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I despise the web.

HTML was designed for static documents, it boggles my mind that things like nodejs were created. It's not a secret.

HTML techs can't even run efficiently on a cheap smartphone, which is the reason apps are needed for smartphones to be usable.

Every time I'm talking to someone for job offers, I state that I want to avoid web techs. No js, no web frameworks. I prefer industrial computing, to build things that are useful. I don't want to make another interface that will get thrown away for whatever reason.

Today the computing industry has completely migrated towards making user interfaces, UX things, fancy shiny smoothy scrolly whatnots, just to employ people who can't write SQL. Companies only want to sell attention. This is exactly what the economy of attention is about.

All I dream about is some OS, desktop or mobile, that lets the user write scripts directly. It's time you encourage users to write code. It's not that hard.
I don't seen how problem solving competitions are any measure of worth for a language. That's like saying, teams that wrote tests didn't complete as many of the problems, so we shouldn't write tests. What about maintainability, ease of refactoring, catching of bugs during compliation time etc. There are tradeoffs to everything, you just have to decide what matters most to you.
Немецкий политолог озвучил исход «битвы» США и Германии за «Северный поток-2»
Американо-германские отношения могут ухудшиться из-за введенных Берлином контрсанкций против Вашингтона. Следствием подобных мер, по мнению политолога Александра Рара, может стать создание серьезного прецедента, что в конце концов спровоцирует конфронтацию между двумя странами.

Данную точку зрения Рар озвучил, комментируя недавнюю инициативу американцев. Ранее Конгресс США вынес постановление, в соответствии с которым на компании, принимающие участие в строительстве «Северного потока-2», распространяются американские санкции. В случае если американский президент Дональд Трамп одобрит данное постановление, решение вступит в силу.

Рар удивляется такому шагу американской стороны. Он указывает на всю абсурдность ситуации: санкции вводятся за то, что Германия не желает покупать у американцев СПГ, а продолжает стремиться к покупке газа у России. Политолог утверждает, что данную ситуацию нужно для начала подвергнуть рациональному пониманию.

Берлин же оказывается на распутье, считает Рар. Немцы должны или сопротивляться и предпринять какие-то ответные шаги, или покориться и отказаться от любого сопротивления.
How can such a theory be falsified?
That does sound strange to me, can't there be judges that are not politically strapped but bound to secrecy? I understand that in the US you need a jury of peers, but in the Netherlands we don't, so you could copy that system for such cases? Judges should be independent of the state anyway in a trias politica system [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_powers
I think we are in perfect understanding. I, myself, also do all of my work in English even though my mother tongue is a small language of 6 million people.
There is a "chemicals I won't work with" on HF
A created an account just to tell you that you are wrong about Portuguese laws. It's a common mistake.

Here in Portugal drug use is what we call ”decriminalized”. It's forbidden but not persecutted/punishable.

But I agree that going after drug users is a waste of effort, and more contries should do like us and just go after dealers and distributors.

The only way you could go after users is if you use an extreme islam way, death penalty. Not very ethical.
> That wasn't my experience, but most employers actually referenced that case in their contract, so I am not sure what the default rule is.

The law is as the law is and the law is clear: Without good reason, no employer can forbid you taking on a second job. Now, employers pulling shenanigans in their employment contracts is not entirely uncommon - either due to lack of knowledge or trying to intimidate their employees. That's why it's good to know to have a general idea what the law says - because the law trumps the contract.

> What about ownership of things you produce in your spare time? I don't think the former necessarily covers the latter.

No, it doesn't. This is covered by the ArbnErfG (Gesetze über Arbeitnehmererfindungen) https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/arbnerfg/index.html#BJNR0...

In a very short and inaccurate summary: Your employer can claim inventions that cross a certain threshold that are related to your work. You're entitled to compensation. Your employer can also claim a (nonexclusive) license for inventions that do not relate to your job, but relate to any of their areas of business under fair and reasonable terms (in doubt, a court gets to decide). You must notify your employer of any such invention.

Obviously, trade secrets or code that your employer owns the copyrights for is off limits for any of your spare time work.
Lovely comment.
Hi again knight and thanks for your response!

Sorry if I misinterpreted you at some point. Of course, I fit your criticisms constructively and I have always tried to answer your questions not with the aim of saying "this is what you get, you draw the conclusions".

I hope my answer is more conciliatory and you can understand our value proposition! :)

First of all, Scope's sense is to help IT Managers have data. What kind of data?

1. Know the workflow of engineers: frequency of commits, pull-requests and revisions. With this data, we can know exactly the productivity peaks, the days where you work the most and the time slot where you are most productive.

2. Know the duration of the tasks: with a historical data, software factories can adjust budgets better and have a better idea of how long it can take them to finish a specific project for a client. We can see two things: the duration of tasks at the project level and at the engineer level. We help to know the evolution of time by days, weeks and months on both levels.

3. Know how the tasks are related among engineers, (this is on the roadmap, not in production). We want to throw data to know how the tasks are distributed among the engineers, how the reviews work among them, what level of involvement exists, how the workflow with the PRs improves, number of comments by type of task or by person, .. We are working on providing data that can help to better structure processes internally. With this, we want to get engineers to communicate more with each other and increase motivation and the level of involvement among colleagues.

4. Impact of the tasks. At a low, medium and high level. We establish criteria based on an algorithm (constantly evolving) based on good practices within the code: comments, revisions, affected dependencies, modified lines, labels, commit message, type of task, etc. With this, we help you understand the impact level of each pull-request in the code. We help detect talent, lack of motivation, progress from a junior to senior engineer, ... We want to connect with Sonarqube tools to really see if that impact we reflect is directly related to the technical debt in Sonarqube.

And on the roadmap, there are more things. We want to make a very cool tool, and feedbacks like yours help us greatly!

Once again, thanks knight! Anything, write me again!
The "expert" description is far too vague and easily interpreted as less advanced than the "advanced" category. Results for this question are meaningless.
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Although the typical design for a FIDO key uses what is technically a symmetric ("secret") key that's an implementation detail and the purpose of the FIDO device is to maintain asymmetric (private) keys.

If you've been under the impression that FIDO is just a shared secret system like TOTP then I've got great news, it's much cleverer than that. By not relying on secrets the system is robust against total incompetence by a relying party. If say Facebook paste all the U2F credentials they have for your account into a public Pastebin, not only can that not be used to attack your Login.gov account secured with the same FIDO key, it can't even be used to attack the Facebook account the credentials are for.

Military intelligence services actually rely heavily on analysis of public information. The value of the exciting and expensive Hollywood-style secret agent is mostly in their ability to do stuff, mostly illegal and immoral stuff, not a benefit to collecting intelligence.
The Linux Foundation strikes me as a wolf in sheep's clothing. Who would suspect that The Mother Theresa Foundation was anything but philanthropic? And why is The Mother Theresa Foundation involved with Remington Arms Company and the NRA? Something isn't right here..
Wouldn't surprise me if you would also find a lot of bugs and inaccuracies with the computational fluid dynamics module through that. That is the algorithm would find an optimal solution in simulation and when tested in real life it would turn out not to be nearly as good.
> HTML techs can't even run efficiently on a cheap smartphone

That's largely the fault of ads. Some well placed JS stuff is lightning fast, even on mobile.
so did my dad for a very long time. But in recent years he (and my brother as well) switched to a normal mouse. I haven't asked him why (I should!), but I suspect that lack of support from more recent OS revisions and the hardware just being harder to find might be a reason.

I have used the digitiser a few times and it seemed much more efficient than the mouse.

Also autocad has (or at least had, last time I looked at it years ago) a very prominent prompt where to input keyboard commands (in autolisp, no less!).
Andreas Gal? What a surprise.

That's the guy who flopped with Silk Labs labs.
I can say that I have yet to see ANY web app, that is fast and snappy. ANY. At some point, they all have problems.

Even many frameworks for iphone and android that are essentially web apps are terrible and make every app slow and miss clicks.
On the latest and modt powerful iPhone no less.

If you are creating a product as a web app only, you are telling me you do not care about UI enough.

Programs never not had bugs or issues, but we never had the Situation that every app, even though it technically works, is either sluggish, breaks somehow or requires the user to learn intricate timings to use a simple UI.

Developers took the easy way out and used these frameworks because its simple and, they feel, good enough.

And here we are.
I feel like my 2017 mbp takes longer to log in than my 2009 mbp did. The old one broke, so I can't compare, but I remember it like wake up would be done by the time I open the lid. On my new one I can sit and wait for the screen to turn on.
I said if there are no alternatives. There was no alternative to React for a long time, and it gained much popularity and momentum.

But there are many alternatives to Flow.
I think I'm going to have make this my last comment as this is going in circles. I mean what is even your argument? Types exist whether you like it or not, implicitly or explicitly. You cannot get around this, it is simply a fact. When you have input parameters, or a return type, they follow a structure. That structure is a type. This is not nuance, this is just how things work.

'Good' developers is a subjective term, what is a good developer to you? Someone who can work without types? Wtf?

Anyway, I'll keep being productive with typed languages. You do you I guess.
> Some of that slurry will contain toxins such as mercury and lead, which could poison the surrounding ocean for hundreds of miles. The rest will drift in the current until it settles in nearby ecosystems.

I was just thinking as I read this, "no way this can go wrong!"
I was highly amused just a few days ago when a 1080p60 YouTube video was not playing correctly in Chrome (dropping frames), but played perfectly fine in Firefox. Resource utilization was not the problem on that machine. I tried restarting chrome, disabling extensions, etc but it seemed to just be some weird bug.

I will also take a moment to rant about the fact that YouTube allows you to select from a bevy of lower resolutions, but doesn’t allow you to select a lower frame rate. Many times I would rather watch a 1080p30 video on slower hardware instead of the 720p60 I am forced into selecting.
I wouldn't say most. I rarely come across laptops that support a numpad for example.
Because of the "racism" hysteria that has swept the West, any reputable person who creates a public stir over the rate of crime in any majority non-White area will be accused of racism.

Unfortunately, you can't fix the problem either if you can't even publicly acknowledge the problem. And so they develop these extraordinary methods of side-stepping the problem in order to avoid publicising any politically inconvenient truths, no matter how obvious. One particularly laughable one included paying these young men not to commit crimes.
I meant I was sure that when I became an adult I was taught that worms regrowing was an urban myth. The fact the scientist in the article was regrowing them made me go and check and it turns out to be something that changes with different variants, rather than a blanket worm rule either way.
When you choose to ignore the wisdom of the generations before you, and re-invent "solutions" to problems people who understand the situation never had, you get blamed for screwing things up.
> "People are just less willing to spend as much on their machines"

And why should they? Today's smartphones are much more powerful than the most powerful supercomputer of 1983. Computers have been powerful enough for most practical purposes for years, which means most people select on price rather than power. And then a new OS or website comes along and decides you've got plenty of power to waste on unnecessary nonsense.
That was no insult. "You are dumb for disagreeing with me" would be an insult, and if I posted that you would have every right to feel insulted. But I didn't.

But the quality of your argument was low: You just put chained unsubstantiated opinions together, the majority of which are objectively wrong.

You write that "The Fed is printing almost another half trillion in cash to inject, subsidize Wall St." which a) isn't how QE works, and b) The rate of growth of e.g. S&P500 is the same as before QE started.

You write that "social media is extremely biased to the left" which is an alt right conspiracy with oodles of studies showing that this is wrong.

The philanthropy vs. taxation debate is decades old and the results are clear. You are of course free to reopen it with new arguments, but chose to omit those.
You overestimate how many people care about whether something is open or closed source.

I had a Windows Phone. It was bad. Even Microsoft apps were subpar. Skype app was simply unusable. They weren't dogfooding.

Also Google torpedoed it.
Funny you should mention that, my Google account got somehow restricted yesterday due to Google Pay not liking my rooted phone. Now not only can I not pay with the phone, but I have to submit all my private information to a random Google web page, hope someone sees this, hope they agree it's correct, and hope that this was the problem in the first place (since all the app says is "this operation cannot be completed").

In summary, fuck Google. This is why I want cryptocurrency to succeed. I don't want corporations deciding how I spend my own money.
Ahh yes, who can remember the Mac release that deleted your main user account if you used the guest account. Pinnacle of stability and reliability!
India Added 5.4 GW of Solar in 9M 2019, with 2.2 GW Installed in Q3 2019
I'm merely saying that you are wrong. Blogs are not always reliable sources in the Wikipedia world, but they can absolutely be used as evidence for notability.
I do not use Windows much, but when the search box was added to the start menu (in Windows Vista I think), it was a huge navigational improvement for me.
I met Cliff Stoll at Kepler's Bookstore in Menlo Park, CA years ago when his book High-Tech Heretic came out (about computers in the classroom). We had a great discussion about something and he signed my book "I hear you John!".

And I have no idea what we discussed...
With all due respect to Cliff Stoll, I'm perplexed by the "Don’t go screwing with information that belongs to innocent people!" bit.

Seriously, the article is talking about German hackers intruding military targets:

"the hacker’s intrusions to the Department of Defense’s MILNET systems, an Alabama army base, the White Sands Missile Range, Navy shipyards, Air Force bases, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, defense contractors, and the CIA"

"Stoll’s hacker-tracking work at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs inspired its sister institution, Lawrence Livermore National Labs"

This is where nukes are designed.

And after that "Don’t go screwing with information that belongs to innocent people!", "You have a responsibility to your colleagues like me to behave ethically", "low-burning outrage", "[the Internet] was a sandbox for intellectually happy people".

Innocent, ethical, intellectually happy people creating means to murder hundreds of million people and pesky hackers who have no right to be snooping around.
The vast majority of narco crime in NL is done by ethnic Dutch people. Sure, there's other ethnicities too. Like most crime, generally it's a pretty representative mix of the poorer classes.

Immigration causes all kinds of things, good and bad, but increased drug crime isn't really on the list so far.

Source: I live in the south of NL (narco hotspot) and I read the local newspaper. Majority of drug criminals caught have Dutch names. I'm sure there's better stats somewhere but can't be arsed.
What turned you off?
Simple: Find something that the brain does that could not, in principle, be emulated by a Turing machine or equivalent. So far we don't know of any such thing (since quantum mechanics is computable and everything including the brain is ultimately quantum mechanics).
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How could it be one?

Loading text, or anything statically, is faster than many megabytes of JavaScript frameworks.

I think web devs have collectively broken their brains if they think this.
Your logic is idiotic.
If I've learnt anything from teaching kids it's the ones really good at it when we start are completely dwarfed by the kids who sucked at it.

You can get kinda far without really understanding what's going on, but if you stop and have to learn something really fundamental the "good" kids just seems to manage. Once things pick up they can excel because the have truly moved on. the previously "good" ones are still copy/pasting from past work or tutorials and get brackets wrong whereas the "slow" ones are now perfectly happy writing from scratch and thinking for themselves.
I expect we will still be talking about JavaScript in another twenty years.
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Consider the precursor to current MacOS, NextStep v3.3.

It ran very well on a 33mhz 68040 with 32 to 64 megabytes of RAM.
The Dutch have been manufacturing and trafficking drugs for decades, MDMA, LSD, 2CB, speed, cocaine. A lot of the stuff you see online in Dark Net markets comes from Holland.
At the cost of a crappy and sluggish user experience, of course
It deeply offends me that people in professions that require a degree of logic and rationality can actually believe in a magical sky wizard.
Most software surprises me with how much time it needs to start. Games are particularly slow, I guess because they need to load the entire engine and all assets before they can even show you a game menu, but even very simple applications can be slow.

On the laptop I'm typing this on, Windows Explorer often takes several seconds to open.
I think it was Mercedes and/or VW which recently said their new e-car is not going to the US some time and Europe is first. This was surely driven by CO2 fleet averages which are going to cost billions of Euro in 2020. Small sharing cars will help to bring it down so deploy them where it matters financialy.

Parking in London is very bad but Florence is insane.
>paying a person to do something with their body is the same as buying a human being, which would be slavery

Just make a law so that persons must do something with payers bodies, not vice versa. It solves two problems with one shot: it’s no slavery anymore and finally you get some service.
And is probably quite a bit faster, too.
The bottleneck would in this case be within YouTube servers that have to fetch the comments. Nothing to do with UI. Since comments work on scale it is possible it takes quite a bit of resources to load them instantly with the video.
On the other hand, measuring lower PM is indeed a quantifiable metric.
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> She has written in favor of the continued legality of circumcision of male children.[6]

She's really not very likeable.
Ads are the only place afaik where you can get to speak a human. Try Youtube for instance :)

In any case, its a free market, but buying from vendors who I can talk to if something happens, has way more value to me than a ‘free’ product.
Moonscript and Lapis

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19011356
As someone else mentioned you get many natural factorization points because often you can just copy a portion of code verbatim into a new word.

Of course, you can implement named parameters and local variables in Forth. There is even a standard for locals in ANS Forth.
> "SSDs are fast."

ROM is faster. That's what microcomputers booted off in 1983.
Did you get to work with a co-operative task scheduling? This version of Windows still used one I think. What's your experience if so?
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Most applications that run on a server create a process or thread per request/session and scale reasonably well.
Nobody has an aversion to the keyboard, they just disagree with the "people that use mice are idiots" crowd.
No, it isn't the only way for many men to do so. The issue is that they don't want to put in the time or effort to be the kind of man that can, and they have radically unrealistic expectation of sex itself. No, you cannot bang a supermodel, but you can find a woman who loves you and will be with you.

No, men don't have a right to sex, because it involves a woman surrendering herself; its not something innate to the man that is being denied. It's dark to make it so that women need to surrender themselves to strangers on demand for cash because men have a right to the act, and that's just part of it. Sex is really only healthy where there is mutual love and at least some level of commitment; without it there is a huge lack of protection for the woman and it becomes a banal experience for the man, because he cannot have love or intimacy from it, just the act that becomes more and more extreme over time precisely because its divorced from human sentiment.

honestly i wish dang would ban these kinds of topics because we usually only get one side of them based on sort of an inhuman libertarianism; there's no "intellectual curiosity" about this, just sort of a repetition of a specific set of views with very little attempt to challenge or provide the unpopular side.
Ah - forgot Hackernews formatting. Sorry about that.
A filter alone doesn't ionize the air though...
which holds the implication that people as an abstract between now and ancient Egypt are not actually that different. They're just responding to different stimuli in their respective environments.
Indeed, I'm usually more careful to distinguish legalization and decriminalization. Marijuana is however legal in Canada.
These days, I'm doing all my editing with image-magick from the commandline.
Well it depends if you like it's moral for people to use social media for prostitution. If your code of morals thinks that shouldn't be allowed, then these laws make sense. If you disagree - and that's fine - you can't blame "legislating morality".
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