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> That's a lot of money to pay just for retention of people who are not producing anything of value, consuming many other resources (office space, network, hardware, perks), and deeply committed to a project that supposedly will never benefit their employer.

I think Google figure it out its real bussiness like MacDonalds did: Not burgers, but real state bussiness. I think Google understood they are not in the make "valuable useful tech" bussiness as one is inclined to think, they are in the "tech talent retention bussiness".

Even if they dont use the talent, if they are able to lock the talent inside Google as a kid in a Circus, their competitors wont have access to the talent pool they need, and this will make a big monopoly on Google.

Of course, this is only possible if you have the ammount of cash and credentials Google have to attract tech people like Disney do to kids.

I think this is their real primary mission; attract human talent, retain and ultimately lock it from the competition.

Do you ever wonder why the startup scene is so dry lately, even with so many enginners and tech focused people no short of ideas? The titans are just sucking all the oxigene in the room making everyone else choke.
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I double checked the URL to make sure I wasn't walking face-first into Poe's Law. As funny as that quote is, I can't think of anything that is a more pointless use of the FDA's time.

Almond milk isn't even a potentially confusing idea anymore; everyone is aware of what it is (enough that it is a well-accepted term) and no one is going to buy it thinking it comes from a cow. In fact, it not being a dairy product is what drives it's consumption, so it is not in the interest of the manufacturers to try to have almond milk be confusable with normal milk for consumers.
I'd never seen that before!

She's obviously the smarter one: Vim and (4) Spaces ftw.
> I do grasp the impact.

I don't think so.

> You are assuming that there would be built no legitimate business which would not make it their thing to send original objects to earth.

No, I'm not assuming that. I'm presenting an argument for that. Not the same thing.

The argument is: in the presence of perfect replication technology, it is no longer possible to track the provenance of objects (and it is certainly not possible across interstellar times and distances).

If you think it's possible, tell me how you would do it. Suppose I own an original and you want to buy it. How can I convince you that what I am handing over to you is in fact "the original" and not a perfect copy?
I'm not upset, but Musk probably is.

The longer he concedes the $30K-$40K range, the harder it's going to be for Tesla.

Toyota Prii used to be $40K. The same model is now around $28K.

GM is moving quite a few Chevy Volts in the $35K-$incentive range. The volume is significant enough that GM have a not insignificant probability of losing their incentive qualification this year.

Every one of those cars sold is a potential Model 3 customer who is out of circulation for the next 5 years or so.
The fact remains that the President of the United States solicited the help of a foreign intelligence agency to hack into the private communications of his opponent.

You're right that Clinton was already under investigation for Benghazi, but that's a sign that the correct domestic legal process was being followed. The FBI gathered evidence and she testified before congressional hearings. That's how things are supposed to go.

Moreover, Hillary doesn't matter any more, in the same way that McCain doesn't (hence the OP referring to Obama only). She is not President, nor is she playing any sizable role in public life. Deflecting the substantive and meaningful criticism of the sitting President with "but Hillary" is at best distracting, and at worst a concerted effort to avoid Trump having to answer very legitimate questions.
One concern is that it's now cheaper, easier, and faster to mass produce weapons which will evade metal detectors. I don't think any of this should be illegal, but the concerns should be considered.
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Err beta-tested?
This is the right answer and definitely what the OP should do, but it isn't a "hardware virtualization" the way the original question was asked, IMHO. Still, totally the way to go for what the OP asked; great answer.
I'm trying to think of the last time I've had something not show up within 2-3 days. I suppose that this issue may vary quite a bit depending on where you live. I'm in the Dallas/Ft Worth area, and there are 6-8 large Amazon warehouses in this area alone, and Dallas itself is an Amazon Flex area.
This is great! Great write up and good idea on what to actually write about.

One suggestion I'd make is to use ES6 template literals over concatenation, since you're using other ES6 constructs anyway.

getName() {
return `${this.firstname} ${this.lastname}`;
}

Cleaner and less error prone. On our team we had a convention to only use backticks when we intended to combine strings, so that if you ever saw a backtick, you knew a string was being built, likely for output.
It seems to me that in simplifying the cost structure, Google has excluded some use cases completely. Enterprise pricing should be as complicated as possible, to closely mirror the actual costs incurred by the service provider.

Treating every map load the same even though one user can move around the map a lot, zoom out till he can see the earth, etc. is not smart. A much better metric is number of tile loads, so that cost corresponds with usage.
> assembly language is a concatenative language

Are most? I've always considered them more procedural than anything else. Variables and gotos.
Can you get by with 20% fewer meetings? Hells yes. How about 30% fewer to leave more time for work within the four days? Even better
> Perhaps there should be a Tex-Mex type term for UK-style Indian/Pakistani/Bangladeshi dishes that isn’t just “Curries” or “Indian”.

Given the history, the obvious name may also be… contentious: “Empire food”
Go: Futures/Promise, with any func signature (what do you think?)
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You're not wrong. But I think companies are addicted to simple metrics, despite our industry's ballyhooed trust in data, and so face time trumps efficient use of time. My point was that it will take legislation at the top, whether pushed through via collective bargaining or other means, to force companies to adopt a four day week schedule.
None. Sales were way over sales on a typical day.

The outage was way over-hyped.
Come the end of the day I'm way less productive that the start. It has nothing to do with pretending. I'm just not able to think as clearly or solve problems as quickly.
My recent experience trying to get Fry's to price match something on Amazon was horrible. It was a simple USB - Serial cable, and Fry's had it for about $9 more than Amazon. They (Fry's) insisted on factoring in sales tax and then calculated UPS 2nd day shipping, even when I told them I was already a Prime member, and then argued that it was their company policy.
That was the last time I shopped at Fry's, and after 20 years of shopping there, I find myself unlikely to go back.
And one can of course also add data to OpenStreetMaps via a browser. I've been trying to add any businesses I've found missing.
Seems particularly weird given that it has "Algebraic data types (with Option and Result predefined)."
My experience after having fully remote jobs and onsite jobs in companies with satellite offices and other remote workers, as well as managing and hiring for a team that includes on-site and remote engineers, is that you are generally practicing all the same skills needed for working remotely even if you are based on-site. You have to fight through the distractions of the surrounding environment and practice self-discipline, you’ll have a video call option for every single meeting (and often even other in-office participants access the call by video rather than walking to the conference room), all “water cooler talk” is deliberately moved into a medium like Slack, other on-site people work from home often, even managers using video calls to talk about your yearly performance review.

I’m sure many people making the transition could still use a service like this for good advice.

But generally, on-site experience in many types of tech / ecommerce companies these days imparts so much of the identical skills used for remote work that you would find pretty much the sole difference is the utter bliss of not being in an open-plan office.

Similarly when hiring for remote or on-site roles, I find years of experience specifically working remotely plays no role. It does not make a candidate more or less likely to fit in a new remote role. And lack of prior remote experience rarely ever factors in even when hiring for a remote role.

In other words, most types of prior work experience already prepare you well to be a remote worker. There’s no special “being good at remote” skill that most on-site jobs fail to exercise, though some people might occasionally feel that they personally or idiosyncratically need more help with certain aspects, unrelated to what general job experience offers them.
Persistence universe just means the game world and any changes done in it still exist (and possibly continue to be simulated) even when you log off. There's no true end to the game.

MMO means massively multiplayer online. Hundreds, thousands, or more in a single world.

While the two are often hand-in-hand, they don't have to be. A persistent universe that is only open to you and 4 friends wouldn't be an MMO.

SimCity 2013 is often described as an MMO, but I would argue it really isn't, since each region you play has a maximum of 1 player per city in the region (though 1 player can play multiple cities), which each region having only a few cities, and each region is completely independent of other regions. Effectively, each region is its own universe instance played by 1-16 players. Players can make their regions public, allowing cities to be claimed by any other player in the world, but claims are permanent until the player chooses to release their claim.
I've found it very difficult to "self-contain" python projects that are even of modest size. Anaconda is a mediocre solution that is the best among other terrible options.
That is a mind-blowing article. I mean, I know the basic model, and I could imagine how chaotic stuff could get. But I had no idea that it was that bad.

This especially amazes me:

> Our experiences with DNS measurement using unique timestamped labels and an online ad distribution system to see the queries from end users appears to support this observation — around 40% of queries seen at our authoritative servers reflect an original query that was made days, months or even years in the past, something we’ve termed DNS Zombies.
Ironic. Apparently we need a postmortem postmortem
It sounds like the impact wasn't limited to particular users or regions. Why would they deploy the configuration worldwide at the same time?
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>Well there are really only about 4 clusters of restaurants in downtown, (~6 if you count SLU but I don't, and that's as bad if not worse), and one is near Pike, one near the courthouse (both are lousy for parking). The ID isn't impossible but it's getting worse.

I was just thinking something like Mod Pizza :). Most restaurants downtown are too overpriced for me. I do really like El Borracho, but that's $25/hr parking. Capitol Hill has really good Sushi, Tacos, & Ramen which is where I usually go for restaurants. Parking up there is much cheaper too.

I bus from North to downtown for work every week day and over the past 3-4 months my bus is packed so much that it's people almost involuntarily molesting each other, packed in like sardines. I see the double decker Sound Transit busses going way over their maximum limit of passengers. I would really like to see Seattle & surrounding areas put in a much larger effort for Transit since we already have so many people, and we keep gaining thousands more every year.

I am about to move south near the light rail, so that will be quite nice. It looks like Northgate station is coming together quite nicely and I see them starting demolition of buildings for the light rail in Lynnwood as of a few weeks ago. I hope a lot of the north light rail is completed early.
It's a pretty nice setup for assassinations

Print a gun, use it, drop it, GOTO 10
I think it's more of an issue with it coming from and being maintained by Google. I think aversion to Dart is overrated; it's a boringly stable and straightforward language, and I'm puzzled that mobile developers aren't more open to learning it, given how Objective-C/Swift/Kotlin were languages that most had to learn for developing on their respective smartphone.
I think I need better speakers, or maybe I should be wearing headphones, because I didn't feel this at all.
I guess tested-in-production? They've had a long safety track record in other parts of the world, in particular India.
Yes I've heard this from multiple people targeting new languages to the JVM.

Maybe it's why the JVM has a larger ecosystem of new languages?
Efficiency may not be much of an issue if you're spinning up a kilometers-wide, microns-thick graphene sheet at a Lagrange point or something.
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Joshua Bloch covers some highlights from the third edition of “Effective Java”
I'm very impressed that they can go from deploying a fix (12:44) to it being effective (12:49) in just 5 minutes.
> Someone else said this on HN: Python is the second best language in almost every field of computing.

It isn't. Frankly, it isn't even top 3 in any "field of computing" depending on how you define "field of computing".

What python has going for it is the evangelists who do a great job of spreading the word and of course funding - they have lots of money backing the language. Also, being an interpreted language, it has a much lower barrier to entry.

I'm not much of a fan of python and its block syntax - I very much prefer braces or markers delineating the beginning and end of code blocks.

Also, python wants to be everything ( functional, OO, imperative, etc ) and hence is the worst language to learn programming language topics in my humble opinion.

My hope is that python will serve as a "gateway drug" to other languages like ruby, ML, C/C++, SQL, etc. So that people will learn what programming and languages are rather using python as a glorified calculator which I'm sure many are doing.
....they've raised $190m from 2m people. That means the average donation was about $95.

That's just insane.
Well I couldn't disagree more. Good on Mark for not choosing to censor those views. Misinformation needs to be combated with information not censorship.

The correct way to deal with a Holocaust denier isn't to tell them how evil and anti-Semitic they are. It's to point them to the evidence they're wrong. Try to understand their world view and dismantle it with truth. If you just shut these people out of society the only interaction you can have will be conflict.

To write off someone with different beliefs is at the very least arrogant and counter productive.
This hole is incrementally being closed with the introduction of Java 9's modle system. You can only deep reflect into classes in your modules or those "open" to you.

There are both declaritive and command line param ways to open things so it's not as rigid as it sounds.
Zuckerberg`s Holocaust comment is one of the few things he`s got right: there is no place for government regulating Free Speech. Not because Holocaust deniers are anything but deranged and odious, but because any such power placed in the hands of government can and will be abused.
No options are being removed. The range of possible contracts that two consenting parties can enter into is larger when arbitration clauses are not illegal.

>>Being forced to use a company’s appeals process

No one is being "forced to use a company's appeals process". You choose to accept a company's offer, and agree to the terms, when you sign a contract with them. Given you're not entitled to use their service, and are free to not use it, you are not being forced into anything.
But then I can't go on long-weekend trips
I've worked a variety of schedules in my time. When I'm doing around 30 hours a week - whether it was from 6 hour days or from 4 days a week - there is so much more time to get things done during the week. I no longer feel rushed in general. I sleep better and wind up eating better. I can plan doctor appointments outside of work hours. The difference isnt so much being overworked, but reasonably being able do do things in life.

The only time I really felt overworked was while working 4 ten-hour days every week. I had zero time and needed one day of relaxation to make up for it, so the day was wasted nonetheless. I'll aslo mention that slews of people aren't lucky enough to do anything but work-related things during work. This is especially true if doing a low-paying job, even if there is downtime. "If you have time to talk, you have time to clean". Looking busy enough to earn your keep is a major theme to many jobs.

The next best schedule was weirdly retail, though. Around 40 hours per week, but I usually only worked 2-3 days in a row before having a day off, plus I got every other weekend off. Downside was working holidays - it was a pharmacy, after all. It just wasn't as productive as having 30-hour workweeks.
You can do that with a normal gun.
Are you saying there's no appropriate level of exaggeration to exceed?
> Everybody at my job is always complaining about how busy they are

Probably busy browsing social media and updating their pinterest. It's a lot more exhausting than people give it credit for.
You've got the causality reversed here. The medium was dying, so the Reader product was killed.
Nokia maps was pretty decent. They had acquired Navteq, which had been in the business of mapping for decades. When Google maps just used to have a list of driving instructions, Nokia maps had full turn by turn voice navigation. Of course in this case Google maps didn't drive Nokia out of business, that was totally their own doing and maps was just one collateral damage.
> For example, building a 12 gauge shotgun from 1" and 3/4" steel pipe is cheaper, easier, and probably safer/more effective than the plastic gun from the article.

Guns made from metal stock will probably always be more reliable and cheaper than plastic ones.

The issue is that a disposable plastic handgun is less detectable and will leave no useful evidence behind as it can simply be discarded at the crime scene.

(Of course, that's probably hogwash as a plastic feedstock capable of being a gun is probably going to be equally as traceable.)
It`s different, but if they`re the information channel used by the majority of people then it has the same effect.
> I live in Colorado, where transgender people being able to choose what bathroom they identify with became law in May 2008. That was the day I realized that I could no longer send my daughters into public restrooms alone.

Why?
> honour longer-term contracts

Do they really have such contracts to begin with?
Assembly is pretty esoteric these days... I mean, most every platform no matter how resource constrained has at least a C compiler, and must of 'em probably have a Python interpreter.
Your logic is the same logic used when people try give excuses for not voting. "My one vote won't matter".

No single drop of water believes it is to be blamed for the flood.
The pilot workload and involvement is high during the entire departure process and arrival process, not just the takeoff and landing. Call it surface to 30K feet and letting down out of 30K feet to the surface. Traffic, crossing restrictions, speed restrictions, frequency changes, aircraft power and configuration changes, etc. In cruise in RVSM airspace (where the use of autopilot is mandated anyway), there's not much to hit and everything is nice and orderly and the workload lowest. Full autoland usage is a minority of landings, even in equipped aircraft.
Game patches aren't GB in size because of code.
I'm going to chime in to 100% agree with you. I'm a big fan of both of those languages and their respective ecosystems.

I'm in love with the idea that there a good case of polyglot (biglot?) program synergy between the two. Keep your eyes open on Jython and GraalPython!
> the GraphQL schema should be your point of stability, whereby anything in front or behind can change

This is the bit of abstraction I see most developers fail to understand when evaluating GraphQL.
I had the chance/experience to train a new team in Vue.js (and thus modern JS) which I imagine is similar to people learning React. I noticed the same thing as the author - the new JS frameworks are "all about JavaScript". Without a solid knowledge of how JS works, and ES6, learning any of them is difficult. When realizing this, the main things I focused on what getting people to understand JavaScript, _then_ start to make use of the framework's more powerful features.

I also noticed a lot of people interpreting `const` as "you can not change this, ever". It is short for constant, after all.
I mean, sure. Except for the part where we blot out the only star in our solar system.

Can't we siphon the total energy output of some other star? #NIMBY
I find having to mail a package to be a worse experience than just driving to a store. Also, Amazon doesn't have free returns for every return reason.
He's using internet speak. Since it can't be communicated as such in any other way, it's likely an exception, although to someone who hasn't been read in it probably reads funny.
Being bought/aquihired by Google/others seems to be a business model several companies aim for.
HN reads as: "Hey everyone, get in here and post your favorite language!"
Reminds me of the "melloream"[0] nonsense that happened in New York. Oat milk creamer became significant competition for the dairy industry. Then a law was passed that classified non-dairy milks as "melloream", required that they be regulated exactly like dairy products and also be pasturized. Of course nobody knew what "melloream" was, so it doesn't sell. Just a protectionist law that only helps keep up some businesses' profits.

A similar story is Unilever and the Egg Board's squabbles with Hampton Creek over "Just Mayo" and whether it was actually mayonnaise. [1]

[0] https://books.google.com/books?id=JkrdDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT98&lpg=P...

[1] http://fortune.com/2016/10/10/american-egg-board-hampton-cre...
Can you elaborate why/how you think most traffic will be "stuff" instead of people? Is everyone going to stop working and never go more than a couple of miles from home?

I don't see this happening anytime soon. While some office jobs can be transitioned to work from home that does not account for the majority of workers even.
OK, could you please explain it to me.

Maybe my limited English skills. Or maybe too tired.
So their gig driver delivered to the wrong house. Amazon figured it out, and reached out to make it right. That seems pretty decent customer service to me.
For things like that,I generally order from Target or Walmart so I can an return it, hassle free and no worry of shipping fees or damage on the way back.
In my company, you'd have to have a very long USBC to HDMI cable to reach the TV, and then you'd have to get behind the TV somehow which would be a total fucking nightmare because my CEO is very earthquake conscious and has thus bolted the thing to the wall without any give.

We probably could have a better setup, but we don't.
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