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Programming languages don't succeed/fail on their own merits; popularity is driven by externalities, the main one being "what can I do with this language"?

Dart seems fine to me; as a person who doesn't really use it, it seems "about as good" as other well-regarded garbage-collected languages I don't use (in my case, C#, Go). So it's not that I think it is bad, and therefore don't use it. It's that it isn't well aligned with the things I want to create.

Sure, you can create CLI apps if you do all the work yourself, but there isn't some big library of Dart packages out there. There seem to be a lot more examples and libraries out there in Go (and Rust, etc).

You can make GUI apps with it, but only if using Flutter does that really make sense.

So if you want to make a Flutter app, or work on Adwords, or one of Google's research operating systems, Dart is probably pretty attractive.

But I think all those people are already using Dart. So it's probably just that there aren't more people who want to work on those things.
This shows me you have not used nor even heard about Flutter, because not only have they released Flutter 2, they have also released Flutter 3 recently.
Languages aren't popular by default, they're unpopular by default and need a compelling reason to become popular.

Most new backend languages fail the "what is this giving me that OCaml hasn't had for 20 years" test. (Hell, it's only recently that the question has stopped being "what basic feature that OCaml has had for 20 years is this language missing"). Dart is fine - I actually quite like the language design - but "fine" isn't good enough.
You’ll like this - https://youtu.be/toWQ_BQF8Aw

John Cleese on creativity
What does it offer that Typescript doesn't?
0.25% was never sustainable and everyone not on the take was sending the alarm in the teens . Had the fed taken the bandaid off faster following 08 they would have had the tools to support the economy without needing to pump trillions of dollars in during COVID. Now the Fed’s in a corner and if they don’t continue squeezing we’ll see 40% inflation in no time, if they do we’ll see mass suffering in 50-90% off the population. Perhaps a retroactive excess profits tax, land value tax, meaningful inheritance tax, nationalization of healthcare, mobilization of a CCC to build infrastructure/provide jobs, and massive housing build out, could ease the suffering. Alas, each of these individually are helpful enough to the common human as to be non negotiable for the half of Congress committed only to themselves and their puppeteers.
Yeah downloading an OS that couldn't play MP3's by default, and required you to jump through hoops to let it play them, because said distro was avoiding law suits, Just like how Audacity didn't ship with LAME, but required you to supply your own dll. Yes patents had zero effect on the User experience.
It's good advice to book directly with hotels, but way too many don't make it easy to get this "best price guarantee" online as easily as via booking.com.
Seriously, schools in Palo Alto or Stanford itself, producing GPA>4 only means that they’re cooking the numbers by giving some courses a greater than 4 average.

I think the correct thing is to require schools to publish their minimum and maximum grades, and then everyone can just scale that range as appropriate - because why should some kid going to Stanford get to report a 4.0 GPA when they’ve got low grades, but a kid at CSUEB has to report something lower because they’re a state school that can’t invent new grades?

From my personal experience, my GPA when I graduated was 8.7 or something, which at least makes it clear that I’m not on the same scale as you might normally think - whereas a 3.9 from Stanford might seem really good but is bolstered by courses with >4 scores. An extreme would be if you heard someone from my school talk about a 3.9GPA, which if IIRC would imply an average grade in the region of 60% (and yes you could in principle go negative, but that would get you on the “let’s talk about whether uni is right for you” list with the uni admin)
I was you for a period of about 30 years. As soon as I could afford to go to movies I went to about 100 every year. I adored the experience and dragged all my girlfriends and, later, my wife and family to the movies. They knew me at all the Edwards theaters in southern Orange County, California. The shared audience experience could be electric. We even liked waiting in line for a select movies, such as new movies in the first Star Wars trilogy, Batman sequels, Indiana Jones, Terminator, Alien, or back to the future. I cheerfully paid inflated prices for snacks because the overall experience was a delight.

Around the time Edwards was sold to Regal a few years ago the experience in all theaters was declining. As the good script writers turned to TV shows, the spectacle remained in movies but the stories stopped being compelling. Even the good theaters started showing crappy non-movie commercials before they ran trailers. Even the expensive movie theaters were unable to supply good fresh popcorn. Apparently operating the popcorn machine is just too much trouble. Much better to get trash bags full of stale popcorn from some central location.

Even at high-end theaters, customers started using their phones for social media while the movie was running. Phone screens are pretty bright these days.

Theaters were able to stem the decline a little bit by introducing even more expensive theaters that had comfortable assigned seating and passable restaurant service. The passable restaurant service quickly declined, right along with the movies. We could still sort of enjoy movies like Iron Man, Deadpool, or Pirates of the Caribbean. It was over $20 a person to see a movie, so about the price of a DVD.

By the time Covid hit, I was the only one in my family going to movies. My adult kids didn’t even want to go on my nickel. My wife wasn’t having any of it. She simply could not stand the poor quality of movies or the theater experience itself. I did go to see the new top gun movie, and it was about $25. At that point, with the degraded experience, I see no reason to do anything but stream or purchase the movie months after the hype has died down.

So now it’s me in my family room, alone, watching streaming services on a big screen and wondering what the fuck happened.
How do you identify talent?
Oh, yes. The for loop init should be "; n > 0; n--"
I forget their names but Firefox use to have 2 similar extensions. Both had a sortable table popup with filters one could apply. One extracted all tabs from the window and the other all links from the page. You could save it in various formats or copy it to clip board as links only, links with titles, bb code and html.
> GPA is problematic because not all high schools have access to the elite courses that push a GPA beyond 4.0 and many top schools look for an admission barrier around 4.5

FYI, they rate according to the school's scale. This knowledge is shared.

You don't think they'd notice if every single candidate from specific schools never got higher than a 4.0? :)
Compiled performance
Specifically, the earnings call slides[1], slide 5/22 footnote.

[1] http://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=https://c.s...
Hopefully I can fill in that last 10% of ES6 which is something I really missed from CoffeeScript. A lot of the features taken from Coffee were "almost as good" and that grinds me down after a while.

Basically if I can get a reimagined successor to CoffeeScript making decisions based E20xx as it is today then I'd be quite happy.
Your examples are honestly pretty weak: a formy app that's main criteria be that it works and doesn't send money to the wrong person (which you could pick almost any stack to do), and a platform that doesn't exist anymore.
This is not really true any longer.

Every major hotel chain and many independent properties have "Best Price Guarantees" that, well, guarantee you'll get the best price with them.

Often if you CAN find a lower rate at an OTA, they'll give you some kind of incentive (aka an extra credit etc.)

Examples:

* Marriott - https://help.marriott.com/s/article/Article-22050

* Hilton - https://www.hilton.com/en/p/price-match-guarantee/

* IHG - https://www.ihg.com/content/us/en/customer-care/bwc-lp

* Hyatt - https://www.hyatt.com/info/best-rate-guarantee

There are a few exceptions, such as Hotwire-style hidden rates, or rates negotiated for conferences and events, but displayed rates from places like Booking.com, Expedia and the like nearly always qualify.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cYPm__73XI I still remember this video that was widely circulated. The bans were never more than politicians wanting to look like they were doing something.
Having an incompatible replacement is cold comfort if you had a codebase written with the original Angular
Yes exactly. You are allowed to infect people with a deadly pandemic if you're rich, but if you're poor you have to risk personal medical consequences or lose your remote job.
They had their chance, but they turned it down at that time by failing to include a Dart VM in Chrome, whose browser engine had 30% of PC and mobile marketshare at the time.

However, now Chromium-derived browsers have 90% PC marketshare and 50% mobile marketshare. Including a Dart VM now, provided its standard library and tooling are up to par, would almost certainly spell the end of JavaScript.

Yeah, it'd still have to transpile to JS so that iOS users can still use the site, but Safari would be the only holdout. Unless MS strips the Dart VM from Chromium, which they honestly might do, but at that point people just go back to replacing Edge with Chrome, not that they don't by a large margin already.
Never really wrote about it!
Or is it? we generally know how to solve inequality - we don't know how to solve student assessment. Higher taxes and rising inflation/interest rates reduce inequality.
I’m not really clear. A general recession at the end of the 70s along with an end in a booming rise of programmer jobs. If you look at https://www.geekwire.com/2014/analysis-examining-computer-sc...

You’ll see a huge drop off in computer science graduates after a local peak in 1985 (they wouldn’t get back to that level until 2000, note this article also quotes data from Ed Lazowska).
No, they do not. Maybe you just posted something inflammatory?
Always book directly through the hotel website. Priceline has deals but their customer service is horrible. Also it seemed like the majority of the time I would book an express deal they would put me in an accessible room. I’m not disabled and generally no issues with it but I found it odd. Not only that, they will never honor their “price match guarantee.” They state that if you find a cheaper price on a express deal they will refund you up to 200% of the difference. They will act like you are crazy if you call them after finding a cheaper rate. I learned my lesson the hard way. Don’t book through 3rd party travel websites.
Complete speculation... but they're security grunts, not digital forensic experts.

At best, they probably just plug it into a black box and that box searches what it can for certain file hashes or names. Encrypted disk and it's game over.

Unless they're specifically looking for your data in particular - then all bets are off.

Not sure what they'd do with most modern laptops that have soldered drives though.

Happy to be corrected.

I believe they often ask for your passwords at the border too. I read that some borders also ask for your social media accounts, not sure if they want passwords for those too.

Would be interesting to set up a honeypot of sorts that records everything they do when they login to your device. Could even activate the camera and mic recording.

It seems unbelievable that it's accepted that they can walk away with your device and login as you and then do whatever they want.

I've seen on border patrol shows the guards going through messages on the phone looking for evidence of an intent to take paid work, etc. But it looks like a pretty surface-level manual search, at least the part they show on TV.

Surely somebody on here has had experience in this from the other side?
> Painting on a canvas is the proper way to render application UI.

It kills accessibility and extensibility. It also kills content blockers like uBlock Origin.
Nothing says luxury like riding a few hundred dollar used bike through the pissing rain.

The poor blue collar working man has a truck for every family member, and a heavy duty truck for the old man.
I'll give an example of action done the right way: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Every action scene shows us more about the characters or advances the plot, so the action serves as a backdrop for the storytelling.
I was surprised to see this, because I thought a previous FCC regulatory decision limited Starlink terminals to being operational only when stationary.

Some Googling revealed that the FCC reversed this in June of 2022.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/30/23190463/spacex-starlink-...
Sure but if you're going to go that far, that's basically like saying we shouldn't have breaking releases ever. Sometimes, tech needs to evolve in the face of other threats, like React overtaking Angular.
I didn’t take notes or anything and many of my questions were very specific. For example, how did Turbo Pascal do error handling (easily, because it was a handwritten recursive descent compiler), or did Tim Paterson, who sold DOS to Bill Gates for $50,000, ever regret it (no).
The reason the majority of people didn't mind before is because testing & trials were stringently enforced. I, myself, have had numerous vaccines, required & optional.

Previous post edit: Freudian slip, meant to convey unfavorable, but typed averse.

>The concept of using mRNA to produce useful proteins to fight disease has been around for decades. But until now, no vaccines using this technology have made it this far in clinical trials. The success of the SARS-CoV-2 vaccines “is really good for the RNA field, because until very recently, there were just a handful of people who really believed in mRNA vaccines,”

https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/the-promise-of-mr...
> Where does it end?

It ends with your survival. Vaccination isn't surgery, it's an extremely minor medical procedure that reduces or eliminates the risk of contracting a disease. During a deadly global pandemic, refusing vaccination is nothing short of suicidal. 97M Americans were infected and more than a million died. There were over 630M cases globally, and over 6.5M died due to COVID. The People have the stronger right to not be infected with COVID by you than your right to be infected. No one ever has any right to spread infection, not even libertarians.
As a GIMP user for 20+ years there’s no way I can defend them.
Even if a lot of people do this, there’s a lot of people who don’t do this.

Just like there’s a lot of people who would never send money to a prince from Africa. A lot of people will…
You still need to pipe through base64, i.e.

head -c 1024 /dev/urandom | base64
How many of Google’s cross platforms apps use Flutter? Google Sheets? Google Drive? Google Maps? Gmail?
The increase from 1320 to 1490 is pretty significant when it comes to college rankings. Although 1490 isn't anything stellar, it's the top 10 or 5 percent at my school. My main point was just the fact that, by paying collegeboard more money for more retakes, your score will increase. The SAT doesn't seem like a great indicator of anything besides one's ability to perform on the SAT
Sure. And even taking the test once under real live conditions is probably beneficial to complement a bit of study. Just as really giving a presentation to even a few people almost certainly beats just mentally walking through it in your head.

Obviously you can try to create a real simulation but it's probably not the same thing.
I'm not the person to ask, but plenty of people claim to reject capitalism and participate in society like Rage Against the Machine.
So, the plan is that people click each result about them, one at a time, then Google manually reviews each request?

This is begging to be automated on the consumer side.

I wonder what they will do once someone writes a tool to submit 10,000 of these in, say, 60 seconds. (Not that this would be enough to deal with all the sockpuppet domains in that industry anyway...)
I worked at a place a long time ago upgrading legacy software from the 80s. I helped them update their build process from file shares, copy/pasting and manual building to Git, Jenkins and automated builds/tests/packaging. I know it's not automated code, but it certainly saved us a lot of time with about 50 assemblies. I'm sure some companies were ahead of the curve when it comes to stuff like that, but this was a really small company. Modern CI/CD software is great and saved us lots of time.
On the code base in question, the full but with mutation tests was only 8 minutes. Not snappy, but hardly a disaster.
The tasks which can be reduced to finite integer sequences are absolutely arbitrary.

E.g. you're given a finite set of pictures and expected to guess what the next picture is from a few possibilities. The answer is that it's all of them since any finite sequence has an infinite number of generating functions. The only way to get it right is to try and read the mind of whoever wrote the test and guess what they meant. An invaluable skill to have in the white collar workforce when guessing what your boss actually wants from you. But white collar empathy is not intelligence.

From the IQ test listed here: https://www.mensa.org/public/mensa-iq-challenge literally all of them are reducible to questions about integer sequences.
My elderly mother and her (also elderly) friend recently booked a place in Lyon, France using a well-known online travel agency (OTA). The taxi cab driver dumped their stuff on the sidewalk and spun out of the area as quickly as he could get away. Apparently the "accommodations" were a collection of small apartments in a bad part of town. They punched in a code to open the door and get into the hallway, only to find that there was nothing there but a bunch of doors and a staircase leading to another floor with nothing but a bunch of doors. This went up for a few stories. There apparently was no way to turn the lights on.

They had no indication as to which door they were supposed to go through or how to get through it. There was nobody in sight at the facility. After trudging up a few flights of stairs and back down again, they elected to ask some students passing by where they could find a hotel. Fortunately they were able to find a place that had a vacancy.

Then they had to fight the OTA for a refund. Fortunately they are retired and had nothing better to do all day long than call them until they finally gave a refund.

I've had a couple of really obnoxious problems with OTAs involving event tickets. In one case I bought the wrong type of Disneyland tickets. I had to purchase different tickets once I got to the park. Then trying to get a refund from the OTA was a living nightmare. After about a week of daily calls I finally reverse-engineered enough of their process of moving money between them and the park and what not to convince them to refund me for the wrong (and unused) tickets. Another time an OTA with a customer service stand at a hotel in Hawaii had worked with me for 20 minutes to book tickets for an event, and then at the very end they said, "The booking fee is $250. But we'll waive that if you attend a 1-hour sales pitch!"

My strategy these days is to use an online travel agency to learn about hotels with vacancies and events in the area and then to go directly to the hotel or event web sites to purchase. If there's no way to book except through the OTA, I'm not going to have anything to do with said hotel or event.
> "I love the fact the the new prime minister is from an ethnic minority background but he's a minority in a different way. He's a multi-millionaire married to a billionaire.

> "I don't think someone in that position can really clearly see how being on a low income and using a food bank affects someone mentally for the rest of their lives.
Perverse incentives are borne from cookie-cutter, one-size-fits-all rules thought up in rush for a due-dated result requested by a manager who's in a rush for a due-dated result (continue as per stack of turtles).

> Reward seniority and loyalty

Aware this isn't a whitepaper that deeply explores what's better and worse for a company's workforce retention, but "Reward seniority and loyalty" is dangerously simplistic.

From my limited experience with payroll systems, and having groups of employees doing the same role, all on different rates based on how long they've worked for us, is a maintenance nightmare due to the inability to automate things. Salary bands and levels etc. alleviate this, but there are necessarily fairly tight limits where a 10-year veteran's expectations are just unrealistic. There's a point where "everyone doing this role" should be paid more, rather than this individual should get a higher percentage than their peers if their total remuneration would breach some ad-hoc level of acceptability.

I think a simple description of a wickedly-complex strategy is "know your people". This requires managers that have the time and space to get to know their reports, all the way up the chain.

Just two days ago I was discussing an ex-colleague, who had a bad reputation with our previous management (I was actually explicitly told by management not to bring him into my project). He eventually moved to a new company, and is an absolute star worker there. If he was managed better at the previous place he could have been a star there as well.

Immediate thought-analogy: If Managers treated their reports as Customers; if Managers acted as Sales Reps for the company in their dealings with reports, then retention would be less of a problem (also need to know which "Customers" are worth the effort).

But it all depends on what you're optimising for, and every workplace is different. Know which roles are "soldier out, soldier in", and which require 6 months of knowledge absorption to become remotely productive.

A single rule is as efficient as it gets, but it'll rub a majority of the people the wrong way. A rule for every individual will keep everyone somewhat more happy, but it'll be murder on administrative maintenance. Find your balance point on that scale and re-evaluate based on changing macro-economic situations.
Ask HN: What do you use to browse HN on iOS?
>3. While you need to consider the good and bad in all people, and recognize there is no perfect candidate, hiring someone who isn't a good fit for the role is often worse than not hiring someone at a startup. If you have 12 months of runway and you're burning 2-3 months being distracted by a Smart Jerk, then you might be jeopardizing your whole company.

This really clarifies the hiring decision as an investment decision in the early stage. However I must ask, why not offer a good chunk of the company to engineers to ensure you have the best chance? If SmartJerk can sink the company, then is SmartNicePerson worth 5%?
Especially in this case, since the dogs weren't pit bulls.

#readbeforecommenting
Polio vaccine caused side-effects, up to and including polio.

Every vaccine has carried some level of risk. I do think attitudes on that risk have changed over time though.

(I have a relative who was in the first trials of polio vaccination, and I asked her if there was the same kind of reluctance to get it we were seeing with COVID. She smirked and said "Well, let me think... I was in private school, and we were having an indoor play day that day... Indoor because the plane was gonna fly over to spray the DDT and they didn't want us to get directly dusted... Anyway, no, all our parents wanted us to get it because they all personally knew someone, or someone who knew someone, in an iron lung and didn't want that for their kids").
We eliminated 99% of networking memory allocations with enhanced buffer pooling
I wonder if that was sustainable and the past year of the economy says it wasn't.