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I see same too often recently. There is too much printed money on tables. Quality assurance degrades, business in scoping histeria, management micromanaging everything ad-hoc aka flat but same old structures, engineering forced to deliver over weekends and cut every corner.

This bubble has to crash or people will go mental en masse.
Maybe I didn't make my point clearly enough.
To me - it was a silly fun game I spent an evening with - and then never touched again.
The whole "becoming a thing" completely missed me. I maybe say it was on Android, or Xbox - but being an old fart completely missed the fact that millions had turned up and were playing it (and PewDiePie was a name of somebody etc etc)
From the same (only) page that asks for email, company, etc.

> Due to requirements of the U.S. government, export compliance is now mandatory when downloading our software. Complete the form to proceed with your download.

That's totally fine by me.
You're assuming that you're 'friendly' enough with your users that they want you to use their given name.
Domain-driven design by Eric Evans gave me a vocabulary set to organise my previously unstructured thoughts about domain modelling into a cohesive domain model of domain modelling.
The wording of this headline could be confusing, depending on how closely you've been following these developments.

What actually changed in this exact version sounds like there is now an opt-out, though it is by default opted-in of course.

Before this version, there was no opt out at all. So this is an improvement from the last release, but still worse than a few releases ago before the phone-home.

I don't think I'll be purchasing any more Ubiquiti gear myself, and what I have I should probably sell off. Network gear is something I want to be able to trust, not wonder what new thing they're trying to sneak in, and the communication on this issue from Ubiquiti has been pitifully bad.
Personally I think large organizations ask algorithmic questions more because of what it correlates with than what it directly measures (they know most engineers will not be spending much time solving algorithmic challenges on the job), so the system is working as intended. But I do think it would be a good interview question to ask someone to refactor a poorly designed class structure in order to add a new feature.
How to handle the case when you want to replace a function that makes changes to a database? Is this library aimed only towards functions which don't make changes to the system's state?
>>A multiplayer persistent world like Minecraft with physics would be amazing, and probably replicate Minecraft's success.

That is something that I'm actually trying to create. Although my focus is a world where you can create machines that are simulated by a physics engine. Users will be able to create humanoid robots, a mechanical giant clock, etc. Think Minecraft for machines. I'm still in the early stages right now so don't really have much to show anybody yet but that is the plan.

I already tried once[1] without success so this is my second go at it.

This is my first attempt from several years ago:

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRWENHLgEnk
https://medium.com/@donhopkins/designing-user-interfaces-to-...

>Some muckety-muck architecture magazine was interviewing Will Wright about SimCity, and they asked him a question something like “which ontological urban paradigm most influenced your design of the simulator, the Exo-Hamiltonian Pattern Language Movement, or the Intra-Urban Deconstructionist Sub-Culture Hypothesis?” He replied, “I just kind of optimized for game play.”
> Boeing has botched this so badly that the replacement for the 737 will probably be

It will definitely be the A320 family, which has none of these problems, comes in sensible size variants already, is used extensively every day around the world, is price comparable, and isn't going to spook Western consumers in the same way that a Chinese plane will.
In the city I'm living in (Italy) buildings are old (and with 2 ft stone walls, on average) so that mobile phones can only rely on wifi when you are indoors. I think this may apply to any old (like several centuries old) city. I don't know if cities of this kind are enough to make a statistically relevant case.
Apple’s star has not been in the best position as of late, at least among the hacker community. If he was to experience retaliation, here’s hoping that the community here, on Reddit, and elsewhere will rally around him for exposing their practices. At the very least he will likely have no problem securing crowdsourced funding for the legal fees.
Not GP, but it seems like a great idea to me. Using different proxies you can have a different IP address for each profile, making tracking more difficult.
I got sucked into the cryptocurrency craze and walked away with $13M
You misunderstood the point of my question. I don't think it's worth memorizing any of those things when you could be learning deeper concepts than names of standard library functions or something.
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Sometimes if you're right, being kind signals to others that it's ok to ignore you (e.g. "it's just her/his opinion"). Whereas if you're more direct and skip the niceties it can be more likely your ideas are acknowledged.
Ask HN: Keeping javascript simple, what are our options?
Self taught dev here. I have had two experiences working in front end development. The first is basically script tags in HTML. HTML is built by bottlepy template engine. *.js files sat in the /static folder on the server. Javascript makes json calls to server with a database etc. Pull in Bootstrap and projects can be put together super quick works well.

The second is a recent unplanned deep dive in to Angular CLI which to me seems at the opposite end of the spectrum, single page, Typescript, NPM, compiled js etc. Fun, but Full On. But for as much that this brings, a lot of things that just worked before are complicated.

I recently started a new personal project. I have started with my comfortable bottlepy sever with templates. But as the javascript becomes involved, more libraries seem to give examples in the ES6 style (imports etc), I think I need to think this through more.

My question is, in late 2019, if you want to keep your javascript simple, what are your options? There must be something that sits between plain javascript and Angular CLI. No Angular, React, Vue etc. Think more like leaflet.js with a few plugins.
Harbor: An advanced container and helm chart registry with security features
YouTube can now terminate accounts that are “no longer commercially viable”
They removed GA from the startup pages, and you can go straight from those to the telemetry settings (it even prompts you to do so on first launch iirc).
Very much agree with your analysis here. It's like many, many good ideas that have come up in SV (agile/scrum, OKRs, etc), when looked at as a useful tool for the individual that should be utilized on an individualized basis, they are incredibly useful. When made standard and forced into use-cases and personality types they don't work for, they can be mediocre or even counter-productive. They will also be used in ways not entirely desired, such as for self-promotion, self-justification, gaming things, etc. Managers also tend to get overly prescriptive about how to use the tool (usually a sentence that starts with, "here's how we do $TOOL at $COMPANY" is often heading there).

I've used OKRs, Kanban/agile and many other tools for me at an individual level and loved them. I've had the exact same tools at companies become a waste of time, a point of contention, and only be a "value add" for management.
They are all related.

From Niall Ferguson's- The Square and the Tower

"The Times noted in 1863, the history of the Saxe-Coburgs showed ‘how much one success leads to another in Princely life’. Augusta of Saxe-Coburg’s grandchildren included not only both Queen Victoria and her husband, Albert, but also Ferdinand, who married the Queen of Portugal, and Leopold’s son, namesake and heir to the Belgian throne.

The Saxe-Coburgs were further linked by marriage to the Orléans family and the Habsburgs. Moreover, Victoria and Albert’s eldest child was not the only one to marry royally: all but one of their nine children did. Thus, besides Frederick William of Prussia, Queen Victoria’s sons-in-law included Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein and Henry of Battenberg, whose brother Alexander became prince of Bulgaria, while her daughters-in-law included Princess Alexandra of Denmark and Princess Marie, daughter of Tsar Alexander II and sister of Tsar Alexander III. By the time the future Nicholas II arrived in London for his first visit to England, in 1893, a family reunion had come to resemble an international summit:

'We drew into Charing Cross. There we were met by: Uncle Bertie [the future Edward VII], Aunt Alix [Alexandra of Denmark], Georgie [the future George V], Louise, Victoria and Maud [his sisters, the last of whom would marry Prince Carl of Denmark, later Haakon VII of Norway] …
Two hours later Apapa [Christian IX of Denmark], Amama and Uncle Valdemar [of Denmark] arrived. It is wonderful to have so many of our family gathered together …
At 4.30 I went to see Aunt Marie [wife of Alfred, duke of Saxe-Coburg] at Clarence House and had tea in the garden with her, Uncle Alfred, and Ducky [their daughter, Victoria Melita].3

When this last married Ernest Louis, heir to the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt the following year, the guests included an emperor and empress, a future emperor and empress, a queen, a future king and queen, seven princes, ten princesses, two dukes, two duchesses and a marquess. They were all related"

"In 1894, Queen Victoria was pleased to be addressed as ‘Granny’ by the future Tsar Nicholas II, after his betrothal to yet another of her granddaughters, Alix of Hesse.6 With ‘Willy’ (her grandson William II of Germany) corresponding cheerfully with his cousins ‘Nicky’ and ‘George’,7 it seemed for a time as if the vision that had inspired Leopold I had been realized: from Athens to Berlin, from Bucharest to Copenhagen, from Darmstadt to London, from Madrid to Oslo, from Stockholm to Sofia and even in St Petersburg, the Saxe-Coburgs ruled."
Choice is good, alternative implementations are good. But I think competition is bad. It is wasteful and antisocial.
We had some success leveraging groups we already belonged to like neighborhood groups on Facebook and school groups through business school.

I heard from the founder of a local discard/swap site that their original plan to get people to use an app failed (no one wanted to download it), and they just ended up creating a group on Facebook which allowed it to take off and expand to nearby towns.

Not ideal for obvious reasons, but in her case it eliminated a major barrier to adoption and participation.
And a S3-api compatible http api layer
> If it doesn't, congratulations, you've invented the desktop link.

This is currently insanely difficult with Firefox. You need a custom profile for every website, with matching userChrome.css.
Not popular read if you pose discussion here it seems.

Quite alarming “ up to six feet by 2100, about twice the increase described as a possible worst-case scenario just three years earlier. At that pace, some of the world’s great coastal cities, including New York, London and Hong Kong, would become inundated”
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Just because one receives more information doesn't mean it's beneficial for the listener. There are plenty of times where bad information (like false statements) can cause more damage than no information. Why listen to a mean speaker if the message can be just as negative as it is beneficial?
I'd love to be able to export a pre-paginated epub from the HTML we generate, but that is just a long term goal at this point.
Firefox is deleting each entry individually. I tried to contribute a patch with a short-circuit when you select all and hit delete, but the places code was in the middle of a refactoring, and as always with browsers it was way more complicated than my patch, so it wasn't accepted.
> The issue the heart of Citizens United v. FEC (i.e., the Federal Elections Commission) was whether a non-profit's funding of a TV special criticizing a candidate violated the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act.

In ordinary parlance, do we say “Apple funds iOS” or do we say “Apple makes iOS?” In Citizens United the non-profit produced and sought to air a movie called Hillary: the Movie. They didn’t “fund” any candidate’s political campaign.

> I guess it's technically true that the decision doesn't allow more money to flow directly to the campaign

By “technically true” you mean “true.” “Campaign finance” laws presumably have to do with financing of campaigns. The “role of money in elections” is a different, much broader area, much of it outside the scope of campaign finance laws. (For example, consider the alleged $5 billion in free advertising the press gave Trump. Do campaign finance laws allow the government to regulate that?)

One can imagine lumping in scenarios where someone is attempting to bypass a campaign finance restriction by directing a third party to produce content for the campaign. But that’s not what Citizens United involved either. There was no allegation of any such “indirect” campaign financing. Instead, the government tried a naked power grab: punishing a non-profit for making a political movie, with no showing of any link to the campaign beyond that.
Apple patented the elastic scroll.
> But you pay an optimization penalty, since the apps have to defer offset calculation until runtime.

isn’t that penalty only one time, when the first message is sent? after that it seems pretty dang fast [1]

[1] https://mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2012-11-16-lets-build-o...
Yes. I was paid for one in the past year. Unless I got pretty desperate for work, I would take a pass on any job that asked me to do it unpaid.
Both of these games are excellent intros to game development. ROBLOX more so in my opinion - it’s a lot like the old school quake-c modding days and such.

I tried to get my kids to play around with web pages and tutorials, but it wasn’t until they wanted to create mini games in ROBLOX that they got busy.
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I live in Central Kansas. In our house there's next to no cell service. We could switch providers, but then we'd be in a dead area every time we drove a few miles. No carrier has good coverage in our area. Without a landline we would even have trouble calling 911. Thankfully POTS is still alive here at least.
The "entire idea" of the Internet, as far as I'm concerned, is computers talking to each other over a common network. The rest is all crap we made up to layer over it.

Both disintermediation and aggregation have been essential forces in the information culture built upon the Internet from the early days. Both serve an useful purpose, and both have their dark sides as well.

Netflix is of course free to make and sell their own content how they wish, as is Disney. But the value proposition of Netflix started with syndicated content, and that proposition is diminished the less you find such content on it. At some point, you have to ask whether it's still worth the monthly subscription, or if you should take your money over to the other streaming services instead – each with its own slightly different and uniquely-broken interface, I should add.
Remember programming these when in college in the 1970s. We bought some surplus (probably out of spec) 1702s. The programmer would have trouble programming them until we noticed how hot they were getting. We spayed them with freezing spay to cool them down until the programmer finished.
I've seen this bug too - also on an XR
"The accounts have already been reinstated. We handled that last night. 2. The whole-account "ban" was a common anti-spam measure we use. The account is disabled until the user verifies a phone number by getting a code in an SMS."

Is g00gle harvesting mobile numbers?
No, a taxi medallion could be rented out to drivers. For example, for a period Michael Cohen owned 34 NYC medallions.
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Colour me meh.

What are others seeing in this?
> Turns out hat manufacturer didn't actually ensure that there were no live bacteria in the final product, people started marking the substance as suitable for premature infants, and babies have died from the worst possible bacterial infections imaginable as a result.

That's a reckless and misleading summary, to put it politely. For starters, here is something the article says:

Did the cold processing method and the failures in sanitation cause NEC? [...] Nobody’s sure. The FDA’s current theory is that the problem is the xanthan-gum thickeners themselves, because of the way they interact with an immature gut.

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Yes, the article does spend some time up front on anecdotes for emotional response, but overall I felt it was quite well-written, trying to capture the nuances on different facets of the story -- quite unlike the above (aggravatingly shitty) "TL;DR" which presents a spurious simplification. Reality is NOT THAT SIMPLE; deal with it. For anyone who actually wants to understand, I recommend reading the full article.
The problem with eLua and others is that they either try and replace C or they focus on the headers/registers/peripherals of the micro. Design it to be the environment you do all your work in. Get there, stay there. It’s why eLua appears to have terrible micro support because they only have the bandwidth for specific chips. Other options like MicroPython have a VM you are never supposed to leave.

I think you’re right that Lua is the way to go. But I have yet to see someone package it nicely for gcc and to be included and built from an MCU IDE (Keil, Segger Emebbeded, IAR, etc). I’ll keep looking.
And if you read the article closely you would see that the FDA actually made that same connection, which is that while NEC was occurring in babies who were given SimplyThick it also occurred in babies who had not been given it, thus making it impossible to say that SimplyThick caused the NEC.

This article was from 6 years ago and a bit of research hasn't come up with any outcomes other than some sealed settlements with the families. The product labeling was changed to indicate a risk of NEC and the issues found at their packager (cold processing so incomplete sterilization of the product) have been rectified. And the product is still offered for sale suggesting that the company feels like they have put this behind them and the FDA has signed off on that.
A gambler who got lucky. The article gives the distinct impression that the fact he invested at the bottom of the market rather than just before a bust cycle was not because of good judgement. There is little else to say about this.
I wouldn’t say “your car”.

I would say “your car if it already has all the tools preinstalled to be ready for remote control.”

In other words, not really any cars currently on the road, at least not in any numbers.
Previous discussion, before the list was released and looked into: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19257434
Well I suppose it's honestly not a huge value proposition anyways imo
Now try to describe it to HR people so they can measure things and write to excel table like Person A knows 90% Person B knows 50%.
Explain that what you want are lazy people who can abstract the world and peek problems from different angles. Writing code is only the last step.
I’m actually from Belgium, which is in a very similar situation as Quebec: (a) heavy accent which the French love to make fun of and (b) where language wars have been raging forever and taken to ridiculous levels. This mentality of wanting to keep a culture ‘pure’ by trying to control how and where language is used, is a losing battle. Some Quebecers, just like purist francophone Belgians have taken this language obsession to irrational levels, and it has knock-on effects in other aspects of daily-life. I wish Quebecers would just lighten-up about it..
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Preventing wild animals from killing each other would require by far the largest ecological intervention the world had ever seen, which would involve humans either exterminating half the species on the planet, or domesticating them and feeding them engineered vegetarian diets. In either case, it would certainly cause massive ecological damage, and I don't think we have the technology to do such a thing even if we wanted to.

This suggestion sort of like saying "Oh, you think our country should outlaw wife-beating? Well why don't we conquer the entire world and stop every country from practicing wife-beating?"

As for domesticated animals, I think we absolutely should try to find ways to feed them without killing other animals. There are companies out there trying to make vegan cat food, and although I'm not sure whether it's good enough to keep cats healthy yet, I definitely wish them luck in achieving it.
Yes, the point is to create your own algorithms. It's hard to create something you don't know anything about or know how other people created them before you. Imagine this in another field, say an engineer who doesn't want to study how other bridges were designed because those aren't the bridges she's going to make. Eventually algorithm and data structure design will be automated and everyone will be programming in declarative English, but that's a lot more general intelligence than predicting your next line of code is a foreach. That's why I say learn computer science not programming languages because machines already speak programming languages.
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> They don't seem to understand just how much capital businesses are willing to spend to get rid of reoccurring labor costs.

The trucking industry doesn't need to automate to slash labor costs. Exploitation is much simpler and more effective.

A lot of truckers get the lesson eventually. The hard way. See for example:

https://www.usatoday.com/pages/interactives/news/rigged-forc...

A yearlong investigation by the USA TODAY Network found that port trucking companies in southern California have spent the past decade forcing drivers to finance their own trucks by taking on debt they could not afford. Companies then used that debt as leverage to extract forced labor and trap drivers in jobs that left them destitute.

If a driver quit, the company seized his truck and kept everything he had paid towards owning it.

If drivers missed payments, or if they got sick or became too exhausted to go on, their companies fired them and kept everything. Then they turned around and leased the trucks to someone else.

Drivers who manage to hang on to their jobs sometimes end up owing money to their employers – essentially working for free. Reporters identified seven different companies that have told their employees they owe money at week’s end.
Stable ABI and especially the issue of generics is why I think bytecode+JIT is the right approach to a language that operates at this level of abstraction. Higher-level semantics of bytecode allow for much more flexibility wrt ABI, and JIT lets you compile generic code monomorphically across ABI boundaries, and even inline it. A long time ago I did some experiments with very carefully written C# code, and it was capable of the same abstraction as C++ STL containers and algorithms, while producing highly efficient native code because everything was inlined at runtime.
It happens when you update firefox out from under itself. In other words, don't apply apt updates for firefox until you're ready to restart it.
I think you're thinking about web apps. I imagine there's little purpose in printing those.