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I agree. We've also had many rejections due to policies that weren't clearly stated up front, such as the price requiring to be in the button rather than below it. Apple should have given 10 examples of Dos and Don'ts with screenshots. Or even give five approved templates, so you can just change the price, duration, app name, etc and you're guaranteed to be approved.

As another example, we put the terms and conditions ("subscription will renew unless canceled...") in a web view. Apple rejected us telling us to put it in the binary. We put the HTML locally, but still in a web view to display it. Is that considered part of the binary? Apparently not. We then made it plain text and didn't use a web view. But it wasn't okay, to have this behind a button. It has to be on the subscription screen. However, having it scroll off the bottom of the screen is apparently fine.

This is why it's frustrating to develop for Apple's platforms — you have to play a guessing game, where each round results in a rejection and multiple days of turnaround time. I'm considering making our app paid up front to bypass this bullshit.

Since the iOS dialog box has all the necessary information, and Apple can present it in a way they consider transparent to users, why make apps redundantly display the same information, and then reject them? The sensible thing to do would be to ban only apps that give misleading information, like Rs.10 if it actually costs Rs.100. Not giving any information in your app UI like price, duration, terms, should be fine.
I don't understand the love for Perl. I wrote maybe 10k-20k lines of Perl between maybe 1996 and 2003 and at the time I was happy it worked.

But ... more than any other language I've used it seems the most hacked and confusing. Global variables abound. Crazy cryptic syntax. Ridiculous scoping rules with hacked on workarounds.

I really don't get the continued love. Sometime around 2003 IIRC I got introduced to Python and never looked back. When someone hands me a perl script I don't look forward to trying to get it to work.

Speaking of which tho even Python now makes me crazy. NPM might suck for various reasons but at least all deps are installed local to each project. I'm sure there are secret incantations for doing the same in perl and python but by default most stuff I download requires global libraries to be installed. If there is one thing I love about npm is that it defaults to project local installs and I have yet to run into a project that requires a global install
I attend a small (100-150 person) church in SF, and it's super trendy. People are dressed fashionably, the music is current (including a ton of hillsong), the church has a great instagram, pour over coffee beforehand etc. But at least in the case of my church, that's a reflection of the people that go there and make up the congregation and their talents, alongside what people do for their day jobs and have trained professionally to do.

I think it's similar with churches like Mosaic in LA and Hillsong broadly speaking - they attract a lot of young people who are skilled in these areas and then those young people go on to use their talents in service to the church.

But that's not the point and it should never be the point. The teaching, the community, these things are far more important than the production values. I guess my thinking is that this polish is fine, as long as it's due to the talents of people in the church, rather than a need to impress others and put on a show so to speak.
A study of small poo? Or a study of poo that was small in size?
I've noticed that the NYT has it out for anything remotely related to capitalism. Didn't they put out a article a while back about how Jeff Bezos becoming so rich is terrible, and they purposely neglected to mention the millions of Americans that also gained in wealth due to Jeff's actions.

These days the NYT is doing some very biased reporting.
Your argument is both rude, and doesn't logically follow from the article.
Over time I figured its smarter to avoid frameworks whenever possible.

* Backend is nodejs mostly (sometimes extends to express when needed)

* DB is usually SQLlite / hosted mongo

* UI is mostly in HTML/Vue/React in increasing order of complexity (latest stable versions)

Very smooth deploys on Heroku.
Thanks - definitely looks like a movie that I’d like, I’ll check it out.
The interesting bit about the stability is the fact that 12,000 new bitcoins enter circulation every week. The miners have to sell in order to pay the power bills (or they are simply holding since the mining has centralized to the bigger players with deep pockets).

So, how is the price remaining stable then? The general thought I've seen is that they are selling on private markets and it is the institutions and funds that are buying them up.
Actually Julia is aggressively inlined because it's easy to statically determine function calls at compile time...that's why the libraries are able to use such nice abstractions.

It's already ahead of time compilable, just needs some work to emit smaller binaries and cover some corner cases
There's a learning curve, sure. I don't know if it qualifies as "hard" though - once you've figured it out it doesn't exactly get _more_ complicated.

Well, unless you add Kubernetes on top of that... then yeah, it gets... complicated.
> I'm sure there are secret incantations for doing the same in perl and python but by default most stuff I download requires global libraries to be installed.

I'm not a Python developer, just dabble, but I've had decent success with Pipenv[1] and Pipfiles.

[1] https://github.com/pypa/pipenv
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You have every right to meddle in American affairs. This is the country of all people of the world. All people who value freedom and individual dignity. Decent Americans welcome everyone and want to help everyone because they realize it helps themselves to do so. It does no good for regular people to buy into these notions of separation. That notion is a tool for maintaining power. The underbelly of the world are the only ones who care about power for themselves. It's a disease.
One beast will rise from the desert, the other from the sea. When they meet, they will fuse to form the prophesied CamelCrab, and you will know the end is nigh.
If I were Lyft I would be looking for an automaker acquisition. Specifically one with an EV program or willing to start one. I say this because once any automaker figures out self driving on an ev, the fleet rideshare aspect would be a negligible effort to add. Once that does happen Lyft would basically no longer need to exist. Maybe this move is what they are trying to do which is be acquired by Ford. Either I applaud there effort and look forward to what they achieve.
crossing the border illegally is
Inflation is a desirable feature in a currency. A currency should be a medium of exchange. Deflation encourages people to hold currency rather than exchange it.
It was good enough for UNIX... Heck, it was a big deal when early uucp and Internet links were finally 8-bit clean! (Only 7 bits are needed for plain old English ASCII, and when you were paying many thousands of dollars a month for a T1 (1.5Mbps) connection, using 7-bit was an instant 12% bandwidth boost...)
Well, it's clear they already have one.
Red light cameras are all over, and apps I can voluntarily install like Waze let me know if I'm going over the speed limit.
very polarizing website, posting many interviews with antisocial hackers(still cool though) but also more nicely minded ones.
This looks like a great piece of hard work covering topics that are not easy to grasp. I am wondering why the author(s) chose to write their code samples in Julia. Most algorithm textbooks I have come across use their own "pseudocode" which often ends up being challenging to read, but in a perfect world, I would selfishly like to have all of the code snippets in Python. Even though this textbook doesn't do that (although let's not rule out future optimizations!), the amount of work that went into this was clearly astounding and well done.
Why was this so downvoted?
Yes, it's just this simple. I don't know why more people can't understand how basic this is.
When I cash out $50 worth of USDC, how will Circle know that I'm not laundering drug money?
When you say that coal consumption has already peaked in the USA, how do you know that? What is to say that next year we won't be using more coal per day than we are now?
Apple's design of Settings has clearly evolved via accretion rather than any thoughtful and considered design. The fact that something is possible in a UI/UX has no bearing on the fact that it's fundamental design can still suck huevos.
Do airpods put a screen before my eyes? Can they show a text, or line art?
233k in the bay area isn't close to the top 1% and isn't a salary that will afford a lifestyle higher than what you would expect to be middle class.

You clearly haven't dealt with the cost of the bay area before. Your dollar's purchasing power is cut in half compared to the Midwest.
Yea but it's yucky, trump is president and I wanna remain morally pure
There won't be any historians if you are right.
So I would love to get some feedback from this group on my takeaway from what I've learned of global warming.

The general consensus seems to be that gasses like carbon dioxide and methane heat cause an increase in global warming. I don't dispute that, but out of fun a few years ago on earth day I started crunching some numbers regarding our direct thermal pollution.

In the US our current consumption of gasoline alone is as 142.98 billion gallons per year[0]. At an average of 120,429 BTUs per gallon [1] that puts the US at ~17.219 quadrillion BTUs a year (in gasoline consumption alone)

Does this matter? Well at that scale we're talking about a Hiroshima Nuclear Bomb level event (15 Kilotons of TNT or ~60 Billion BTUs) every 0.54 minutes all day every day in this country when just considering American consumption of gasoline alone. If volcanoes are your thing, Mt. Saint Helens produced 24 megatons of thermal energy in its 6 years of eruptive activity. The US on the other hand produces the thermal equivalent of that every ~2.1 days... and again, that's just gasoline.

Most of our heat comes from gas which is converted directly to thermal energy. And then we have coal power...

Regardless of how "clean" you make it. We're talking about burning things to create energy so the basic law of the conservation of energy comes into play. And as hot air rises, it doesn't just magically become cooler... it dissipates that energy until it reaches an equilibrium. Thereby transferring energy into the geosphere.

And then when you explode things like natural gas or coal use, it's sometimes being used to heat, but even when it's being used to cool, we're not getting 1-to-1 efficiency. Air conditioners output more heat than they dissipate.

And if people use ACs more as atmospheric heat increases, we're talking about a positive feedback loop without even taking into account the thermal pollution of creating the energy by burning stuff in the first place. (Even nuclear plants tend to use ocean water for cooling - thereby directly heating the oceans)

I'm not saying carbon dioxide and methane aren't potentially catastrophic, but I don't think it makes sense to discount our direct thermal pollution as a potential cause. I only based figures in my argument on US gasoline consumption. That's a minor piece of the global energy pie.

Either way, reducing personal wattage through efficiency and reduced use seem to be pretty productive in terms of reducing my personal thermal impact so it seems like a step in the right direction whether thermal pollution is directly related to global warming or not.

[0] https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=23&t=10
[1]https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/index.php?page=about_ene...
> My total comp this year is upwards of $250k

This attitude is why there's been so much pushback against tech in places like San Francisco and Seattle.
So what? Suicide is a choice. A really bad one. The whole world shouldn't be expected to walk on eggshells to prevent some people from making a really stupid choice.

And maybe, on the other hand, it will serve as a cautionary tale to people who might have embarked on a path that led this way. If it changes the saving habits of a handful of engineers early in their career, I'd say it was more than worth it even if it led to a copycat or two.
Why does it matter that this is automated? Is your issue the automation?
Best method to achieve that is one of 2 options:

perlbrew
local::lib

Or, specify it when executing the module, ie:

bash$ perl -I../project_modules/Module1/lib -I../project_modules/Module2/lib your_project.pl

Or, specify it at the top of your_project.pl ie:

use lib '../project_modules/Module1/lib';

use lib '../project_modules/Module2/lib';

Or, set enviroment var

export PERL5LIB=/home/project_modules/ ; perl your_project.pl

Or, make a BEGIN statement on top of your main project, ie:

BEGIN {
push @INC, glob "/home/project_modules/*/lib";
}

You dont need to use anything global, and its better you dont. Never execute anything as root. You are able to execute local modules just like node, rvm, etc. Its all the same.

Some linux installs come with perl/python installed. It is used by the system and is refered to as "system perl" or "system python" or "system ruby", etc.. and it is not recommended to make upgrade on those "system XXX". Only your system should upgrade the libraries it uses. That is why you should always use a local perl/python/ruby install.

If you didnt like it, its good you moved on.
It is. Every bit store, casino, major airport and mall already is
The Bill of Rights was also written in an era without systematic government ID or national police system, when you could live or travel in near perfect anonymity if you just left the small town where everyone knew you.

So I think the perception goes both ways.
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That might be true for lower-level positions and short-term contracts, but it's also not a big deal. If you are out of work for a month you can learn one of the new techs and be as productive in it as a overall less experienced developer who's been using it for years.

When you find clients by word of mouth they rarely even ask for your CV - it's just "can you do this?".
sounds like a clueless narcissist would be an ideal founder at such a startup
cough VBScript cough
No worries. It's good to see that some people empathize, especially if they don't know what it's like.
Wouldn't this inherintly target everyone crossing a border? What if it was used for rapid progression through border control for Americans? Would you still be against it?
This. UX designer with implementation skills - not numerically oriented at all; designers with implementation skills are not in great supply.
The difference is that most Amazon employees have defined contribution retirement plans rather than defined benefit pensions. So Amazon is less likely to end up in a death spiral due to unsustainable expenses. And if Amazon does go bankrupt the employees' retirement funds won't be impacted (unless they invested in company stock).
That's a bit of a special case, because shaming creates stress, while people with an eating disorder eat to reduce stress.

Otherwise, I think it's self-evident. There's many behaviors that would've been socially unacceptable a hundred years ago, which today are accepted and far more common. For a somewhat related example, consider inter-racial or (to some degree) inter-religious marriages.
is that a subset or superset of 'flounders'?
You might be factually correct, but you are misunderstanding the point of the parent poster. What makewavesnotwar is saying is simply that making exaggerated arguments for this technology in the name of making us safer is not a sufficient reason to introduce the technology. Perhaps if they had used larger numbers like 50 MPH relative to 60MPH that point would have been made clearer.
I'm pretty sure we don't permanently separate families for doing things like petty theft.

There's also the the 'Affluenza' case where a teenager killed four people and got off scott-free. Well, until he was found fleeing probation in a foreign country and was dragged back here.

So I don't know: Do you think crossing the border is worse than murder?
In english, I find that few ideas advocated for get traction. The example of this is the US editorialist in newspapers across the turn of the 19th century who advocated for spelling reform and made the newspaper follow his lead. Once he died, the paper quietly reverted to something closer to "queens" english (and I don't mean the suburb of New York)
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Ocarina of Time was the best Zelda game ever at the time of its release and in many ways remains so. Not at all relevant but she dropped the gauntlet in her opening comments.
And if you think people are terrified of messing up the iPhone itself, they cower in mortal fear at trying to do anything in iTunes, which is still, a decade on, inexplicably the only way to do many things with an iPhone (like, for instance, back it up if you don't trust your personal info to iCloud...)
You could freak out the kids next Wednesday by playing that Steve Reich "It's Gonna Rain" track at them while they come to your house to trick-or-treat. "Bloody hell, that's economy" is, yes, one way to put it.

Afrodisiac is fantastic and I'm sort of dying to mix it up with Remain In Light to see if the influence is as obvious as Eno suggests it is.

Glider is just an MBV EP, and the one song Eno likes on it (Soon) is one of the "hits" from Loveless, the album that followed it, which is one of the most famous and influential modern rock albums of all time and, like, you should already know this and go fix that if you don't.
Mykel Kochenderfer is a coauthor on the book and the PhD advisor to Tim. The video [1] below describes how Kochenderfer came to be using Julia (it's faster than Python, and has an AST that the formal verification guys like).

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj-WhTL_VXE&t=16m9s
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While Kliff's work seems good, the title has the "Helping X, one Y at a time" problem.

The actually state of affairs is that arbitrary hospital bills are a problem that won't be solved one hospital at a time but rather are going require regulation, not just on all hospitals but of health care broadly.
Lyft is a 15B+ company. Neither Ford, nor any other auto company, has the cash to acquire them.
Data is truth, it wants to be free. It will be free. It is impossible to control. I have tons of confidential data under my control and I can do what I like with it. At a company/government with controls that are nothing less than stellar in comparison to most.
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But think of the fantastic increase in shareholder value! What a fantastic business move, at the meer expense of civil liberties and freedom.
> It's harder to express in a type system (e.g. Flow or TypeScript)

I don't know about flow, but TypeScript is pretty flexible there. With mapped types you should be express anything you need.
So I saw a reference to Myo on the page, but I don't see any reference to thalmic labs. Looks like they renamed the company.
That data is not regulated. Basically an open book. Try again.
cool. Will this help klong as well?
I get IVIG 3x / week for a primary immune deficiency I’ve had since birth. For my dosage, it’s billed weekly at a rate of ~$32K of which my insurance company pays around ~$3K.

I hit my max out of pocket the first month of each year and the rest of the year is “free.”

I know that all the IVIG pharmaceutical companies offer a “I can’t afford this” option if you’re going out of pocket.

Good luck, it’s stressful to get but it’s a miracle blood product for those who need it.
Basically just the ones owned by The Irvine Company. https://lawless.tech/total-surveillance-irvine-company-spyin...
Many many UK parking lots are now fully automated, including most supermarkets.

You get number plate recognition, an automatic allowance of an hour or two for a supermarket, and an automatic fine to the address of the car's registered keeper. Here's one of many: https://www.parkingprotection.co.uk/ANPR.html

There's been more than a few mistakes, or not getting the correct time allowance, and problems getting false claims lifted.
Coal consumption for power in 2017 was 36% lower than in 2008:

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=36812

Coal consumption in 2018 is on track for a 4% decline below 2017:

https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/report/coal.php

That same short-term outlook predicts a further 5% drop in 2019 over 2018.

It is at least physically possible that the US could consume more coal in 2019 than in 2018, though only a sucker would take that bet. But it's not even in the realm of possibility for the US to consume an all-time-high amount of coal in 2019, greater than 2008. Too many coal plants have already been shut down and scrapped since 2008. It takes years to build a new plant. There would be years of advance warning if the US were going to reach a new peak of coal consumption, because there would have to be a large wave of new coal plant construction first.
In countries like India, people are asking for Whatsapp to censor content.

10-15 years ago, SMS forwarding and bulk SMS were marked as a problem. Indian government had put in laws in place where they can and do ask telecom operators to jam mobile or even internet signals in sensitive areas.

In which case, asking technology companies to toe the line is the next logical step.
The traffic cameras used in the UAE are pretty tame compared to other countries. The police there are quite open about what new technologies they adopt (it's a form of propaganda to make it look like they are on par with Western countries) so maybe that's why you think it's something new.

London has had ANPR throughout the city for 15 years, and shortly after it went live in London, the system started being rolled out across the country. Now most police cars have real time ANPR systems, and all police forces have access to track cars in real time across the country. [0]

Recently the police have been 'trialing' facial recognition devices in public locations, however given people are more concerned about privacy than they were 10 years ago, I wouldn't be surprised if they have a much more active system than they make out. [1]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number_plate_recog...

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/facial-recog...
I wonder what the initial investment would be to pay for recharges for an electric self-driving car indefinitely. Sure, the car would have to stop eventually for lack-of-maintenance reasons, but I have to imagine it could last for quite a long time...
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Yes, paper degrades in a landfill.

Any carbon-based stuff you put in a landfill generally degrades to methane, which is 25-86 times worse than CO2 when it comes to global warming.

So recycle your paper :)
The affluenza comparison feels like a "whataboutism" to me. Virtually nobody holds that case up as an example of the system working in a healthy and desirable way.
Why are you focusing on people who entered the country illegally? The trump admin has separated families who crossed the border legally at ports of entry and then requested asylum[1].

[1]: https://www.aclu.org/blog/immigrants-rights/immigrants-right...
I was about the embark on making essentially this. A bit above turbolink.

Edit: try to make it server agnostic, if open source is your intention ( and not just personal website use case ).