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Gujarat is a state in India, where there are a hundred million people or more. A specific tribe of people that happen to have mainly come from Gujarat gave handshake loans to each other, because they are part of the same tribe, and know each other, indirectly or directly. Why would they give handshake loans to just anybody, regardless of their religion or where they came from?
I should have looked at the source before posting, NetBSD can loan pages to the kernel within sosend().
I am from gujarat, do not own any motel. In my experience I can definitely believe this to be true. Personally know so many people heho owns motels. I am shocked about the 50% though!
Well, we had XUL (which was awesome), now it's gone
I've always thought it would be cool to be a dev who goes onsite or at least has a job that's physical in some capacity. How'd you end up in your role, if you don't mind me asking?
not new really (2013?) but a fun site for those that haven't seen
A movement fueled by a book promoter with no notable track record of success for what he is preaching? Yeah, it was a fad.

To be fair, Ries stole a lot of nice bits from different schools of thought. There's stuff his books that actually works.

But you would have to be soft in the head to think that his book represented wisdom. In fact, wisdom does not come from a book – it comes from reading a lot of books, making a lot of mistakes, working with a lot of people, building a lot of stuff, and still understanding that this does not necessarily represent something that can be distilled into bullet proof heuristics. There's always unseen and uncounted factors that you will miss.

In contact with large, established organisations this book tends to produce cargo cults. Simplistic management self-help literature combined with institutional mediocrity, stupidity, fear of change, and hard-shelled delusion is a horrible mix.

The good thing is that these cargo cults tend to die after a few years. The bad thing is that anything associated with them then gets tainted.

The Lean Startup was a management fad and it didn't make people any smarter. It just gave them different ceremonies to perform in order to feel good about themselves. And as all fads, it has now passed. It is okay to move around the cabin and think for yourself again.

I would recommend "Functional Stupidity" by Mats Alvesson as a form of inocculation against this type of self-pleasuring heuristic-seeking.
Relevant WebExtensions metabug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1215061 "Better keyboard shortcut support"
Having a 'computer science' class that teaches programming makes about as much sense as a physics class on rulers and stop watches, a chemistry class on test tubes or a biology class on petri dishes.

High school classes in the other sciences manage to convey some of the breadth of the subject while laying the absolute foundations for further study.

The only non-incidental part of computer science are the theory of computation, the hierarchy of languages and translators/compilers between various languages. Not one pre-university program teaches these, and in recent years many university courses don't teach these either.
I've been using Firefox since 1.5, I've accepted memory leaks as a fact of life.

For comparison, I currently have two browser windows open and zero tabs. One is this comment box, the other is a GitHub page. Firefox is using a grand total of 3GB RAM, about 700MB of which is for the WebExtensions process so figure about 2.3GB for a grand total of two pages.

This is actually an improvement on the way things used to be, but if I quit the browser now (as I probably will soon regardless), these same two pages would take up only about 200MB, which is still a lot for what it is displaying and running, and the WebExtensions process would reset to about 200-300MB. I have Waterfox running in the background too, basically Firefox 56, which I use for a single website with exactly one extension taking up over a gig by itself with a single page open.

I'm not complaining, again, it's a fact of life that I've accepted and it doesn't hurt me any, but if I changed my habits I have doubts about how much I would actually use Firefox. Maybe I still would after considering my other options, but the web isn't as interesting as it used to be and I have other means of getting what I want off it now so I don't really require a web browser I can throw a million tabs at since tabs themselves are pretty harmful.

That said, if there are browsers that do a better job nowadays, and I stopped looking a long time ago, I'm not convinced they would do much better than Firefox currently does.
Could you elaborate on your question? I don’t understand what you are asking.
In my area it already does. My Indian colleagues informed me that grocery stores that cater to their culture typically have exclusive agreements with local Indian farmers, which results in significantly reduced prices. I thought that was wonderful--I'm a fan of frugality. I'm curious if this is common in the US in other immigrant communities.
In addition to this, whenever I log on, I like to change my home city, political preferences and other "about me" info. This makes my profile next to useless.
Look at page 19 (well, page 16 actually). The 30,000 mile service (page 19) is the same for both schedules, the 15,000 mile service (page 16) is different but for both schedule 1 (severe) and schedule 2 (normal) "reduction gear oil" is listed. 15,000 miles is a lot less than 90,000 miles.

In the end, the service writer was probably sputtering because he didn't know how to argue with alternative facts.
It's likely the 'Five Eyes' already have access to all or most data from the level of telecom equipment. This is probably why they banned Huawei and ZTE.
It's a little hard to believe a Firefox power user over any real length of time would be totally satisfied with it; they've been ripping out much-loved features right and left and stuffing it with mandatory sponsored add-ons.

Still, it doesn't force report megabytes worth of data per day to the mothership, unlike Chrome...
Surely this statement is not well formed, for to optimise anything, a measure of it is implied.
On one hand, I agree, however, I think it is also quite bad that many scientists effectively say 'hey, I'm a scientist so you should trust me.'

Clearly we need to find more effective ways to convey science and make people comfortable with believing research that they aren't capable of assessing.
> My experience of hospital grade equipment for monitoring the heart is that it isn’t great with movement either.

For anything optical, you need accelerometers and lots of fun algorithms to compensate for motion.

Soon as the motion is something the algo wasn't trained on, everything falls apart.
I left on principle and stayed away because it wasn’t something that brought me knowledge or joy.

My only regret is that some people choose to do funeral announcements and other types of events on Facebook, which I miss.

As imperfect as it it, group iMessages have replaced Facebook for me.
so, who is your target audience? The just getting started developer?
Not only loan, but a continuous strong investment from exporters from India who do not move that money back to India. ( Just like Apple or other tech giants are doing. )
Not always doable, but who is asking for free service?

I already pay for shitty service. I would be willing to continue to pay for improved service.
Don’t forget advertisers!
I don't understand how anyone can call themselves a 'growth hacker', you might as well advertise you're a golden unicorn at the same time
It was great when it was friends showing off pictures and potentially pointless status updates, not unlike twitter. Now it’s mostly overrun with political vomit and filler content/spam. Once everyone starting friending parents, colleagues, and acquaintances, the more intimate stuff moved to more private platforms.
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Investors aren't stupid - they won't fund millions of dollars (series A and above) unless they see a working product that customers are raving about, a large market opportunity, and a clear go-to-market - general indications of product-market-fit (although the definition of PMF depends on the space and product). We have seen rare cases of outsized seed rounds w/o a product, but they are extremely rare (even today). So this notion of "go big or go home" isn't vaporware - most founders cannot get that kind of investments, and few that can (reputed, second time founders for example) think 100 times before they jump in.
There are parts of the US that are in the US and don't produce quite as many actors and music artists. Though there are some other factors (e.g. Vancouver's generous film subsidies and variety of cool-looking architecture to use as outdoor film sets), there seems to be way more Canadians in entertainment than you'd expect, and I wouldn't dismiss the influence of Can-Con regulations.

Of course, it probably helps that Canada has plenty of cultural and linguistic similarities to the United States. Preserving the native culture of, say, Denmark through Danish Content regulations on popular entertainment means producing content that isn't easily consumed outside of Denmark, whereas a ton of Canadian Content can be easily marketed in the United States.
Haha yeah if it's all done through tweets that's a better look...
Is it possible that you’re using a canary version of Chrome? Check chrome://version/, for me I see version 69 and I can go to https://www.paypal.com/ and see that the Symantec EV cert is still valid, which was issued in 2017. In particular, if you see version 70, I would expect you to get errors visiting PayPal, just like the roadmap says.

Personally I think it’s bad practice to have a cert last more than a year in the first place, due to a number of both operational concerns and security concerns, but that is neither here nor there.
Not necessarily longest, though. Right? Most executed would also suffice.

Beware measuring, though. Sometimes, just thinking about the problem ahead of time can clearly expose where you are spending time. At least, it can give a hypothesis to test for where you are spending time. With measurements to confirm/refute. :)
It's easy to be sarcastic, but it's hard to measure social costs. "Stopped exploiting desperate workers" could mean paying people more, or it could mean firing desperate people and hiring people who are less desperate. If we're encouraging some mix of those two things, it's pretty important to figure out exactly what mix it is. And if there are alternative policies -- like say just giving people money -- that don't have the same complicated issues, it's pretty important to compare them.
Wat.

In Canada I pay a total of 88$/month for home internet and 2 mobile phones, with the internet being high capacity and pretty fast even for large data transfers.

That is CAD as well, so that's about 66$ USD
$250k each person/$500k each accident for bodily injury, $100k each accident for property.

$250k/$500k for uninsured motorist.

As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, though, where you live can make a huge difference. If you feel like you're getting a raw deal, shop around. A lot of people never bother and car insurance companies know this and will creep up your insurance rates even if your driving history is perfect.
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Our app can connect directly to 81 grocery chains like Walmart, Safeway, Kroger etc. and automatically download every purchase a user makes in store and online. It uses NLP to match each product purchased to recipe ingredients. Over 1,000,000 products are matched to 1,000,000 recipes.

Cooklist is live on iOS and Android. Hundreds of users are participating in the development process. 10,000+ purchases have been downloaded in the last week. We are a well capitalized team of experienced startup founders and are looking to bring 3 people onto our team. We are currently in the Techstars Retail program with Target.

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mother nature is the best medicine. trees, birds, clouds, water, rocks...time spent immersed in the elements (preferably alone, i think) can only make you feel better. even just an half-day hike in the woods or mountains or few hours surfing or walking along an uncrowded beach can charge you for days. and my god man, don't give energy to "I have anhedonia" and "I'm mentally damaged" ...that is only true if you believe it, like many things in life.

everybody can feel pleasure. you just need to get out of your house, out of the city, and feel the sun and such. sunshine alone can cure most depression...just take off your shirt and let it sink in.
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I couldn't be more sure. My company had hundreds of certificates issued from Symantec, who was our main supplier. Basically, all our websites broke the day Chrome was updated. It was hell.

If it were actually allowed, I would upload some of the certificates and write a blog post to show you.

Paypal has an EV, I don't have EV. Maybe these were not blacklisted. The rest was.
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Can someone tell me why the surname of Patel is so predominant in the hotel owners? The article doesn't really explain why.
You're right, I misremembered this story. The reality makes them look even dumber.
Depends on the group. My wife’s friend list has many of the grey ghost profiles of deactivated users.
It would be good to know who sponsored the data research so that everyone can make self biased decision to use/trust the data.
It is a crime in the US to knowingly and willfully conceal material facts (including a singular material fact) "in any matter within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the Government of the United States".[0]

[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1001
It would be interesting to see how much wall clock time these applications run for. One answer to the question of how many iterations to run for is to compare it to the expected running time of real applications. If the expected running time is minutes, and the VM hasn't warmed up after ~1 minute, then it's pretty irrelevant whether it would "eventually" warm up or not. This would be one way to side step the halting-problem-esque question they've gotten themselves into with respect to how long to run the benchmarks for (which I'm pretty sure is intractable).
Yes, it may be appropriate for a military operation.
Imagine that Netflix in order to be accessible in Ohio had to have 30% content (of its Ohio edition) produced in Ohio.
The benefits of the internet at the time were time to access information, and the varying types of information (much of which couldn’t be provided by a library, such as email, or porn.) Bitcoin doesn’t win either of these scenarios: it’s somehow slower to transact in digital currency (specifically Bitcoin) than even hand to hand exchange of physical money - it’s faster for me to walk down the block and pay for a sandwich than for me to pay online with Bitcoin and have someone deliver it. Bitcoin isn’t really accepted anywhere. You can take cash anywhere and pay for anything. Same with credit for the most part.

Solve these issues and your argument might make sense.

And a friendly reminder that blockchain PoW systems are incredibly bad for the environment.
"Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
https://www.amazon.com/Sapiens-Humankind-Yuval-Noah-Harari/d...
Users absolutely want complexity. Obviously most people would never say it in those words but lots of things they do ask for come with a lot of inherent complexity. Things like "it should just work", or remembering a preference for later, or automatically linking to some related data, or streamlining a workflow because in this situation you should know my intent so you should just default to the thing I probably want to do and save me a few clicks, etc.

Sure, there are lots of times where you're better off ignoring these user requests, and where scope creep or bureaucracy or tech debt or just sloppy coding introduce unnecessary complexity. But even if we could always build exactly what users want and always build things cleanly starting from a blank slate, software would still be complex.
No one who travels and stays in small-to-medium-sized hotels is shocked by this. I have a complaint, however. We have so many Indian-Americans distributed all over the nation, and it is still fairly difficult to find good Indian food outside big cities.
https://www.theonion.com/area-man-constantly-mentioning-he-d...
Half of my friends have done the same and migrated to the web client. If Facebook is going to hog memory and show data-chugging videos, it might as well do it in a JavaScriptCore VM context so I can stop it when I want to.
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Are we talking about the same Elon Musk that creates companies with really bad workers conditions?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/13/tesla-wor...

Disrupting a market as nothing to do with wages. Amazon did disrupt the retail industry, but the workers conditions and wages are bad. The "disrupt" aspect can also lead to a quasi monopoly situation (Facebook, Google), so much for market competition...

Also competition in low margin markets tends to be a driver for lower wages, not higher wages.

High demand in a market can drive higher wages, not competition.

Tech workers have the luxury to choose from dozen employers because:

1) it takes years to train a CS engineer and it takes weeks if not months to get him up to speed in most companies (due to the immaturity of the industry IMHO), so you want to retain him.

2) there is a shortage of tech workers.

3) there is a bubble with a ton of money poured into it.

4) the tech industry is high margin, with a marginal cost for a unit (either a software copy or a new customer in a service) generally quite close to zero. Basically successful tech companies earn more money that they know want to do with.

This is an exceptional situation.

The real issue is that wage inequalities are growing quite significantly, and as a consequence, capital inequalities are becoming absolutely huge. It's a snowball effect. And with a lot of money, specific individuals/companies can heavily influence political and societal decisions/opinions (by owning newspapers, tv channels... by financing political parties/campaigns, by lobbying heavily the law makers).

We are slowly but surely returning to a wealth distribution and monopoly situation as seen in the 19th century

(Albeit with a far better material situation (food security, hygiene/health, education...) for nearly everyone on Earth due to the scientific and technical improvements over the past 2 centuries)

This situation is a societal decision: do we accept that in a society with the global means and wealth for everybody to have food, a roof, medical care and education, they are still hardworking people on the brink of poverty? If the answer is no, it should be translated in political decision/laws (minimal wage or maybe universal income/social security/free education...).
There was this old and ostensibly authoritative page that was describing hacker culture. The author said that true hackers don't hide behind pseudonyms because they should be proud enough of what they do that they can put their real names behind it.

It lost me there. Not only am I not proud of my social track record through the ages, but the idea of "privacy is dead" online identification is quaint, naive, and/or intolerable to me. For better or worse, there's a sharp, strategic/emotional partitioning of how I interact with or present myself to strangers, friends, family, employers, and law enforcement, and the chilling effect applied to my behavior from all angles is very limiting.

LONG live pseudonyms. : D
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Nowadays, I'd agree. Back in the mid-80s when I was learning BASIC on my ZX Spectrum, not so much: there was no tooling. I mean you could, and I did, measure elapsed time, but you also had to experiment by tweaking the program. I suppose you were still measuring, but perhaps not in the way we'd mean when we say "measure" today. Nowadays, when I ask someone to measure something it's shorthand for, "your program is complicated: use a tool to help you." Back in the day it was easier: programs were simpler, and there was only one thing running on the CPU, and using devices attached to the system, at a time.
It's not some sort of goal-oriented nefarious plot to keep poor people out of the rich people's club by alienating them through language choice. It's a realist description of how early stage startups actually work empirically, irrespective of whether we approve of the nature of this socioeconomic phenomenon.

When you have no proof at all that your concept can actually become a profitable business, no commercial investors will touch it. It's far too risky compared to their many other options. The only people who get investment in such an extremely high risk scenario are those who happen to have rich friends and family. These investors will take a punt on them just because they like them personally and they can afford to lose the money, which is overwhelmingly likely.
Knuth discusses this in Vol 3 Sorting and Searching ... we mean "collate" by sorting. Unfortunately I don't have that volume at hand to quote. Anybody?
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> Comparing Google's workforce to Amazon's is an apples-to-oranges comparison.

I agree, and I think the original headline is making precisely that apples to oranges comparison. If you call out certain companies for paying low wages, there has to be some accounting for how much of that is because of the business they're in ("not their fault") vs how much is because of their CEO's bonus or whatever ("their fault").
> Netflix can acquire them [reasonably] cheap

Why would the seller sell cheap, knowing that the buyer is forced by law to buy?
Sorry, just to clarify this. The argument here is that by having too many customers in a very dense area companies are unable to invest in infrastructure to serve those customers economically?
> This article makes it sound like the _majority_ of research funding is coming from industry, very little from government.

Your implication that, were the research funded by government (or some other non-profit entity), it would somehow be "better" is false. The source of the funding in all cases influences the allowed results, and determines the likelihood of future follow-on funding.

If anything, government (at least in the US) is responsible for some truly harmful dietary advice, and funds researchers who support its policy positions.
Chrome also blacklisted certs issued after June 1, 2016.
The existence of a hidden radio should be trivial to confirm - at minimum it would require a battery and an antenna.

If I we're the paranoid type, I'd avoid bluetooth security keys all together. NFC should be fine for use with a mobile phone, and while there are attacks that let you read NFC from a few meters away, if you credibly think you have an adversary who can identify you in public, and has this type of specialized hardware, you're dealing with someone who would have a much easier time just throwing you in the back of a van to extract whatever they wanted out of you.
Exactly. The EU has lost any contact with reality and is drowning in their own ideological echo chamber.

It seems that fear is making them adopt such a defensive approach that it is stopping them to see how their efforts are actually sucessively destroying any remnant of representativeness they might still have.

If this trend (which started with the financial crisis in 2008/9) continues, the EU might end up being France and Germany alone in a few decades.