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> hit a sweet spot timing of being a React competitor, when developers who didn't like (or, I suspect, don't fully understand) React's fundamentally paradigm and convention shift

React is elegant and simple and I think most people understood it. I think they were less excited about the licensing, which was probably responsible for things like Vue and Preact. Personally I don't like Vue -- the "magic data" is touted as a plus, but IMHO it's room for confusion. At least when I setState in react, I can see the function call to "setState" implying I'm queueing a reactive change.
I have a "dumb phone", which in the context of my post means a phone that does calling and texting, and does not have WiFi. It is a backup phone in case my main phone dies, so that I can continue to do two-step auth in certain situations.

What I ended up doing was going on Amazon, to their Cell Phone section, pulling up the list of unlocked phones, and limiting the search to $50 or less. That got me a BLU Tank model (which does not run Android, and was not one of the "sends data back to the manufacturer" models) for something like $25.

It's interesting, though, in that although my phone doesn't do apps, or email, it still supports multimedia (music, images, video, via a microSD card). Also (like, I understand, many phones mainly used in the APAC region) it has an FM tuner, and includes dual SIM support.

To be clear, though, this is just a backup phone. I keep it charged, and I turn it on once in a while, but I don't use it regularly. Still, redoing my Amazon search shows that there are alot of models to choose from!
Depending on what exactly it is it might be quite time consuming running the business, not to mention stressful to not have a reliable paycheque. An office hours job with salary might be starting to look desirable.
That's pretty clearly false. See: China, North Korea.
I think this is an effect, but not a solution. The harder answer is we treat others the way we would want to be treated if the roles were reversed.
China brings 10,000 teachers out of retirement to teach in rural areas
Containers is available in Firefox, however the usability and ease of usage should be something like shown in video. Its pretty awesome to shift between containers.

Timeline seems like barrowed from Windows. This will be another awesome feature I love to see
I'm thinking about downgrading to a Blackberry Classic. Not quite a dumb phone, but from what I've seen it's much more of a tool than an entertainment/social-media/time-wasting device, which is exactly what I'm looking for. There's no way I could do without navigation, so I don't think anything more dumb will work for me.
So... uh... why wouldn't someone just fake a photo and not use your blockchain?
Fingers tend to be dirty and slippery while cooking so tactile knobs are extremely nice, beyond the fact that you can use them without looking.

But in general, tactile knobs are always better than touch screen widgets if one looks beyond flexible function (tactile > non-tactile). Touch screens are more like an economy option when you want to fit in a bunch of functionality in a limited amount of space.
And it should be noted that the person the GP was smearing was not accused of pedophilia. He was hounded out of his job for supporting a ballot proposition that was ultimately passed by a majority of California voters. I tried to reply to the GP directly but couldn't because it got flagged dead before I could get the reply submitted.
> It's the logic of state developing over time.

You may already be aware of this, but that various kinds of temporal logic allows one to capture very complex predicates for the evolution of state machine (much like your person with a dollar).

If you have a familiarity with state machines (here Kripke systems) it might be approachable.

Some useful links:

1. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~emc/15414-s14/lecture/ModelChecking....

2. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-temporal/
I used an LTE-capable Kyocera DuraXE for several trips to the US. It was solidly built and worked as advertised.

I ended up getting rid of it because going back to T9 for texting was just too painful, and I'd rather have access to WhatsApp/Signal for messaging. It seems any LTE-capable feature phones are also using some custom version of Android without the ability to install apps, or generally get any updates, which makes me generally skeptical of their security.

Have switched to using a burner iPhone SE for travel.
Samsung phones have a low power mode on everything from s5 and up that disables every function of the phone (every sensor and radio) except texting and calling and 4 apps of your choice. It's much smarter to just disable your current phone than to completely replace it with something inferior and harder to use like an old flipphone. Samsung also makes modern flip phones running Android that have all the same simplicity of being able to be closed and of course not having apps installed if you so choose.
Did this has tabs on the side?
F19 was the first version. I still have the box somewhere. The f117 verson came out a year later. There was more to it, new areas, new art and new game concepts.

Both games were noted for the quality of the AI, ground and air units working together.
Are you genuinely asking for an entry-level explanation of why most modern societies disapprove of discrimination on a few specific characteristics but do not generally consider "ideology" one of them? (I can provide one, but don't want to explain something basic if it's not actually at issue here.)
I'm very interested in this. Please share.
Writing Small and Fast Software (2001) [pdf]
I think what they were trying to also say is "make the process fair" isn't as simple as 4 words. It's a struggle for even the most ardent of believers in giving everyone a fair shot. The problem is defining what is fair.
An Apple watch LTE is more functional than almost any dumbphone you could possibly buy. It has the ability to call and text as well as not having to carry a big phone around.

Essentially everything you'd want from a dumbphone, small screen, no real apps, basic phone functions and maybe email.
That's where IMO things get complicated.

Mozilla presumably has or would have gay employees. Meanwhile here is a guy running the company supporting a cause to limit a specific group of employee's rights to marry.

That's no small thing, it's not some generic labor dispute, it's a very specific action that is specifically targeting a group of employees legal rights regarding marriage.

I think there is a legit leadership problem there.
An entire industry of brokers exist to match online business owners with buyers and do these types of transactions regularly.

patio11 has used and spoken highly of FE International (you can see his blog or search HN)

But other brokers like e.g. Quiet Light Brokerage also exist.

It should be noted that these types of transactions have nothing to do with the typical Silicon Valley advice or narratives you'll read about acquihires.
Fighter numbers always confuse the hell out of me. Where did they pull 117 from? There's no F-116.
That's simply not true. Most full time hourly workers accrue vacation hours just like salaried workers.
Not sure if it qualifies as a dumbphone, but I'm eyeing the Lightphone. It's definitely more expensive than the old bricks, but way cheaper than the usual smartphone.

https://www.thelightphone.com/home/
Programmed? The speed displays I remember were simply wired to show whatever. I've seen turbo buttons swapping the display between '66' and '33'.
After moving to the Columbia Gorge I became fascinated with
the dams and energy production on the Columbia. Over the last 75ish years the whole river has been turned into a battery through a series of dams and reservoirs. The scale is astonishing - Grand Coulee itself produces ~6800 megawatts (about 3x of Hoover Dam).

For those interested [A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia](https://www.amazon.com/River-Lost-Life-Death-Columbia/dp/039...) is a great book documenting the creation and long term implications (from cheap electricity for the Manhattan Project, to agriculture, to the collapse of the Salmon population) of the project.
35. Stoicism.
Lately I have been using google translate, which I assume uses AI, to translate a lot of Japanese. Boy, is it terrible. Among other things, it gets pronouns like I vs you vs he/sh wrong almost all the time. And it usually translates what should be she as he. Beyond that, the sentences, if you can call them that, are often ungrammatical jumbles, though I can usually figure out the general drift. Sometimes they are simply incomprehensible.
Tom T., I salute you. For the past 10+ years, I have used hundreds of scans in your archive to learn about my roots in small farming villages and factory towns in northern and western New York. Thank you for not selling out to Ancestry.com or Newspapers.com and keeping this resource free.

His devotion to old newspaper archives leads me to ask: How could vital records and other paper archives at the municipal level be digitized and indexed? What are the technical and legal considerations for such a project?
Those old flying games had some serious manuals. I remember getting my copy of Flight Simulator for the C64 at the same time I was learning to fly actual planes. The game manuals (plural) were actually thicker than the training materials for my Private Pilot's License.
Fast-forward to the next year, where he's created Z80 and ZX Spectrum models in Verilog: http://baltazarstudios.com/z80-cpu/

I find it interesting that he used transparent latches at first, then after experiencing random glitches switched to flip-flops. I guess the Z80 designers had control of and deeply understood their timing, something you don't get with a FPGA :)
I personally was a big fan of 688i Hunter-Killer. One of the most realistic sub games ever made, with a 250 page manual that frankly under-explained how a lot of the more technical systems on your boat functioned (I'm still not quite sure when it's a good idea to let out the port/starboard towed arrays!). To get good at the game basically required you to take a crash course in modern submarine warfare.

http://www.stormpowered.com/stormcloud/games/6040/manual.pdf

Man, I really miss these kinds of games. DCS is really all that's left of what used to be an entire genre.
https://www.freeclinics.com/sta/california
If you'd like, I can get you an introduction to some folks at the United Nations so you can present your plan.
In C#, you can almost do everything in a single language (linq to sql, model binding). You still need extensible application markup language (XAML) for the view.
Agree with the author. I think a lot of clarity can be gained by answering the question they posed:

> I think it’s important to ask ourselves what we want to accomplish with diversity quotas in the first place.

Like the article says, maybe the company has found that hiring diverse candidates leads to more profits and they are seeking them out and letting the rest fall into place, i.e. they get higher salaries, better compensation packages... It would be no different than figuring out graduates from Stanford's such and such department end up doing particularly well in the company.

Or maybe the company does want to right a wrong and want to not just improve its bottom line but also help marginalized groups who have been neglected, abused and pushed out in the past. Companies the size of Google, Amazon, Facebook and others can certainly, and maybe should take that position. They can influence the technology field and their policies can affect a huge number of people. But I think they shouldn't be shy about declaring their mission, and should be more bold, as opposed to trying to hide behind the former reason. It is this hiding that leads to controversy and conflict.

Also in case of this article, the title could have been a bit less controversial too. It should have been something like "Diversity Quota Needs To be Explained".
Some people do separate their personal and work lives/personas. They are still at risk when malicious actors work to "doxx" them and force that connection to be made in the public space despite the honest attempt to compartmentalize.
Thanks. Your second link looks like a really great resource! Cheers.
> React feels like layers and layers of render functions, with chains passed down and pared down as you get deeper, which becomes excessively cumbersome to reason about

This is like saying recursion is hard to reason about because you're dealing with a function which calls itself then calls itself then calls itself and there are layers and layers of calling itself with chains of arguments passed down through the many layers.

> a stateless function that renders a react component that wraps around a redux plugin component

IMO React's recursion makes it much easier to reason about than something imperative like Vue, while its function composition enable powerful patterns for reusing logic.
Also, I do have concerns about the quality control and dosage accuracy of these supplements. There was a study that tested OTC melatonin products in Canada and found:

> Results show that melatonin content did not meet within a 10-percent margin of the label claim in more than 71 percent of supplements, with the actual content ranging from 83 percent less to 478 percent more than the concentration declared on the label. The study also found that lot-to-lot variability within a particular product varied by as much as 465 percent.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/02/170214162728.h...

There is no reason to believe the situation is different in the US where supplements are not regulated like drugs (thanks, Orrin Hatch).
I got the Fsmart M5 off Amazon for $20 and is the size of a credit card.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00UWT5DM4/

Works great on T-Mobile, with one exception: it cannot receive MMS, so you don't get notified if someone sends a photo or group text.
Loans are a thing for established companies. Does not require an ownership change. But is certainly out of range for most SV startups.
I'm pretty sure that figure was debunked. No reference, sorry.
Would love to see a concerted movement to arrange a boycott of Harvard by Asian students - having a graduating class without any Asian students would send a very a strong symbolic message.
What other work have you done though?

From my experience, it seems like a lot of web dev people struggle with OS/Compilers/Embedded/Robotics work, but people who don't struggle with OS/Compilers/Embedded/Robotics work tend to handle web dev just fine.

Why is that? The only explanation I can think of is because the work is easier (easier, not trivial).

(Note: I don't think a web developer (or anyone) should be considered a "lower class" of coder, but saying web dev is the hardest and most intimidating dev work feels untrue).
I was trying to avoid “things you buy from resellers who ordered 5000 of them from Shenzhen at half a dollar a pop and then marked them up 2000%” but honestly that’s also a great option in a pinch.
Why don't you start a software company that takes advantage of this market inefficiency by hiring people over 40? Why don't these unhirable
40-somethings band together and start a consulting agency?
Looks like we need more capeless heroes like Tom Tryniski!
Could you perhaps use https://www.sweetjs.org/ instead of modifying babel?
Can you elaborate on how javascript is sub-optimal?
Thank you, there is much wisdom in your comment. I'll totally try this.
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> It’s not owned by a reprehensible consumer surveillance utility

I don't like Facebook that much either, but that doesn't mean they don't write useful software.

> The other half is also programmer happiness, due to impedance matching with Rails.

So impedance matching with a limited technology is a good thing? I find that to be... a limitation.
I was not necessarily talking about performance when mentioning JS. It was the memory leak. Gnome performs "fine?" at bootup, but starts becoming sluggish as you use it because their JS interpreter doesn't automatically have GC. This kind of behaviour is fine for websites since nobody really uses it for an extended period. But for a desktop (which I for once, use for quite long stretches) is unacceptable. I've had cases where I had to forcefully reboot the machine because gnome froze.

Even if you ignore the memory leak (and say that it's being fixed) I would argue that the overall latency of the desktop is just not there. I have used xfce, gnome3, unity7, kde, mate and budgie (daily driver) on the same machine, with the same Intel iGPU Mesa driver; gnome3 is the most sluggish. The time it takes for stuff to happen on the screen from when I press a button is quite high for my taste.

P.S. I usually disable animations.

The design of the desktop is definitely unique and admittedly refreshing to see (except the hamburger menus). However, the sluggishness just makes it impossible for me to use.
Why do proof-of-work fans believe that the only alternative to trusting nobody is trusting everybody?

You get out of the proof-of-work mess by trusting one entity, and it doesn't have to be the government. And to use proof-of-work, you implicitly trust the people who wrote all the code you use anyway.
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I haven't been to a university library in many years, so things may be different there (especially with the research requirements of the institution) but at most public libraries the machines are either restricted or absent entirely. It's sad but logical. Demand was quite low.
I saw OP threw in technical points where the hobby machine is not like a production HPC box - after issuing a dismissal of the work entirely. HN does best when it gives a hobbyist a good faith appraisal of his/her work. A hobbyist is of course not going to have the resources to do HPC at home - usually.
Iran is definitely under-represented in western education. I came across this the other day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakhch%C4%81l

Iranians constructed these deep structures that engineered in a such a way to grow ice in the winter and keep the ice for the entirety of summer. They made a kind of sorbet as a dessert.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faloodeh

Thanks for sharing this! Great read!
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I had one for the game about the Apache attack helicopter. When you landed after the mission the base asked you a "challenge" which required you to respond correctly or you would be shot down. This was probably a kind of copy protection. The correct response was printed on each page in the manual, one challenge-response per each page!
So you think that emojis should not have been added to Unicode because, in 10 years, they will be obsolete like Linear A (U+10600..U+1077F)?
I'm aware of temporal logic (besides temporal logic there's there's also temporal linear logic) I do find it to be more useful in certain situations, however you do lose some generality and I really enjoy that generality. For example, idk if you could build a better borrow checker by using TLL rather than LL. At the same time, the second I said this I realized that Idk whether you could.
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This was really well explained.

Here's that article on ITA:
http://www.demarcken.org/carl/papers/ITA-software-travel-com...
I'm not the poster you're responding to, and I like to think I have a reasonably good understanding of why modern societies don't discriminate on characteristics which a person can't change, and while I personally find it unethical to discriminate against someone based on their religious views, I have a hard time discerning why religion should get that protection while "ideology" shouldn't? As a non religious person I find religion both fairly ideological and something that a person can readily change, at least in a free society.

I've looked through your profile and you always seem to provide good explanations so I'd love to hear your thoughts. I hope you can believe me that this is a question asked in good faith.
> In fact when I went looking just now I found a bunch of listicles about retail startups that failed.

Their contribution to losses in the dotcom bubble were measured in the millions. Telecom, last mile service providers and B2B losses were measured in the billions. [0] You obviously know those lists are infotainment.

> The telecom bubble and crash was almost a side-effect.

I'd characterize it as more of a feedback loop. They weren't simply increasing capacity with the expectation of a customer demand that didn't materialize, they were pushing through an evolutionary hump in search of a global minimum. The world would look very different today if they hadn't, at great cost, setup the network the way it is today - pushing way beyond the original design of NAPs (Network Access Points) to IXPs (Internet Exchange Points). I guess you could attribute the change to capacity, but I'd say it is more accurate to describe it as a recognition of inevitable scalability problems and as a result - a change in philosophy. That change, the official government handoff, occurred in '95. There was also an amazing amount of very interesting R&D work going on, from strange new operating systems to packet switching on fiber optics without copper interruption. Even Enron was getting in the game by trying to setup a commodity market for bandwidth. The entire situation reminds me of the evolutionary problem, where you've got massive metabolic costs in brain size growth.

So no, it wasn't an overestimation of traffic growth. Everybody was trying to figure out the way the new world would work, a lot of people got it wrong.

Also... 401k participation spiked in '95 - I don't think that is a coincidence.

[0] https://money.cnn.com/2000/11/09/technology/overview/
You can afford short-notice world travel, but you can't afford $1/month for a Covered CA policy?
Coupling the CSS and JS and HTML isn't a random design choice. It came out of some very useful styleguides for AngularJS (and other guides too, I'm sure). These guidelines suggest grouping the CSS and HTML and JS together when they are related. It makes a lot of sense in larger applications, but maybe not so much for server-rendered static pages.

There are global styles, and there are styles that are relevant only to a particular component. Hoist styles up to a global (or more general) layer whenever you can, but I really appreciate the fact that I know the important styles I need will be in the same file/folder.
Those were three separate ideas. A bank run would most likely be a result of deflation, yes, but it is not guaranteed that if that were to occur that the bank would be able to stay solvent.

The inflation example can already be seen in Venezuela, where the people there have been using cryptocurrencies as a way to survive.

> Ultimately the US dollar (and other fiat currencies) are backed by something: a government with an effective monopoly on violence over a particular territory including all the people and assets therein.

Are you suggesting that the US military will use force to ensure that people use the dollar and that is its backing? I am not saying you are wrong, but that is not exactly a friendly thought. Sounds more like a dictatorship than a free market economy.
That's what I remember as well. You'd set jumpers to light up the segments of the display. No programming involved.
Oh, and Gnome3 is absolutely "written with JS"

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/graphs/master/cha...