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F# is very much a general purpose language. The tooling and infrastructure allows one to do nearly everything that can be done in C# in F# as well, and if one needs to use C# for something that is not really an issue because the languages are fully compatible.

True, there are some things that are best done in C# like WPF, but that is not a sufficient handicap to truncate F# from the population of general purpose languages.
> Have there been any studies on what kind of office floor plans are actually optimal for work?

It's hard - every study of individuals shows they are significantly less productive in an open office environment.

But what second order effects are there?

You might be less productive individually but it might encourage team work and make the team as a whole more effective.
end thread. here is visual noise:

"oh there's bob, does bob want to say hi or is he busy? he looks stressed probably dont want to interrupt him, should i say hi? nah well he's talking to fred now so i'll go back to fixing this unit test i guess...now where was i? oh look there's gary, i probably should say hi, (he's also a manager), does he want to talk about issue X if i interrupt him", nah it will probably piss him off without a meeting and a heads up, plus i'll look like a noob,

ok back to the code again..."

x 200 times per day.

everyday.
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How would you use Firefox Containers in Private Mode? Private Mode is essentially a container that destroys itself when you close it.
> For example, I never let my wife’s Windows 7 machine go for more than about two weeks without restarting it, whereas I reboot my Linux box only every few months. One time I had a job doing software development on Windows 3.1 and my computer generally had to be rebooted at least twice a day if it was to continue working. Of the half-dozen Windows laptops that I’ve owned, none of them could reliably suspend/resume ten times without being rebooted.

I realized to my astonishment last week that despite using my Macbook for 12+ hours of coding nearly every day, I had not rebooted it in nearly four months! This only became clear when I did an OS update that needed a reboot.
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None, but that is not the point. The point is: can we use the code without hindrance in whatever plans we have now or in the future? Or is building upon the code like going into a long one-way street?

The fact that some people will use the code without giving back is secondary to that.

That is not just my opinion, because if a more liberal library comes into existence (inevitable), it will prevail.
We migrated from Sendinblue to Sendy like everyone, to save costs.

We've sent two newsletters now with Sendy. It works well. However, I dug into the code just out of curiosity and it looks pretty horrible. This doesn't give me too much confidence in upgrading to a more recent version as it works now.

At first sight, the mailtrain code looks a bit nicer, and it has a "/test" directory.
no don't give up. just be in the vocal minority that gives a shit and expects better.
The US seems to uses SSN everywhere.

The problem isn't necessarily a national ID card (after all most people have driving licenses, passports, etc). The problem is the data that's all linked and available to governments.

In today's world, where facebook knows far more than any government can, heroes like René Carmille become more and more important.
Apologies for the offence and accepting your case may be different.

But, I think it's a valid question since a lot of paid for content borders on being nothing more than an SEO game plan?

Paid content writers will often produce work that's well-structured, easy to read and grammatically correct but is just a rehash of something that's already been written about 100 times before.

I once employed a journalist to do a piece about a particular kind of insurance. She did a fair bit of research and even got quotes from prominent people in the industry.

I've seen the same piece many times in various guises, all well written but, essentially, her article with just enough of the words changed to make it 'unique'. Easy to find too since they use the quotes verbatim.

When challenged the response is always the same - 'we paid someone in good faith...'
Very few people make conscious choices to build their life or society.
Real scenario: a friend was asking me a few weeks back if I had any audio clips for the theatrical show in his kid's school. Not much, just a clock ticking, a car honk. The show was of course free (parents were acting for their kids to enjoy). All non-profit. That library would be helpful (and will be helpful next year when they'll have to perform again).

And oh how I miss GetRight. I remember it was able to jump-around and download from linked web-pages. While IDM doesn't seem to be able to crawl like this (or at least I haven't found a way).

Edit: snap if you got an Android/iOS app and want to add some sounds (e.g. "Lion roaring (inside cage)") then you fall under '8. a) for commercial purposes – to make a profit' you need permission, which sensibly one can obtain without jumping through too many hoops.
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Just FYI since you appear to be a new user: on Hacker News, writing comments like yours is considered bad form. You should instead just upvote the parent comment, that's the HN way of showing appreciation.

The reason is that, at least in theory, every comment on HN should be adding value for people to read, and reading a bunch of "thanks" messages is just a waste of time. Much better to just have the original comment appearing higher because it got more votes.
I'm a big fan of any i7 MBP generation that still has normal USB ports. After battery replacement cost used Macbook Pros are still a great deal for quality and speed, especially running a linux distro. #NotMyDongle
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What about this is specific for Facebook?

Why not apply it to every website we visit?
Source please?

If your vitriolic rant has any substance, please present it. Otherwise you just come off as a cock-sure, know nothing asshole.
I love Zulip. I really wish other IM clients implemented functionality similar to Zulip's threading. It allows for easily filtering converstations and makes reading history that much easier.

That said, what Zulip lacks right now is polish. Server installation for example is a mess. You basically need a dedicated Debian machine to install it. There is a docker image that I'm using, but it's rather unstable (if I will have to make changes to the configuration, I fear I will have to spend hours trying to fix it). You also NEED to have a SSL certificate which means that testing in a local network isn't as painless as simply installing the server. There's also problems with the search function (it barely works), lacks things like archiving topics (or hiding them), enabling app notifications using their Google Play App requires you to send them an email and a few other things. Their apps also feel sluggish. They have an old Cordova app that is slowly losing compatibility with the server and a new app that is fairly slow. The desktop app is an electron app and it also has some issues.

Thankfully issue reporting is fairly painless.
Firefox's first-party isolation (brought across from Tor Browser) will foil cross-site tracking. Combined with Privacy Badger and Cookie Autodelete, your browser won't make the requests and even if they did, they wouldn't have any cookies attached.

https://github.com/mozfreddyb/webext-firstpartyisolation
https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete
So should we now forget to disable eBPF jit in our kernel's because it is insecure (spectre attacks)? And eBPF was made even more insecure, with even more superpowers. They added tables! Not in dtrace just eBPF, because linux has so much more superpowers.

Time to switch over to a proper kernel, where such things do not happen.
It's based on my comprehension of his paragraph
I do, I bought a refurbished T430, core i5, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD and run it dual-boot with Windows / Fedora. Works brilliantly, I do all my work on it.

I brought a second one of the same spec for my 5yo daughter out of curiosity. Thinkpads are perfect for kids as they're built much tougher and can take serious amounts of liquid spills on the keyboard.

I have problems with sound and DVD playback on the second one I bought, but screen, speed and general reliability has been great.

Plus I also had an issue with the microphone jack on the first one I bought.

Battery life isn't great (~3hrs), but I typically don't need the battery for that long.
I asked first.
There is a set. It's called the power set. It contains all the sets in a space.
Don’t get me wrong, coming from an OCaml background I am a fan of F#. But I don’t see it going mainstream anytime soon, and I don’t think that that matters at all to anyone who uses it.
اطلب الان من شركة تنظيف خزانات بمكة باقل الاسعار و اعمال التنظيف المتميزة للخزانات باقل الاسعار
http://www.el3nod.com/1/company-tanks-isolation-cleaning-mec...
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Perhaps Firefox could fake thirdparty cookies instead of disallowing them.
Surely is shows that a bricycle in earth gravity is unsteerable.
Sure, however I'm currently sitting in a kind of cubicle (on an open plan floor), with 4 developers sharing what seems to be about a 3.5m x 3.5m space (I'm 1.8m, and if we all stand up and put our arms out, they'd touch), which brings it to just under 13m2, or 3.2 m2 per person. There are teams that are more cramped than even this, which I find pretty sad.
It sounds like you're after Temporary Containers: https://github.com/stoically/temporary-containers

That gets you a clean container every time you click the button. Very useful for development testing, too :).
I agree that GPL is bound to long term irrelevance due to the way most companies deal with open source.

And on that day you will miss when GNU/Linux mattered.

But hey, we will always have freeware and public domain.
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I wouldn't say it's common, but it does happen. A skid in a car due to something like an oil spill in a corner would be a lowside on a bike, and a bit of a slide. With reasonable gear (leather or high-quality textile, with shock-absorbing pads), it's relatively undramatic, but rather annoying.

It's just the nature of 2-wheeled vehicles of all kinds.
They could build a whitelist and distribute it with Firefox (?)
OpenSSL and nokogiri already work pretty well. ActiveRecord works providing you have a database driver and I’ve got a rough set of patches for pg that I’m working on right now.

I’m working on Discourse at the moment and can run the dB create and migrate tasks and I’m working on the asset compilation pipeline, but it’s all pretty rough and won’t be our final solution.
moderators? admin panel?

banning users via subnet, hostname, cidr?

These are the things I need in a chat replacement.

I've discussed possibly funding these things for riot / matrix not sure I can afford it, but I know I can't afford not to have these kinds of options in a public chat system.

looking at the features, I'd need a way to have the server download any images / attachments, check for viruses, strip any exif data, before showing preview to the room.
(evil actors host an image on their server, post it to the room, and bam they have everyone in the room's ip addy, at that point everyone's router had better be updated.

Looks interesting, and I am looking to replace a java / flash chat system from a decade ago that is yet to be beat sadly.
I regularly browse HN and click through to articles. I run firefox / noscript on both mobile and desktop. I occasionally have to enable or temp-enable some stuff in noscript to be able to read articles, but it's a small minority of cases, and probably smaller if I wasn't so prone to temp-enabling rather than enabling.

For sessions where I know I want js to "just work", like online shopping from a set of presumed-trustworthy sites, I use a different browser profile without privacy extensions, but I use it just for those purposes and avoid general browsing with it.

To make multi-profile browsing simple, I theme the profiles differently, so it's obvious which one I'm in. On desktop, my launcher for firefox does --ProfileManager --new-instance and on mobile I just use different firefoxes - ff-beta and ff itself.

Is this "too much work?" - I can see how it might look like that, but I've been using this system for a few years, and though it takes a few minutes to set up on a new system or device the maintenance overhead is low, so I'd say it's not "too much." Also, the time gained not waiting for js-encrusted sites to load probably outweighs the setup/maintenance by a considerable factor.
I had this game with my friends where you are supposed to guess who you are (name on a note on your forehead). I wrote Bill Gates on a note, thinking that would be easy, and none of them knew who he was before i explained it. They are not stupid people and all of them have higher education. Just none of them in a technical field, also not americans.
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> I don't know how you can sustainably make a laptop and sell it for $100.

I wondered about that and then saw it only has 2GB RAM and a 16GB Flash drive.
AFAIK this is against guidelines and the app shouldn't be approved in the App Store. Not sure about Google Play
Noone can challenge the government on the basis of laws, as they can be changed as needed or mechanisms introduced to ammend the law (e.g. FISA courts). You can never win against someone who can change the rules.

You can base your challenge on the constitution, but amendments show that although harder to change it isn't rock solid either, and you challenging the government is based on the interpretation of the constitution by judges (e.g. current US gun law constitution interpretion of militias).

You can base your challenge on human rights, but the US might leave the UN and doesn't care either way. The situation is a little bit better in Europe with the ECJ, where goverments can be challenged outside the framework where they make the rules.

Companies are always maximizing profits in an environment, if this means playing by the intention of the law makers, then that's it [1]. If standing up to the government because it enhances its brand (Apple security) companies will do that.

Granted, China pushes companies more then the US does, but it's not a difference in quality but quantity.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/nov/01/ns...
You have to decide what exactly it means to be a better developer, and what exactly you specifically want to achieve.

I personally made the choice, a few years ago, to focus a lot less on being a "great developer" in terms of writing the best code, and focus almost solely on "what can I actually achieve with code I write". That's why I refocused on learning new domains rather than deepen my knowledge about programming, e.g. learning ML and Data Science, instead of learning new languages or getting better at software design principles.

The end result is that, while I might never achieve mastery of software architecture or of Python or other more software development oriented things, I can effectively do new things that I had no idea how to do before.

Another example - let's say you know just Python. In choosing between learning Haskell or learning 3d programming, learning Haskell will definitely deepen your knowledge of programming, of languages, of functional programming. But, end result, you won't be able to make something qualitatively different that you couldn't make using Python. Learning 3d will allow you to make new things.

Note: I'm not saying one thing is better than the other. Different people care about different things. I'll also point out that I've been a developer for 20 years, so I hopefully achieved a pretty high level of knowledge in many purely software development ideas before branching off to learn whole new domains. :)
The optimist in me thinks that if browsers started to disallow third party cookies, ReCaptcha might have to adapt to the change and make it easier to solve if third party cookies are blocked. After all, if they didn't, they'd risk website owners moving away from ReCaptcha because visitors could no longer interact with the site.

The pessimist in me thinks that if a browser were to disallow third party cookies, users might simply switch to a different browser that does allow them.
CSS is Turing-complete.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2300836 (2011)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10734966 (2015)
I guess it's obvious but Flowdock itself is alive and under active development.
You are advocating for a crude, and disturbing, form of utilitarianism here. Ultimately, I’m a moral relativist, so I even though I can’t say another point of view is “more correct” when it comes to morality, I think engaging some effort and discernment in choosing a moral system is “good.”

That said, connecting this utilitarian reasoning to the guidelines of what research to pursue, never mind the moral aspect would lead to an impoverished field of science.

On the everyday perspective, if one is suffering from ill health, but not from poverty and malaria, the idea that concern for your suffering should be set aside until the numeric quantification of the suffering of other populations is brought in line with your own, lacks compassion.

Value systems that lack compassion defeat their own purpose.
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That makes the screen thicker, and heavier, therefore more likely to tip the whole thing over. Why do you want it behind the screen?

Other poster mentioned the thermal issues. It's probably not great for EMC either.
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You might try earplugs and earmuffs at the same time. It's a pretty effective level of sound isolation.
Meanwhile we're complaining about open floor offices.

"You're posting too fast, please slow down"... for an hour. OK, let's make it a year.
In contrast, the Chinese high school students I met who signed up for free low-quality English lessons did know who Bill Gates was, though they didn't know the name "Microsoft".
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Many countries have "tried to stave off decline by decreeing how the economy would work." Including the US.

Eg, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incomes_policy .

In the US, Truman placed the railroad under US military control in 1950, and I recall at least threats of having military take over coal mines both in the US and UK, because of worker strikes.
I feel like learning to steer it would be just as possible as learning to ride a bike you steer and pedal in reverse. You just need to get past your muscle memory.
I'm surprised that a 24 person study was considered large enough for the FDA. I've only worked with 'proper' medical devices with much greater potential for harm, but I'm used to trials involving 100s to 1000s of people.
Interesting the comments about the bubbles being detrimental to the optics. For most of last century, having bubbles in the lens elements was actually a sign of a great lens! It was eventually narrowed down on how the glass was cooled (confirmed by this article) and it seems the slight change of refraction was largely compensating for the bubble(s).

I've got some early, pre first world war lens that are absolutely amazing optically, bubbles and all.
I've also got one Tessar 4 element lens in particular, on a pre 1936 (uncoated) Zeiss 6x9 Folder that is just out of this world in sharpness.
Why not use different browsers, like chrome and firefox, or, purely within firefox, different browser profiles?
Just because something is unpopular doesn't mean that there is a reason for it. It is actually surprising how few users you need to have a viable programming language.
Nicely put. They do state in the FAQ that currently don't use genetically modified fungi, though it's a nice bonus that could be used in the future.
I believe so lol, got rejected :( but, I am going to make sure they regret there decison and develop the crypto economy
First of all without gravity and weight wheels won't get grip on the road, so no matter if it's a bicycle, tricycle, or a regular car - you can't drive it in 0 gravity, it will just jump away from the road.
I wonder how many of these problems happen because of outdated management practices since the days of serfdom that treat people as two hands and with hours in a day whom they have to whip enough to pick as much cotton as they can.

So many companies are full of upper management who think as engineering output the way one would run a chair manufacturing firm. Too many people think everything there is in a chair has been made, and the only scope left now is a little innovation here and there. All they have to do is get people to saw, hammer and glue as quickly as they can.
Quite relaxing listening to the atmosphere ones.
Fair comment but if enough people complain about open floor offices it might actually make a difference (eventually).

With Venezuela, what can we actually do that's going to change anything?
Sad but true...
That's okay, but that's not what DSL means as far as I'm aware. Which is why you got the comments about F# being general purpose.
Tensile strength, tear resistance?
By leaning and letting the front wheel steer itself, you can turn with hands off the handlebar. When I used a bike to go to the train station, I'd often bike without touching the handlebar for parts of the ride, including the turns. Yes, I was young and stupid.
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> than never look at your child again

On what basis do you even suggest that that's what happened? They say that they took 2 months off after the birth of their child (which seems reasonable) and then had to catch up on their messaging when they got back.
On a bike, even at speed you can initiate a turn by simply leaning on the side.
At 20 years old, Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates was living the privileged life of a rich white kid. His father was a prominent lawyer, and his mother served on the board of directors for First Interstate BancSystem and the United Way. Gates' maternal grandfather was JW Maxwell, a national bank president.

If anything, the story about Bill Gates shows that your own success will change your childrens' future.
you can see the changes from when this went into beta here

https://shippingreport.com/shared-report/jg4wm89y000q16579c3...
freesound.org would be safer for the school show I think
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> countersteering is always required

Only on a motorbike.
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Yeah, but for AWS. It was more an example of how serverless can cut costs, irrespective of what platform it is on.
It's both, which meaning comes across is dependent on who you're talking to I guess! Wiktionary says the drug-related meaning is from New Zealand, but it's been around here in London for at least two decades... we do have a lot of Anzacs though!
Those comment threads dispute that claim.
The front wheel still kicks out in the opposite direction and counter steers for you due to the natural stabilizing properties of the bike
Sorry, the horse does not agree it's dead.
Because weight. It won't stand if keyboard is less heavy than screen
it's kind of like the viability of unpopular social networks. people want to be where their friends are. if more people I knew used perl6, I would use perl6, because it's a beautiful language.