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Optic looks amazing, congrats on shipping! Do you think it can be integrated with visual programming languages IDE development? There are a lot of such things in the IoT, industrial and laboratory control, game Dev, media synthesis industries and they all suffer from the limitation of poor coupling between generated code and the front end graphical elements as the type checker and static analysis on the graphical elements level have to match the syntactic rules of the language constructs.

We use it for algorithmic trading here at KloudTrader and this is an issue we suffers from. Looking forward to adding Optic to our CI pipeline.

https://KloudTrader.com

Business rules engines would be another really great application. For a lot of IFTTT type of applications, if the rules can be compiled into finite state machines instead of simply interpreted, that would be a great boost for productivity and efficiency!
Great point! I just don't know. Maybe when I'm tired the ideas are of poor quality in average, but there are so many of them than a few gems are hiding. So I take notes and reevaluate later.
Because they're not abusing any position of theirs to compel OEMs to bundle more of their apps. They also don't have anywhere near a monopoly position.
I liked the Dragon Box Algebra apps for my kids at the time , and I see now they have one configured for age 5+, but I am not sure how well it sticks at that age.
As former Swiss resident, and fluent speaker of three of the national languages, seeing Swiss speak among themselves in English was always kind of ironic. :)
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Yes but no one plays serious in All Random mode. Supports are called supports for a reason, they're strong early game without a lot of items. Some gave early ganking, counter-ganking abilities, some have healing, harrasing abilities or really good early stats. Carries are stronger mid game and late game because naturally they're weaker early game. Because of this, you need to specify farming position, setup ganking, rotation, early game. All of these strategies will be gone if you play All Random. Basically it becomes a 2k pub trash game and no one > 4k mmr actually practices all random daily. Unless you're in SEA where people just first pick carries :) :) :)
OK, apparently the Verge summary wasn't perfect
English US.
I've noticed that my natural circadian cycle is typically between 28 to 32 hours long. I'm not sure if this is an environmental issue, mental issue, physical issue, or whatnot. But it's definitely a thing.
It would be perverse if the court ordered Apple to modify iOS to support third-party app-stores. I see it as the same situation as video game console licensing: all games for the Xbox, PS and Nintendo must be approved by the platform owner and they take a cut from all sales.

The "happy medium" we have today: where jailbreaking was found to be not illegal, works for as long as we can jailbreak. I note that iOS does now allow sideloaded apps too, though they still must run in the sandbox, but it does mean you can distribute an app that wouldn't be approved for the App Store.

The EU had another workaround: impose a higher import tariff on video game consoles than general-purpose computers. Sony released a Linux kit for the PS2 so they could say the PS2 was a general-purpose computer, not a console. I think it worked initially but because hardly anyone bought the Linux kit (it wasn't sold at retail with the console) the customs people took a look and Sony had to start paying higher tariffs.
1. $100 when I was a teenager is ~$170 now.
2. $100 when my dad was a teenager is ~$1500 now.

If nobody likes the fast food restaurants that manage to turn a profit, then they won't turn a profit and it will reduce the use of capital for fast food.
>During my junior and senor year of college I started smoking pot, and I started sleeping on a regular basis, going to bed about 1-1:30 and getting 6/7 hours of sleep. I'm not really sure if I was happier, or more productive, I was definitely more relaxed, it was probably the pot not the sleep. Of course once I graduated and started getting drug tested I needed to give up smoking pot. I hope soon my state will legalize and maybe I can find a strain that helps.

I hope so too - alcohol is slandered for causing sedation rather than true high quality sleep, but the research is still uncertain about marijuana.

I've tried zinc, magnesium, melatonin, sleep masks, earplugs - many things. Cannabis is the only thing that works.

>I'm not really sure if I was happier, or more productive, I was definitely more relaxed, it was probably the pot not the sleep.

I'm inclined to believe that sleep is the key here and pot helps by inducing it. That's my gut feeling though.
Android was never free. It has cost all of us a lot in terms of freedom and privacy.
I am interested in the views of those who downvote this comment. My facts are conventional, I'm guessing that my perspective is controversial.
> You can't "fork" a scarce resource.

A fork gets you nothing on the original chain, just like inventing "new dollars" gets you nothing except what the market decides "new dollars" are worth. Digital scarcity is still there. If I have an item on that blockchain, you can't take it from me by forking. The only way to "move" that asset would be to get my private key. Forks are an anomaly the market is still figuring out.

> Of course an automated finance bot needs a server, it's just a distributed and computationally expensive one instead of a centralized one that costs pennies to operate

This misses the point. If I want to make a trading bot, I have to find a host, initiate a business relationship with them, and keep it running and highly available. If I make an ethereum smart contract, I set and forget. If I want people to interact with my bot and know it's source code, I can do that on ethereum. Is there another way you can think of to do this and have the bot be transparent--in other words a guarantee that the source code you looked at is actually the source code you're interacting with?

> The OpSec that goes into "being your own bank" is not worth the cost to the overwhelming majority of people.

This is only true until people notice the deflation. The ability to convert electricity to money that doesn't automatically shrink (even if it is not ready-cash) is very valuable in places where it is shrinking quickly.
Maybe some Boltzmann brains start out with rich fulfilling memories. And then a later (or earlier) Boltzmann brain happens to exist with a continuation of those memories. (Now I realize I'm just reciting a plot point from the excellent book Permutation City...)
No, not more creative. In fact I stated the opposite and was hoping to find the reason why.

But cognitively enhanced and more productive, hell yeah. I know my track record. I have little doubt about that.
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I guess we should all just force-set our C programs to the C locale.
That sounds fascinating; try https://old.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue/
I had a fitness tracker/wearable (Jawbone I think) that would track your sleep, and vibrate to wake you up at the best point of your sleep cycle within +/- 15 minutes of your set alarm time.

I really like the idea, but the thing would always fall off at night. Maybe I should try a new one...
Maybe Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon.

It's a good book to check off the list but it is stylistically tedious.
> I remember a campaign few years ago telling startupers to use a cloud provider because hosting is a commodity and they won't earn money with it.

That was the gist. IIRC, the essence of the argument was that, because running hardware in a colo isn't the startup's core competency, it's best to outsource it.

The push to outsource (especially by VCs and other outsiders and/or "business" interests) is hardly new, nor is it new to do so while ignoring potential future costs or even ignoring how closely intertwined to the core competency something actually is (witness the tech offshoring fad in the US).

What's particularly interesting to me is that cloud outsourcing not only has such huge potential future costs but can start costing right away. Hardware has up-front purchase costs, but those can often be smoothed out with a lease, if cash flow is that much of a concern.
SpaceX's BFR is planned but there's never been a BFR launch.

I don't think plans count.
The 10Gs is only if the first stage blows up and they need to abort the launch.
Google tech talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl643JFJWig
Then maybe we should let those companies go under. Someone else will come along and iterate on that idea, and given the benefit of seeing what happened before, they'll be in a better position to make themselves profitable.
My Macy’s account was hacked just this week. I got an email that my shipping address changed, and I logged in and saw several hundred dollars worth of pending items in the shopping cart.
I agree that messaging clients should support markdown or maybe some small subset of HTML ;-)
There is too much for a simple list. But the basics are wide spread anti-regulation and anti-union funding via academic, legislative, and judicial directions.

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Legislative_E...

Analysis: Koch brothers a force in anti-union effort

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-wisconsin-koch-idUSTR...

Who's Behind Friedrichs?

http://prospect.org/article/whos-behind-friedrichs
> It’s essentially a bait and switch, which is why I believe Google deserves that fine.

Seems like you're projecting your own expectations onto what Google has really been selling all along. Google doesn't advertise Android as "free as in freedom." OEMs comply with their conditions. It's how it works.
He made some purchases on the old ToS and some on the newer ToS. So he did agree to forced arbitration on the bulk of his transactions. That's not saying that the first transactions should be grouped in (or that forced arbitration should ever happen) but this isn't just a company changing the ToS later without him ever agreeing.
As with everything else, depends on where the energy came from. The rocket itself is burning liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen, so the only exhaust is steam. You have to take a step back and look at the energy supplied to split water into hydrogen and oxygen and to cool and store it. Conceivably that could be done from renewable sources if customers are willing to pay for it.
How does that deal with email providers that follow all links with their virus scanner? (many corp emails...)

Usually these credentials are one-time usage.
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Hi,

Can anyone that works at Google tell me what the difference between these two positions are, what I'd be interviewed on, and differences in salary, if any?

I've been given the choice to interview for either. In particular, I'm trying to figure out if "front end" includes native Android or iOS development or if it's strictly web.
They are though. You can go from flying a spaceship, land, get out, shoot some friends, get back in a spaceship and fly away. The module concept hasn't really been a thing for a while.
On (unlocked) mobiles, you can re-partition the device and write /system image without the apps you don't want too. Few users will bother, just like few users will bother with deleting the recovery partitions on laptops.
I don't see this as a bad thing. There was nothing wrong with for-pay operating systems, like Symbian. A manufacturer could just buy a license, and pass the cost along to the consumer, without the consumer being coerced into signing up for services and handing over their private data. A Symbian license used to be $5 per unit. Google's Android model likely makes Google multiples of that over the lifetime of each unit, but somehow Google has managed to bill Android as "free."

A simple exchange of currency for a product is a fantastic business model. Google has been instrumental in undermining it, with "free" products, and I wouldn't be sad to see that stop.
Also, the gp commenter seems to misunderstand what 18g would do to somebody. For an extended span of time, that's a death sentence. For just a moment, it's likely going to knock you out, but it's survivable by healthy people and it's far better than being in a rocket explosion.
I am sorry if I didn't write it clearly. What I wanted to say is that Google required phone manufacturers not to make agreements with Google's competitors (e.g. not to preinstall competitors's apps or search engine as default) as a condition for obtaining a license for Google Play Services or Google Play. And this is bad for competition in mobile software market and bad for consumers. Instead Google should just sell their software to manufacturers without such conditions.

For example, several years ago a Russian software company, Yandex, wanted to make its own build of Android with Yandex browser and Yandex app store. But after they have talked to smartphone vendors, they learned that in order to obtain licenses for Google software the vendors have signed an agreement with Google forbidding them to make phones with alternative ROMs or replace Google software with competitors' software [1].

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/17/google-reaches-7-8-million...
Of course, the liberal revolution in France took the same step.

They had trials, but it really just came down to, 'The king is guilty of having been king.' The royal family is an existential threat to the new government.
Is it Euro Truck Simulator in space? Because I read some previews a couple years ago (multiplayer, mind) and they sounded like a clone of Eve: Online...
Seems too much like security through obscurity? If their customer service is bad, it may also be untested -- e.g. the company may have not even thought of having policies and training that mitigate social engineering.
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>it would require a lot more force to depress a piano key

55cN is a little on the high side for force needed to depress a piano key ("touchweight"). But the piano is velocity sensitive, and pressing with the minimum force won't get you any sound. Playing loud notes takes substantially more force.
This is bizarre. I thought [0-9] was supposed to match only 0-9 (the 10 digits), while \d was meant to match all digits including the various Unicode variations.
Stop complaining like a crybaby when you are found guilty, or you will look like Microsoft in the 90s
It looks like that can only be triggered if the user interacts with the extension in some way. Presumably, then, it won't work if there's a script that should run on each page load.

EDIT: I had a look at the manifest.json[1], and it turns out that's the only permission I've requested. Not sure why Firefox says I'm asking for everything and the kitchen sink.

[1] https://github.com/Rumperuu/Pinpointer/blob/master/manifest....
A $1/hr raise seems like strictly more than $100 for the first 100 hours. It doesn't make sense that someone would try something and then when it failed, offer less.
Maybe it’s just that people tend to use emojis for shallow, often humorous exchanges. If you have to express pain, using an emoji seems like a bizarre way to go about it rather than employing language.
It's great that Google is taking these steps. An over-reliance on automation can be hazardous.
To compare like with like, should the death toll due to communism be compared to that from the Romanov line, or to that from imperial systems of government? I’m not sure communism will compare too badly.

A good source is the Montefiore book on the Romanovs and is in my comments here. It’s worth reading.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/22/books/review/the-romanovs...
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If you try that on my box, your admin rights will be removed. Preventing me from installing necessary software to do my job is unethical.
The EU is beyond corrupt. The European commission under its current leadership hasn't issued a fine on this scale to a single European company, but has somehow managed to extract billions of dollars from Google, Apple, Facebook, and more. The US government needs to respond swiftly and decisively to show the EU this is unacceptable. Violence should not be off the table.
It's not fraudulent; your expectations are out of line. If you flash some other OS onto your device, you'll have (32gb - whatever the size of your OS is). So to market the device as having 32gb, then having the OS take up some space, is completely accurate. The _specs_ do not indicate how much actual free space you have. This is the nature of electronic devices that have memory but require software to work.
New Glenn hasn't launched either. They're on similar schedules, BFR has suborbital testing scheduled for 2019.
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But they’re so thin!
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How is this different from sharing an image? I get the advantages of SVG over JPEG or PNG, but that's just a platform support issue.

The other thing that Emoji have going for them is that they're text and can appear where text does, and for that to work I am pretty sure you need a Unicode Consortium.
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> Building and maintaining android costs money. ... Clearly the situation is that the android business model is supported by Google's terms. The alternative is something maintained by whom?

It's not the EU's responsibility to come up with a new business model for Android that isn't illegal. Just because the business model they chose is illegal doesn't mean that we have throw out the baby with the bathwater.

> As someone who worked in abuse: if you provide an app store that doesn't have governance, it'll be full of spyware/malware and finding the app you actually want, well good luck. So yeah, the app store service is run by Google and it wouldn't make any sense for that to be open source.

I think you're conflating two separate issues. Google Play services include much more than just the Play Store and could very well be open source or at least have publicly accessible APIs licensed on non-anticompetitive terms. The Play Store can keep out malware without requiring phone makers to swear undivided loyalty and submission to Google.
> So yeah, the app store service is run by Google and it wouldn't make any sense for that to be open source.

I don't see why you're equating "governance" with "open source". You can have either one without the other.

And governance driven by a open community is also possible.

Also, the spyware you describe is only possible because of the security model employed. It's also possible to completely secure a platform so as to make these sorts of problems a thing of the past.
Kudos to Google for taking feedback and working internally to make things better. Too often do people expect every process at a company to work perfectly so it's great to see that the community has done a good job of providing feedback here and Google using it to improve.

I tend to stick with vendors who are open to improvement rather than expecting perfection up front. There's always something that can be improved.
"or disable"

I've owned multitude devices since original G1 till today, and every single of them allowed to disable Google apps. In fact, I have disabled most of them.
Part of the problem is that Google and Apple have a monopoly on this stuff. Not sure we can do anything about that readily, but we should probably at least acknowledge that it's a problem.

If we just assume that isn't going to change maybe we could adopt an app that has its own emoji representations separate from the operating system.

And/or maybe we need to start some political process working on the companies to improve their representations.

I think this is the tip of the iceberg and is more important than most people realize. Censorship is no joke.
Anecdotally I've noticed I'm much less productive when I sleep too little. I try to get eight hours.

But, I've been having trouble sleeping in recently. I want to sleep more, but can't. I'm not sure what causes it - I used to have the problem of staying up late then sleeping till 11-12ish naturally. (I never use an alarm)

I have two observations:

1. A couple months ago I started going to my balcony for morning sunlight upon waking. I had read morning light resets sleep cycles
2. I notice I need to pee when I wake up, and have trouble falling asleep again after. It's summer in Canada, so some light gets in around 5 am or so

I'm wondering if I reset my cycle, and now I "wake up" if there's morning light present, whereas I didn't before.

Anyone have this experience? I never had trouble sleeping in before, so this confuses me.
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Streaming wont help against cheating in FPS, aimbot just going to use machine learning to determine enemy location and conrrols are not problem.
I really like the idea of notebooks for ops tasks - its a great combination of code, documentation and step by step execution. I'm surprised it is not more popular.
Maybe try to make room for both? Life can have purpose without consisting solely of it.

They are even connected. Making the world incrementally better now will impact the lives that your loved ones and their loved ones are able to lead.
Are you actually arguing that giving less freedom to the consumer is for their own good? Am I just missing the sarcasm maybe?
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(a.k.a. former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, for the title-too-long-can't-parse crowd.)
In addition to N-1, 1-1, was there (will there be) an online forum (google group, slack, etc) to ask questions and cloud source answers?
They have the choice to build their own OS. The reason they don’t is clear, it’s too expensive. Google instead of charging money requires certain licensing conditions. If they truly want full control they could build it themselves but obviously they’re prefer google’s licensing model.
What IDEs are you currently integrated with?

I'm particularly interested in VS Code and perhaps Intellij out of the gate
That's a bit unfair of a comparison, both McCartney and Lennon have more hits than Max Martin. It's only when you look at the Beatles specifically does Martin have more success in terms of "hits".

And technically talent _could_ account for it. If there were some kind of formula, it could be discerned from the songs they wrote and you'd have a more even playing field as more people could figure out the formula.
I was a www user at the time and that’s how I remember it. IE4 was clearly better than netscape’s comparable offering at the time, and IE5 and IE6 entrenched that lead to the point where I had to switch to IE. Much faster and much better standards support (ironically IE6 had by far the best standards support at the time of its release.)
You need to explain this to your founders and get them on board.
I should explain more clearly how to generate an arpeggio in PentiKeyboard:

The rules are:
1. The last key must be pressed AT LEAST 80 ms later than the second.
2. The last key must be pressed MAXIMALLY 240 ms.

A backspace (DEL) is generated with middle and index finger.

While pressing middle and index finger simultaneously (or longer than 240 ms)
gives an "l", you get a backspace when you first press the middle finger (as
long as you like, but at least 80 ms), then make a short tap with the index
finger and immediately release both fingers.
I think there's lots of room for skepticism, certainly the lack of a "killer app" so far for this type of technology (at least one that doesn't involve illegal activities) is pretty glaring. That said, I find it highly unlikely that the engineering behind ethereum won't have lasting impact, even in unlikely case that cryptocurrencies themselves end up being a bust. There is lots of deep thinking about cryptography and networking and game theory here that I think will have lasting impact.
Agressive tipping is also of the utmost importance