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I thought this was a really good post[0] on the networking performance potential of .NET.

[0]: https://dzone.com/articles/how-raygun-increased-throughput-b...
I suspected it would be at community-project stage, and I didn't really believe the Canonical hype. It's just it was plain unusable for anything I wanted to do (I hope that comes across as objective rather than unkind).

I'll have another look.
I'm 40 and have no trouble staying in programming / development.

The challenge is "Flow". It needs to be something at the right difficulty level and as you get older it feels like things get very repetitive.

Working a company with a hard problem to solve and that allows for more creativity, experimentation, and implementing of new ideas / paradigms is very rewarding. I have been at other companies where it feels more like grunt work and it is miserable.

I haven't personally felt any drive towards management but I do find mentoring junior developers and interns quite rewarding.
Amazon pays for it's 3rd party (1099) workers gas? That's news to me... Amazon does not own any semi trucks.

'To be clear, Amazon purchased only the trailers and will use third-party companies for the actual truck cabs and drivers. The original source report did not make clear there was a distinction.'

https://www.technobuffalo.com/2015/12/04/amazon-prime-now-ha...
I can confirm your first sentence with my own case. As the team grew, more non-remote people were hired, management changed to not-so-remote-friendly bosses and with them process that were remote-first started becoming local-first with (crappy) ways to allow remote people, and that has been killing the effectiveness of being remote on that team... And it's hard to grow past a certain point being remote.
I don't think it makes sense to draw a line. The same psychological manipulations we see going on with social media were tried and tested first with television decades ago.

Every minor thing is "breaking news!" and needless drama stirred up to keep you watching, in between the half a dozen tickers and counters on the screen with pointless metrics to look important and soak up your attention.
I think another hard thing is that your expectations will change the longer you live in the US (and as things change in the US as well), so what would have been a remarkable improvement to you before might be "not enough".

Then again, one would expect that India is improving far more quickly than the US.
Is Excel open source? Sure, I could maybe write some VBA scripts to help Excel do something better (and have) or put in some feature requests in their issue tracker (is there a public one?), but I really don't get the attitude that "taking up space complaining" is something to be avoided.
It isn't really that hard, just give the user the ability to determine if and how an application is sandboxed. Then it doesn't matter if the binary changes during an update, the user's level of trust in the vendor who provided that update has not changed (else they'd have disabled the updates), so there's no reason to change the sandbox permissions. You only really need to sandbox stuff you're unsure of, or stuff that misbehaves but you need to use anyway.

This condescending idea that users can't be trusted to determine this stuff for themselves and therefore we need a centralized signer and a bunch of complicated management framework to deal with it is part of the reason the FOSS philosophy has yet to produce a desktop anyone cares about.
getting a job isn't easy for everyone
If people want to play this game, then I don’t want to pay for rural and suburban electricity lines. They have higher cost to provide and I don’t need that part of the grid.
Paul Singer, Doomsday Investor
What does being "predictively inaccurate" mean in the context of the stock market? I assume that any time a stock jumps or falls is a symptom of inaccuracy--investors were surprised by some previously unknown--and unpriced--event.

So the low volatility of the stock market would indicate that it is actually predictively accurate, and that it is getting more so.

Then again, volatility is kind of a silly measure, because we also care about the frequency domain. The market could be very good at predicting the very short term or the very long term or both.

I wonder what a Fourier transform of the market would show?
They seem to be alluding to some unknown effects of being 'kind of high', but I agree with you.
For example, .NET doesn't do escape analysis, though I've read this is less of an issue for .NET than Java because .NET has struct value types instead of everything being a heap-allocated object.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16225696
I think learning to type quickly is important. Not so much because of the speed, but because the muscle-memory required to type without looking allows one to not become distracted by the act of typing. From this perspective it is more important to be able to type without looking with few mistakes than worrying about words-per-minute.

That being said, I just tested myself and apparently I'm at 116 WPM this was higher than I expected.
ps: I'm reading 'fats of life' by Glen Lawrence. I'll report if it gives a clear picture. One good thing from the first pages, is that it explains that fat is implied in a lot of subsystems. Fatty acids that are bad for your vascular system can help to avoid cancer, arthritis and other kinds of conditions... so it's not a one dimensional question. I like that.
> If you can come up with a design that fits those criteria and is simpler than Snap or Flatpak, by all means, share.

So a well packaged app utilising SELinux|AppArmor profiles?
Nvidia’s new RTX 2080, 2080 Ti video cards ship on Sept 20, starting at $799
I think most of these state sponsored companies are unintentionally so, at least in the beginning. Amazon was built on state taxes not being applicable to internet purchases in the beginning, which was an unintended subsidy.
> Near the Pennsylvania border, drivers have long been forced off the interstate and onto other roadways, only to join back 8 miles away.

This is a misleading overstatement. This is only true if you want to drive the roads labeled as I-95. There are indeed two segments labeled as I-95 that are discontinuous: the NJ Turnpike south until exit 6, and from Trenton southwards through PA to Delaware. But those segments are linked by the remainder of the NJ Turnpike, which forms a continuous highway route from northern NJ through to Delaware, and the signage indicates that all through traffic should do that.

Ascii art diagram:

A
A
BXXXA
B C
B C
B C
BC
B

A and B are the discontinuous sections of I-95 (A is the NJ Turnpike; Trenton is at the north end of the B section); C is the remainder of the turnpike; X is the "new" section. X already existed, it's just being redesignated as I-95. The only thing actually missing was the interchange between X and B. But none of that really matters because C is the more direct route anyway.
Science of Sleep: Data-driven advice on how to sleep your best
Bing runs on .NET Core 2.1
There is a well known history of organized labor ("workers") improving working conditions via labor law.
I doubt that such a well-known blogger would risk his reputation so recklessly.
Ask HN: What happened to upvote.pub?
This site has been posted here 6 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16273171

It was a reddit-style exclusively for papers. Is there any info on what happened to it? Or do you know about any alternatives which have a similar concept (besides super-niche subreddits)?
Regarding the font used, OpenDyslexic, there isn't actually any evidence it helps readability (apparently): https://s-e-o.org/which-font-is-best-for-dyslexic-users-the-...
I think a lot of areas still have regulations in place that prevent manufactured homes from being built/installed in a neighborhood.

I grew up in a region where these were incredibly common. Most of my friends grew up on one of these (doublewides, as they were called). They were actually very nice, the build quality was decent, it was incredibly spacious for the price, and they could be installed pretty fast. For about $60-70k in '95 dollars (105-120k today) a family could live in a brand new 2200 sq. ft. house on 2.5 acres of land.
I have had the same mentality. Being married for the past few years and with a step-daughter, I've been thinking of having better boundaries like that.

If it were just me, I think I like remote work, living alone, just fine.
At high-volume airports gates aren't assigned until the plane has arrived from it's inbound flight which is often <1hr from departure time.

Checkin generally opens 24 hours prior to departure (some airlines now allow >7 days prior) - hence for the vast majority of passengers the gate is unavailable as ticket issuance time.

Most airports and airlines let you get gate information fro their websites/apps as well though..
This is the easy way out of putting the blame where it actually should be.

It's not easy for a lot of people to find jobs. It's not easy to go weeks without pay while you apply, wait for drug tests to come back, go through initial onboarding, and then wait 2-3 weeks for your first paycheck.

The fault is not with the person being exploited, it's with the exploiters.
Yeh, whiteboard works but another more technical solution could be roll out a TV stand and hook up the TV to a laptop via HDMI and update schedule live through a shared doc (Google docs?). I mean, whatever works right...
Still, there are more choices than Amazon. I think it's just easier to blame Amazon than for people to make different choices.
Well you also need to have people run around and update them.
Alaska doesn't have a state sales tax, so presumably that's all city or county taxes. Does Amazon have the same obligation to collect those that they do for state taxes?
Certainly the lack of jobs is partially due to all the businesses that Amazon puts out of business by leveraging all of their AWS money to out compete companies in unrelated markets?
Did you notice that there is some tension between „vendors cannot distribute“ and „pretty much everyone except us distributes, including vendors with real legal teams“?

An explanation that‘s more detailed than „read the license“ would be really nice. And the submission title remains pure clickbait.
I am programming since 1986. I have programmed in Fortran, Cobol, Basic, Logo, Forth, C, C++, Pascal, Lisp, Prolog, Java. I love programming.

I don't know if I made it "big".

What is big?

None of the projects I have made in the past are still in use. Most have been forgotten. Some were forgotten even by me, although I was the only developer :)

Software is a moving target. There is no making it big. Everything you do will get obsolete pretty soon.

But this is good! That is exactly the point. Software is intended to be "soft" and changed whenever a change is needed.

So, when programming you are competing with yourself and your abilities as of that moment in time. The only negative outcome is when you fail to make it at that time, so you fail the expectations you have from yourself.

If you don't love programming and deeply understand that all software projects will be "failed ones", consider another approach.

In programming you should not aim towards motivation from recognition by others, but from exceeding your expectations from your self. To a better job, always! Aim high, really high! Aim complex, really complex!
Put "amazon tax abatements" in your favorite search engine and prepare to be surprised ...
>Sure, I'm playing the devil's advocate here, but in the end it's also really hard to define what is 'good spending' on tax dollars.

Most social services in developed European countries that allow people to be better off and not squeezed and abused by companies like Amazon? Healthcare, transportation, public housing, higher education? Literally almost anything besides what is spent on the USA’s unwinnable, forever wars?

It’s not hard as soon as you set aside American Exceptionalism as having any legitimacy.
I would agree that, in a sense, these are getting a subsidy too, but far less lop-sided than the Amazon example.
> Getting maintainers out of the loop for auditing packages, ensuring security updates go out, etc - is an awful idea.

Package maintainers can also be a bad idea! They have the ability to make the user experience worse and create a lot of unnecessary work for vendors. The version of AbiWord on Ubuntu was out of date and unsupported for a while. There was a steady stream of people going through vendor support channels reporting bugs that had been fixed a year previously. The maintainers ignored the vendor's requests to update the package to a more recent, supported version.
Mainly to read articles/ ebooks (I take more in that way), but also to proofread what I've written as things still slip through spell check.

I'm not that bothered about speech to text, as products I've tried in the past often end up more cumbersome than the problem they solve. I might try again as the has been an explosion in machine learning recently, so maybe technology has advanced to be more natural & accurate.
According to this they have just finished rebuilding their network...

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252441044/Gatwick-Airpor...
Amazon workers - look here. More money, exercise, outdoors.

People do have choices.
> we will have to trust them not to do so.

famous last words
There is more evidence: https://s-e-o.org/which-font-is-best-for-dyslexic-users-the-...

Apparently there have been a few studies, and a thesis, investigating "dyslexic fonts", which found no real benefit. I can't find any evidence that OpenDyslexic and the like are helpful, meanwhile.
I don't mind that behavior.
Racketware – A case for one-time emails
How Network Math Can Help You Make Friends
People need capsule living accommodations, a glucose drip, and not much more. The bonus is that you can buried in the coffin sized living quarters.

Need is a terrible way to characterize what people live in.

Of course they're wasteful, it's also why people don't live on large estates anymore. People in many territories live in high-rises due to a variety of other reasons, usually a local governing drive for higher density because it's obviously more efficient, but the thought of "what's the minimum I need to live in even if I can afford more" is not usually one of them.

I hate this "need" argument because it's nonsensical and just ends up being turned into whatever living accommodations the arguer thinks is best. Minimum living space is well studied and it's shockingly smaller than even most of the arguers making a need-based argument would be willing to admit.
When things got stressful at work I started smoking cannabis daily. It was really detrimental to my overall productivity. It was great for the stress, and made me feel wonderful, but it’s severely dulled the sharp edges of my mind.
Yes, their oil has to be refined a lot more than other types [1]:

> Venezuela produces extra-heavy crude oil in the Orincoco Oil Belt area and heavily relies on imports of lighter liquids (diluents) to blend with this crude oil to make it marketable. Financial difficulties recently have occasionally prevented the state-owned oil company, Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PdVSA), from importing the necessary volumes of diluent to sustain production and exports.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=35312
>"Spreadsheets are often used as a multipurpose tool for data entry, storage, analysis, and visualization. Most spreadsheet programs allow users to perform all of these tasks, however we believe that spreadsheets are best suited to data entry and storage, and that analysis and visualization should happen separately."

in every organization I've worked in, its usually the exact opposite - spreadsheets are used to do analysis and create reports while the source data is coming from other systems (SAP, Salesforce, quickbooks, etc)
I would trust the group of folks NASA is surveying MUCH more than the general public, even when it came to healthcare.
The SurfSafe Browser Extension Will Save You from Fake Photos
Yeah because telling amazon to fix their problems will surely result in every other business fixing their problems, right? Give me a break, you need to attack holes in legislation and government.
Are you sure it's HEVC, because that would be news indeed.

I've never heard of Youtube serving anything but h264 or VP8/VP9.
As someone not really following this whole fiasco - does that mean in total it's 6000x compared to a year before?
I mean in theory there are a lot of people who trade in oil or precious metals who aren't interested in actually acquiring the resource physically. There are plenty of people that are looking to arbitrage that don't necessarily want the raw resource. The same goes for the FX market. You're right in asking if you can even get it though. I don't actually have the answer to your questions.

I'm sure this is just a story, but it's relevant to your comment: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Special-Delivery

Also note: I don't disagree with you, there's no way I'd be touching a pretrodollar.
That's likely going to be the case with any Optiplex system from Dell. The Optiplex line is intended for large organizations (commerical, government, educational, etc.) that are going to order many systems so they want you to go through their sales platform rather than sell directly.
I may be missing something here. Given that i is incremented in the loop, wouldn't the truth value of (i < a.length) change? Or do you mean the two other checks (a is an array and i>= 0)?
I really don't understand the problem. From NY to just outside Philadelphia, I-95 is part of the Jersey Turnpike. Then the Jersey turnpike is suddenly labeled I-295, and I-95 teleports to the highway running through Philadelphia. You can see it from this map [1]. They both then meet up again in Wilmington, where they both merge into 1-95 again. Why not just keep the designation of I-95 on the Jersey Turnpike throughout the entirety of New Jersey?

[1]https://goo.gl/maps/GpjeGtvmrJ42
> Why do people work there ?

That’s a great question and I’m sure the answer would be interesting. Assuming most people working there to be unreasonable or illogical would be unfair to then.

> There are other jobs I’m sure

Or is there ? What’s the criteria for “other job” ?
How do they look for it, when, on what terms ?

If that many people are just stuck there, I think it’s just not a “I just quit and go work for some other 9 to 5 job tomorrow” situation.
Tolls. Oh yippee
One important thing to note is that the _official_ rate that has been devalued, from 250,000 Bolivares/USD to 6 million Bolivares/USD.

The black market rate is already reportedly (as of the past couple of days), 6 million - 9 million Bolivares/USD.
These things happen about half a century. Lagrange, Gauss and Laplace outdid Einstein a few times over.

Wiener comes close but is not as famous as he did the groundwork for others.

Probably more groundbreaking research you haven't heard about.
Somehow this stuff got built before. There must be a way to get back into that state.
This entire thread is full of statements about the effects that the lack of housing supply is having on American families. I shouldn't need to bury the point of my comment by restating them needlessly.
As a reminder to everyone discovering here that Debian is very careful about licensing, please honor the request they made in the linked discussion to give Intel time to address their concerns without swarm-attacking Intel with direct contact attempts over this. Debian explicitly is asking the crowd not to source here.
'Prison Architect' Has No Room for Political Action (2016)
Umn, the software developers for X don't necessarily run the packagins systems for deb, apt, etc. There's nothing stopping RedHat from maintaining their own Flatpak "store", ditto for Ubuntu, etc.

What this does is allow software to keep working when a library update happens without having to spend hours/days tracking down wierd scripts you don't even understand and running them as root to fix your problem. Not everyone wants to write OS-level software or fix every bug themselves.

Hell, my GF watched me install something that wasn't in the UI app center (whatever it is called) via command line, and was like, "WTF do you have to do that? That's the most stupid thing I've ever seen." The fact is, she's not wrong.
> Or you know developers could package their own software.

When I was a Linux user, I've seen so many packages that worked on one Debian derivative but had problems on another. Maybe this is a solved problem now? It definitely wasn't solved from a user perspective five years ago.
Heh, not to be the guy posting urbankchoze links all day but the author has thoughts on this as well actually[0].

The whole article is a good read but the thing that feels most pertinent is the idea of dynamic zoning; instead of zoning an area for single family residential you'd essentially zone areas such that new construction rules would be:

- allowed_height = max(2, ceil(avg_area_height * 1.5))

- allowed_occupancy = ceil(avg_area_occupancy * 1.5)

And then without the need for zoning exemptions and political zoning fights, you let neighborhoods up zone themselves organically based on demand. Average building two stories? You can build a three story low rise. Average height three stories? You can build a five story replacement.

I think lowering the barriers to higher density in-fill would effectively accomplish what you're aiming for while side stepping some of the political issues you've foreseen with raising taxes on people until they're forced to leave their homes.

[0]: http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/05/how-to-make-urban-ho...
Hemingway, on the subject of staying motivated, offered that you should quit writing when you know what happens next.

Work on decomposing work into a bunch of independent steps, and stop when you finish a step. For me it seems to work best when there is one clear course to work on next (easier to retain it when I interrupt myself).

Another trick is drink more fluids. Your bladder will tell you when it’s time to take a break.
>they're going to be psychological and we're in kind of new territory.

It may be new territory for you, but I can assure you that grown adults have been smoking pot for a long time, and understand the psychological effects and their limits.
> What does a Congressman get when he negotiates a lower price, compared to what he gets (from the people he's negotiating with) if he "negotiates" a higher price? What about the government bureaucrat who will be working in that industry soon?

Ideally there would be some sort of accountability for elected officials, where they would have to answer to their electorate, and where conflicts of interest would be against the law (and prosecuted), but who am I kidding?
Apple Investigating Battery Incident at Amsterdam Store
>Yeah, this is quite frustrating. I spent a lot of time looking at the state of Kentucky to try to make sense of this. Kentucky is a very poor state. And when you look at congressional districts there, you find a bunch of them where the average person gets more than 30 or 40 or 50 percent of their income from federal social benefits.

>Yet those same districts are electing very conservative members of Congress who promise to introduce work requirements for food stamps and repeal the Affordable Care Act and so forth. It’s really puzzling.

It seems likely that these two things would be correlated. If you have a high number of people receiving benefits in a district, those that are not receiving those benefits may be more aware of the benefits and be more likely to have a stronger opinion on the issue than someone living in a district where there are not many people receiving such benefits.
For those who don't, it's a clever reference to Jonathan Swift's satirical essay

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal