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I understand the need for some apps to work on desktops, but I haven't personally done any of these before. Just iOS and Android, is all clients ever seem to ask me. So of course Flutter wouldn't work well for desktop atm. But FYI: it is being looked at - https://github.com/google/flutter-desktop-embedding Even seen an MS employee contributing to it as well.

As for Dart, its similar to C# in a lot of ways and certainly is gaining traction. I didn't have any difficulty writing Dart code.
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C++ will always have a place because it's a language that literally has (or will have) everything. I've used features of C++ that have no analogy in other languages. If I designed a language tomorrow, I wouldn't put that feature in. Too obscure. But I needed this random feature for a project on a constrained device to do C callback trampolines to C++ object methods.

When it comes to C++, there is no magic alternative that is "done right". I think that Rust may be the closest C++ alternative that will get in our lifetime and it's syntax isn't exactly non-ugly either.
I spent a decade watching C++ painfully slowly add more advanced template support and... well, that's about it. After a million iterations of "for (mylisttype::const_iterator i ..." they finally added ranged for loops.

The rate of change seems to be increasing. This is initially a bit shocking until I remember that every single job I had was like using a completely different language because, even ten years ago, every shop used a different subset of C++ and STL!

Add all you want to the language, it's all going to devolve into code-review infighting the same way it did in 2008.
It has two cookie notices that cover more than half the screen. Wow! Why do we present this horrible UX when the user has no course of action. You’ll be tracked anyway right ?
Decline of Global Extreme Poverty Continues but Has Slowed: World Bank
I'll have a weird fondness for the special kind of bikesheding configuration languages invite.

To add my 2 cents. I really like what I saw in Skylark(Starlark?). It's fairly close to my dream setup: a simple Python interpreter with no libraries.

Pythons object notation looks 95% like JSON, it supports comments, solid multiline support, well known escaping rules, basic format strings when you need them.
Yep, and it's completely natural for a guy to think a woman might be expressing interest in him given those circumstances. But the emphasis is on "might". He should also indulge a bit of skepticism and feel the situation out.

I was in this position a few years ago and interpreted her complements as a romantic interest in me. I explored the situation by asking her out to lunch, inquiring as to whether she was dating, etc. I learned she had a boyfriend and that she was happy in the relationship so I backed off.

Admittedly it's anecdotal but I believe that there are simple and effective ways for both sexes to communicate interest, availability (or lack thereof) while still managing to remain respectful of yourself and others.
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I'm surprised the coyotes went so quietly.
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Does anyone know exactly why? I conjecture to say...

With this stunning level of rigor, it's astonishing that you'd be baffled by the discourse in actual intellectual circles.
Not sure why this is downvoted. I find it humourous as I did as well.
Signal's iOS app is really nothing to write home about (imho) and its desktop app is often downright unusable.

I have not used Wire beyond a test install but it indeed looked promising. In a sense it's even better than Telegram that allows you to just use usernames but you have to add a phone number anyway (also if the other Telegram user by any chance has your phone number in their contacts then your identity is revealed anyway).

But I'd say that Telegram's apps (mobile and desktop both) are superior too all the major IM apps around. I wish they could be more forthcoming about openness.
Still seems like quite a lot
Things come and go but when independent media goes it is especially pensive, heavyhearted and filled with melancholy.

Village Voice is gone but hopefully the New Times can hang on for a while.

Real independent people and voices need a check on authoritarian structures, independent media is one of those checks and they are fading away.
I don't think this is proof that Fox lies more than CNN unless you can prove this is the comprehensive list of all statements made on both networks.

Read about the leftward movement of Politifact here : https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/politifact/

This does not mean Politifact cannot be trusted, but it potentually makes analysis like yours less accurate
I also think that (some aspects of) capitalism play a role in this, but another large factor is probably improved access to education, especially education of girls.
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> But I've lived in large cities that mostly do light rail, and those that mostly do subway. Subway is much better all around when it's done right. It's really impressive just how many people and how reliably (time-wise) a well-designed subway system can move around.

You can't move people around if your subway doesn't go anywhere because it costs too much to build it out completely.

Take the Calgary CTrain vs Seattle's Link. Link was monumentally more expensive than the CTrain (we built a 2 mile tunnel for about the same cost as their entire system). Calgary built more miles, but at grade. Seattle built fewer miles, mostly subway. Calgary has 314k daily riders, Seattle has 80k. Seattle's system has a higher average speed, but services a fraction of the population because the system is so short. Calgary, on the other hand, has ridership so high that building a tunnel to increase capacity in downtown corridors has an ROI so obvious that they didn't even have to ask taxpayers for more taxes because it payed for itself.

I too voted for ST3 despite not getting any direct benefit from it. But by building a system that prioritizes speed over coverage, ST3 relied on the benevolence of taxpayers to get it passed. Luckily there are enough people willing to shoulder that burden in Seattle, but not every city has the liberal culture of Seattle, and even then it undoubtedly would have been much easier for it to pass if it had a much higher proportion of the population covered.

Let's just imagine that I'm a (entirely too common) taxpayer who only votes to pay for things that I directly benefit from. Would it be easier to persuade me to vote for a system where I save 20 minutes on my commute, or a system where someone else saves 25 minutes on their commute?
I don’t get your point. These are third party extensions that you opt into. The alternative is giving a third party your password and letting them use IMAP. This seems like a better compromise that Google can actually log.
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yes look at https://www.programsnow.com/
So, something like Matrix/Riot?

Build it yourself and host/use your own app builds and server instances. But then I'll have trust the company I bought my VPS from to host my Matrix instance, isn't it?
Not in my experience. If a woman does interpret a compliment as an approach, they are very unlikely to act as if that gives them carte blanche to behave proprietorially towards the complimenting party from that point on. It's hard to imagine the experience @DoreenMichelle reports happening to a man.

Some 'compliments' are of course thinly-disguised acts of creepiness. Different category altogether, and dead easy to spot for people within a normal range of emotional intelligence.

I compliment people (men & women alike) quite frequently. Usually on their work, sometimes on their behaviour in other respects, less commonly on appearance. When directed towards a woman, not once has this been interpreted (AFAIK) as a come-on or unwarranted approach. By and large people can tell when you're being friendly with a light touch, and without an agenda.
Not sure where you are getting the "vehemently opposed to breaking out their wallet for transportation" because Seattle is breaking out their wallet to the tune of $53.8 billion for st3 (talked about the proposal in the article and it later passed) which adds 62 miles of track [0] which is in addition to st2 10 years ago which cost $17.8 billion and added 50 miles [1].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_Transit_3

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_Transit#Sound_Transit_2
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Reminds me of another great post on the topic by Zach Holman:
https://zachholman.com/talk/utc-is-enough-for-everyone-right
Presumably he’d like recognition for having proven it. Unless he can explain and communicate his theorem to others, his work won’t be accepted. That doesn’t seem sufficient.
I switched to dvorak for RSI reasons about two years ago and have now switched back to qwerty. If dvorak (plus split programmable keyboards, vim, etc) made any difference to my symptoms, it was at least not enough to be noticeable (though it is hard to say since the symptoms vary in intensity).

One of the things I'm considering as a possible explanation for my issues is that all of the changes I've made have made my usage patterns smaller and more repetitive, and that going back to more inefficient methods slow me down and force me to move my arms in bigger movements might actually be less painful.
Interesting, this post implements the og tags for social sharing (image and description) but skips the full og:article tags with author, date etc.

Edit: https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool/u/0/#...
I’ve been studying undergrad maths for the last year or two, and I had a bit of a breakthrough when I realized how much more effective it was for me to do all my work (notes, exercises) in LaTeX rather than with pen and paper. I can refactor at will, improving proofs, and the consistent tidy typesetting makes me think more systematically about the problem I’m working on.
So it's just a GPU optimised for half-floats and/or integers?

I remember reading that it's optimised for matrix calculations. Is that true? If so, what is it about matrix calculations that makes a GPU not the most optimised for this task?
Rewrite mate. That's how.
These are not answers, concrete solutions to the homework, to the quizzes in the designated language as they are to be submitted.

Besides that part of the honour code just sucks.
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Your right on most points but what I am seeing locally is people just parking on wide streets that do not have strict parking limits. For instance, in Mountain View there are a couple of streets filled with RV's and in my neighborhood adjacent to Mountain View where I see a parked vw van with shades drawn on all the windows down the street from me. I have gotten a ticket for street parking and leaving my car there for more than three days so I assume these people just move their vehicles every couple of days so not the model predicted by this article.
-I guess the key here is "too little evidence". The courts would need to establish that the prosecutor either withheld evidence, knowing it would strengthen his case or at the very least through gross negligence caused evidence to not be presented to the court.

Considering the at times terrible information flow in my office (engineering Co.), I do not think it neither feasible nor fair to lock up prosecutors for any mishap - though I expect the possibility of prison time would work wonders to improve information flow!
Consider that we started with nearly everyone in extreme poverty 200 years ago.
Thanks! Is there a diagram that shows how it works? I'm still having trouble visualizing it.
sitting at a video poker machine, nobody's likely to hassle you for looking up perfect strategy on your phone. On the other hand, most table games dealers will tell you to leave the table while using your phone. It's fine to have a paper card with blackjack basic strategy, but not to check the same information on your phone. But in any case, the rig described here is not going to be a good idea anywhere in the US I'm aware of, and that's assuming you can even find a skill-based machine with sufficient payouts to justify trying it. https://www.programsnow.com/
It would be nice to compare with the hardware position estimator from the same GPS raw data.
The bottleneck is not the tool itself, but the theory it builds upon: Calculus of Constructs in Coq's case. CoC and other calculi oriented towards proofs have limitations.

To better understand current challenges with provers I can recommend this episode of the Type Theory podcast with Dan Licata as a guest:
http://typetheorypodcast.com/2015/01/episode-3-dan-licata-on...

It's quite dense, but there are some bits that I, as a programmer, could understand.
My gripe with JSON winning is that we're left with competing standards for JSON paths, transformation, and JSON Schema is still a draft. Clunky as XML is, the tooling is more portable and powerful.
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Anticheat is an orthogonal problem, the issue is not having the system run but a completely separate stack of detections to build & maintain
VCs do deals all of the time, and us startup people do only a few, so I'm hardly an expert... but this down round sounds unusually friendly to common stockholders.
Suprising to see here that the majority seem to be anti-Musk. "He's guilty, send him to jail" without allowing evidence to come forward that these statements were false.

>"the matter should be quickly resolved as they review the information they have received."

If anything the public statement says the opposite. I actually believe there may have been some email, or conversations about a buyout of Tesla. Wouldn't be the first time, Google almost bought Tesla in 2008 during the financial crisis.
Capitalism and free markets aren't without their shortcomings, especially when left unchecked, but they are extremely important tools to successful government and society. Perhaps the criticisms you hear are aimed at unchecked, unregulated capitalism.
The db is not only about tables, there's a reason why views exist, the users/managers should only query views, these are easy to change whenever the underlying private schema changes.
Yes, it would. But it shouldn't be this way! Investing into infrastructure, including mass transit, isn't supposed to be a liberal thing. Understanding that not every cent of your taxes ought to benefit you directly isn't supposed to be a liberal thing. This country has a history of massive public infrastructure investment, that often benefited specific communities, but were funded more broadly. If we always not-from-my-wallet'ed everything, we wouldn't have the economic powerhouse of a country that we have today, and enjoy its benefits. That we're doing it now more often than not just means that the future is that much more bleak.
Zara founder is a dude and he was the richest person in the world for a period of time.
Thanks. Will share the details with my prof.
Agreed. Not just a Mac but any PC should be able to adjust the aperture using software. Let it be slow. Better than not being able to do it at all.
You will really enjoy Dan Lyon’s Disrupted. It’s a book which doesn’t pull punches in its description of hubspot.
No, it is an old term.
I'd say that you should use whatever floats your boat. For me Colemak never stopped feeling weird, despite having spent a lot of time playing around with keyboard layouts.

Another thing people should try, at least if they are at a workstation is pedals. Back when I was still using evil (an Emacs mode for emulating vim) I tried a pedal that switched to normal mode for every other mode or switched to Insert mode from normal mode.

Together with a properly set up abbrev mode that has saved me more typing than anything else combined.
On the other hand, consider that the world population in the 1800s was about 1/7th what it is today, so the total number of people in extreme poverty probably hasn't changed much between then and now.

What has changed is our idea of what wealth is, and what poverty is, and I think these notions will continue to change.
When I was a kid (in the 90s), one of the computer periodicals in Poland at the time had a column titled "Mikroprofesor", which run a lot of simple and beutiful algorithms for generative art like these. I loved the images and even tried coding some of them (I think they always came with some pseudocode). I wish there was some online archive of the articles, but unfortunately I couldn't find one (the magazine was named "Enter"; I can't recall the name of the column author however).
It's much worse on the desktop, where we already had very detailed GUI standards, with decades of polish - and it's all getting thrown out because of the latest Electron etc fad. The upside is that Linux sees some great apps (like VS Code), but I'm not sure that's worth the cost.
> inappropriately prioritising prejudiced results

Inappropriate to whom? Google search reflects relevance and to tweak the results would be to replace relevant results with biased ones. In the emails they admit that it would be an act of political activism.
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You can say the same thing about Objective-C. Without Kotlin Native, there hasn't been any non-Android use cases for the language yet. Even Swift's web and ML applications haven't gotten huge traction either.
> The "fundamental gap" between developers is likely not there

Even at top tech companies l I’d say 80% of the value was added by 20% of the staff.

I’d argue it is clearly present and far more pronounced than in sports.

The key difference as you have alluded is software development is not a winner takes all competition.
Putting the human code review aside, one of the things I've been more impressed by during my time at Google has been the automated presubmits, generally the static analysis ones. I do a lot of Java, so Error Prone (https://errorprone.info/bugpatterns) has been a useful one (cf https://errorprone.info/bugpattern/FormatString); we have some others that Tricorder runs but I can't seem to find public references to.

One thing that's also an interesting challenge is the work it takes to make something a blocking presubmit: sometimes you don't get useful feedback from one, or maybe a test doesn't provide very good signal, and then people start force submitting to bypass the check because it's not providing utility, but in the process also skip other checks.
I'd like to agree with you here, but government moves slowly. Things might get done in the future, if our representatives are pushed hard enough. You can't expect a "move fast and break things" attitude because that will get you kicked out of office really quickly.

Democratic style governance is pretty pathetic, but it seems to be better than all the others so far.
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I wish people would learn to use relational databases properly. There is a lot of crap out in the wild.
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I think this is a response after they complained about their own height.

"oh man, why am I so short?" - "hey man, that doesnt bother me at all, you look great none the less"
"People will definitely pay you $0.99 for $1.00, but that's not a sustainable business." Looking at founders of Uber and many other "Unicorns" selling $1.00 for $0.7 is pretty popular strategy for becoming a billionaire.
We could start some sort of Net-twitch company to send these DVDs to you, for a monthly fee.
I find it it pretty ignorant for a publication as venerable as IEEE to miss the fact that archive.org already has this.
I invented this very regular calendar while I was writing recurring-scheduling software for a scheduling tool:

https://calendars.wikia.com/wiki/6*6*10_regular_calendar

It was my fantasy escape from the crazy irregularities of the Gregorian calendar.
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Should link to the original article, which is either of:
https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/20/17883736/twitch-china-blo...
https://www.abacusnews.com/digital-life/twitch-vanishes-chin...
A few:

-Cultural relations between the UK and New Zealand have always been strong particularly back in 67 when decimalisation happened.

-Originally the 50c coin was going to be a design that paid tribute to NZ's farming industry but the designs were sent to an advisory committee for the UK Royal Mint who didn't like them. The new designs solicited in NZ resulted in the current 50c design.

-James Berry, the artist for the coins, was born in London before moving to NZ at around 20. Not that that makes him more anglocentric than a lot of the rest of the country (especially at the time).

-While Tasman was there first, his visit was brief and came to little result. Cook spent quite some time in NZ, mapped the entire coastline, returned later himself, and NZ was technically colonised shortly after.

-If you're concerned with the first humans to arrive there, they're celebrated on the 10c and 20c coin.

All in all, you might as well ask why Leif Erikson is so ignored in the US. The situations are fairly analogous.
The interesting part is that the „yahoo finance chart“ is really expensive at every charting library. Highcharts for example is costing 600€ with really powerfull charting functionality. Highstock which is costing 1000€ is needed in addition to high charts for simply the finance chart.

There‘s really a need for an opensource component. Maybe some special component: You can use it for every chsrting library. It‘s only rendering the scrollable part at the bottom. So you could use it with every library. And the background chart would again be rendered by custom logic, obly the „overlay“ would be done by the library and emitting a ton of events that custom adapters can redraw the charts with any charting library and options you want.
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We as humans have a lot of intuitive tools for knowing whether a source of data is trustworthy. AI could possibly approach this ability given enough training... we'd need to do something like add a "trust" score to every node in the graph.
Not a diagram, but here is an informational video by Clustrix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUq1fYZlNPs

The video is from almost 5 years ago, but the high level idea discussed is still true today.
Guaranteed to be completely false, then. What is the point of learning this?
Carrots are a great crop, especially if you are growing them large to feed a lot of people, they get their highest price when harvested smaller than full size potential as restaurants want them smaller. The method of germination and planting discussed in this article might work on a small scale but for North American scale farm production silage tarps can be used rather than sticks and straw to maintain moisture, then removed once germination occurs also the thin row planting on top of mounds may cause more weeds to grow, instead of planting in multiple rows across a bed which will shade out weed plants. I have heard you can harvest over 200 lbs of carrots from a 50 foot long 30 inch wide bed.
I think it's more than this. Lots of people are willing to pay consultants $50k to build something for them. They are much less inclined to pay exactly the same price for the same product if it's pre-built and off-the-shelf.

People subconsciously feel that paying for someone's time is "fairer" than paying for something that's already built.

It may also be why aftersales and support contracts are so lucrative (in lots of industries).
I agree.

We should be careful to condemn too quickly a current system.

It reminds me of when a new developer comes to a code base and says it needs to be thrown out and rewritten completely.

Rewrites and revolutions are costly and shortsighted.

Let's first try to figure out what is right with what's here because usually it's like it is for a reason.
Didn't you experience any (big) performance issue with XF on Android compared to iOS?