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> 4. Can I use Express Editions for commercial use?

> Yes, there are no licensing restrictions for applications built using the Express Editions.

Visual Studio Express (and now Community) editions have always allowed for commercial development.
It would cost you nothing to replace your last line with, “I’m sorry, but that’s not what we’re seeing and we won’t merge it until you fix it. I understand your passion, but I won’t sacrifice the quality of this project for that. Fix the code so that it no longer invokes undefined behavior and we’ll review it, otherwise we have nothing more to talk about.”

The end. No need to call it crap, no need to burn a bridge.
They pretty much have to because the majority of environments they have to work in aren't hospitable to people who actually care. Hence many of us eventually get to the point of "just make it work" that we once used to scoff at on HN. As with most things in life, software engineers eventually beat the game only to find that there was nothing to win the whole time playing by a set of ideals.
Ah sorry, I just meant I don't love the post (and I just updated my comment to make that more clear). If anything I am even more a fan of functional CSS now than I was when I wrote this.

But my post is just a bad defense of it. The section about the separation of concerns is especially unconvincing, and I spent almost no time talking about the benefits of it. I'd like to rewrite it at some point.
I thought so too about Nim, but then I realized how easy it is to call c libs from nim. There is infinate amount of c and c++ libs out there.
what if you don't use Facebook and only use WhatsApp? not much information besides contacts and rough location
Very good points, being on the lookout myself I realize this also works the other way around. I need to be good at answering:

* Can I do the job and can I communicate my weaknesses and strengths?

* Will I be motivated?

* Will I get along with the people?

* What will I be 3, 6, 12 months from now? What do I want to achieve?

* What's my motivation and attitude?

* How do I learn?

* How do I work through blocks?
We actually didn't talk about WHOIS Privacy because it's becoming less and less of a relevant feature in the post-GDPR world. We do support it, free of charge.

Cloudflare is also the largest authoritative DNS deployment in the world, and changes propagate in closer to 15 seconds than 15 minutes.
>television is a real time medium

Arguably that's less the case than it used to be insofar as you can get your hands on many older TV shows if you want to.

That said, TV--and, especially, historic network TV--is a lot more rooted in its time and place than a lot of writing is. It's partly for technical reasons as you say. The production values of a lot of older shows are going to be a distraction even if the content were otherwise modern. But TV shows also tend to reflect (to an arguably greater degree than the typical film) the period in which they were made. Not just the look but a lot of the sensibilities.

I'd wager than there are very few TV shows dating to the 1970s and before that are really watchable today whereas there are plenty of films going back to almost the beginning of "talkies." (There are some good silent films too but obviously those have to be approached with a somewhat different mindset.)

There are some exceptions. For example, episodes of The Twilight Zone or a series like MAS*H can still be appreciated, but for the most part, no. (ADDED: For example, All in the Family was a groundbreaking show when it aired. But, although I haven't seen an episode in years, I'm willing to bet it would come across as very much a period piece today.)
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businesses certainly have a high incentive to get internal research correct. they don't necessarily have the same incentives when it comes to publishing results or funding external research. see tobacco health research performed/funded by tobacco companies.

in general i trust businesses a bit more than governments, because I find it easier to dissect their motivations, but either can be greatly incentivised to distort scientific findings.
Well, you ask for improvement and reject. You have to, because you don't want to accept it. That pisses the submitter off. What now?

A possible alternative is to do what Pieter Hintjens recommended: Accept everything, wait for the community to clean it up. Somebody might outright revert the bad patch... you accept that reversion patch, too, because you don't judge, you accept everything. This approach supposedly worked well for Pieter, but 0MQ isn't nearly as big or as visible as Linux.
Not related to private data but I've seen a bank shadow fund a project to get the mortgage review packages of a competitor to run through their models and test them out, also giving this one bank all the data on the mortgage packages and the scores. A really big bank did this to two others BIG lenders (one lender directly related to the federal government).
We were instructed to turn a blind eye and the business model was exfiltrating info to a different lending institution while the auspice is we were only building a product as a service.
My personal opinion is ALL your data is being sold. Every single bit that can be collected will be sold with no protections, regulations.
All of the diseases mentioned (diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and sleep apnea) are chronic conditions, and ideal candidates for the "gather a bunch of data over a large time window and see what we can see" approach.

A heart attack is a very acute condition, and doesn't give you the same luxury of looking at things over time. You have to get it right, and you only have one shot at it. When looking at chronic conditions you can built up a confidence over time, and only raise the alert when you're very sure. With a heart attack, you have a window of minutes, to an hour or two. False positives are much more of a risk in that case, and the cost of false positives is magnified significantly when a screening tool is widespread.

I may be mistaken, but you seem to be extrapolating my comment to mean that I don't think we will see continued expansion of screening tools built into various wearables. That's not true at all. I think it's quite obvious that this is an area where we will see significant growth over the coming decade.

That doesn't change my stance that heart attacks are categorically different, and much harder to detect from a sensor isolated on the wrist. I think the most promising path to doing that is detecting elevated troponin levels in the blood, and while there is some work being done on accomplishing that noninvasively, it's still a long way from being readily available.
How will Linux ever recover? I want kernel to be based and red-pilled.
I think that only works for the most trivial things.

You can do a work sample test for 'can this person add a view to a Rails app', but not for example for 'can this person build a team and develop a solution to a complex technical problem in a specific domain'.
I've learned to reciprocate care. I owe no loyalty to a company that refuses to appropriately value my contribution.
Hello HN!

I've noticed lately that I tend to jump into the comment section on hacker news and reddit before reading the associated article. To prevent this, I wrote ireadit, a browser extension that hides the comment section if the article link has not been viewed. This is my first time writing an extension, so I am open to any and all comments or feedback.

It can currently be installed manually. The option to download from browser stores is coming soon.

You can check out a short video linked in the README.md that demonstrates how it functions.
Can't you do the same with SCSS and at least keep the DOM clean and have it nest more naturally?

Like include "materialShadow(3)" for a hovering button, but when you want to build a special card thingy you include "card", which than includes the shadow already.
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The passion/craftsman culture changed when we started selling our souls for the next ad-click or personal information collection system.

While it might have seemed good back then, we now have a massively cobbled-together web ecosystem. I know it's a cheap shot, but those same passionate people built the crap we have today. I don't think it speaks very highly of that time or the merits of passion.

(many individuals had passion back then and would be strongly against today's web practices -- I do get that)

When you start peeling away the layers of the career, the actual craft is only a portion of today's work. If I could code 8 hours a day, I would. But it's hard to spend a day in the workshop with that passionate, quiet, productive focus.
Or possibly the only people subservient enough to put up with that sort of behaviour are the ones that also fawn at your feet? I’d be out of a company like a shot and letting HR know why on the way past if a manager tried to pull that on me.
Completely agree. They don't flub around trying to figure out and contextualize issues. They're able to both categorize the issue and the disagreement and present in ways that everybody can consume.*

We're not all so lucky, though. Many times I've had to tell teams "This is going to sound right. Please forgive me because I'm concerned about X". You can't replace that kind of give-and-take with wordsmithing.

The second skill I've noticed is to be a storytelling master. Great leaders tell engaging stories that emotionally draw you into their way of seeing things.

*A problem occurs when the leader thinks they know what's going on but they are mistaken. In this case better leadership skills can actually lead to poorer overall results. I've seen good people with mission-critical ideas get "facilitated" out of them by well-meaning, nice, and intelligent people who don't know what the hell they're talking about and are unable to accept that fact. Obligatory link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg
I just posted the same thing before getting to your comment.

Additional benefit: you can nest stuff. So you card will include a nice dropshadow/border mix with you also can use on it's own somewhere else.
Do you think the scientists overlooked the geometries involved?
Facebook probably knows your phone number anyway because your friends have likely shared their phone's contacts with Facebook.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18083859
Functional CSS reminds me of React and JSX - there are plenty of people who will argue at length what a bad idea it is, having not tried it.
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I disagree. Nim is very much a batteries included language and has a very healthy range of libraries available in the set of standard libraries. The lack of of 3rd party modules is a little problematic, but the large number of standard libraries and good C FFI can help mitigate this. Go is definitely the more supported and mature language, but Nim still has a lot going for it.
The law doesn't operate on such a binary scale; "if we can't formulate an extremely precise distinction then no distinction can exist at all".

If someone claimed to write an original work that was exactly the same as It, a 1200-page novel, nobody would accept that it was independently written, even if we can't exactly pin down the word count at which we draw that line.
He wasn't calling anyone crazy. The remark about "his crazy stories" was meant to be: "his stories on crazy (ie evil, corrupt) practices."
That's exactly what's happening.
> It gives newer engineers more opportunity to succeed in areas where they are strong

or just gives people who can fit a mould succeed, but doesn't allow someone who is creative and can think outside the box to shine as existing beaurocracy bogs down the smallest of change.
Functions have rich abstraction capability e.g. they compose and such. CSS has primitive abstraction capabilities (That said, i'm unconvinced, but i'm listening)
Bitmain have their tentacles in other cryptocurrencies too, e.g. Ethereum: "As recently as April 2018, mining equipment provider Bitmain Technologies announced an Ethereum version of its POW application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) hardware, a decision that is particularly notable in the context of Casper's planned switch to POS... With this much capital, Bitmain could theoretically continue supporting development of the POW version of Ethereum by itself, even without the consent of Ethereum leader Vitalik Buterin." [0] You could call them the "great vampire squid" of the crypto world.

[0] http://strategiccoin.com/chronicles-4/
The time I learned how important it is to forge numbers is when we were measuring gravity in high school by rolling a ball off the end of a table and using a stopwatch to time how long it took to fall to the ground by starting it when the ball fell off the end and stopping it when it hit the ground.

To free fall one meter on Earth is about .45 seconds.

If you are systematically off and get .35 seconds, you get a gravity of 16m/s^2. If you are systematically off and get .55 seconds, you get a gravity of 6.5m/s^2. It isn't that hard to be systematically off in your button presses by that amount even in ten trials. The noise is huge compared to the signal, and averaging several attempts can only smooth out random noise, not systematic miscalculations of when the ball leaves the table or lands.

I got the second result. I got a bad grade. I learned my lesson. Remarkably every subsequent experiment I ever ran was within ten percent of the real value. My turnaround was truly amazing.
I disagree on both counts.

One, books are no less a voguish medium than television or films; it's not just a coincidence that a bunch of people read Mailer at the same time, or that the best-seller list is mostly books that have gotten a lot of buzz recently, rather than timeless literary classics. Additionally, older books can be difficult to new audiences because of style (consider ancient books' long lists of genealogies, or their elliptical style, or consider the long-windedness of 19th-Century writing -- both can put readers off).

Further, the popularity of TV or movies is not solely determined by technical quality. Fewer people are watching shows that are a few years old now, or people are rediscovering 90s TV because it's added to Netflix and has a second wind. Consider also music. There's little technical reason to choose between Carrie Underwood or Loretta Lynn; both are easily available in high-fidelity digital format. Yet more people choose to listen to one than the other.
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It is completely possible to fingerprint a browser and then group all the email accounts used on it and treat them as a single user. When was the last time you lent your device to someone so they could check their email?
But the whole point of this project was to carry nostalgia for TNG. There's millions of 3d models for generic spaceships. The only reason this one existed was to be Star Trek down to its smallest details.
That's a great way of putting it. "Choose your battles" in other words. I look back and I can remember getting very wound up about some things that just didn't matter. And, today, I shake my head a little bit at people for whom every single little thing is something to man the barricades over.
It is convenient but you are not separating markup and presentation. I think the whole point of css is to swap stylesheets and get a different presentation, like demostrated by http://www.csszengarden.com/ BEM/OOCSS lets you do this.
Employee happiness is directly correlated with productivity.
Reminds me a lot of a Jeff Atwood quote from the Stackoverflow.com podcast's initial days.

>It's much better to have "strong views, weakly held" than to have "weak views, strongly held".

Meaning that you should be confident in your opinions but at the same time be willing to concede defeat if someone can show you why your opinion is wrong or not the most optimal one. Rather than persistently defending a view that you also over time come to realise was wrong.

Since you've invested so much time and are holding onto the weak view strongly, you would not want to abandon the view due to the feeling that it was all a waste.
The same thing but for HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17942981
As someone who is currently looking for a job I can definitely relate to the troubling HR in software field. What I started doing is working on my own content to help recruiters decide if I am what they are looking for. I added more information about ME, what I am passionate about, what I was passionate about previously, and what I am looking for to my about page (https://getaclue.me/about).

This way, recruiters can decide if they like me or not. Another thing I started doing while reaching out to companies is saying that I am open to 3-6 months "tryouts" if you wish.

I feel like we should have more of those. I also realized that social media is very powerful for finding your way in 2018. Gone are the days of wanting to work at a Fortune N company because they are doing great work. Most of those unicorns turn into corp machines that they were trying to stay away from.

Another thing I started doing is looking for people that share my passion. Anecdotally, Forums, IRCs, Telegam and the such communities are definitely booming once again thanks to the dissolution of privacy.

One challenge - esp if you are someone who cares about software and software engineering field - you have to do A LOT more work on your own. I work full-time and I work when I get home. I don't see this changing.

EDITed to add some \n
They didn't call the gp crazy. They labelled the stories crazy, which is precisely how the poster described them:

>things i have see flying by are crazy
HTML + CSS, pure and simple. Don't overthink. Frameworks like bootstrap were useful back when they started: column layout (and other popular patterns) were hard to achieve, and each browser (and version) had their own quirks to work around.

Today, CSS Grid and Flexbox are easier and more powerful than any framework, and aside from bleeding-edge features the major browsers have converged.
Paper production replants trees. Its not saviving any forrests. I would argue the enviromental toll from kindles and cellphones is magnatudes worse.
Way to miss the point entirely.
> This stuff never scales. No one can remember class names

Are you saying that with a CSS file with one-class-per-component it's easier to remember the hundreds if not thousands of class names, compared to a functional library, where you only have to remember a handful of them?

You might not like it, but the very reason of existence of functional CSS libraries is to limit the number of classes and improve reusability and composition.
i don't understand why people make these kinds of criticisms. everyone already understand that the assumption for a new language that the ecosystem won't be as rich. you're basically saying something akin to "x high school football player is much worse than y professional football player in a professional game". of course. judge them in context.
People rejected the germ theory of disease because, among other reasons, they didn't feel it was in accord with their personal experience. Personal experience is the root of baseless superstition. Tell me what's wrong with these different examples, which fit the new criteria you've added.
Per sibling comment, the question of whether discrimination happens, consciously or unconsciously, is one amenable to factual analysis and is not a political question. What is political is whether anything should be done about it.

> exclusionary behaviour are the exception and most people abide by the golden rule

So the question for this has to be: when do you think the date was at which "most people" started to do this? Was it a mass conversion at the enactment of the US Civil Rights Act, or a much slower battle?
> The passion/craftsman culture changed when we started selling our souls for the next ad-click or personal information collection system.

I am really passionate about the information collection system I work on. I do my best to ensure data isn't leaked, everything is secure and encrypted. If you would like to offer a solution to the fact that the vast majority of people in this country now expect software to be free (save, some AAA video game titles), I am all ears. Until then, I am going to be passionate about what I do, but realistic as well as I have a family to provide for.
US regulatory environment is built for corporate profits (so that money can go to politicians) before public safety.
After using bootstrap4 i have come to use this approach more often. Its just easy to use d-flex, justify-content-, p-, m-* classes to construct a component.

After reading https://adamwathan.me/css-utility-classes-and-separation-of-... i might use it even more!
> I don't need my computer tools to define my political/spiritual beliefs.

[...goes on to explain how they are looking for a whole new OS more inline with their political/spiritual beliefs]
That's ridiculous. Why does learning new technology mean you need to stop using the old technology?
Ah fuck, this is the first I even heard of this, but it sounds really cool. Guess I’ll never get to experience it now.

I just don’t get why companies feel the need to be a dick to everything that moves.
See whataboutism

Now there's an hypocrisy to complain about a rule when you broke it prior.
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That perfectly aligns with my personal stereotypes of Australians and Russians.

The Americans, of course, would just attempt surgery on site using remote assistance from stateside surgeons, do the horrendously expensive evacuation when it goes wrong, try to bill the patient for the entire multi-million dollar amount, and then base a screenplay or teleplay on the story.
I kinda knew this would come up. The gun thing was my call. I'm the one who approved the use of the logo on a lower receiver.

I consider it one of the worst decisions I ever made.

Yes, it was legal, but it caused a huge controversy and made the controversy even worse when we had to pull it back.

The balancing act with allowing fan art is that one group of fans hates the work of another group of fans, you have to make a moral decision as to which group is "right", and it's always the wrong decision to some people.

In that case we should have predicted the controversy and said no from the beginning.
Paying attention to what other people think is vital for converging on an agreed "right thing to do" as the social challenges become less obvious and more complex. This exercise requires proponents of ideas to engage in civil conversation, something which those given the most air time or who shout loudest seem completely incapable of. The natural response to this level of aggression is disengagement in the interest of self-preservation or spending one's time wisely.
From what I remember (not a lawyer), the border between “that’s grand” and “right, you’re taking the mickey” is different between countries, and in particular the USA allows arbitrary reproduction for personal use while the UK forbids reproduction even for personal use.

The edge cases are more complex than I have stated, in both countries, but courts have definitely had to answer the question “is it copyright infringement to load a computer program from (tape|drive|etc) into RAM”, so it’s not like they don’t know the simple definition is problematic.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glider_(bot)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAI_Systems_Corp._v._Peak_Co....