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So I was an early contributor to SO. At one point the top users was Jon Skeet, Marc Gravelli then me [1].

I pretty much came to this conclusion 6-7 years ago (the one in the tweet Jon is responding to). Two things were already happening then:

1. The low hanging fruit (of questions and answers) was gone. Questions were by necessity becoming more specialized. These attracted less attention (and votes). This is a common problem on online forums. Back when HN had public vote totals I'd often see someone put together a thoughtful comment and get a single upvote. Someone else would correct a typo or say the year in question was 1995 not 1996 and then 11.

2. And this is the one I had and have a real problem with: the toxic moderators took over. Those who can, answer. Those who can't, question. Those who can't do either, moderate. So many useful questions I saw getting closed as "not constructive". Useful things like "what are the benefits of A vs B?" The de facto standard became if it didn't have an objective, definitive answer a cadre of mods had decided it didn't belong on SO. Thing is, you can provide a really useful answer to the question of "should I use Python or Ruby?" with some relative pros and cons without saying one or the other.

The argument against those questions was they might be fine questions but they didn't belong on SO (eg maybe on the programmers Stack Exchange). While that might be true for some questions (particularly those career related) I found that ever shifting standard was actually detrimental to the site.

Basically it seemed like the threshold for moderating content on SO was too low.

Answerers provide the most value (IMHO). Good questions matter too. The problem seems to lie in moderators who think they provide as much value as answerers and what they do is super-important. It's useful, no argument, but it's just not on the same level.

Some of my answers have been edited 30+ times over the years for, in many cases, no good reason. Someone decides something should be capitalized. Someone else disagrees. Some of these have actually changed the meaning of the answer and I've had to go and correct the answer.

Don't get me wrong: SO is a fantastic resource. It just has its own Wikipedia editor problem.

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/users/18393/cletus
Helicopters already descend safely during power loss with autorotation, which every pilot trains. The landing site, failure of a float, and doors off operation were bigger problems here, as well as the passengers not knowing how to rapidly get out of their harness.

From the look of it, the pilot actually did alright, and successfully autorotated to a landing he expected to work. The aircraft had other ideas.
I've been on helicopters multiple times flying out to oil rigs. Never far enough to have to get the certificate via the dunk test, but every single time we wore a dry suit and watched the safety briefing.

Every time.

It's been a few decades, but to this day every time I'm in an aircraft, at take off and landing I have one hand on the buckle, one arm pointing at the escape route, feet tucked under, belt pulled tight across my hips, head pressed back.

This article reads all-too-true, and brings back many memories. Fortunately none of my memories are of tragedies like this, but they do tell me that accidents are by their very nature unpredictable. We do what we can to be prepared.

Sometimes it's not enough.
1 rep is a lot if you just registered.

I am not the "asking questions" type, so I was immediately blocked of doing anything else on the platform. Maybe I am really dumb, but the solution for me was clearly open a new account, since my reputation was bad and unchanged for more than 2 years.

Wanted to help people but was unable to answer questions. Also later being able to, but being terrified that the answer will not comply.

Although I am a developer for 8 years and use Stackoverflow everyday, I was never able to contribute much.

Mybe it could reset after a while for new people or with low rep?
You're right. The conflicts should be announced at the beginning of the article/presentation. That's what's supposed to happen anyways.
Practically all libraries you mentioned have heir quirks and don't have the native feel, even though they pretend to. Electron apps don't pretend anything, the GUI elements are different but consistent.

But apart from that, you're right: the main reason for Electron's popularity is the fact that increasingly more programmers know JS quite well whereas desktop libraries seem less and less relevant each year, which makes me very sad.
Semantic Linefeeds (2012)
Depends on the plane and your definition of gliding.
What's wrong with that? The library gets money and the book goes to someone that wants it. Win-win.
You can fly a bit without power by simply doing autorotation.
I started following this religiously for recurring decks, and the results have been outstanding.

If you want to hone your communication skills in general:

* Do not add animations
* Do not use themes
* Force every bullet point to fit on a single line
* Points need not be grammatically complete
* Use a font size that you can read from more than nine feet away
* Talk about - don't read from - the slide

And now, some unconventional advice:

PowerPoint can absolutely replace Vizio, and you should disregard all the rules when you create product announcement decks where style can trump substance. Some of those slides have over a hundred animations and must be split up into three or more pseudo-slides (initial state, N keyframe slides, final state) seamlessly.

PowerPoint is an extremely versatile tool, and its success and failure modes directly mirror the user's.
The X-Files spin off “The Lone Gunmen” posited that the US government remote controlled an airliner to crash it into WTC and create popular support for wars overseas, comparing it to the (non-fictional) Operation Northwoods.

The real kicker? It aired in March 2001. That 9/11 conspiracy theory is older than the actual attacks!
This is why the USAF has mandatory underwater egress training in which aspiring helo crewmembers are dunked, inverted, and taught how to untether and escape from inside a simulated fuselage.
1. Obama's use of social media was reported.

2. Why is whatever Obama did relevant to this story? Do two wrongs make a right?

3. Where in the linked article does the journalist inject their own opinion? I couldn't find any instances. The opinions came from the interview subjects, and are reported by the journalist as they should be.
The more likely outcome is continued use of Office at vendor interfaces.
> The best thing about this proposal is that it sets up a harmonious relationship

It does the exact opposite. It spurs a further acrimonious relationship between the major economies of the EU and the US. Particularly France and Germany, which are a combined outsized share of the EU economy and represent ~80% of the trade deficit that the US has with the EU.

This new tariff exists solely because the EU can't compete on technology and needs to raise barriers. It's the same reason any country chooses to implement lopsided tariffs, as a shield from competition.

It encourages the US to figure out how to retaliate for a new tariff that was designed to almost exclusively target US tech companies. The US will have no choice but to respond with something equally punitive on EU imports. That'll just make relations between the EU and US worse.
>> Generate good code from the beginning; don't generate bad code and optimize later

> Unfortunately this is something that no compiler I know of does,

You're probably right compared to modern compilers. What you need to compare to are the compilers of the era, which were truly abysmal.

It's not that the Wirth compilers generated fantastic code (e.g. at least one of Wirths students explored adding much more aggressive optimization to his Oberon compiler), but they generated code that was a great deal better than a lot of non-Wirth style compilers at the time.

Some compilers of the time even depended on peephole optimizer passes because the code they generated was so bad that even simple 2-3 instruction peephole passes were enough to drastically improve the code. There was little reason for this. E.g. most of the time it was a matter of as basic stuff as passing on information about the registers to use rather than the dumb/naive approach of generating everything using scratch registers that you move things to/from.

I remember back in my asm days that I once had the C source for a GUI component I wanted to use, but the code the C compiler I had available generated was so awful that in exasperation I compiled it, disassembled it, and proceeded to manually clean it up. I deleted about half the instructions of about several thousand lines of compiler output, with very minimal fixups.
Has it fallen ? Il thought its capital had moved to Washington...
Turns out we can approximate many-body wavefunctions using networks with complex weights: https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.02318.
While this is a good point, it’s not applicable in this case as the main problem is based on a dispute with inheritance that is closing and refocusing the purpose of the business.

So even the bleached coral from your example isn’t being allowed.
Investors in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies face hefty tax bills
Why wouldn't it? Archaelogists find obsidian blades thousands of years old that still have an edge.
Everything you do with customers is legal in nature

But most interactions with my customers do not begin with a multi-page letter that literally opens with a direct threat and then proceeds to demand a response on 40 different points.

Your repeated scare mongering around GDPR is fucking tedious

I run small businesses, and we have been dealing with GDPR issues. The ambiguity and overheads I have been talking about in this discussion are costing us time and money right now. Dealing with a letter like they one we're discussing would cost us more time and money. Apparently we aren't alone in these respects.

Some of the GDPR's supporters have argued that the lack of proportionality in the actual regulations is not a problem because the regulators will enforce it pragmatically. I have personally heard such arguments made about onerous EU rules before, and through my own businesses I have been on the receiving end of government mistakes and their rather unpleasant consequences. And again, that wasn't some freak unlucky event: thousands of other businesses are known to have been subject to similar problems, in more than one incident, involving more than one government authority.

A few people have suggested that involving lawyers in response to a letter like this is unnecessary. Clearly it's going to be a matter of risk assessment, but I don't think it's unreasonable. Once again, I have personally seen (at a former employer in this case) how much time can be wasted if a company gets caught up in formal legal proceedings even having done nothing wrong.

In short, there are people out there dealing with the issues you call "scare mongering" every day. These are not just hypothetical problems. Maybe you've never been caught up in them yourself, but sadly not everyone is that lucky.

especially since almost everything you've said about it is false.

If you're going to call me a liar, please at least tell me what I've written anywhere in this discussion that was false so I can set the record straight.
> Experience? [...]

> And it’s only a matter of time untill that piles up enough to justify using native UI from the start.

That's a little hyperbolic and counter to my experience.
I'm somewhat surprised the term "help vampire" didn't appear in the original post. It's not just that some people ask for homework help. It's that some people's entire repertoire of problem solving skills well into adulthood only consists of asking others.

Good questions ought to lead to better problem solving skills. Often they don't.
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Only in priston engines, and it’s mostly due to the fact that changing the engines, which are currently reliable and in many cases have been for decades, could introduce new issues. It’s a snails pace industry due to safety and reliability concerns for the most part. It’s super annoying because i always want the best new thing to go with a plane, but when you’re in the cockpit, it’s comforting knowing the plane is 8000 hours in and nothing significant has changed since it was initially made (other than what was mandated by the maker) so it’s probay going to be fine for your 1.5 hour flight.
That’s great to hear! I see RedisConf is at April’s end. Would it be possible to get early access? RedisGraph is a crucial component of a system I am designing.
Can't tech giants just split their EU operations in 2, and thus split the revenue, and thus dodge the tax
Yes. https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Gr....

I don’t think it is easier because of that mapping, though. The basic drawing operators are just a tiny part of creating a PDF reader; you also have to support various PDF features such as password protection, forms support, embedded JavaScript, etc, and you need a good library for building the GUI.
There is currently a strong effort to move away from leaded fuels, and multiple producers have been selected by the FAA to formulate and sell fuel blends that present the desired octane ratings and are proven safe. The fist certifications of such fuels is expected this year:

https://www.faa.gov/nextgen/where_we_are_now/nextgen_update/...
Yes, they are still there, but the protectionism is what allowed the local companies (Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba etc) to compete initially and be better in the end. Whereas in EU, local competition has been crushed and it is now stuck with the monopolies.
That's one thing Jon didn't touch on, the downvote. It's the easiest thing in the world for the giver, but to the receiver it feels like a kick in the gut. It definitely contributes to the feeling of hostility.

Personally I try to use my downvotes only as a last resort, for factually wrong answers or questions where clarification attempts went nowhere.
GPP asked a general question, they weren't referring to the UI in the article.
Well, I think you are making a very valid point. Germany and France sure like throwing their weight around and have earned plenty of appropriate criticism for their actions. They will most likely continue to do so. Just like with the US on a global level, large, influential economies will often bully smaller ones into situations favourable to their own goals.

I do not know what the point of the European Single Market was. In fact, I'd be interested to hear someone with the know-how tell me. Was it to create a trading zone where the same rules applied to everyone? Or was it just supposed to ease trade across borders by creating some kind of customs framework and abolishing tariffs, etc.?

Now the point I was making wasn't specifically about Ireland. I could have said Italy as well. I just wanted to point out that paying taxes is a huge deal. Not just for filling the coffers of the European Union, but as a symbol of everyone paying into the social contract.

If people see nothing but giant corporations exploiting the legal systems of countries to dodge taxes, people think they could do so, too. It disenfranchises the populace and just ends up giving more rise to populism, which is possibly the biggest scourge on society at this moment in time. Populism leads to fascism. The whole tax malarkey plays into this. It's not the root cause of populism (not sure there is one) and it's certainly not Ireland's fault that they managed to attract business through favourable business tax rates, but something needs to be done about the blatant tax avoidance by these international players and I think this is a good first step, which will surely see some refinement down the line.

So, again, I think you make a valid point, but I also believe that my original point stands also.

By the way, there's one country that was afraid enough of tax regulation that they fooled a sufficiently large proportion of their populace into voting for one of the most insane political decisions of the last decades. In a non-binding referendum, which is somehow, miraculously, being implemented with a kind of fervour and passion not seen since the Apollo program. (While actually important societal issues would never be put up to a referendum and even then, if people voted the wrong way (aka, against short term financial gain, or archaic doctrine), would simply go ignored. Hmmmm....)
Which means you better have somewhere you can land in range of 200 kilometers if we are talking about passenger liners.
Anything out on a (well traveled) sidewalk is going to be constantly moved around by traffic (and weather) causing it to abrade against the sidewalk itself (and whatever else is around) causing it to 'weather' away (round off).

Pretty much anything old we find like those knives are pretty much guaranteed to have been essentially buried all at once, and then left more or less undisturbed from that moment on. Minimal physical movement, minimal abrasion, minimal dulling of edges.
It's not a tariff. EU companies are treated the same.
Mercury: Dental amalgams (aka silver fillings)
Pesticides and herbicides
Companies do this via E-Mail? Where I work you send someone a Google Calendar invite and they click "yes" or "no", and they can see if you have a free spot in your schedule beforehand, so it rarely goes wrong.
> It's also interesting that other Stack Exchange communities are not that strict.

Its a matter of scale and the ratio of the amount of time people are willing to help to the incoming question rate.

Lets say there are 500 people who are willing to spend the time to help a user craft a better question. They are willing to spend 60 minutes per day helping. Thats 30,000 minutes per day. There are 8,000 question/day. If we generously apply Sturgeon's law to this, thats 7,2000 questions in need of help.

And now we're at 4.2 minutes per question for those 500 people. If you believe this is a smaller number based on https://stackoverflow.com/review/helper/stats and https://stackoverflow.com/review/close/stats then apply the appropriate scaling.

You might want to work off of the values in https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/357198/mentorship-r...

> 63 mentors from the community volunteered to be our partners.

Lets think about a smaller site now. Electrical Engineering gets 80 questions per day. DBA gets 40. Now you've got a point where each question with potential to it can have someone spend a significant amount of time making it into a good question for the site.

The other half to that is the curation of the answers. Questions with discussions and polling are a nightmare to keep curated. Consider https://stackoverflow.com/q/1711 or https://stackoverflow.com/q/406760 or https://stackoverflow.com/q/184618 and how many duplicate answers there are in there. Consider that if that was open, how often would a new user go to that post and create another poor answer to add their own opinion.

Yes, each time a new answer is posted, there's activity on that the question that bumps it to the front page... but the front page scrolls too fast to do meaningful curation for all but the worst (and this also takes time out of the 1h for those 500 people).

A smaller site can spend a lot more time per user to guide them to ask a good question and a lot more time per answer to make it something that is a good answer.
The problem with Qt, GTK, etc. is that you can't use them on websites[1]. Meanwhile you can build most applications as websites, which don't require any installation and are available everywhere and instantly.

I am a Linux desktop user myself, so I have some sympathy for Qt, GTK and software distribution via package managers. Nevertheless, as a developer I like the web better, as that is a platform which allows me to easily distribute my applications to anybody on any platform within seconds.

Performance on the other hand is a topic by itself. The problem I see with web applications here, is that it is much easier to create a bad performing program with web technology than with compiled languages and toolkits. But that is something you can learn and if you create some performance critical software, easy distribution might not be your top priority.

[1]: I mean I have seen GTK rendered on a html canvas some years ago, but as far as I know nobody actually uses that kind of tech.
Director of Israel’s largest Communications company to join a blockchain startup
> from the 70s

"But they still work!" is not a good excuse to pollute.
Dropbox S-1 teardown
Also, most small airports only carry one fuel, i imagine those making new planes don’t get customers excited about planes you cannot take everywhere due to limited availability of fuels.

I love/hate flying for all these reasons.
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So where does one find discussion forums where those kinds of questions are welcome? Did StackOverflow kill them off?
What you are describing are Trump's steel tariffs, which indeed make no sense and do exactly what you say.

I believe what the EU has realised, is, that trying to tax the profits of corporations that will simply move them around and declare them wherever they don't have to pay taxes on them, is a game of cat and mouse the EU can't win. So, they decided to go a different route.

When Google decided they could negotiate the tax they had to pay in the UK with George Osborne, the public outcry was massive (think: "Why can't I get an appointment with HMRC to negotiate what I owe in taxes?").

The EU needs to show that the social contract is non-negotiable, lest it face further disenfranchisement of the populace.

This is a good first step in the right direction, in my opinion. Whether it's tech companies, or any other big industrial conglomerate, tax avoidance is not acceptable.
Ad-Hominem and Whataboutism on the same comment, congrats
> I am not sure that one massacre, no matter how bad it is, defines a whole war.

Considering that millions of vietnamese were massacred during the whole war, you are right. My Lai was just a microcosm of an even greater atrocity.

> The Vietnam war was meant to block the expansion of communism which at that time had a fair amount of blood on its hand.

So using that logic, vietnam could invade the US because we have a fair amount of blood on our hands?

Why didn't we invade australia which was wiping out the aborigines?

It just seems like rationalizations just for the sake of rationalization. Like we invaded iraq to bring freedom.
PSD is not a good format
Keep in mind that not every helicopter spoiling your waterfront is sightseeing. Public safety, medical, and even private travel helicopter flights are very common in New York, so if you ban sightseeing you’re still only part of the way there. I’d suggest that it’s really just the size of NYC causing the annoyance that you experience.

Look at the bright side: they aren’t Hueys. You’d probably lose your mind if a squadron of angry Hueys thumped up the FDR on the deck. At least the average 206 or Eurocopter you’d see is designed to be somewhat reasonable.
You still have Cessnas from the 60s in my local club!
Do EU companies exist that do fall under this law? Can’t think of one right now.