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JSON is a great configuration language. I find it far more human-readable than Toml or similar ini-styles, while being more restricted than YAML.

Since config files ought to be version controlled outside of the application and delivered as an installable artifact (yes even your local Postgres conf file, etc.), it means end users can customize options solely using the 12-factor approach of storing config in environment variables, and never fishing around to change them in a hand-edited config file.

This pattern is really pleasant to work with, especially using container definitions or shell scripts to define different combinations of config (as ENV vars), instead of needing to maintain a mapping between random and often scattered files into their meanings for reproducing certain environments or settings.

A nice side effect is that you’d truly never want or need comments in the config file. They would be in a man page, user guide, etc., explaining why defaults are chosen and how to override with ENV vars (and you’re still free to add comments to environment definitions like Dockerfiles or shell scripts).

After working this way for a while now, I’ve come around to realizing it is so much superior to relying on modify local files and especially better than needing to fish around for in-line config comments (that are just as prone to get out of sync as anything else) in scattered config files. I was resistant to the 12 Factor config best practices for a while, and I think I was foolish for it.

In the end, JSON is really compact, scoping and nesting are immediately easy to read, data structures are immediately obvious, and there is a ton of mature tooling for it.

JSON really is a great config language.
This was already technically possible by compiling to llvm bitcode and then using emscripten to compile that to wasm (or asm.js). Still cool though!
This is genius. All walmart has to do is turn on their security cams, hire a producer to pick out the best feeds from hundreds, and they've already got their reality TV Show.. People of Walmart IRL.
Atlassian is not a "large" tech firm. By any size metric it is 1% of the others you mentioned.
It's an entire city; there's a huge amount of variation in the experience depending on where you spend your time. A lot of this sort of press revolves around the big sound camps and sound cars-- those parts of the city are definitely a bit like that, but they're only a tiny fraction of the entire event. It's a whole different world out in the burbs.
Agree with above, my faves are econtalk, conversations with tyler..

RedScare is 3 new york russian girls talking about issues like #metoo from a socialist/anti-liberal perspective, its great
I work in this space. Token Daily and Proof of Work are the two best ~blockchain~ newsletters I subscribe to — in particular, Token Daily has been killing it. So I'd look to them as models.
Scotch. All the scotches. I'm not talking about rum and brandy (I am however at this minute getting tipsy on a pretty amazing Plantation rum aged in cognac barrels, so I guess I could nerd out on rum a bit too --- though all I know about rum is "buy the Plantation rums that are aged in interesting barrels").
A helium balloon made from plastic pipes was adequate in Delft in 1979, but the Japanese paper firebombs from WWII suggest that you don't need anything more than helium, paper, and lacquer, substituting hydrogen or methane for the helium in a pinch. So maybe drone technology of around 1770.

https://vimeo.com/50850893
Yeah, we have Netflix, and I get HBO for about 3 months/per year till I'm caught up on the major shows, except this year (No game of thrones).
A 30 minute window really isn’t that big of a deal. You just set the end time to when you need to be up, and then if it goes off before that, then you wake up refreshed with a little extra time. Your choice is really whether you want to get up refreshed, possibly a little early, or wake up abruptly in the wrong cycle and be groggy all morning. Either way, the solution to getting more sleep is to go to bed earlier if you have a fixed time to wake up.
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Some of the most lovely bourbons I’ve had recently are port barrel aged, so this isn’t a surprise!
Regarding Truly Ergonomic, it's almost infuriating how poorly they are running their operation. They started with a great idea and a decent-sized following (in the beginning). All things considered their first-gen product was not bad at all. If they had owned up to the ghosting issues and focused on ironing out the kinks in the 200 series (or even 300), they'd be in great shape. But instead they alienated their target demographic. And instead:

https://www.trulyergonomic.com/

They went back to typewriter layout, and now claim that infrared keyswitches are the secret to ergonomics. Complete With Marketing Copy Capitalizing Every Word. It's so bad that I genuinely thought some fly-by-night Chinese manufacturer had stolen their domain and logo. But nope, it's still the same people.
eBay is rampant with fraud..I have a buddy that does a tremendous amount of of business there and the amount of crazy crap he puts up with is insane. "I just lost 2k today, well back to work"

The scammers on eBay are bold because they know eBay doesn't care at all about the sellers.
You, Sir, have excellent taste.

Permutation City is the only recent hard science fiction books that I can fully embrace. It has novel and genuinely new thinking, it is realistic, and it's thoroughly entertaining.

Most modern sci-fi fails at one or more of those tasks. Indeed, most modern sci-fi fail's at not being mere fiction.
The artist of drawings for Scientific American for many years made his drawings super-real by emphasizing components of interest. And these were black-and-white.
I'm pretty sure that was found to fake, no?
Which one? The only wine barrel bourbon I've had is High West's Midwinter. I'd be interested in other ones.

Kilchoman's port cask Scotch is really amazing.
What if we all purchased saas at the same time?
My assumption is that a lot of us are purchasing, or have purchased, a similar tech stack. If so, what would happen if we coordinated our saas purchases in order to gain leverage in volume? Group purchasing has worked for hospitals, manufacturers, etc, so would it work for saas buying?

*first time poster here, so quick background on me: I'm on the sales side. I was previously the smb sales director @HubSpot and today is my last day as head of enterprise sales @InVisionapp. I'm leaving to help co's buy saas, better. (better = quicker and cheaper) site: purchase.tech
> The correction algorithm is then optimized ... to reach an image quality almost as good as with a natural guide star.

Then why not use natural guide stars?
In Scotland, ex bourbon barrels go through a process of "rejuvenation" to expose flavor bearing compounds still found deeper in the wood:

"... why not scrape out the inside of the cask and toast it again? After toasting the cask is charred anew, and voilà: You have a new, activated cask. ... A bourbon cask, used for 2 to 4 years in the USA, can be used for another 30 years in Scotland."

https://www.whisky.com/information/knowledge/production/deta...
iMessage and other E2E services that Apple provides won't be compromised unless the user opts in to iCloud backup.

Not to excuse this.
What if the base isn't an integer?

Base e for life.
> felt wood panels

Since it's too late for you to edit, can you confirm if my guess is right that you meant "felt wool panels"?
For small projects, I still use AngularJS. Ridiculous productivity and no build system. Of course it has it's warts, but it's my go-to for personal projects or MVPs/demos.

I've been meaning to learn Vue but haven't had the time.
This includes _everything_, including webengine(which bundles chromium). It's not ideal, but Pyinstaller prunes unused libraries, so Pyinstaller bundles shouldn't be too large.
Why is software virtualization not an option?
I'm pretty sure this is still considered an open problem.
I'm a reader of this forum, I've never really felt the need to comment on anything else.

Anyone who knows me could identify me from this post, there aren't a lot of people who have my relationship with sleep. I've met people who have insomnia, and they fall apart during day two of no sleep, it wears them out. Me, I'm just awake, I don't start slowing down because I'm awake for 72 or 96 hours. I worked 5 days straight with no break, everyone else worked in shifts,I was always observed there wasn't a period where I could sneak off and have a nap. It freaked everyone out that I was exactly the same on day 5 as I was on day 1, and they were all beat down because they were doing long hours with reduced sleep.
Or is it just because we have limit observation of the universe.

People in ancient times doesn't know much about the earth either.
How so? PUBG has made billions of dollars, and sold 50 million copies[1]. Seems like they did pretty well to me...

EDIT: and the reason fortnite is doing (comparatively) better is that it's free.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_gam...
The issue is... I don't agree w/ nor support those who say the earth is flat or holocaust didn't happen. It insults my intelligence, but it's not necessarily hate speech to say it didn't happen. It's ignorant speech for sure.

Hate speech would be to say 'jews deserved it', or 'x group deserved it', or 'I wish the holocaust really did happen'.. I've heard that kind of rhettoric on and off FB, and that should def. be removed. There's a difference between someone commenting, 'well, I don't believe that happened'...while everyone else is like, 'well you're a dumb fuck, w/e' and moves on.

I think Zuck did the right thing, made the right call. By taking away the platform he only makes them angrier, loses power of the platform, by making them think they still have a voice (even if it's buried so deep on the newsfeed that you'd need Elon Musk to bore a hole to find it), you acquiesce and de-escalate their emotions about 'not being heard' .. rather than ban the content outright.

Again threats, and real hate speech should be removed and policed, but some crazy shit should be just marginalized to the point it doesn't really matter.
Actually, I agree.

Pitching this to investors is fraud if you don't have it or are not planning to build it.

I misread, and was more thinking of it from perspective of a customer buying a solution, and getting an AI solution in the end.
Terrible comparison bro. One company is built on tech that’s been around for decades.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

I plan to reverse engineer VAC sometime to figure out how the detection works.
Abortion is same as Holocaust denial ? One is a medical issue and the other one is literally denying facts that is used as propaganda to recruit extremists.
I'm guessing he showed a picture or two of his students all posing in the field with a couple turtles, smiling with their find.

And, of course, prudish harridans must have gotten mad at him showing girls in swimsuits and thrown a tantrum.
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> but where's the time when only a limited amount of smileys were used?

I agree whole-heartedly but then I'm an old fart.
Even here in the ABC state of NC A'bunadh is readily available and goes for about $87+tax. Macallan 12 is about$65-70.
Well we just made it ourselves sort of on a whim, so I can't tell you one way or the other. It's just how we did it.
How can a socially dead guy be healthy and wealthy though?
We do flip the mattress every couple months, so there isn't really a definitive "bottom".
Complaining to twitter about fascism is this generation's version of complaining to TV networks about drugs and violence.
>"On 2017 August 17 12:41:06 UTC the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM; Meegan et al. 2009) onboard flight software triggered on, classified, and localized a GRB. A Gamma-ray Coordinates Network (GCN) Notice (Fermi-GBM 2017) was issued at 12:41:20 UTC announcing the detection of the GRB, which was later designated GRB 170817A (von Kienlin et al. 2017). Approximately 6 minutes later, a gravitational-wave candidate (later designated GW170817) was registered in low latency (Cannon et al. 2012; Messick et al. 2017) based on a single-detector analysis of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) Hanford data. The signal was consistent with a BNS coalescence with merger time, tc, 12:41:04 UTC, less than 2 s before GRB 170817A. A GCN Notice was issued at 13:08:16 UTC. Single-detector gravitational-wave triggers had never been disseminated before in low latency. Given the temporal coincidence with the Fermi-GBM GRB, however, a GCN Circular was issued at 13:21:42 UTC (LIGO Scientific Collaboration & Virgo Collaboration et al. 2017a) reporting that a highly significant candidate event consistent with a BNS coalescence was associated with the time of the GRB959 ."

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aa91c9
If you like the regular Lagavulin, try to get your hands on the Distiller's Edition, which has a much higher Sherry cask content.

Ardbeg Uigaedail is another with the magic peat+sherry combo, and it's cask strength to boot (Typically about 115 proof).
I mean at that point when the post office agrees they had the package, they literally cannot logically blame you, because you could not have had any fault in this decision. What else were you supposed to do, fly over and hand it over to them in person? The onus can only logically be on the receiver to make sure they get the package the post office delivers, not on you.

I understand the trouble starts when there's plausible deniability and no witness around. How do you prove they shipped rocks? How do they prove they didn't? At that point it really could be either person's fault, and their policy seems to be to blame it on the seller. That's what people mean when they say eBay "always" sides with the buyer. They don't mean that this is literally true even when it clearly doesn't make sense.
I don’t consider his position controversial at all...
San Antonio has found that emergency rooms are ill-equipped for this. Nurses and ER doctors are not generally mental health professionals. The city, county and various other authorities have built a sprawling system of mental health care facilities, partly designed to funnel people out of emergency rooms and into dedicated centers with staff trained in those situations.

http://apps.bostonglobe.com/spotlight/the-desperate-and-the-...

> Take the Restoration Center, a big, boxy building on the edge of downtown. It’s a point of entry for people in psychiatric or substance abuse crises, mostly for those who lack health insurance. In the past, they went straight to emergency rooms or jail. Now many come through here — some 2,400 people a month.

> Open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, the center has a locked psychiatric ward for short-term stays, detox units, a medical clinic, and other services. Some patients walk in on their own. Others are brought by police or referred by hospitals. Anyone reporting suicidal or homicidal thoughts is seen within 15 minutes, day or night.

> In Massachusetts, there is no equivalent. Here, hospital emergency rooms function as crisis centers, and often ineffectively: Many people with severe mental illness end up being discharged without any promise of meaningful treatment.
That's the thing. The EU is not trying to tell Google how to make money from android. It's only saying it can't force installation of search and chrome. It's upto Google to find another means of making money that won't exploit their dominance in other markets
I like the part where they got into orbit!

Oh wait, they didn't, why is anyone paying attention to this company?
So if we are trusting therapists to manage our psyche, does that mean therapists have the most stable and well managed personal lives? Are they some sort of strange philosopher-king like super category of humans? I’d love to see a large statistical survey of all the psychologists/therapists in Europe or North America and how their personal lives are happening.
New Glenn is not higher capacity than anything, it has never reached orbit.
There is a perfectly good reason why it is against the law to deny the Holocaust in Germany. Can anyone guess what it is?
I agree, there's a difference between saying something 'happened or didn't' and being a complete idiot.

Verses being a Fascist and saying 'I'm glad hitler did x to x group of people' or 'I know it didn't happen, but I wish it had, cause they deserve it.' ..

There was a vice video where some crazy fascist redneck mom was saying she wished the Holocaust had happened and I'm like WTF who would say something so callous... and claim to follow Christ of all people.

Hypocrisy knows no bounds here in America.

He needs to walk a fine line, or alienate anyone over on the right side of the line. I'm a progressive, but still believe in democracy of the platform, and that it can be used for good. If they're on FB, maybe - eventually, some will stop being so hypocritical or dumb and wise up.
I wouldn't really call anything Macallan good value. For a basic sherried whiskey Aberlour 12 is just about as good, for substantially less, and for what Macallan 12 goes for these days you have tons of (imo) more interesting/better options.

I will say I had a dram of the 18 in a bar once, and it was indeed very very good, but I can't really justify spending ~$250 bottle for it.
I'm sorry, it's not technical innovation. If someone invents a horse and carriage when the automobile is already in existence, the horse and carriage is not innovation. The poster who has been downvoted out of existence is correct.
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If we succeed in suppressing the speech of holocaust deniers in public fora, their speech will disseminate in private fora with less opportunity for public rebuttal. As a strategy for suppressing bad ideas, exclusion is inferior to discussion.
So keep the compatibility requirements and remove the anti-competitive requirements.
Sure, there exists some amount X, but you can hardly remedy a complete temporay ban with money.

Because it means that users have to look at alternatives. They might find that they prefer them in the long run, and it might even just incentivize competition to keep going. And this is especially damaging in monopoly-like situations, as many users don't even know of competing products.
I wonder if you could script that with the API? Post a comment after a certain period of time and if you do not interact with it, delete the task.
This project is useful as a toy reference for the 12 factor principles, including making the app totally isolated from any config file (all config must be consumed from the environment). In such a case, you would document artifacts that assemble different environments, with usage instructions outside of any config / container definition / shell script / etc.

https://github.com/WASdev/sample.microservices.12factorapp
> For the first time ever we are going to give $10,000 in equity-free funding to 100 of the most promising companies that join and complete the course.
This mirrors my experience.

After some false starts with other therapists, I was lucky to stumble on to one who focuses on short-term intensive treatment for anxiety—he specifically avoids long-term talk therapy. His belief is that two-thirds of patients who seek treatment for anxiety are ill-served by long-term treatment or medication.

I'll say this: he managed to get me stable in a fairly short amount of time. The sessions were so mentally taxing I often just went home instead of going back to work for the rest of the day, which is probably a sign they were working.
Kipplization... I like that. Had to look it up. But ok... I'll use it.
Lots of Islay distilleries are doing good stuff with sherry casks these days (and also other ex-fortified wine casks).

The Kilchoman distillery is doing some really fascinating stuff, but they've only been open a decade or so it's mostly NAS stuff, but it gets rave reviews.
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You should use the canonical tag. Moz has a good page on how it works.

https://moz.com/blog/canonical-url-tag-the-most-important-ad...
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It's fascinating to imagine how future peoples might interpret current day cities, should there be a similar loss of knowledge in between.

Skyscrapers in particular will be interesting, given that to date no building over 200m tall has been voluntarily demolished[0], and there are currently 1340 buildings in the world over 200m tall[1].

[0]: http://www.skyscrapercenter.com/buildings?list=tallest-demol...
[1]: http://www.skyscrapercenter.com/
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Create systems by which people come to know about your site and want to visit it to solve a problem they have.

For example, SEO content marketing targets problems people search Google for and create content that helps solve that problem while advertising the product/service in some way. A good example of this is Digital Ocean's "how to set up software X on operating system Y" articles - good SEO, solves people's problems, and advertises directly to their customers/users.

There are other implementations, like more traditional display advertising and product reviews, but they all follow the same formula: create awareness and gives people solid reasons to come to your product/site/app.
"all of their users data"

All of their users in China whose government demands it.

I don't like it either, but I don't see Apple stopping China from doing this and they can advertise privacy all they want elsewhere ... where it applies.

There is no privacy as far as the Chinese government cares, and I don't think Apple promises anything like that in China.
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This is seriously obnoxious. The last few times someone in my family has been to see the doctor, something hasn't been covered for some inexplicable reason. It always turns out that according to the insurance company there is some disallowed code and the insurance company won't say what the right one is. The doctors office always acts annoyed that you're bothering them with petty details like a $2000 charge. It's infuriating.
Uh, sure (eyeroll)
True. Come to think of it, I haven't participated in an auction for over 5 years.

The thing I do like about ebay is they don't have the increasingly annoying dynamic pricing bullshit that Amazon is pulling.

i.e. you see a price on Amazon that's great, by the time you've spoken to your better-half and gotten back to the computer... the price has gone up!

Back to ebay though, I actually sold my car on ebay about 10 years ago... there's no way I'd attempt it these days!
I’ve been in and out too. The biggest problem is cost, because in-network doesn’t provide you with enough sessions (insurance limits the number of sessions), you’re stuck having to pay out of network costs if you want more than once a month or once a week. I was looking at an extra 4 times a week, but therapists were quoting me $250 per 50 min session.

That’s $1000 per week, I cant afford that and I’m confident in my extreme thoughts getting worse and there’s nobody I can talk to about extreme vengeful hurtful thoughts and once a month or even once a week isn’t going to help when I’m genuinely asking for 4 sessions a week but insurance will never cover that so I’m stuck having to pay out of pocket and as I said this once a week is just not enough and so I’m stuck with my thoughts where only every now and then I can make a rational thought and the rest of the day is filled with unimaginable extreme pain and extreme thoughts.

And worse, therapists won’t reduce their price from $250 per session hour for these extra 4 sessions per week that I’m requesting, because, obviously $1000 per week (for 4 sessions) is a lot of money for them. This industry turns into a sham when therapists can charge $1000 per week to the man scraping by (but looks healthy enough to give the impression he can afford that amount)