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Because this author does not like Node.JS apparently. Like I said, I would love to see some examples that clarify what the writer is intending us, as his audience, to learn.
Maybe you can try to contact aphyr. Some of his "call me maybe" articles have been funded (by Comcast if I remember well)
Cameras are fairly cheap these days, and a video feed would be extremely valuable to figure out what happened in the event that something goes wrong. Telemetry from sensors is also extremely useful, but sometimes you just want to see what happened with your eyes.
What's a first stage drop off?
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Yes I would very much like to know what those dangers actually ARE, please! And particularly, how those dangers are different to the things you have to worry about when writing anything that runs on a web server - e.g. Servlets.
Actually, the reason I wrote the extension was exactly to avoid scanning down the list with my own eyes. This extension does it for me, so that, if I don't have much time, I can just read the few leftmost news.

Thanks for the kind words, anyway.
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Watching the camera feed of the launch around the 5 minute mark all I could think was: if the rocket turned around now, it could probably land in New York in another 5 minutes
Are you thinking about the change from 10 to 8 hours? Because that change seems to have been quite successful all over the world.

Regarding the 8 hour work day:
“One of the first businesses to implement this was the Ford Motor Company, in 1914, which not only cut the standard work day to eight hours, but also doubled their worker’s pay in the process. To the shock of many industries, this resulted in Ford’s productivity off of these same workers, but with fewer hours, actually increasing significantly and Ford’s profit margins doubled within two years. This encouraged other companies to adopt the shorter, eight hour work day as a standard for their employees.”
http://blog.bufferapp.com/optimal-work-time-how-long-should-...
Wow. It's really too bad what Wired's editors did with this headline. The story is not nearly as bad as they made it sound.
Well if Muslims and people from some other cultures can do fasting, and they still manage to live long and healthy like any other culture - why not try this method to actually loose weight and then pick for example Japanese diet to maintain it?

I think all this fasting is for self control rather than long term process. You teach your body and mind to say "no" to nasty foods and snacks.
Goes back to why we switched to widescreen displays.

Area of vision man. It is not wasted space to see a horizontal plane, as that is what we expect to see when looking at anything. Vertical video simulates the effect of straining to see through a partly closed door it is tangibly horrible.
Ah, George Carlin after he went from "funny" to "embittered old man prone to ranting"

Not that he was wrong.
This article is contentless and doesn't belong here.
Notice how they removed a couple of walls and made it 5x easier than the original.
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Orbcomm, you say? This is all I can think of: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a9/U.F.Off_-_The_...
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That doesn't have to be true. Many good systems support VLANs and subnets (OpenVPN style) per client, though you'll rarely encounter networks like this.
This article is really bad. It essentially just calls you stupid and moves on without bothering to explain why.
GGP comment included the text "for the vast majority of people" and that's the context with which I was responding.

I agree there are situations today for which it is more convenient. The better the public transport and the worse the parking situation, the more likely it is to be a winner in convenience. Even in Boston (with good [relative to the rest of America] public transport), it's tough to make car sharing feel more convenient. That's largely because of the distances involved.

Do you want to take Uber 25 miles up to the beach, and then take Uber back? Or do you want to pray that you can rent a ZipCar for an entire weekend day to make that same beach trip? (I agree that people who do that are STILL saving money; I just don't find that to be as convenient.)
The point here is that if you have 50 hours of developer time, you will get the most output if you spread it over more days than one long stretch. Therefore the 4 day workweek may be a tougher sell than the 6 hour workday.
So what happened on the first 3? Crashes?
I can't address the entire parent post, but I can address judging the current state of accusations of racism aimed at reformers in public schools, I was able to view it firsthand at a Philadelphia public school for years on end, where ANY data on an education gap (a widening one), both racial or economically divided, would be met with "you clearly hate black people", regardless of if that has any bearing on the discussion. This occurred during school board, PTO, UPG, and student teacher meetings. It was appalling to me how much racism/classism was thrown around as a reason to not apply any sort of response to the current broken state of education, and for how appalling it was, it was equally effective at stopping change. So in this at least, there is really no question as to the accuracy of whether these things occur and harm the students, for me. They do occur, they do harm students, and like other deep set prejudices and dogmatic belief, I have no idea where to punch that glacier to address the problem
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Sounds like it was written by my dad
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Aaaand, that's one more op system I can look forward to replacing with Redis.

Totally off-topic, but I have such a fangirl crush on Salvatore Sanfilippo... Every time he posts I get butterflies.
shrug I don't have anything to prove here but read this:
http://www.dailydot.com/gaming/2048-game-strategy-tips-cheat...

I just tried it out again and I used a slightly modified version of the technique laid out in this article (Left-Down-Left-Down until I couldn't anymore then switched to Right-Down, rinse repeat only occasionally switching directions to setup long number chains ) and I got a 4096.
Acceptors / Responders feel a bit like Python's WSGI model, with the addition of a queue in the middle for connecting gateways to applications. I suspect that the similarity extends to JSGI (Javascript), SCGI, and PCGI (perl).
That headline made me cringe immediately.
Isn't it better, safer, and more comfortable to just eat 200-500 less calories per day?

I know that I'd rather eat one less slice of pizza during a meal than to eat NOTHING for a whole day.

As we all know, weight is primarily determined by calories in versus calories out. Since 3500 calories equals 1 lb or .45 kg, you can lose 2 lbs or 1 kg a week by eating 500 calories less each day.
Google, Netflix, and Facebook ask FCC to intervene in fight over Internet 'conge
My understanding (from a close friend who is a teacher) is that these metrics are difficult to implement for the more abstract disciplines such as the arts. These, then, are being eliminated from curricula since they are difficult to measure. This may not initially appear to be an issue but the article itself illuminates a greater need for holistic perspectives on education. Putting educational disciplines in silos is damaging the experience (can't read a word problem for math) and phasing out arts may be stunting the ability to learn.
This launch seemed to use a much steeper trajectory. Typically they go downrange much faster than they gain altitude, but today they seemed to go up faster than they were going downrange.

How does this affect the fuel efficiency of the launch? Is this a way to cut down the horizontal velocity so they first stage can return more easily?
CT was one of my biggest inspirations, as well.

There are still copies of Blaxxun Community Server out there[1], so it would be great if someone could get their hands on the original world files somehow. I also tracked down the source code for an early version of the Blaxxun Contact browser plugin and uploaded it to GitHub[2]. Unfortunately, it's old enough that it doesn't include any of the community features.

[1]: https://code.google.com/p/multi-user-worlds/downloads/detail...

[2]: https://github.com/docbrown/blaxxun-cc3d
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I should have finished that with "... as long as a default of 0 is acceptable." If 0 is a valid argument but a bad default, then it's slightly less useful.
Probably not (I'm not opposed to standardized tests, FWIW). Schools need to teach art in art class, history in history class, &c. If lying about curricula to squeeze in more test prep doesn't count as "cheating", it's hard to imagine what could.
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You'll probably never see this, but no -- I meant "keep other people out".
Except that every example I pulled from Philadelphia, a city where I would like to live, but where I do not think I can raise a family safely, was black-on-white or black-on-asian crime. Read the links I included, this is a racial issue. From an analytical standpoint, the crime is best understood as an ethnic conflict, just as Palestinian-versus-Jewish or Jewish-versus-Palestinian violence or Hutu-versus-Tutsi violence or Whites-lynching-blacks are all best understood as ethnic conflicts. To not describe it and analyze it in these terms, cripples your ability to understand the problem.
Here is the video of the previous one. It landed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjZ33C9JZTM

Video was barely recognizable before repair.
> What's My Problem With Node.js?

You didnt make a good case against nodejs. If it's about Javascript, then it's not a good criticism.

A good case against it could be it's concurrency model,the fact that node maintainers dont control V8,or the difficulty to use streams.But you didnt say anything interesting that would make a business reconsider its use of nodejs.

Even worse,you didnt even talk about alternative solutions,like GO, or scala. Some big businesses like SAGE or PAYPAL went with nodejs successfully, care to explain why they made the wrong choice?

I'm not sure what's your point,care to explain?
I must disagree.

Threes wins in every category. In 2048 once you know the strategy you don't really need to do anything. The rules are too simplistic. In threes everything is wonderful, from the audio, to the animations, to the fun little sounds every block makes on combining, even the little story about each block's personality, and of course a very good set of rules to keep the game predictable(ish) and challenging. It's actually really fun and difficult.

What I'd like to see: Every paid game should have a 3-day free trial. Once you really like it after 3 days, boom purchase. I hate buying games only to realize I wouldn't play it past first sitting. This is where Threes lost, not because its better or paid, but because free is easier to approach.
Playing devil's advocate:

If someone "steals" your identity, it isn't really theft sure. Really, you both have a pointer to that identity. The problem, which makes it a good idea for it to be illegal, is that you both have a pointer to the EXACT SAME identity. Thus, any destructive(or benevolent) changes they make affect your identity as well.

Contrast this with most forms of "copyright theft", where the original owner still has the original AND any changes you make to your copy have no effect on the original.
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I've played and enjoyed both games.

Threes is beautiful, but to be honest it sometimes feels so...heavy. The animations, the sounds, the repetitive music...sometimes it grows tiresome. Meanwhile, 2048 is something I can throw up on a browser on any device (something I can't do with Threes) and just hash through a few games. This is not including the time I spent on the various 2048 clones, made possible because (again unlike Threes) the source code for 2048 is freely available online.

It may be less challenging, but when has challenge ever been a criteria for a game to be fun, or even a "masterpiece"?
That was a different mission.
I have a feeling that there are quite a few other people who strongly dislike node.js glad to see i'm not alone
Well said, and in my experience the best way to achieve all this is to let devs have direct contact with end users. Getting the knowledge first hand on what problem they are really trying to solve with your help, and how small tweaks here and there can make them more efficient etc. really gives most devs a sense of urgency. What is required is done, but no more since devs want to put the new version quickly into the hand of the users in the hope that they'll like it.

The complete opposite is fixed requirements specifications and many layers between devs and users. This will get expensive and easily quite mediocre when devs know they are not really building the product the end user needs since motivation so easily falters in such an environment.
No, aborted before launch.
Microsoft made a huge pivot fairly early. Apple, did a small pivot that was arguably a course correction. Nintendo did a major piviot later on. Which I think is more telling.

The odds that your first idea is perfect is small. Recognizing when you have a better option is important.
I just re-read it and the tone didn't strike me in the same way as the first time. Mea culpa.
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How did that case end?
For those interested in different approaches to weight loss, I found this article really helpful while trying to shed a few pounds myself:
http://liamrosen.com/fitness.html
> Chris Lattner spent a year and a half creating a new programming language—

That's not as bad as JavaScript, but most good languages take longer than that.

Swift doesn't look bad as such to me at a quick glance, just not novel. It's a "why-bother?" language rather than a "ack, no!" language. If C# version 1 was "The Microsoft proprietary version of java" is Swift v1 "The Apple lock-in on current practices" ?
Some peoe on HN freaking love random unqualified people giving weird advice about diet and nutrition.
suggests that there's some sort of commonality between them

There is a commonality: they use significant whitespace. I understand that this is a syntactic difference and, given that I said I had used each quite a bit, that they're quite different languages. That said, syntax is chosen for a reason and I feel most comfortable in the significant whitespace world. I'm excited by Rust but, shame on me, the syntax had confused me into thinking the language was more C-ish than Haskell-ish. My point in the grandparent was that the article did a nice job of changing my (admittedly shallow) opinion.
What if making circuits was easy?
You can probably use street view to get multiple GPS tagged frames. Won't be as good as a drone, but it would allow you to easily skip to different sites you think are aimed at each other.
Given that this behavior is well preserved in all major world religions, I would hesitate to call it unusual. ..
As others said, the article is lacking substantiation of author's opinion.

Those who don't like the Javascript part of Node.js might be interested in the C++ port:

https://github.com/d5/node.native
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> my main problem with Node.js is that it makes it easier to do something that most development teams probably shouldn't ought to be. Namely, distributed concurrent programming.

So programming is for the elite, and the rest of the peons ought to be relegated to scripting and spreadsheets, it seems.

The overall spirit of this article, taken to the nth degree, would imply that any high-level language or any platform should not exist, but rather a few chosen developers should be allowed to program in assembler.
Sure, but that's true of the other engines of growth, it isn't anything that is unique to sticky.

IOW, the other EoGs are typified by how they acquire new users from the actions of existing ones. For 'viral' it is the user activity that causes new users to join, for 'paid' it is that revenues from existing users are used to purchase new users (typically through advertising), but 'sticky' doesn't say anything about getting new users from existing users at all, it only says you get new (or ongoing) revenue from existing users.

While this means that if 'sticky' is your model you have to focus even more on lowering churn, it still doesn't say anything about how you grow.
> end of the road for this one design.

Yeah, that's exactly the question I got from reading it. If they are implying the end of the road for this design, does that imply they have a next design? If so, why would they want to redesign?

> you want to use components that are recent so you can keep producing more of them without increased costs for legacy components.

Good point, didn't think of that. Is this a problem even on their scale?
All I've noticed is more clickbait. http://knowmore.washingtonpost.com/
When you say "Choice of Linux OS," what are you currently offering?
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Lots of people are learning js, html and css these days, but to make anything useful they have to download a framework and figure out the stack. Why can't they just post their html/css/js files somewhere and have a working app?
Funny. I guess it would just be 0x000000;
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This product is awesome - so clever!
The 50bps signal is a side channel that tells the receiver where the satellites are. The main signal is actually slightly over 1Mbps. Decoding that one is really interesting. I won't claim to fully understand it, but my weak understanding is that it's not really 1Mbps of unique data, but rather a long-term pattern that's known to all parties. All the receiver needs to know is the time offset of the pattern, which it can do by listening for a long time and seeing where the small biases line up with the known pattern. In terms of listening to a pin drop against loud speakers, imagine that the pin is being played by a drummer and you know what beat he's playing, and your job is just to figure out what part of the song he's playing at the moment. If you listen long enough, the very small bias he applies to the extremely loud noise can be teased out, because you know what you're listening for, you just don't know exactly how it lines up in time. Do this with several drummers playing the same beat, and you'll get different time offsets for different drummers. Given at least four drummers (satellites), and you can take those differences and the known locations of the drummers (satellites) and figure out where you are.
Wow, had no idea that this was a personal "skunkworks" project by Chris! Very impressive (and gratifying for him, I'm sure) to have such a thing embraced by the highest levels of management.
Maybe. This time, the satellite load was just 1.1 tonnes (vs. 6 tonnes capacity), so they probably had more room for maneuvering and hence decided to do stage separation closer to the launch site in order to aid with the recovery attempt. Or maybe it's standard procedure on lighter payloads; perhaps it reduces maximum dynamic pressure.
In a lot of workplaces whenever one person is out, another person has to make up for it by doing the person who's outs work in addition to their own work. Not saying it will definitely be the case here, but it could be.
I'd be surprised if they did. Netflix doesn't have a Linux client, and the only way to get it running on desktop Linux is using Wine with custom patches. Seeing as Wine depends on the CPU being x86, this method won't work.
They will find out that day for sure. Win meet win!
This seems to echo what Richard Hamming says in "You and your research". He recounts how his fellow scientists were working on unimportant problems in their field. The judgement of unimportant came not from Hamming, but from the fellow scientists when he asked them "What's the most important problem in your field right now?" His subsequent question was, "How come you're not working on it?" He says that didn't earn him many friends.

By "important", I had also mistakenly thought that he meant "grandiose". But in fact, he later defines "important problems" as "problems that you have a reasonable angle of attack to solve".

Some problems just aren't yet ripe, until all the pieces to solve it come together. Which makes the question, "Why now?" a very good question to answer when contemplating what problem is important.

When someone writes about how Silicon Valley is working on worthless problems, like photo sharing app, or the Yo app, or twitter--or when Groupon was on the up, and it seems like there were lots of daily deal sites, it makes me think of this. I wonder if they take into account that some problems that are considered worthwhile in their eyes simply aren't ripe to be solved yet.
There's a ticket system? When hitting the ordering page you have to tick a box that says the services has no support.
It might be nice to put the summary at the top of the page.

I tried it after the special "show" section was added. Nothing really happened; a few people clicked, 1 person upvoted.
It's a product of a higher target altitude (650km for Orbcomm vs. 330km for an ISS resupply) and wanting to perform a single second-stage burn to achieve the target orbit.
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Have you read the research about "eat less move more"? Because while it's obviously true it's also clearly not helping reduce the incidence of obesity.

Working out a method to help fat people lose weight would be worth a lot of cash.
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I was thinking that the "manual override" feature of the lock was simply a matter of being able to overpower the powered-off motor by hand. I gather from the other comments that it's actually going through some fairly steep reduction gearing that you can't overpower, and that the gearing is just disengaged from the lock mechanism when not in use. Is that about right?
It's an officially sanctioned language for the apple ecosystem, meaning the bar has been lowered to "is it better than objective-c?", rather than "why bother".
I wonder which western country will be the first to attempt a ban on posession of any computing device without a government approved backdoor.
I was originally very excited by the Bezos takeover. As the article states, though, not much has changed from a journalistic perspective... yet. I'd love to see the Post become a contender of outside-the-Beltway content. When Ezra Klein bailed to start Vox, I found myself reading the Post less and less. If nothing else, this article makes me think that soon something exciting might come to the Post.
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