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Why exactly did you quote targeted? You are saying specifically that people are targeting these journalists, you just have no sympathy that they are being targeted.
My experience is that Bootstrap makes 95% easier but the 5% that doesn't cooperate eats up all the savings of the 95%. When it doesn't do what you intend, it's a black box that usually ends up being "fixed" using obscure CSS or JavaScript fudges found on Stackoverflow etc. It feels like: "Just put in 'grf:snig;bleppo(){99.foo()}' here, and that should fix it."
Not sure if this comment was about the data corruption bug in Cloud SQL's PostgreSQL version, but the benchmarks we ran at https://aiven.io/blog/postgresql-cloud-performance/ used Aiven's PostgreSQL service on top of VMs from the cloud infrastructure providers and weren't affected by Cloud SQL issues.

The same Linux, PostgreSQL, etc versions were used on all platforms. We didn't use RDS, CloudSQL or other managed services from the infrastructure providers, but the PDF version of the presentation does include comparison of our managed PostgreSQL service with RDS PG and Aurora PG if you're interested.
> I feel like this comes from a good place, but a lot of it seems self-inflicted and/or over-dramatized.

Agreed, and too absolutist. You can take a reasonable stance without upending your life. So you can't get away from maps integration in apps, that's ok, still using the competition helps. Same with browser choice and others. I can decry all the plastic waste and still type on a keyboard with plastic parts.
I think the take away from existing visual languages is that they can be quite nice but the less they mimic imperative blocks with drag and drop the better. Functional programming is a better fit.

They work well for stream processing.

They can often be more elegant in how they define and consume inputs. Many more parameters can be supported in a visually pleasing way, which cleans up parameter over loading and makes it easier to compose function block together without making Tuple types.

This could very well exist but I think a visual Lisp would be interesting.
OMG, I totally forgot about this book. I loved it! Now, downloading ebook to reread it.
> the accursed compatibility mode

Ah yes, the fun of an almost-impossible-to-reliably-detect setting that affects your display and sometimes worse.
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I would 100% use this article as my CV if I were him. Good work my friend :)
Right, I'm expecting a decade long interregnum at the least.
Once an hour means they're doing ~30k qps if they have 100 million devices (and traffic is well-distributed, which admittedly is pretty easy to do), though 100 million is potentially an overestimate. Point is, you can't just fire that traffic into the nether / to domains you don't control from IoT devices. Those providers will happily cut off your automated traffic.
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Same for me and I've used Apple Maps all over the US. Although there have been instances of Google Maps finding something Apple Maps couldn't, I've never actually gotten wrong directions.
> However, there is a tendency for people in media to look down on people with blue collar jobs,...

In what universe is journalism a blue-collar job?
... except that Google still has most of my emails as people who send me them or whom I send to are using Gmail...
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When they were 'suggesting that miners should "learn to code"' was it in an article they wrote or was it a coordinated campaign to find people who were laid off of coal mining jobs and tweeting them "learn to code"?
Visual programming of data-flow does not add much to programming, I think that's the lesson of history.

That said, I think that visual programming which is not aimed to data-flow can be very interesting. For example Lisp is pretty visual (or topological) in a sense.
"Targeted" implies they are being harassed. I don't see this as harassment as much as the fair result of their own actions and people correctly leveraging an open platform.
Something is fundamentally dishonest about the way Sam Altman recruits people. Something that PG never had problems with
Maybe ask that question over at teamblind?
According to a somewhat recent discussion of Sep 2018 at teamblind the TC (total compensation in one year, usually not counting any perks) should be at least $750k+ TC, source:
www.teamblind.com/article/Engineering-director-at-Google-uaJEgaho

Another reference might be:
www.levels.fyi/SE/Google/Facebook/Microsoft

Levels does not have L8 estimates yet, but L7 is already beyond $600k+ TC.
BuzzFeed News was a very different product compared to much of the rest of the company.
> There's an add to home screen button, but it's buried deep in the share sheet and the average user doesn't know about it.

What? It's a single tap to open the share sheet and the button is in the system row "above the fold" (because there aren't even enough items for anything to even be below the fold). If that's "buried deep" I'd shudder to know what you think of uninstalling an application or adding a keyboard.
You mean the enhanced tracking protection? There's no interference or conflict with uBlock.
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I hope they are able to create a free RIL for whatever modem they choose (in time).
I used class as an example but the product was for workflow management and stitching of components and it was, frankly, ridiculous. Nothing was wrong with the product itself, it was sound. But the entire concept of representing working software visually that is unmanageable.

Honestly people can read and process text much easier then they can follow active visual nodes and lines. And I'm not talking about an abstract diagram; we are talking about visually designing something detailed enough to be executable. I think most people imagine visual programming based on pretty high-level abstractions but that's not the reality of programming.

Anything even moderately complex is too big to see all at once but could easily fit on a few screens of text. Making changes is even worse. I can easily move to the top of this paragraph and add another paragraph (which I just did). Have you ever tried moving around 20 visual nodes? Almost impossible to do easily. I just re-wrote a few sentences; easily 6 clicks and typing in a visual environment.
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Occasionally I'll rent a car that only has Apple's Car Play and have to use my work iPhone to navigate (gawd forbid Apple would let us use Google Maps on Car Play;).

My experience has been universally poor:

- it provides no instructions for major actual intersections. It thinks you're staying on same main road even when there's a confusing Y in front of the driver. I have constant moments of panic when I see the intersection coming and no help from the maps.

- It provides confusing instructions on straight roads ("Turn right in 100 meters" when there's a stretch of straight road)

- It'll reference names for a road that are nowhere near what any of the signs indicate

- "Keep in right three lanes to stay on the road" - when the rightmost lane is actually a turning lane

- Something that is admittedly tricky, it struggles to provide useful instructions on more than four-way roads (e.g. if it's a 5-way or 6-way, "Turn right" has multiple interpretations). It doesn't use, at least not in my cases "bear right" or "slight right" or similar vs "turn right" or "acute right" or "sharp right" - and again, it gets the road names wrong.

- When Searching:

* it'll show me Bedford England 5000km away, but not Bedford NS 12km away

* It has some weird internal naming so searching for actual address will again not lead me anywhere near to what I want

Basically it's been a constant source of frustration beyond what I believe could reasonably be attributed to my inexperience with its UI :-/

EDIT/UPDATE: Thx for feedback; my work phone is on iOS 11, good to know that (*recently, after 4 years without it) CarPlay now supports other maps; note that I don't think it in any way makes Apple Maps experience itself any better 0:-)
In the UK, there tends to be an inverse correlation between the shininess of your bike and your performance. The young Cat A riders with one eye on a professional contract mostly ride 15-year-old aluminium race bikes or cheap off-brand carbon bikes; the weekend plodders are often on brand new Pinarellos or Cervelos. There's also a difference in clothing - it's almost a badge of honour to wear faded and threadbare kit, because it shows that you really put the hours in.

No amount of go-faster equipment will substitute for youth and training, but the middle-aged amateurs with pro-grade gear like to dream and help to sustain the cycling economy by doing so.
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I'm not familiar with Nova. Is that short for Nova Scotia?
Using Baltimore's CityView GIS (http://cityview.baltimorecity.gov/CityView/), the aerial photo 2004 looks slightly better than Google's version. Unfortunately this GIS does not have any electric utility overlay feature.

I share the interest with the author. If I have free time, I'd map out the infrastructures for fun. Good thing my town is small :-)
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Right, sure, but the study treats well-being and symptoms of depression as separate things.

But if well-being is stuff like being optimistic and fulfilled, then it seems to me hardly a surprise that being optimistic and fulfilled makes you less likely to become depressed, in the same way that not being depressed today makes you less likely to be depressed tomorrow. So I'm trying to work out what this study is actually saying, other than non-depressed people (with ASD) are less likely to be depressed in the future than currently slightly-to-very depressed people.
Are you sure? Garbage trucks look very different to delivey vans, and so does the workwear of garbage men vs delivery drivers.

Also, many garbage trucks let you tip things in without handling them.
I'll agree that resizing delay is probably a weakness. But I'd gladly trade that away for simplicity everywhere else. Also, because it wouldn't need gobs of CSS and JS for formatting, the re-render code (vectors) would not be that big and thus transfer relatively quickly. Remember, we are simplifying what the client needs to do and know. Excellent observation, by the way.
> hire a freelance DBA to check in on the servers once a day

Not sure whether you were just interested in the author's specific freelancer but--

The term for this is "Remote DBA" and there are lots of them. I suppose the difficult part is confirming trustworthiness and skills before giving them direct access to your database.
Until you get hit with the classic

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Worth noting that by blocking all Google IPs, the author is not only cutting out Google services, but also any other application that relies on Google services. For example, there's a bit in there about not being able to use Dropbox because it uses Captcha.
Did not have the same results regarding spam on Fastmail. I still use them for a mostly private email address that friends have, but it never did a great job with a highly public email address.

It doesn’t look like they’re doing much beyond what I did 10+ years ago when I was running high volume mail servers and it was never enough: https://www.fastmail.com/help/technical/spamchecks.html
Elon Musk did not create Tesla, and it succeeded thanks to a massive low-interest government loan.

If you want more Elon Musks, start electing politicians that are willing to invest in things that private citizens can't or won't, and stop caring about whose name is on top of the org chart.
latency of local hardware is much lower then cellphone/internet latency... so even if you bring local hardware latency to 0, you still have major network lag... I know you are kidding but this is ridiculous

They supposedly have these chips that make your phone much more secure and they can't get stupid stuff like this right? LOL ... GO APPLE. My trust level was already close to zero before this...
Shipping these back and forth seems to add much more waste (and cost) to the equation.

I'd rather see grocery stores expand their "bulk sections" (where you self-serve just the amount you need and pay per weight) more. In its current iteration it's generally limited to nuts, oats, and grains and it uses a lot of plastic bags, but I know some stores that offer glass containers to purchase or you can bring your own.

Imagine being able to get almost anything in this way at the grocery store. Just want a pint of ice cream? Bring your glass jar and have the attendant scoop it for you (like at a real ice cream shop). Just want a few chips as a snack instead of the normal bags? Bring a reusable container and grab just a couple.

I feel like this offers a lot more flexibility and would truly reduce waste. A drawback though is that you have to remember to bring all your containers when shopping, but with enough practice it becomes second nature (like bringing reusable bags nowadays).
The valuation of all the tech companies is based on future growth. Meaning ever increasing sales.

Well, what happens when next year's smartphone really isn't any better or cheaper than last year's smartphone? Sure, there will always be some business because people drop their phones all the time, but sales won't be as high without upgrades driving it.

Lots of people (investors) will be unhappy with the tech sector at that point.
This is similar to what AWS recently did with providing MongoDB interface with its DocumentDB offering.

If Oracle wins, it logically goes then AWS would not be allowed to provide MongoDB interface to DocumentDB.

If I think back in time, Java was just reference implementation of the API. Sun JDK VM being one implementation of it, OpenJDK being the other. By that extension, Google wrote its own VM for it, that worked on mobile phone OS.
> What always puzzles me is how the West keeps underestimating Asian countries / societies abilities to outperform them.

The same smug condescension is frequently on HN; the third comment right now reads in part ...this lack of value around creativity and direct inventorship makes the Chinese a super formidable second place in many arenas but without the skills or cultural DNA to actually take the lead or be the expeditionary force... If I were China, I'd encourage this attitude until I was good and ready - a little paranoia and an assumption of competence would help (come to think of it; this might be the whole point of the recent flood of China stories, if one were to put on their conspiracy theory hat.)
The thing if that API compatibility is huge when it comes to migrating from one service to another. If an open source project can't reimplement an API then it means that it's way harder to migrate from a proprietary solution to an open one.
Is there a UK restriction in place? In the US google maps (and waze) both work fine over carplay, map on the car screen and all.
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I would like to know if it impacts mathematics and scientific libraries for python that I use in lieu of MatLab.
Even if they don't start synchronized, something as simple as a hiccup on the receiving side of all such pings would make them more and more synchronized over time. Such is the life of anyone operating large sites.
Not sure what you mean. There are no ads on the engineering blog, we don't have a newsletter, and we don't request location information or launch any confirmation dialogs.

If you're talking about a Genius song page, we still don't do anything you said except for showing ads, and playing the subscription message after you've listened to a 30s song preview.
Edit: Ok so if I'm going to be cynical I like to at least be right about things. It has been pointed out that I am, in fact, wrong. So here is my best attempt at breaking out the series of events.

Expensive, Pulitzer prize finalist journalists, a part of BuzzFeed News (BFN) are cut.

BuzzFeed (BF) contributors rightfully lament the loss of their co-workers.

The internet, including me apparently, reads about this from a variety of sources and most of us reach the wrong conclusion about who is who.

Since people jumped to the wrong conclusion about who is who and what actually happened people now spamming the more reputable side of BuzzFeed, who were laid off, with "learn to code"

-----

I'm of two minds on this one. On the one hand I'm pretty confident there were at least a few legitimate journalists let go in the recent wave but boy oh boy is is hard to have sympathy for the content farmers that got the cut.

> Last week, more than 1,000 jobs were eliminated at publishers including BuzzFeed and Verizon-owned Yahoo/AOL.

I'm trying to think of the last time I intentionally sought out and consumed content from either of those two outlets. It's unfortunate that they were let go but I'm consistently surprised that BuzzFeed hasn't imploded already. But this isn't an article lamenting fellow journalists and their struggles. It's about:

> The Meme Attacking Media

And that's where I call bullshit. Is this an attack? No idea, debate away. If it's 4Chan screwing around...eh maybe, I guess? I'm more inclined to believe this is people on this internet punching down at people who are now in bad circumstances. Someone found a more effective way to punch and it took off.

The thing that I call issue with is that this is "the media". Following some of the link chains we can see that:

> In 2018, Vox, Vanity Fair, Vice, GQ, Vogue, Teen Vogue, the New York Daily News, Good Media Group, Glamour, The Outline, Refinery29, and CNN experienced layoffs

Depending on politics and specific interests some will see outlets they care about in that list, some won't. But it seems like people aren't talking about the reporters laid off from Vanity Fair, The New York Daily News, or CNN. No we're getting BuzzFeed spam that have managed to turn their own demise into more bloody BuzzFeed spam. I'm not sure if I should be impressed or really mad.
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I once saw a presentation from Machine Intelligence Research Institute. The presentation listed global dangers to civilization, including AI. Then it was mentioned that, done right, AI could actually solve at least some other problems. That was justification for MIRI efforts.
> When Mr. Melo bought Caldwell in 2002, it was capable of the high-volume production Apple needed. But demand for that had dried up as manufacturing moved to China. He said he had replaced the old stamping presses that could mass-produce screws with machines designed for more precise, specialized jobs.

this looks like yet another example of what US-based globalization promoters have been pushing as the "prosperous future" of the US manufacturing sector: custom, high-precision, high-quality, high-end etc.

but this "plan for prosperity" has pushed high-volume, low-cost manufacturing capabilities out of the US. it should have been obvious to Apple beforehand.
Indeed, this is why my phone and mac volume meters are always set at the minimum, and I "opt-in" to audio by increasing the volume when I have the desire to listen to whatever the audio output is at that time.
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Not to mention most business networks, the vast majority of industrial control networks. So basically damn near anywhere you would want to deploy a networked embedded system. Many systems have IPv6 support but you will still need to talk to IPv4 devices, and you need an IPv4 stack to do that.
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I fail to see your point here, we're looking at the situation of someone stuck on Gmail. Nobody is suggesting that people should give up their homebrew domain system in favor of fastmail.
Awesome stuff right? Pawel is great at explaining things!

It is certainly more complicated in the beginning, partly because it is a paradigm shift, and partly because of the abstract nature. But then again, linear algebra isn't particularly natural when you see it the first time, I'd say..

But graphical linear algebra gives other powerful insights, such as the meaning of division by zero. btw. we use a very similar calculus
i completely dismiss scratch as an actual visual programming environment. i honestly don't think of it as visual programming at all because it simply takes a text-based language and replaces the syntax with blocks rather than spaces, semi-colons, brackets, etc. i personally feel it is misguided. dynamicland is more of a visual programming environment than scratch is.

so here, you are taking what amounts to a toy and something directly marketed towards children as your shining example of a visual programming language.

in my opinion, labview is the most complex, general-purpose visual programming environment, and people have clearly written rather large, complex applications with it. why isn't it adopted more? a lot of reasons, one of the biggest ones being cost. the other the association with a particular domain, but i consider it a general-purpose language. even if one gets passed that, there is still a huge bias that text is still THE way to program and interact with computers.
I'm very interested in that gap you refer to. Was there something you were used to as a mechanic that you weren't getting in your new career?
This is a whole series. She already did Amazon and Facebook:

https://gizmodo.com/c/goodbye-big-five
and thanks for posting the blog article on HN
> I think the answer is yes

I think the answer is no: smart banners only increased the pop-over spam, and adding a smart banner is pretty much free, it's a single line to add to a header and is guaranteed to only trigger on the relevant / target population. A hand-rolled version not only is significantly more expensive to implement but it will misfire and lose visitors.
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'rurban is one of our resident trolls - see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13364173
Or an alarming amount of sites completely unrelated to Google that use Google captchas.
Northern Virginia/DC Suburbs and by extension, everything north of Quantico and north as far, as, I dunno, Gaithersburg in MD to the north.

Some of the worst traffic in the country, and absolutely awful roads.
Probably Northern Virginia.
FYI CarPlay supports third party maps like Google as of September. https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/18/17875256/apple-ios-12-car...
Visual Programming also isn't just for "programming". The tool that Matt Keeter made, called Antimony, is a node -and- graphical interface for making 3d designs. https://www.mattkeeter.com/projects/antimony/3/

One really cool effect this tool has, is that it shows you the direct dependencies on geometries and how shapes interact with each other.

So far, it brings me to 3 tools I use on a weekly basis that are node and flow based: Node-Red, Apache NiFi, and Antimony CAD.
Despite the tirade of anti-facebook/google/amazon blogs and posts in the last 5 years, I'm still not convinced that "being tracked" in my day-to-day life is a negative thing. I still don't perceive that my privacy is lost when I use those services. That information is shared with companies who use the data more-or-less responsibly with respect to my life.

Personally I prefer having a majority of my internet experience centralized in one place. Calendar, Email, files, maps, news, search, entertainment, etc. This saves a lot of time and effort in my life. Is it worth it?