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Using a solvent is actually a very unwise mistake. No solvent is required and you're just eating away the coating. You don't need any solvent at all. Just a cloth and very occasionally, a couple drops of water. That's it. If you are cleaning your screen every few days, you're doing it wrong. Stop touching your screen and dabbing it with slices of pizza or whatever the fuck you're doing to get it dirty "every few days".
Netflix PR chief fired for repeatedly using the n-word
And the EU would not be dealing with a migration crisis.

While the US refuses to take Sirian migrants.
All programmers here know how hard it is to get work done when you need to focus and are in a disruptive environment. It's much harder to get work done when you're dealing with a lot of overhead.
I can vouch for that. As a company founder who has not raised any funding, meeting payroll and other expenses month on month is so mentally exhausting that it leaves little for other tasks. I think, in a way, the brains of startup founders and those below poverty lines work in the same way.
Nice article, but awful title... It could be parsed either way. "Poverty reduces brainpower" or "Poverty makes navigating other areas require less brainpower"
He sounds like he’s gone completely insane.

If anyone is going to go after him, they’re going to go after his real cash and not some worthless cryptocurrencies.
A blockchain is meaningless if governments and force still exist. It doesn't matter whether you use a paper contract, a client/server contract, or a "smart" contract-- might makes right in this world still, and it's a disgusting reality.
Was latency a concern for you at all? If serverless did not exist, would the functions have been (micro) services with similar latency overhead?
The gun coder at work went to a lenovo Carbon X1 running the release of Linux which drives it best and he's happy and productive and has no MBP envy. After touchbar, I am very tempted to make the same move when renewal time comes round.
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I agree that solvent is unwise. My original (GP) question was about keyboard covers, which often end up touching the screen (when the lid is closed) and transfer finger oil onto the screen.
My day job is working on Rails apps (most of the time anyway -- we have a diverse infrastructure). I'm not a big fan of Rails architecture and struggle to communicate to others why I think the "Rails Way" is not necessarily a good way. But these things are hard to swallow, especially if you haven't seen anything else before.

However, I have a special dislike for "convention over configuration". What that really means is: You must write code my style. As there is no configuration, it will be difficult to discover what that means by reading the code. You must study and memorise the one true way. If you deviate from it, strange things will probably happen and it will be your fault for not doing it my way.

To be fair, Rails documentation is really very good. Also, this is a selling point for the framework. If you give no choices then everybody must do it the same way. Even if that way is stupid. You can hire a whole bunch of people who "know rails" and they can struggle along and make progress. You don't have to trust them with decisions because the important decisions were already made for them.

I've had a wide and varied career before doing this work. It's hard for me accept "because it's the Rails Way" to questions like "Why are we doing this when it is causing problems?" I don't mind people making mistakes as long as it is not a thoughtless mistake. "I thought this would work, but I was wrong", is a wonderful sentence in my book. Unfortunately that's the kind of action that many programmers are dissuaded from taking -- instead they are encouraged to do it the "Rails Way".

Lots of beginning programmers also prefer it this way. When you are first starting out (and... well... even when you've been doing it for a couple of decades) it's hard to know which way is better. You might even have a preference, but then struggle greatly when someone asks "Why is that better". Especially beginning programmers often get stuck without knowing any way to accomplish something. In those cases, the "Rails Way" is extremely comforting. 1) It's a way. 2) It will probably work (at least grossly) 3) Famous people say it's good, so it's very, very comforting to agree. People entrenched in the community reinforce each other until it seems practically impossible that there might be a better way. But they may not have looked.

Of course Rails is not the only "Way" out there that espouses these ideas. It's just a currently popular one. What's really at fault is the "convention over configuration" attitude -- Don't think; just do it my way. I hate that.
At one point in the past I was most definitely dealing with poverty and I found it a lot more difficult to get development tasks done at work. The reduced mental capacity is really noticeable but importantly it's also temporary.

Since then I've kept an eye out for disadvantaged people who do good development work. If they are able to produce things despite having a reduced capacity it's such a good sign that they have real talent. Poverty can be dealt with more easily than a lack of talent.

There's a great book called "scarcity" by by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir, that explains the mechanisms behind this, would highly recommend reading it.
This is very good and the reason I keep coming back to Apple is that they actually do stuff like this.

I am currently on a 2012 mbpr and it has had its screen replaced by Apple (due to the keyboard scratching the screen) and the logic board replaced by Apple (due faulty soldering around the GPU).

No other consumer electronics company offers that level of service.
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As someobe new to serverless, is your code available to study as a pseudo tutorial?
In Europe all of those are better in cities than suburbs.
It's not about size — it's about having a bottle of liquid that could crack/spill into my laptop bag.
Hopefully Wright didn't commit suicide because of his inability to fulfil these kickstarter orders.

If he did, it shows a failing of the bankruptcy system. Individuals obligations to a company should never be such that they have no way out.
"We grew up with IRC. Let's take it further." https://irc.com/
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Absolutely, given the huge decrease in capacity from disruptive environments it's just insanity that people create work spaces filled with distractions. When framed from the perspective of "hey do you want to have every employee in your company be one standard deviation less capable" the true costs become much more apparent.
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I remember the Ops, Sops, +v and all the medieval hierarchy that ensued.

I remember channel takeovers.

I remember the flooding and the script kiddies with their obnoxious scripts.

In a way, IRC let people show the worst of themselves, and I didn't stop using it because new technologies were better, I stopped using it because 90% was silly politics and power struggles.
That's a nice sentiment, but you really can't be an engineer in any kind of software development without having an understanding how your software is put together. Especially if you want to do things like builds for different flavors, customize branding or do any kind of changes in the build process.

Some minimal standard of competence and knowledge is required for you to basically function.
That's the difference, and it is inevitably an international one (e.g. we happily adopted the English term "expat" here in Germany) because it only exists across borders. But the difference gets muddied a lot because one is associated with much higher status than the other and everybody will naturally try for the higher status label if there is the remote chance of getting away with it.

Higher status? "People who hang out with diplomats", try beating that. If you routinely dine at your embassy you'd sure be considered "expat" even if you are from Afghanistan. Of course only a tiny fraction of expats would actually do this, but it illustrates the idea. A more practical line of distinction: would they seems their children to regular local schools? If they insist on private "international schools", then it's "expat", otherwise only if a return date is known.
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The messaging patterns are actually in the book Enterprise Integration Patterns.
I'm talking about having the biggest gun to make sure we can defend ourselves against any threat

Yes that's fine. If America were facing an existential threat. Defence of one's home/property is the fundamental human right that is the basis of all rights. No question from me there.

You're talking about who uses that gun and for what. That's a fine debate to have, but it's not the same topic.

I believe they are inextricably linked. I would wager many of those reluctant to work on dronetech right now, in the present circumstances of its use, would be perfectly willing to do so if the enemy really were at the gates.
>> But it's ultimately a spectrum, and it's on me to gauge where on that spectrum any given source lands.

In no way did I claim, or even imply some sort of equivalence between Wikileaks and the NYT. Please don't put words in my mouth which I explicitly disclaim just two paragraphs later.

My point is more that it's impracticable to impossible to share all of our biases, not least because we aren't aware of so many of them. When we've internalized a narrative, it becomes an unconscious bias, and can't very well be meaningfully disclosed.
Weird that rhubarb is native to Russia and yet I've never seen it commercially grown there. My folks had a few plants grown in our ogorod, and made a delicious drink out of it. But now that I live in the city, I don't see any rhubarb jelly or drinks in the supermarkets.
I've found functions apps have a slow startup time, but once they are going, they perform pretty fast.

I think we currently don't have any functions in time-sensitive streams (they're rather new, so they are used for new features such as Oyster automated refunds, which can be applied a few days later if need be), so when I say we haven't had any performance issues with them, it has to be taken with a pinch of salt.

I think if we were using microservices, they would have substantially more logic in them than the individual functions have, so they would have a lower network overhead. They wouldn't scale automatically, so we'd have to have quite a few machines on all the time, which would cost a bit more.

The main benefit we enjoy from functions is the ability to change code with zero downtime, low risk and minimum disruptions to the whole service.

We've found the interfaces in Azure also to be great - we can write end-to-end tests that can poll service bus to check when all messages are delivered to assert against any final case.
IRC should surpass the notion of just a protocol and become a real product. The UX is still not user friendly. There's no standard way of doing threads. Rolling out IRC in an organisation is extremely hard. Cloud-based IRC hosting providers are hardly credible and not endorsed by anyone as enterprise-ready. IRC Clients are offering drastically different level of experience, if even usable out-of-the-box. Authentication is hard (why do we have a hack like NICKSERV if that stuff should be in the protocol?). Offline message retention, history viewing, and seamless offline/online transitions are completely broken (Bouncer usually solves those with terrible UX).

Messaging is not easy. There are teams out there who are working on solving those hard problems full time while having the luxury of having a centralised specification with full control over implementation. IRC won't be ever be able to achieve that without transitioning into a centralised product.

There are reasons why going as centralised product is best. Twitter did the same (it was easy from the technical point of view, hard from community point of view). They managed to up their game in the user experience by doing so.

I'm not sure IRC can even do that at this point, the protocol is in the wild and making additions to it/standardising them, getting clients to adopt the changes would be hard. But it would be the only way for IRC to compete with other solutions.
Well, one would like to have their document safe from snooping and modification too.
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Which parodies?
I don't think people want IRC for the lack of functionality. I think they miss IRC because they see in Slack a real threat to decentralization, privacy and openness.

I don't use IRC. But I'd never use Slack either in a project I maintain/lead. We need a better alternative.
Good question. That's a strange graph in general. I think most items have little to do with the node choice.

From the article:

> The $1.5 billion figure involves a complex GPU at Nvidia

I think the graph shows how much it costs a company in total to design a chip at different nodes. In general, chip vendors add more functionality with each generation. That seems to be what the graph shows.

The article says the graph comes from
International Business Strategies. Their web page tells me to install Flash, which was enough to prevent me looking further:

http://www.ibs-inc.net/#!reports

Also, someone should tell them that IBS stands for Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
My appliances don't burn anything in the room atmosphere, so I don't really need an alarm at all.

For $2.50, it seemed worth getting anyway (just incase someone is an idiot and brings the lit barbequeue indoors or something), but wouldn't have been worth it in my eyes for $10.
For me the thing that IRC desperately needs is a set of features that would make it usable on mobile... While constantly switching networks (wifi, 3g etc) it's almost certain I will miss some of the messages. That is a real dealbreaker for me and the reason why we've decided to have an irc->telegram vridge so people can keep up with the conversation on the go.

Spoiler alert: now everybody just uses Telegram
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How would you prove that beyond doubt, today and in the future?
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Let's see:

> "several months ago" when Friedland used the N-word during a meeting with Netflix public relations staff during a discussion about "sensitive words."

Maybe to at least be able to discuss it?
Your claim was worth around $483 plus some interest. With this CR your claim will be worth that plus over 15% of what a BTC is worth in those N years. Your claim will likely be doubled, surely that's worth under an hour of your time scanning your passport again?
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Opinions differ on the matter. While I think you should be able to quote the word, I understand that not everyone feels the same way, and so I never say the full word because I don't want to unintentionally offend anyone. I don't feel strongly enough about my opinion to say the word regardless of other people's opinions.
>It's not up to you. There is something resembling a consensus among black people and the very large number of people who agree with you about the problem of racism in America that using the word --- even to sing along to a hip-hop song --- signals that you don't care about the word, and are willing to use it casually.

I think "singing along" is not a sharp enough distinction - the Netflix guy, in a meeting about sensitive words, was presumably saying something like "The words that are awful and completely out of bounds and should never be used, like c-, f- or n-..." Such a use is firmly on the other side of a use-mention boundary in the way that singing along some lyrics is not. So it seems striking (at least to this non-American) that it should be considered heavily tabooed in this way.

In a discussion on reddit, someone said

"Within the last fifteen years, I've had readings in university English classes that contained said word and we're discussed and quoted in class with no one batting an eye. This was also the case in highschool before this. There's a big difference between referring to a Twain or Goines novel and using the word maliciously or with any intent beyond dispassionate quotations."

So are they wrong, or was there a huge shift in the social norm of using the word in the last 15 years (discuss in class vs being ostracized and fired, both for mentioning the word with full awareness of its awful context) or is the consensus not really quite a consensus yet, and asserting that it is, like in the Netflix CEO's letter or your comment, are (well-meant) attempts at driving it further along?

>Also, it's not like this is unique to black people and the N-word. LGBT people have similar words and we have reached similar detentes about them.

That sounds strange to me. Are you sure? Presumably you mean the word f-, but I think I see or hear the word being discussed and quoted in the context and with the awareness of its awfulness quite often without heavy, or any, social consequences.
IME mobile works fine too, so it’s just TVs and consoles losing out (and there’s always chromecasting).

I say it’s a more than good enough delivery “platform” for this kind of stuff.
Maybe those fractions would be very different if oil and gas were more expensive.
Holy shit, this not a joke comment, right?
For a marketing term mainly aimed at developers, I'm amazed they picked one so terrible.

The message is "you don't need sysadmins anymore", which is exactly what developers want to hear.

It's also very good for the cloud vendors, because with noone in the sysadmin role, developers are far more likely address scaling issues by just throwing resources (money) at the problem.
Computers used to be bicycles for the mind. Now with things like Facebook they’re self-driving cars for the mind.
You're going to go with the verbs "criticize" and "challenge" to describe flagrantly racist birtherism nonsense? Really?
How is a Facebook or LinkedIn account considered “verification” when spammers routinely use thousands of fake accounts to astroturf fraudulent pages & ads? Surely this means any malicious actor targeting your platform can do the same.
The passport was available as soon as the relative reached the detention center – strongly implied to be the same day as the arrest. That's when I'd consider the 'reasonableness' clock to have started.

The Google Map attached to the story, with photos and annotated positions of the beach and nearest border sign, are highly suggestive her explanation was credible, and should have been self-evidently so to agents on the ground.

As w citizen of a country with visa-free travel to the US, the only question of Canada that seems reasonable would be something like: "Let us know if this person is a fugitive; if we don't hear from you in 12 hours, we'll set them free in the U.S." Then she could walk back to Canada at an official crossing with her passport, and Canada could object to that re-entry if necessary.
Data ownership is a tricky topic that humans will need decades of experience to figure out. In the mean-time, evolving the juripsrudence one precedent at a time is a lot saner than big-bang changes.
It's a bit like driverless. Hopefully something or someone is driving the car, but how that driving comes to be isn't really your concern.
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Paying customers.

Specifically, the person who signs off on Gitlab at a company is generally some kind of project manager so they value project management features.
> For a marketing term mainly aimed at developers

I think the marketing is aimed mainly at technology management, not developers. Obviously, they have to evangelize developers, too, to a certain extent because they need a critical mass with familiarity so that the managers aren't saying “that’s nice, but who do we hire to build stuff on it”, but developers aren't the ultimate target of the marketing for serverless or most other cloud technologies.
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This is my concern with the article: maybe the impairment doesn't necessarily depend on scarcity/money... Maybe it's more a matter of bandwidth, in which case blaming Poverty only sounds quite ideological.

1- Does the bandwidth problem go away when you fix poverty (costly but easy to measure)?

2- Does the problem go away when you lessen perceived stress instead? (teach meditation/auto-hypnosis and measure if it helps)

3- Solutions to this problem should have applications in the teaching world, when exam-stress can reduce bandwidth, yet we can't just make exams easier

"It's much harder to get work done when you're dealing with a lot of overhead": sometimes the opposite is true, like when you decide to burry yourself with work to escape hardships... It's a matter of mind state, so learning to control it should help.
Which is really unfortunate because the P2P system was reliable provided your network was reliable.

The “new and improved” system just randomly fails for me and I’ve stopped using Skype as a result. The shit clients they started releasing (obviously they had to make them Electron-based) didn’t help.
"I can effortlessly wave it around with one hand and not get tired"
Ask HN: Which pdf form filler do you use?
When I search for "pdf form filler", I see many websites. I don't have time to audit their code. Some might be selling our data.

So, which pdf form filler should we use if we do not want our filled data to be leaked or sold.
The protocol itself doesn't bar you from implementing image sharing.

Imagine this:

You have a bot in your channel that accepts an "upload-image" command followed by a base64-encoded string representing an image (or a series of these commands if line-lenght is limited, I'm not sure about this part of the IRC protocol). The bot checks that the image is actually an image (to avoid weird injection tricks), saves it on the server and returns a link you can share or sends the link directly to the user/channel of your choosing.

This can be automated with a irc client, of course. Users using old clients will receive an actual link, users of this supposed new client see a clickable preview of the actual image inline.
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There is a geography data type

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For most people, having multiple clients available, all with their own quirks, is a downside. This goes double when dealing with phones.
It's cynical, funny and kind of true.
Basic income. The older I get the more I strongly hope that the future finds some version of the ideas currently in research and testing regarding basic life support to all peoples. There is so much to gain by doing so, for everyone, whether you personally need it or not.
I personally like forms of string interpolation:

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Readable and should be efficient.