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It's like comparing Cornwall to the French Riviera. Sure it's nice, but obviously not in the same league.

In terms of ancient monuments Egypt is in a class of its own. Nothing in England even comes close.
Is Apple hiring coders without four-year degrees?
I adjusted the wording. Incredibly sorry about that, I definitely don't want to hurt the man's reputation.
I don't think you're doing justice to the diversity of challenges that can be involved in writing. Writing has high-level structure as well as low-level structure. Someone can be skilled at constructing a sentence but not a book and vice-versa. I could go on, but tl;dr there are a lot of considerations that affect whether a piece of writing "works" and correspondingly large sets of skills, processes, and approaches.
I enjoy shaving. I don't mind spending more money and time when I shave.
Putting aside the common issues with pedagogy, the reason you learn a "bunch of tricks" for calculus is because that's more or less all you have in many cases.

If you take integration as an example, there is no single approach to solving every integral. More importantly, it's extremely common to encounter integrals for which there exists no closed form antiderivative. In fact it's technically exceptional to find an integral which can be neatly solved in the space of all possible integrals.

As a direct result, solving an integral becomes an (often frustrating) exercise in transforming it into something equivalent integrals up to a negligible constant. Nonlinear optimization problems and differential equations are similar in this regard.

There is something to be said for the depth of analysis, which does provide a deeper meaning and rigor to the "bag of tricks" in calculus. Outside the US it's somewhat common to skip calculus entirely and begin straight away with analysis, and I think there's merit to that. But the profundity and power of analysis doesn't provide you with any fundamentally more complete methods of solving calculus problems except insofar as they become more advanced and rigorous. Ultimately analytic mathematical work (as opposed to algebraic) is characterized by this kind of pattern-matching; this frequently results in seemingly inspired, bizarre looking proofs compared to how neat everything is in algebra.
I initially bought a “mixed” pack containing ~5 blades of different varieties. Tried them out and chose the one that felt best. The difference between the most and least comfortable was significant, so I’d recommend taking the time to figure it out.

I settled on the Persona Blue blades, fwiw.
This! Turns out, counter-intuitively, that you don't always want the "sharpest" (read: thinnest?) blade, especially if you have sensitive skin.

I've used a DE with these https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0077LAJT2, https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B014HJKZ2C, and https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000NL0T1G. Amazon tells me the last time I bought them was almost 2 years ago. I shave about every week and a half, with a new blade each time, and I'm just about 2/3 through this one $8 box.

It takes some getting used to, but I haven't nicked myself seriously in a year or two. Seriously worth trying it out if you haven't already.
The JVM has multiple languages such as Kotlin, Scala and Groovy. Each of them arguably being a better language than Java. That most people still prefer to build projects in Java shows that other things such as backward compability, how many developers know the language, tool chain and so on matters more than the isolated technical merits of the language.
> It is, however, a strong social proof for other things that matter a great deal.

> a willingness to abide by the rules and procedures of a complex organization, even when they don't make much sense or directly contribute to the core competency. It shows a willingness to submit to authority, a willingness to get often arbitrary work done on schedule with acceptable quality, and other traits and experiences that matter a great deal for becoming a functional employee in a corporate workplace.

This is one of the main theses of the book "Disciplined Minds" by Jeff Schmidt. I highly recommend it if you're interested in following this line of thought further.
It should show you know what you're talking about, communicate a path forward, and wet the client's appetite for more. For the project at hand if that means wireframes then so be it. However, for $500 i wouldn't spend more than a couple hours start to finish.
Dolphin just switched to it, too. They were on wxWidgets until recently.
Uber has paying users.
Facebook had advertisement targets.

Doesn't make too much sense to conflate the two.
Those 180m shares would represent ~10% of the company. The rest are either locked up and are not allowed to be sold by employees or certain investors for a certain period* or are held by the IPOing company itself to sell off at a later date, depending on demand.

* This is common in IPOs or other events (eg leading up to earnings announcements). The thinking is that if everybody dumped the stock at once, it'd depress the price. It's also common to prevent insider trading. There are a lot of employees who are probably waiting nervously for the blackout period to expire.
Allegorithmic Substance, Guitar Pro, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Software_that_uses_Qt ...

I mean, just run a `find Qt5Core.dll` on windows or `find QtCore` on mac and see what's using Qt on your machine
> anyone joining in the last three years will not have enjoyed any sort of rocket-ship growth

Uber was also somewhat unique among unicorns in uniformly blocking its employees from selling shares on the secondary markets.
If that were true, a company losing as much as Uber wouldn’t have been able to IPO at all. I don’t see any case where Uber will be decently profitable. No self driving cars won’t save them.
Rumor suggests iOS 13 will not support iPhone 6, iPhone SE and iPhone 5s
There's more details in other subthreads but basically the voice control and speaker aspect. i may just end up spending some time trying to build on these to make an end to end solution myself (if I ever find the time that is).
It does take some practice to get the hang of it, and in that time, you are more likely to nick yourself. For me, it took about a month or so to be as good with the safety razor as a cartridge one.

Now it takes me about an equal amount of time as it did using a cartridge razor, and I rarely nick myself (about as frequently as I did with a cartridge).

There are some good lists for cheap "beginner" razors online - I'd suggest trying out one of those. You can just use your normal shaving cream, too.

The bottom line for me is the crazy cost of razor cartridges. My razor blades cost 25 cents apiece, and that's on the expensive end.
The court ordered that Manning be jailed, which is entirely under its purview. The court could have dressed down the government prosecutors for being the jackboot thugs that they are and admonished them for not prosecuting the war criminals.
In some jurisdictions it's -> I Haskell, you Go, s/he Javascripts.
the checkmate game is played against vegetarians too, and often there is no check, or check mate, its just claptrap as they are ill informed.
>Simply not true because humans can't process vegetation like cows can. It's why we feed animals vegetation and we eat the animals.

http://chemistry.elmhurst.edu/vchembook/547cellulose.html

Er...this was basic high school biology, but I'm living proof that my gut biome can process vegetation. You're right though it won't break down the beta linkages in cellulose. So I stay away paper jerky.
Cool project. Been looking for something like this for ages.
But still cant figure out from the docs how to send email.
Interesting that nowadays Google is launching HTML elements.
Fuller brush bought Schick. Now they're Fuller-Schick.

Did you hear what happened to Helena Rubinstein? Max Factor.
There are 80 billion dollars worth of shares that exist. However only 8 billion of those shares were released for the public markets. The remaining 72 billion dollars worth of shares are held outside of the public markets (insiders, vcs, the company itself, etc.)
I see a lot of talk in this thread about how Amazon's UI makes it hard to filter the good stuff from the bad stuff. But I haven't seen anyone suggest making a redirection website which does this filtering for a customer. Is there any reason one of you web slingers (not my gig) couldn't build a better site where all the links are Amazon affiliate links, thus using the entirety of Amazon as your backend?

Then, you would have a better website for Amazon than Amazon does. People would use it. Sure, Amazon would totally absorb you once you got big enough, but that doesn't sound like the worst problem for a millionaire to have. And it would fix the problem.
The one pain is having to manually create a cut off period for migration scripts, meaning when to start fresh from a single schema and restart the migrations again. This is basically free food for some incubator at HN so if they are going to make some breakthrough product, make it easier to not ever have to worry about that and it will be worth me posting this.
This makes a lot of sense, which is probably the reason why Microsoft has implemented such a system in the past. Unfortunately, it does have the unfortunate tendency of creating toxic workplaces, which hampers productivity.
A small-to-midsize startup with < 50 employees. Medium granularity, that is to say that I don't want "R&D", but I also don't want to break out 50 lines of expense. But I would like some ability to break expenses up into a reasonable number of categories.
> I don't know why Qt takes 50MBs or more for hello world or why anyone would use electron at all

You have all my sympathy here :) Well, it should also be noted that 5MB is the size of Sciter's dynamic library. Compiled statically, there will be less contributing to the app's size.

As to markup languages, well, maybe, but I think they are a lot more expressive for things that are styled, positioned via constraints, dynamic and animated. That's completely different approach compared to predefined component libs like WinForms etc.
Just want to point out that the prosthelytizers of DE shaving tend to be a self selecting group of those who happend to have great success with their particular beards and that razor. There are many, many, different beards though.

I tried DE and it simply did not shave as well as gilette, no matter what the blade. I had a permanent 5'oclock shadow because of how thick and dark my beard is where as gilette was a clean shave with zero effort.

Point is, whatever razor works for you, works for you. End of story.
Git is non-destructive and its great. Until you learn why the really dangerous command nobody talks about is git checkout.
Connecting an Amiga to the World in 2019
I can't find any info on how much the event space actually costs, but based a few tidbits from the article it sounds more like the organization that runs the faire let expenses get out of control. If they laid off 8-10 people, that means they had significantly more than that, all of whom were ostensibly drawing a salary on top of likely increasing event space costs.
What do you mean by "reduced scope"?
Wait until drivers can make money by having in-ride advertising screens.

(I kid.)
Fixed that for you : when your Uber driver gives you trading tips...
Ironically I think that Hacker News exhibits better design than Designer News. The responsive design of that page is such that it cuts off icons when viewed at a width of 960px (half of a screen in 1080p) and on an iPhone SE there are only four articles visible at a time compared to HN fitting 7 without compromising readability.
How do you short stocks? Asking for a friend.
I live in Miami so I have rain (heavy rain) 4 months of the year.
what a pile of garbage, dude have you ever heard of https://oz-code.com/
Instagram targets NEWSREP and other veteran groups
> When Uber and Lyft left Austin, there were lots of alternatives that had existed or popped up to fill the space.

I tried to use one or two of those alternatives. Setup was a pain and I ended up taking a cab. I have at least one coworker who couldn't get a ride because he was in South Austin.

Additionally. if your company is only in one city, visitors have to know about, install, and setup a new app just so they can use you; it's just as easy for them to take a cab. Last time I needed a ride in DC, I used the Lyft app that was already on my phone. There was no friction in being in a different city.

Maybe there was a local alternative in DC, but who's going to look up local ride sharing companies and install yet another app when the app they already use at home already works? Even hailing a cab is easier than installing a new app for one or two rides while you're in a new city.

Uber and Lyft have network effects.
I'm surprise. I was expecting a higher percentage.
If that’s your concern have it upload the video to a remote location you control.
1. Why would swift attract most developers?? It's a fairly small language outside the iOS bubble.

2. Google has invested tons of money in 3 different languages and each works _extremely_ well in it's intended domain.

3. Even as open source, remember Apple has a history of crippling software on competing platforms.
I tried the same with top 50 most visited websites.
https://julienreszka.github.io/dome/
How do you disrupt the nascent taxi industry?

Make it so anybody can be a taxi driver.
This is exactly right, but in my opinion usually not important. If Joe Public, or a competitor, or whoever knows how many posts you have, users you have, administrators you have, etc how much does that actually affect your operation? I guess they can better compete against you in some small way with that information, but in my opinion it's almost never worth the effort to obfuscate. It's like optimizing for a problem you don't have.
I dunno, I did have a bit of a learning curve when I started with a safety razor. They don't flex like the cartridge razors do, so you have to pay a little more attention to how you hold it. After a bit of practice, though, it did become just as easy.
Ask HN: How many front end devs work on big products?
I've been wondering how many frontend developers are working to build the UI of Linkedin, Airbnb, Gmail and so on?
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I went to an Alzheimer's Conference recently and there was an hour-long talk about air pollution and dementia.

1) The title of this article is bad. In epidemiologic terms, you shouldn't combine the words "seem" and "cause". Seem is about perception, is about possibility, whereas any science writer or epi researcher worth their salt is NOT going to use the term "cause" lightly. There may be an association, a correlation, a linkage even, but cause? No no, dementia is a very broad disease with many potential causes, and likely you will never establish a singular cause for that disease.

2) Regarding the talk I attended itself, there is a wildly broad definition of air pollution out there. Are you talking about ozone, NOx, or particulate matter, and what SIZE of particulate matter? How do you measure lifetime exposure or recent exposure for those moving, and for the dynamic process that is air quality? Then, how do you control for community and cultural based effects of living in certain areas - maybe those with other risk factors are also those forced by poverty/etc. to live in the polluted areas.

Summarily, IMHO, air pollution is a contributing factor to dementia, but alone I doubt it'd be sufficient without age-related degeneration, unhealthy diet, lack of exercise, stress, underlying genetics/alleles/mutations, etc. There are probably around 10-20 important factors of which air pollution is one.

As a society, let's ditch ICE vehicles, let's ditch coal and dirty industrial practices, both for our planet and for our own health.

What can you do now? Stop idling your car, use your brakes as little as possible (i.e. drive efficiently, don't speed up just to have to brake soon), don't go out in hot summer weather, support renewable energy, oppose coal/dirty diesel/inefficient fossil fuel use, and generally vote for politicians who agree with the above and don't take dirty fossil money.
I'm struggling with this advice, and thinking either the projects you scoped, or the scope itself, are different to what I have in mind.

Can you expand on the type of projects you would do scoping for free for?

Last year I spent 2 and a bit weeks doing paid scoping, because the client knew where they wanted to get (replace a legacy system), didn't know how it worked, didn't know how their business process was structured. Short of a value-based pitch (which has failed with them in the past) the alternative was a guess.

Afterwards we agreed to go onto build the new system. [ There's a whole 'nother side story as I'd lost money on every project I'd done with them before, so this time opted for time & materials - which sort-of worked, but as their max budget was fixed, as was much of the scope, resulted in considerable stress. Still looking for the lesson to learn. ]
How much should it be? Zero.

How much does it end up being? Well, assuming you've already caught on to the age bias in the industry, you probably have long since stopped putting your graduation year on your resume. That makes you right side up on the age bias piece, because otherwise I'm pretty sure you will have a difficult time landing a job at most places. (This is the trick I learned for my resume, as a grad from a similar amount of time ago)

On teams I've sat in on, it's not like they just go "oh non-grad, this goes to the garbage can". But if you wind up with 10 equally exceptional resumes knowing you only want to bring out the top 5, and a couple of them don't have a degree, some team members will want the degree holders to be brought out. They look for more signal, even though it isn't necessarily there. And I mean, if you have 10 exactly equal candidates (which is a bad hypothetical honestly because it'll never happen), maybe you do want the more accomplished people to be given a shot. But how it works in reality is that the degree may give like a slight bump to under accomplished individuals. Which is why we had to ban education from consideration at my current employer.
But you don't say directly which of the two is more desireable, the market unfortunately looks like it prefers advertising targets.
Why ‘should’ it be written as ‘select’? How is the current name incorrect? It’s just an opinion.

The downvotes are probably because you’re expressing a naming bikeshed issue like your opinion is undeniably correct.

‘I would call the function ‘select’’ would be a reasonable comment.
We use Alembic as well and it does make the process easier. I like the suggestion of not applying destructive migrations immediately.

Just out of curiosity, has your team used Alembic's branching system with any success?
Yes you might be paying Uber more, I pay them about $300-$400 a month between our occasional use and my teenage son getting around (still cheaper than a car + insurance), but they lose money on each ride. Amazon has high fixed costs while they were building infrastructure. Uber has negative marginal profits.

Edit: negative marginal costs -> negative marginal profits.
Who's doing ride sharing? Certainly not Uber
Uber is currently well below it’s IPO price. Historically, that’s not uncommon.
Actually JUCE has deep coverage of highly portable UI concepts as well. I think it compares favorably with QT.
Ah, I didn't know that!
Uber is definitely undervalued on HN. They have so much more markets to enter.
Somewhat related: I simply buy a small pack of quality multi-blade razors, and keep them sharp using a silicone rubber strop (the Blade Buddy, easily found online). Each razor lasts at least a month, often more, and that’s up against my very coarse and thick whiskers. My shaving budget is this pretty close to zero.

Drying the razor after use is also crucial.
The headline here is misleading - the tenants didn't win any rights, they reached a settlement with their landlord in which they got physical keys. "Tenants win rights" suggests there was a case with a ruling that would establish precedent, which isn't what happened here.
Unless the service is monstrous like search or GMail, working on maintaining existing product infrastructure is a career dead end in the company, the game is to be part of a project launch. And Google's back end stuff constantly changes, so significant amount of maintenance is needed to keep anything running indefinitely, another reason for all the things they've killed.

Maybe the conversion of Nest's infrastructure was internally viewed as more maintenance than new project, so it didn't get much in the way of resources? Google palpably doesn't care about brand damage so that's not a consideration.
> So when the market goes even lower, we know that the IPO was done out of desperation

How is that the correct conclusion. It sounds like the correct conclusion is they still over estimated the market price. Nothing about desperation for or against.
Oh, I agree.

invoice++

is not better than

invoice.addToSystem()
That's wonderful! It's good to know that there's a tested DBMS under the hood.
They already can. I've seen this in 2 cities now. One of the reasons why I prefer Uber/Lyft is to _not_ see the cab ads display.
Honestly, I don’t want to use it for litigation. I just want it for minutes of the meeting.

I just find the language they use rather stilted and confusing. We end up going round and round in circles clarifying meaning of words.

They are affiliated with the state and govt...so instead of stating something simply in one sentence, it’s a bunch of words distributed amidst a couple of sentences.

It’s frustrating because we are all speaking English. If I didn’t know English, I could ask for a translator.

If mediation meetings can’t be used for litigation, what would their objection be to be recorded? I am willing to be recorded too.
isn't this what datomic does?
A few things played a significant role:

- Superjet cannot dump fuel

- Due to its weight the landing gear collapsed puncturing the wings

- The sparks from sliding on its engines ignited the fuel
What's your precise problem?

Migrate in a backwards compatible manber, so that version N of the app works with N+1 schema (eg add a column, but don't destroy existing ones, use triggers to keep data aligned). When all nodes for an app are are at N+1, you can make a new version with destructive changes (that would break N but not N+1). There's a Fowler article about this.
Flash as a productivity app? Even Flex was an abomination on the desktop.
trading isn't an exact science, an early drop looks bad and makes potential buyers more cautious than if it looks like its rallying
Oregon outlaws use of so-called ‘cyanide bombs’
Go is Go-style concurrency _almost_ in C.
That's the case in nearly every state. Leases generally say "reasonable notice", which lets landlords imply that there is no 24 hour requirement while simultaneously keeping the term technically "enforceable".
this is a very good point. It's like handling dynamite but for an individual or very small team fixed bid is the only way to real revenue.

Think of it this way, you have 40 hours * sizeof(yourteam) to sell per week. There's a ceiling on $/hr or you price yourself out of the market and you don't have a time machine to create more hours. You can either add people to the team or detach the price from time with a fixed bid.

If you don't want hundreds, if not thousands, of consultants in your company then fixed bid is your only path forward.