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The advantage over C++ isn't about the language itself. If your datastores all have functioning java connections, and your data modeling is already all done in java, it can be worth the pain to do performance critical code in java. I would rather do it in C++, but sometimes the most rational path forward is ugly.

Rust's future is far from certain. I would feel irresponsible using it on a project that wasn't self contained.
> where they’re talking about resource usage that ordinary users would never notice or question, or UI lag that most users wouldn’t care about

But this is such poor logic. We can notice these things, while regular users just suffer not knowing why their battery drains so quickly, unable to pinpoint the problem.
And a laptop has a keyboard and memory to explicitly record what you write. That doesn't make installing a keylogger the same thing.
I don't think many computer RPG players took Diablo or Diablo 2 seriously in that respect back then. They weren't really comparable to computer RPGs at the time. They were like console-friendly RPG-lite-type games.
Literally been replaying BG2 over the Christmas break. It's still just as good as it ever was.
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> They way English rifles through the pockets of other languages looking for vocabulary, just start using it and see if it sticks. :)
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I do this in my native language (Dutch) as well. My favorite one I came up with is "search term scavenger hunt" in Dutch it is one word as "zoekwoordspeurtocht".
> I advocate STV with larger sets, 8 or more.

The trade-off with more seats with STV is better theoretical proportionality vs. larger candidate pool that voters must evaluate; because the number of viable parties as well as the number of candidates each can sensibly run scales roughly with the number of seats per district, the attention burden varies roughky with the square of the number of seats.

> The wasted vote is smaller, any constituency that can show up and get out the vote for 1/N of the total gets one of the N seats.

With the usual formula, pedantically, the smallest integer number of votes greater than a 1/(1+N) share of the electorate, rather than a 1/N share.

> 5 seats or fewer biases towards the major parties.

I think you overestimate the degree to which support for the major parties in the US is fundamental rather than a artifact of tactical voting based on the realities of FPTP; the US is, by affiliation rather than typical vote, 39% independent, 31% Democrat, 28% Republican by the most recent Gallup poll numbers, and at least the Democrats consist of two apply conflicting, roughly balanced factions in loose tactical alliance. (The Republicans have factional divisions, too.)
$460M valuation and taking on money from a family office. Not too shabby. I still think CIG bit off far more than they could chew, and comprised the final product as a result. But I do hope they succeed.
If the goal was truly to discourage the action, the obvious thing to do would have been to require the company to de-orbit, or otherwise forfeit the use of, the satellites. If the company had sufficient funding the message received would have been 'well, we better not do that again'. If it didn't have sufficient funding, that would have been the message to all the companies that came after. The fine barely represents a speeding ticket and signals to anyone else that there will be effectively no action if they do the same thing in the future.
This inconsistency means you have to assume unaligned access is forbidden in portable code. Fun times.
2018 Was the Year of the Scooter
Beyond practice, low doses of beta-blocker drugs (e.g. propranolol ~10mg), have been known to be helpful with performance anxiety and are commonly used by actors and musicians. I know at least one person who says it is very helpful for them when interviewing. https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/2012/04/can-you-treat-st...
If India wants and if they can do it (maybe trade agreements prohibit them...not sure,) there's no way around. You want to do business in India? Yes? OK, then should have the key and must give it to India's police. Otherwise a ban on your business in India, $billion fines and arrests warrants for entire line of execs.

Apple has great hopes for India https://www.msn.com/en-us/finance/companies/its-been-a-rout-...
It was going to be, but they didn't have enough minorities and woman giving talks, so they cancelled it. Looks like they deleted the announcment, but here is an old reddit post where people are talking about it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/6f8u2s/githubs_...
They didn't crash it on purpose to make Trump look bad. They did the responsible thing, which was to raise rates slowly once the recovery was somewhat robust. That dampened the recovery to some degree, which (presuming the timing is right) is a good thing - an undampened recovery often turns into a bubble.

What the Fed did, though, in dampening the recovery a bit, is not make Trump look as good as Trump wanted. Trump wanted the economy roaring to help in the midterms, and he didn't get it. Trump may feel like that's the Fed punishing him, but it's not.
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Yes, it is expensive. I don't know what to tell you other than you are wrong. If you look at your own statements, you will see you stated unequivocally that CBD isn't effective.

Now you are backpedaling saying its expensive. Yes, it is expensive. And I promise you it's not hard to see that it absolutely works for some people. If you understood how well cannibinoids fit into our brains, this may not surprise you.

Having looked into pricing and done quite a bit of research, the cheapest I have seen for pills is 50c for 25mg. But this is still $600/month for a 1000mg dose.

I think most people are taking less than this. But still 300-600mg is expensive. But, its not much more expensive that other "mediciine" that needs to be taken every day.
Go compiler is built in Go, big difference ( all of Go is built in Go). Cross-compiling in Go is the easiest of any languages as far as I know.

Ex: GOOS=windows go build .

GOOS=linux GOARCH=arm go build .

And you can run that from any os / arch, I can build a single Windows binary from my Raspberry Pi with the above example.

https://golang.org/doc/install/source#environment
I have heard a lot of complaints about Electron on various aspects, but one thing it has done well is to open the niche of cross platform Desktop apps to an average regular developer like me.

It can be also used to quickly test an idea before dedicating platform specific resources.

I hope the team adds more features keeps Electron alive.
- If electron worked like the JVM and each app shared a runtime

You mean like eerr, chrome - and the web :P
No there isn't. For example on Arch Linux, you can do pacman -S electron and share the same runtime for all your electron apps. Though, I don't use any third party ones.
To add one more to your list, “sugar”.
yeah, but it was postponed because the speakers were all men. Some reddit commentary: https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/6f8u2s/githubs_...

the official site just has a logo:
http://electronconf.com/
So, if I want to manipulate the market I need to work out (or poison) the hot path and have a system that's tailored to being faster on profitable - if colder - paths?
I would suggest keeping your contributions limited to 1-on-1 conversations with the CEO, preferably soon after a meeting.

Taking a role in meetings could potentially create a lot of awkward power dynamics between you and the other executives, in my opinion.
I think that's what they're trying to get at with "preference", but I agree that word's connotations are a bit too weak.
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OUC built the coal fired plant to replace an oil fired plant on Lake Ivanhoe near downtown. At the time it was built, nuclear wasn't considered economically viable. Florida's existing nuclear plants had construction cost overruns and much higher operating costs than expected. Those unfortunate enough to get their power from the utilities with nuclear plants were paying substantially higher rates to offset those costs.
You could easily do that with Linux. You'd just need to boot via PXE, and use an NFS root. You might even be able to just use an initramfs, and not even have a mounted root.
I don't think you understood Schrodinger's cat. This is not relevant.
>I've learnt that programming languages, just like food and fashion, are a matter of taste to a high degree. You can point at awful smelling, too sugary meal and call it crap. Someone else spends years perfecting it.

Programming languages ... food ... fashion ... taste ...

Time to pull out that old chestnut:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_gustibus_non_est_disputandu...

I agree.
I usually just say gluten allergy because most restaurant staff don't know what celiac is. It's not accurate but it gets the point across.
No, CBD is most commonly used in oils, tinctures, and salves.
Users had to say “Alexa let’s chat” to interact with the chatbots.
...or it could be they want to literally print money and have people use it in everyday commerce so they become a de facto Central Bank.

If it were merely an account one used to pay for things then they just get to take a small percentage in transaction fees but with a blockchain they can create a bunch of FaceCoins, sell them on the open market and if things go south with their cryptocurrency laugh all the way to the bank counting their billions.
In all the many play-throughs I did on that game I don't think I ever hit the time limit. I always thought it was generous enough to enjoy the game fully.

If you really want to explore [sort of] unhindered Fallout 2 takes care of that, even letting you continue to play after you finish the game.
For me the reason would be first-class status in the taskbar/dock. I like having some apps only a click away and in its own window, not lost among many open tabs.

For some time you could do that with any web page in Chrome, with "the create a shortcut" option. But now Chrome opens them in a new tab, not in a dedicated window.
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All computers can now be monitored by govt. agencies [India]
Trying any solution at all, even when it is very likely it will not work, may not be a sustainable approach at all. I agree something should be done to clean up, but that does not mean we should try any crazy idea (I do not have the expertise to say how crazy this idea is, but from the little I know, it seems like it is reasonable to have serious doubts).

Some users have commented that 20m is not so much money, and it is true, but we should also consider that, if this project fails, it will be infinitely more difficult to fund the working project that is still to come.
There are several low-karma accounts praising the book. Seems like a voting brigade.

I agree with the assessment: Poor-quality code. Best to learn from a different source.
I tried to use QT with python, "I'm a big boy I can make native UI!" I said to myself... let's say I rather shoot myself than try QT ever again.
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As opposed to C/C++ compilers being built in C/C++?

EDIT: Try to build NetBSD for some esoteric platform from the comfort of your desktop machine. Remember to pick up your jaw from the floow when you're done. ;-) My point is, it does not have to be hard.
It's a wiki. The list is crowdsourced, not the sites that it lists.
no - you will have to use a VPN or ToR
Ask HN: Is Hacker News broken?
I'll keep it short... I'm a critic, who is also promoting an alternative (https://mendoapp.com), but when I post something I've written or built on hacker news, and I have access to analytics, I see that referral traffic from hacker news is typically zero, or less than whatever vote count I receive (which is typically not a lot of votes).

so, based on this, I don't believe anyone is really evaluating new submissions, and I don't believe it's possible to get exposure on hacker news without a voting ring.

if that's the case, can we really trust that hacker news is surfacing the best content?
Not necessarily. You can buy concentrates to vape that are very CBD rich and contain almost no THC (<0.1%).
I think the [Franklin Street Statement](https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Franklin_Street_Statement_on_...) is a good start.
I'm not sure. I remember hitting Command+Q a few times by mistake and losing whatever tabs I had open. Maybe I didn't know about that feature at that time.
A build tool is not in the same category as a revenue generating product.
I don't understand all the talk about marketing there.
If there is something those products doesn't need more of, then it's marketing. They've made millions selling digital pictures. It was pretty much brilliant.

However the product itself lacks...everything.
It's great that you've been able to carve out a successful niche, but it's also an extremely tenuous one: at any time, minor policy changes by Facebook (even without malice) could destroy your livelihood. What's your plan for when that happens?
“…even in the privacy of your own home, with your own property…”

Neither privacy nor property are appropriate in that context.
Medical device manufacturers would prefer to make a device with less waste, they'd make more money (see empires built on low price commodities).

This seems like an oversimplification. The people capturing those gains are very often not the manufacturers. Often it's the retailers, not the manufacturers, who build those empires.

Unless it's different specifically in the medical device industry; if so, do you have examples?
Well, we try to use standard libraries for all parsers, not develop our own. We use Roslyn for C#, libclang for C... and the great Eclipse CDT for C++
This is a very difficult question to answer comprehensively because our "website" does a lot more than just present information to people! Most of the content you can see on www.nhs.uk is Python/Django/Wagtail plus a whole heap of infrastructure. But there are aspects of our service written in C# or JS for example.
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I wrote one GUI app in PyQt, and (ab)used the ability to put keyboard accelerators everywhere. Combined with a menu system, the whole thing was as-fast-you-can-think, like vim, but well a GUI.

So yes +1 cross platform GUI toolkit
Anyone can attach a GPS tracker to your car in Massachusetts
That depends on your definition of "best"
which is entirely subjective
Everyone thinks that laws they don't like are bad in the general case and laws they do are excellent examples of good governing.

Personally, I'm reasonably happy laws against assault create disadvantages to some people.
Because people don't want to write Python or C++ and I don't blame them. Why is it that people don't recognize that people don't want to marry an ecosystem for a UI?

If we could just get a modern UI lib w/ a C FFI you'd see a node wrapper and the complaints would reduce (yes I am aware of lots of efforts and could enumerate them all, but many are lacking).
Have you seen Carlo [1] yet? It's the closest thing available to what you're describing. Main drawback imo is that it's Chrome-only.

[1] https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/carlo
They say "anonymous" but right after signing up with my work email they followed me on Twitter. The two are only connected by my name. Could be coincidence, but probably not.

Also, the community there is pretty toxic. I understand it's mostly the design of the app to be a place where people can say what they want, but I think it attracts a certain type that I'm not terribly interested in getting close with.
And this is how we get engineers that think "I don't need to understand economics or history or politics or society or my place in it, I'll just let the people running the company I work for worry about all that so I can focus on important things like optimizing this endpoint".

I would prefer a hiring process that filters out that attitude.

> humanities education makes you a better-rounded person somehow

That's literally what university is for. It sounds like what you wanted was a trade school, and there's nothing wrong with wanting that, but there is still a reason why a university education is valued by some people.
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I think it's because VSCode uses typescript and it had better plugin architecture.

VSCode also uses lazy loading so doesn't initate everything at once you click the launcher icon but does it progressively.
If you are memory mapping stuff like that you most likely already have your own linker script or something from the vendor of arch1 and you can, with not much pain, adapt the linker script for arch2 to use the same base addresses and magic numbers. I mean I haven't personally done it but worked on projects were we were doing that and the headers for both archs were almost the same.

If you don't have hardcoded addresses and are fully abstracted by a modern HAL and VM like on Linux then it's mostly a problem of the Linux distro or the OS vendor.
Wanted to share how we started and evolved the landing page to eventually get a lot more sign-ups:

1) Offer something in return for sign-ups

2) Quantify the worth of this 'something'

3) Gamify sign-ups with rankings
> We really overvalue packaged apps

I think splitting out services from the browser makes it easier to focus on notifications and use window management to change contexts. It is confusing and frustrating that Apple has not allowed saving websites to apps yet.
> there are real, tangible benefits to shipping self-contained applications

Here's one that doesn't suck:

https://sqlitestudio.pl/

Maybe that was very complicated to make, all I know is that it's blazing fast and doesn't hog memory. Or hey, take OggDrop and LameDrop, I'm sure there's programs that do the same, are 100 times as big and have 3 options. I don't know if there are 10x programmers, but I know there are 100000x programs, with not one electron app among them.
> But this is such poor logic.

No, it’s not. It’s at most a trade-off. Some developers will doubtless make this their hill to die on, but I suspect it really has nothing to do with performance or battery life, and it’s likely motivated by resistance to web technologies being used on desktop vs what they’re used to.

Also I’d like to see some actual battery life benchmarks for electron, because I don’t imagine that it’s a huge deal, but benchmarks would prove the matter. It also ignores actual desktop users or users who just use mains power all the time.
> - The operating system cannot share memory between different Electron processes [..]

That should not be a significant issue in 2018 - all popular operating systems have same page merging support now and at least latest Win10/macOS also have transparent compression of memory pages.
For games, my first choice would be "Human Resource Machine" either from GOG (https://www.gog.com/game/human_resource_machine) which has no DRM or from Steam. It conveys the basics of machine language programming in an offbeat yet fun way.

If he's a bit more advanced, take a look at Screeps (https://screeps.com/). It's an online game that lets you write code in JavaScript to control a robot that battles other player robots. If the subscription fee or being online is an issue, there are similar games like RoboCode.

Steam has a category of programming games that you can browse as well: https://store.steampowered.com/tags/en/Programming/

Some people will recommend Zachtronics games (TIS-100, Shenzhen I/O, etc.) but I do not think they're particularly good for beginner programmers. The games are puzzles dressed up as coding and, while they are fun, have little to do with how real coding is done.
They really, really should have seen that coming.
So wait, should I be outraged or not? I'm so confused.
There have been numerous discussions about trash, plastic, and other such topics recently. Overall, US People have high numbers for recycling, especially because single-stream sorters are now widespread.

However, recycling contamination rates have grown dramatically over the past few decades.

> For example, when foods or liquids are placed in a recycling container they will ultimately saturate tons and tons of otherwise good paper and cardboard that they come into contact with. When paper and cardboard loses its quality, it also loses its ability to be recycled. It becomes trash.

The economics for recycling are pretty simple: it MAKES YOUR CITY MONEY when you recycle. They sort the valuable stuff (ie: plastics and clean paper) from the non-valuable stuff (ie: trash).

Now, some cities have compost bins for recycling (which effectively turns old food into good soil. IE: Makes money). But not all cities have compost bins. As such, you have to be careful and do research. That Pizza Box you're about to put into the recycling bin? Some areas can recycle it into compost, while others will just throw it into a landfill.

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It seems like Plastic Bags are getting less and less valuable. They can be recycled, but they're so light that you don't really make money from them. And there's a chance that they clog up conveyor belts. My local area still recycles plastic bags, but NOT from the single-stream pickup. I have to now drop off my plastic bags at the grocery store to recycle them.
> I don't believe anyone is really evaluating new submissions

No doubt it's dominated by a few brave/power-hungry souls.

> I don't believe it's possible to get exposure on hacker news without a voting ring.

At least in my experience, I see ~15-20% of my submissions rocket to the top of HN. It's usually a function of just how much of a draw there is from the title.

> can we really trust that hacker news is surfacing the best content?

shrug, aside from some possible missed yet-greater-HN opportunity, it seems like it works well enough.
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Of course it’s an unrealistic proposal. I’m just saying if we couldn’t enforce something like that, then asking billionaires to solve world crises is like asking a professional basketball team to win the gold in synchronized swimming.
Yale University isn't responsible for these societies and has no control over them. They occupy private property and by their very nature lack any formal institutional affiliation with the school. They're simply private clubs where current and former students can hang out and plot the next global financial collapse, have orgies, or whatever exactly it is they do. In any case, not Yale's problem - except an image problem, maybe.

As an alumnus, I find the hand-wringing over these societies weird, because they're completely irrelevant to most students and have been for a long time. (No, I wasn't invited to join one. I don't even think I knew anybody in one of the name-brand societies, at least not well.) The fact that Bush and Kerry were both Bonesmen was amusing, but hardly surprising - the societies are exactly where you'd expect ambitious, privileged social climbers to end up by senior year. They're not even very secret, since the membership lists inevitably leaked. The only time the rest of campus noticed is when they walk past one of the "tombs" - windowless clubhouses - or when a really terrible movie about S&B ("The Skulls") came out while I was an undergrad.

Are they creepy and elitist? Of course. Are they a sinister conspiracy? No more than Goldman Sachs or McKinsey.
Clearly not, and that's a serious flaw.
Arcanum gave me permanent gnome trust issues.
BG2 original (aka "Baldur's gate 2 complete") is included as part of BG2 enhanced edition on GOG, check the description :)

I too prefer the original versions, particularly because there's a mod called Baldur's gate trilogy that combines both games and their expansions into one huge game with a ton of fixes.
it's subjective, but i think most would agree that "best" doesn't mean "requires a voting ring to get actual consideration" or "requires a super-clickbaity title" (like the title of this post)