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> Software quality can be measured in different ways. Software quality is not the only dimension to care about when developing products

This statement is an implied counter argument. If not then what is it? If so, then I suggest it is a strawman as I never argued against that.

> I'd like to think that I presented clear arguments

If you are referring to the original article I was not aware you were the author, so my response above simple responded to your statement in context and not the article as a whole. I'll do so below.

I don't argue that the article presents it's arguments clearly, though I don't necessarily agree with them. Actually, my main issue is with the rhetorical style it is presents it in.

It tries to hard to sell less testing as a solution to testing pain, rather than exposing it as a possible idea to be discussed. Using mostly a combination of appeals to authority and association with the term "lean" as rhetorical devices. This, to me, smells like the last generation "Agile" snake oil.

On separate level I do disagree with presenting logical reasoning as a counter argument to empirical evidence. Logical reasoning may be a compelling reason to seek empirical evidence through trial and experimentation, but reasoning alone can't invalidate evidence. With that said, I do believe some other commenters here mentioned that there is evidence on both sides of this debate, so I won't say your idea's are not worth exploring, though they definitely contradict my own experiences with testing.
That's obviously not an unpopular opinion. How do you think it got that way?

The problem is that as people are slowly priced out of the city, out of the region, and out of state by these asinine policies, digging in the heels is only going to make the backlash worse. The fact that we are talking about it at all shows that we are in the early stages of a massive reform in housing policy. If you wait until the median family is living in poverty because they're paying 60% of their income to housing, the reform is going to be far more severe and undesirable (to you, at least) than you can even imagine.
That was not me posting the suggestion of hyper-taxation. I am merely commenting on being aware of the decisions which are being made and for what reasons. If we make decisions based on fear, we are probably not making the right choice.

After re-reading your comment, you actually didn't use that argument like I normally hear it. You said "be prepared" and did not add on some vague warning like "then what would happen." Stating it the way you did, I hesitantly agree.

To clarify my point while trying to sound less preachy and without the sensationalist metaphor (sorry about that by the way):

If there was some new law or tax code being proposed which would have the effect of people choosing to leave (not being forced), then that should be one valid point of discussion.

That discussion point should be discussed, hopefully quantified and chosen based on pros, cons and rational discussion, but never on fear.
A book recommendation:
The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives by Zbigniew Brzezinski [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Chessboard
The west side of San Francisco is nobody's idea of a World Heritage site. It's just bland California sprawl.
To be fair, to get to the "supremely better 2018 NYC", you had to go through the truly horrible NYC of the 70s and 80s....
Whiskey is aged in barrels using white oak from North America. The mash is made of grains like corn, barley, rye, etc. I'm guessing the grains came from areas upwind of the plume. Everything pretty much blew out onto the Pacific.
Eugene Wei summed it up well on Twitter: There should be an SF Fortnite mod that replaces the shrinking storm circles with encroaching zoning restrictions. Eventually no one can build any structures and all players are homeless and running around trying to avoid stepping in poop while getting in a long line for brunch.
> higher interest rates lead to higher net income to the private sector which is a bit inflationary.

There a paper for this? low interest rates tend to be associated with poor economic conditions, in the extreme liquidity trap or secular stagnation, so this conclusion makes sense though the causal effect is the opposite of what is suggested by your comment... As an example, interest rates (ex fed funds) were really low during the great depression!
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Hah compared to Jasper it's not harmful.
I live in Los Angeles and have had the complete opposite experience. Been a prime member for 4 years now, I order from them all the time, and shipments always come on time with no problems whatsoever.
How do you do caching with your GraphQL APIs ? I guess you can't leverage HTTP-level caching.
Why can't you? You can concede they would get more screwed by dirtying their relationship, without conceding that they are in a great relationship now.
Imagine the horrors if Oracle "owned" Linux...
There is a difference between urban sprawl and wilderness. Wilderness is good, urban sprawl is bad.

We should focus on high density housing around transit hubs and then build more transit hubs. We should focus on livability of the high density housing.

There was a measure on the ballot in the south bay where a major builder wanted to rezone an area for more housing. That part was good since it was not zoned for open space but rather industrial. But then they wanted to remove all ordinances for livability. That was wrong and the measure was correctly defeated.

Part of the problem is with the planning department, part was with NIMBYs, but part is with the builders. There are only a few builders who are capable of high density housing and they want to play hard ball.
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>strikes me as disappointing in this age

A good summary
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Almost feels like they are making things worse on purpose to make the ARM transition truly justified for everyone.
Wow, I hadn't realized the effects of the atomic age were that widespread, creepy.
I don't have work slack on my personal phone on principle. If the company wants to require me to be available on their systems they need to provide the hardware
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That doesn't seem to be an issue: You have got enough happening in your life without having to learn how to fly. But what if flying across town was as easy as hopping in a rideshare? What if Cora could fly for you?

Cora will combine self-flying software with expert human supervision, so you can enjoy the ride. [0]

https://cora.aero/
People are going to accuse me of "got mine", but I have none! What I'm saying is to consider that wanting cheaper housing today is throwing away a lot of natural beauty, vistas, and life, forever, just for a short term easement of housing pressure.
Very tricky. Tourism is still a very big industry in San Francisco. One of the reasons people go there is to see the charming old houses and nice old neighborhoods.

While we think SF would look great if it were like in the Star Trek movies, that would pretty much destroy a large part of what makes San Francisco San Francisco.
If it was made from grain harvested in the year or so after Fukushima, of course. Literally every plant grown downstream of the plume (it's not clear if North America is the only such region, just the first one across the ocean -- it's possible this is a global thing) is going to show the signature.

People are misunderstanding this. The point here isn't to point out a specific toxin in wine, it was to point out the pervasive reach of this isotope and its utility as a dating mechanism for long-stored agricultural products like wine.
To be honest, Apple's MBP CPU upgrades have never been worth it. They are advertised with these big turbo frequency increases that are rarely ever achieved. Even the base frequency doesn't matter because they'll clock far lower if needed to save battery life.

For both the 13" and 15" MacBook Pro's, the performance differences between the base and upgraded CPUs are negligible (always less than 10% increase from the slowest to the fastest CPU for the same size, according to Geekbench). You'll get a higher frequency for a tiny amount of time before thermal throttling brings everything down to the same level anyway. They are not limited by Intel's software settings but purely by the cooling hardware.

For example, the cheapest 13" MBP from 2017 has a 2.3Ghz base / 3.6Ghz turbo and scores 9079. Most expensive one (3.5Ghz / 4.0Ghz) scores 9552. That is an increase under 6% for a price difference that is far, far larger. Madness.

If you buy a MacBook, please don't spend money on CPU upgrades. Thanks.
In the Three Body Problem series by Cixin Liu, the orbits of planets and moons in the solar system are altered to make colonization and terraforming easier.
I find amazon's own courier is by far and away the most likely to deliver damaged goods, FWIW (Central/East London)
...is precisely the attitude that killed perl.

I don't want the extreme strictness of haskell or F# but I'd rather be edging in that direction rather than edging in perl's direction. 572 was definitely the latter.
49 is about 46
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If you are a Prime buyer and your package is not delivered by the promised date, you can request and receive a free one-month extension of your Prime membership. I have done this several times. For obvious reasons, Amazon doesn't publicize this much.
not just at the point of sale though. from license plate scanning in the parking lot, to facial recognition and traffic analysis in the store, modern brick and mortar retail is not far behind e-commerce when it comes to privacy intrusions to collect data.
Have you been to Modesto? It could be worse I suppose, but it's not exactly what I would call a stretch goal.
I have lots of regrets and most of them relate to wkhtmltopdf.

The thing makes ImageMagick look well architected and streamlined.
haha. Exactly - typical YIYBY
Because Israel is supposed to be better than their neighbors? At least that was my perception of them.
I would agree, very strongly (I do a fair bit of fine art painting besides my software engineering day job).

If so and so has the idea and so and so executes it, the there is a director and an artist working under the director. It seems extremely clear that to use assistants for more than grunt work and calling the finished product your own solo piece is quite dishonest. If we're all so obsessed with the Romantic ideal of the lone genius ala van Gogh, that's both ahistorical and silly of us.
These Scandinavian countries may be unable to afford this approach if they were required to provide for their own national defense at entirely their own expense.

In doing so, many countries with these sorts of nation wide programs may become woefully uncompetitive, not to mention quality of services would go down.
> The new low-latency Java GCs

As you wrote, they are new, and weren't available when the decision was made for the Go GC.

> The reason Go was able to achieve low latency with a relatively simple design is because 1. it suffers a hit to throughput and 2. that throughput hit, while significant, is not catastrophic because Go relies heavily on value types.

And are you saying these "new low-latency Java GCs" have no tradeoffs either?

I'm sorry, but we are discussing the keynote of the International Symposium on Memory Management, which is a recognized event in the field, and you are claiming things without any substantial material to offer. Maybe you're right, but I need more than vague assertions to be convinced :-)
In Java

f.get(0).get(0).get(0)

typically is the way to write want in languages that allow operator overloading is written as:

f[0][0][0]

You will rarely see that with three constants, but

f[x][y][z]

isn’t uncommon.
I have a Moto G 1st generation and put LineageOS [0] on it. Far better experience and much more free space.
Unfortunately won't help with making the camera better.

[0] https://download.lineageos.org/falcon
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Then I’m sure Unix or FreeBSD would be more prevalent for servers.
If I'm browsing around a Best Buy, I almost always pull put an item i am looking at on Amazon, so that I can check for price match and check reviews/research.

kind of a reverse of the old model of playing with something in store, then buying it online.
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> Still, it is an unsatisfying remedy: Google built Android for the express purpose of monetizing search, and to be denied that by regulatory edict feels off; Google, though, bears a lot of the blame for going too far with its contracts.

This could be seen another way. Instead of going too far with its contracts, i.e. limiting the supplier side, the results of these regulations should entice future companies to not go too far on their distribution, i.e. limiting the demand side.

If it becomes clear that having a dominant position in a market can be problematic, a reasonable company might do things to prevent it from happening including limiting growth, raising prices, stymying third-party ecosystems/distributions, and reducing feature investment. It can be argued that these punishments are predictable and easily avoided with self regulation, we just need to be sure we're happy with the forms this self regulation may take. Being in a dominant position is rare for sure, but in these rare cases, if I had a choice, I'd do everything I can do be just under dominant.

Google might want to start realizing this with Chrome and surreptitiously support (...er...keep supporting) Firefox or not implement too many features before others can catch up.
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But then you're the unethical one, here.
He (the hypothetical he) doesn't want to talk to them to get them to add the endpoint he needs, so he'd prefer to just get the schema directly and query for whatever.
> There is nothing that stops a manufacturer from providing microG instead of Play Services and hence cutting Google out.

Except the contract ??
"Oddly, those same single family home owners would become rich if they could subdivide their properties for intensive development. I have never understood this paradox."

They are already rich by virtue of the property they own, so you would have to revise this to be "would become even more rich", which is more illuminating. These folks are already well above the "food, housing, basic needs" level of Maslow's hierarchy and are working towards self-fulfillment, part of which (to them) relies on preserving their current experience in their current home and neighborhood as it is (like living in a museum, as another commenter labeled it). They bought it for what it is, and that's what they want to preserve. It isn't about the money, it is about the experience they want to preserve. Or put in monetary terms, the market may value their home at $2m, but they put a personal value of maybe $3m or $5m on it in order to compensate for the cost of moving (people who have put down these kind of roots hate moving) AND finding an acceptable substitute or upgrade from what they currently have.
No, this absolutely happened. Since I no longer actually bought many things from Amazon due to price, I would only buy something from there if I really needed it fast and couldn't buy it locally. They were usually cheap, fairly rare items. Looking at my order history, they're things like some transistors, tent stakes, and printer ink. I imagine that played a role in the fact that they arrived late. Since I needed them fast, and they cost more than elsewhere, and arrived late, it pretty much means I overpaid for an item that was useless to me, and I had to do without it when I really needed it.
Can confirm the other comment. TV's are very low margin. It's not uncommon for them to sell at a loss, or even severe loss (if you're buying other higher margin items).

Audio isn't typically so bad, but I think it depends on the systems.

The "home theatre in a box" items outside of Bose tend to be pretty low margin in a lot of cases.

Real amp/stereo/surround setups can be pretty decent margin.

My knowledge is derived from a smaller, mid/high-end outfit, so I'm not too sure about Best Buy but I assume the TV's are about the same.
high rises might be better access through (or around?) the city to the east and north bays

How about having them in the east and north bay? How about large vessels operating as gated communities, with integral ferry docks?

Getting into, or especially through SF from Marin is a nightmare.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17567916
Nope, we will accept solo founders.
Some art is just too big for a single artist. A lot of renisance artists had many apprentices helping out, so this goes back a ways.

Chihuly has litigated and been litigated against by his helpers. His “ paintings” aren’t done by him either. It’s almost like he is a brand.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.seattlepi.com/entertainment...
What happened to this item? Looks like it was censored out completely from HN posts.
PDF is mostly a subset of Postscript. It improves on Postscript in terms of speed and security.

In contrast to Postscript, it is not a Turing-complete programming language. What's left is a bunch of commands placing graphics objects on pages.

That means PDF viewers cannot be DoSed in an obvious way by placing infinite loops in the document.

It also means that any page in a document can be directly rendered, without rendering the rest of the document first. That's not possible with Postscript, because Postscript documents are programs that need to executed from the start.
And there are many parts of Edinburgh that aren't that exceptional (or even very nice) - you don't keep everything in a museum but the things that are worth protecting should be protected. The catch is getting the balance right between the two extremes - it always seems to be presented as a false dichotomy between "no controls" and "no change".

NB I'm no claiming that the Edinburgh planning process is perfect - just reacting on my experience of owning and living in listed properties in an extremely heavily controlled area.
Building apartments in cities makes sense, both economically and environmentally.

Building anything in the open space in Marin is nonsense and would create an enormous commute problem as well as harm the environment -- both directly and with secondary effects of increased commute emissions.
> added it without many issues

Except for the fact that all CLR languages must adopt the same variance model, enforced by the runtime (or choose not to interoperate well).
The biggest problem is it's HTML based and WebKit based. Things that are trivial to do in a native PDF drawing library are a total pain because of the CSS factor.
The problem isn’t even San Francisco. It’s the entire Bay Area. In 1 hour in any direction you have exorbitant rent/ housing.

Building codes make it next to impossible anywhere in the bay to affordably build.

I live in Belmont, and my gf lives on Van Ness downtown.

They need to create more housing pretty much ANYWHERE in the bay. And somewhere close to the major business areas.

When I moved here years ago to work at a startup, the cheapest housing I could find was $800 sharing a house with 10 roommates. Having 4-8 roommates it’s not uncommon.

Who is making money off this scheme?

And on an unrelated note, downtown San Francisco has turned into a writhing cess pool of filth. Homelessness, unstable/ crazy people. Rampant drug use and needles everywhere. Tents lining the streets. Prostitution. Human excrement all over the sidewalks.

The only way to avoid it is stay in your bubble and pretend is doesn’t exist.
My main gripe with REST is that it's totally not future proof. The notion of RPC has been around forever. REST has basically completely replaced that. Http status codes and REST URLs are not future proof. We have already seen superior connection types (web sockets) come (and then basically go) that don't support the notion of URLs and (well they do for a second, but after that the original connection the URL is meaningless for the traffic flow). With Http2 we're seeing the return of lightweight connections (basically similar to websockets but have more graceful re-connection options). But http2 feels like a patch to me. I don't really want to bind the future of Apps to a bunch of URLs. I'd rather tie my app to a client that has a rich semantic set of objects and methods that pull down data, can update data, etc...

When we use REST as our layer to convey the API itself, we really lock ourselves down to a very specific set of URLs and HTTP Status codes. I'd rather have a rich error object thrown, not an HTTP status code that I have to examine.

I've had a pretty strong disdain for REST for the last few years and have been actively finding replacements. The closest I can come up with is Grpc. I'm dying waiting for Google to finish up Grpc-web however. If we continue to tie ourselves to a bunch of server resources by URL we're going to take forever to get off this archaic system that has no long term future.
Mars' moons are really nothing more than captured asteroids. They look like "strange shaped rock things" because that's exactly what an asteroid is: just some random piece of rock.

As for the spherical shape, the term there is hydrostatic equilibrium: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrostatic_equilibrium.
by that measure, I have always never been enthusiastic about discrete GPU's and the extra heat/battery drain. I hope external GPU's become commonplace, inexpensive and reliable
Prop 13 in California has the same impact. "I was here first, so don't let my taxes keep pace with inflation -- the newcomers should pay for my police, fire, schools, etc.."
Just want to point out that low level radiation is probably good for you. It's cool that they found it, but this is not any kind of health danger.

Low level radiation probably acts as a beneficial stressor, like exercise or fasting [1]. Although this level is so low it probably does nothing at all.

You also probably don't have to worry about the radiation you get from bananas or plane flights. And it's possible those dumb sounding radioactive water spas might have actually been helpful.

Fukushima is aweful for the nearby region and still a cautionary tale. But it didn't poison the whole world.

[1] http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2015/04/06/small-radi...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2477717/

http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2016/ph241/yang1/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26808887
I can understand that. I just don't want to have a reason why my employer could call me in off hours, nor for them to claim ownership of stuff I've done.
I think that was the moment I finally understood the insanity of California politics. Anti-development, pro-housing groups actively lobbied against a housing bill.
> there's a reason it's been almost completely abandoned in favour of JSON/REST

That's kindof ironic to say in a thread about the endless debate about doing REST the proper way isn't it? SOA(P) is really about defining a service in terms of its external interactions in language-neutral descriptions for big applications with long-term maintainability. It's not about developer convenience.

All REST applications I've encountered try to shoehorn state changes into HTTP PUT requests and would have greatly benefitted by expressing these as explicit state transitions in a WSDL-like RPC model. None has made the slightest attempt to represent state via HATEOS and advertise interactions via hyperlinks, which is the entire point of REST and loose coupling. In typical server-side languages other than JS/node.js, JSON isn't a native object serialization format and must be produced/consumed exactly like XML (eg. by using binding annotations or similar). So I'm not sure what has been gained, other than a mess of JSON-over-http services without transaction boundaries for the next generation to clean up.