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If I pinky promise to indent my code anyway, then why does it matter whether I also have braces or not? In fact, braces allow me to press one button in my editor and get the indentation absolutely perfect, without affecting semantics.

Braces also allow for easily copying and pasting blocks of code because the braces delimit the semantics of the copied text. Because your code is already indented, with white space indentation you have to check that a) you pasted the first line at the right indentation level b) every subsequent line is also at the right level relative to the first line. No small feat.
This is a different use case, I think. This example is defining content, not configuration. In this case the content is user stories. I agree for creating sequences of documents/content in this way, YAML often is nicer. But for configuration, TOML is designed to specify it in a simple and flat way, and that can be very helpful.

I have some projects where I'm frequently writing and midifying content that resembles the example here, and I use YAML there and plan to keep using YAML. For most other things, I'm just doing configuration, so I use TOML. No reason you need to stick to one or the other.
I forgot to put the link. One of the first search results.

[1]: https://comparch.net/2013/06/30/why-tage-is-the-best/
Range anxiety is definitely a thing, especially if you've never driven an EV and have heard it exists. The issue is a non-issue for most Tesla buyers who have home charging.

The situation will hopefully resolve itself unquestionably in the next 2-3 years.
C really is a great language, its kinda funny how all the attempts to improve on it end up causing just as many pain points as they solve.
This is not necessarily in opposition to what TFA states: that programming is about knowledge engineering. It just happens that knowledge flows through user stories and code. This might work well or not so well for your team, and there's nothing to fix here. Managers should be aware, though, that this means you no longer have a project, but a line organization put up indefinitely, and where when the teams is disbanded, no "product" as such does remain; nor would it be possible to hand-over the "project" to an offshore team.
Makes complete sense.
> If they were actually good at removing crapware from the store, then a bit of collateral damage would be understandable

I don't agree. Honest developers should never be suspended such arbitrarily, not even as "collateral damage". Please remember that for an Android studio, being suspended from the Play Store means not only the end of the business, but also the end of the developer's career as an Android dev.
Not really. As long as they control the app market on Android, users are captive audience. Golden goose is immortal.
Voice input is very nice, esp for addresses in navigation. Controlling anything other than entertainment? Not helpful.
Jesus Christ that’s a well-written article. There’s no fat to it. All signal, no noise.
Sunburn is cell death due to DNA damage. It's a fail-safe that tries to limit the chance of things like melanoma by killing damaged cells off before they can reproduce.

The real culprit is the small chance some cells didn't die off and an even smaller subset manage to replicate with damaged DNA. The actual sunburn is just an indicator that you've exposed a number of skin cells to those odds.
NHL is horribly boring for small children, as are most professional sports. The rules don’t make much sense, the games last way too long, the seats are not child friendly, etc.
as in

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/12/11/cat-person
I rather like "crazy cat ladies". Obviously, I guess.

But why would women not like guys who like cats?

I have a theory. I like cats more than dogs because cats are independent and self-possessed. Whereas dogs are pack animals, seem to always be testing dominance order, and demand lots of maintenance.

So I can see how women who are looking for fathers would prefer dog people. Whereas women looking for friends would prefer cat people.
> And not sure why people are so obsessed with range.

Because people like doing road trips, staying away from home for a few days at a time
This looks absolutely hideous. I don't see why this would make me want to switch from YAML or JSON.
What was the straw that broke the YAML's back?
Because it’s not your job as a parent to entertain your children.
Who are you referring to? I hope not public school teachers. They have 25-30 kids per class, little freedom to change curriculum and pressure from both administrators and parents to achieve high grades above all else.

You can preach personal sacrifice until the cows come home - capitalist societies are incompatible with having or raising children - they get in the way of the one true God, quarterly profits.
So you're saying space laser energy is definitively better than solar roads? I think that's a little preemptive.
The Audi e-tron has adjustable ride height for reduced drag. It automatically lowers the car at higher speeds. Not sure if that's what you mean.
>you may miss out on something worthwhile

sorry, you should correct that to :

you will miss out on everything worthwhile
That makes a lot of sense, and is probably a version that's much easier to quantify.
"prefers working code over comprehensive documentation" does not mean "don't do documentation".

Documentation is essential. How things work is an important thing to document. Ideally it should be in version control and be generated from the code, because then it's less likely to go out of date. It still has problems (What do you do when the code and the documentation disagree? Which is correct?), but they're not as severe as the problems that arise when there is no documentation at all.

What is less useful is having comprehensive documentation for those things that are yet to exist. Writing a few hundred pages of specification and handing it over to the dev team is waterfall, and it is _this_ that the Agile manifesto signatories were interested in making clear.

I'd fix it with strategic DDD - I'd develop at least a "ubiquitous language" (or a UL): I'd get others to work with me on having clear terminology and making sure that is used consistently both in user stories and in the code base. That's table stakes.

I'd then event storm the contexts I'm working in and start to develop high level documentation.

Even at this point relationships between systems emerge, and you get to draw circles around things and name them (domains, contexts), and the UL gets a bit better. At this point you can start to think about describing some of your services using the UL and the language of domains and contexts.

By that point, people should start to click that this makes life easier - there is less confusion, and you're now all working together to get a shared understand of the design and the point of DDD is that the design and the code match.

The first part (all 100+ pages of it), of the Millet and Tune book on DDD will pay you dividends here.

If that doesn't work, look around for somewhere else to work that understands that software development is often a team sport and is committed to making that happen.
OK, but why would it be different for women?
Dough de Muro called it the "second worst car ever manufactured in the entire history of the automobile" :)

Actually, many upper class cars have height adaptable dampers. I know of one wealthy forest owner who bought the (at that time) super luxury Mercedes 500CL (W215) because the adaptable dampers also made it a great offroad car.
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The playground equipment I see these days is simply awesome. Yes, improved safety, but also markedly more imaginative and fun-looking (climbing walls, flying foxes, monkey bars and other 'hang-from' stuff that's incorporated into interesting structures you can move around, still lots of swings). I don't see many see-saws but they were always pretty lame. I also don't see any merry-go-rounds but I didn't like them as a child anyway. I think kids have it so much better in terms of playground equipment these days, at least where I live. I do wonder that I don't see it getting more use though.
I still keep using XML as my favourite format.

Get to use parsers out of the box, validation tooling, support comments, IDE code completion and they are super easy to transform.

In a couple of years some trendy SV unicorn will make XML the best format of the world, as these cycles happen to be.
Finland. The environment is safe, and kids can roam free. We consider it as a fact that if a kid is above 7 they can manage by themselves a couple of hours without supervision. Including going to school, a visit to the near by store, a stroll in the park or woods and so on.
In China it is quite normal for people to call each other using family relationship terms even when they are not related.

For example children will call their parents' friends or acquaintances "uncle" or "aunt".

The same goes for "big brother" for someone older and "little brother" for someone younger.
Home charging isn't an option for a lot of people who don't have a garage or a driveway. We're going to see a lot of "electric petrol stations" being built very soon - it's already happening... https://fastnedcharging.com/en
Where do rare earth materials contained in the batteries come from ? To the best of my knowledge it comes from Africa and China.
Mercedes has a voice controlled GPS navigator in older C models. It never understood where you want to go and the text input is atrouciously useless, just like the TV on screen keyboards. If you had it, you'd probably ended up using a paper map since it has way better ergonomics.
Tesla is only incidentally a car company, it is primarily a battery company. If any of these competitors really scale up it will be because Tesla chose to sell them the batteries.
Also Japan... at least in Tokyo and I expect most other cities.
I'm an iPhone user currently, have been for some time.

However all of the points you mentioned are still true.

There is no open source in iOS and the entire platform has an anti open source culture. Android has a lot of open source apps available, including an app store meant just for open source (https://www.f-droid.org/).

If you don't like Google Play, at the very least you can distribute your app independently without jailbreaking the phone. It might take the users fiddling with their settings, but at least the option is legit.

Also on Android you can have actual Firefox (not allowed on iOS), with ads-blocking extensions and everything, as the default browser. And apps don't necessarily insist on opening up their own freaking web view, or if they do, most of the time there's an option for opting out.

And yes, you can find really good Android phones for cheap. Like the ones from Huawei. Which I stay away from, but for other reasons.

Apple's phones age well and I like to be environmental friendly, so I'll keep this iPhone 8+ I have until it breaks.

But my next phone is not going to be an iPhone, sorry.
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That is a reasonable approach - thanks.
I assume the 12,000 figure includes the paratroopers that were dropped just before the landing? Otherwise I can’t understand how 12,000 airman could die over Normandy German air defenses were strong but not nearly strong enough to inflict such damage considering the size of the allied air force deployed over the European theater at the time.

Tho I’m actually quite surprised by the low number for the actual amphibious landing, but this could not include the push past the initial fortification line.
You get a much better view from an elevated position, it feels safer than in a lower car.
Let's remember things like Captain America in the past or many aspects of popular culture today.

This is not not new.

The thing is that when it comes from China it is immediately seen as negative without knowing their culture and point of view.

That being said, socialist countries have a long tradition of not so subtle propaganda campaigns.
Can someone explain the economical incentives behind this and how it helps SoftBank and the employees?

I understand what they are doing but I don't understand how it will work to succeed.
> I regularly avoided doing homework throughout my school life.

Same here. School hours were (something like) 9am to 3:30pm. They have no authority to allocate time after that, no matter how much they'd like to.

If they had a problem with it, that was their problem. Not mine.

And yep, that seemed to fit well with my later career as a professional (IT) contractor. ;)
This is all pretty US-centric.

Kids are allowed a fair amount of freedom in Canada and Europe, where I still see a lot of kids around malls, or parks, playing basketball in courts (which still happens in NYC), or wooded areas. Sure, more are on their phones etc. But it’s really not that different from the 90s IMO, in many locations.

The biggest change is there aren’t so many clusters of “neighbourhood kids” as there used to be, as people are having fewer children later in life... unless you deliberately seek out a unicorn neighbourhood with similar aged kids. Playgroups and play dates need to be actively organized by parents due to distances between houses.

(I raise two children, and the 10 year old is free to ride his bike and wander, so long as he keeps a phone on for location - he’s taken plenty of bike camps to learn to be responsible).
What? No you don't. You don't need a special IDE any more than you need a special IDE to know if a Python statement is in an "if" block or a parent "if" block.
They apparently don't offer an easy way to contact someone if there is a mistake or get a human to check the algorithm has correctly identified malware of it if has flagged a legitimate app.
Do you seriously think most people who buy larger cars now actually need them? Of course not.

People do cross comparisons and generally prefer the Model 3 for a variety of reasons. And it's cheaper.
I'm not sure if we can talk about segments here. The Audi for example aims squarely for the same premium SUV owners. That they didn't make them larger I suspect is the result of inferior technology. With increased mass and air drag the already modest range would have become laughable.
Not for a long time a student and not from Bangalore (though I have visited a couple of times), but that footnote stood out for me too
Thanks for catching that subsidy
It's interesting to watch the comments for this article on endgadget. As of rn, there are 17 comments from 9 accounts. 3 accounts are pro-china, one of which has 7 comments/replys in that thread, and the activity for all three is solely within the comments of this article, which also has multiple 'leader' (high usage) accounts all of which have commented in support of the protesters.
IMO SUVs are something that people of low status consider high status. They are primitive and brutal looking vehicles with pretty awful properties as driving machines: high weight, high drag, high center of gravity (which also forces comfort / safety compromises), much less room than station wagons. You can get cars that look and drive much nicer for the same money.
The irony is that the best format that takes over the world will be an XML representation of JSON, enabling comments and trailing commas.
Zen pencils has a lovely take on that: https://zenpencils.com/comic/90-ira-glass-advice-for-beginne...
Tangentially related: Could someone explain to me why SoftBank often seems to be the only major company playing in the "traditional" VC space? We hear of the "SoftBank round", but not, for example, the "Microsoft round" or the "AT&T round".

Relative to many companies, SoftBank is not so big. And the bigger companies do have VC-style subsidiaries set up (e.g. Microsoft's M12). But SoftBank seems to make the highest profile investments by a significant margin. Is there any particular reason for this? Are they simply more tolerant of risk and therefore write bigger checks?
The StackOverflow advice to writing answer worthy questions generalises quite well into all professional interactions where help is exchanged.
Good to find better ways to deal with the plastic we have, but we should probably just stop making so much conventional plastic.
That's an issue Tesla has, but I don't think that would at all explain a drop in Model 3 sales.
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It's not really unnecessary when someone can write an entire article on how unfathomable the output is without them.
Such an app could be easily done as a mobile web site.
> ...if I wasn’t going to be with her, I had to let her go so she could find someone else.

That's not an ultimatum, though I can see how it might read that way. She felt a need, which he wasn't meeting. She told him that if he wouldn't meet it, he needed to let her go seek its fulfillment elsewhere.
No, before that he was swiping left (rejecting) everyone.

> The first time I swiped right, I matched.
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> How do you push back when the manager sending the "ringer" is the VP of Engineering?

Work someplace better?

Seriously, anyone I have known who is senior in the engineering chain always made sure to tell people "Look, I'm recommending this person, but you are the hiring manager whom he is going to be reporting to. If you and your team don't agree, then he doesn't get hired. So be it."

And, they meant it. VP recommendations only have about a 50% success rate when I'm involved. If the VP isn't a dolt, normally it's simple misfit. The tougher discussions go along the lines of "This person is really good at Z and we really need that. The problem is that for him to be useful at this company after this project he needs background in X and Y, and he simply doesn't have that." If you have a good VP, he recognizes that the solution is "short term contract consultant".
> Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this?

Not to be rude, but yes: switch employers. This is not something you can fix on the employee level, it is a management issue.
"With Dusty everything was safe and there was never a compromise, but with Ilse I had to listen and negotiate. Ilse knew how to manage her life, and she made me change. Sometimes she made me change my clothes."

Dogpill? There is a subreddit about this, I thought it was a parody about redpill but more and more I'm reading about these similar experiences which I found quite interesting
I managed to read it by hitting stop after the text appeared and switching to reader mode (Firefox Android.)

Basically, Google Storage failed at least three times and they didn't have absolutely any way to get to their files. They are setting up manual access from multiple zones in AWS. They say it takes a lot of work but at least they can access the files from another zone of one fails. With Google it's all or nothing.
19.999999999 billion for the CEO, 1 for employees.
I myself was waiting for the Taycan, its looks stunning, and is very impressive, but on pure specs, its actually the same size as a Model 3 Performance, and a little slower... So I just ordered a Model 3 Performance. I currently drive a Model S.
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There is no proof in science and we observe it doesn't suffer from wholesale collapse.

Things being proved in mathematics are unlikely to be wildly wrong even without proof. Fermat's theorem being an example of one that took a very long time to be proved and basically nothing changed when it was. We were already convinced it was true by brute force failure to find a counter example. This lack of proof but search for counter-example is basically the scientific method. Is A equivalent to B? Prove it? Or write a for-loop and test it for values you care about. If you think you've proved it you probably write the for loop anyway (where such a thing is feasible).

So do we actually /need/ proof in math at all or is it just good fun and properly satisfying for mathematicians? Perhaps these are two extremes and case-by-case we could plot them somehwere between the two. Some right up hard against one side or the other.

So is P=NP? There is no proof. You probably aren't going out on a massive limb to have a view on the matter without it.
I have enough ties to USA and looking at the kids of majority of my childhood friends I can say for sure that they are similar or better off than an average Asian kids who spend majority of time not playing outside but immersed in school homework or extra tutoring activities.

The pressure in Asia builds even before pre-school where toddlers have lessons to attend, to get into a decent pre-school.

Anecdotal evidence to see some 5 year kids playing in playground alone in Asia doesn't prove the point that parents in Asia are not robbing their kids of their childhood.

USA is big multi-cultural place with many different parenting styles. Painting all of them with broad brush without statistical significant studies is not ok.

One might not get arrested in Japan, does not prove anything. I might not agree completely with USA system, but it must have a reason to exist.
Since you already know how to build software, why not learn how to break them?

Go into infosec and make bank. Less tedious than coding and better pay in my experience.
But what happened to Oscar Wilde?
I'm not sure why you've been downvoted. The current trends are quite interesting: Huawei & co. are bending over backwards to introduce innovative solutions into their phones, whereas Apple seems quite conservative and seems satisfied with putting in more powerful chips mostly. I'm amazed what you can do with some Chinese phones, and I wonder why Apple is less aggressive about new features than they used to be.
Reading a bit more about this guy he seems to have some interesting views. He points to Atheism as a key reason for the death of 60 million people under the Soviets, and states that America capitulated too early in the Vietnam war.
Yes. I've never seen unenlightened management somehow become enlightened.
Interesting, how did you get/negotiate remote work (in Robotics?) - did they list some particular position explicitly as remote?
Right, for some reason in Go (which Helm is written in), the standard library calls them encoders/decoders with marshal/unmarshal as the operations. Serialize is definitely the more common term generally.
Pex doesn't bundle any interpreters.
Have you tried sending a copyright takedown notice, if the apps copy your screen shots (assuming you have applied for the copyright)?

It seems like it might work.
I haven't even got a dog and I don't like them much; still touched me.
Softbank isn't really a traditional company. And it's not really a bank. It started as a kindof publisher for software ("software bank"), so it has a lot of expertise in identifying and distributing new technologies, and it's essentially acted as a holding company for tech investments (including alibaba) since 2000. Really it's the manifestation of Masayoshi Son, who is an incredible entrepreneur, technologist, and investor.

Apple+ more invest in the Softbank Vision fund, so the "SoftBank round" is already what you are thinking.
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