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Pairing still sucks compared to plugging wired headsets. Especially with a bluetooth device you're not familiar with. "Where the f* is the button" is something I find myself saying way too often.

Being able to get a pair of 5 bucks headphones that don't use batteries is just convenient. Being able to get really fancy noise cancelling headphones for half the price is convenient. Being able to use the same headphones across all my devices (my new desktop computer has bluetooth, my old one didn't. When I was looking at motherboards, a lot of them didn't) is convenient. Being able to not have to worry about battery life is VERY convenient. Not having to worry about my phone's battery life is also convenient (though newer bluetooth uses very little, its still non-zero).

Interference is still an issue. Where I live there's so many 2.4ghz devices around, they barely work (ironically in the middle of manhattan I have less issues, mind you)
I get the feeling it’s a real service, not just random contracts to couriers. But I’ve never been home to meet one when a package got delivered so I’m not sure.

It may be a mix right now for all I know.
Ask a renter why rents are so high and they'll say a lack of rent control, because it brings their rent down.

Ask a property developer why rents are so high and they'll complain that ridiculous zoning and building restrictions are preventing them from building enough new supply (...and coincidentally reducing the amount of profit they will be making).

Ask a landlord why rents are so high and they'll complain that rent control is keeping the market from building enough housing (...and coincidentally reducing the amount of profit they will be making).

If you ask me, it's untaxed land - the costs of holding on to those tiny one story + garage houses were made artificially low - among other things, by prop 13. They impose a cost on others for monopolizing that land, but they aren't paying that cost, so the market signals that would fix the problem (getting them to sell up to somebody who would build denser housing to avoid a large tax bill) are severely restrained.
For me, my biggest complaint is about having to charge yet another device.

Especially now that phones have adopted USB-C, I have to have both a C and micro charger.
Mobile app? WTF.

Give me a calendar and/or calendar integration that doesn't suck and I'd be really happy.
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Their service with their existing delivery service (Amazon Logistics) has been TERRIBLE thus far. Lazy drivers leaving packages in clear sight in the middle of the driveway, unreliable delivery estimates, etc.

This last Christmas season, everything shipped from Amazon via UPS / FedEx arrived on time as expected. Everything Amazon shipped via their AMZN Logistics / USPS was late, 50% arrived after Christmas even when ordered on December 14.

We've stopped shopping at Amazon in favor of other vendors who let you pick your shipping service. Their customer service just keeps collecting information, but it's not getting any better.

> If SWA is cheaper than FedEx or UPS, you can bet that customers will opt for Amazon’s service instead.

You get what you pay for... I'll avoid Amazon until I can pick my own RELIABLE carrier. UPS & FedEx have shown they are reliable.
This is what they did to all the prices on Amazon. Started cheap or at a loss and now prices are equal to or more expensive than going to a normal store.
We created our own Video studio for $125 and got great marketing content
No one say bad, they just say these people invoke turmoil and crisis for their own profit. Is it good or bad or neutral, it’s your own judgement.
This hope seems to ride on the chance that Amazon gives its own drivers more time to deliver a package than they do for contractors they currently control.

Seems just as likely the reverse will happen.
Amazon operates the delivery center. Most drivers are subcontracted through a couple different messenger companies and use rented Ford Transits, and the randos in their own cars take care of the rest.
I was looking to see if VLC supported resuming stream playback yet, it looks like it might have for a long time. At least I found a new option to try!

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vlc/+bug/790216

(CLI --http-reconnect /or/ Advanced (All) Preferences > Input/Codecs > HTTP(S) > Auto re-connect)
That seems like double-counting, then. The density numbers are based on the total area divided by the total residents. If the residents are squeezed into half the area, it should not be said that there is lower density and more space to spread out. The lower density is already because of the space.
Just gave $50. I've been using VLC for years.
As for reasons, there are tons of folks with personal websites on providers that only offer expensive yearly certificate options. Most CDN providers don't support LetsEncrypt. Most shared hosts don't. The Cloud Sites platform for multi-site shared hosting (formerly RackSpace, now at Liquid Web) that I use for a dozen of my friend's sites I host for free doesn't. So, essentially, this means that personal hosted websites either stay 'not secure', get ditched, or increase in price quite a lot. Yes, it's just 5 to 10 bucks a month to spin up another instance on Digital Ocean, but it's yet another 'server' to manage when I'd rather decrease the number than increase it.
Isn't Twilio a large source of spam from long numbers? I think this is less cut and dry than Twilio makes it out to be. Hopping on the Net Neutrality bandwagon when this doesn't have anything to do with Net Neutrality makes Twilio seem slimy here.

If you want to send messages in bulk, the process is, get a short code, pass carrier testing, then your messages are received. Twilio needs to implement something like complaint feedback, similar to what AWS does for email. If someone reports a message back to code 7726 (SPAM), there's no way to know that. Twilio is big enough that they could work with carriers instead of demanding carriers open the gates to any/every message.

https://blog.cloudmark.com/2014/02/13/sms-phishers-exploit-t...
A few months ago I flew across the pacific. I'd say half the passengers watched something on their own devices.

That ship, of fewer devices, has sailed.
6000EUR or 6000USD? If it is EUR then I can only say very well done! Can you please give us some subtle hint about company name?
Would love for someone to do a similar analysis on the Overwatch colorblind modes (and why they don't work and Blizzard needs to improve them)
You could have a wifi access product that used a voucher system. The code could be on the bar receipt.
> Having political or cultural influence, or holding market dominance aren't crimes in a capitalist economy. Those aren't valid reasons to "regulate" the success out of those companies.

Capitalism isn't the only idea by which we run our society, nor is the market society's only priority.

Also, we have experience with the pernicious effects of too much market dominance, which is why we developed antitrust law.
My favorite thing about SF was all the hipsters deriding cookie cutter McMansions. The disconnect is hilarious.
Don't. It really doesn't matter.

Productivity (if that's your metric) is limited by your ability to continually make good decisions. You can't integrate and apply all the knowledge in any useful sense. Trying to probably makes you less productive and/or happy.
IMO this is very bad news for the economy. Amazon will do very well as a delivery service, because unlike competition they have underpaid and overworked deliverers. They basically uberified delivery. The costs are much lower, but delivery jobs will shift to low paid, no benefits 'gigs'. Amazon is more and more scary as it monopolizes more and more businesses.
Under/Over 10 years after Bezos retires, does Amazon end up looking like GE does now? This spree of Amazon getting into markets that are already at near-perfect competition levels is a bit worrying. How many people could reasonably handle a business this complicated, with so many competitors?
Yep, I switched from fintech to another industry (still software development) and took roughly a 50% paycut to do so. It let me live in a much nicer part of the country (given my non-work interests), but I might go back since the pay is so much more.
The EVE developers used to post a lot of details about their setup, upgrades, software and about failures / congestion issues...
there are still a lot of pain points if you have a 4K display. otherwise it's mostly fine.
I hope not. I fly Delta specifically because I can watch new release movies and other entertainment on board. It's amazing for those cross country flights. I hate flying United which has no such option.
I've seen lots of teen-aged students take up an interest in coding simply because they heard it was a well-paying and in-demand career. It's no longer a nerd thing to do living in your parents' basement.

This has likely steered some students who otherwise might have found a niche in other fields to try out coding and choose it as a career (out of both satisfaction and salary prospects).
Wow... how didn't I notice that. It really does work now. From UI's perspective it would be even better if one could still skip forward/back, change volume and brightness while still having screen rotation locked, but hey - we can't have it all :).

Thanks VLC team for all the dedication and good work. You're the best.
While I can't speak to the GP's experiences, I'm guessing you're in SV (most likely), NYC, Chicago, RTP, or Austin based on your remarks on how quickly developers get snatched up.

However, those of us living outside that handful of cities have a totally different experience, regardless of how good we are or how much experience we have. There just are far, far fewer jobs outside that handful of American cities.

And many of us are unable to just up and move due to a personal situation (sick relative, illness, spouse's job, etc.). It's just worth bearing in mind that your experience as a developer is somewhat the exception in the US, not the rule. At best, it's a 50/50 split between devs in the cities I mentioned above and the rest of us.
If people don't like the concept, they don't really understand it. The way the word is often used and even the word itself, absolutely that ruffles some feathers and rightly so.

They do studies, if people are given massive advantages (e.g. rolling two dice instead of one in monopoly and starting with double the cash) that are obvious and explicit, people will still believe they deserved to win, they earned their victory.

Recognizing a lot of your success is because of dumb luck (yes you worked hard, but millions of others worked just as hard or harder and weren't lucky) is a good way to stay humble, and to remind yourself to stop pretending you "deserve" what you have -- we all live in a fundamentally (intentionally) unjust economic system where "desert" has no meaning but we try to superimpose it on our lives because of a need to believe things are fair. Privilege is a word that can be a good way to remember that.

It can also be used as a rhetorical weapon to bludgeon people.

The word itself is terrible and I hate it: it is not a "privilege" in my view to be treated decently, to have a chance at success, to not be discriminated against or assaulted by police or have to face anything that the poor, minorities, women face. It is a right. Everyone has the right to be treated the way straight rich white men are and have been for centuries and using the word "privilege" conjures up this notion that they are getting something they do not deserve: rather, they should be viewed as the model, the goal, they are getting something that we all deserve to have as well alongside them.
You certainly did not pay less to move in than you would have in a city without rent control. In SF, rent-controlled rents start at rates comparable to non-rent-controlled apartments. One might think they'd start higher, given that the landlord is agreeing to grant what amounts to an annuity along with providing a place to live, but that doesn't seem to happen. If you think rent control makes the prevailing market rates for new tenants lower, where do you suppose the money comes from to give senior tenants discounts of up to 100%?
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What are you talking about? No one's advocating abolishing corporations as a concept.
>BD-Java menus and overlay in Blu-Ray
>BluRay text subtitles (HDMV) deocoder

Does that mean this version includes libbluray? Right now, if I want to play a BD I need to use an older version of VLC that was compiled with libbluray.
Uber and Waymo Reach Settlement
DBCLI[0] offers some decent solutions (although definitely not "vim for databases"), have you played around with them? I have used and liked pgcli and mycli, but haven't used them extensively by any means.

I'd be interested to hear more about what you are working on.

[0] http://www.dbcli.com/
India hits Google with $21M fine for search bias
A statistical model will tend to measure bias in the data.

If some parameter is well correlated with the bias, the model will discount that parameter.

It's not magic, it isn't going to just erase the bias, but a reasonable model will reduce bias rather than reinforcing it.
I run SQLPro Studio at work. Just downloaded TablePlus to play around. The big difference is GUI performance. With a 100k row sample set SQLPro Studio UI gets laggy. TablePlus runs it smooth.

TP also has more data display options.
The trade off is buying a lot of stuff through Amazon is bad for the environment/neighborhood.

Amazon gets away with inefficient shipping because they afford to, and Bezos knows where American economy is, and will stay. There will always be a huge pool of unemployed/underemployed/desperate people who will begrudgingly deliver his product.

It will be the working poor bringing stuff to the rich.

Bezos could care less about trucks speeding through neighborhoods; he's not going to live outside the gate.

He could care less about gas use. That's someone else's worry. His worry is making big money. For what? He's past middle age. I wouldn't be so hard on the guy if he provided good jobs.

Your mom shoppping once a week is more efficient/moral than having a bunch of trucks delivering one, and two products multiple times a day. They will have us debating this forever.

Moral? At one time, grocery unions were kinda srtrong. Today they are essentially gone. Delivery drivers will eventually loose all union representation.

In all honestly, if Bezos doesn't start paying his employees, and tangential employees more; I'll look into buying straight from China, and bypassing Amazon completely.

The wealthy are selling out, why don't we?
A person with the right knowledge, time, and some land in the middle of the nowhere can manufacture explosives with no external inputs. Banning explosives can never completely prevent their creation, and trying to do so would have numerous harmful effects to agricultural and chemical industries.
The entire email client froze up the very first time I tried to sync my Google calendar via Lightning. On subsequent syncs the UI only became unresponsive for several seconds. I dunno why sync was running on the UI thread, but it made Thunderbird nearly unusable until I disabled it.
I'm not a Ruby guy at all so forgive me if I'm missing something here but what would the benefit of using GTK+ be over using JRuby and utilizing JavaFX or even Swing?
Calling for the firing of a book reviewer who didn't read the book seems eminently reasonable to me.
Leaky abstractions in Swift with DispatchQueue
Because meeting invitations are typically using mail as a transport format.

Now, I don't really think that is a good solution to the problem, but it is the way it is.
Possibly a rogue IoT device could spoof an ip address. But that's probably not going to happen to someone who knows what they're doing. Browsers don't know if the network is trusted and can't assume that LAN IPs are safe.

It seems to me the best options are either trusting a self-signed cert (on every computer that needs access) or pay for a domain name and use letsencrypt to get a cert. I do think it's unfortunate that you now need to pay money just to do things like this on your own network, but I don't see a better way. It's either paying for a domain name or needing to explicitly trust the device.
Another alternative is to find a client and let them pay for 80% of it through some kind of consulting
I would imagine among most companies the cheapest option is not the one they go with. It's not a new business concept, cheapest thing is not usually what you want.

I would also be curious what the relative salaries are, e.g. food and shelter are usually much cheaper in foreign countries.
FM Radio using the headphone cable as antenna.
(Caveat: Obviously depends on the quality of the stations where you live)

Edit:
Less delay.
Yep - top tier firms pay roughly the same as tech companies do as far as I can tell (with the added bonus that you don't need 250k in grad school loans to work for Google at an entry level - and a much higher ceiling for the truly, amazingly talent).

Another key difference is that in most top tier law firms, literally 2-3% of every starting class can expect to have a full career there. I've heard tech has a similar concept called stack ranking, but it seems much milder in terms of the forced attrition. Not to mention you don't need a full career at Google - you can always take that resume line and go to another big tech company, a startup or something midmarket. Law is much more segmented. The M&A lawyer laid off during a recession isn't going to find a job at a small firm because those generally do not do M&A.

I don't really hear of top tier software engineers struggling to find work - happens to out of work top tier lawyers all the time.

Oh, and for the record 15% of law school grads get that sweet 180k starting salary (a trajectory most won't stay on).

There are many, many lawyers making 40-60k a year working horrendous hours with no real hope of advancement.

Let me be clear: I have zero doubt in my mind, even with my very limited knowledge of the software engineering market, that I have no doubt the median software engineer is far better off than the median lawyer, likely in terms of pay, hours, and prospects all at the same time.

My question related solely to the top tier because that's where it's even remotely competitive.
Same here. Honestly didn't realize they had no model for income.
I would rather to choose as well since I live directly beside carrier X pickup point, but they always use carrier Y which means driving across the city to get it.

The Amazon delivery drivers always harass you as well, phoning multiple times and totally perplexed you have a job and can't be home to pick something up demanding a time for redelivery on the spot which means I have to stop what I'm doing and screw around with my schedule. Either let me enter precise time windows for delivery, get pickup spots or let me choose the shipping company which is the easiest, I don't care about the extra $5 if it means I'm not spending half my Saturday in traffic to get a book.
I... honestly thought they already had.
Apache Spark on Kubernetes
A whole blog series from introduction into Spark on Kubernetes down to the code details of how the k8s/spark scheduler work
https://banzaicloud.com/blog/spark-k8s/
„...unlike competition they have underpaid and overworked deliverers...“#

This is a pretty accurate general description of the delivery industry per se, not Amazon specific.
I order something or other from Amazon every couple weeks and, living in Chicago, have often gotten it via Amazon delivery for a year or two now. It just seems like one problem after another: not actually dropping the package off, hiding the package in a crevice between buildings, very often not arriving when quoted, rude calls from drivers because I'm not at home. Add to this problems with worker pay and treatment, and I'll stick to UPS whenever possible.
Didn't think of that, haven't tested it but strongly doubt it. I'd expect a faulty wire to crackle predictably when moved which isn't what I experience.
Facebook isn’t the problem. Phones are. I don’t use Facebook or any social media, yet I’m addicted to hacker news and checking my email.

But even phones are not the problem. People are responsible for their own “addiction.” It’s like blaming food companies for fat people.

Widespread informed Democracy is not something we’ve ever had, and likely will never have. Democracy has always been led by the intelligentsia and the rich.
This is why there are so few black women in science
Postico is great but it does seem to hang/crash with big operations quite often. From my quick tests it does not seem like TablePlus has similar issues which is fantastic.
Really surprised that they use XMPP. Since you don't really hear anything about XMPP anymore, I think most people assumed that it's dropped off in usage/popularity (or people have moved to some other proprietary solution).

I've always thought that XMPP would be useful for games, just surprised to hear that people are actually doing it.
Thanks, it's quite rare that people notice this :D
This bgr article has unfortunately completely misunderstood what the news is.

> Amazon may be a one stop shop for home goods, electronics, furniture, clothing and more, but in order to actually get items to your home, the e-commerce giant has to depend on delivery services like FedEx and UPS

No, amazon already has its own logistics company that operates in many locations. The news is that it is now going to offer this to as a service to ship other companies' packages.

From the linked WSJ article:

> Dubbed “Shipping with Amazon,” or SWA, the new service will entail the tech giant picking up packages from businesses and shipping them to consumers, according to people familiar with the matter.
Paris is not something people should strive to replicate. Lack of green space, bad side walks, entirely walled off blocks. Perfect for young people with no kids and tourists but not much else.
Amazon Prime delivers it's own orders in London for quite a while now. The good: delivers 7 days a week, fairly reliably. The bad: no delivery window email like DPD does, their live tracking map is just useless.
Could they set up a Patreon, or is that only for individuals?
EVE's time dilation system is ingenious: https://www.eveonline.com/article/introducing-time-dilation-...
It could also be argued the exact opposite.
Browser vendors are clearly not careful enough. Requiring SSL brings with it a kind of baggage that is ill-suited for tons of use cases. Do not simply assume that all developers ignored these signs out of laziness. They might instead be unable to comply in a useful fashion.

HTTP worked unchanged for close to 3 decades. People started to rely on that. Now they are trying apply crowbars to force that out. This is myopic.
I would have thought it was the opposite way around!
Private companies always seem so tight lipped especially being that they dont have to answer to shareholders.
Also check out https://helloepics.com which adds parent child relationships across boards to Trello. I worked on it, but I wouldn’t (and didn’t) want to use Trello without it.
undocumented protocol or overly complex ?
Now that I've detected my color ramp is inadequate, where can I find a good one? Am I limited to greyscale or other single-hue ramps? Do I need multiple color ramps for deuteranopia vs protanopia?
You have pointed out all the killer features. Btw the hotkeys won me.
Build a sign up page and have if get X many people to signup for the beta testing.

1. track your hours

2. he shouldn't get a commission until you start getting paid back for your hours.
We also canceled a few hundred dollars worth of monthly deliveries once Amazon started using USPS to deliver them. Having to go to the post office to pick up larger boxes because they were too big to be delivered to our home meant it was easier to just go buy the stuff ourselves.