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Universal UTC does not change the need people have to know how approximate solar time locally maps to approximate solar time at some different longitude.

E.g., you are in Munich and want to call your friend in Tokyo. You want to call him at a time that is not too early in the morning for him, or not too late in the evening for him.

Let's say you want to call him at lunch time, which you both take around solar noon. Under the current system, where the time in each time zone approximates local solar time, that means he takes lunch around the same clock time you do, which is 12:00. The question you ask yourself is "When his clock says 12:00, what does my clock say?".

You answer that by subtracting the time zone difference (which is 8 hours), so you get that you should call him when you clock says 4:00.

Now let's do this with universal UTC. Your clocks no longer approximate local solar time. Solar noon is around 11:00 clock time at your place. The question you want to ask now is "What time is his solar noon?".

Since his solar time is approximately 8 hours ahead of your solar time, you answer it exactly the same way. You subtract 8 hours from the time from the UTC time you have lunch to get the UTC time he has lunch, so 3:00.

As long as people keep their activities lined up with approximate local solar time and people need to sync things with people whose solar time is significantly different than theirs, we need something like time zones.
>everything else (games, system programming, embedded programming with an OS, etc) has mature and better options available such as Rust, Go, Nim, and (particularly for gamedev) C#.

That's not how the industry sees it. Almost nobody does those things in Rust, Go, Nim and C# (except if you mean second tier not AAA games done in Unity and co).

And by nobody I mean less than 1% of those that deliver those kinds of solutions use those languages.
I don't think so. I work upstairs at a non-Google company. Most of the time, the market floor is filled with non office workers. The lunch crowd might suffer a little bit since Google employees won't need to go down for meals.
One thing not mentioned is throttle range. Larger engines can’t throttle down as low as smaller ones. That’s irrelevant for launches, but matters crucially for landing.

I know the F9 engines can’t throttle down to a hover, even on a single engine with the fuel tanks mostly empty, but I’m sure they did all their landings up until the last few on a single engine that throttled down to its lowest setting for a reason. Controllability matters and while max power suicide burns are theoretically ideal in practice landing at full thrust on all engines would be highly unlikely to ever be workable. If F9 had say 3 larger engines, I doubt landing would be possible at all. Also you need to be able to build a configuration with an engine in the middle.
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It's not bad if you're just comparing base salaries, but it's hundreds of thousands lower than quite a few private sector jobs if you compare total compensation.

Of course given the compensation and maximum length of tenure I imagine that most people are not doing it for the money.
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If I film someone in public, even though I own the copyright on the film since I shot it, I still need to get them to sign a release to be able to utilize their likeness in my work. It's not a simple black and white issue and we'll need laws to catch up to address it. Claiming everything as "transformative" and thus you own the copyright as some do is silly. Otherwise, it would be legal for me to take everyone's Facebook pictures and "transform" them by putting them into the AI and sell the resulting AI porn.
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I think most of your questions can be answered by "Working Effectively with Legacy Code" by Michael C. Feathers.
Wow. It's very disturbing to see how such an awful and horrible word as racism has lost it's meaning and being thrown left and right without and single doubt or even slight realization of the future generational consequences.

This comment should be flagged.
Disney has begun populating its parks with autonomous, personality-driven robots
You’re right, but it’s still under incredible pressure. You’re talking about liquified cryogenic fuels, so the remainder has greatly expanded over time. Even a small amount of remaining fuel must be vented to render it safe. Volumetric expansion is a bitch!
> Is that because your code must be precompiled with moc before it's legal C++?

That's... not how moc works at all. Moc parse your header files and generates additional cpp files from it which contain boilerplate for reflection and signals.
So no static analyzer has any problem parsing Qt code... (I use cppcheck, coverity, clang-analyzer, clang-tidy)

The "special" Qt keywords like signal, slot, etc... are just trivial macros:

https://github.com/qt/qtbase/blob/5.10/src/corelib/kernel/qo...

"signals" is just defined as "public", "slots" and "emit" as nothing. Your compiler compiles your source as-is.

If you really don't like moc, there's a way to get its features natively with C++14 compilers (and uglier macros) : https://github.com/woboq/verdigris
How can you obtain a positive proof? If you take from intermediary, the intermediary claims you have the right. They do not usually disclose how did they obtain it in the first place.
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for completeness sake: some of the worst rates I have seen offered were from agencies in Belgium, France and especially the UK. While you can get good gigs in the UK for a decent rate the number of agencies there competing on price is huge (and the agencies are known for aggressive pricing). The result is jobs that are offered in Germany for an undisclosed amount (and you learn during the interview the pain threshold is 90,-) in the UK you have the job-spec telling you to that the budget is €50,-

Stay away from bad agencies! (actually the risk of not getting paid is higher when directly working for a client and if an agency stiffs you for the fee then something really terrible is going on)
Two is an understatement. We're in 2018, it brings us to 1998.

Reagan's "Nine Most Terrifying Words" quip (I'm from the government and I'm here to help) dates back to August 1986, so this was already a well-entrenched enough view that a sitting president could express it during a news conference[0] — and more state that he's "always felt" that way and that all attendees would know about it. And AFAIK no one batted an eye.

The reality is that it's always been a strong overcurrent of american conservatism and the GOP, it went under during the New Deal period (Eisenhower was a new deal-er despite being a republican) but resurged into the 50s alongside people like Goldwater, who pined for the days of the Hoover administration (whom Goldwater considered a friend).

[0] http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=37733
No way -- I'm not nocturnal, and the heat of the hours just before sundown is perfectly tolerable. Damn the tyranny of the electric light bulb! Give me sunlight!
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Service fabric from Microsoft comes to mind but it is not open source.
>Actually Nim is used for games and game engines.

Some people might have some GitHub repos with games and game engines written in Nim.

Some people might have even shipped some second tier game written in Nim.

Then again, hobbyists will use anything.

But virtually nobody had used or uses Nim to create any kind of game or game engine that is behind any successful game in the real world.
Could you share a code sample of Startup.cs and a sample Controller or Service showing usage? Maybe in a GitHub gist?
MLB occupies some space. But they were moving to midtown in 2019 but their lease is until 2022. Bamtech (recently acquired by Disney is there). I don't know what's going to happen for us. We'll find out.
avoid European born consultancies, especially if their HQ is not in Germany or London( make sure it is London )
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How come you're not charging for this?
Popular lib go-bindata removed from GitHub
Ideally we wouldn't need them, but every step counts, since the government is doing nothing.
Google employees already eat for free at 5-6 internal restaurants within the Google office space. I used to work at Google NYC and would occasionally eat at a nice Thai spot in Chelsea Market but most of the time I'd just take the free lunch.
Theoretical rises in sea level, irreversible runaway effects, some actual 'doomsday' scenarios (e.g. the clathrate gun, algae blooms, jellyfish blooms, etc.)

Really this would require some research. There are a lot of models, and I frankly am not sure which are more accurate.
They ruled that Apple had immunity, which is not the same as finding that Apple didn't lie.
> agencies that promise you a full-time gig but contract you out to their clients as a freelancer. You would not believe the sh1t I have seen in this space

This is a plague in post-Communist EU countries. They provide defined-term employment contract and an Eastern European salary. The clients in DE/UK/US treat you like a disposable Angular- or React-whore.
Fuel in SpaceX rockets (and other working gases) are cryo-cooled, after tanks warm up, even small amount of liquid gas stored in a tank evaporates into a lot of gas which can create very high pressure.
No, they don't. They get a ton of tourist business especially because High Line is right there.
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I'd say both of them are putting the content providers out of business just as much as Facebook is. They just have less impact because they're less popular with end users.
The problem for parents is it is so hard to diagnose flu. Flu-like symptoms cover so many illnesses, and no doctor wants you to visit them with a virus they cannot cure and that most people will recover from in about a week.

But this statement: "fevers that abate only to flare up again after the child seems to be over the worst of the illness" reminded me of something that happened to my son.

When he was 7, he came down with a flu-like illness that lasted a week, and because it was a bad flu season we were told to stay away from the doctor's surgery. After about 4 days of fever and no eating my wife railed against the advice and took him along, only to be fobbed off by her regular doctor who said there was nothing to worry about, he had an ear infection, and prescribed some antibiotics.

So for the next day or two he seemed to improve. Then, on the Sunday, he suddenly faded away again and seemed to lose all interest in getting better. The only thing he complained about was a perpetual pain in his neck. I took him back to the surgery, and because it was a weekend I saw a visiting doctor rather than our regular one. The guy took one look at him and phoned the hospital, told me to get him there urgently.

It transpired he had a very advanced pneumonia, and had to be transferred to a bigger hospital for an operation to remove 1 litre of fluid from his lung. That was what had been causing the neck pain: the sheer weight of the fluid on one side of his chest. After the op, they managed to treat the infection with about the fourth antibiotic they tried (I think there were only a couple left after that, which was scary). Another week later and he went home, and made a full recovery, thankfully.

When questioned, our family doctor very defensively said she had never come across such an advanced case of pneumonia in "someone who could still stand up", and so she had discounted it. This fact seemed to be borne up by the fact that our son was a prize exhibit at the teaching hospital he'd been transferred to, surrounded on a daily basis by medical students listening through stethoscopes and being told "this is what a pleural empyema sounds like in a child - note the lack of the classic rattling noise you associate with pneumonia" ... so maybe our doctor was correct. Anyway, we were just glad to have our son well again and were not interested in lawsuits.

But every time either of our kids gets a fever or anything that seems like the flu now, we play extra close attention and refused to be fobbed off by over-worked doctors.
> None of the options you mention, other than possibly Rust,is actually appropriate for game engines, systems programming, or embedded, due to the garbage collector

Rust doesn't have any sort of equivalent to ffast-math yet. :( I think their version (with 'fast' floating point types) would be nicer than the program-wide flags you get in C++ through the usual C++ compilers.

In general numerical-heavy code doesn't seem to be high on Rust's priority list (the math libraries are still fairly anemic). This is a shame, I would love to use Rust in anger!
The funny thing is I have 3 courses on Docker and I'm a Docker Captain but I pretty much agree with what you wrote about container orchestration.

A lot of people forget that you can just put your application up on 1 server and serve hundreds of thousands or millions of requests a month without breaking a sweat.

For that type of use case (1 box deploys), Docker is still amazingly useful so I would 100% containerize your apps for that purpose, but I agree, Kubernetes and container orchestration in general is overkill for so many projects.
Any comment on commitment to maintenance?

Many HN clients are dead or abandoned; I'll circle back in a year.
That's actually not true. The Closure compiler has certain restrictions on the Js it accepts for advanced mode compilation, so you can't throw just anything at it.

The advantage is best-in-class dead code elimination, which is also why Closure was chosen; to distill the CLojurescript standard library into just the parts needed for a web page requires good DCE. Recently, other Js projects like Rollup and Webpack have gotten good DCE, but when Clojurescript was started, there were no other serious contenders.
SFBA, Seattle, Major Colorado Metros, Austin, Nashville, Cambridge/Boston, Raleigh-Durham.

That's not fear. That's pattern recognition.

> Fast-growing technology sector is fueling a housing boom in cities across America

https://www.washingtonpost.com/realestate/fast-growing-techn...
It's not so bad really – having done it a few of times on fairly large code bases. Upgrading a project for a new Julia version is very straightforward: change the julia version, run your tests, and making any changes that warnings tell you to make. It's about as difficult as fixing compiler warnings in C – it's tedious but not hard.

Keep in mind that in the future this statement would be something like: if you have code that was written for Julia 1.x and want to upgrade to Julia 3.x, then you should upgrade through Julia 2 instead of just skipping it. This does not seem terribly unreasonable.
But 0h Game Jam! :(

http://0hgame.eu/ (see the FAQ)
Thanks. Good points.

I won't be rolling out my own crypto of course. I like to use existing known parts. But add some slight improvements of my own. Customizations to my use-case. It's a layered defense approach against attackers. The point is to make them work hard.
In the context of clojurescript you get 'advanced' optimizations free just by writing clojurescript. In JS you have to buy outside the modern JS ecosystem entirely. The closure compiler doesn't play well with any modern JS tooling, but modern JS tooling is nowhere near as capable at dead-code elimination, minification, and code-rewriting.
Fully agreed.

With Qt, Qt itself is the app, your code is just a plug-in. :-)
Looks great! Will try this soon.

Spelling correction: “Never lose the news you like”
Showpad is one of the fastest growing SaaS company in Europe. It's located in the really nice city of Gent in Belgium. Great culture, people and top tech. https://www.showpad.com/careers
I might be slightly biased but you should consider it :)
Yeah that sounds like a cool tool. More like Clathrate Fun! Maybe turn it into a game haha.

Anything else you’re curious about regarding climate change?
Consider a hypothetical police officer who is against "leftists" (the police officer's definition is all that matters, not ours).

Right now, said police officer can and does enforce laws disproportionally against Black Americans because to the police officer, they're all leftists.

But if we give the police officer access to all sorts of profiling information about humans, when making a traffic stop, the police officer can be extra-zealous about performing a search if the person is profiled as being a "leftist."

The point is, prosecuting people for their political views has existed for some time, but it didn't scale well. Now it will scale extremely well, up to the point of wearing glasses and tagging people with certain social profiles in real time.
>No results have shown that it saves anything or helps anyone.

Even worse, the changeover has demonstrably negative effects. Not just in the obvious lost productivity from people going to work tired, but more injuries on the job[1], car accidents[2], and heart-disease related death![3]

Killing it off is low-hanging fruit.

[1]: http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/apl9451317.pdf

[2]: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199604043341416

[3]: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc0807104
> A 24-hour vs 12-hour clock is orthogonal to the issue of time zones. I think the author's done a bit of a disservice by adding this detail here, as the issue is that you don't know from the hour whether it's morning or night.

I disagree: I don't know how native English speakers think about this, but the wording that am and pm stand for are references to sun positions while numbers are not.
I'd think that most regular readers of Hacker News would naturally interpret "____ Lang" as referring to a programming language, but clearly there's some ambigutity.

I would have the opposite problem; if a Hacker News item was titled "Fred Lang Has Died", my first thought would be: "I didn't even know there was a programming language called Fred. It must have died from obscurity." :-)
> Being in direct sunlight you're practically burning alive.

In Amsterdam? Have you ever been to a warmer place outside of Europe?

In all seriousness, have you been diagnosed with any sunlight sensitivity disorders?
Of course not. I'm not sure why would you even think that.
Because the quality is just no longer there for the price. Why pay $60 for a shit shirt when you pay $20 for a shit shirt.
Did this year’s peak decrease vs last year? That looks like an extremely rare event if so.
hudo's example is really good.

Something else to consider is that maybe your MVC project is not your ONLY consumer of your application services. Now it makes a lot more sense to decouple things and maintain that extra layer.

Also the ViewModel is tightly bound to the view, if you want to change the view in clever ways that should not change the domain models.
I dont think any of this is under attack by means of the "minor issues" that are addressed on HN sometimes. Everyone has their own cause to champion and I think that the ones you've mentioned are worthy things to address. It doesn't have to be an either/or proposition.
Me, well not really linux but his cousin from the Unix side, macOS. I have to admit, I was really doubtful about starting this project, I didn't want to lose time with obscure errors instead of working on the solution I wanted to implement. I'm a .NET developer, I use Windows at work and macOS at home. I wanted to start a side project, just for fun, I wanted to develop fast, since I don't have too much time in the afternoon to work on this side project, so I didn't want to lose too much time learning a totally new framework or language.
Even though I was afraid I could found too much trouble in my learning process, I gave a try to ASP.NET Core in my mac, and I don't regret it, it has been awesome, I haven't found big issues preventing me to progress in my project. Working with VS Code has been really nice too, it's refreshing and clean, I almost haven't missed Visual Studio, actually I think I like it better (it feels kind of like a love affair). I'm still in the developing phase so I can't give you an opinion on deployment and testing my project in production, but now I'm confident that won't be a big issue.

TL;DR Yes I recommend it, lately Microsoft has been developing really cool stuff, and I doubt they will disappoint us, at least in the short to medium term.
Engineers at Volkswagen and its other brands (Porsche, Audi, Seat, Skoda) are paid quite well compared to other industries in Germany (only two others come to mind, finance and chemicals). Software engineers can realistically reach up to 80-90000€ a year, plus bonuses (although only with experience, newcomers start at around 50-60000€).

Although most of the innovation in the automotive sector still comes from small and large suppliers (like Bosch or Vector for example). A software and platform centric approach to functional development is only just coming to the big OEMs (BMW or Audi are very active in AI)
The median household income in DC is 75k. So you are making 130-160k you are way above the median. Everyone doesn't make 300k. Its like HN exists in its own universe.
I'm not sure which post-communist countries you're talking about, but at least in my country virtually every job offer gives you a choice: full time employment or self-employment contract with daily rate. And for your employer/agency it usually does not matter which one you choose. For you it matters because self-employment get's you 30-50% higher salary, thanks to lower taxes and social security payments. And daily rates in self employment are usually around 250-300 Euro (for senior roles), so you can almost match Western European salaries.
It always gratifies me to hear about a dedicated writer receiving his or her due after the fact. Maybe they should have an annual Herman Melville literary award celebrating a great author or work by an author that flared or smoldered but never quite caught fire and yet still kept at it and produced something more than a timely bestseller with an attractive headshot.

On a very similar theme, I recommend this recent New Yorker article:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/29/the-lost-giant...
There are two other reasons which SpaceX has mentioned before:

- When you're landing a rocket, you need to be able to throttle down quite low. Even a single Merlin 1-D engine, throttled down, is too much thrust to be able to hover with a nearly empty booster. It's really hard to get stable combustion at very low throttle settings. Having only one engine out of nine running for landing makes this much more manageable.

- There are economies of scale and reliability when you're building large numbers of something. Ariane 5 only launched 6 times in 2017. It uses one first stage engine, so they're only building one engine every 2 months. Falcon 9 launched 18 times in 2017, with 9 first stage engines per launch, that's roughly an engine every 2 days. More continuous construction, better economies of scale, more repeatable.
Hahaha, we're just getting too much traffic. We've added more compute, should be better now!
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I had the same thought this morning — but I think it’s just a little flat period in the data, and will continue to climb through the spring. No power in the ‘verse can stop it!