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Delivery optimizes for maximizing profitability, minimizing customer complaints (due to trying something too exotic, perhaps), and ease of marketing.

If you want to play a different game, such as maximizing nutrition, maximizing taste or texture instead of appearance in an ad, meet some specific health goal, or try something that might (or might not) be enjoyable, then home cooking is better.

By analogy its like the difference between formulaic pulp fiction mass market paperbacks vs the total sum of all human literature ever written.

Delivery is more profitable, but profit does not imply better food. A bad HN car analogy is delivery/restaurant food is like a 70s american car before the foreign car invasion; someone's making money but its not a good product.
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The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System:
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That description of destruction is entirely correct, it's just that the amount involved is tiny. Just like a big enough firecracker could destroy anything, but the ones we make just go pop.
If anyone is looking for general air purifier recommendations. I'm a huge fan of Coway systems.

I have pretty bad allergies purchased a Coway Airmega 300 for my 850sq ft studio. I've had it for about 6 months and been incredibly happy with it. I wrote some initial thoughts about it here.

https://productdork.com/t/coway-airmega-300-vs-400/56

It has to be the best looking air filter on the market—I wanted something that would look good in my place when I have people over. Beyond that it is extremely well designed and the pre-filters are super easy to clean. I got mine on sale for about $400.

For smaller rooms the Coway mighty is a better and more affordable pick. It doesn't look as nice, but it is currently at the top of The Wirecutter's air purifier recommendations. You can find it on sale for around $180.

https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-air-purifier/
A more complete comment from rfk on the bug tracker:

> The reason the login form is delivered as web content is to increase development speed and agility. You're right that web content has a larger potential attack surface than code that's built into the browser, but using web content also brings other kinds of security benefit that may not be obvious. That agility meant that during the incident in [1] we were able to respond quickly and effectively to protect users data, and to roll out an updated login flow containing an email confirmation loop. It means that when we ship two-factor authentication over the coming weeks, it will be immediately available to all users on all platforms. It means we can address Bug 1320222 in a single place and be confident we won't lock out older devices. And it means we can easily bring new Firefox apps like Lockbox into the Firefox Accounts ecosystem.

> Our approach has been to embrace the benefits of web content while trying to reduce the potential attack surface as much as possible. That includes some simple things like hosting the web content on its own server to reduce exposure to application server bugs, and shipping default HSTS and HPKP settings for the accounts.firefox.com domain. It also includes some in-browser measures to prevent interference with FxA web content, such as (the currently private) Bug 1415644. As a future step I'd like to see us implement content-signing for accounts.firefox.com and have it enforced by the browser, following the example of things like Bug 1437671.

> Ultimately I think we can have web content from accounts.firefox.com be just as trustworthy as, say, a Mozilla-developed addon which might ship in the browser by default, which is a pretty high bar. We're not there yet, but it seems worth pursuing to try to get the best of both worlds.
We had a developer meeting a few weeks before he left the company and he said "I designed the system in the pub" ...

I like my beers but this guy was on another level.
Fruits are incredibly convenient by themselves without extra wrapping, the reason some people prefer cheeseburgers over fruits is not convenience, but because cheeseburgers taste better.
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I'm a masochist and would very much like to hear about the scheduler and time series database!
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would you remove draws from all other games as well?
The easiest way to think about these HQs for me:

- Seattle - retail, logistics

- Crystal City - AWS

- New York City - Amazon services for advertising, publishing, media

I would bet Seattle sees those roles slowly pull towards their respective HQs. It's already happening with advertising and NYC as far as I can tell from their job listings.

And if in the future, for some reason, Amazon is required to break up, this would make it a little less messy.
They changed their target demographics, now they sponsor mechanical engineering channels on YouTube.
I'm that somebody.
This Initiative Q is all over my Facebook feed. I'm curious too, but weary, as it seems to have all the trademarks of a pyramid scheme though;

- Members recruiting other members

- Big promises of future gains

- Utopian, almost cult-like following...

Probably best to wait and see what happens. A friend of mine said he signed up and his phone number was taken and he instantly got spammed by telemarketers.... so they might not be so genuine...
I'm not sure about twitter, but my housemate was talking to me about how she would use this technique on Instagram to get people from unfollowing her. It's no longer required because you can do that explicitly now.
The biggest advantage is that it lets other OS easily impersonate linux e.g. SmartOS or Windows can provide kernel-level "linux persona" and have an unmodified linux userland run on top.
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That's interesting - the microwave should insulate against them or it might be unsafe
Say, “hey Siri, whose phone is this?” It will require that your password be entered to unlock the phone; Face ID won’t work.

You can also hold the power and volume up buttons for five seconds on the iPhone X.
Does it traverse corporate firewalls? I use appear.in a lot, but all users must be either inside the firewall (VPN works) or outside the firewall, there cannot be a mix.
One of my first jobs in the industry was really similar. I ended up sitting down with a friend and rewriting it in C#. We didn’t have permission, but no one knew until our codebase was already in working shape (a month or so). We got away with it because the original codebase was so bad that it hadn’t shipped in 5 years. Months of 0 productivity were normal. My friend and I went on to rewrite the entire suite of products over the course of a year or two. We then started our own business. The rewrites were the most successful products that company had ever had in the modern era. Rewriting is not always a bad idea, and it can be less expensive in the medium run. Few seem to realize this, thanks to Joel Spolsky’s blog post on the matter being seen as dogma.
In my experience, those who start teaching with HLLs are aimed more at producing developers that have some minimal level of competence to enter the industry, rather than ones who actually understand what computers are and how they work. While the former is perfectly acceptable for a lot of things, the latter are important because they tend to be the ones who can easily debug difficult problems. IMHO teaching kids HLLs does nothing to dispel (and if anything, furthers) the notion that computers are mysterious magical devices rather than machines that simply follow a list of instructions and manipulate bits. The latter is particularly important as computers become more prevalent in society, people who know nothing about how they work will be less inclined to present good arguments for the issues of privacy, encryption, etc.
Having old devices/HDD sitting around seems to be common in tech and non tech circles. So, I suspect 10+% of people already have an encrypted device in their home where they forgot the password. Now, given a few dozen tries they might be able to recall it, but it’s not something they can just hand out.
I imagine that the "centers of power" that would collapse would be the major metropolitan centers. We would suffer many deaths from starvation there.

But in rural areas, people would just plant a bigger garden and slaughter an extra hog or cow and dip into the canned food in the cellar. They'd also load their empty shells and sharpen their rifle skills.
You're still not addressing the ease with which a targeted attack can be directed at a single user.

In order to compromise firefox native code, they would have to compile malicious code and ship it to everyone. My distro maintainers would need to include the malicious binary in their repos, including a signed hash of the compromised binary, and I'd need to install it, where my package manager would verify the hash.

In order to compromise a single user's browser session, they'd simply need to fingerprint the user's browser and then serve them different content than everyone else gets. No hashes or signatures on javascript, no safety in numbers, etc.
Nope, in fact it's so absolutely not stable (or supported) that libSystem can't be statically linked to.
In my experience it is far more than a "modest" increase in cost (once you burn through free/starter deals).
Well, the right to freedom of movement can be taken away if you've taken yourself into a mess that ends you in prison (and in tens of other cases for that matter).
Ha ha Turing Complete xkcd...
I bake all our bread, and it's sourdough, every two or three days. I wonder what effect this has on my overall health in a positive or negative way.

EDIT: To be clear, this article is about microbes on the hands of sourdough bread bakers. I'm curious about what effect these microbes on my hands have on my body, if anything. Not the ingestion of my bread.
Oh, that sentence is a bit misleading, that's talking about using purely the 0.015% of deuterium in the water.
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We've got a Robert Heinlein fan here...
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>Whatever we count as an "injury" should probably be more severe than the little mishaps we have with our bodies from going through life.

The fact that this is apparently an unacceptable opinion here is mind boggling to me

If we're basing out stats on unimportant injuries (minor bruises and stiff necks that go away in a day) then we're measuring something that we don't care about, injuries that do not meaningfully affect people. What we should care about is injuries that have appreciable recovery time (serious bruising, having a sore neck for multiple days, etc, etc) because those negatively affect people enough to be worth caring about. If we're including injuries we don't really care about in our numbers then something is wrong with our numbers.

I dare someone to actually tell me why you think we should not distinguish injuries that are so minor as to not appreciably affect people from those that do seriously affect people. Tracking minor and significant injuries in the same category misleads anyone who has to reason about or make decisions based on those statistics.
Not that I disagree with your overall point, but keeping an evening clear seems equivalent to what you'd have to do to read a book, perhaps just in a different time of day.
While I see some value in the red-green unit testing approach, I've found the drawbacks to often eclipse the advantages, especially under real-world time constraints.

In my day to day programming, when I neglect writing tests, the regret is always about those that are on the side of integration testing. I'm okay with not testing individual functions or individual modules even. But the stuff that 'integrates' various modules/concerns is almost always worth writing tests for.
I make a site called https://remoteok.io where I collect most new remote jobs from traditional job boards, as well as have fully-remote companies post directly.

You can also set up email alerts on there to get notified first when a new remote job appears in your specific niche (like DevOps).

Hope it helps and let me know if you have feedback.
> presumably because it's cooler to attack www servers

Why would you have anything other than web servers directly accessible on the internet?
>That's far from a mere technical detail, as it also means the person lacked any meaningful physical control of, or proximity to, the evidence.

That would still be irrelevant if their intention for getting themselves to "lack any meaningful physical control of, or proximity to, the evidence" is deemed by a judge to be malicious.
Google-DeepMinds health care unit create “AI assistant for nurses and doctors”
In terms of what American media calls "news", I found this essay very illuminating:

http://www.dobelli.com/en/essays/news-diet/
Scott Hanselman is a workaholic. He is also very evasive at answering questions directly if it isn't politically expedient. I have noticed this both in a few email correspondences I've personally had with him and through his comments on his website. I quite like how he explains things and I do think he is a good dude.

Hanselman is also one of those developers that can bang code out 24/7. I've met them. They can get a lot of stuff done, however there is usually someone like me that is picking up the pieces left behind.

Recently I worked with one and he banged out an MVC project, commented out all the tests I wrote after he changed the API I wrote and then went on holiday to Greece for several weeks and then was moved onto another project. Guess who had to clean up the mess ...
Exactly. Lawns don't burn down homes.
Easy to read does not mean easy to write. I submit the best literature is a fairly easy read, but the construction is quite laborious.
Playdoh recently managed to trademark its smell.
Yes, sure. Just shows that their lobbying was ineffective, better luck next time.
I guess I’m ignoring the situation wherein the experienced devs are stuck in a corner without a team. In that situation, without management on board it seems quite difficult to get out of that situation without some tough conversations directly with management.

That being said, that, I hope, is the exception rather than the rule. And I should think intelligent, self-aware devs wouldn’t let themselves fall into that situation. I personally would start looking for better opportunities once things started looking as dire as that.

For devs not in that situation it’s still a non trivial problem you bring up: how to entice the next gen to work on legacy-type projects. That I think comes down to a problem of selling. That is to say, solving it will depend on the audience and the product. Some strategies I’d think might work would be: 1) the opportunity to learn a great deal, for those who are very junior, 2) the opportunity to master an important part of the business (if it’s being kept around with resources allocated, there must be a reason why), though a dated one.
I've seen personal reality building happen in Lua several times already. It's very seductive to intelligent solo artists who are given a lot of freedom.

To be fair, I've also seen it happen in C, C++, and JavaScript.
That's amazing! What does that cost per month? (if I may ask)

Only 20 dynos? I assumed Heroku could scale to hundreds of dynos per app deployment, as they assign a random local port to every dyno.

You could create a second app, but in certain cases, that violates their terms of service, where you're not allowed to use many deployments to act as a single webapp.
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Maybe, though I would say that it is odd that some companies (who presumably have legal council) have decided to implement warrant canaries. Quite a few have "activated" them, though it's quite possible some lawyer told them to knock it off. It is at least a little less crazy than arguing that you are a free inhabitant and that you don't need a drivers' license.

In Australia we have an explicit law which makes it illegal to talk about the existence or non-existence of a journalist surveillance warrant (though in Australia you might not even be aware of such a warrant's existence). This means that any discussion of such warrants is technically illegal -- making warrant canaries impossible to implement here. The minimum sentence is 2 years, and it's specifically targeted toward journalists (and affects anyone who shares already-public information -- so retweeting such a story on Twitter would be a serious crime).
No, but it's a binding answer, and when you get before a judge you don't want to be caught splitting hairs.
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> Maybe a good idea, maybe not, but targetting "algorithms" is certainly too broad. Everything that does anything is an algorithm. Will we have to get government authorisation before we can quicksort?

Maybe I'm being paranoid, but I fear the "You know what I meant!" paradigm.

"Of course you won't have to register every algorithm. You know what I meant!"

"Of course you won't have to submit every program to approval. You know what I meant!"

"Of course you don't have to worry if you got sufficient consent to use that information. You know what I meant!"

And so on. The gag, of course, is that nobody really knows what They meant, only that there's now this massive chill upon the land because nobody wants to be the first test case for the system to demonstrate What They Meant on.
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I made scones with the wrong flour once. (¿)
Nobody cares about who did the mechanical act of destroying, especially since they (e.g. Apple) had no intent and where totally unrelated to the crime.

So that wont fly as an excuse to a judge. In general pedantic splitting hair arguments will more likely turn against the person.
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Other case mentioned was with face recognition, imagine a coop trusts the AI that tells him that you are a dangerous criminal, you could get killed if you are unfortunate because the cop could assume the computer is right and you are very dangerous and never thinks about the false positives
I'm not saying there is no legitimate reason for having that system, but if you reset the switch while knowingly having evidence on your phone then letting it triggering after being arrested is intentionally destroying evidence.
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One reason is that there's still a divide in understanding of the requirements to actually solve a problem between management and the engineering team. Unrealistic deadlines are given, and as a result, shit is produced.
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How is it not?

"detect the lack of any electromagnetic field paired with no vibrations at all and colder temperature"

You go hiking far outside of civilization and go to sleep in a tent, there are no electromagnetic fields around you at all(that the phone can detect anyway), there are no vibrations at all, and the temperature is cold because the phone is not on your body.

Or for a slightly more realistic example - I stayed with a friend recently who lives in a house from the 12th century - walls in there are about a meter thick, in certain rooms there is absolutely zero reception from any network, wifi doesn't penetrate at all. The no vibrations and low temperature points also apply there.

What am I missing that the post apparently said?
I’m not a trademark lawyer, but I used to work with them in the UK. From what I recall, trademarks need to described in language accessible to ‘everyman’ to be protectable. So when I was there, about 5 years ago, I don’t recall that there had been a successful bid to trademark a smell because a gas chromatograph didn’t fit the bill.
all privacy aside. i think mozilla is doing good lately. firefox is fast and it has a great dev tool since i last checked. today i'm switching from chrome!
I already have a VPS, i do not really want to use another one just for a single program (imagine if everything i wanted to run needed its own VPS).

Also i do not really want to run docker in there... aren't dockers VMs themselves? Isn't this running a VM in a VM? Doesn't that kill any sort of performance?

TBH as i wrote above what i'd prefer is some self-contained binary i drop somewhere in my VPS and have it work automatically. See Fossil SCM and Gogs as a couple of examples for what i'm looking for.
New Gmail stinks-crap system that is slow and crashes constantly
My Gmail is always telling me, at least once a week minimum; error problem. Then I have to refresh and sign in all over again.
And why do I have to wait for this red bar to run and finally open Gmail?
I think Google make a huge mistake. One person I know from NYC area says they cannot even figure out why you ask questions like how much is 1+1, it takes you six pages to find the answer.
Too bad I hate MS so much because right now they looking more qualified to design a simple system.
Google and other companies can change things internally within a program to add on this and that capability, but the entire system I have now is JUNK!
Sign,
Mainframe background who should have converted to PC's (personal computer) so that everything was really USER FRIENDLY (what real business people and designers forgot that this is what it is all about)
It was a British gallery, and the British law that applies does indeed extend copyright to the act of making exact copies.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Portrait_Gallery_and_...

People who defend the legal position with "But it's creative effort!" do not quite understand the test that applies, and are not actually explaining things correctly. The legal test in British law is whether it is original, the qualifiation that is used in the legislation itself, and there have been a few landmark cases in the 20th century where originality most definitely did not mean creativity. Indeed, it is one of the little-mentioned problems with BrExit that it has quite drastic effects on copyright law, as some of the legal tests that apply derive from EU Court of Justice decisions that may or may not continue to have force. It has been opined by some that the so-called "Infopaq" standard may cease to be applied by British courts, which may revert to older, lower, thresholds for originality.

* https://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/virtual-museum

* https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/1
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I never understood business models like this in the first place.

Those who like to cook don't have a problem buying ingredients themselves.

Those who don't like cooking don't mind spending the same amount as a Blue Apron subscription to order takeaway.

The target audience consists of people who would theoretically like to cook, but don't know how to read a recipe book and/or don't want to go shopping or use online grocery shopping.
Gist of articles: Private equity returns are more explained by overall bull market that individual talent.

My 2 cents:

Private equity is a key winner of the ever increased "cost" of going public. Enron, Worldcom and other scandals made the legal pendulum swing hard in investor protection. Quarterly calls, getting hounded by analysts, making the number, lawsuits, short sellers... live is tough for a public company CEO.

As a result, private equity has grown so much, displacing the public markets. With this outsized footprints, it is only natural that returns zone in on the market returns.
I've tried Bitwig on Linux - it's nice and works well enough. But a few of my VSTs break on it (couldn't get Serum to work for some reason and I absolutely need it)