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Yes, because every tech worker in SF gets stabbed for $5 in their wallet and everyday they walk through poo on their way to work.

On a more serious note, you should learn about how the media works.

One person gets stabbed in SF for $5 and it makes the news, and then people like you believe that every one of the 884k people living in SF get stabbed.

You probably also believe that all Teslas easily catch on fire? Cause you saw it on the news?

Please learn about statistics and sensationalist media.
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I don't think major 2 is objectively true. Firefox is faster than Chrome in every benchmark test I've seen for two years now.

As for minor 4, the blame is with developer. The API that was eliminated was EOLed long before they removed it, and it looks like he's doing some security violation https://github.com/gigobyte/ui-stack/issues/6
The whole point of qui tam and pseudo-qui tam statutes like the ADA (with regimes of minimum damages, recovery of legal fees, etc) -- is to encourage private parties to do enforcement that will compel the desired behavior.
I didn't know that anyone is still using cheques.
Do people post poems on here?
Yes, Things is nice software, but has a pretty steep price for what is, essentially, just a glorified list manager.
What exactly makes that "one of the worst-performing SQL queries you've ever seen"?

It has two left joins on foreign/primary keys, and 4 trivially-indexed where conditions. That's all it has, and none of that is even slightly complex.
I love these type of showcases. It‘s been a wonderful time when simply upload files via SFTP and had a running application. No need of webpack bundles, vendor libraries to achieve a simple functionality that could be solved in a few lines of code ...

I really do hope this kind of developer attitude (writing pure VanillaJS) is coming back.
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Was watching the nature documentary "Night on Earth" recently on Netflix. I loved the show, and was inspired by the incredible shots and film they captured. In the "Behind the scenes" episode, there was a scene depicting a biologist who counted flamingo nests in an image taken by a drone, and I was wondering if there are any other biologists who could use help with computer vision tasks (like this one)? Would love to help in my spare time with the awesome conservation work going on, and was wondering if there is a need out there
Consistency is key in automation.
Other than the cost of automation itself consider the big big costs when those irregularities do exist, the big cost of the systems made to account for and handle those potential failures and the fact that as almost always there's more of those failure points than you expect.
I also am a fan of nulls. But I also make very sure that I have defaults set up on every column for which a null value would make no sense. Which means pretty much every column that isn't an optional foreign key.

I'm writing in Go, so my structs all have empty values unless specifically initialised. This does sometimes mean that I get null uuid's (0000-000000-00000-0000) inserted into tables, which Postgres doesn't understand as null and cheerfully returns as a valid uuid. This has been my only real pain with using nulls.

I've contemplated modding the database driver to interpret nil-value uuid's as null, but that seems a little drastic. Anyone got any better ideas?
I've also lived in Toronto and Vancouver. Did the obligatory move to work as a software dev in California and now live in Australia. The fact is that tech salaries in Canada are still much lower than the US while the cost of living, especially housing, is still very high, for Vancouver and Toronto in particular. Not to mention the lousy winters.

Spend any time browsing /r/vancouver or /r/toronto and you'll quickly realize that the cost of living is a huge problem. The Vancouver housing market in particular has been absurdly inflated by out of control money laundering. Local salaries and house prices are totally out of whack.

Follow https://twitter.com/mortimer_1/ to see what money laundering has done to the Vancouver housing market. https://twitter.com/mortimer_1/status/1221315000897163264 is a particularly amusing recent thread showing where a would-be landlord writes: "This home is in rough shape and needs painting, and TLC. Looking for long term tenant willing to put labour in while landlord covers all material costs." All this for only $5650/month!
That ($25CAD) is less than $2.50USD more than Seattle minimum wage (16.39USD)..
Montreal is an Anglophone city. Last I checked 80% were English speakers (not necessarily primary language).

Now Quebec City is entirely different. I could see language being more challenging there.

Honestly, Montreal is a hidden gem. Low cost housing, ton of culture and history.

The only drawbacks can be the Québécois anti-immigrant and anti-business climate, but it’s not stifling, just more noticeable than the rest of Canada.
Assets? Physical, material goods? Or investment vehicles like bonds and funds?

What happens when the bubble bursts? What doesn't lose value? Who doesn't wind up underwater?
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
Same in Sweden, good developers definitely make more than doctors, especially if we consider total compensation.
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Just in case anyone was actually wondering.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvia

>The name Salvia ("salviya") derives from the Latin salvere ("to feel well and healthy, health, heal"), the verb related to salus (health, well-being, prosperity or salvation), referring to the herb's healing properties. Pliny the Elder was the first author known to describe a plant called "Salvia" by the Romans, likely describing the type species for the genus Salvia, Salvia officinalis.
I'd recommend making a course on how to create a proper Makefile, from the beginning to the advanced level.
interested as well.

Nowadays ERP, SAP consulting is in really high demand with good hourly rate. But how viable or possible to become a cloud consultant and in which area's one become consultant?

I see QuinnyPig is helping companies save some costs, some other guys are helping with tweaking security in cloud providers, what else we have?
> substantial differences between name brand and generic

I was under the impression generics are molecular identical? How do they differ when the name brand version says on the pack, for example, temazepam 10mg, and the generic version says the same thing?
Yes, the picture in the reply is of a Caucus Math worksheet, and this is not the only picture on Twitter of such a sheet.
And then large swathes of the web stop working. Usually you're better off, but you're screwed if a site you need uses javascript to render its content.
(2017). Also, no pictures of the mice with the masks on.

The methods section seems pretty easy to replicate, just dissolve some salt in water (concentrations in paper), soak it in the masks, and dry in a low-temp oven.
>No their UI sucked. One third of the page was occupied by a stupid header you couldn't even reduce or remove with a CSS hack. I hated it.

What? I must have missed that because I don't remember seeing it.

>Also, the content of the page itself was 1/3 wide, which is ridiculous when one is trying to read a long blog post.

Which would be much wider than the actual content on it's main competitor facebook.
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Indeed. The cycle will be complete once Angular meets the fate of its predecessor, Flash.
As Steve Jobs proved, the CEO can make decisions that transform a company from near bankruptcy to the biggest market cap in the world. It's hard to get more productive than that, and would be foolish to begrudge Jobs a penny of his compensation.

He earned it many, many times over.

CEO decisions have enormous leverage over a company's fortunes, both good and bad. CEO pay is the least of those concerns. It's not hitting the pipe with a hammer, it's knowing where to hit the pipe.
Good point, maybe they aren’t ready to rip off the bandaid and/or don’t have enough confidence in Mozilla to prevent the domination you mention.
If your SQL query tells you the most popular name is "nmn" or that that a whole lot of people died before they were born (DOD = 1111-11-11) then yes, I think there has been a loss of integrity.
Anyone with cash and low-leverage cash producing assets.
Which American counterparts?

Detroit? Kansas City? Camden? Sure.

But cities like SF aren’t like those cities at all. Quick google shows 33 homocides in SF and 142 in Toronto. Based on population, that’s 33 per million for SF and 24 for Toronto.
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The browser was about garnering mind-share™, making sure you see ‘Microsoft Internet Explorer’ when you boot up the computer. That why some people used talk about getting on to the ‘Microsoft Internet’ presumably using the Microsoft TCP/IP © :]
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Again, I am ONLY considering fully REMOTE roles at this time.
How's the weather there though?

Can we just stop comparing cities? Everyone loves to complain about the cost of living in SF and always brags about how they could buy a mansion in the midwest.

No one cares. It's all about location. There is a reason why California is the most populous state in the union despite it being so expensive (weather and jobs). There is a reason the population in the midwest is so low (lack of jobs and weather mostly).
Well I would have thought the pain of having to pay damages would have been enough to encourage remedial action to avoid a similar situation in the future. Especially since the damages would be even higher the second time since it would be flagrant violation.
Maybe my SQL's a little rusty, but isn't a left (outer) join between voters+precincts and (that)+party going to create a massive table with a bunch of nulls inserted? (And, how do you know they're primary keys, and that any of it is indexed? That's not evident from the query)

Maybe "worst I've ever seen" is hyperbolic. My main point was, it's a sloppy query, could probably be done with a few WHERE clauses and an inner join instead, and is more evidence of shoddy coding practices.
Most people in north america have trouble with 1-lame traffic circles, because they're almost uniformly too small. Traffic engineers like to wedge them in as retrofits, when there's already a lot of stuff built up around an intersection, and it's not feasible to enlarge the intersection to make it work well.

Traffic signals with good sensors are more space efficient, and usually more time efficient when there's congestion, and more pedestrian friendly. Proper sensor design means no or little waiting during low traffic times too. Traffic circles can help with akward intersections though, where there's more than 4 entrances or exits, and some three way intersections work well too.
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> 8.4 lac Indians got citizenship only last year

That was the total number of citizenships granted last year. Indians were about 50k of that total - approximately 6%. That's from the article you linked.
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Waymo 'resolved' this by not driving in areas where people intentionally fuck with self-driving cars.
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This is exactly why the ADA is needed. This took me a while to write because of how callous and frustratingly idiotic your statement is.

I have two clubbed feet, and have had serious reconstructive surgery to at least let me walk. I fully expect to be sitting in a wheelchair in about 5 years as my feet, knees, hips and lower back are all slowly degrading into piles of mush and severe pain as the bone breaks down.

As one who lives in pain just to walk, all I can say is: I hope you reap what you sow.
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Apps are fine for quick reporting as long as they're also backed by multiple "more official" records. The Iowa DNC has been very tight lipped, so it's hard to say if that's really the case.

What astounds me is that this process is not transparently published for Iowa voters to see months before the actual caucuses. Especially in light of the pressure from the Sanders campaign.
Might even be a business possibility for someone knowledgeable with the law and how to demonstrate objective compliance. I thought in an earlier comment maybe a chamber of commerce could develop something, or some locals with disabilities who would like to be part of the process and maybe even used as witnesses.
> >el.style.color
is not equivalent with .css()

How is it not equivalent? Please be specific.

> In my use case jQuery is the best tool and I am not sure why you need to contradict someone with daily experience

Dude, you're the the one who challenged me, and suggested I was lying or uninformed. jQuery is fine to use, I totally understand someone who wants to leverage their background in it. By the way, I also have daily experience, used jQuery for 10 years, am a senior frontend dev.

But it's misleading to new developers to claim that modern JS doesn't have the same capacities. Making this claim spreads misinformation.

> is so hard to admit that the API is nicer,

Disagree. It's more or less the same. I get you're used to one, but there's not a huge difference between the two.

> that it fixes browser differences ?

Yes, it fixes old browser differences, and I made that point repeatedly elsewhere in the thread. For production apps (apps, not sites), if someone is stupid enough to avoid using a framework like Vue.js or React, and you're targeting browsers going back a decade in time, then it's wise to use jQuery. jQuery is also good for progressive enhancement on brochureware sites if you have to support very old browsers (for those kinds of static sites, no need for a JS framework).

But none of that applies to the discussion we were having. The discussion was about quick prototyping.

> Do you lose some points or pride or other ego related stuff? Do you think you win some credit when you find a typo and use that to attack me? Can you explain what is happening in your mind when you type this ?

Sure. Mostly, I'm annoyed at being corrected about jQuery by someone who can't even bother to spell "jQuery" correctly. I speak several languages, and make an effort to use them correctly. Also, language mastery is irrelevant: it's frankly surprising to meet a developer who has such trouble with basic syntax issues.

All the criticisms you threw up in that last paragraph, also apply to you. Do you even realize that? You're the one challenging my perspective. I'm defending it.

Also, in terms of cherrypicking, I'm using the example you chose. So if anyone is cherrypicking here, it's you.
Blatant self-promotion; I just did a asteroids style game: https://github.com/BarnabyShearer/kibblekhaos
WebGL, Web workers, Web Audio but no libraries.
You don't have to sacrifice your computing freedom and privacy. These anti-cheating modules tend to be explained to you upon game installation, so if you're not comfortable with what they do then just cancel the installation. You're not forced to play the game, but the modules are part of the game's rules and you have to adhere to them if you want to play it.

All the participants of a game agree to a common set of rules required to make the game fun, fair, and enjoyable. And this is true of any game, from online games such as LoL to offline games like poker and soccer. Unfortunately the prevalence of cheating has made the anti-cheating modules another bullet point on that set of rules for online games. There's still plenty of games out there that you can play with people you know personally and can trust, but I certainly cannot find and organize 59 other people to play Battle Royale shooters with me within minutes of wanting to play a match on my schedule, so I'm ok with the trade-offs involved in making that possible. Just please don't force your principled stance on others.
At what point does the massive pile of money injected into the economy translate into large price increases(i.e. inflation)? IIRC, inflation is the money supply multiplied by the velocity of money, so if the economy slows, will we suddenly see the current asset bubble turn into a price bubble? What then? Does it all just work itself out because we devalue the currency and inflate away our debt and asset bubbles, or do we get slammed by stagflation?

For those of us in the tech industry accumulating absurd salaries, what do we do to defend our wealth? Normally when inflation is coming, I'd think real estate or commodities would be a safe bet, but they're already in a bubble. It seems like jumping into them at this point might be better than nothing, and maybe that's all we can hope for at this point in the economic cycle?
Until we rediscover that manually keeping the DOM up-to-date is tedious and error prone for almost any project and switch to a good middle ground such as Preact or React without a build step
I also always assumed that was the case and flushed with the lid on.

Also I avoid air hand driers as much as possible.
Hello. Can you please give some examples of Chrome-specific hacks instead of the normal way, or some web references. I'm helping on development of a web UI framework and it would help. Thank you.
A long time ago, Bill Gates was asked if he adjusted things to make the stock rise. He said he didn't pay any attention to the stock price - he concentrated on making profits and the stock price took care of itself.

It reminds me of when Senna (Formula 1) was asked what his strategy for winning was. He replied: "start in the pole position, and stay in front."
You can easily find a room in a house for rent between $1000-1600 in SF. Far better than a "bunkbed". Just check craigslist.

But hey, everyone loves to knock expensive SF housing.

28k/yr for preschool in SF is on the high end. That is not the median.

Please re-do all your prices with the median, not your handpicked most expensive version.
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Someone here asked HN about where to find CTO / Head of Engineering blogs and an informative discussion revealed some good resources, especially books:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19973875
Yeah, you are probably right. Building up a bigger bus factor, and some momentum are probably more important than going at it again with full swing.

I wish you the best of luck, and really hope that Sandstorm succeeds! Thanks for putting in the effort!
Task completion is a manifestation of time and effort, not progress. While breaking down user stories into daily tasks can be a useful crutch for newer teams that lack proper agile process discipline, highly productive agile teams find that administrative overhead to be a waste of time. In general incompetent managers tend to fall into the trap of looking at meaningless metrics just because they're easy to calculate rather than focusing on what really matters: sustained customer value delivery.
I would love to be able to walk just like anyone normal. Instead, I deal with major pain every day of my life because assholes like you refuse to build in basic, small things like a fucking chair to sit on while waiting, usually because "it would hurt the asthetics" or some dumb notion like it (ie: apple store, malls, amusement parks...).

ADA is the lowest common denominator. Its not asking for you to rebuild a whole building -- it asks for reasonable concessions to be made -- and its absolutely amazing how business owners go out of their way to make it harder on themselves and the disabled.

What I don't understand is this "line" that "must be drawn" I've seen from you and others: the point is to negotiate and find a compromise between the disabled and the owner within reasonable limits. The fact that businesses and public institutions are unwilling to play ball and throw their toys out of the pram every time this comes up is amazing and sad that it even comes to that point. Usually because upfront investment in the material/business is smaller and usually beneficial for everyone in the long run!

In TFA, crema bought the location years after ADA was already law. The fact that it became a risk to them now is unsurprising, and the fact that they're closing that location is sad for both parties.

The fact that it's also possibly a predatory lawsuit is also sad, and I hope something that can be rectified -- but I'm also not surprised to hear of such high numbers of lawsuits over the problem, given how old the law is now, and given how many places I have been to in the valley that don't have ramps.
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I should rephrase. From my experience in consumer electronics, the vast majority of instances of consumers stopping using a device are not from unknown failures. They are from visible failures (including reduced battery life), software/content incompatibility or obsolescence, or the consumer just generally losing interest in the device. I should caveat though that this is in PC and mobile categories. It’s plausible that things like appliances don’t fall into those failure or obsolescence modes and could be facing unknown failures that are solder related.
On the flip side, if a U.S. citizen moves to India and wants to become a naturalized Indian citizen, just curious how long would that take?
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What a load of nonsense. Britain created many low wage jobs and decreased unemployment, of course the average "output" per hour will stagnate. The productivity of the country has increased dramatically though if formerly unemployed people now have jobs.
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> In short we Indians bought this upon ourselves.

I was with you till here. No, we did not bring this to ourselves. The answer is that USA has dumb policies.
There's a reason why a lot of those libraries and tools are used though. Webpack bundles are used to strip down multiple JS files and libraries into a single bundle that contains only what is needed to run a particular application. Libraries like React serve a purpose too, particularly when you're building large applications that need to be maintained by many people all at once, or when you need insane compatibility (e.g. IE 11, the old Edge, etc.)

Is there a need for these tools all the time? No. But are there valid use cases? Absolutely yes.
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