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Why didn't anyone tell David Chipperfield?

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Berlin_Neues_Museum_001....

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Neues_Museum_06b_Treppen...

This is the first time I've heard of your interpretation. I'm afraid it's not as standard as you think.
I disagree that this separate from writing as a skill.

I don't think you can characterize any writing as "good" if it fails to persuade the reader to care about the author's message. The audience for writing is humans and the author has to get their message to stick in that human's head. A piece of text that is precise, terse, grammatically correct, and completely uninteresting or persuasive is not writing, it's merely a catalog of facts.

But I agree totally that the "get the person to care" aspect is a fundamental part of writing well that is very often overlooked in technical writing.
"but still just as clear" is a critical qualifier in your sentence. With that stipulated, I agree. When that is absent is when there's an issue.

This is a not a matter of "Never end a sentence on a preposition." "This is the type of errant pedantry up with which I will not put."
Excited to try this out! Also glad to see Apollo getting some more competition. I made a side project last year with the Apollo ecosystem, it confused the hell out of me.
We only need to get rid of a few problematic subspecies that followed humans out of Africa. They're actually invasive so there's not a big risk to local ecosystems.

Namely

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aedes_aegypti
I've also recently started using Apollo client. The basic usage was pretty straightforward (although either I don't understand something about the loading flag or it just doesn't work very well). But in dealing with the loading flag issue I ended up writing middleware and there's a whole lot of types involved, links and middleware and afterware that seem needlessly complicated (why is middleware and afterware different, why does it seem like it's reinventing either Rx or Promises instead of just using one), compared to Redux middleware which is trivial to understand, write, and use and does basically the same thing as far as I can tell.

Possibly this is just a doc issue but it seems like the API could benefit from some streamlining.
From EDSAC to Raspberry Pi: 75 years of “computers that work” (2013)
> A lot of people don't understand that it's silently uploading their contact lists, personal information and call behavior off to the internet.

At least in the case of the tags, is that true? How do they think it works then when they get a call from a new number and it has the person's name / other information?
I had the same initial reaction, but then again...doing it during the meeting, always, ensures that all participants are at least talking about the same thing. I’ve been in meetings where it doesn’t become clear until very late that someone is bullshitting and has not actually read the materials, or read them so lightly that their comments/opinions are not well directed. This is, imho, much worse than making sure everyone is on the same page. Since everyone is presumably going to need to read the docs at some point anyway, incorporating the activity doesn’t really seem like a waste of time to me.
18% of the Alexa Top 10K sites grew by 1MB+ from July 2017 - July 18. (source: https://twitter.com/katiehempenius/status/113320912700037939...)

Ignoring the impact of libraries you send to the frontend will lead to death by a thousand cuts.
Meanwhile, the economists behind Freakonomics argue that it was caused by the legalization of abortion: http://freakonomics.com/2005/05/15/abortion-and-crime-who-sh...

I don't have a strong opinion on whether cell phones or abortion or anything else caused the collapse in crime, but do feel like the theories you'll read about the most (assuming you're not an academic in the social sciences) are the ones that make for the most interesting headlines.
They are cult like but not like a classic cult, but not like a community either. The difference being that these people are isolated from the world and physically isolated from other members like themselves. The more toxic ones feed the others poison. The ones who manage to get out are called fake-in cells. If they got to hang out physically they'd probably detest each other.
And they aren't suggesting tearing down anything.
I'm surprised the board at Oracle has let things go this far.

Google could probably do a lot of damage to Oracle if they wanted.
Most programmers simply do the tasks assigned to them, because most programmers don't know how to sell!

If you can sell, then you get to decide what you should be working on, convince your manager (and team leads, and other managers, and business teams, and anyone else who might be a stakeholder or shot caller) that it is in their best interest to have you work on the thing you have recommended. Note that this can't be BS... what you're recommending has to be an actual win for them. So, when you've completed the task you sold them on, they see you as a visionary and successful technical leader. The trust that creates will allow you to pick bigger, more ambitious things to work on.

Of course, this assumes that you want to take control over your own work. If you're content just doing what you're told to do, then keep on doing that.
They also support abort fetch request :) :) :)
It's undervalued if you observe the amount of deliberate effort most engineers put into improving that skill compared to the benefits they would garner from doing so.
Ooof, this hits home. Was told my whole entire childhood that I would "cure cancer" (Why all the adults decided I would do that is beyond me) and that the world would kneel at my feet because I was intelligent. Come to find out, I'm not all that intelligent when compared to other really intelligent people, and the world actually doesn't care so much about whether you are smart - especially in late capitalism when 'hustle' (and audacity) (and maybe some amorality/sociopathy) seems to be much more well-rewarded politically and financially.

All I have to say is that you need to be careful what information you are inputting and what social circle you keep as well.

ie; it was very easy when I was a poor activist that never read HN and had no hope of even making rent that month to not give a shit about money (and often, to semi-despise those people going after it)

Now, as a programmer, making what my former-self would have thought would be obscene amounts of money, I often catch myself jealous of people that get paid more, that didn't spend 10-15 years doing activist work and instead bought passive investments, etc etc.

Do I really care about money that much? No, not really. But because I'm exposed to way more people way more often making way more my brain automatically wants to compare in that direction.

It's trickier than I thought.
If the decision was based on government-backed advice like schools teaching "Everyone should have a degree!", and the government subsidising cheap loans for all then yes, obviously. It's a problem taxpayers created so it's a problem taxpayers should fix.
Along these lines, Biochar is a promising technique as well:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biochar
Correct me if I'm wrong - I think I now see the disconnect we (or better put, I) had and I'm sorry I didn't see it before.

If there's no financial or legal penalties for discharging the loan debt due to bankruptcy, people may be more apt to go that route, disrupting the entire lending system.

If that's right, and I read the rest of your comment in that context, you're basically lamenting the fact that there's no outrageous material downsides for people being taken by duplicitous lenders and education institutions. And if that's also what you meant, then I agree; that's certainly a problem that would need to be solved as well if blanket debt forgiveness were to occur. That seems to be just as untenable a situation as the one we have now - and by my view, the situation we have now is wildly untenable and is going to hobble our entire country and economy for decades to come if we don't change _something_.

I'm going to stop riffing on "and if"s, though - that's just doubling down on the same mistake I made earlier. My apologies!
I think it's less about "give away the ending" and more about construction, and wanting to avoid making a claim just from authority/status.

This sounds like a good piece of advice to keep in mind. It's nicer for the reader to not have to wait till the end to get what's going on.
I would disagree completely. Good work is its own reward, as is the respect that comes with it after years of doing the right thing. Its not something you flirt with, its intergity.
And units!

Please both put the units in writing and make sure they're correct! Your network does not run at 100 milli-bits per second. A byte (B) is a lot bigger than a bit (b). Mega (M) is not the same as milli (m). Term contract prices are typical per month or per year, so when you tell me the contract is "only $25K", you haven't told me anything. Tell me it's "$25K/yr" or "$25K/mo" and you've told me something.
Have any links to share that you really liked as examples? I'm using docker compose to do what I think you are saying you do with just pure lxc. I would love to know more about how you do it.
Heather Jones seems like a classic fixed mindset child. An excellent book to read on this subject is Mindset by Carol Dweck.

Essentially, by labeling a child as Gifted we are setting up in a child's mind that their intelligence is what they are and not what they do. This is a "fixed mindset". Fixed mindset children will stop trying as soon as they hit a barrier because failure proves that they are not gifted. This is too much to risk.

The opposite is to complement a child for exploring and trying beyond their current abilities. This is a growth mindset. If a growth mindset child hits a barrier then they will try to overcome the barrier because intelligent behavior is what they do not what they are.
> these stories ... seem to imply the person matters more than the school

Obvious statement is obvious
When's the last time a new plant got built in the US? What's the construction rate for new plants, even in less regulated and more centrally controlled nations like Russia and China?

Economics is very powerful.
Whatsapp web does not show the authentication QR code if resistFingerprinting is on. This is annoying at minimum.

I would happily use another IM, but the bad thing about network effect is that one would need to convince everyone else to make the switch, too.

In order to take over, freedom-respecting services need to become _better_ than the non free ones not only on a technical level, but on a UX one, too.
I think writing well is a skill that is in very short supply all around, even in writing-focused areas like journalism. A major culprit in this, in my opinion, is how writing is taught in college. It's very common for students to be tasked with writing an essay with a minimum word count.
This has been training people into the habit of being unnecessarily wordy and obtuse.
What they should do, is give students a higher mark the less words they use to make their point.
I remember hearing about research into germanium as a replacement to silicon or compound III-V semiconductors [1]

Nanoscale devices seem like an interesting development, but all of these technologies seem like they're a decade or more away from mainstream use.

[1] http://www.sandia.gov/%7Ejytsao/WCS.pdf
> or great tools like OP's for setting up your own

I don't see how I was trashing OPs hard work. I'm simply pointing out that there's more that Medium provides than just a way to host a blog. No need to read so much negativity into it.
Factually there was a hydrogen explosion in Fukushima due to things doing wrong in the nuclear part. And it produced fall out. That is was not a prompt critical nuclear explosion is semantics. You just want to push nuclear instead of being honest.
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Then why isn't everybody shorting everything all the time?
The bill prevents the company from denying or penalizing you for opting out of the data selling, and gives consumers the right to opt out at any time.
Related discussion from today

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20057612
Is there anything we can do as developers? Obviously I don't want to DDOS/DOX the supreme court, but can we write letters or do anything else to show _how massively important_ this is?

EDIT:
For those unable to read between the lines, HN is a large forum read by thousands of people of different backgrounds. Often when someone suggests something, small actions can add up to create a large problem. DDOSing/Doxing is never acceptable for any situation. I want to "do something" but without accidentally creating a problem.
"when r u going to do this?"

Why is that annoying? Its perfectly clear and concise. Good writing imo.
Again, genuinely curious to learn if you've experience with enterprise companies using 'big data' technologies.
+1 on this.

Any info on what the writing class covers ?
It has the same issue as many laws that assert extraterritorial jurisdiction on internet entities: it isn't too difficult to deal with as long as only the EU has it, but if a bunch of other countries also adopted very similar laws it could be prohibitively expensive for small entities to deal with.

The main reason for that is Article 27.

For an organization that does not have a presence in the EU but for which GDPR applies, it seems to cost a minimum of around $500/year to comply. That seems to be the low end for the services that provide Article 27 representation.

That might not be too bad...as long as only the EU implements such privacy legislation. But several countries have talked about similar privacy legislation. If they all have something like GDPR's Article 27, it could quickly get out of hand.

You don't need an Article 27 representative if all of the following apply to your processing of personal data:

• the processing is occasional,

• it does not include, on a large scale, processing of certain special categories of data or personal data related to criminal convictions and offenses, and

• it is unlikely to result in a risk to the rights and freedoms of natural persons.

There's a lot of fuzziness in that. Even if other countries have similar exceptions, each country might resolve the fuzziness a different way, which could make it a major pain to figure out for which countries you need a representative.
Relations in most systems don’t implicitly store the time a change occurred or the past versions of a row, nor do they have a model for building a “now table” from an “event table”. When people talk about time-varying tables or temporal tables, they are describing event sourcing in a SQL context.
I don't like personalized ads for three main reasons.

First, because personal ads are a strong indicator that my web usage is being tracked.

Second, because nonpersonalized ads provide information to me about the site they're appearing on -- they can act as a sort of quickie indicator about what sort of audience the site is intended for. Peronalized ads eliminate this.

Third, because what little usefulness ads supply to me comes from serendipity. Personalized ads eliminate this, too.

In exchange for removing what value ads may have brought me, personalized ads give me exactly nothing in return.

> its not the same thing as someone coming into your house and photographing everything at all, false equivalence.

I think the comparison is apt when it comes to claims that spying on people is OK as long as the spies aren't directly harming you. In both cases, someone is recording your personal data, in both cases, they aren't harming you with it, and in both cases it is extremely objectionable regardless.
I used to work in a proprietary concatenative/stack language that was used for the GUI front-end for medical software. I wrote a Mandelbrot in it that used zero variable names, just two functions with a recursive call. It was beautifully terse and dense. That sort of language is really satisfying for that sort of problem.
The problem with SUSE is that they always come last in phoronix linux distro benchmarks. They have no clear unique feature that would make anyone switch distro. This is from a consumer point of view, maybe enterprise finds value where I don't.
If anyone knows, how much would this affect non-US technology processes and legislature? What would an outcome of this mean for Asia and Europe?
Just because you can short futures doesn't mean you can effectively short bitcoin. You see this immediately if you look at the forward prices which are vastly different from the actual price.

There is no instrument to borrow and short real Bitcoin.
Currently it doesn't look like holding US-citizen data on EU servers will be a problem anytime soon. But if the EU decides that the protections for their citizens provided by the "privacy-shield" agreement are not good enough then it would mean US companies could not hold or control EU-resident's data.

https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/privacy-and-...
> "Before Android," Oracle’s lawyers write in their brief to the Supreme Court, "every company that wanted to use the Java platform took a commercial license...including smartphone manufacturers BlackBerry, Nokia and Danger."

Either that's word twisting (e.g. "platform" means something different or the commercial license was implicit) or just false.
It's all political marketing to make consumers continue to feel good about being screwed over more and more by corporate policy following demands of the very wealthy.
It might be. If the program still exists, and you didn't do any paperwork wrong in 25 years. And then you might owe taxes on the forgiven portion.
I definitely didn't understand the article either. I wasn't sure what this ruling actually meant. :)
> One of the biggest benefits to running containers is actually E2E tests...

100% agree. Most developers don't even bother testing code that requires DBs and other external services because it's a pain to keep test environments up and running so a lot of the most important and buggy code slips through the cracks.

Then you have the developers who do test but just make heavy use of mocking libs and other tricks which aren't helpful in the long run since the mocks don't actually do anything.

But setting up a docker compose with the whole stack - completely reset each time the tests are run - makes integration tests so much more valuable. And usually it's not a huge deal to set up the plumbing since the docker files are often already created for production.
Hi @helb, author here. ZSH's tab completion looks awesome! I'm not a ZSH user so I wasn't aware of that but I'm happy something similar exists in that ecosystem.

Re multiple files: I've thought about this a little, but I'm not sure how the UI would best represent the (potentially conflicting) permissions of multiple files. Open to suggestions however! In those situations I personally use remod to remind myself of the proper chmod command, and then copy-paste-run the chmod command with whatever edits are necessary.
The signal I get from that is arrogance, then.

Also, in an industry where “fake it till you make it” is the rallying cry, one shouldn’t appear dumb, lest one actually becomes dumb (at least in the eyes of their colleagues/superiors/reports/clients).
From my experience peer-editing class papers, bad writers aren’t dumb people. Someone would have an interesting idea and explain it cogently to me in person while sounding normal and fluent. The paper would be a train wreck, but a transcript of the verbal explanation would be worth at least a B.

It seems some people just have a disconnect between text and verbal processing.
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Hah - s/he's complaining about "slow" being 2-7 seconds...

...I remember back when I was in high school making a generator for this in BASIC on an Apple IIe, running 16 colors in the "double high res mode" (needed the 80-column card for it - only machine that had it) - and having it run for hours just to generate one image.

Slow...sigh.
You have to find a different angle each time.
Oh really. Just wait until the police and military demands to be paid with bitcoin.
This is such a weird take. Your own comment here is an example of writing for humans that uses emotional language to try to persuade an audience. By writing this comment at all, you imply that your comment is wrong.
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Must be because of the recent news, and expecting HN to carry "hacker" news, instead of biology news. :D
No they didn't. Source: took out a student loan last year.
Along these lines, I have a half-completed book on GitHub titled Prose for Programmers: https://github.com/joshuacc/prose-for-programmers

I started it because I found that being able to write effectively was my biggest advantage at work. Compared to others who were at least as technically competent as myself, I was more often able to persuade others to take the course of action I prefer.
Its not that I didn't understand your point. I just don't think this applies to most software engineers.
From the article:

The bill prohibits a provider from refusing to serve a customer, ... if the customer does or does not consent to the use, disclosure, sale or access.

So if they do as you say, they will be in violation of the law.
>> Write a very good 1-pager explaining it and you've got a much higher chance of it actually happening.

Who does this 1-page explainer go to ? who is the gate-keeper ?
HR will be the same; they want you to know what you need to be successful :)
> Besides that, the flying buttresses were not an original feature of the cathedral.

Do you have a source for that? I thought a gothic cathedral without flying buttresses was like a skyskraper without a steel skeleton. The load-bearing structure isn't generally added to a building after the fact.
Show HN: ZF Grants – Grants and Community Funding in $ZEC
The Zcash Foundation’s new platform for grants and community funding, ZF Grants, is open for proposals! The Foundation plans to dispense the Zcash equivalent of $500,000 through ZF Grants in 2019.

As one of the contributors to this project, I'm super interested in hearing what the community here thinks.

You can learn more about ZF Grants at https://grants.zfnd.org/ and https://www.zfnd.org/blog/zf-grants-is-ready/

Happy to field any questions about the platform :)
Journalists could have two sims, one with which they call people when they need to say who they are and one elf r when they don't need to say who they are.
Can dyslexia be occurring only once in a while?
Out of curiosity, what happened to Pinterest? I was never an active user, and the only thing I observed was the mainstream interest in it fall, so it got out of spotlight, but i dont remember anything bad actually happening that triggered it.
A lot of people/companies contacted the judges last time but some were actually companies backing Oracle (eg microsoft?)

What you can do as a developer is to ensure your company is not using any of oracles cash cows.
Okay, I have to ask. What is ICE power? I tried the Google and as you can imagine the results were not helpful.
This is something that I struggled with, good writers can build a story that reveals something over time. I'm not a good writer, I can't build stories like that, so I just have to lay the point out and support it after 5th grade form essay style.
Is right-click disabled on this website for anyone else?
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Who's talking about perfection? Perfection is like zen -- it's a goal that can never actually be achieved, so there's no problem in not achieving it. Striving for it nonetheless is a good thing.
I'm not sure if I understand your post, what does anthrax have to do with fungi?
It's still a really really bad decision to go to a $100,000 school over a $20,000 school