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> What do taxi companies do that prevents/mitigates it successfully?

In England for taxicabs and private hire vehicles the drivers have to have a criminal records check. This is the enhanced DBS check. This will be repeated every few (three?) years.

If they have contracts for childrens services or vulnerable adults services they'd also be checked against the adult's and children's barred list.

This doesn't stop all sexual assault, but it stops some.

We have a lot of information from London. https://taxileaks.blogspot.com/2018/12/tfl-release-latest-ta... (With usual caveats around crime data being very unreliable).
>Any real examples of this practice that you know of?

Is Facebook real enough for you?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo_Saverin
Events like this make me realize how much I rely on my CI/CD pipeline for working on new features, deploying etc. I am often too lazy to run E2E tests on my machine if I know that on CI it will take only a few minutes to be done.
Good effort. But the bit about using Protobuf, Cap'nProto only in processes that don't share memory is wrong. Sure, that may not be how they're traditionally used. But that doesn't exclude me from defining opaque C FFIs that pass/return opaque bytes that are serialized messages and have it be deserialized on the other end.
Yeah, I also see this issue. It's made worse by Agile/Scrum that assumes during the planning poker meeting that every dev has 8 hours per day available of constant flow while the real value being maybe 5-6 if you're lucky so you end up cutting corners or burned out due to the stress of meeting the target velocity.
Jeff Vogel has run a successful business for 25 years - making the games he wants to make, living the life he wants to live, and making a lot of people happy in the process.

We should all be so lucky.

People may not like his graphics and that’s totally understandable. But hopefully everyone can at least respect his accomplishments.
He was joking because you said 30 hours a day
'Git' doesn't necessarily imply 'github'. You can make a local repo, and get all the benefits of VC without any necessary exposure.
I've tried Elm and I think it's really great. I've watched a handful of Evan's conference talks and I respect him a lot.

However, when I choose what tech to go deep in with my limited free time, I want to see more than zero mentions of it in the "who is hiring" threads. I don't feel like Elm's traction has gained any in the two years since I first dabbled in it. If I was in a position to pick the tech stack for my work, I'd give Elm serious consideration though.
I don't know that either. I can be REALLY productive for 2-3 hours a day but rest is socializing with other devs, answering emails etc... I try to structure my day so that I learn some stuff in those 8 hours, do some personal stuff (pay bills, call doctor, arrange stuff after work).
I am regarded as quite productive but sometimes I feel really bad for not putting 100% in all those 8 hours but I find it impossible. I have problems with my legs when i sit for long periods of time so I am must productive in the morning till 12:00 after that it just so I have enough hours clocked in
None of that land is remotely cheap, in the middle of nowhere, nor probably twenty minutes away even for a fast train.
Wyoming is a state and this country is a union of states, not acres, or arbitrary units of population. We've failed to communicate the actual point of all this, which is to make sure each state--and not population districts--get representation at the federal level. If you have a problem with all this you should be asking: why do we need states?
> There is no objective "worse" fate to be either forced to go to work when you want to take care of the kids, or forced to take care of the kids when you want to go to work.

Yes, but that’s not what grandparent was talking about. They were writing specifically about the expectation that parents unconditionally think their children are the best thing that ever happened to them. The burden of this specific expectation falls much more heavily on mothers.
If a country is not ready for Democracy with the necessary amount of development/safeguards, this can be a disaster.

Like installing an internet connected Windows XP on your network with no updates, it introduces tremendous attack vectors that established actors/economies (UK, France, US, Germany) will be all to happy to exploit.
That dude does NOT seem happy, fwiw
They also spent less time reading Hacker News while doing it.
The office worker and the mortgage?
At the end of 2018 Altinity benchmarked ClickHouse against the TSBS and documented it.

https://www.altinity.com/blog/clickhouse-for-time-series
They're increasing the price without changing the price tag.
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Sure, running in general is basic to humans. The particular circumstances of particular races, like "so many laps over this particular course through the mountains" are very much a decision that some people made. Such decisions affect the results of those races.
Couldn't you use a union for that?

class string {

union {
const char *referenced;
char *copied;
} data;
bool copied;

public:

string(const char *source, booly copy) {
if(copy) {
data.copied = strdup(source);
copied = true;
} else {
data.referenced = source;
copied = false;
}
}

operator const char *() const {
return copied ? data.copied : data.referenced;
}

~string() {
if(copied) {
free(data.copied);
}
}

};

No const_cast and no wasted memory and it's clear that you are storing two semantically different types.

I would expect the conversion operator to optimize down to a noop since in all cases the returned address is equal to this.
EC works as intended.
yes. state governments elected Presidents, and that is a good way to avoid populists.
I like the "no bullshit, just do it" approach. Great for preventing analysis paralysis, and generally curbing off procrastination.
> wanting to swap out artists is just counterproductive

You're saying this like this was one of his design goals from the very beginning when he started 25 years ago. No, it's become a requirement because of how unreliable freelancers can be and how difficult it is to find a replacement that is able or willing to stick to the previous style. Thus generic fantasy stuff has become his solution to this issue that is unavoidable, regardless of whether people agree with him or not.
I mean sure, but that’s not why it’s not recyclable. I mean we don’t rust iron to recycle it!

Plastics are hard to recycle because their melts don’t mix. As a result, when cast, you end up with an interface inside your part where the plastic can delaminate and fail.

Therefore, to recycle plastic you have to classify it according to type (plastic things usually have little numbers stamped on them indicating type) and you have to be right over 99% of the time.
How can i get my hands on this?
Which version are you using? This could be this issue[1], fixed in 9.

[1]: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8139507
I found John Stuart Mill's life to be interesting. John's father was a radical and a prominent Benthamite. He raised his son to be the lion of their cause, and home schooled John to avoid the the state education system. John's father felt that the state schools instilled too much conformity and discouraged independent thinking.

For a time, John Stuart Mill was indeed a lion for his father's ideals. However, it should perhaps not be too terribly surprising that Stuart's independent thinking lead him to somewhat diverge from his father's perspectives.

One of the more important moments for that was in his twenties. John came to realize that even if all the reforms he wished for came to pass, he would still be unhappy. That realization lead to a nervous breakdown. He slowly recovered, reworking his father's philosophy into something that would allow him to live a life worth living.
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I take their word for it but still no idea what it means. Do I have a youtube inbox I have not been checking my whole life?
I'm not sure I would describe this as a confounder in this context - if fatherhood results in sleep deprivation which results in testosterone levels dropping,

then fatherhood generally results in testosterone levels dropping.
> A case in point is how the ORM Entity Framework that comes with .NET has made the older NHibernate (a separate package) obsolete

This did happen over time, but NHibernate was still really popular for a long time after EF came out, because of limitations it had.

I also don't think it was entirely because EF existed - over time, EF implemented more and more features that NHibernate had, yet at the same time it seemed like the NHibernate team had given up - there were no updates to it for a long time. It was the lack of updates that moved me to EF, but I always preferred NHibernate.
It's not by any means solved in Europe. // Swede
I hope this all turns out well..
Seems like github will soon become part of office 356 /s
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When you say things like this...

> mnemonics and programming model is so retarded

...you are going to get downvoted. This is because people who speak English as a first language understand you to mean "this is stupid, like a retard". They don't understand you to mean "this is delayed, like a watch mechanism would be adjusted".

You can keep arguing that you didn't mean what you said, but at least two people are telling you how your words are being interpreted.
ReasonML seems like a closer equivalent, since it has React bindings.
Indeed - relatively few people are put off from air travel by pictures of airliners enveloped in flames, as in the recent crash at Sheremetyevo.

I once imagined a "double-bagged" airship, in which the bulk of the lift is from hydrogen held within a shell of helium. I also wondered about a non-flammable hydrogen-helium mix, but it would apparently have to be mostly helium. I would guess, however, that modern developments in strong antistatic films and hydrogen detectors would make pure-hydrogen airships safe from fire.
I don't believe California or New Mexico had predominately English-speaking populations by the time of statehood, much less being aligned with viewpoints common to the rest of the US.

Quoting https://www.quora.com/What-was-the-population-of-California-... , "The Native population of CA in 1850 is estimated at 300,000. By 1863 it was down to 30,000 because of genocide and enslavement."

From http://explore.museumca.org/goldrush/curriculum/1stcaliforni... you see the US census says there were 92,597 of which 25,000 were Spanish speakers, and "Indigenous California Indians" were "Not included in the population count".

So California had far more non-English speakers than native English speakers when it became a state, and only 100,000 people.

I believe that the majority of New Mexico spoke Spanish as their primary language when New Mexico became a state in 1912.

The 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica entry for "New Mexico" says, in the causal racism of that era:

"The inhabitants of Spanish descent have been only slightly assimilated and cling tenaciously to their racial peculiarities. As a rule, they live in low adobe houses built around a court, and are poor and ignorant, but hospitable. They are more Americanized in the Rio Grande Valley than amoung the mountains where English is rarely spoken. Many of them have intermarried with the Indians, creating the class of half-breeds known as "Mestizos." Although the proportion of Spanish-American and Indian inhabitants is steadily decreasing with the arrival of immigrants from other parts of the United States, it was nevertheless computed by the New Mexican authorities to be about 63% in 1904. About one-tenth of the Spanish-American and Indian population habitually use the English language."

Quoted from https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b2900092&view=1up...

That's probably about 50% of the state which was predominately not using English when NM became a state.
I reduced my time at work to 80% at the beginning of July. Every Friday is my day now. This week I had to switch it up so today is my day off. It's 1pm and I have already worked out, ran some errands that had been bugging me and am now reading this in one of my favorite diners which I for some reason almost never found the time to go to before.

If you have the chance and it seems intriguing to you I encourage everyone to try it out. I guess not all workplaces support it in the same way as mine does, but it was possible for me to have a three month trial phase after which I can go back to 100% or decide to continue the 80% for a year. Maybe your workplace would be open for that but you just don't know!

Of course it's quite the pay cut, but as a developer with few obligations I can still manage quite well. I feel much more relaxed over all and I enjoy my work more when I'm there. It even subjectively feels like I'm getting more done at work. The weekend feels so much longer and relaxing, because stuff I normally do on the weekend often is already done.

One problem for me is that I tend to cram a lot into my Fridays. I feel like I have to use them to their full potential. Then when the weather doesn't work out or something else falls through I'm pretty bummed. But I think that is something that can be improved over time.
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I was wondering this too. Every new parent seems to report that they basically don't sleep for a year or two. That has got to account for a lot of the biological changes in parenthood. (Honestly, I'd really want to know about likelihood of dying in a car accident or other heavy machinery sleep-deprivation-induced-screwup.)
This reminds me of the "Die, heretic!" routine that Emo Philips does.

As well as putting it less kindly the "hobbyist" elements in the Libdems and Labour in the UK
> The UK has a weird chicken and egg thing going on. Everything is in London because everything is in London. HS2 is an attempt to break out of that.

One of the criticisms of HS2 is that it will just facilitate centralisation in London, by helping people get there more quickly!
I think the problem is more that most economists are innumerate. Economics meets virtually all of the definitions of a pseudo-science. Just because there are differential equations in a paper doesn't mean it's real science with proven predictive power.

(Anecdata, but why not?) In the run-up to 2008 I was having regular random conversations with non-technical people about the fact that the bubble was about to pop. It was obvious to them that valuations were divorced from all common sense.

But most expert economists and/or bankers were insisting the valuations were correct, and there was no cause for concern.

In this kind of context - and there's a very long history of it in finance and banking, so it's hardly a one-off - it seems a little strange to be picking on journalists for alleged innumeracy.

Put crudely, it isn't journalists who do the damage.
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Clarification: Not as consultants but as full-time.
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For some things it’s easy to measure: eg how much wheat is produced per hour of farm labor.

Some easy to measure things don’t rise and it’s easy to see why, e.g. how many students does one teacher teach in a given day.

Productivity in the aggregate is “the gross national” product and is calculated by the bureau of statistics. This is divided by the total number of hours worked.

Must be a very big spreadsheet. :)
I made a minimalistic game requiring only 3 colors, then spent a month making different palettes for it. Started with terrible color sense, ended up with this: https://imgur.com/a/boc29
Some people just have no aptitude for aesthetics. It's one thing to know what you like personally, another thing entirely to understand what other people may or may not like.

Besides which, it feels like you're missing the larger point that he really doesn't care what other people like, which he can afford to do because he's making a comfortable living. I think it's great that he's making a living doing things that he enjoys without having to add stress by adding extra layers of complexity in the process - which would help how? More money? He clearly feels that he doesn't need more.
I'm not a software developer, but basically a structural engineer / project engineer. I just wanted to say that my job is exactly like yours in some ways. Most of my quality work gets done in less than 2-3 hours; the rest of the time I'm either doing menial/repetitve tasks or talking to people / in meetings.

I guess I'm just trying to point out that I think this isn;t exclusive to software jobs, but it's the same trend for any mental labour job.

Getting into, and staying in, a state of flow requires a high cognitive workload, and getting back into it once you're kicked out is almost impossible some days. It often takes me at least 30 minutes to get back into that state, if at all. I think our society needs to re-think how we spend our time at work,but unfortunately that'll require government regulation, unless companies that are bold enough to switch to a 6 hour workday actual start making more money than their competitors.
Can you expand on how electron relates to the argument that JavaScript does not easily target POSIX? Isn’t the issue the runtime (Node) not some GUI “library” (electron)?
Have the mfr pay a small fee when their wrappers end up in the garbage. A little like the deposit on cans but the consumer doesn't have to do anything.
The whole thing is much better explained through supply demand and security. When job supply is low you want to maintain a close relationship with your employer because you hope this grants job security. When the demand outpaces supply suddenly people are forced to bid up wages - I agree that the culture might need time to catch up - like initially the risk averse will still be stuck in this mode and few will change jobs, but as the demand ramps up the terms get better and switch job becomes much more common - culture changes and even the most cautious cannot ignore the market trends - I've seen this first hand in my local market over the last few years where the salaries went up 2x in 3 years.

How medival servitude explains any of this better is beyond me.
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I think it's maybe partly that the jobs I've tended to work have no real socializing/email answering/meetings aspect. I've tried to get more onto that side just to preserve my sanity but it's been very much "go through tickets for 7-8 hours a day".

I can't remember the last time I needed to respond to an email.

And they've all been very different jobs/industries - consultancy, startup and large company. Maybe part of it is the tech (C# .NET) or the location (England) but from talking to my friends in the industry the experience seems to be similar.
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> The 40h a day week and modern-day work contracts come as a direct evolution of medieval servitude, with little modification.

Where can i read more about this assertion? I was not aware that serfdom would specify such details as the number of hours. I guess that serfdom would be a very different institution in each country, or even within each province; (I guess corvée service might have been a more detailed contract, but I am not aware of the details) so I would like to hear some more details.
The chromebook should still be updatable. There is no reason to withhold updates just because it reached some arbitrary date.

A 10 year old windows computer still receives updates. As long as the OS is updated.
Not an inherent agile/scrum problem, we assume 6 hours availability per day during planning in my team
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The project isn't mine, I found it accidentally. I like that it's silly, playful, not hateful and non-commercial.

My favourite links:

- https://cat-bounce.com

- http://unicodesnowmanforyou.com

- https://pointerpointer.com
Well, isn't also the case that a toddler still hasn't fully developed their empathy and other mental faculties, and thus aren't capable of understanding the full extent of how their behavior affects others (and indeed why they should care).

I'm not saying that anyone should feel ashamed to negotiate for better compensation (quite the opposite!), but I'm also not sure that you can look at those little uncooked narcissists and conclude "this is how a human being naturally behaves". I think it's pretty normal for a person with mature emotions to feel at least a bit bad when making demands.
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Seems like a partial outage. We cannot merge pull requests, and get false reports about merge conflicts.

https://www.githubstatus.com/
Is this an age thing? I do the exact same thing. Every time I stop typing I hit ctrl-s between 2-5 times. I don't eve think about it anymore.

My kids are getting to the age where they are doing projects on a computer and I'm constantly telling them to "save early, save often."

I guess it's some form of PTSD from computing in the 90's.
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I think you might have misunderstood me. I was contrasting one extreme interpretation with another. I was not really criticizing Python. Its large standard library is one of the things I like about it.
So this thread got me thinking about the practicalities.. the HS1 speed to Ebbsfleet (25 miles out of London and outside the M25) is 18 minutes which includes a stop at Stratford.

HS2 is designed to run a little faster and if you nixed the stop I think 30-35 miles could realistically be 20 minutes out of London on HS2. That sticks you right in the middle of the Chilterns if you follow HS2's rough direction.. probably not ideal for a town.

Add another 5 minutes, though, and there's a lot of open land just south-east of Oxford and just off of the M40 too..
Seems like you're rationalizing your assumptions instead of taking it upon yourself to understand the experience he's trying to convey.

> It seems Jeff has put no effort into it

From the article: "I have had games where I worked very hard to improve the graphics, spending a lot of time and money"

> he'd have enough sense to direct art himself in some way

He does direct art himself in some way: "That is why all of my games have a more generic fantasy style. I have to work with a lot of different artists. It's the nature of the business. Thus I have to write games in a way that the artists can be replaced. The generic style this requires is not ideal, but it is necessary."
Apparently that was done in the Ruby community and Github "helpfully" uploaded all the Ruby packages to the gems repository meaning all 217 forks of https://github.com/httprb/http became potential gems.

But the underlying idea is sound: namespace and federation. Rust should ideally follow Java's solution. And it's completely forward portable: when namespacing is introduced, the crates.io/regex crates become io.crates.regex. Then you can have your com.github.majewsky.regex.
Perhaps. Or maybe freelance artists are frustrated working with someone who doesn't seem to understand what they like to see in good work, and what gives them a sense of satisfaction in a product they have worked on.

I mean the guy seems incapable of comprehending style if this is what he's putting out 25 years in.
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How do you take into account the views of everyone, when different segments of the electorate sometimes have irreconcilable desires and views, and not wind up with "tyranny" of some sort simply by having to set some policy that can't please everyone?