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Seconding your AngelScript complaint. It took me 10+ clicks to find actual code, and then it was only snippets.

Somehow developers seem bad at putting themselves in the "customer's" shoes. So many GitHub Readme files filled with release notes, dependencies, donation requests, and installation instructions before telling what the repo actually does!
And content providers do not directly support vlc. As log as you reverse engineer stuff, you can support DRM on anything (at least in most countries), but do not expect it to be a successful platform.

We really need reasonable copyright laws.
But the fact that those are the industry's blessed goto abstractions is as much a fiat artifact of authority as anything else.
With interest rates already so low, people are sure putting their hopes into monetary policy and another round of quantitative easing.

This would usually be a good time to talk about fiscal stimulus options.
Wouldn't AD be just as painful in that instance, since replication could be interrupted between other sites by connectivity outages and the local domain controller could become out of sync?
Designer clothing and pocketbooks still succeed at being clothing and pocketbooks respectively. It sounds like this air filter doesn't actually achieve the goal of being an air filter. (Also the entire point of designer clothing is to look pretty, and everyone accepts that so it seems like a poor example).
It’s very much anecdotal that corporations are moving back on prem. All statistics show other wise.

I’m very much in the “Enterprise Development” space and not the “learn leetCode and work for a FAANG” category, but I haven’t seen any indication that employees care about the development focused certifications. Maybe the TSYS type warm body shops but that’s about it.
> The US does it all the time, so does Europe.

Please give me an example of a corporation getting serious issues from any government for actions they took on foreign soil.
Grads don’t provide meaningful feedback for how a student can grow or the challenges they’re facing. As soon as you introduce grades they become the sole metric to be gamed.

I understand there’s real issues with scaling, but national tests seem to resolve that. At most a pass, high pass or fail system would be best. Letter +/- grades are just silly when you step back and think about the goal of education.
Doesn't DIAL simply cover "Discovery And Launch"?

As I understand it, even the Netflix TV client has custom extensions to perform more than the most basic functionality.

You also need to get that app approved onto the TV, which, chances are, require an update.
Sadly that means that you're likely never getting support for the majority of the devices already in the field.

DIAL's time has come and gone. Adoption during the SmartTV hey day 5+ years ago may have made it a contender.
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There are many Java developers who like checked exceptions. True, there are issues about polymorphizing them (which is what you feel when you use them with lambdas), but they're solvable. As to file vs. array, I do see a fundamental difference. Whether the index is out of bounds or not is up to the program; whether the file exists is not.
In Australia you only get a ticket if the rear axle passes over the line while the lights are red.

It is very common for people to bank up an intersection and join the perpendicular traffic. Also we have left-lane-to-turn-right intersections.

Realistically being in the middle of an intersection when a light is red endangers no-one. You’re already there, so people can see you and aren’t going to T-bone you. Even if stationary.
> So if you take that and realize there's more money in palatants for humans than in animals, that'll explain an entire obesity epidemic entirely without any other explanations.

Well, that's what you get when the economy's health is measured by broad and sweeping measures like GDP. In the current American economy, the fries company makes 20% more, the doctor treating the obese person eating too many fries or the surgeon doing their lap band surgery gets paid, and a lot of insurance companies and middlemen make money. So everything is happening as planned.

Without socialized healthcare, there is no incentive for food manufacturers to make their foods not addictive. I wonder if there will ever be regulation regarding this as there is for alcohol and cigarettes. Mandatory calorie counts on fast food menus and such are barely scraping the surface.
I'm in a similar situation. I come home from work. My girlfriend and I watch some stuff on YouTube via Chromecast to unwind. Firstly, it's a brain drain and time suck in most of the ways that TV was for everyone in the same routine 20 years ago. Just because it's a smart device doesn't mean that it's any less of an idiot box as the television. Secondly, watching gives power to YouTube/Google when they are despicable companies
Sounds like a great Bond gadget.
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I have lost 25kg (55 pounds) over a course of a year. Half of that was intermittent fasting (one day eating for about 10 hours, then no calories for the rest, about 38 hours) but accounts for 3/4 of results.

When not eating I would not eat or drink anything that has any calories in it. I typically drink water, black coffee or green tea.

I have also tried longer fasts from time to time (2-7 days typically, 2 weeks once) and then I would supplement with vitamins, l-tryptophan and lean broth/bone broth in moderate quantities (a cup a day), just for safety and general well-being (l-tryptophan is precursor to serotonin and mildly anti-depressant).

Intermittent fasting is hard at the beginning but after about 2 weeks I get used to new regime. It seems it is the same every time I start it anew. It might be getting easier but I think that's because I already know what to expect.

Also, when intermittent fasting it is much easier to start longer fast. I find, when fasting for more than 2 days first two days to be the hardest.
I know that these things are optimized like crazy, but I often feel like the focus groups must just not include people like me. Most of the processed food industry makes foods that I find sickly sweet or absurdly oily, among other issues. Soda for example.

I wouldn't describe as a failing of the Coca-cola company the fact that I don't like coke. Everyone has preferences. I would describe as their utter failure the fact that the first time I enjoyed drinking a cola since age 10 was when I had an unsweetened cola-flavoured La Croix.

For the longest time I didn't understand why vending machines exist, until I went to Japan and noticed I was always within arm's reach of a refreshingly bitter tea.

I had always mentally equated that bottled drink == headache-inducing sugar rush and it necessarily had to be that way. Even when they made a sugar free drink, they just loaded it with other sweeteners.

But that was really just an optimization process gone wrong and gotten trapped in a local minimum, I guess. I hope they're starting to learn their lesson.
I'm confused. Losartan is a Angiotensin II receptor blocker (ARB). I thought that was different from an ACE inhibitor...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angiotensin_II_receptor_blocke...
No need to dump all your devices in the trash. But look into a small transition whenever the door opens - eg when your iPhone breaks get a Fairphone or similar. When you tablet breaks maybe Shift has a new tablet out, etc. It's hard when you make it all or nothing - easy when you just go with the flow.
My wife and I run an electronics boutique.

Our entire stock of industrial non-contact IR thermometers was purchased by a single guy who said he wanted to send them back to China.

My wife explained that they were for industrial use (out about half a degree), and not accurate enough for medical use. He purchased them anyway. :-\
I mean, yeah, it would certainly be unique. But would it ever be sustainable? It basically requires them to pay for the ongoing costs of hardware+bandwidth for rendering and streaming, all for the store fee they get at the time of purchase (about $20 on a regular AAA game?).
I tried to order some takeout the other day and the place was busy so I got voicemail. The beginning was pretty solid, but as he went on you could tell that he was making it up as he went. By the end he was struggling to pull it out of a spiral and it sounded awkward.

This lead to a conversation with my friend about how it was a recording, and I never needed to hear this cut of the message. You could do it over and over until you got it right and I would be none the wiser. But somehow when we record things we feel like it’s “out there” and we can’t take it back.

Or, we make the reverse mistake and do things “live”, resulting in tremendous amounts of resources being spent to redo work that could have been one and done, or really only changes infrequently. In the analog world, or with software.

In the middle on the software side are tools in the vein of continuous improvement. There’s that service that will file PRs to fix you dependencies. There should be linters and test fuzzers that do the same in the easy cases.

We have tools to scan the assets we already have and try to precompress them better. New ones like this one arrive from time to time. But doing them prior to publication introduces friction and people push back. And once it ships to our servers we erroneously believe it’s too late to change them and I don’t know why.

Are we stuck in the old headspace of shrinkwrapped software that you can’t change without enormous difficulty? Or is something else going on?
Musician uses algorithm to generate every possible melody to avoid DMCA lawsuits
As many others have said here, I have a strict one-time contamination then no return policy when it comes to restaurants.

The UK is pretty good with Gluten Free foodstuffs and has a fairly narrow but reasonably good restaurants;
* Bella Italia
* Zizzies
* Pho
* Prezzo

Most restaurants have separate preparation and cooking areas (Pho is almost an entirely GF kitchen)

When I’m on holiday, I always do self catering, and eat fairly simple meals. Europe is fairly good with labelling allergens and have Free-From sections in Supermarkets.

Pasta/Bread is not the same as the regular wheat based versions. However I weaned myself off bread.
Pasta has a different texture, maybe like day-old reheated by microwave stuff. I like it that way - hahaha

If you're particularly sensitive to gluten the EU definition of gluten free can bite you, but having a strict rules about never revisiting Food/places that contaminate you is a good rule of thumb.

The feeder personality type will be the most frustrated with you.

Be firm with whatever rules work with you. Don't waiver, unless it removes more risk.

I'm so happy knowing my struggle with this is shared, and that others have similar reactions and coping strategies!
And yet there are at least some options of companies doing the right thing, or trying to do so. See Fairphone and Shiftphone for examples.
I got one because of wildfire smoke and pollen allergies. I wouldn't bother if I didn't have visible symptoms that could be alleviate by a purifier.
I bet at least one googler's ambitious push into becoming a director or a VP is succeeding though.
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I almost fell out of my chair when I saw this.
On the other hand, sometimes I see this sort of thing on LowEndBox.com's forums, you realize OP is paying like $0.50/mo, and I'm wondering what they expected.

"Is it normal?" is kind of a nonsensical question without any further context.
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> there are a lot of anecdotes.
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I grew up with his books and articles and visit his site periodically. I posted this a couple of weeks ago (my first HN contribution!) and it points to free downloadable Cookbooks he offers through his site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22354822

https://www.tinaja.com/ebksamp1.shtml
> There are thousands of such joke accounts. Are we going to post about them all?

How about we deal with them on a case by case basis? Why this rush to post about them all or flag them all?
https://covid19data.com/2020/02/14/heres-what-coronavirus-do...
I had a similar problem back in 1997 - of course it was much worse since we had much heavier CRTs then.

The answer was to rent the monitor when I needed it. I’d imagine it would be easier to do that today than it was back then. I remember going through the white pages to find a company who would accommodate me.
I'm 6'4" (193cm) and cannot imagine I could fit in that thing?
Yes, baby wipes will get you searched every time. They just look like dense bricks of material on the x-ray.
Lol, they're common patterns even in asm. I've programmed plenty of systems that don't even really support C that well, and you end up doing the same things.

What better abstractions do you have?
And how did you arrive at that conclusion? Reverse image lookup to find other things written by the same person seemed the most promising, but I did not find anything within 2 minutes. :-)
Not really. I mean, fining this person was absurd. But licensing the title "engineer" isn't absurd; bad engineering gets people killed.
I Tulsa. Shame I live in UK.
> We certainly fought hard to convince Sun to make NeWS free.

After reading your "flamey-poo" I'm wondering how much other non-technical, meddlesome corporate baggage would have come along for a ride even if someone somehow could have convinced them to make "free" === "free".

If it was more than none, I have a hard time seeing how a strong enough "View Source" philosophy could have sprouted from it no matter how strong the tech was/is. From what I understand the web started with that philosophy, and it only partially made it out of the battle with copy/paste intact.

The fact that you were apparently already burned out once before this flame tells me that there was a lot of such baggage. Am I in the ball park here?
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Ehhhhh You have to be careful with that.

The market is a fickle beast; there's a chance that a stimulus too early may make future stimulus less effective, since "it didn't work earlier".
Back when I worked for BT that was part of the disaster recovery for the BT Worldwide Intranet.

We would quickly reconfig our test server to match the live on whilst our support person booked taxis and two tickets from Heathrow to Edinburgh - then one of us would fly up with the server on the seat next to them.

Yes I know we should have had a hot spare in the rack in CAPITAL (the main Exchange in Edinburgh)
I would venture game development as well - UE4's actor and component model is a good example of this, it's a very flexible system that allows you to strike a good balance between inheritance and composition.
What about it is beautiful? There idea of VLIW?
Thank you for very detailed feedback!!

> People's existing tendency to expose critical data via Slack shouldn't be reinforced

I agree with you. However, depending on company's policy, raw SQL, even with some concrete values, and EXPLAIN ANALYZE plans may be considered as acceptable for using them in Slack.

If it is considered harmful, we have a way to inject anonymization step into the snapshot preparation tool -- see https://gitlab.com/postgres-ai/database-lab/-/blob/master/sc... (we're thinking how to improve usability here, not losing flexibility). For example, you can run PostgreSQL Anonymizer (https://gitlab.com/dalibo/postgresql_anonymizer). Of course, the physical layout will change, so troubleshooting of, say, VACUUM commands would be affected. But rows cardinality, normally, won't change, so for large enough tables, it totally makes sense do go this route, for SQL troubleshooting&optimization tasks.

> Great! Now make that troubleshooting accessible via an authenticated URL and I'm in.

We are thinking about the GUI version actively, so stay tuned.

And on CLI version as well, but CLI will work in psql (which I'm personally a big fan of, spent 15 years there or so). This means that all the data will be present.

In the case of GUI, of course, we are able to work on meta-level, similarly to the Slack version.

> If I were to use this tool, I would envision the ideal version of it being self-hosted and able to function independent from any other service.

I hear you well, and it generally aligns with our team's vision. Thank you again for awesome feedback!

> As for "improv[ing] the level of collaboration of developers and DBAs", great that you're thinking about that, but that's my problem to solve, not Joe's. And depending on my team's existing solutions, this may even rule out Joe simply due to our current tool set.

Could you provide some examples of such solutions?
> That’s a mural I saw in the Frito-Lay headquarters in Plano, Texas. I was there! My pilgrimage to the pinnacle of potato chips!

Oh I think not... for that you would need to visit Nottingham, PA ;). https://www.herrs.com/visit-us/
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> Because if you create different solutions to meet the publishing preferences of different groups inside the organisation, then I don’t think you’re meeting the goal of institutionalizing the knowledge.

High-level project descriptions don't belong in code. It's a different beast, and doesn't belong in the repo alongside the implementation. Non-technical users probably shouldn't even have repo access.

In-code comments, on the other hand, can't reside anywhere else.

> If a consumer wants to find some documentation, you don’t what their first step to be trying to find the system it’s stored in.

They don't need to look. That's what hyperlinks are for.

I'm not sure if you mean end-user here, or the consumer of a library.

If an end-user wants documentation, that means it's high-level documentation, not nuts-and-bolts documentation on the workings of code. A wiki is a fine solution for this. A non-technical end-user has no business exploring the repo.

If it's someone looking into how to use your library, the distinction is still there. If I want to know what Qt is, I look it up on Wikipedia. If I want to learn about a specific concept, I look for a documentation page like this [0]. In neither case would source-code comments be a reasonable choice.

> Especially in very large organisations, where you could easily end up operating quite a few different publishing platforms.

Maintaining a stable intranet wiki is no great challenge.

> SharePoint is the closest things I’ve seen to a one-size-fits-all solution. But SharePoint is rather terrible to use.

For UI reasons I'd go with a wiki over SharePoint, but they're similar in principle: documentation lives in the intranet, each document has a URL, and documents are mutable. They can coexist if they need to: use hyperlinks.

I'm not sure a one-size-fits-all solution is a good idea in the first place. A legal document about a project is going to end up as a .pdf, and doesn't belong on a wiki. On the other hand, technical documentation like [0] should be handled in a 'web-first' way, such as with a wiki.

Perhaps if SharePoint's document-editing were more like a plain old wiki, I could be convinced that it's a reasonable one-size-fits-all solution. (Although in a sense it's doing several things.)

[0] https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/layout.html
That sounds notably better than molekule. You can make an air purifier as good as molekule with a fan, a piece of duct tape, and an LED.
Apple, for example, already announced they will miss sales targets due to supply chain disruptions, so the market is going to factor that in whether or not the expected delivery was missed.

But I think the impact is already being felt -- ports are already reporting a drop in container ships.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/port-of-los-angeles-sees-corona...

And the lack of incoming ships doesn't just reflect a drop in imports, but it's also affecting exports that were waiting on those ships.
In the Netherlands every PhD will be paid fairly decently. That's how it should be. Nor excuse for rich universities like those in UK & US to exploit those dreaming of s research career.
I beg to differ, I went to a community college and everything was locked in to Microsoft; certs, software, and MS approved coiurse guidelines (MS had given them some sizable grants to push the students to leave and use their products. I know work for our states biggest university and it’s still the same way. Literally out of thousands of employees our small group in IT are the only ones using macs and building/deploying products in a Linux environment. Being in the position I’m in allows me to get a look at the other Colleges/Universities across the state and it’s pretty much the same process across the board. A fair enough chunk of CS students coming in are disappointed about the M$ based CS tracks. They came in expecting to learn Linux, Python, Ruby, JS, Docker, and k8s. I’m hoping in the future in the CS guidelines will diversify and let people choose either a OSS/programming, MS, and Cisco/Networking tracks to be a little more open to real world needs.
The iPhone is not a groundbreaking innovation, it's a product. Like many modern products, it is extremely complicated with thousands of different components. Did Apple invent all of those components from scratch? No. Did Apple invent the key components that made the iPhone different from its competitors at the time? No.

The capacitive touch screen was invented by Bent Stumpe at CERN [1]. The software technology that arguably made the iPhone possible, multi-touch, was developed by U of T, Bell Labs, and CMU. Steve Jobs visited CMU in 1985, though that obviously didn't translate into much back then.

The actual multi-touch software that went into the iPhone was developed by FingerWorks founders John Elias and Wayne Westerman at the University of Delaware [2]. Apple bought FingerWorks and incorporated the technology into the iPhone.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-touch#History

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FingerWorks
When I was in high school I worked for our district’s IT department. There were a couple of Power Mac G5s that were shared, but the students working in that department were using eMacs. One year I bought the first generation Intel iMac (my first Mac), which was significantly faster than the eMacs we were allotted. I got a carrying bag for it and biked into work with it each day.
That said, I wouldn’t dream of doing that in a public cafe.
Plan 9 could pull this off seamlessly. Each program window is a folder tree, so moving the window to the external screen would be as simple as remounting it on the remote server. Plan 9 is designed for that and does it trivially. The file tree paradigm also means that standard UNIX permissions apply.
To be fair to Mats, I think he was a fully qualified engineer in Sweden. He was quite unreasonable in insisting on calling himself such in Oregon, but I suppose reasonable men don't change the world.
I ended up saving my investment portfolio buying put options on the S&P and getting my portfolio to a yearly high even though my stock holdings dropped in value.

In times like this hedging is an extremely useful tool.
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> but I often feel like the focus groups must just not include people like me.

I'm sure they do. That's why they came out with the baked chips, hundreds of non-sugar diet drinks (e.g. slightly flavored 0 calorie water). We all eat. We all get addicted. They just need to find your poison and optimize it.

> I hope they're starting to learn their lesson.

As this article shows, they've got an entire industry to learning every possible lesson.
"And it fit in the overhead bin!?"

Yes, I put it in the overhead bin and it did, indeed, fit.

After all, a rackmount server is only 19" wide ...