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I don't really see how coordination with the city is better than just making the things available and seeing what happens.

It would, for example, avoid that you have 1'000 defunct OBikes in a relatively small city (~90km2) basically cluttering up everything, but being of so bad quality that they're borderline useless. Even if you're stupid enough to cough up the required deposit and download their dodgy app.

Same bikes which need to be removed not even a year later on the taxpayers dime.

It would help to not make entire town districts unafordable and unhabitable in some cities by the likes of AirBnB waltzing in for fun and profit.

I could come up with more examples, Uber being the most obvious.

I see a city as a rather complex organism, with a lot of competing factors and variables, which require careful balancing and calibration. There's a reason that cities prepare master plans about development for the next two decades.

If the burghers believe that change is required it's up to them to initiate such change. It should not be up to some venture capital fueled SV companies, which use public property for private gain, to make such decisions.
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Forrest Mims' mini-notebooks were horrible. They consisted of circuits cribbed from app notes -- but with the explanatory text removed. There's no way to understand how circuits work by reading the mini-notebooks. They were specifically designed to keep readers ignorant so they would have to buy more of the lousy books. I plodded through the 555 timer book when I was a kid and didn't learn a single thing. If only I had known about databooks at the time, I could have called Signetics and they would have sent me a free copy of a book with all the same circuits and detailed theory of operations. I might have become an electrical engineer instead of a programmer.

I believe Mims was also the author of the awful manual for Rat Shack's 100-in-one kit, which told the lie that a bipolar junction transistor is two diodes back-to-back. This is only true in the literal sense that a transistor has two P-N junctions; it's like if you roll down your car window and ask a passer-by for directions, and he helpfully tells you that you're in your car. It omits the key feature of the transistor, namely transconductance. And after reading it, I couldn't understand transistors for decades. Eventually I got hold of a college-level textbook which explained that when the base-emitter junction is forward-biased, the collector-emitter path acts like a resistor. Simple and clear, unlike Mims' writing which is designed to obfuscate and confound.
The husband of noted game developer Brenda Romero is doing fine. By all accounts, he is selling his old treasures mostly for nostalgia reasons. He has fond memories of those times developing Doom and he wants to share those pieces of gaming history. Plus at a certain age you just realize that you have stuff cluttering up your attic which is doing you no good but still has value to others.

His company Romero Games Ltd. has had at least one big hit in recent years, Gunman Taco Truck, which by all accounts made a nice little profit. I believe he also occasionally lectures in Ireland on game design.

From everything I gather, John is happy, healthy and wealthy enough to be able to devote the odd few hours to a passion project which is dear to his heart. He loves Doom something fierce and given both the impact it had on society and the period of his life developing it took place it, it is hard imagine how he wouldn’t have it occupy a special place.
> People have already subsisted on fully synthetic diets (aka elemental diets) in the past ... they do fine.

We managed to establish that what you wrote there is wrong. That was my primary goal because it contradicted my other main comment, but I hope you can take that information in, and perhaps think about what lead you to that mistaken confidence. The elemental diet is not fully synthetic - it is mostly grown...

> they have been purified to such a degree that it doesn't matter; they're chemically identical to synthetic ones.

That object > "they" it doesnt exist yet. It's aspiration, an ideal, supposedly attainable with help from x-ray diffraction and whatever else you might think of, but its not real yet.

As an abstract concept you can talk about fully synthetic food that is chemically identical to food which can only currently be produced with essential and substantial use of non-designed, non-fully comprehended biological entities (lifeforms). What definitely "no one knows for sure" is that humans are capable of arranging that. It might be possible in a few decades time, with help from AI to take care of all of the biological intricacies which are too complicated for humans to grasp.

> Are there specific plausible possibilities

Its about recognizing the likelihood of important surprises - which can not be specified but which the situation is more than complicated enough to continue throwing up, as can be noted many times in the history of modern science. And the importance of not exaggerating the extents of current technological capabilities and understanding. Yes modern capabilities are dazzling and exciting, but still far from sufficient to get presumptuous about natures complexity.
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In addition to development, any creative field is this way including movies, writing, gaming, design etc. It is also true of vocational skills and probably even legal/accounting/executive and other corporate fields.
Thanks, I'll definitely visit that exhibition next time I visit Barcelona :)
Our agency most mostly does SaaS apps.

We use Rails and React.

We tried Go for backend but Go is missing ActiveRecorss, payment gateway libraries, etc...

Where is migration management like sqlachemy or activ records?

For building SaaS product i think you should choose Rails.

It takes only few minutes to creare subscription billling, team accounts, invoice etc.. functionality.

I would like to know what you guys use.
if the offer is still available, I'll take it. I'll pay shipping (I'm in europe, assume you are in the US).
While I suspected the disappearance of big software boxes had something to do with available shelf space, it didn't know it was competition from DVDs that were the main factor.
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Out of curiosity, before Chrome came along, why didn't Firefox eat IE's lunch? The Microsoft anti-trust case was 1999-2001 but Chrome came out in 2008.
We crossed that threshold a very, very long time ago.
It's a lot of fun. Enjoy. :-)
The original creator is a bit much. John Romero was mostly a level designer. Carmack did the heavy lifting.
I agree on writing environment (client/server) agnostic code, but not in this way.
Js code should definitively run on the client and here is why:

- Instant feedback, no matter how bad is your connection: here if I click on something and there is no internet, I won't see a loading icon. You probably have to hack it.
- I'm not sure how it will scale and if it scales will be way more expensive than just using rest api (sockets are more expensive)

probably more problems.

I'm the creator of this game http://bitplanets.com which has a lot of shared code that runs both on the client and the server side. Some validation is done on the client (so you don't even hit the server if it fails + get instant feedback that your action is successfull or failed) and the same validation is done on the server side as well (so you can't hack it).

Examples:

- When you send a ship it will show a temporary ship immediately even if the server didn't receive yet the ship. If the client validates most likely it will be a valid ship (unless you hack it, but server side will deny your ship). Then when the server comes back saying that the ship is valid then the ship is not temporary anymore.

If you had a java backend everything would be so much more complicated. This is what I mean by having agnostic code, this validation function doesn't really care if is run on your client or on your server.
Having re-watched 2010 a couple days back, I'm again impressed by someone even attempting to make a sequel to 2001. It required a serious amount of courage (and a lot of arrogance).

2010 is not a bad movie, the same way its original material is not a bad book (unlike 2061 and 3001), but it's also no 2001 and doesn't come even close. The best scenes are exactly the Bowman appearance aboard the Discovery, which kind of follow from the hotel room scene from 2001 with long silences and a Bowman that's no longer human, but still remembers what human is.

Gone, unfortunately, are the distinctive flat square screens, the careful walks in zero gravity on top of velcro strips. Hyams and the actors certainly forgot the Discovery lacked artificial gravity in everything but the carousel (and propulsion would be a lot easier if we knew how to do artificial gravity everywhere). Quite frankly, the lack of attention to detail is a big turn off for me.

I'll certainly schedule a trip do London to visit it.
Their biggest problem was that the proceeds were going overseas.

Though this is really infuriating. Fucking with people just because they can.
Reminded me of this link I saw here earlier:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17433752

It shows a link to an article called:
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I'm not debating what's clear or not to me. My point is that it's subjective and if someone says a thing is unclear, you can not necessarily make it clear to them or force them to admit they are lying about their perception. Arguing with confusion is like debating whether someone is in pain when they act like they are. It could be they are lying. It could be they are not. It could be they are particularly stupid.

I want to emphasize - you can be right or wrong about the GDPR, but that's not the same thing as being right or wrong about whether people are confused by it.

I think it should be obvious that debating feelings or perceptions or emotions of other people tends to lead to unproductive interpersonal interactions, but perhaps others have not noticed this phenomenon. I can't imagine winning a debate with someone over whether they are trolling or not. Even if it's really obvious, nobody can see inner motivations for sure.
I wonder if there is a term to describe the sheer ignorance of the (tech-aware) masses. Sadly, Firefox is fighting a hard battle that it's possibly, and slowly losing.
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He took prescription speed daily. And supposedly was sneaky about taking other drugs. So yes, he mostly didn't openly participate in the drug scene. But it's less clear what he did privately.

http://www.warholstars.org/warhol/warhol1/warhol1c/warhol1cl...
There was basically no marketing of browsers in 2000... I found opera and Firefox on a cd from pc world. But never saw anything on the internet about it... Google pushes chrome easily by plastering it in front of you every time you go to Google or gmail...
My main reasons for using Firefox are side tabs and being able to prevent tab reuse when searching or using the address bar.

Chrome simply isn't configurable enough to make it nice to use for me.
AMD's strategy of using multiple Zen 2 dies (7nm) tied together by a 14nm I/O die (since I/O doesn't scale down quite as well) is a really interesting strategy to improve yields using smaller dies (rather than making huge, low yield chips like the competition) & reduce mask/production cost. One 7nm Zen 2 mask can be used to produce CPU cores for a multitude of SKUs, optimizing for different markets using (cheaply customized) I/O interconnects made on 14nm.

This allows for AMD to keep much less silicon on hand for stocking the myriad of SKUs, as the only bottleneck for ramping up production of a SKU is producing those I/O interconnects on 14nm, which is a well understood process.
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> The real issue with GDPR is that it's extremely under specified and we're left to educate guesses to find out what and what's not illegal until the matter is settled in courts.

Best practice now may not be best practice in future. Sure, there could be guidance produced. In fact there is, it's just usually by the enforcing bodies.

> what happens when a user exits the contract
> to avoid user cancelling, asking for deletion then registering for another free trial

You can be sued for six years in the UK. Other jurisdictions I'm not so sure about. If you're providing a service and have agreed a jurisdiction and can be sued in that jurisdiction, there's your lawful basis.

The right to be forgotten only applies where the basis is purely consent. If you withdraw consent, and consent is the only basis, your data should be deleted. But if you're providing a service, then another basis applies: contract and legitimate business interest.

I think you'll find you have a legitimate business interest and a lawful purpose there for maintaining the email addresses -- as long as you don't later change the purpose and include them on a mailing list.

> So what's the best practice there? We're all taking guesses. And that's not the hallmark of a good law.

It's largely down to the enforcing body. The ICO (UK enforcing body) generally only fine after a major incident or you've failed to stop doing something really bad. Or you've set up a business that is egregiously scummy. You can read the list of fines online. [0]

It helps to see it more like fire legislation -- there are many ways to prevent and contain fire. You can seriously reduce the risk of fire and the consequences if one happens.

Breaches are similar. If you have a data breach, something's gone wrong. If you're not taking serious mitigation to prevent that from happening, then maybe you shouldn't be taking user data in the first place.

[0] https://ico.org.uk/action-weve-taken/enforcement/
Mozilla directors are wholly responsible for turning Firefox into what it became now. They have no moral right whatsoever to plead for mercy now.
>I think about Chrome’s usurping of Internet Explorer (IE), and I wonder (antitrust and all aside) would Chrome have usurped IE if it wasn’t for IE stagnating? I remember when I was younger and jumped ship to Chrome - personally, it wasn’t about using Chrome because it wasn’t IE, it was about Chrome beating IE in a foot race and offering me a clean user experience.

Chrome ate Firefox's lunch, not IE's. Firefox was the first browser to take a chunk out of IE, in large part because of the stagnation of IE6. People were switching away from IE at a fairly consistent rate. When Chrome came along, the rate remained the same, but people started switching to Chrome instead of Firefox.

This graph shows it clearly (starts a little late to catch Firefox's initial bump but you can see the trend): http://i.imgur.com/7bP2pmj.png
I suspect that "knots" was supposed to be "noughts", a.k.a zeros. That is, the last few times the 100-point batsman was at bat, he got struck out without scoring any points. Is he washed up?

I don't think it's a very useful analogy. :)
I wouldn't rush into it, but with webassembly I can't help but think that a browser rendered mobile OS is a concept worth reviving at some point. And google is unlikely to pursue that since they have Android.
> I tend to put GDPR and this Copyright bill in different camps [...] GDPR is very far from perfect, but I think it's still directionally good

Depends on the context. I tend to see how one begets the other. GDPR is good by intent, but is bad by implementation. The copyright bill is bad by both intent and presumably implementation. And since it turns out that only implementation matters, many would agree that we'd be better off without both and recognize that solutions to the problems the GDPR attempts to (heavy-handedly yet ambiguously) fix can have more measured steps towards remedies.
okay, but why only spellchecking, why not synonyms too? and bam, you got what Google does now by default.
It rather seems to me that Bird would know where the scooter was being charged, and where it was accumulating value in a fixed location. They can correlate this information

Then people will use their grandma's backyard to "abandon" them and charge at their house.
Firefox would do well to remove Pocket integration and stop placing ads.
A big problem is that the web standard is too complicated. Browsers are pretty much a virtual os that can do almost everything. For anyone to make a browser from scratch today is not feasible. We will move towards a monoculture, because there is no alternative unless we make a drastic shift in rethinking how the web should work.
"go get" is a disaster for any project of non trivial size. It was designed with the idea of a mono repo in mind - not a vast distributed network of independently evolving code repositories.
A strange differences between OSes and Browsers, is that Browsers need/want to conform to standards.

No-one expects Windows programs to work on macOS or Linux. But with the web that's different.
Why does it matter what it is intended to do?
you should try zoom or bluejeans, it's been extremely stable and consistent for us, we do conference calls from behind china's great firewall to palo alto with little to no lag, even has HD video.
You could design from the ground up and create a retail concept that is based on customer recognition and automatic checkout, using some form of membership that includes consent; I think that would be allowed under GDPR as using it in this way is a clear choice that can be freely made.

Also there is the option of "growth hacking" and "legal marketing", aka just doing it illegally (with some faux activism story behind it) and seeing what happens. The government here is not really actively enforcing GDPR, so you can probably get away ignoring it for quite some time, flying under the radar if you are small, like most website publishers do too.
In the right circles, Mozilla Browser/Phoenix (and then Firefox) did eat IE's lunch until Chrome launched and Firefox started becoming slower and more bloaty. The only time I used IE from IE 5.5/6 onwards was to download Mozilla Browser and/or Opera after a fresh install. It was common knowledge to disable ActiveX and download Mozilla.
Yes. We had Tandy here which was the UK version of Radio Shack and was a pretty 1:1 match to the US Radio Shack stores. I'm old enough to have been a member of the Tandy battery club. Perhaps unfortunately.

The Tandy stores were pretty rubbish and overpriced. I've heard exactly the same complaints from people in the US at the time as well.
Firefox was always slow - the GUI felt slower than IE to me - and while it theoretically had better standards support, there were no websites that didn't work in IE.

(Personally I was using Konqueror in that era - even then it felt like a much better browser - and wish the open-source community had rallied behind it. But the US open-source folks never seemed to pay much attention to anything that had been implemented in Europe)
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Mozilla Corporation put foundation stones for WhatWG, and was betting to use it to bury W3C, but instead Google took WhatWG and buried Mozilla.
From the GPS signal being blocked some time before they charge the scooters.
for me it does the exact phrase match thing. as it always did. and the + did the same thing as far as I remember. (sibling comments point out that somehow the + allowed a bit of flexibility - but that's what google does by default, so I sort of understand that people want a better search engine, but I still don't know what + did that was so magical.)
I would expect Eric B. & Rakim to be on the list for Microphone Fiend and Don't Sweat the Technique. Seems like this list should include more artists rather than just a random selection of popular artists.
Makes sense, thanks a lot for your feedback :)

Too bad it got flagged :')
McLuhan's on the new media https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeDnPP6ntic (starts at 2.45)
Seems that just requires switching scooters every X-1 days. Ride up to one; stop your ride; start a new ride. Net cost $1 and you start a new cheap rental.
So we should just let the Google hegemony control the web and suck up all our data along with doing the same to our phones?
It kinda did, see 2010
https://www.w3schools.com/browsers/default.asp

Google pushed Chrome a lot. We need another antitrust for Google honestly. They are promoting Chrome everywhere they can.
We've got a Chromecast and a Chromecast audio and whenever something is playing on either of them any Android phone in the house gets the ability to pause, skip or change the volume from the lock screen.

A remote doesn't make sense for it honestly.
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Regular folks don't read Wikipedia.
Sure, but I'd argue that most developers aren't working with code day in and day out where race conditions are a concern.
You've just described force.
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>>If Android does get replaced by Fucshia you will see how much open source you will get effectively from mobile handsets OEMs.

Right now, only Apple has the knack to control OS version releases uniformly across all of its devices.
Lol. I had that 100-in-one kit and remember the transistor non-explanation. I remember the kit being kinda fun but not nearly so much as programming. With the hardware kit it was almost impossible to make anything outside of the limited recipes provided; with software it was easy to have your own ideas and make something new.
> doesn't rise above experience, this shows experience.

Experience is highly valuable but concrete examples of that which are done individually or completely self propelled, that is the way to be. Creating/shipping/projects to show does demonstrate experience and skills.

There can be people that have experience that can't ship, but if you created/projects/shipped and have less experience it truly demonstrates that you do have experience enough to be worthwhile and improve the place you are going to.

I'd argue even when I have had to interview or been on the hiring side, showing projects beats experience and education, it can also make interviews focused on your projects and what you bring rather than just whiteboard and talking about what you have done.

For instance when I went into gaming I had multiple games made for every place I was aiming for, i.e. a racing game at a racing game company, promotional games at advertising/promotional jobs, and networking/multiplayer shooters/online for more hardcore gaming on console and mobile.

Ultimately projects are the only way to get clients as a freelancer/small business pitching to clients, so that also works when going for full time employment and jobs.
Isn’t refusal to take these tests interpreted as admission?

I’m pretty sure you have to take a breathalyzer.

I wish this lawyer would have explained the next steps after saying no.
Indeed - look at the case in Law where in the UK at least the pupillage requirement (essentially an internship/apprenticeship post university IIRC) ensures it remains the preserve of the privileged - especially the upper echelons of the field such as barristers and judges.

We see the same with the iron grip that the medical council has on the number of medicine students (imagine if we fixed the numbers of software engineering students and made it difficult to register foreign qualifications).

I agree that educational standards are important - but if that isn't coupled with improving access to higher education (including post-graduate education) then it's basically just saying only the rich should be allowed in.