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Long-ish time ago I tried to modularize and modernize Bootstrap [0] to be easier to use with the (still) current way of development and needless to say it was hard, very hard. In the meantime challengers like Bulma, Semantic UI and Material and Material UI have risen to challenge, with the added benefit of being written at least partly from scratch (again).

I still think that Bootstrap has it's uses, but incremental updates at this point seem to be harder than rebooting the whole thing writing everything from scratch, maybe even using things like CSS Grid and friends in the background. All the best to the current maintainers in their pretty hard task!

[0] https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/19017
Dividends are profits paid to shareholders (rather, than saved for a rainy day or spent on future operations).

Stock repurchases are a company buying stock back from shareholders, sometimes at higher than market value. Often these are seen as paying off investors similarly to non-reoccurring dividends. Sometimes companies do it move ownership back towards employees (by moving it back into benefit pools), but it's often as not these days that it just goes into executive salaries or board golden parachutes.
Blame isn't the only problem. Humans also hate change. Eliminating blame reduces the resistance to implementing better policies but does not completely resolve it.
Gracious? Entitled? I don’t see California asking for more money for Coal Plants or Chinese Factories. California pays plenty of its share to those other states you refer to as well. It’s disingenuous to say california took other states’ money. I can say California just took back the money it paid in taxes to the federal government. In terms on numbers and being ambiguous, it’s correct. You seem to be insinuating a political argument. There’s plenty of blame to go around for many states when we are talking about “taking money” from the federal government.

I took his line of argument as: we have federal money, we are going to add more from our funds and finish the Valley section.
I'm getting the same issue. I waited approx. 2 minutes for it to go through, but it just stays there, pulsing.
I don't know how much money they have but it is clear they don't know what to do with it. Their 2019 outlook is rather bleak with barely a literal handful of releases.
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people reacting to situations is about individual. but we know every individual is unique and different. Team should be encompassing and not assuming. CEO or Project Director's boundary is only with the idea and not the individual.

Idea can be criticised, never individual. Your argument may sound right, but it is not considering everyone. Your argument is saying how one should react, but is not answering what if one reacts differently. How can we mend it.

Leader is one who is compassionate and has ability to differentiate idea from individual. Work is not entirety. Idea will never define a person. whenever we critique, it is best to keep it till the idea and never to person. my few cents.
My experience has been that the ontime performance of airlines are significantly better than Amtrak. When the Pacific Surfliner trains run only every 1.5 hours, that’s a lot of potential waiting.
I wonder how much the C level executives' will take in pay cuts / lower stock grants?
Removing color is not arbitrary. It is based on the physical features of human color vision.

The human eye has three types (“L”, “M”, “S”) of cone cell light detectors, but the raw data from these detectors never makes it to the visual cortex of the brain. The first level of processing inside the eye combines these into an L + M lightness signal and two color difference signals (L – M and L + M – S), which are then further combined into higher-level spatial patterns, etc.

Lightness contrast is most of how the visual system distinguishes motion, shapes, textures, and fine details.

Two bordering shapes without lightness contrast get visually smeared together, text without lightness contrast is illegible, design elements without lightness contrast are largely indistinguishable, etc., even if the colors are otherwise strongly contrasting.

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> makes as much sense as designing without different font sizes, designing without borders, or designing without rounded corners so everything is rectangular

Designing with rectangles only as a first step to iterate quickly seems like a reasonable idea. Your other two suggestions are not analogous.

A better comparison might be getting the melody of a song right before figuring out the lyrics.
Here is one that I think is a prime example:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Olsen_Hall.jpg
https://www.flickr.com/photos/42803091@N07/5577837230

A search for it by name will show many more pictures. It's from 1974. It is really all thick concrete, inside and out. It used to feature brutalist landscaping consisting of mostly-dead grass, but that has obviously changed.
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Patch "Promptly Return Unused Committed Memory from G1" is added to JDK12 release.

Any feedback? Is Java really going to be elastic and will stop eating all resources?
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Yeah was referring to the slogan. No shade.
Who aren't parties to the bankruptcy, so who cares? The public benefits from increased competition.
I still use v4 for new builds. I have used Spectre[0] in the past and it seems pretty good.

[0] https://picturepan2.github.io/spectre/
Plata o plomo.
Right, so based upon repeated viewings of Breaking Bad and Narcos, you feel you have the real world experience to understand the expected rate of an IT project in Mexico?
DuckDuckGo is not Bing, though they have some worrying connections to Bing/Yahoo. Interesting note, Bing's results are much more similar to Google's, with no mention of what happened between Harris and Willie Brown.

There's a whole industry built around manipulating search results, what you see is not simply an "artifacts of different search engine technology". There's a very biased, politicized, human element to all of this. The moment you create an "objective" search algorithm, people are going to reverse-engineer it and exploit it. Then results can be rigged simply by selective enforcement of the rules.
In fairness, that also doesn't sound like reality to me.

No need to go into all the engineering details, but suffice to say that France, and its cities, are relatively geologically stable. California is just, yeah, it's just not. I think the Japanese, who have actual experience on the ring of fire, were a good deal less optimistic in their assessment of the project. Of course, the Japanese could be said to be overly cautious. So there is probably some reasonable middle ground maybe??? Though I don't know where that would be, I'm pretty sure it's not in the rosy assessment of the French.
Not the poster above but emacs' evil mode has really good vim emulation but the yak shaving rabbit hole goes much deeper. Emacs isn't stellar when it comes to large files and long lines although that's mainly for code and not plain text.
In many countries around the world they build more than two parallel tracks - at least 3 or 4 - so you can have fast lanes as well as slower local lanes.

The problem with BART is that it's all a local train - stopping at every station on your way. If you are going from SF to Oakland - probably not a big deal - but if you live on the ends of the lines, quite annoying and very time consuming.

These systems really need to change their mindset to compete with cars. It should be fast and efficient - preferably much faster than cars - so there is a strong incentive for the public to use them.
I have no idea how to do anything without jquery.
If I were to write an article on how increase productive with Vim I wouldn't focus on its plugins (after all many other editors/IDEs have great plugins). The power of Vim relies in its multi-modal editing. It requires time to get used to it but... once you're comfortable switching between modes it quickly pays off in productivity.

I think the text editor is the most important tool of a developer and Vim outperforms any non-modal editor. My thoughts on Vim are summarized in this quote by Abraham Lincoln: "Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the ax."
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BART wasn't really intended to help you get around the city, though. Lots of places have transit systems that include both rapid and local rail transit.
Yes, these are the questions to ask, related [0].

In the article they mention the number of parcels needed grew by 500, did owners subdivide in order to increase returns?

[0] https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article218398575.html
Get yourself autocomplete set up in Vim. For large amounts of prose with repeated vocabulary it really does save time and effort.

Bonus points for using it in mutt for all electronic correspondence.

Also, why the Dickens are you using Windows when your heart clearly yearns for a nice native i3 setup?
I was in your shoes ~15 years ago. My biggest fear was to become a corporate programmer for some bullshit company.

Here's what I did about it:

1. I asked the most attractive & wonderful girl out on a date. Mind you, I am a geeky programmer and nobody's going to mistake me for a sex icon anytime soon. Nevertheless, she was impressed by my boldness and said yes. Now we're married with three kids.

2. I started a company as CEO. It failed. But being CEO stretched me into a new role and I grew immensely.

3. I'm now working on a project that I think has a huge potential for positive impact on the world. I'm not motivated by money or glory this time around, but just want to see if I can grow and pull it off.

I guess to sum it up: know what you want out of life and then be bold and take risks.
The SF Central subway project cost about $920M per mile, at those rates this $77B could be used for 84 miles of underground subway lines in the densest parts of SF and LA. That could be very substantial. (And not saying that's even the best way to improve transit, but it is probably the most expensive way and even still the money would go pretty far).
Virtual Dom faster than direct manipulation? Source please.
Bit of a tangent, but I just realized this is the radio station that is heard on Godspeed You! Black Emperor's song "Static".

I've always wondered where that sample came from. This simulation is pretty spot on. Well done :)
The engineer and historian of engineering Henry Petroski presents a very elegant point. Had the Titanic not had that famous accident, as fatal as it was, we would have kept building larger and larger ocean liners and the next disaster would have been even more tragic. So the people who perished were sacrificed for the greater good; they unarguably saved more lives than were lost. The story of the Titanic illustrates the difference between gains for the system and harm to some of its individual parts. The same can be said of the debacle of Fukushima: one can safely say that it made us aware of the problem with nuclear reactors (and small probabilities) and prevented larger catastrophes.

Another interesting argument along the same lines is that if we hadn't bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there would have been no reason for Truman to stop MacArthur from using bombs a hundred times worse in the Korean conflict.

It's a sobering thought regardless of one's opinion on the atomic bombings in Japan. The lesson was going to be learned one way or the other, and arguably humanity got off easy.
I think that's a bit cynical, and the fact that certain established camps are getting kicked out for misbehaviour (as per the article), and some of the bigger MV camps are getting reduced in size seems to indicate that just being "grandfathered in" is not enough. Overall this is a very hard problem with no easy solutions. I personally think the changes described in the article are likely to help with some of the issues the community has been growing concerned with.

(and, as you say, if one of the side effects is that the camps that have have been part of the culture for a long time remain able to exist and contribute, that is a good thing for the social fabric).
Indentured Servitude is a word invented to sidestep the taboo against enslaving Christians. In Greece or Rome, such people would still be considered slaves. Properly speaking, Indentured Servitude is a type of Slavery, so it is appropriate to use the more general term for it.
I think mindless and complex might not be the right words to use here.

I find google searching to be similar to writing. If I distill the question down to the crucial elements and use clear english, I get great results. If I throw all the elements of my question in and hope for the best, I usually am disappointed.
Not everyone works the way you do. Some people have greater threats and compliance requirements and they are often making trade offs which are reasonable for that environment.
nice to see... most javascript libraries are not really that useful nowadays... not sure if bootstrap is still useful either though...
The "tabloid-y results" are also the truth of how her career started, strangely missing from Google. I think the biggest bias here is people wanting to believe Google's search results can still be trusted.
this is unfortunately true - however in this case it might be a municipal metro area body that comprises of one or more counties and multiple cities

the process of awarding projects to developers by government entities is very flawed and seems to guarantee substandard results and cost overruns.

edit: still having said this - it shouldn't be a reason to not try - we desperately need (and imo deserve) these improvements to our cities (as well as better municipal spending oversight as well as better planning)
Completely agree - I find the current trend (and that's what I see it as) of css-in-js to be most disagreeable. CSS works fine without JS, or even better with SASS/LESS.
There are a few other city pairs outside of the Northeast Corridor. But not a lot. Even in the Northeast Corridor Amtrak (and the Acela in particular ) aren’t consistently cheaper than flying. In part, I expect this is because really price sensitive people will take Megabus or whatever anyway.
I actually think it's much simpler than all of this. I may be extrapolating from my own brain a bit, I'm fairly certain that the brain creates a timeline of the past by running a garbage collection function every night that goes something like:

if (memory.timestamp < YESTERDAY) delete(memory);
And one month ago 'Activision Blizzard Inc.’s Dennis Durkin will receive awards worth $15 million as part of his appointment to chief financial officer.'

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-04/activisio...
Yeah, I definitely didn't mean high engineering standards then. The places you are listing wouldn't work for me because of the little financial incentives they provide. As far as I know FAANG are the only places where a reasonably decent software engineer can make ~$400-500k/y (at least those were my offers), and by living frugally the way I do that means massive savings even in a high cost of living location, which puts me closer and closer to my financial freedom goals they day I decide to be done and move to a low cost area.

So, I guess working with "very capable people" and a very good paycheck is enough for me :-)
EVs are not the solution, they still require having a large part of our cities and suburbs covered in roads, which is ridiculous.
I would even argue that transit systems within a city are somewhat of a prerequisite to high speed rail adoption. It is the last mile problem. If you are planning a trip from San Francisco to Los Angeles, one of the major reasons to drive is so you have a car in LA. If you could reasonably get around LA without a car, taking a train from SF to LA becomes much more appealing.

That is one of the big advantages for high speed rail in Japan. The high speed rail service is closely integrated with the local rail network of the cities it stops in. You get off the high speed rail, walk two minutes, and you are on a subway to your final destination.
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They could fix the problem immediately by just banning RVs, private portas, and dismantling burner air (allowing special exceptions that must be approved by borg). This would keep many of the Instagram tourists out. If they were for real they would just do that. Also if they introduced snakes to deep playa.
EVs are central to every focused conversation I've seen on the topic.

As an example, one of the highest profile recent media discussions (Tucker Carlson interviewing AOC advisor Robert Hockett) featured the merits of having government coordinated rollout of charging stations (alongside the apparently high-effort enterprise of getting Carlson to believe that having one form of transportation supercede another might be accomplished by means other than bans and forcible seizures).

I don't know what the promise of short-haul electric planes looks like; maybe that's real, maybe it's like AI predictions in the 80s. It'll be interesting to see what its profile looks like in the space defined by energy requirements per passenger/freight mile, desired vs efficient maximum speeds, overhead & logistics of loading/unloading, and maintenance costs. Though I'd be willing to bet that it's premature at best to assume that electric planes or autos will categorically dominate in every consideration.
My broader point is that low-level representation doesn't matter nearly as much as semantics, and yet by default type systems are obsessed with low-level representations.

Appending a number to a string is a perfectly sensible thing to do when you're displaying information to a user, yet adding two numbers or concatenating two strings could be completely senseless and proof that the development process has gone off the rails.

My dream type system is strict about semantics and only handles representation in specific circumstances. The simplest way to talk about this is in terms of units of measure: Height is a type. Whether it's in inches or centimeters is a representation. Whether that representation is a number or a string is another representation. Keeping track of whether you're showing height-in-inches or height-in-centimeters to a user is useful, but burdening your mind with whether this height-in-inches is a string or a number right now when the runtime can just as easily convert between the two is senseless, and fretting over height-in-inches versus height-in-centimeters adding person-height to shoe-sole-height to get height-in-shoes is similarly senseless.
I've bought stuff there and I don't remember paying cash. I only have Visa debit/credit cards.
You might find this article interesting:

https://refactoringui.com/previews/building-your-color-palet...
Hi, do you have any Junior or mid-level developer positions that involve python, Django / Linux?
I remember being in middle school when Blizzard mentioned they were being bought by Activision on the Warcraft III strategy website (http://classic.battle.net/war3/). There was some mention of Vivendi, and I had no idea what it meant; I was an idiot and knew no economics, but it was clear from the wording of this announcement that WCIII and other RTS games would not be their focus. Then WoW staganation came, and blizzard pretty much gave up on SCII (see 2012) and on Diablo III (various things).

It has been interesting seeing Blizzard slowly become a shell of its former self.
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note the reason for using household income: it includes those who were previously unemployed. It's a way of blurring the line between the average person's earnings and unemployment. Of course if we want to know the unemployment rate, there are separate stats that clearly show that. The only reason to include it here is to make wage growth look better than it would otherwise.

Removing those who found a job, we get back to the lower 1% number. And a big part of that is people just working longer hours.
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I don't agree with the claims that $77B is an outrageous amount of money. I also don't agree that a project should be killed because it's cost has increased ~$20B over what was approved in 2008.

First, 10 years of inflation alone from 2008 to 2019 accounts for $10B of price increases. While the 10 year delay can be blamed on poor management, the fact that the cost increased due to inflation is not really a reason to cancel a project.

Second, $77B sounds like a really big number, it is not paid all at once. It is a bond paid over many years. To put it in context, California has 40 million residents, so that comes out to a $2000 loan on a per person basis. The annual payments on the bond would be around $1B/year, out of a total annual budget of $200B. You can explore the budget here [1] to see if you think the opportunity cost is owrth it, eg. would it be ok to reduce unemployment insurance from $11.4B/yr -> $10.4B/yr if it means we can build a HSR from San Jose to Los Angeles?

I think the Governor's choice is very short sighted, and the laughable assertion that a train from Bakersfield to Merced is a good idea is clearly a face saving measure. In 2040 are we still going to be flying from SFO/SJC to LAX? I wish our government was more willing to take on long term infrastructure projects.

[1] https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/year_spending_2019CAbs_...
This is a great opportunity to learn! http://youmightnotneedjquery.com/ is a great resource: Type in what you want to do (for example, `next` or `AJAX`) and it shows the jQuery code you might have used along with a vanilla JavaScript way to accomplish it.
yeah, I think it's the difference in opinion between those that see cars only as transportation, and those that see driving as an experience itself.

I'm happy to give up control of driving if it means car travel is safer and more convenient, just like I'm happy to get on a train, bus, or airplane and let someone else drive (under high regulation - I don't want my pilot to decide on his own that ATC is being ridiculously conservative and there's plenty of room for him to land between two A380's).
I disagree with the notion of `One Graph`.

We have multiple "gateways" for multiple backend services.

We have our main application that has one graph and we have multiple internal applications each owns its own graph.

I don't think the main application needs to know about the other internal graphs, nor should it have access to it (it should not even discover it).
I wouldn't object if Apple and Google did withdraw the app because of these concerns, but there are still legitimate concerns about the degree to which commercial involvement in places with significantly different cultural values should be affected by cultural differences.
I’m curious, how many of you out there Pay off your car loan and keep the car for many years, without buying a new one or upgrading?
I do sometimes make exceptions, but definitely not for such crucial applications as main communicator. Plus there are other practical reasons to try to limit yourself to FLOSS than fear of hidden malware.
Nope. My team is very chill. No one keeps track, I don't even fill out anything and my boss is very supportive. As long as I'm doing the work I'm supposed to and I'm performing at a high level, no one cares in my team.
Gunnar Carlsson will be teaching a related tutorial ("Using topological data analysis to understand, build, and improve neural networks") on April 16th in New York City https://conferences.oreilly.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-n...
It’s just enough activity to get to keep the allocated federal money.
A related trend, is that the length of the car loans is also increasing. 84 month loans are not uncommon now.