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I agree with this concept as names are meaningless. But id like to throw in that if you're looking for corporate work then your title is important as the people hiring you don't usually understand what you do, so just explaining your work might not pan out. You'll want a good title and some thing that explains your work in terms of money.

When working with others who are familiar with your industry then that caveat does not apply though.
>Weird thing is - it doesn't seem to use real time data, just uses average wait times, based on timetables. Turns out in London and Berlin where I use it, there are so many transport options that average wait times, (when known) never seem problematic.

I am quite sure Citymapper uses live data for buses (not sure about tubes as some lines, such as the Circle/District, don't always have correct data).

So it will often recommend you to take the bus if there happens to be one shortly arriving at a stop nearby as opposed to walking to the tube that might be 5-10min walk away.
I still maintain he's talking nonsense.

For a start most traditional HPC is done not via threads but via IPC. He's now not talking about languages but their libraries / platform offerings. Just because it is in the c++ stdlib doesn't mean you couldn't do it. Indeed the only reason it has been integrated into the standard platform the language offers is because it was proven over many many years as an external library.
I think you mean Swatting, which a good reminder of just how insane the US has become.
I am a vim user and i don't understand how people always exaggerate on the learning curve of vim. Coming from a group of people that is probably the most arrogant and stuck-up group of professionals. "We are amongst the smartest people on earth", "Let's disrupt everything", "lifetime learning...", etc.

However, learning new keybindings and a bit of philiosophy seems to be too much.

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Silicon Valley, saving the world, one app at a time ...
That Elixir / atom-shell integration sounds awesome. Any chance of open sourcing (parts of) it?
I do not think that great programmer necessary reads a lot of what amounts to soft "programming/founder lifestyle" blogs. Especially since those two seem to be behind the peek of their fame. I do not remember their names appearing in major tech sites nor on any smaller topic/framework focused ones last years.

Plus, you would discriminate against tech oriented programmers that focus more on technological side of the things over soft-quasi-management one. Both of them are arguably smart and experienced, but their blogs are more opinions then need to read text books full of practical tips.
Heavy prime users? But why? They are already locked in their ecommerce system. I am sure try are not trying to compete with apple or samsung but want to increase the adoption of amazon.com. Which means they want non prime users to use this phone.
No.

I am going to move to Mozilla and Linux for as much as I can.

My sister gave me her old iPhone (a lovely gift!) and I find it somewhat frustrating to use.

I'm not sure I trust Amazon to have my telephony information.

Also (and I sY this every time I comment in any Amazon thread in the hope that someone sees it and does something about it) Amazon search is hopelessly broken. Often I abandon a search and go somewhere else to buy stuff because sorting and filtering just doesn't work. I am amazed that someone in search hasn't targetted this. Perhaps Algoli can get this?
Does "modern web" mean it has to be Node based? Unless you are expecting a hell of a lot of traffic, I wouldn't have thought a BB was a particularly suitable use case for node (correct me if I am wrong).
If the mother doesn't have enough money to raise the child, she was clearly being irresponsible and should be relieved of her ward.

Of course, I assume that women are volitional human beings and thus should be held responsible for their actions. A concept quite foreign to the Ango-Saxon legal tradition.
I own a Kindle Fire HDX, which is a nice tablet, but really the only reason I own it instead of a regular Android tablet is because Amazon Video is not available on Android. Given that I don't care about video for a tiny phone screen, my answer is a definitive no.

The dynamic perspective feature seems like weird UI gimmick. I don't really like head tracking features. I turned that off in my Galaxy S5.

Taking a picture of a product is a cool idea, but there's no reason they can't also put that on other phones.

Also Amazon never updates their hardware to new versions of the software. I owned the original Kindle Fire and it never got any of the HD or HDX software changes, nothing. Nobody has beaten Apple in this regard, but Android isn't as bad as Amazon's forked version.

Finally, the Amazon app store is kind of a desert.

I just don't get what they were thinking with this thing. It seems dead on arrival.
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Look at Python conferences (e.g. https://2013.pycon.ca/en/ ), and look at the list of sponsors.
I recently had a similar project [0] and wrote the first version in Java. In some cases it took almost an hour to render a simple 6 bit per color channel image. After that I rewrote it in Go and got it down to ~120s. I think this is mainly due to the fact that the Java version lays way to heavy on OO and does a lot of dynamic memory stuff and the rewritten Go version uses simply 2 (or 3) large arrays.
I think in our case it wasn't a raw performance thing but rather the fact that go's proximity to C made us code smarter (=

[0]https://github.com/31415us/olga basically a straight up copy/reimplementation of joco's [1] response to [2]
[1]http://joco.name/2014/03/02/all-rgb-colors-in-one-image/
[2]http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/22144/images-wit...
The threads themselves are pretty good looking but the forum main page (https://community.nodebb.org/) is really cluttered and confusing.

Also, why are there upvote/downvote buttons on thread messages? Do they have any effect on visibility or are they just for show?
Can't pass up that chance to take a cheap shot at an entire continent of people! After all, everyone knows that people who live in North America are all fat, lazy, and too stupid to know it!
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Programmers are programming now, today.

That's why they don't change keyboard layouts even though a different layout is probably more comfortable; it's why they don't change to VIM even though it's so powerful.

What they have is good enough for most of the time.

Perhaps universities should be teachin VIM and emacs?

It's not like the days when secretaries would be taught WordPerfect at colleges and thus WP could get away with a blank blue screen.
Yes. This is not made by NSA and i'm not saying that this is made for NSA. But ultimately the bigData is going to go there.

And i don't worry about Apple because they don't have to find what books i like and when i need an Air cooler, but Amazon needs those information. Either me, never heard of such smartphones tracking user's head and face everytime - so precisely.
I have used this before, in just my first week I had multiple crashes. DO NOT USE THIS FOR PRODUCTION YET.
I would be jailed and executed becaus having no documents, weird speech patterns, and spohisticated technology means I'm American spy.

If I landed in nineties instead I would be rich thanks to Apple and Google stocks, and mostly bitcoins.
It seems like the more relevant factors are: the nurse's personal history, workplace issues, a targeted call, a high-profile target, and broadcasting a recording of the call. Not to say standard, random prank-calling is OK, but it's not quite comparable.

On related notes, it's interesting that the author of OP says, "Just last summer, someone called me and claimed to be holding my brother at gunpoint. The ringing of my phone startled me for days to come." She also regrets making a mean-spirited call to her math teacher. Yet she does not seem to regret prank-calling in general.
> I can imagine if the clerk did report his concerns, he'd likely be told they were good customers so why rock the boat....

Isn't the merchant liable for the chargebacks? Or in this case, who was footing the bill for this fraud?
How do you synchronize so well among so many devices?
Oh, but I can tell you: the Commission pushed it, despite protests and even lawsuits from the private cab owners (see Taxi & Limousine Commission v. Hassan El-Nahal).

I was just pointing out that this very story disproves your claim that "private property is holy ground upon which the public may not tread unless invited", since that's exactly what happened here, and so I don't see why couldn't Uber also be "convinced" to install the trackers.
Credit card numbers aren't particularly secret (if you think of all the retail staff online, on the phone and offline) that have access to them. The thing that manages fraud and keeps the value of card numbers down is the difficulty in converting card numbers to cash or goods safely and anonymously.

I'm slightly surprised that the gift cards scheme works as I don't see why there couldn't be a revocation list for gift cards circulated amongst stores that is added to when a chargeback occurs. Even if it doesn't it still exposes the criminal when buying the gift card.
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I suspect one of the first things that would happen is you would disappear into the NSA/GCHQ/security services of the country you were in (if not disappear entirely). A modern laptop would be enormously valuable in 1975.
Not true everywhere.

As an older engineer you might not get the new, cool, bleeding edge project. But then you might also not be expected to work 15 hour days.

I call that a win.

(I'm mid 30s and while I may not put out as many lines of raw code as I used to, I understand what I'm doing far better, have a good understanding of development process and tools, and place high value on robust, supportable code as compared to most of the younger engineers I've worked with recently - i.e. I'm far more productive, even if I look like I'm doing less!)
The linked prank call is a sad case. It's the kind of call that I would have said was harmless before it happened.

The callers thought that they were being ridiculous - they thought that their accents and use of language and so on were so obviously daft that they had no idea they would actually get as far as they did. They thoguht they'd call, say some silly things, and have people laugh at them for being so inept at impersonating royalty.

Tragically, working for the modern NHS is for many people a stressful unpleasant experience with a lot of management and bureaucracy.
TIL that intermissions don't exist in a lot of countries. I always get pop-corns and coke during the second half.

No wonder the theaters often cut to black (for a break) at abrupt points during Hollywood films. A lot of Bollywood films on the other hand have well defined "half time" or intermission.
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This reminded me of the book 'Replay' by Ken Grimwood
> Ten deadliest natural disasters since 1900

> Rank	Death toll (estimate)	Event*	Location	Date

> 2.	650,000–779,000	1976 Tangshan earthquake	China	July 1976

> 5.	230,000	2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami	Indian Ocean	December 26, 2004

> 6.	229,000	Typhoon Nina—contributed to Banqiao Dam failure	China	August 7, 1975

> 7.	160,000	2010 Haiti earthquake	Haiti	January 12, 2010

> 10.	138,866	1991 Bangladesh cyclone	Bangladesh	April 29, 1991

I think about this scenario sometimes, probably won't be able to live with myself without trying to lessen the deaths.
That's weird seems to be responsive enough for me it's not extremely faster then anything else however it's not slow either.

Compared to some forums the would be a very big improvement in loading speed.

As far as the layout is concerned it's not intuitive i haven't seen anything similar so it takes a little getting used to however that doesn't mean it's bad.

Edit: I guess it's getting slightly slower now with the HN effect however I only noticed it going back to the home page.
Yes. Climbing, too. And there seem to be a surprising number of climbers who are also programmers, so it seems to me there's something similar in the nature of the two activities.
I don't agree, actually. Office doors wouldn't help if people just opened them whenever they wanted. The reason doors can be more effective is because they're a more common sign of that request for uninterrupted thought, but that can be accomplished on open plan offices as well, if you have a policy defining those signals. Open plan offices may be worse on a general noise level, but that's a different issue.
Seriously? Expired?
You could still download a lot of information from 2014 to bring back, and charge your computer when you get there. That would let you get rich from the stock markets, and then I presume do something cool with the money.
Node would be useful for the chat feature that one can see in the screenshots.
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what do you mean no ACID compliance ? the db used?
And can you be more specific about what's wrong with the UX?
1975 is before my time, but to the best of my knowledge -- backed up with a quick Google -- computers of the time are recognisably similar to computers of today, obviously modulo technological advances. Whereas, if you were to go back a bit further (e.g., pre-silicon, etc.) then people, even experts, would probably find a modern machine somewhat mystical. Anyway, what if we turned things around: What would we think, today, of a computer owned by a time-traveller from 2055? Will there be another "quantum leap" -- possibly quite literally -- like ICs, that will make it an intractable wonder, or will it be basically recognisable?
There's sort of an opposite weirdness in San Francisco which is a bit ironic given where Google is located. Namely, based on various visits, Google seems very big on one taking the streetcar. Now SF streetcars are all very scenic and fun and all that but--with the possible exception of a few routes at non-crowded times of day (if there is such a thing)--useful public transportation they really aren't. (For one thing, there's often a block long line of tourists waiting to get on.)

But, yeah, it's hard. Not sure how you handle it other than just excluding streetcars from the list. (Which might not be a terrible heuristic in SF; locals feel free to disagree.)
I don't own a smartphone and I use SMS a lot. But I barely use online chat system nowadays (MSN/AIM used to be the rage within my peers circle but it's now gone and fb chat or g+hangout didn't replace it).
Was anyone else who has played the game Defcon a bit disturbed by this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEFCON_%28video_game%29
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That's a different kind of hard to get.

Bad data is easy to get.
No advertising "absolutely can be measured" because no one has access to time machines nor alternate universes to see what a consumer would have done without the advertising. This is a simple fact. Of course, when you can invent your own criteria ("brand consideration," "shopping behavior," "incremental purchase value,"), you can't be wrong.
> Erlang/Elixir certainly doesn't have the necessary breadth of libraries to support general-purpose tasks.

After doing quite a bit of work with Erlang lately, this sentence jumped out at me. Specifically, I think Erlang does have a breadth of libraries, but they're not easy to find. I've had to pluck lone source files out of larger projects, or depend on an obscure github fork since the original was unmaintained. epgsql was a great example of this, though no longer thanks to davidw's yeoman work [1]

Maybe not the right place to ask this, but would anyone be interested in something like the Clojure Toolbox [2] for Erlang? I've always found having that reference of libraries organized by task to be super handy when working with Clojure.

[1] http://journal.dedasys.com/2014/04/27/an-erlang-postgres-dri...

[2] http://www.clojure-toolbox.com/
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That rules out living in SF or London, for example.
Basically only here in Germany. I was so confused to see a cowboy ad at a metro stop.
"modern web" doesn't have to be node based, but just about any web app is a suitable use case for node.

The exceptions are web-apps that require heavy backend computation (javascript/node sucks at that), but even then you could use node + a work queue that's handled by a more appropriate language.

Nodejs has arguably the best websocket implementation of any language and has mature drivers for pretty much every database backend. It has various templating frameworks etc.

A BB just needs a database at the backend and a way to get that data out to a browser. In that regard, nodejs is more suited than many other languages.

I don't really get your comment since it seems to imply that writing it in nodejs comes at some cost and you need to justify that cost by saying you expect a lot of traffic. I've seen this attitude before when someone writes something in assembly.. "Oh, you're hand-optimizing your program's assembly? Unless you really need that performance I wouldn't think it's worth it to use assembly". The thing is, nodejs doesn't have all that many problems. Sure, there's the massive number of warts of javascript, but people have learned to write readable and less-buggy code in the javascript ecosystem at this point (promises, jslint, etc).

So to repeat my answer to your question: no it doesn't have to be nodejs to be "modern web", but I do think nodejs is appropriate for this use case.
Nice to see this book again. What is the recommended way to run Scheme/Lisp on Windows?
Some obsevervations while using https://community.nodebb.org/

Kinetic scrolling on Firefox for Android is broken. Do not fiddle with scrolling when doing web development, ever. I guarantee that you will fail.

Front page forgets the scroll position when coming back with back button (Firefox, Windows 7).

When you do AJAX stuff (or websockets or anything else not plain HTTP GET that browsers do when you click normal link), always show progress indicator right after you user clicks something. Now when the site is slow (because of HN effect?) user is shown blank page while the page is changing. All I can see is the top bar and the grey background after clicking any link. It takes 2-3 seconds before anything visible shows up. During this time always show some progress indicator.

Going back and forth quickly occasionally gives user a wrong page. For example right now my URL bar shows https://community.nodebb.org/topic/7/nodebb-plugins but content is a post by quahfamili posted 12 months ago with title Testing.

Bulletin board system gains nothing from "single page application" style architecture, it is a collection of documents, stick with it.

EDIT: Also, when using infinite scroll, do not put anything in the page footer. Now when the pages have copyright info and couple links in there, I can see those only for a split of a second before new content appears. Makes me go crazy.
This is the first I'd heard of it, being an American (if that's an OK excuse.) It is sad, and also would have seemed relatively harmless beforehand to me.

To change from my original tone a bit, perhaps it is best to generalize the idea, that having fun at a stranger's confusion, behind the anonymity of a phone, is just too cruel and dangerous. You can't know what's going on in the lives of the people you call, and the consequences move out of your control when you hang up.
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I think they might be building one in the last weeks on Giselastraße. Not obvious at all what it was though. There is a disastrous roundabout there on the way into the English Garden that nobody knows how to use.
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It's amazing when you get further out into the country in the Republic. There's almost no option to safely get down the road unless you are in a vehicle.
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Evopedia will do nicely for that. http://evopedia.info/
The nurse referred to in the linked prank call was working in a private hospital, not the NHS. I agree with your comment though.
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As opposed to the individuals who produce every other phone? Terrible reasoning, every phone is made by a company.
I'm waiting contact synchronisation and I'll only need google for the play market ! pretty neat.
If he was getting new customers, the profit on the first sale might not have been what mattered. It might have been, but it might not have been.
I though that the whole point of the premise is that with the laptop you have huge computer power that was not available in 1975, but I'm surprised most comments don't find that interesting.
Yeah I agree with everything you're saying here. I still think the parent's claim is absolutely absurd (that the USPS tracks mail in order to perpetuate a culture of mass fear and create income inequality).
Of course you've never heard of it, they're being "innovative". They need something to differentiate their product from every other phone on the market.
Actually, the coverage in Europe is many many times better than the coverage in the US. The US actually gets that many more lightning strikes then Europe.
>it seems to imply that writing it in nodejs comes at some cost and you need to justify that cost by saying you expect a lot of traffic

Maybe I just too traditional, but there are far more mature back end frameworks available, without the warts of JS. For me I prefer to see a need or justification of using the latest software trends, not just because "its modern" or "that's how we do things nowadays" (a genuine response to a project I am involved in when I asked the case for using Node).

Node.js obviously has some use cases where it will shine, but I wouldn't have thought a BB was one of these places, as its quite a traditional kind of app.
The problem for me would be that i have absolutely no idea on how one could build that laptop. I wouldn't know how to build a transistor, i have almost 0 knowledge of electronics, people at that time probably knew more than i do. So, except letting them tearing the computer apart to examine it, there's not much i could do.

That's something i've always been bothered with : suppose that you'd be teleported,naked, to ancient greece, how could you prove to them that you come from the future ( provided language isn't an issue). In my case, the only thing i could came up with were maybe some basic notion of how the human body works, biologically. But that's very thin.
I know a bit about general relativity, quantum mechanic, physics, logic, etc. But i'm in now way sufficiently advanced in any of those subjects to prove or demonstrate anything to anyone.
A copy of this thread.

No seriously, I think I'll bring all the information referred to the environmental damage we created since then, plus the information required to understand the technology of the laptop itself, including some peripheral, an ethernet cable and a second laptop.