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>Atom doesn't use 80MB, it uses 800MB.

This is an over exaggeration, and quite a large one. Facebook just released information on the average memory usage of "nuclide" (their Atom editor bundled with a metric ton of plugins which use quite a lot of memory) to be around 600mb. And that's not indicative of a "normal" Atom user (if there can be such a thing).

I personally have currently 5 windows open in atom, with about a combined 40 tabs, and about 30 plugins installed, and my instance is using 360mb of memory right now across all processes. And those windows have been open for about a week now.

And that Atom instance is running a lot of what your Eclipse instance is running. Linters, autocomplete, code analysis tools, CI server integration, a webserver for serving up my application in the editor, a debugger that links the live preview in the editor with the code in the editor, and a ton more.

Switching to something which uses a few hundred less MB of RAM for a fraction of the capability would be a monumentally stupid thing to do, as Atom makes me significantly more productive than any other editor I've tried has ever before.

There are a lot of problems with Electron, but memory usage isn't one of them any more. It can be, just like with any language/platform, but it's not "inherent" to the technology.
What do you want it for? I recently got an OLED TV which I'm now using as a monitor for games and video, and it's brilliant (although you might think otherwise if you have extraordinary latency demands). I also find the large size of the display more immersive than a conventional monitor.

I still use an LCD for static content (programming; web browsing; etc.) as I want to avoid burn in, but I don't really care about high contrast and wide colour gamut in that use case.
And if they are participating just to build a sufficient level of trust before doing a runner, then you are saying there must be a ratio of "trust to stake" - maybe 1:1 at first maybe increasing - it would be interesting to know what market makers in stock exchanges run at - 1:10 or more?
I've been through an acquisition or two in my day (on the acquiring side). I'd echo knicholes' comment about that and go further: in my experience code quality and degree credential don't seem to have any relationship.
You need to start in education - MS has had that locked down for decades. It'll be really interesting to see whether ChromeOS will have any impact in the future when an entire generation has been using it daily for schoolwork.
> Your answer to slow transaction premise was: "this is the solution to the problem" so I say "but it isn't available" to which you say "well it isn't widely available yet" rolleyes

TIL a solution that doesn't yet have enough adoption is totally not a solution. go FUD somewhere else dude.

> more debit card FUD

you asked for 5 examples, i gave you 5 examples. go FUD somewhere else.

> I just asked my 5 year old about it and she had no idea what I was talking about.

yep, sounds like you're out of arguments. as i said - you should educate and stop embarrassing yourself.

> Wake me up when you can do small transactions

you should have woke up a while ago and started informing yourself on the subject before pretending to be an expert

https://twitter.com/alexbosworth/status/946175898029395968

> Yeah, there is: not supporting cryptocurrency where mining is lucrative or not supporting cryptocurrency

you're totally free to do that. but seriously, it's definitely useful to inform yourself on the subject before engaging in conversation about it.
> What downside risk is there to the employee if a company fails?

Sorry to be snippy, but: Come on man, do I really need to explain this one? Sudden loss of employment is incredibly disruptive at best, and for many it's a significant financial hardship.

> You'd take the job because it is paying you.

So is Amazon. And they're offering Amazon equity, which is killing it recently. So, again, why would I take a job at a high risk venture if there's no potential lottery ticket?

> Startups pay in equity because they don't have cash.

Yeah, exactly. Startups can't afford to compete with Amazon on salary.

> Those chasing Klondike gold.

Come on, as opposed to most startup founders? Anyone who has taken even a seed round is chasing klondike gold as well.
Luck.

I was going to reply with a personality trait, but let's be honest, 90%+ of every success story is plain luck.
Problem is that you wont complete any RFPs without that "junk" that "nobody" uses, even if its just 1 percent that uses those functions of the users, those 1 percent is spread out on all the big companies that pay a big part of those $25B.
Some numbers (because who doesn't like numbers).

Let's say (VERY F'ING HYPOTHETICALLY) that I could walk into a $300k Google job. You as a startup can offer me $150k+equity, and let's say there's a 4 year vesting period on those options. Straight out of the gate we can see that the bare minimum those options have to be worth to make that transaction worthwhile is $600k (ignoring tax, 'cos I'm not looking that up). Time value of money increases that to, let's say, $666k.

So far, so good. Now, what are the odds of getting that payout? If you went round that cycle 10 times, how many times would it pay out? 1? 2? Let's be very, extremely, remarkably, and irrationally charitable and say that every other startup lasts 4 years and pays out, and the rest go pop. That means we need to double our baseline to $1.3M to compensate.

For going into any of these deals to be rational, to balance the risk each one needs to be credibly offering to make you a millionaire.
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>spamming the mempool with small transactions that never confirm just to bump the TX fees.

For starters, i'm not convinced it's "spam" and not just people consolidating dust with low fees that don't really care if it never gets confirmed, but will try for a time when it might anyway.

I have done this myself, by carefully crafting a transaction with a ton of dust addresses and setting the fee to be a hair over 1 sat/byte, and it sat in the mempool for a month or 2 (after being rebroadcast several times) before finally getting confirmed a while back. You might call that spam, but for me it was Bitcoin working as intended. My "low importance" transaction waited until the mempool was low to get included.

But even then unless the "spammers" are spending a LOT of money on the fees, it won't affect anything, since all you need to do is spend 1 sat/byte more than them and you will get in next block...

>Furthermore, exchanges like Coinbase haven't implemented TX batching and Segwit, which further compounds the problem.

And fees provide them the ONLY incentive to fix those problems. Without the need for fees, why would anyone in the bitcoin ecosystem ever do batching (a complicated and potentially less secure way of managing transactions), segwit (requires more development resources), and even things like compressed keys (which some exchanges still don't use).
Also from Martin:

>[A] mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.
I’m interested in the game but nowhere in the readme does it explain what the gameplay is.
You wouldn’t believe the number of workflows hardcoded to Excel and Outlook. Those two products alone guarantee that Office is here to stay for years.
Amateur Radio at a crossroads with unpopular board actions proposed
There are a number of proposed changes to the ARRL articles of incorporation that has most of the ham radio community up in arms. Primary is a shift from having just member elected directors on the board to having the president and two vice presidents making decisions. This, coupled with the ability for easy dismissal and replacement by the board of directors would allow the board to get stacked.

Details here: http://www.central.arrl.org/ and http://www.kb6nu.com/january-19-arrl-board-proposals-posted/

If you are a ham radio operator, it's worth a read. If you are a business owner, it's a good read to see how a few insiders can take over.
well I am going with the idea that young humans have many more distractions in their life to yield a good test. however I am certainly not an expert in this area but I wonder what a good test would be? Set toddlers in play rooms with mirrors on one wall?
My girlfriend just bought dimming lamps for the living room so we can adjust the light levels in the evening.

She CAN NOT see the benefit of having wireless bulbs controlled by your phone for this purpose. Apparently this is "too lazy".

TOO LAZY. IS THAT A THING?!
his definition of success for bitcoin seems to be only if it supersedes USD in usage.
That's only true in the US. Practically nobody in the EU has heard of / uses ChromeOS. Or maybe I'm just out of touch.
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And the pedestrians go where?
True(ish) sunlight lamps are freakin' expensive, no wonder 70$ is a scam.
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Also the price point is not quite the same as appliance.
Seeing the template would be awesome.
I don't think that a switch from mostly MS to mostly chromeos would be a good thing. Chromeos forces everyone into google products far more than windows forces everyone into ms products.
Hopefully this will put pressure on battery makers to research and switch to (fully) solid-state batteries as soon as possible. I think the technology is almost ready, but of course it will never come to market unless the whole industry pretty much decides to switch to it within a span of a couple of years in order to make it price-competitive with Li-Ion.
Wonder if those steroids are vegan.
Watching this video, it's clearly edited.

First off, the left and right video are completely different, the left isn't a zoomed in version of the right. If you go to 43 seconds, you can see the folded clothes do not match.

Secondly, it's not a continuous shot. There is a cut when the shirts are added to the bottom part of the machine at 25 seconds, and again at 51 seconds. You need to watch carefully, but it's pretty obviously something is not right about this video.

Also, the CES videos show the same pile of clothes appearing at the bottom, regardless of what order the clothes go in the machine. I would guess the machine doesn't yet fold clothes, or maybe it has issues with certain clothing like button up shirts.
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I am considering running my own small site with real money competitions. We have a small unique niche. I am worried about legal problems. Any experiences to share ?
You're underestimating your particular circumstances,
and forgetting a gamechanger: roommates.
I can't even begin to count how many fights, squabbles, arguments disappeared when we got a dishwasher. The value of an empty sink shouldn't be taken for granted no matter your circumstances.
Why would I imply that Althea is superior to CJDNS? They are not the same kind of thing. I was relating my experiences as an engineer that assessed CJDNS for my project. You’ve somehow taken it as an attack on a sacred cow.
Robotic technology is slowly making its way from more structured environments to less structured ones. Most of the work in factories is now done by robots. The invasion of warehouses is underway (and I'm helping with that). Probably you'll be seeing robots stocking shelves in retail. And folding clothes is substantially harder than stocking shelves and you, the consumer, aren't willing to pay nearly as much for a robot to fold your clothes as a store is for a robot because the amount of labor being replaced is much smaller. So it'll be a while.
Second target shooting but suggest Archery instead of guns. Less noise, more walking to retrieve your arrows after each end (round) and you can choose from a range of draw weights to find something that you comfortably sustain.

Like all hobbies you can start affordably then take it to extremes in a variety of ways.
> If I had a penny for every notetaking app, I'd invest that money in another notetaking app.

I commented about that a few days ago:

> It's funny. Every week there is a new note-taking app being shown in HN. (and the usual guy raving about org.mode :) )

> Many of them are similar but not equal. It really shows that there is a need for these apps but the problems they are thought to solve are unique from person to person.

> I know this because I'm starting to build my own note-taking app.
A few years back I was approached by a recruiter for an investment bank who seemed to think I should be delighted to take a lower salary and bonus and much fewer holidays (I think I was on 38 days a year) for the pleasure of working in what they described as a very "high pressure" environment.

That actually got annoyed when I laughed and questioned why I'd want to work for them.
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The whole industry is pretty simple top VC firms make a fairly large number of carefully screened deals to make sure they capture as many Unicorns as possible since without Unicorns the VC game is a big money looser. Of those companies that do get funded by top VCs and do not become unicorns very few will have meaningfull exists for employees. To mask this simple fact there exists a fairly powerful PR machine that feeds Startup entrepreneurs which in turn feed the same regurgitated slogans to their employees.
So translating "I want employees to feel ownership and the only way to do that is to give it to them. I want them to understand that they have this asset that their hard work directly affects" in reality translates to I want you to imagine that for some magical reason you can pick a Unicorn even though top tier VC firms stuffed by brilliant people doing it full time get it right at best about 1 in 100 times? So even if your hypothetical employee is as good at picking winners as a top VC the actual value of their option is in reality 1/100th of the imaginary value at your big exit given the odds (and this is only if they are as good at picking the company as a top VC).
The 70% that you are referring to is the attempt to make a project into a product.

Not all projects are products, though.
I wouldn't be enough to kill many people, but if a certain amount (even non-dangerous, like 1µS/h) of radiations were detected in all Manhattan, the panic would cause lasting damages.
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I trained for google and failed. Still it didn't feelt like stupid or a waste of time.

It was interessting to do so, i think it made me better and i will try it again.

And yes there are people who don't care enough to work for companies like google and there are.

Also while i did more interviews as the person who is interviewing: I feel that i like to have more better prepared people to interview.
Sorry 10 pm. No wonder i can't get that right :)
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Channels can be really useful but are massively oversold. Fortunately it has cooled off a bit in recent years but I still see heaps of go code that bends over backwards to use channels because "share memory by communicating blah blah blah", even in cases where using another synchronisation mechanism instead would radically simplify things.
Equity in a startup for an employee is worthless. The only kind of equity that's worth anything are stock options for companies that are actually being traded on the stock market. However, those companies don't actually need to give you equity as part of a compensation package... they can pay you for your work. In that case, you can decide for yourself to purchase "equity" if you truly think it is that valuable.
If you count "sweating", then sure.
I use a dishwasher but at the rate I go through dishes (slowly) it isn't particularly convenient, but I've run into some hurdles with the "clean immediately after use" workflow. I'm interested in hearing tips.

I never seem to be able to wring rags/sponges out well enough to stop them from quickly getting smelly. I would expect spectacular bacterial growth on a soft surface periodically refreshed with water and nutrients, and that seems to be exactly what happens. My parents swear by this approach but they always have a stinky sink and a gross scrubbing sponge/cloth. Do you have a better technique or do you just learn to be one with the bacteria-ball :-) ?

As for soap, dish soap leave my hands feeling so dry and awful that it takes regular application of hand cream over days before picking up paper, touching fuzzy fabric, and typing no longer bring immediate physical discomfort. Gloves solve the problem, but putting on + taking off gloves to scrub a single dish has poor time economy. Again, do you have a better technique or do you just live with it?
The latch-things that were supposed to secure the cards in the slots apparently didn't seat the cards tightly enough. My dealer finally just replaced them with screws after I complained a few times about the graphics card coming loose, resulting in a poor signal.

Compatibility has been great in some ways. But with standards in flux back then, there was more variety (and maybe fun) than there is now. Besides experiments like the 2000, there were things like machines with 2 different CPUs (the Commodore SuperPet had a 6502 and a 6809, and I think the DEC Rainbow had a Z80 and and 8088). There were so many 5.25" floppy formats you needed utilities like Xenocopy to convert among them (I think it fiddled with the drive controller to manipulate the drive heads).

With machines being simpler, you could fiddle a lot more. Many magazines published assembly language code for little games and utilities; for that matter, the computer section of a typical bookstore carried lots of books on assembly language. There were books on microcomputer system design, stuff about how things worked at the chip level. All gone.

I remember Flight Simulator. I couldn't believe it the first time I played it. Crashed the plane over and over ... There was a graphical paint program, and other graphical stuff which worked with the very slow mouse - in fact, I have a copy of an ad featuring Bill Gates in which he describes using the 2000 in designing the early versions of Windows.
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The property taxes are very low, which is part of the problem. It isn't property owners subsidizing us it's us subsidizing them - the value of the land, predicated upon the value of the community surrounding is not being paid for through taxes.

Raising property taxes would definitely solve the problems but the political forces arrayed against that are very powerful.
The end of a horrible relationship. I got so much more time to do things for myself.
I do this with emacs .
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Also out onions in the freezer for 10-15 minutes before cutting if they make your eyes tear. The cold reduces this effect.
Well it’s likely racist to her to attack a brown man who didn’t deserve it, because they likely wouldn’t have attacked a white man. It also, according to the author, removes the intersectional portion of intersectional feminism... which would make sense if the act was racist.

As a brown man, I can say, I feel like a lot of white women now are on the attack and often attacking all men for equality. They should be attacking college educated white men, because brown men still make less, are incarcerated more, and have less access to resource than a white woman. It feels like they’re trying to win the oppression olympics while the rest of us are simply trying to eat and stay warm.
The spammers have been 'caught' on a few occasions. The patterns definitely look like transactions which have been generated by a script with the intention of filling the mempool to push up fees. I've also seen screenshots of Telegram chats where people discuss doing this on Reddit and elsewhere (although I can't find it now, and there's no way to verify authenticity).

Coinbase passes the fees directly onto their customers, and they don't seem to care much. They also don't let users change the fees. In fact, Brian has started shilling Bcash on Twitter, so one might guess they're intentionally pushing up fees to push an altcoin (Bcash).

Protip: GDAX pays the TX fees, so it's possible to workaround the TX fees by moving your coin to GDAX.
> and they can buy into your round

That’s a good way to ensure you’re only hiring millionaires. Accredited investors must have a million dollars in net assets, or income over $200,000 ($300,000 married) per year.
It makes me wonder if there are geographic/climactic components to seasonal affective disorder.

In Vancouver, it's going to be in the "bone-chilling" upper 40s today, while a few degrees south near me it will be in the low 20s. A few degrees south means that even though we have colder weather, we'll have more hours of brighter sunlight. In England, further north than either of our locations, it will be in the low 50s (those temperature ranges are 8, -6, and 11 degrees Celsius, respectively).

Would more people suffer from SAD in more northern locations because there's simply less sun, but they'll choose to live there because it's warm enough as a result of proximity to ocean currents? Or would fewer people suffer from SAD because they can spend more time outside where it's warmer?
As a piece of anecdata: I run a Bitcoin node at home with no troubles, but I've been totally unable to sync the Ethereum chain. Trying to do so drags my computer to its knees for hours and doesn't seem to be making very much progress.
It actually gives strength to what Munich did. They proved that it was possible to swap. So Barcelona doesn't have such a political tricky situation as there is a pre-existing example.

Let's hope that more follow Barcelona.

Barcelona is possibly taking an easier approach. That is, replace the easier things like Office and IE.

I've done similar things. So where as my software has to use IIS and Windows servers, I use Firefox, Thunderbird and Libre Office for everything with the odd exception. It means for me having a dual boot machine is fairly easy as all software usage is the same.

You occasionally do have compatibility issues with Office but it doesn't have to. The more using it the better.
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Same for me, the problem i have is that after a while you are no longer implementing new game mechanics or novell features- you are basically doing maintenance - so personally im no longer impressed by those dessert flower projects. Anyone can do the fun work, but sticking around and beeing a maintainer.

Respect to that.
4 months of mandatory training in the Portuguese Army.
Out of curiosity, how large is the project you're working on? How many source files / lines of code?
I also develop a note-taking app [0] and so far I've chosen the side-by-side live preview approach, but it's interesting you're trying to make it work with only the editor.

I'm wondering how would you go about keeping notes with many links readable? For example, in this note imported from Wikipedia [1] the left side is hard to read while the right side doesn't have this problem. Some users have also been importing entire web pages, which are a mess of tables and links. They render fine in HTML but are not readable in Markdown.

[0] http://joplin.cozic.net

[1] https://i.imgur.com/Ah62JRI.png
In my experience people that talk about what they're working on don't finish anything. Come back a year later and they'll have some new grandiose project and a handful of excuses for why the last thing didn't pan out. I have a personal rule that I take very seriously, which is: don't tell; show. People will write you off as a flake and a blowhard if you are always talking about what you're working on. (I learned this lesson the hard way :)