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I have the same concern, what is the performance of these frameworks in comparison to Elm? Elm is super fast compared to React and Angular [1], but what about these frameworks?

1. https://www.codementor.io/rudolfolah/elm-vs-react-developmen...
The Lines of Torres Vedras were an incredible engineering achievement, especially considering they were kept a complete secret from the French. We're talking about 30 miles of continuous fortifications.

Among the problems the French had in the peninsula, it seems Napoleon underestimated the poverty of the countryside and the poor quality of the roads. An army could live off the land just fine on the banks of the Danube, not so much on the high plain of Castile. The marshals would get orders as if a line on the map was an actual road, then find themselves marching tens of thousands of men over a glorified goat track through barren and almost uninhabited hills. Add in the guerrieros and you've got a big problem.

I suppose for us it's a reminder to not mistake the map for the territory.
planes are big enough that 1 or 2 pilots is a small component of the airfare. you would probably pay 1% or 2% more for a piloted plane, would you pay 40% more for a human driven taxi?
I suspect the design of a class, if I have to worry about whether a method I'm calling is able to access private members or not.
Aframe.io is awesome!

I find it very useable and easy to get good results quickly. Thanks for all the great work and polish.

One of the things WebVR needs the most is an easy launch from SteamVR Home... is that on your roadmap?
Obviously some creative license was taken. From a marketers perspective this is brilliant. Never seen something so well done from an aerospace company (even NASA) and the cross-marketing with Tesla is a great touch.
Apple files patent for stylus that works without a screen
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For more insight into this, look into the US's history with the decline of the auto industry, the steel industry, and the coal industry. (These are just the ones that immediately pop into mind. I'm sure there are plenty of others, not just in the US, too.) In short, people don't like to change their jobs very much.
Yup, lots of ppl are very defensive about this! We are the farm workers looking at a prototype of a combine harvester. We will stop ourselves from believing it until its taken our job and then we will claim it was obvious all along. Ppl are emotional.
Thanks! Yeah, we're currently working on it.
Sell stocks. Buy shotgun shells and canned goods.
Also it looks like the mailto is missing an @email-domain.
Startups often don't correlate very well with the industry they are in because they usually don't have the same business model. So I don't think Uber correlates with to transportation stocks, or Air BnB correlates to resorts, or 23 me correlates to Pharma etc. There is a cycle to start ups, but it is related to the broader economic outlook and the price of capital.
> Write in one language, and run on the server and on the client, but allow the server to be compiled natively for speed

A lot of the JVM languages allow for this. Kotlin, Scala, Clojure and Fantom come to mind. They all can compile to JS also, allowing for code reuse between frontend and backend.
iOS 11.3 Beta 2 Introduces New 'Battery Health' Feature
There must be a market for "I only ever need A4 or letter" (depending on your area).

I honestly don't remember printing anything but A4 for the last 20 years. We printed some labels in the 90s, that was the only diversion...
Part of this does involve exactly what you're saying: people need to see their options and learn there is more they can do.

Often seeing a therapist or clinical social worker doesn't mean someone will tell you what to do. They'll help you see options you can't.

"I'm so sick of my career" "Well then go back to school." "I can't, I have to live and provide." "Well there are night programs and scholarships and grants."

The medallion system is probably the worst part of this. Either the state needs to come in and offer some form of debt relief (which they failed to do in 2008 with outright fraud in the housing market; bailing out lenders and screwing over homeowners) or taxi drivers need to declare bankruptcy. This is the worst option, because they could forfeit all their savings, retirement investments, housing .. everything because what was sold to them as a sound investment didn't pan out.

What I want to know is: can an Uber/Lyft driver earn that $80k/year, or even $60/year if they drove full time (and minus what they have to pay in comparable health coverage).

The thing I hate to say, but is the reality, is that the Taxi drivers might just need to stick it out. They should get into jobs they can live on, but keep paying off the medallions/permits.

Uber is not sustainable. Lyft has already increases rates in a lot of cities to be more livable (I think they realize a lot of people will use them just to avoid Uber). If Uber's IPO doesn't do well, it could be dead in a few years, and ride sharing services will have to start charging sustainable prices to not end up like them. Prices will probably be cheaper than cabs, but more expensive than what they are now.

If they can switch fields and still make the principal/interest payments on those permits, they might just need to bank on them being sellable one day or sell them at a loss when they retire.
Neat that this is a shoot off of aframe.

It seems like the Dev community is focused on using unity and unreal engine for their be experiences. How do you plan on addressing that ?
There's a difference between what liberal arts degrees are "supposed" to be and what they are. College has been effectively (but incorrectly) marketed as a requirement for the everyman to stand any chance of success in the future economy. For better or for worse, Joe Average couldn't give a shit less what an ethnographer thinks of the plight of rice farmers in Cambodia or what a philosopher thinks of the absurdity of the human condition. What he does care about is having a viable income in an economy where unskilled gravy jobs have dried up.

Informed citizens and "inheritors of the richness of human culture" generally care about such things before they even reach a university. For everyone else, it's a place that takes their money so they can get a degree and stand a fighting chance in the job market. The overall problem isn't that it's too expensive (it is), it's that people are effectively being forced to go to college in the first place, spending four years earning a degree when they would have been better served by four years of work experience.
Partly I think it's a defense mechanism. Say someone offers you meat, you decline and, to prevent their continued insistence or for future reference, admit to being a vegetarian. You will likely spend the next half hour to an hour of your life listening alternately to stupid jokes ("well so was the food!" har har har) and to that person excusing themselves for eating meat. I think this is because they have interpreted your statement as a sort of judgement or attack. If they're incredibly insecure, the mere mentioning of the existence of vegetarians may set off this behavior.

It's probably similar for cyclists. With global climate change and the general lack of physical activity in modern societies, the mere existence of cyclist is treated like some kind of personal attack. "You're not as conscientious or healthy as I am", as it were.

Though, like preachy vegans, there are also some cyclists who agitate everyone by completely ignoring both courtesy and the law when sharing the road.
I prefer command-line irc from a vps, I use erc because I'm an emacs fella, but I've enjoyed irssi as well. Don't forget to cloak whenever possible!
that's a great point, sort of like pen drawing on an inflated baloon, when it deflates the ink get super dark and concentrated.
It's called quality control.
Wpkg: Unix and Windows dpkg clone
Name a paying skill that someone with the typical background of a taxi driver could learn, that isn't equally under threat of immediate robotsourcing.
I agree about the keyboard but I don't understand the dongle game at all. I bought 1 dongle with a USB, HDMI, and DVI out and I just keep it in my laptop bag. I've literally pulled it out twice to use for the DVI port. My biggest use case is, by far, the HDMI port but there's never any game with it. I don't get how people are so baffled by this. All my other stuff is now USB-C and I think the convenience of multiple ports far outweighs any mild irritation from needing a dongle in a few edge cases.
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Launch got delayed
I was trying to explain how CitusDB works the other day to another developer and tried using an octopus as an analogy. Turns out I needed an analogy to explain my analogy.
Yep. SS. Also apart from the tech stuff, it's important to consider financial and administrative issues. Building the thing near Earth allows making it attractive for sponsor/ad money and save construction and preparation time starting earlier in space using Falcons. Meaning existing plan does not allow any payload launched unless BFR is built. Not to mention spending fewer resources to build all that BFRs required launching all payload simultaneously during the launch window.

P.S. BTW, ISS has limited service time left. So there is a need to plan construction of a new Space Station on Earth's orbit in any case.
good point. maybe an outright ban on small vehicles and mandate public, driver-less, mass transit for everyone in a city like NY. Everyone walk the last mile or two - we're all fat anyway.
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Making the 'IMDB for games': how we hope to boost discoverability in gaming
> while the Java server could use up to 5GB of RAM, the comparable Rust server only used 50MB

How...how is that possible? It just glosses over this interesting point. What does "comparable" Java code do to use 100x more memory?
Always feels shady when a SaaS site is asking for your money, but there is no face or team in the About page.

https://www.saleztalk.com/about
Strictly speaking, there are a few billion more people today than a few decades ago. Hence presumably also more crazies.
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You don't need a private space to waste time on your phone.
The worst was when it lost traction, shredded the holes, usually in a tangle of paper.

There'd also be cases where it kept pulling on the holes but those separated and got gummed up really badly.

When you try and tug the pages out they're all perforated so you get, at best, a single page. It can be a lot of work to clear a jam.

Most people think of dot matrix printers as slow, lumbering things that would take measurable time to print a single line. The industrial ones, enterprise grade, made by companies like IBM were dizzyingly fast, pages per minute, so if a jam happened it was usually severe. Most had multiple print heads to speed up printing.

These also used much wider paper than normal for things like accounting reports. When they jammed, they jammed.
Starbucks has an initiative to hire veterans and spouses of veterans. Starbucks is a for-profit corporation so they must believe at some level there is a benefit to the company in hiring these individuals. What skills do veterans and their spouses have that are useful to Starbucks?

To be clear: I think this is a great idea on Starbucks' part.
Is there a long term plan for the Codeship domain, blog, and the content that you've generated?

I ask this because I've written content for the Codeship blog before and have links to it from my personal blog. If the content is going to vanish I'd like to publish it directly rather than have it lost to the ether.
In London TFL is looking to deploy more track side doors, which are similar.

I can’t speak for other cities, but in London many platforms are simply too narrow for a few feet of the platform to be cordoned off.

Additionally the other issue with overcrowding is emergency and disaster response. If the fire alarm goes off, you need to get all those people too the surface, without anyone being crushed or trampled (look at the Hillsborough disaster to see what happens when you get to wrong). I suspect that people being pushed onto the track is minor concern compared to what happens if people start to panic.
Driving is the number one professional in all but one US state.

Operating elevators was not.
1. I personally use VS: Code and Vim. IntelliJ has an officially supported plugin that I haven't used, but heard good things about it. The Eclipse project is considering making a Rust IDE but hasn't decided yet. VS non-Code should work now, but I haven't given it a go personally. On the "responsive" question, it's still actively being worked on, generally, so "it depends". We're actively investing in things being more robust.

2. We expect async/await to be stable before August, but as always, It Depends.

3. As you say, varies a ton by domain :) What I will say is, two years ago, crates.io had ~3000 packages, last year, 7500, today, almost 14,000. So we're getting there...
Can you say how old is this codebase and what was its original business case?
Really important tip from your guidelines:

https://www.supermedium.com/blog/webvr-guidelines

> Add any form of audio. ... anything is better than complete silence.

Early on a lot of the VR tech demos for the Oculus DK1 and DK2 had no sound and it was almost maddening. I can't remember the name, but one of my favorite things to show people new to VR is little more than a music video. Starts out dark, this weird blocky figure appears, a blocky sun rises, then huge giants appear, all set to this electronic, pulsating song. First came out with the DK1 or DK2 and now works on the Vive as well.

Edit: Found it. It's called Surge:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/477130/Surge/

Anyways. It's a simple thing, but quite compelling because of the sound, so make sure to keep audio in mind when crafting VR experiences.
Anyone who has had any interactions with Oracle before knows this is 100% how they operate.

They’re a machine to strip mine money out of your pockets, and they’re always looking for a new angle.
From my experience there is far less of this "what do you do" pertaining to work than of their primary hobby or interest. Might be a younger generation thing since there are so many of us that acknowledge we aren't working in the job or industry we would like to, and can blatantly see that in others.
This reminds me of the same thing happening at Yahoo. I and others are still dealing with every Yahoo account being hacked, and the world essentially just ignoring the disaster. This time it is far, far worse. The whole eTrust system is hacked. They are used by banks all over, and by most FDIC Banks here in the US. The idea that it can be ignored, and dealt with on a case by case basis, is almost insane. It is a clear criminally liable situation. Even if the certificates are replaced, they will be used, in time, to try to establish credibility and get access to the accounts they are tied to. I had seven! My firm blelief is even when I close those accounts, open new ones, all on MY dime, it will still leave me under a cloud. Whoevfer ends up with them will try to use them to trick monetary systems into thinking they are me, long enough to steal money. I have run over 100 banks, or done their books. The scope of this is potentially over $1 TRILLION dollar, and that is just the banks I did ebnd-of-day for. For the government to blow it off, for the banks themselves to blow it off, for the FDIC to blow it off.... My God, they are insane. I did the end-of-days! Geez. Come on! My opinion is the heads of these entities should be criminally charged, if they do NOT act, and now. Its been months. I am stunned, and I am losing any faith I had in even the FederaL Reserve Baord! The Board is independant, or at least, as independant as they can be made, and still part of the US Government. I urge all the Board to declare this an emergency, and force the rest to get up and deal with it. I guarantee, irregardless of lawsuits, promises, and all the rest, when people lose their money, and even if they are eventiually compensated somehow, it wilol destroy people. I am simply of the belief that this is an act of criminal negligence, and at so many places that it is almost mind boggling. Thse leaders need to quit wqaiting for someone else to yell fire, and get out the damned fire hoses, while yelling Fire loudly, publicly, and defiantly. The ones who do so will go down as future leaders, and the ones who hope it goes away are the ones who should be fired, immediately. They need to act, to perform the damned jobs they were hired to do! If the FAA acted this way, its head would gert hung when planes fell out of the sky, and just go ask him, because he or she will nod furiously!
It depends on how many miles you want to drive per year. How much time you have. How mechanically inclined you are. If I had long commute every day, I would say something like cheapest new honda civic with a 5spd or Nissan Frontier with 4cyl and 5spd.

But as a retired person that drives couple times a month for groceries, actually mechanically simplest vehicle you can work on, gas mileage is immaterial since the basic liability insurance will cost you more in a year than fuel you put into it. So even something like a F150 with carbureted 300-6 and granny four speed be great. One old enough to be emissions exempt so you arent chasing around trying to find funny little pollution dodads that no longer are available anywhere.
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I find it hard to blame Uber for doing something that companies have done for hundreds of years in the US. So what if it's 2018 and a venture capital backed tech company is at the center of it this time? Unions don't prevent new competition, otherwise they'd be rather unethical themselves..one (with a capitalist mindset) might argue.

This is capitalism and if it's too emotionally painful to watch disruption unfold then as a society we need to find a different mode of operation. Why get distracted by the players when the game is the problem?

I've been largely okay with capitalism I guess because I've benefitted from it. But human lives have decreased in value. In a society where making $500, literally, is more valuable than a human life, we'll choose the money every time. That's the game.

Of course I have no idea what to do, in the face of this almost existential crisis, but getting mad a Uber for disrupting an industry is wasted effort.
Plus you start way at the bottom. I was sick of software and though about going into photography. But I realized I'd be shelling out a lot for equipment, schooling/certificates (unless I could find an apprenticeship). Then I'd have to build back up to a decent income.

I knew another Computer Scientist who got his EMT certificate and worked in an ambulance service for two years, but ended up coming back to IT.

If I personally leave the work force again, it would be after getting funding for a PhD. I'd gladly take a greatly reduced wage if I could be on my way towards teaching and researching in a university.
Just got word from a friend that all SpaceX employee names are etched on the Tesla roadster. So either they will orbit indefinitely around the sun or blow up spectacularly.
Oracle? Sane? No.
Brett's a R&D guy. R&D guys don't ship consumer products. They find the future paths and test if they're viable. Developing and maintaining a consumer product is a completely different skillset and one that would greatly hamper what he is best at if he tried to follow it. He's shown us what's possible and much of what he's shown _has_ been shipped by other people. Look at the playgrounds in Swift + XCode Those are totally based on ideas he put out in his talks.

Don't ask our best creative thinkers to be slaves to retail viability, and customer support. There are plenty of us who can manage that, but there are very few Brett Victors in the world.
This is good news. No one should be extradited to a country which he never set foot in before.
Your last sentence is one of the most aggravating arguments I hear against cyclists using the road.

Motorists I would argue are much, much worse at obeying traffic laws than cyclists (perhaps simply because there are so many more of them). I think this is made much worse by distracting electronics in a the vehicle.

Regardless, why should a few bad cyclists be the measure for an entire group of people simply making a personal choice on how they're going to get around? Drives me crazy.
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i thought the same immediately: octopus is a screwy latiny-misspelled greeky word, with octopodes the plural. happy to see another knew that.
I'm in the same boat with you. I just write trivial stuff in the todos and for important things I add reminders. Once in a while I go over them and remove what was done. We don't need an app to delete our todos xD
When is the next window?
Add me to the list. Three separate Touch Bar MBP's (work, play, spouse) and all 3 have been solid as can be. My personal one might just be my favorite MacBook of all time. I also really love High Sierra. The only thing missing for me is iMessages in iCloud. Everything works well for me and, as a developer and musician, I rarely have issues doing whatever it is I want to do. People complaining about bugs because they read about the root issue and whatnot must have an axe to grind because I don't know a single Mac user that would have experienced a problem as a result of those bugs (and I know a lot of Mac users) and it was fixed within a day or 2.

YMMV but I'm having a great time here.
My uni (Wisconsin), in the engineering program, apply some old philosophy of a ratio of time in class to time in lab. It's something like 50/50 or 40/60, I think a lot of students prefer it that way.
Security is easier in the cloud. It comes with good access management, audit trails, inventory of active resources and it enforces a lot of good practices.

All companies who don't have cloud tools have to re invent everything, it's hard and a lot of effort so the result is always terrible. Poor UI, poor security, full of bugs, pick any three.

AWS is better for isolated networks, it can manage strict network access rules way beyond anything iptables can achieve. In fact, cloud is the only way to have well isolated networks, unless we're talking about a computer unplugged from any network.
The NYC subway system is four track in most places, and there are lots of switches, so a stalled train can be bypassed. This also allows maintenance while the system is running. That's why NYC can run 24 hours a day, unlike most other subway systems.