where you need to go to keep your current speed and overtake) has somebody coming up fast from the back. If you move there, you might force that person to brake. Now, they obviously see your situation and might slow down a little or speed up, so you can adjust your speed (speed up and pull into the left lane or lay off the gas and delay switching just long enough to let them pass). If there is another left lane they might move over to that too if possible. In this case, the communication is mostly in those small changes in speed that tell you their intention.

Now how should I read an automatic car? It's going to be very chaotic before we figure it out.
So, what will the real culprits be charged with?

I'm referring to those who ensured that the crew was operating in a state of perpetual sleep deprivation.

The Navy has learned nothing from the NTSB.
I guess one thing that pushed this change you describe is more political pressure, as in people putting pressure on YT for putting ads next to hate-speech [1]

If YouTube monetizes only a few big channels it becomes much easier to track political content manually.

[1] https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/youtube-hate-preachers-sh...
Not sure if getting more, but nonfiction reading is quite strenuous for me, as I try to retain as much information as I can. On the other hand, I read fiction for the experience, so even if I forgot everything I read after turning the page, it would be no problem.
You do realize that's data from 2014 ? By mid 2016 it's 49% of households have at least 2 broadband providers and 68% have at least one provider offering 100/10 or better it's 2018 now.
I don't think my eyesight is quite that good, and I've never been impressed with the X11 fixed fonts (particularly at that size.)

FWIW, I've used 8px as a benchmark for character cell width for years. The original PC's I used were CGA machines with 640x200 displays. 80 column text implied 8px character cells. (Even then, MDA's 9x14 character cells were much higher quality... I think the reason 8px works better these days is due to anti-aliasing, etc.)
I tried searching for a particular product but there were no results. It seems your site is not working currently or not working properly.