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Extensions get to modify the same about:config in FF as the firefox internal settings.

Some extensions dont work after a year of being undeveloped, because the API changes. Is this really a bad thing? Opensource software uses patching as a "heartbeat" to discern whether a project is still developed or not. Hackers find holes over time, and when devs no longer fill them, the project needs to be left for dead.

Why should browser addons be any different?

I guess its a different philosophy - if the devs leave a browser addon for dead, the users should too.

Once every couple of years, the API changes and cleans out dead addons. Im not sure this is often enough.

But the best addons stay. NoScript. Adblock Plus or uBlock Origin. httpsEverywhere. The best Canvas blockers. These stay up to date.

What is missing?
How expensive (to a corporation) are the low-level-employee expenses, fraudulent or not? I mean, nobody likes to waste money on fraud or strip clubs or extra steaks, but is the cost of AI Oversight more than you'd retrieve?

How about expenses for directors/VP/Executive VP/CxO? Does this AI look over their expense reports, too? I would guess that even legit expenses from that level look a bit odd, but having AI audit employee expenses but not management expenses could contribute to a morale problem.

Another place that this AI oversight could help society as a whole is having corporations/companies get audited for wage theft. Wage theft is supposedly the largest dollar amount of theft in the US, and it probably exists because audits are so seldom done. AI wage theft audits could have a large beneficial effect for employees.
I really like the concept of this article and would love to see this quarterly, bi-monthly, or monthly!

I also would prefer if the comment text were rendered in actual text instead of screenshots, as the low resolution is really obvious. Hope true text makes it into the next one of these.
That is really funny. Also, it shows how much Microsoft has changed in the last few years.
Sounds like they're referring to an HRA account[1][2]. It's a fully employer-funded, employer-owned, and employer-controlled reimbursement account. It's similar in function to an HSA account, but it doesn't actually belong to the employee and doesn't follow the employee when they're terminated. My employer offers both HRA and HSA based high deductible plans, as well as a PPO plan. The HRA plan is definitely the best plan on paper, especially since the unused HRA funds rollover[3], but a huge caveat being that you lose any HRA balance that you've accumulated over time if you ever leave or get terminated, since it doesn't actually belong to you.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/h/hra.asp

[2] http://www.aetna.com/producer/aetnalink/2009-4q/natlink_hra_...

[3] Employers have significant leeway over how the HRA is structured, what it will cover, whether you have to use any FSA funds you have beforehand, whether unused balances will rollover or reset next year, etc. My employer happens to have a really good HRA structure, including rollover balances and using HRA funds before FSA funds.
I mean, it was Samsung Brazil last time: https://www.diyphotography.net/samsung-busted-tweeting-stock...

But, yes. It doesn't take much for me to keep a note in my head "these guys are dishonest". OK, I may not boycott the company entirely, but it drops their perceived ranking in my mind wayyy down... which is exactly the opposite of what marketing is supposed to do, right?
That's true. He's now mostly interested in DIY things which has challenges on its own.
The rural Tennessee isn't really the part you should worry about. It's suburban Tennessee. The suburb culture throughout the state is basically white supremacist.
> Here's an example for iPhone where they're using some complex mounting frame to connect a 35mm prime lens to the front of an iPhone. The phone becomes more like a smart camera back.

That’s... not an iPhone, though the video may have been created for a smartphone ad (I don’t know and I don’t think the video said)

In fact I didn’t see anything in that which specifically says Apple does it, and I’m pretty sure that Apple has said several times that they use an iPhone without any special lenses or attachments.
Ok, but how many bras are they expecting each woman to buy? It's going to have to be a lot for them to spend a whole week working with each customer.
Damn - that VSCode theme and color scheme from the screenshot in the article looks really nice.

Does anyone know its name?

1: https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/pasted-ima...
Only a small note: we have had a free, functional, decentralized social network in the past, even supported by thing like Microsoft Outlook. It's still there, despite semi-abandoned state, today. It have a name, of course: nntp news.

All we need if we want a free alternative to ANY social network is being back on nntp. Of course we can add features to it, we can start to shake heads and think seeing the role of IT today it it's time to buy serious mail solution, perhaps a VPS and a domain name, perhaps create a small home-server that mirror public/semipublic personal stuff from the VPS to us so we can easily jump from a vendor to another without change anything from our mail address to our datas.

IT is not only a game anymore, it start to be a serious thing even for casual people, better know a bit of it and be prepared.
> WinForms is still IMHO the hands-down most convenient way to quickly assemble a GUI for an app

I think Lazarus[0] is easier, especially when it comes to automatic layout stuff, but WinForms is very close. They're somewhat related as both are descendants of the classic Visual Basic RAD approach and Lazarus is basically an open source and cross platform clone of Delphi while WinForms implements a very VCL-like (VCL is Delphi's framework) API - which is natural since both Delphi and WinForms were designed by the same person :-P.

[0] http://www.lazarus-ide.org/
Yes, that is correct. I hope to see FOREIGN KEY constraints added in the future.

In the interim though, when comparing TiDB to (application) sharded systems, it is important to clarify that FOREIGN KEYS will only be available locally to a single server. So it is a limitation that some of the large deployments we encounter are already familiar with.
My personal favorite (which I was involved in), was people willing to openly test one my applications:

https://twitter.com/AustinGWalters/status/104189476543920128...

It was fun / exciting to see it work, plus from all the emails I got there was a lot of interest. I personally enjoy the collaborative nature of Hacker News, although these posts are also interesting and highlight the breadth of knowledge here.

From the list in the post, my personal favorite was meeting Rick Jay: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18555353
It does currently work on Linux, although fairly barebones. You can Google "Fluttet desktop"
Weird question for a "Hacker" News forum.
When you say "their phones" do mean the Galaxy S and Note flagships? Because there's a huge gap in camera performance between those and the mid-tier A-series.
Google rarely kill open source projects.
The author refers to himself as a member of the underclass and that's a bit over dramatic, but I do get where he's coming from.

When I moved to NY, a friend told me that to live an approximately middle class lifestyle in Manhattan, you needed to have two earners each pulling in $100k/year.

My significant other and I are now well past that ($400k+ combined albeit with ~$1500/mo student loans) but we still don't feel well off in Manhattan. There's another set of obstacles once you're making money:

- We pay ~$3000/mo for a one bedroom apartment (in a fairly convenient area, but with the amenities OP was missing). We could mathematically afford more but we were both raised middle class and have recoiled at anything above that $3k line. We're paying her parents' mortgage + my parents' mortgage nearly twice over.

- We've been talking seriously about kids but even at 5-10x median American family income we're not sure we can afford to have kids in Manhattan. It's absurd. At $400k+ we cannot afford to both have a kid, maintain our not extravagent lifestyle, stay in our neighborhood and save well for retirement.

- There's a sense that we need to make hay while the sun shines. We're not living in NY forever, so we try to save as much money as we can while we're earning money we won't earn outside NY.
Looks cool but not too much of cross-platform - iOS and Android only. It seems the only really cross-platform GUI technologies still are browser-powered and Qt.
Well .. they certainly do a shitty job at personalizing my results. These days I can never find what I want on Google. I've resorted to using other search tools (github search, reddit search, stack overflow search, ddg, etc)
For bonus points you've probably broken accessibility on many platforms as the way that a11y works is intrinsic to the native widgets used by a platform.
You claim to be educated but I don't see one shred of evidence in your posts. Everything you claim to be against you have become.
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> why Firefox continues to slide

They broke extension support. Half of the extensions disappeared (didn't migrate to Quantum). The other half works only partially. One year after Quantum i still have a blank new tab because a custom html file in new tab would require an extension AND a web server.

Sure, it is harder now for non-technical users to shoot themselves in the foot. On the other hand, Mozilla took away control from users. After Quantum I lost all hope.
I don't think this is an EU vs US issue or an arbitration issue. Even if every dollar you spend while traveling is reimbursed, you don't really get compensated for the non-monetary annoyances of traveling.

You might have to fly at weird hours and be tired or jetlagged, and you miss a few nights away from your family. Maybe you're traveling during the work day so you are being paid for that time, but you might have had to wake up earlier than usual, or sit in traffic on the way to the airport, or all kinds of other things that aren't compensated by the company. Even if nothing does go wrong, traveling is still somewhat stressful for a lot of people just because you're aware of the risk that something might go wrong.

Not to mention the fact that you're forced to lend the company money for a month or two at 0% interest.

If you have no problem with this imbalance between the company and employee, that's great for you. But IMO it's very easy to see why employees are incentivized to stretch their reimbursements as far as possible to help make some of it back. It's hard for me to see this as morally repugnant.
I feel like this has happened everywhere. YouTube included.
That's really interesting, seems like they licensed the Motif API and ported the whole thing over to DOS. Because the normal Motif is very much tied to UNIX and X.
That's a terrible approach because it's inherently noncompositional and thus breaks parametricity. You can't tell whether T? is the same type as T without knowing what T is, so if you use T? and handle null in your generic functions then they might suddenly misbehave when passed a null.

(Previously said T?? rather than T?, thanks to corrections in replies)
You can subscribe to receive the emails. I do and often there's pretty interesting stuff in there.
>...think for yourself but also think for others around you.

I'm in Atlanta traffic every day. This is how I drive.
Did you look at Factset's datafeed? I've found its reference data and symbology to be pretty reliable. Cusips will cost a lot with redistribution charges though. You're better off avoiding them if possible.
Wish the list was better organized, by genre perhaps.
Precisely, the dependency we're talking about here is "just" leveraging Kubernetes as a generic extensible control plane which makes it quite convenient to plug into for management of resources.
That's not a complaint about static linking though, that's a complaint about library embedding. Lots of Professional Enterprise Software as well as poorly designed games use a buttload of dynamic linking, but a few patches here and there and some API/ABI ignorance later, the libraries are impossible to replace.
Yep - zero trust is exactly right... I bought a Samsung smart watch for Black Friday for $280-ish. Figured "hey - this will probably have better calendar/application support than my Garmin watch!"

Nope. Literally can't get it to vibrate/alert when a notification comes through unless it's through Samsung's SPECIFIC applications. So my HipChat messages, Gmail inbox, etc have ZERO notifications even though it WILL show as a new notification on the watch face. Before anyone gives me crap saying "you screwed up the settings" - trust me, I didn't, and I've tried everything.

I learned my lesson - Samsung is a faceless company with zero attention to user experience, and customer support. It is of no surprise that they outright lie about their features - which is EXACTLY what using a DSLR stock photo for this marketing is. An outright lie.

I will stick with my Garmin devices from here on-out and am looking to switch ecosystems for my phone as I'm on an S8+ that disgusts me as a user (Bixby, bloatware blah blah).

ZERO trust for Samsung.
Credit Cards, like American Express, allow you to bundle current expenses to the end of the next month. If you manage correctly, you can get reimbursed for your expenses about 10-20 days before Amex bill you for that period.

So, if you end-up lending $3000 of your own money to your employer, you are doing it wrong.
Without diminishing your personal experience, I should point out that kids can be pretty harsh and that almost all of us are picked on in one way or another, for a variety of reasons.

You know in 'Revenge of the Nerds' where at the end, the Nerds make a call to everyone who felt slighted and diminished to come out and stand against the 'Alpha Betas' (basically the cool/athletic alpha-bros?) - and everyone came out!

95% of people have either something that stands out that could enable them to be picked on, or, give them some kind of anxiety one way or another.

So, the adult world is very different.

I suggest there is a very low likelihood that you'll encounter acute problems (though maybe kids at school), issues would be more systematic than acute, i.e. the more local people have tighter social circles - much like Europe is very 'open, tolerant, progressive' both intellectually and in terms of policy, and yet at the same time 'very, very closed' socially. Even a white person, born and raised in Paris, utterly fluent and indistinguishable from anyone else ... but with a Polish last name ... might have some difficulty integrating outside of Paris. It's not like the French 'hate Poles'. It's just a kind of ethnocentrism that is fairly common in most places.

Other than maybe your kids having to deal issues perhaps a little more often than the kids next to them in class ... I wouldn't ever be apprehensive about living most places in the US at all.
They literally just previewed Hummingbird.
Not while being compliant with Apple licenses? And you're beholden to Apple for a developer ID and permission to distribute applications, which they can revoke on a whim?
How MSFT would make revenue from an open source operating system: the same as Cononical and Red Hat do from an open source operating system.
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The discipline of calisthenics does not consider plain push-ups, bodyweight squats and crunches as anything more than beginner-level exercises.
Yep. OpenFIGI plus using LEI codes seems like the best practice to move forward.
Liberal in the South. Few things.
1. It's beautiful here, you mean paradise?
2. You realize the South is THE gayest part of America, right? One out of three LGBTQ people live here. Congratulations on erasing their existence. Reminder: Matthew Shepherd, the victim of the most famous homophobic hate crime in the country, was in Wyoming.
3. When I think of infamously racist, corrupt police departments, the first ones who come to my mind are Baltimore and Maricopa county, AZ. We by no means have a monopoly on racism down here, not even close. Don't forget, Oregon was literally founded as a whites only state!
4. Regardless of whether you consider the prompt for the #metoo movement to be Weinstein or Bill Cosby, worth mentioning: neither of them are in the South.
5. You wanna know why so many Southern conservatives are all about owning the "liberal elites"? Because bicoastal liberals are often so condescending and disparaging towards Southerners in general that they even leave us liberals in the South and in Appalachia feeling completely alienated, insulted, and resentful a lot of the time.
6. "Educated people" bruh, Vanderbilt is not considered an ivy league solely for reasons of geography, and we have a national lab here in Tennessee, the hell are you talking about? If the South is less educated than other parts of the country, that's a product of us being the poorest part of the country. Do you have any idea how classist that makes you sound?

Stop acting like the South has a monopoly on bigotry because you're too uncomfortable with acknowledging that it happens just as much in your own liberal back yards.
Or maybe people in rural areas are more likely to be financially secure and own their property. There are many more impoverished people in cities who would skew a 'happiness' survey for a city. It would be interesting to compare people with similar takehome pay rural to urban.
> Technically inferior solutions

It wasn't just EA - Blizzard, uPlay, GOG, etc. All with different strengths and weaknesses.

> compete with Origin

Origin is garbage and a reason I won't own games that are connected to it (I really wanted to play ME3 and the newer FarCry's) - as is u(dont)Play (couple games ruined by uPlay that were purchased via Steam... boo)

bNet is decent in that it's contained to only Blizzard so it's very contained.

Valve still has the best platform, hands down.

Now, their gaming division on the other hand... Half Life Episodic content? HL3?
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"Explicit" defaults are still quite implicit. Usually what I want is an error if I fail to provide a required value, not any kind of silent default, null or otherwise.
No, the topic is very specific and AFAIK the course author decided that the course will never be part of sales.
One would think, if they're doing a custom fitting, they could also figure out what color "nude" is for that specific person.
Flutter looks amazing!

I was looking for some new dev challenges and wanted to mess with some mobile app development that is outside of the React Native / Ionic / js world.

Gave Flutter a serious look, loved it, but ultimately decided to just skip and mess with Swift and Apple's tools - so no Android stuff for me for now. I just don't trust it to be around long enough to be an investment for me.

I know I'm just 1 developer working on a crappy hobby app for fun, but Google's quick lifecycle of products has real impact. But then on the other hand I love Firebase. Just wanted to share.
Yeah, it was not accepted. Thank you anyway :)
We have the exact same issue with python. For large projects the dynamic typing is such a hassle. It slows down development. It increases debugging time. It's just a pain for complex systems. I haven't used type hinting yet but it only fixes so much of the problem.
>the faculty tend not to respect those who aren’t members of the club.

Classic faculty.
" Do you want a Nordic model of highly regulated, decriminalized? "

Yes this would allow addicted people to participate in normal life openly and allow for therapy options. Prison is very expensive so that money could be shifted to treatment.

BTW, don't minimize the dangers of alcohol. Alcohol is often involved in traffic accidents, domestic violence, and gun deaths. It also has a lot of negative health effects. A huge number of people die from alcohol every year.
More Q&A https://www.gameinformer.com/2018/12/03/tim-sweeney-answers-...
This looks really exciting and congratulations on launching! We will definitely be taking a look at this as it looks
like a great fit to recommend to our customers.

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I think part of the problem is that services and clients are coupled together. Imagine there were an official, maintained Spotify API and no official client. Nobody would use (and more importantly, have to use) crap like today's Spotify client.
All the successful .NET languages come from Microsoft because they have some of the best language designers and create some of the best languages. There is no need for something like Kotlin on .NET because C# is already far ahead of Java and F# is a great language.