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I have seen 2 types of bashers. One which seems typical line of business app developers. They disparage other languages, praise theirs on basic things like IDEs, libs etc. I don't mind these much.

However others who approach from position of authority like compiler hackers, language authors themselves, or very senior developers etc. Ideally criticism from them should be more valid but more often than not I have seen they keep making bad faith arguments and justify their hate by precise technical arguments so they can't be challenged by non-technical arguments. It makes vary of their arguments even on topics other than favorite programing language.
I'm surprised this article would miss that restaurants are designed to be loud!

https://www.bonappetit.com/test-kitchen/ingredients/article/...

We spend more and eat quicker when in an aggressive loud environment.
I was in a meeting where this just happened. And as liberal as I am, it is exactly PC nitpicking. You can also choose to lead by example rather than correcting people. Despite all the good intentions in the world, people may not react well to this style, making your contribution locally ineffective.

This is double if the person you're correcting doesn't think what they're doing is "wrong".
Most kids won't do the home part - unless parents force them. Simple as that. Moreover, traditional model defined as "kids only lis ten in school and only do exercises at home" is a strawman not really done in practice. (That is how we know they don't read if they think they can get away with it.)
This is the same thing that happens in Russia. Recently it banned Telegram, so if you want to advertise VPN in Russian social networks, your ad gets rejected. There is no law forbidding to advertise VPNs but social networks do not want problems with the government. Or if you try to put an ad for anti-government rally, it will also get rejected.

As I understand there is no law or court decision banning Kaspersky from advertising.
It would be an excuse for political and legislative brinkmanship on a schedule. They can always make changes to the details without a clock adding artificial urgency. It's clear it's the kind of law we want on the books, and to have a penalty on the books, indefinitely. Unlike, say, the chicken tax.
>>> I've never seen post-grad requirement for a dev unless it's a cutting edge research position and they need PhD's from the problem domain.

I've seen it in almost every place I worked for in London. The floor is either only people with degrees or only people with no degrees.

The degree is never announced as a requirement, it's rather selected automatically during the interview. For instance in programming, some questions about state machines and graph traversal will do a wonderful filter.
Having worked in "big banks", I can say that there is a complete disconnect on the top. These people (on the top) sit on an ivory tower, think that they will bark orders and the slaves will obey. They become so big and slow-moving, that only by insane cost-cutting (at the expense of real customer service) keeps them viable, and keeps the shareholders happy.

The disconnect from the ground (and being surrounded by cronies and yes-men/women who keep them blind and stupid) causes the poor service.
Please understand that the size of the population which uses this limited use case in my country is greater than multiple western countries' populations combined. I've been a developer for nearly 7 years and make a good amount of money in my country. Yet I've never touched an airplane. I'm telling this to point out the difference in living styles between the two zones of earth. All tech companies are rushing to capture market in the developing countries because we are poor now but in 20 years we may well be up there along with you all.
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Well, at least I know why my location app gives me nearest locations that are 100 meters away. I hope Uber will open this up as an API for getting more accurate readings but it probably is biased in placing you on a road which isn't as useful for what I'm doing.
No offense, the length of your comment reads like a Terms of Service Contract.
Yeah except a lot of debit cards have a $500 daily transaction limit.
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It's certainly a labor issue, but can you explain how it's the union's fault? Staffing a train for 30+ hours is 10x more expensive than staffing an airplane for 3. It's not the number of workers, but the time cost of workers. Don't forget to account for the ground crew when discussing planes.
I have never purchased property in the US, but I keep reading horrible anecdote after horrible anecdote, so I have to ask:

As a buyer, why would I even care who the seller has their mortgage with? Why would that matter?

Where I'm from, the real estate agent deals with that shit. When you close the deal, the agent calls up the new bank or faxes them or whatever so that they open a mortgage for X amount for the piece of property for the buyer, and directs them to send Y to the old bank so that they close out the previous mortgage, and Z to the agent's account, who then takes their cut, and forwards the remainder to the seller.

Is this not how it works in the US?
I've only taken Amtrak once, from Portland to San Francisco. One of the best parts was having dinner in the dining car. Two older ladies invited me to join them because I was by myself and we had a nice chat while cruising through the mountains. Sad to see it go, but I guess it was only a matter of time.
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eSIM devices don't necessarily have a slot.
I'm fairly anti-social, but I actually love meeting people in the dining car. Some of the best socializing experiences I've ever had.
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Not sure if troll, but giving the benefit of the doubt...

You are clearly posting a comment comprised of letters of the alphabet. How would one do so without knowing the alphabet, assuming you typed it out rather than dictated it. And well, you also read the original reply. So are you having all that dictated for you? Or are you implying the reading/writing does not require knowing the alphabet (which is difficult to believe, but who knows)?

About the use of an alphabet, have you used a dictionary or any other system that is alphabetically ordered?
from 2005 but still great to see BMW investigating
Standards are generally classes, not instances.

Having said that, what we really need to focus on is getting baseband software ripped open so that there are no longer any fixed identifiers such as IMEIs. Hardware with a mandatory surveillance identity has no place in a Free society.
Well they can't possibly have the same hiring bar they used to, due to the amount of hires they need. When you're a smaller company, or a rapidly growing one, you can't really afford a bad egg. At google's current size, they can. To be clear, I think their hiring standard has dropped. But that doesn't mean they don't still have very talented people. Or that their average competence level isn't high compared to other companies
Episode #86 for those interested

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31P7Ty9QIFI

Audio: https://samharris.org/podcasts/from-cells-to-cities/

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/waking-up-with-sam-harri...
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The article is a worthwhile read. especially with its full complement of photos, but not via Jalopnik.
I've never seen a system or project that's had a "big" change that wasn't always a total rewrite.

I guess it's always envisioned differently like "can we tackle this subsystem in isolation".
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What makes you say it's not a good mobile protocol? It had some problems in the early 2000s on mobile, but these days it has stream management similar to TCPs and XML compresses very well. As I mentioned in another comment, there are people running it over very low bandwidth HF radio, if it works well there it works well over phones, but I'd be curious to see why people still think otherwise. (Google Talk, naturally, never did implement any of the parts that make it good on mobile, just lilke they refused to do TLS on server to server connections, so note that I'm not arguing that Google Talk was good on mobile, just that if they'd worked on it a bit it could have been)
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*servicer. Fannie or Freddie probably own the note.
I'm not going to argue with you I know who you are (I don't mean it in a negative way).

But at least from my previous experience beyond intelligence gathering and information warfare "cyber" has been a key component of military operations.

Anything from SEAD to hacking into civilian and critical infrastructure for direct support of an operation is a common place, it was in so about a decade ago which is my last privileged exposure to such activities and it so still now.

Tracking enemy combatants via their mobile devices, breaking into mobile carriers disturbing C&C/C4/C3I networks and kinetic payloads to disrupt both temporary/field deployed (I have a few anecdotes about Mitsubishi generators and their TELYS control panels) and permanent infrastructure are not limited to the presale decks that Lockheed Martin presents to the DoD.

My exposure is also completely devoid of any contact with any US defense contractors or an other US organization but rather through an MNNA.
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> the world wasn't ready

Your world. The US. There are plenty of countries where checks were phased out many decades ago. :-)
DC was founded and laid out about a century before the automobile was invented. I don't think you can say it was designed for cars.
Did I mention focused on solving real problems with a minimum of fuss?

If you can't get topline metrics dashboards for every service you're running in Kubernetes within 60 seconds of installing Conduit, I will literally* send a team of engineers to your house to fix it right in front of your face.

(* not actually literally)
I've always disliked the "BIG TEXT CHOPPED-OUT BUT YOU'LL READ IT BELOW AGAIN IN JUST A SECOND" paradigm in magazines and newspapers. Like, I'm reading the article anyway, why suddenly spit some of the words in my face super big? I'm guessing it's for skimmers, catch their eye and bring them into an interesting paragraph that's further down from the top.

But this article does it at the beginning... we read the sentence "Hello, I used to build very large JavaScript applications" three times. First as an image, then as a label for the image... and then as the first sentence of the article. Why lol
A forced relocation may be regarded as a constructive dismissal. I would think if you were terminated for not accepting a transfer IBM would have a hard time claiming it was voluntary.
Hi fellow Michigander!

I used to have the same on ATT, but recently got T Mobile:

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112 down, 14 up. Unlimited, for less than 3 GB cost at ATT.

Honestly don't know why I still give Comcast $25/mo.
Quantum supremacy is 10-15 years out (from what I’ve heard). Is it normal for people to be worried about threats so far out? We don’t even know if Bitcoin will exist then; only concern would be the cryptography that underpins it which is a greater issue.
No. There are no loan assumptions in US. Seller’s mortgage holder is irrelevant.
My point was only about the type of service you can expect at a bank of this type. Therefore, I gave another anecdote (my experience at a comparable bank, and another at a smaller/different type of bank).

I agree that the culture at Wells Fargo appears to have been one of rapacious greed. What I do not understand is how the previous CEO and his underling (the woman who retired) were not hauled before a judge on a range of criminal charges. Maybe CFPB does not have prosecuting power, but surely they can refer to DoJ for prosecution?
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Such revelation should cause heads to roll, people being released, pardoned and being paid compensation beside the end of prohibition. But there is not much happening. Why people are in such apathy?
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It seems they want cheap code monkeys. At least from Pike's quote.
> The template supports Ethereum mining, the EthStats and EthExplorer status pages, ...

Literally the first use case mentioned.
Is this intended to be an allusion to the alleged Comey-Clapper-Clinton conspiracy?
Perhaps in digital advertising? In some cases you have multiple actors (say 10) with data simultaneously created by 5. Ensuring these agree today is hard and knowing who to trust is hard. Consensus algorithms and Blockchain’s can help the 5 + 5 here.
The name tar comes from Tape ARchive. Lots of padding makes sense when you know that tar was originally used to write files to magnetic tape, which is highly block oriented. The use of tar today as a bundling and distribution format is something of a misapplication, as it lacks features one might want of such a program.
I don't think it's fair to refer to Scala's syntax non-specifically like that. Scala allows you to write code that looks like Java or code that looks closer to Haskell. It's a very wide spectrum.

You're probably referring to the worst of Scala.

Personally, I don't find expression-centric, brace-less Scala to be "rather ugly".
Good, screw them both. Had issues with AT&T in the past not liking my unlocked Samsung Note phone. They would not provision it fully and caused my service to suffer.
The computer engineering exam has tons of the underpinnings covered, with a whole section on relevant math. Where as the software one pretty much only covers process. The one algorithms or discrete math question they have boils down to just 'what is big o complexity'.
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> Everything here smacks of cellphone technology

Is he just throwing around buzzwords, or does he actually know what he is talking about? Since when do devices that manufacturers expect users to discard after 18 months become the gold standard for grading quality?
Those appear to be be slides from the talk that's the original form of this article.

This doesn't necessarily justify the first slide's presence at the very beginning, but it might explain it.
I've been using jmp.chat recently for this (SMS sent over XMPP and phone calls via SIP). I actually liked it so much I ported my old number and got a data only plan, now I can launch Dino or something and get SMS on my desktop. I really wish one of the big carriers would embrace something like this.
> And if God played chess, what would be his next move?

Along any particular person's worldline, God's "next move" is whatever the next thing is that that person experiences.

For the universe as a whole, there is no well-defined "next move", for the same reason there is no well-defined "present".
Shoeshiners were on it in July unfortunately. That would have been too early.
Google has servers, so in a way Android could still 'do it for you'.
Presumably we can be assumed to have read it...
Perhaps something like bindings for QT or GTK would be preferred.
To add onto this, its not one line functions but rather functions whose body is a single expression.

You can do a big for comprehension, or a if/else, or a big chain of function calls, etc. without having to add brackets.

In practice you often end up not really using braces that often when writing FP style Scala.
I'm still surprised that Oklahoma City to Fort Worth route exists. It's 2-3 cars, and stops in such exciting places as Gainesville, TX. (sarcasm definitely intended.)

Yet every day, there it goes. Bypassing a city like Denton, TX where a lot of people live and commute to Dallas or Fort Worth.
The opportunity for commuter rail is there... it's just not happening, and I wish that it would.
A lot of the issue, I believe, is that those long-distance services cater to a lot of small towns that have no airport or good bus service. So Senators don't want to lose that service in their state. And they fight to keep the service, even if they are conservative.
When the primary thing you're evaluated for is "impact", it's a wonder that Googlers bother to maintain any existing products at all.

(Plenty do out of love for the product/customers/etc, but man it's soul crushing to not be recognized for it)
it works out to 20-25% for me, but I'm on 10.13.5 beta, not sure what changes have been made in safari.
TL;DR: "Bell’s net effect on the talk radio format was to help set the stage for right wing hate radio and all that came after, up to and including the Donald Trump presidency."
People will copy you, especially if you release it as open source. I promise you that. But they will most likely fail. Release it to a small audience without much fanfare and build up customers/users that way. In the public ledger world the only important part is attracting users. Copycats almost always fail to do that.

Ubiq, Expanse and the other million ETH clones have never came close to duplicating ethereum's success even as some of them have added innovative new features.
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That's the base unit. You need to add the OS, mem and who knows what else. Expect to pay $1500+
What level of Scala were you trying? The things you're referring to don't sound pedestrian at all. You shouldn't let them turn you off from ALL of Scala.
as another example, look at the difference in cost between what someone charges and what they actually earn. For example: here in the bay area, a plumber will charge 180$ but, after expenses and taxes, he's left with about 20-30$/hr.
Since TechRadar redirects me to some boilerplate BS because I block 3rd-party scripts by default, I needed to use a mirror. Here it is for anyone else who needs it:

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I've never tried pure cbd at all. I use 99.9 percent thc.
Plain English requirements for financial services (in the UK, not uncommon elsewhere) are a pretty decent example of why you're wrong.

In those scenarios, the bar is moved up a notch to informed consent. Parties must know exactly what they stand to lose.

A fair explanation of how your data could be leveraged against you should be a requirement because users don't understand this currently.
iMessage is XMPP isn't it (although a somewhat outdated version of the protocol)? It was the last time I checked, but I don't have a device capable of running it so that was a while ago. If it's not anymore I'd be curious to know what they replaced it with.
I took the Empire Builder a couple weeks ago, and the Lakeshore Limited + California Zephyr last year. As much as I enjoyed the trips, I have to admit that they longer lines are incredibly impractical. Amtrak is operating at a huge loss per passenger ($32 on average)[1], and the prices aren't even that much cheaper than flying. It's viable for people with more time than money, but most of the passengers are just weirdos who enjoy wasting their time taking the train cross-country in 2018 (like me).

In any case, I'm sorry to see them thinking about nixing the dining car, since it was one of my favorite parts. The food is surprisingly good (if not over priced), and it's a great way to meet random people from around the country. Coming from the liberal New York tech-bubble, I definitely met a bunch of people I wouldn't have otherwise had a chance to talk to.

But at least they're not getting rid of the observation car! Sitting in it through the Rockies on the Zephyr was a great way to see that beautiful stretch.

[1] https://www.downsizinggovernment.org/transportation/privatiz...
How...? Were they trying to steal Texas?
That cannot exclude local enforcement.
I agree with much of what is written here, but the emphasis on code splitting seems like it risks hitting the wrong target. My first question is usually what caused even relatively simple web apps to need multi-megabytes of "optimised" JS code in the first place.

All too often, the answer is not the application code itself but rather all the direct and transitive dependencies, where the developers yarn-added first and didn't ask questions later. And while obviously that offers some advantages in terms of reusing code, it does also have a very high price in terms of bloating our deliverables, particularly given the still relatively immature tools for optimising JS compared to traditional compiled languages.

Maybe we should be looking at that problem first, before we start assuming that any large JS application will necessarily produce some huge monster outputs that need to rely on code splitting and all the overheads that brings just to get acceptable performance?
Ok. Good. :-)

So why was Klathmon's friend bothered by it?
It's good to see prestigious universities leading for a change, instead of being one of the most socially conservative institutions in so many ways.
Not to give credence to such a conspiracy by asking, I'm just curious to an almost sordid degree...but what? Is this a thing people actually think is...well a thing?
Germany has less than 5% of Canada's land area and more than double the population. You could pretty much drop the entire country into a Canadian forest.
Hi Madeline - happy to share more info on pricing - we're working on simplifying pricing for early stage / bootstrapped products . Feel free to reach out directly to my email if you want to learn more (charley@plaid.com).

We'll occasionally flag accounts that have dormant API activity in our development tier, but as long as you're still using the API we're happy to cover the cost of the free account.
Crazy that you'd have to pay more for 10x the data and higher speeds...
What readability and usability benefits are you claiming Java to have?
> Default arguments and implicits both have the same key idea: you can omit arguments to functions, and the compiler, guided by type information, synthesises the missing arguments during compilation.

Saying implicits are a generalization of default arguments because they're both synthesized during compilation is like saying steam trains are a generalization of pipes because they're both made of metal. It elides too big a difference to be helpful, to the point that it's actually misleading.
Do you have some specific reason for this (genuinely curious)?

Think we've put ourselves in a corner, so to speak, with the Angular, react, preact, vue, ember, etc etc options and this would offer something compelling from the authors examples?
> "big banks"

Is it (even) worse in banking, or is this just something that happens to all companies above a certain size? I can totally see it being the case that a more heavily regulated industry suffers more, but that's pure conjecture.
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