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My first programming experience was on my Atari XE. It would run 2600 games, but if you didn't put a game in it would come up with BASIC. I didn't have the optional floppy drive, nor did it have a hard drive of any kind, so when the computer shut off, my program was gone. I used to LIST and write the programs into a notebook and give hell to my mom when she would turn off the machine while I was at school (I was 9).

Years later I got an old IBM PC JR with a Cartridge version of BASICA. That had a floppy drive (the 5.25 ones that were actually floppy) and I was able to save my programs. I wrote a few simple games. At this time, the Pentium had already come out, I had just been playing with older machine.

My next machine was a Pentium 75 Mhz with 16 MB of ram (which I eventually upped to the max 128 MB). I got my hands on a floppy drive and brought all my code over and opened it up with quickbasic. Unfortunately I had been relying on the CPU timing and all my programs were way too fast (e.g. the pong paddle would move instantly to the other side of the screen). And it wasn't until about a month in that I had realized (being self-taught, sometimes you miss things) that the line numbers were optional. I could create functions! The rest was history.
What agenda is it you see in this? I mean, the author seems to believe that higher education is a net good thing, which you can disagree with if you like. A lot of people seem to disagree though evidenced by gifts made to universities, the effort put into going to college, etc. I thoroughly enjoyed college (went on to get a PhD in physics) and I never viewed it in terms of job training. For me, it was the first time I heard solid rational conservative arguments that made me think hard about my positions on social and economic issues.
Wanted to say this too. Unfortunate. It’s awful that it is illegal (and for the most part unknown) in the states.
The main problem with the ISS is that the wrong budget is paying for it. It should be in the arts and education sector, instead of NASA.
I'm only having fun but yes, I am sure it's a solid source. I have in fact inputted one of my weaker (common, low-impact forum-only) passwords there in the past. It was pwned.
> It depends. The best gun is the one you're most familiar with shooting. If the one you'll spend the most time shooting is an AR-15, then it's that one.

So what you are saying is that banning the AR-15 shouldn't be problematic for people, because they can simply become familiar with other options like shotguns, making them the best gun for them?

> It's also irrelevant. Home protection isn't the only reason you'd have a gun in a rural setting. They're also quite excellent for keeping groundhogs and coyotes off of one's property, and for recreational purposes.

> This mindset of people who know nothing about guns (e.g. not knowing what an assault rifle is) claiming "You should only be allowed to have what I think you need" is the exact problem at the heart of this discussion.

I think the exact problem is not "you should only be allowed to have what I think you need". Every regulation and law in existence is a variation of "you should only be allowed to do X to the extent I think you need". A speed limit is functionally equivalent to the statement "you should only be allowed to drive as fast as I think you need". They are all attempts at balancing utility (how fast you can drive) and costs for yourself and those around you (getting in a crash).

The actual problem is the mindset of people like yourself claiming the utility of weapons like the AR-15 for tasks like groundhog control and recreation outweighs the costs of AR-15s being used to take human lives.
A lunar outpost is a good idea as a platform for staging deep space missions. Launching from the Moon is much cheaper than launching from Earth (in terms of delta-V) if you can build out in-situ fuel production, plus more novel launch mechanisms like space elevators and mass drivers are more feasible on the Moon than on Earth. The far side of the Moon is also an interesting platform for astronomy. We'd also learn a lot about a Mars mission by being on the moon, such as proving out safe long-term habitats at a distance where rescue missions are feasible, studying the effects of low (rather than zero) gravity in the long term, etc.
I ended up having to make a similar flow for subscription cancellation. We've been spending lots of time removing obstacles to subscribe. CEO got a brilliant idea to hire a call center and require call-to-cancel.

After weeks of "debate" we settled on a 5 page "are you sure?" "are you super duper sure?" "Everyone loves you and will miss you. are you sure?" with confusing buttons "Cancel" cancels your subscription deactivation process (subscription is still active) you have to choose "I want to deactivate my subscription" on each page. I feel a bit dead inside.
Yes, like that is something positive. Sweden is becoming more and more like the US and that is something I do not like in most regards.
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I tried to address that gently in my second paragraph. Every one of those were abandoned. The most complete one's developer said "what the hell was I doing?" onve he finally gave angular 1 a shot.
Google employees are well to the right side of the bell curve. Go to the airport if you want to see what normal is. How many of the people there could work for Google? Then consider that those are people who can either afford to fly for leisure or whose jobs are important enough that work is paying for them to fly.

Also, I'd imagine the extremes matter more for cognitively demanding tasks.
The terraform plugin for jetbrains products works really well. It auto completes all the resource types and knows what keys are valid under each one, so will suggest keys and highlight a resource as invalid if it’s missing a required key. I can’t imagine coding terraform plans without it.
Or you can just perform manual pollination https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand-pollination .

This has actually been done in China due to their bee population declining.

https://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/5193-De...
QuickBasic was nice, but I was more fond of Turbo Basic, but Borland ended up killing it.

Ironically Microsoft did the opposite, they killed Quick Pascal.
Direct link to pdf: http://www.rsme.es/comis/mujmat/documentos/Nature442.pdf
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> It’s pretty obvious that the spite goes both ways, and has for as long as I can remember.

you are right. Maybe I should have mentioned. My intention was not to single out anyone but to talk to the people who actually attend HN.
How so? Visual studio still doesn’t reveal the right context when you actually find out the error has occurred.
Realistically, there's nothing I can do about it because the eviction process is so long and time consuming, that by the time I finally evict the person, my lease would be over and I'd be moving out anyway. After having given my roommate free housing for many months of course.

> "Giving people housing is important"

I agree! So let's make the government financially liable for any missed rent payments, while the eviction process is pending. After all, if providing its citizens with housing is so important, it should be the state's financial responsibility, not that of a random landlord whose contract was violated. I'm all for universal basic income, but not income-appropriated-from-a-few-random-landlords.

> "Price it into your rent"

Ah, now we get to the real rub. Everyone already does this. If you're a rich, successful individual, you have the luxury of living anywhere you want, at market prices. If you're down on your luck, but want to turn things around, you'll find that many places will refuse to accept you anyway, because the risk is too great. Or they will offer you housing at significantly higher rents, because of the additional risks involved. Either way, you're getting screwed, just because some other deadbeat thinks he's entitled to free housing at the landlord's expense.
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Meh, persona choice. I really like the default color schemes.
> Get injured and not be able to work for a year? Huh, not sure someone with that kind of resume gap is the kind of person that we want to hire.

This is often voiced in HN as "a bad hire is a liability", which I mentally translate to "my life has gone so smoothly, I've lost the ability to imagine a life history unlike my own".
Yeah it's a shame. I thought the comments on this one were pretty civil and reasonable.
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I remember still being able to delete files and synch those changes. So that should be no problem.
SRI-NIC wiped all the WHOIS NIC handles when they handed the job on to somebody else. Network Solutions I think. So, my 1985 NIC handle got wiped by the dotcom boom sometime between 1992 and 1998.

Stuff been dyin' on the internet since forever.
Nihilism is a high-brow thing for high-brow people. You're right that it is a dangerous thing, but I think before nihilism, for most it leads to depression, anxiety, anomie, and then all sorts of destructive self-medication.
well, let's say I run idiotService, and you login with a nice strong randomly generated passphrase, but since I'm idiotService, I just store it plaintext and check against it.. to make matters worse, some bad guy steals my password list, but I'm such an idiot I didn't even notice...

Troy hunt, in his ever-long quest of getting copies of these breaches, eventually gets a copy of all of my passwords and adds it to his database, and now suddenly, you the user get a warning, uhh.. this password is in the pwned-passwords DB... and now you know idiotService really is an idiot.
I see this as more of the condescending attitude of the type the comment was complaining about.
A link to the full article might be better than to the subsection.
It might be a disorder, but that doesn't mean they don't have one. After all, it takes a lot more work to develop a theory of mind about someone who's not like you (as people with autism have to do every day) than to assume everyone you meet is like you (like most people can get away with most days).
You can. Instead of passing null through the chain you could pass an actual error object.

Check out Elixir With statements for example: http://openmymind.net/Elixirs-With-Statement/

We do something similar in ruby with deterministic gem. Each action returns Success(value) or Failure(error). The error object is one of our own defined error instances (e.g. Responses::Unauthorized.new(msg)). These are then translated to actual error codes and messages in the web layer.

We added something similar to do-notion for ruby in deterministic gem. Not very nice but makes using deterministic a bit more convenient. https://github.com/pzol/deterministic#chaining-with-in_seque...
I saw a video at some point about this test: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally%E2%80%93Anne_test

I actually talk about it all the time. One time I was in a car with a good sample set of children and only those over a certain age answered correctly. So interesting.
This is not possible in regular Haskell. For one, it isn't obvious how to do such a desugaring and, even if it were, this is pretty gross.

I remember a co-worker finding some weird combination of old extensions which allowed you to do something gross-ish of this form. I've _never_ seen such a thing in real life.

The only practical issue that comes close to this is sometimes trying to figure out _what_ monad a particular `do` block is running with (my mental type inference falls short of the compiler's).
I assume they are using a cyclotron accelerator.

Basically its a large disk with a spiral track on the inside. The disk is then oscillated in along its flat plane, like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPLzsRojo_A

There was a video of a marble cyclotron, that basically had a spiral like the above, but instead of tilting, the whole disk moved along the z axis (as we look at it, x up, y left and right) it was about 1 meter wide, and was oscillating at about 2hz, that was capable of ejecting marble sized objects at about 500 mph or something similar.

So I can see the method, but I doubt how payloads will survive that level of G.

edit This idea:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnZWu1FXxd4
"Clicking the Check Password button will call out to Troy’s service and let you know if your password exists in his database. "

I think the point is to see if any password you've come up with (either generated in 1password or on your own) has been breached and you don't know it. If you do have unique passwords for everything and you see that it's there, then you would know what's been pwned.
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This is not LIFE.

It made a motherfucking article in nymag.com.

AKA it'll never be your boring life.

AKA You get to choose the interesting bits of life and what you want to be in nymag.com mag if you want to try really hard.

Otherwise skip the horror, tone it down a fuckload and live life in a good way.

Most people won't fuck you over, don't become the cunt that thinks they will (With a little caution) else you'll just become the 'evil' person in the article and the subject of the next story as the cynical hate the world stip it of everything person.
I don't think your actions were irresponsible. I would assume someone with domain knowledge of the area you changed did a proper code review, especially since you were an intern.

If there's not time to write proper tests for code, there's not time for manual testing either. Testing every line of a code change can burn a lot of your time up.

Additionally, if a seemingly strange way to do something is necessary for proper function, there should have been a comment in the code to explain why it was doing something in such a particular way.
From http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/pesticide-bee-bird-deaths-ne...

"Neonicotinoids, also known as neonics, are nicotine-based pesticides commonly used by farmers to help keep everything from field crops to fruit orchards free of pests ... Bees were consuming pollen contaminated with neonics as well as flying through chemical-laden clouds of dust from farm fields ... since Europe began barring the use of neonics, there has been success at limiting the exposure honey bees have to the toxic chemicals, without a significant reduction in crop yields."

and

"beekeeping is a big business and without bees, billions of dollars of farm crops would go unpollinated. "Beyond honeybees, there are all the wild bees, all these pollinators and behind all these pollinators there are some other invertebrates, the ones living in the soil, flying invertebrates, the ones in the water," ... "Nobody cares about that. There is no money in these invertebrates. However they are giving a huge service to the quality of soil, to all the ecosystem services that we need."
Do you also eat co-worker's lunches? Why is eating what you don't buy an issue?

You'd be spending an evening on the toilet by the third day. And I would have laxatives and air freshener as part of my regular grocery shopping list. This arrangement I would be okay with; you get your food, and I get my entertainment.
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XE did not run 2600 games.
It might be that you've stumbled upon some issue that didn't get updated?

I've checked a few weekly issues and they all seem to be regularly updated. The comments seem to be locked to avoid anyone posting one in order to avoid anyone spamming everyone who subscribed.
Looks like someone else has been around the block a couple times.

There are going to be massive opportunities for good consultants in this muddle. I'm currently watching one train wreck, thankfully at a distance. Nothing novel - they moved ops under the engineering umbrella. The engineering manager not only has no clue what the differences in managing the two are, but seems unaware that there are any. So of course the good system people quickly left, the engineers are slowly discovering that containers don't magically erase the need for understanding how things work, and they're spending six figures a month on K8s consultants.

We seem to have a generational cycle on IT/sysadmin/ops hate. As you get older, it becomes amusing watching every new batch of engineers learn why they exist.
Some background--emlid, the company that is producing this module, relied on Intel Edison modules for the compute power behind their RTK GPS products. The Edison modules were recently EOL'ed.

I would guess that this module is primarily being developed as a replacement for the Edison emlid's RTK products, and they are pitching it as a separate product as well to recoup some of the development costs.
Type-2 diabetes is a sham diagnosis. A key factor in the development of "insulin resistance" is the overconsumption of vegetable oils. These thin oils go rancid in the production process, and have to be "refined" to remove the rancid smell.

Before the middle of the 20th century, linseed oil and soybean oil were drying oils that were used to make stain and paint. When the paint producers figured out how to make paint from petroleum, the seed oil industry rebranded their product as "vegetable oil".
Olympic cross country skiers eat 8,000 calories a day. It's exhausting
What is "that", or rather how? "broken"? Language is inherently underspecific, yes, but that's the opposite of "fine". The passive is well understood, therefore it should be used. It just baffles me how coders could glance over this. I probably would't have said anything if the topic wasn't a legal matter where precise language is paramount. Suddenly you are framed for cannibalistic tendencies.
it means that the fact that the monad is looping or checking for null or awaiting a future is coded in the function itself, and hidden when reading the for loop. When types are heavily overloaded, it can take minutes to know if we are looping a iterable, awaiting a futurable or checking for null a maybeable. And what about a Maybe(List) ? a Future of list ? Common, how is this not Hell ?
While the comment is generally true, just hope that the college of your choice agrees with the notion. I would research the colleges in consideration to make sure they could fulfill such ideals.
Takes 15 days where I live to fully evict someone.

I was going to buy a house when I lived in SF and rent out the other 2 floors (to make it both reasonable to me and renters). After reading up on the laws I noped the fuck out of that.
>Even easier than hacking through router bugs is just setting up an imposter cell-phone “tower” near the voting machine; one commonly used brand of these, used by many police departments, is called “Stingray.”

am i too optimistic to assume that the voting machines at least use TLS?
Thanks for replying. In my long-ago time living in South America, it was pretty common for people to save money as hard currency. But they'd just do a single exchange, local currency for USD. Could you say more about what makes the two-step through Bitcoin easier and safer than going direct? And have you estimated the extra cost for the extra leg?
I think the tl;dr is: security is hard. Really hard. In fact anyone who trivializes the complexity of keeping voting secure (including congress) is not understanding it.
Well students imitate masters before taking their place.
QBasic got me interested in programming, I owe a lot to it even if by modern standards it's a pretty terrible language.

VB6 is dead though, everyone wants COM to die so even if MS open sourced it there's no real reason to continue putting effort into it. There are alternative that work reasonably well though, like Gambas (open source).
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Ultimately Docker is just a set of linux features bundled together in a nice package

And that's where it gets kinda scary. In Zones/Jails, you started with as little shared as possible. A jail/zone is a fresh isolated environment. With Docker (and really all Linux container implementations) you have hack-and-slash isolation going on. It's a loosely coupled collection of namespacing mechanisms that relies on whatever spawns the container to coordinate all these mechanisms. By default, they all will happily put the process in a shared space.
It's actually a complex one, and a constant source of user complaints.

The coloring shown, and delay markers, are as the traffic is now.

The actual route planning is done with data as the traffic is predicted to be.
Key exchange is a non issue with these systems making secure SSL connections viable. However, I don't think they actually need modems in the first place. IMO, they are ideally purely independent boxes, simply print a receipt or even just display their output.

A few pictures of the output in the hands of observers and 'tampering' after that point becomes pointless.
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> Different markets have different requirements.

That's my point exactly.

> The platform seems to be scalable and will be able to provide bigger hulls as well.

The platform won't scale up 5x to meet UPS's needs, it will require a new platform which is what UPS is piloting.
> If it deters people from buying properties for renting to others by making it not as lucrative, it keeps the prices down and makes housing affordable for man

Eviction control makes “some form of rent control necessary: in its absence, the landlord could charge an astronomic rent instead of sending a notice of termination” [1]. Rent controls have a documented effect of suppressing new housing supply, thereby raising rents. Furthermore, “subsequent to the introduction of [German] eviction control in 1971 and 1975, the number of evictions first decreased and then, after some short time interval, returned to its normal average” (page 473).

[1] https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/92900/1/Homburg1993T...
Between a burner or a VOIP number there seem to be options, and I’m not sure that Signal dropping their requirement would improve the platform.
I believe that monad transformers can be used to solve this issue.
(1) Your sentiment is common on HN and I do agree that a college degree is overemphasized as a universal panacea, but it's also absolutely true that lots of people benefit from a university education. Comments like yours make it sound like every individual student would be better off if they skipped college. I don't think that's true.

(2) Going to college is like joining a gym. Some people go to the gym every day, seek out the in-house trainers for free tips, study fitness YouTube videos in their spare time, maybe even make a ton of friends at the gym. Other people pay the same monthly fee but can never seem to find the time to actually go to the gym yet they find plenty of time to play video games and eat junk food. My point is that you can't blame the gym if you don't get in shape. Students have to actively participate in the process if they are going to get the most out of it and unfortunately many do not. I don't think that's entirely the responsibility of the college.
It's not open source or free, but check out Xojo - xojo.com - which is a kind of cross-platform spiritual successor to VB6.

Of course, Visual Basic lives on (as part of the free-as-in-beer Visual Studio).