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> Its an asset. Like many (virtually all, other than pure financial) assets, it has associated expenses; maintenance, depreciation, and similar expenses are the norm for non-financial assets.

To get technical about it, code whose discounted future maintenance costs exceed the discounted revenue it is expected to bring in or helps to bring in is a liability. Some maintenance costs are invisible, such as having team members leave; leading to recruiting expenses to seek a replacement and the associated ramp time when they're hired. Companies are often not equipped to assess the cost side in any way that approaches reality and just stick the cost of the "code" on the balance sheet as capex. Having an asset on the balance sheet after doing this doesn't mean you have an asset in reality.

> The whole "code is a liability, not an asset" line is something from people who might understand code, but definitely don't understand assets and liabilities.

Code can be a net liability. Unless you are looking purely at the asset side of the balance sheet and ignoring liabilities, which tends not to be very useful.
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> In 1994, during a 135-day expedition of 44 people ...

wow
What you say has the benefit of sounding like it might be possibly true, but years of scientific thought paying dividends in other areas in unexpected ways demonstrates the exact opposite.

For example, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spinoff_technologies
somehow I doubt it. I don't remember, but I strongly doubt it.

this would have been 'revenue maximization', much like banks that will order your check deposits and outgoings to maximize any fees for bounced checks. Process the outgoings first, so if there's any fees to be had, you can rake 'em in.
I don't know if this is the case with Twilio, but many others (like Google Voice) are US-only.
I'd take that bet if it was the right person raising the $100B. It'd have to be an Elon Musk type with $70MM+ to develop the foundational ecosystem first to solve for many of the core problems to counter the various layers of walled garden ecosystems to capture a willingly attentive audience and fan base; I can see the path - I just don't have the starting funds and I can't really even begin to execute on it in a slower fashion due to pain I have that causes severe executive dysfunction - there is a path there and hopefully there is a platform and systems thinker out there with their own funds to put into the same system I've dreamed up over the years.
A bit similar https://catlikecoding.com/unity/tutorials/
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Besides, and maybe today I am in negative mood, I read that claim:

https://www.symptoma.com/en/about

as "there are at least 106 similar systems that suck a lot more".
If you ever switch from Gitlab to another git host, you’ll lose all that history though. Maybe you’re fine with that, but I wouldn’t be.
Of course Stack Overflow is great. It has a wealth of information, experts and allows for larger questions to be asked than "How do I write to a file", like, "how would you design this database schema".

The idea is that anyone can submit alternatives, the one with the highest number of votes will be most prominently displayed. I personally am not a Python developer and just seeded some initial snippets, but hopefully someone who is submits new ones.

That's a great point re. the licensing, I will have to look into it.
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That's because Apple cooperated with the cell carriers to help them reduce the data usage from iPhones so that the carriers would push iPhones to consumers.
It is sad.

The NYT used to be a great paper. They've become an opinion-driven organization that starts a project with a pre-drawn conclusion, then starts gathering facts that support the end result. Or so it seems.
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Subscenes are still in the preview stage, and they recently even removed the ECS stuff from the package manager listings (you have to find the names of the packages directly from the forums) to prevent people from thinking that they were production ready.

I was using the ECS for the last 2 years, and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who actually wants to get something into production. My guess is it will be somewhere late 2021 or 2022 before it's actually production ready.
Better to call it misguiding than nice - it calls semver the "most recommend versioning scheme"
> But the assumption that anyone without side projects is no good

That's not the assertion at all.

The general assertion is that those without side projects either might not have a way to showcase their skills or might not have a way to work on skills they don't use as part of their 9-to-5 job.

The specific assertion regarding recruiters is that without any side-project that showcases your skills with specific technologies then recruiters have no objective way to evaluate your skills. Thus if they have other candidates that demonstrate their skills and they have to pick between them and you, you will be left out because you have nothing to show for.
Remind us of the "dot trick"?
Similarly, Tolstoy's thought influenced Martin Luther King Jr. Arguably among the most influential thinkers of the 20th century in terms of social and political impact.
“the specification isn't sufficient for real world usage”

I think that sums up NFS reasonably well. “Let’s make the API connectionless and stateless; that simplifies things” is true, but implementing Unix semantics, where files can be opened or closed, file deletes change state, file deletes aren’t seen by open file handles, programs want to do record locking, etc. on top of it? Maybe not the best of ideas.

There’s a reason S3 isn’t a file system.

(See also The UNIX Haters Handbook chapter on the Nightmare File System)
It's even worse with NVIDIA - they ship an entire custom NodeJS with their drivers.

Also don't forget that these are user-space apps that are simply bundled with the driver but not necessarily part of it. Qt5WebEngineCore.dll is most likely used by the UI portion of the driver (settings dialogs, radeon software etc.), same with the ffmpeg dll and the facebook client.

NVIDIA does the exact same btw. - see [1]

[1] https://www.ghacks.net/2020/03/13/nv-updater-nvidia-driver-u...
Why not go the extra mile and try to integrate it inside the case? It would make it much more easy to carry around.

I wonder if some adapters couldn't be designed to replace a USB-A port? It would be nice to solder them in place, and pull two extra cables to the charging circuit.
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Why? This piece shows that the author seems to be resourceful, creative and has a reasonably good understanding of C++. Would a change like this land in production? That's probably what code reviews are for.

If we want to improve the hiring process, we should start applying a higher order degree of thinking when vetting candidates.
I think that this is an important point, and regret not discussing this more in the paper.

Predictive policing can absolutely be bad, and can be especially problematic when the algorithms are designed (or used) to target individuals or groups of people for investigations.

They can be racist, biased, and are open to misinterpretation by those who end up using them. They can also lack transparency, and are often trained on skewed datasets that can result in self-perpetuation of reported crime patterns.

I don't mean to suggest that this work is entirely without bias. However, in this particular paper we describe a method that uses point of interest data exclusively as predictor of violent crime levels. We don't consider income, education, age, race or any other socio-economic factors in the model. We simply determine the linear combination of different point of interest densities which most closely reproduces the crime density map for a city -- i.e. we don't weight one venue more strongly than another because of its location.

Police departments and governments have a lot to do when it comes ensuring fair, equal policing. Academics/researchers need to be mindful that the work and analyses they do in a lab can have significant impacts on people's lives. However, we tried to be sympathetic to these issues.

The paper mentions interventions around alcohol-serving venues -- these are things like staggered closing times for pubs (avoiding everyone in a city being kicked out from their pub at the same time), restrictions around using glass bottles/glasses, and security requirements at certain times of the day. These interventions have been shown to work in pubs/clubs, and have measurably reduced violence related hospital admissions. Our hope was that this analysis might encourage councils to consider spreading such interventions/policies to other locations, beyond those that serve alcohol, as doing so may have similarly beneficial effects.
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I feel like this is a much smaller issue than the US public defender situation. Or the way crimes carry vast sentences and prosecutors often later them on so that of anything sticks its still decades in prison. Then you either take a plea or face a 400 year jail sentence with a lawyer who has 100 other clients and can't actually remember your name or what you were charged with.

The whole criminal "justice" system in the states looks crazy to me. Bail reform won't really fix that.
I don't understand why his statement was wrong. GMT does not change according to daylight savings time as far as I know?
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> The fact that the sound will arrive much faster through the rail was not presented as having practical value in this scenario

Got it, thanks. I had somehow lost sight of the original context.
Wow. A quick glance at the picture shows about a million guys and 4 girls, I think.

I believe this party would have died of natural causes after a while. I can't imagine it would go on organically.
It's easy to look backwards, with the benefit of more robust and fast (relatively!) standards bodies, and shake a finger.

But my memory at the time is that there were essentially no effective, consensus-based evolutions of web standards, because everything was so new.

Even the idea of running executable code in a browser at all was "That's weird. Is this a thing we want to do?" and resulted in 10+ variations (of which javascript ultimately triumphed).

It was certainly a worse time for the consumer, and web developer, as essentially everything was broken on every platform but your target w/ your target plugin installs.
Privacy is the best defense of children against groomers, so it is a one-sided perspective to begin with. That people are able to communicate in confidentially in private is a fact governments must come to terms with quickly.
Many burnt out people can muster just enough enthusiasm to pass an interview.
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Hmm. I logged on thru Google OAuth, and now I'm logged on as Alex. I've done the List Comprehension Python list filtering here: https://howtoxwithy.com/how-to/615701ba-4707-423d-a012-47943... but that one's written by "Alex", i.e. you.
I just imported a bunch of them to launch on ebay/amazon/etc. Should be similarly inexpensive.
Wow, it's interesting to see this posted here since I was literally just reading about the fact that a lot of American weapons manufacturer uses prison laborers who get paid as little as $0.23 per hour! https://www.michaelwest.com.au/us-prison-labour-foreign-weap...

Heck, you can even easily buy these forced laborers online from https://www.unicor.gov/Index.aspx

I guess this cash bail system is created to fuel modern slavery in the United States today, which is actually fully legal according to the US constitution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_Un...
I mean, I would also go (if they had that at my local airport)!? There's something about eating unknown food from small containers in a cramped space that I really enjoy! Clearly I seem not to be the only one.

(Also, I'd like to dine in the First Class, please!)
The best way to communicate across hierarchies is to set the other GameObject/Component that you need to communicate with as a public field and then manually set that GameObject via the Editor so now the UI has a reference to the Player’s Gun’s AmmoBehaviour. You can then use Events and EventHandlers to have the UI subscribe to every shot and now it can show how much ammo is left in the gun.

This can get kind of tricky if you use a lot of procedural generation or prefabs where for some reason you can’t immediately set the reference to that other GameObject (for example, the player has no gun yet). In those cases you should try to set the reference programatically, such as when the Player picks up the gun. You might have a reference from the Player to the HUD, and when the player picks up the gun you set the Gun’s UI reference via some SetUiObject(GameObject ui)
Of course, in general.

In this specific case the UK has changed course precisely along with the US, attempting to ally with the faction of the bourgeoisie currently in power there.
Interesting, those PartyBox 100's have very good reviews and I've been considering getting one. How much play time do you get with that power bank?
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Sorry for the double post - but editing a snippet causes the snippet to disappear entirely. A bug tracker would be really helpful here :)
Not 'violently. He was a Christian anarchist.
Reasoning backwards is fine. Going from desired outcome to figure out what would be necessary to produce it is useful.

It's another thing to work back from desired outcome to necessary facts and use it to deem those facts true, rather than testing if they are actually true.
> You don't pay, you just deposit money. If you show up to court, you get the money back. If you don't have that money on hand, its common to take out a loan.

If you're rich, yes. In practice, poor people can't round up enough money, so they must rely on a bondsman. So they'll pay something like 10% of the bail, and the bondsman will post the rest of the loan. The bondsman keeps the 10% at the end though.

Often people can't even round up the 10% and have to just stay in jail.
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Mostly blacks between the ages of 15 and 25.
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What the heck is up with Node.js versioning?

It jumped from 0.12.7 to 4.0.0.

https://nodejs.org/en/blog/year-2015/
Now that we know "they" will simply filter out the running water in their hidden bugs.
A 5500 XT bought in June, so not old at all. I've heard the opposing argument, that since it's a relatively new card (out since Dec 2019?) I should expect some bugs, which is insane one year later. It's actually unusable, I have to log into my machine via SSH to restart it, or force reboot. It might break after 30 minutes or 3 days, when idle or busy.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/929

AMD developers in that thread are chasing their tails and still haven't figured out why so many cards are having issues, and why other aren't, but as a consumer, that's really not inspiring at all.
In the Netherlands it's the other way around. We're removing full roads in cities in favour of bigger cycling paths and more walking area.

We've also got cycling roads where cars may drive as a "guest". So really slow driving speeds and only short distance until they go back up to the main road again.

The big difference here is that the bike is a priority vehichle here, instead of a nuisance for cars.

Cycling paths/roads aren't just for city infrastructure. It also is a way of providing safe intercity traffic for cyclists. You can cycle between major cities here without having to share the road with any cars.
Indeed. I think, increasingly, Google does not want people going straight to results.

I can't find the quote but I thought their original intent was to get people off the search results page (and to their "real" destination), but I think that's a position they've largely retreated from. That and "we label it clearly".
In that case, I don't think many Americans would take issue with VOA's publishing. It is generally bland, non-controversial reporting. Even their editorials are typically just criticism of human rights abuses or opinions in support of democracy.
Hi – I'm Max from the article (long haired guy). Happy to answer any questions about what's changed since 2014...

Michael Solomon [1] still my agent, and 10x has stood by me throughout my career. While I've stopped doing consulting work for others through 10x, they still support my contracts related to art and speaking arrangements. I can't speak highly enough of how much they've done for me.

I stopped doing contract work not because of 10x, but simply grew tired of working on, and fixing other people's problems. They were completely accepting and supportive of me to head out and build my own company (since 2017). I know their rooster of talent has grown significantly since then, and I would still highly recommend companies use them to get amazing talent onboarded without any hassle.

[1] While you're looking into 10x, don't forget to check out the nonprofit he started https://www.musiciansoncall.org which brings live music into hospitals!
Neat idea. I would try adding the names of several managers and corp-speakers for the players to try to impersonate.
What does the language bit have to do with anything? I speak 2 foreign languages and I'm not a native English speaker.

There is still the fact that the CRT display is very eye straining. Due to both the flicker and the way it works.
My eyes would constantly be red after using them for a long time.
Phones have a GPS chip and an internet connection that can bypass the corporate network. They are a slightly worse threat than a standard laptop.

At least a laptop there is a chance of corporate IT noticing unusual network traffic.
I don’t drive to work or even eat breakfast. That’s a sad view of the world.

I get the positivity aspect here, but my rant is about meta-products marketed to other “builders” - there is just something unsettling about the idea of making money from other people’s dreams before they have even started. “Build in the open” is nice when you are actually building something.
Hi, Developer Evangelist at GitLab here.

Scalability is a great point. With 13.0 we have added Gitaly clusters removing the dependency on NFS, whilst also improving high availability. Gitaly is the backend daemon for accessing Git repositories where GitLab communicates with.

https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2020/05/22/gitlab-13-0-rel...

NFS support in Gitaly has been deprecated and will be removed in 14.0 next year. https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2020/05/22/gitlab-13-0-rel...

There are environments and use cases for NFS which are being discussed in this epic: https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/1489
For the life of me, I cannot find this statistic or the derivation thereof, in the link that the author of the article gives. The report linked give stats on county and city jails. It would also be interesting to know what the actual conviction rate on this is as well so that we have a clear picture of what is occurring.
I'm not a lead foot but I'd go mad after a while from driving through neighborhood after neighborhood at 3 MPH.
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23511359
And thus the cycle of poverty continues and meritocracy descends into hereditary meritocracy, which isn't a meritocracy at all.

> I don't see how that money can be reclaimed except for the taxpayer covering it.

I see that the economic cost of perpetuating economic classes and the economic disruption of confinement without trial far outweigh this taxpayer cost. Taxpayers win when justice prevails.

This kind of extreme libertarian mindset just baffles me.
They still do to this day.
Let's call that Mental Versioning.
How will this be monetized?
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The order of magnitude is off but the scale is still much, much higher. I think they have billions of lines of code.
This is priceless, "electronics is trivial". You clearly saw a few logic gates and determined that was all there is to know. I would say ASIC design is more difficult than most SW, and you have to get it right first time, no patches or releases are coming to fix a bug you found after the chip is manufactured. As it happens the types of SW that are amongst the hardest are the algorithms that go into Place and Route. There are bitstream formats that have been either opened or hacked, yet there is no open source SW tool that even comes close to the performance or capability of a commercial place and route tool. The reason is its very difficult to create thst kind of SW.
I have the same card and have issues with locking up and crashing in both Windows and Linux. It looks like the kernel in Ubuntu 20.10 might have a fix for some of issues.
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There seems to be a lot of confusion over this. I suppose because many people here don’t have direct experience. I’m wondering if there’s a good public source for arrest statistics and records that would go into more detail.
I don't disagree that it has downsides, but for your average consumer, having that advance notice is probably quite useful/reassuring when it comes to scheduling car charges and other essentials.
> but prevents people escaping

prevents poor people escaping.

FTFY. So it's not going to solve this problem - your guy would just pay his bail and be gone.
Another one of the NBA puff pieces that have been making the rounds over the last couple days.

No mention of the 50%(!!!) decline in Finals ratings?

Without fans in the stands the #NBAgotNoHeart
>, I'm not a big fan of the superstar idea. The only area where you can even have indentifiably top performers is in sports, [...] You found a 10x guy, good for you. Now with the 999 other people you have 1009 people's worth of productivity.

I disagree and think superstars also exist in software programming and can be identified. A 3-sigma[1] subset of top performers can exist in both athletic and intellectual endeavors.

IMO, I think the following are not just examples of 10x programmers but more like 100x or 1000x. It's not just because they're "faster and more productive" but because they can also solve problems most others can't: John Carmack (Doom, Oculus), Fabrice Bellard, Linus Torvalds, Charles Simonyi (MS Word & Excel), Dave Cutler (Windows NT kernel), Jeff Dean (Google mapreduce and later AI with Google Brain).

Whether or not future programmers of their abilities will trend towards using talent agents to negotiate like Brad Pitt remains to be seen. I'm guessing they won't.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution#/media/Fil...
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But maybe not start with power supplies :-) or Valves (Tubes)
what part? the $25? or $250?

Even for 6 years ago, that didn't seem all that incredible.

Big pain points with 'offshore' include timezone work, language and cultural differences, missing of body language, etc. My experience has been most offshore folks are afraid to ask clarifying questions, which introduces a lot of delays over the long haul, but makes it feel at the the start of a project like things will go great.
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