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I can’t think of any company that pays for that kind of training. Due to frequent job hopping company specific on boarding costs are generally kept fairly low.

More widely people truly work alone, companies need redundancy in the case of illness, vaction, or other such matters. Further, their is a benifit to be able to staff a team with a non integer number of people without splitting focus across multiple projects.
A small point (although I don't claim it militates against the central impulse of the article), is that serving analytics.js through gtag.js is obviously going to inflate the tag size unnecessarily. The latter is a unified interface for all of Google's various page snippets. Also, though not recommended, there's no reason you can't self-host GA, although practically speaking Google-hosted GA is likelier cached more often and on pretty snappy geolocated servers.
$40 isn't bad:

https://www.ifixit.com/Store/iPhone/iPhone-X-Replacement-Bat...
All I wanted from USB-C was a single charging cable for everything - phone, tablet, laptop, portable battery, headphones etc. I've got exactly that, and I'm using it plenty.
(Edit: pondering the down-vote. Is it because you don't like what I am saying, or that it's factually not true?)

The problem with the Carbon Tax is that right wing parties across the world (well at least in the Anglo-zone that I know about) have demonized it - even when they supposedly believe in market-based solutions.

So a regressive measure is unfortunately the only (well...) politically viable solution.

Tolls and other car taxes can be reintroduced slowly after the transition is complete.

Yes this is "stupid", but unless you can change the psychology of the populous, then that's about it.
This reads a lot like the HN-famous Dropbox comment.
If you don't even understand the basics of electric car ownership you should really do some reading. People who don't have at work charging or at home charging are not the market for electric cars. A few people do, but very few Tesla owners I've heard of actually have neither. If you're buying a $35,000+ car why are you living in an apartment instead of using that towards a down payment on a condo or a house?
> Supposing I hand you a 90 page book and ask you roughly how many words are in it. How are you going to answer that?

Get the digital version. We're talking about a computer font here, so the script exists in digital form.

> As it happens Fury Road is a very rare case of a movie that was originally developed as a storyboard,
> and converted to screenplay format for production purposes. Apparently you can do that if you're
> George Miller.

And it worked very well. It makes a lot of sense for a very visual movie.
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... or because it's been years since anything new has appeared in the mobile world compelling enough to justify an upgrade?
Yes, that comment was a not well timed at all.
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Most parents want that. An overwhelming majority, in fact. Not just me. Good enough?
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"They don't have to deal with unpredictable atmosphere"

Well, no, but they do have to deal with an atmosphere that has, until they get to it, only been theorized about, never observed - which is not the case for the atmosphere above New York.

There have been precisely four spacecraft that have gone anywhere near so far out as New Horizons, and they are between them the source for the majority of data we have about the atmosphere in the outer solar system. One of them discovered an anomalous acceleration effect that confused scientists for decades (and which, while it turns out not to have been externally caused, certainly left scientists wondering for a while whether their model for the solar wind was accurate). Of those that we believe have passed through the termination shock of the solar atmosphere, none have yet returned much accurate information, so we actually don't know much about the conditions there. I don't mean to say that these effects have meaningfully impacted navigation for deep space probes, but more these are genuine voyages of discovery - where they're going is predictable but until they get there we really don't necessarily know whether our predictions will be accurate.
Protip: next time don't act shocked, and you won't look like a complete fool ;-)
Based on Q1-Q3 earnings, TAC to all distribution partners in Google's reports is approximately $13B in 2018. This is approximate since Q4 results are not released yet.

Comparatively, TAC in 2017 was $9B.
Unless you count all Windows frameworks as just Windows that seems like a stretch.

Also the reason is "A small company misjudged how to-the-letter-of-the-law GPL developers were", perhaps with a sprinkle of "some people rather maim C than using anything else".
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The hilarious, weird world of Wish ads washing up on Facebook
A lot of Apple fan here are in denial that iPhone is a boring product, probably for some time now. Huawei P20 had 6 cameras and take super high-resolution lossless photos. At least that is something consumer is willing to buy.
This article was posted November 21st, 2018. The grandparent was simply noting that the article should be tagged with the year because it is no longer current.
Diesel.rs does give very scary looking errors but I found they are mostly due to the entire record structure being there as a (part of) type signature - after some time I started to get a “feeling” for what is wrong.

Also, over time, as I gained experience with the language, I found myself taking repeating code fragments and creating higher-order macros - both for Diesel.rs stuff. That reduces the repetitive code and errors. Macros in Rust are a great way to reduce a complexity where the functions can’t.

Source: during the past 1.5 years period in a couple of 2-3 month spurts I rewrote a C#/ASP.Net homegrown NMS dealing with provisioning and operation of a large-ish (about 15K people) event network consisting ~500 devices, all in all probably about 50KLoC of Rust code doing FTP/TFTP/SNMP and ssh/telnet interactions and this year the frontend.

Now (over the new year holidays) I am using the learnings from that to build a stateless-at-server ASP.Net-like framework using Iron, Diesel.rs, rust-Mustache and iron-sessionstorage on the server side and HyperHTML on the client side. I hope to open source it (the framework) at some point, when I get it to Rails-like ease of use.

Some additional impressions: I feel I am about half as productive with Rust initially compared to C# for smaller changes, but the final result is much more solid, requiring practically zero debugging. And as I build the abstractions later it becomes easier and easier.

Also it is a joy to get a consistent and easily traceable memory footprint compared to mono and about 10x the performance (in debug build) compared to the mono version. And the benchmarks show I have about 5x-7x more if I run it in release mode. So - a very happy Rust user here.
Why would anyone do that? If you just want to vandalize things and have the physical access necessary to install a USB outlet, there are much easier ways to do that. Data attacks are much more realistic because the attacker can gain something beyond just causing destruction.
Pricing info is a little thin on the ground!
For Wish, Facebook’s algorithm gave product priority to clicks and shares, not purchase intent. What happened was people mainly shared the bizarre products because of the shock value, causing a hilarious and horrible feedback that quickly promoted the weirdest products all over Facebook :p
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It's not just expected, it's the law. If you're driving with a trailer, different speed limits apply, you can't follow the road signs.
I’m the same. We must be a small niche if no competitors are bothering to cater towards us.
Articles from previous years are postfixed with (year)
I’ve found that considering positive explanations for other people’s behavior helps me enjoy life.
> Smartphone market is nearly saturated. It's time for more realistic pricing.

Just before Christmas I bought an iPhone 6S for $99 from AT&T. That’s a very realistic price for a very nice phone!

Fine print: I had to pay $145 plus tax but $45 is credited to me for monthly charges. The phone is locked to AT&T for 3 months. After Christmas the price has gone back to $199.
For me personally the jump from 4g(LTE) to 5G is much less apparent than from 3G to 4G. It's not unlike the upgrades in video technology.

2G -> 3G -> 4G -> 5G

VHS -> DVD -> Bluray -> UHD

While the jump is significant between each level, the apparent improvements are diminishing. On LTE I can watch Netflix, live tv, Facetime, use the internet as I would at home on Wifi.

Using the internet on the go (mobile) won't see that much of an apparent improvement (unless you are needing high bandwidth connectivity), but I could definitely see a case if this was used to push gigabit level wireless speeds in hard to install/dense residential locations.
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I replaced both Authy and Google Authenticator with 1Password; it is really nice to have OTPs all in one place and sync'd across mobile devices and laptops.
Oh we still went out trick-or-treating. We weren't allowed to pig out on candy afterwards, just a few pieces a day.

When we did start giving out candy it was still your average small chocolate bars, not granola or anything.
Zenni Optical eats Warby for lunch. They are over hyped and over priced.
Well the difference between a 3.0 and 4.4 isn't likely much, but a gpa of 1.5 would very much indicate failure to focus
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Found this via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18810750
India was supposed to be huge but they lost sales there, also.
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Lately I've been pondering whether client-side analytic scripts generate truncated data by design? That is, a payload goes to the client but before a response can be sent to some backend server the client terminates (one example being a tab close) before the analytic code finishes. If this is the case my understanding is that it'd result in an unknowable underestimation of http responses. I'm still exploring the space and would be interested to know if others had thought about this?
You'll be using your iPhone 6 (not S) forever.
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+1 on needing to specify “serde” as a feature for chrono. Another one was needing to enable “huge-tables” for diesel itself - some of my tables from the “legacy” system have many fields.
Proof-of-Stake is indeed a good thing, and a worthy focus of the article.

From the article we read "the long-term hope is that apps built from them will eventually make Ethereum the ultimate cloud-computing platform." Ethereum does not claim to be a computing platform in the same way that AWS is; it's for low-complexity business logic only. I think it's misleading to use "ultimate cloud-computing platform" to describe Ethereum.
We've actually been trying to figure out the best path for this. We have most of our data in Periscope (we're on the Redshift version of it) and we also use GA and it would be great to be able to have everything in one place.

Seems like using Segment here is probably the least effort solution for future events, although it doesn't address ETLing past GA data into the warehouse. Curious if anybody else has had to deal with a similar situation.
Apple doesn't know sh*t lately. Projecting expertise and mystical knowledge worked when Steve Jobs were there, even if you were wrong, at least this guy had great vision in front of him, so it made sense to assume he sees more and better.

Today, that is no longer the case.

5G has quite a few hurdles ahead of them, it is already overhyped and it might not deliver.
That seems like a very weak failsafe likely to be easily cracked and those bad actors only slowed down a bit - if history is any guide.

Why not implement something like detecting voltage drop between charger and device? Short circuit detection, etc. You can do a lot if you can have both sides communicate with each other, and at that point it matters a whole lot less if your cable lies to you plus you catch a lot of other failure conditions.
> But overall, I personally can't think of a single aspect where iOS "miles ahead" anymore, from an end-user perspective.

There's one place that iOS is miles behind though, and that's file handling. Having to go through a desktop and iTunes to receive music from a friend is a pain in the arse.
I would pay double to have an iPhone 4 size phone.
That the 6S is going to be outside of software support window (1-2 years) and/or clearing stock might be factors.

But I could have been clearer: I meant the newest models.
Remarkably some professional(!) printers don't want to do late binding, instead telling clients to supply "CMYK PDFs" (color space? doesn't matter! Pick any CMYK!).
Interesting idea. Hyper-V is sometimes available on Windows, Hypervisor.framework on OS X, bhyve on FreeBSD and fallback to qemu if all else fails?
Wow. There's some truth in there, but a lot of nonsense. Especially in the analogies. If you can't see the difference between 60Hz and 144Hz when a small object (mouse pointer) is moving quickly against a static background, you're not paying attention. And 144Hz is amazingly far short of the actual perceptual limit in that case. Consider the difference between what it looks like to move your fingertip around and move a mouse pointer around at high speed. I haven't done tests to measure, but I'd be surprised if I mistook a 500Hz sampling rate for continuous movement.

This is all because there are edge cases for which your brain can make use of significantly more information than it can directly identify. Just because a pixel has a smaller arc than your retina can distinguish doesn't mean that its contribution to the image isn't recognized. "Retina" screens are still far below the level at which there would stop being advantages to increasing resolution. (Yes, there would be huge disadvantages too, and I'm not saying we need higher resolutions.)

What are the odds that there are edge cases where the extra bandwidth of 5G would actually matter? Seems pretty close to 100% to me. Some of those edge cases might be as easy to find as moving your mouse pointer rapidly. Maybe going to a sporting event?
Off the topic. Does anyone know which chart library is being used here?
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Cease and desist does not result in control of GEOIP.APP, but is absolutely useful as a stopgap while the ICANN paperwork goes through.
None, because I never found out who submitted it.
I'd pay double to have the iPhone 3GS curved back that actually felt comfortable to hold.
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Some page wrote that it takes more than a year to get every piece of information about the fly-by.
Despite noting that the comment still implies that battery replacements were the dominant factor why “Apple misses their earnings target.” This is an invalid logical leap in its step by step reasoning.
> transition to become a services company, which, for the most part, you can only do phoning home the way Google and Facebook do

I really hope this is untrue. My instinct is that you perhaps can't be a big behemoth of a company if you don't behave like Google and Facebook, but Apple occupied that middle territory successfully for a long time.
Isn't it 1000baud than 1kbps?
Also, I use Acorn for Mac which is $30 and I don’t miss Photoshop at all.
It's a combination of both. They have tools that help worth the trajectory calculations, but they have to manually decide on the basic layout of the path to take.

There is a very interesting interview with Pablo Munoz from the Bepi Colombo team about flight dynamics on the Omega Tau podcast that explains this: http://omegataupodcast.net/295-bepicolombo/

The other interviews on the same episode are also worth listening to. In fact, the entire podcast is great.
Nice post! I have been thinking much about this for my own written works...

My strange conclusion was to not capture analytics at all. My loose metric is now: which posts inspire people to email me directly?

I have decided I do not want to know what you read, how long you read it, where you came from... Only whether or not you felt something. And data will not tell me this.
First watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8ro6kpKlw0

Choice quote from the discussion on reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/RealTesla/comments/abkk12/what_did_...

"The takeaway from this video, if no one has gotten the message by now, is that Tesla only cares about the sale of new Teslas, which it doesn't do very well. It does not care about selling used Tesla, servicing existing customers, or supplying parts to customers.

Tesla made a shittier dealership and calls it innovation. It's hilarious that it is simultaneously waging war on the dealership laws while doing the dealership thing so poorly that it's like exhibit A in why dealership laws maybe aren't that bad. If Tesla were this bad at being a car company pre-dealership laws it would have been the reason they came into being in the first place."
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I read an article a couple of months ago where numerous scientists signed a letter proclaiming significant health risks to ubiquitous 5G in society, that the waves are apparently quite dangerous to health? Anyone know anything about that?

I think this was it: https://www.saferemr.com/2017/09/5G-moratorium12.html
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Proof of stake isn't a tested and reliable mechanism to achieve distributed consensus. It'll be interesting to see what happens to a real cryptocurrency that tries switching to an entirely new form of consensus.
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Id guess it could be done for not that much, assuming accuracy can go from a few meters to few thousands of miles. (Someone more versed might be able to give a better oom on accuracy). Just need to launch 4(+) satalites, 2 up and 2 down relative to the orbital plane. So long as a ship isn't hiding behind a planet/sun it should have LOS to all 4 for triangulation.
If you want a top flagship, I agree Apple is a solid choice. What Xiaomi and Android does well in general is midrange. I've got a ~$150 phone (Xiaomi Redmi Note 4, now superseded) that has fantastic performance (never had any issues with tens of tabs in browsers, multitasking, games, etc), fingerprint sensor, battery lasts for 2/3 days, etc. You can tell it's not a flagship: the camera is just tolerable, it's got a plastic back (which doesn't break after repeated falls); but overall it's insane value/cost.

It's nice to surf the wonders of billion-scale device mass-manufacturing if you don't need the latest and greatest.