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Erm, you can series enough storage batteries to make double-ended DC at +-120V, which will actually work just fine with existing electric stoves / water heaters. Yes, there will be some new safety issues and it will take the electrical code a while to catch up for safe residential installation (hopefully they'll deprecate romex!), but these are not insurmountable.
My experience on an ionic+cordova app was very similar. Though I did ended up using the ionic-cli https://github.com/driftyco/ionic-cli

Thanks for sharing this!
They off-shore most of their money (e.g. Ireland) to evade tax. It is legal but scummy.
"These handcuffs and regulations are for your protection."
It's still behind the web components flag in FF nightly. The master bug for web components is: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=811542
Not when you reach 64k methods together with libraries for a debug build. Of course, unless you want to go through the joy that is loading another .dex file :)
Yeah it's pretty good, but it still has issues. My game uses a manifest.cache and the console/networking tab does not give good feedback with it. In chrome, the console will tell me, "This file could not be found". In Firefox, it gives me no feedback that was a problem... things just don't work as expected.

Also, I'm pretty convinced the dev tools have some sort of memory leak in them. Every 3-5 days I have to restart Firefox or my game runs so slow it's unplayable. I don't think it has to do with my code because I've got no persistent store and refreshing the page doesn't fix it. Restarting the browser always does.

Sometimes the debugger gets confused and puts breakpoints on things I no longer have breakpoints on.

The profiler does not have a very useful view. I can't figure out how to delete reports I've made without closing the dev tools. More importantly, I can't find a convenient way to answer the question, "What are the slowest parts of this code?" I have to do a lot of manual labor expanding deeply nested trees.

As I said, it's pretty good. These are just things I'd like to see improved, not things that drive me crazy. I prefer the dev tools to firebug because firebug takes a relatively long time to start up.

Re: this update, I'm embarrassed to say I didn't know console.error even existed (I don't consider myself a JS expert). I've been using `throw new Error("message")`. Will that show stack traces now, too? I always have to put breakpoints on the line with the throw to figure out the call stack. This can add a lot of time to my debugging if I'm not sure how to reproduce the error.
I'm sure that all this information is publicly available. There's nothing wrong with asking these question in a forum, but you probably shouldn't suggest that it's some big unknown and you should probably acknowledge that you're asking people to do research for you.
Q: What have you been doing since you were at XYZ?

A: I took a year off.

I don't think it's really that bad. People do that. It's not like you're going to be looking for a job on Mars, when you come back you'll call your friends (who by then have found jobs or started new companies) and through them you will find plenty of opportunity.

Those places where you're a cog - you probably don't want to work there anyways.

We need to rewire these workplaces. If they want cogs don't work there and let them know why.
Why would it? I have one. It's a great tool for reading, watching movies, replying to e-mails, etc. but you can't do real work on it. It's not just the small screen and interface but also the heavily restricted OS that can only run a small subset of apps (with lots of rules like 'no emulation').

Desktop won't go away unless iOS and Android grow to encompass desktop functionality and flexibility.
Is there a link doesn't require registration?
Nearly every large corporation does this.
Putin may richly deserve it, and of course the Ukrainians would rather be European, but it would be willfully blind to ignore that his chain is being yanked.
cljs/om gives you functional programming as a default, with javascript/react you have to work for it
Maybe you and others in the Firefox community don't realize this, but this isn't about counting "anecdotes" or anything like that.

This is about users having bad experiences when using Firefox. Your positive experience in no way negates these bad experiences.
Should we avoid using design patterns in constantly changing projects?
If we want to sustain a growing population, we're going to have to confront the bias the title of this article shows.

Or alternatively, we could just build decent places to live in the vast amounts of empty space owned by a handful of rich people who inherited it (UK bias here; don't know how the upper class landowners got the land in other countries).
Definitely. Also choose colours that aren't almost identical.
Ideally, but in these times...
It's a lot easier to build a converter that steps down from 15V with a shared ground, than from 170V that requires isolation.

Of course, house distribution wouldn't be done with 15V, the lowest it'd probably be is 48V.
You can get around the clipping problem by displaying it on an old Interocitor.
True, on both counts.
I disagree, I think that it's the procedural generation that needs to be done artfully! Unfortunately the tools and experience to be creative in this medium are a few years out :)
Although they do say in their FAQ: "Google is not requiring any IP or licenses be granted except a non-exclusive license to be used only for the purpose of testing the inverter and publicizing the prize."
You mean tax avoidance. Tax evasion is illegal. What Apple does is, as you said, legal.
Well older people like a larger screen. The iPad is nice to provide your family with a Skype/Photo station, a easy to use browser and some small goodies ( whatever apps, or books )

Around me (lots of expats with kids) the iPad is a killer to give your family back home instant connectivity in as much maintenance free and foolproof package as you can get. ( no cable, no malware, no driver, understood and supported by your internet provider, always on, minimal learning curve )

My point of view is the opposite, how is it useful at all for tech people. I never found any business case where either laptop, desktop or smartphone was not more convenient (the exception is reading, but I'm part of that minority that prefer to read on their smartphone)
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I don't think Israels consider this military conflict as just "some policies". You don't see the seriousness of this conflict, do you? You think Israels just want to kill, so they go out to kill?
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I was talking about one specific scenario (no kids, living very frugally).

If you want kids and you want to do it on a single income, you're going to have to make compromises, very serious ones. Unfortunately, that's all there is to it. Keep in mind that one possible compromise is that you move--take a 20% paycut (or more) and move to an area where you can afford the lifestyle that you want while still saving a reduced but proportional amount to my example.

It's frankly a really bad idea for someone making very low six figures to try to raise a family on that income alone in an area where homes cost $1M (as you suggest they do).
The limiting factor of the Shuttle wasn't low demand for its services, I don't think.
I downvoted you because of the unnecessary one-upsmanship and trivialization of the grandparent. You might have your own idea, but you don't need to dump on his.
They're not necessarily storing passwords in the clear (though the Texas Secretary of State does[1], so it wouldn't surprise me).

For example, when updating a password on Facebook, they check to see if your new password is similar to your previous one by creating several variants of the new password, hashing them, and seeing if the hash matches any of your old password hashes.

[1] http://plaintextoffenders.com/post/68152196480/sos-state-tx-...
I was surprised as well, regarding edit 2. Then again, my heart belongs to Gothenburg. :-)
A totally different type of procedurally-generated content: The physical card game, Dominion.

It is a deck-building game, where players play cards to generate cash to buy cards that go into the deck that they are playing out of (which cycles endlessly). There are 6 boring and fundamental cards that are present in every game, and 10 'kingdom' cards which do interesting and clever things. The 10 kingdom cards that are present in any given game are randomly selected from a set of 25 (around 170 in the expansions), without constraint.

The variations are extreme. Some games have fast drawing and high power curves, some are slow slogs. Some games progress linearly, others build slowly and then explode, and some have stair-shaped power curves because there just aren't any cards at certain price-points. Some games have ways of attack other players. Some games have alternate victory conditions. Some games have multiple paths to victory, other are won by fine-grained control over normally-minor details. In short, the variation is immense and novel experiences have continued, even years after I first started playing.

Can we extrapolate from this? I think so. The two conclusions I would draw are: qualitative variation, and combinatorial traits. Differences in game worlds that are the most interesting may not fit into a slider, and binary or enumerated traits should be considered. Also, the interaction between random variables is what allows for a combinatorial explosion of situations. Stemming from that, it must be the case that multiple variables are meaningful.
Does it, though? Even if you can't eliminate something, making it prohibitively difficult has an impact. In my younger days, at LAN parties where people could just pass around the installer of a game almost no one bought most of the games. As it became more and more difficult to find reliable sources of cracks/installers, the ratio of people deciding to purchase rather than put up with the hassle increased. Even if you CAN get a free version if you try hard enough, the level of trying required will cause more and more people to find it worth the purchase.
Ask HN: Should a company supply new hires with a new machine?
If you are a web development company, should you give your new hires new machines? What are your thoughts? How important is it to you?
Word. I am not giving my Amazon credentials to a site that just launched.
Your point is logically correct, but the grandparent is right as to what would happen in the real world.
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When I asked my managers what they needed, I unknowingly gamified the budgeting process. The game worked as follows: The objective was for each manager to build the largest organization possible and thereby expand the importance of his function. Through the transitive property of status, he could increase his own importance as well.

This will always happen with closed allocation, no matter how much it is tweaked. It's an inherent property of closed allocation systems that the definition of work is driven by managerial status assertions rather than the needs of the business, which can only be assessed, at the lower levels, organically.

Closed allocation doesn't invariably destroy a company, and it's only in software that open allocation is obviously superior. (An open-allocation nuclear plant may not be the best idea.) Most industrial efforts can tolerate the inefficiencies that come with closed allocation. Software often can't, because software efforts tend to be binary in outcome (most lose, a few are big winners) and closed allocation generally creates enough needless complexity to cripple the company before it really succeeds.
When I was young my great-grandfather started a tanning business, in the sense that he was a tanner who produced leather goods.

He had to buy a sign to put above his shop. The sign maker asked him if he wanted to put a logo on the sign, too.

"Why?" asked my grandfather.

"So people will recognize your business," said the sign maker.

"That's what the name is for," answered grandfather.

Even at the time I thought this was an interesting perspective.

I always remember that day because afterward when the sign maker left the next person to come into the tanning store was a woman from a nearby dessert shop who gave us free ice cream cones.

Unrelated to logo design, that woman later married my uncle!
Ah, that makes sense. So the "wind" would peak when the Earth is moving against the galactic background.
> Not sure why you are correlating the terms "stupid" and "dumber" with exercise.

I think it means that it's not an exercise for the mind; not mentally stimulating.
I was not a salvage guy but in cargo measurement it turns out I had one of the first "laptops" on the Gulf Coast.

We used "regular" 16-digit hand calculators for regular calculations from ships' calibration tables, but when a vessel (especially heavy oil tankers) was far enough
from even keel then the tables would not apply, and hand modeling was very tedious, so I developed a more realistic model on the "PC".

Radio Shack PC-2 (Pocket Computer) with accessories and case was about the size of a small laptop, including a 4-color printer-plotter, and RS-232 interface:

http://www.trs-80.com/images/hw-pocket2-carrying.jpg

This was way before IBM-compatible laptop PC's were developed.

You have to board the vessel for access to its dimensional drawings, and if they were inadequate then you would take hand measurements.

My application was fundamentally way more advanced than the few oil companies doing it on a TRS-80 themselves, and that was just the calculations and conversions.

I can look back without embarrassment at my UI/UX, computer-experienced marine gagers did not yet exist, home computers still very uncommon, and most offices not yet having
a computer either.
Gagers still have a fairly challenging job but most are not very academically oriented, even more true decades ago.

So I made it where you just hand the portable to the gager, he hits the "ON" button, it asks the questions on the one-line LED screen, then prints the questions & his answers
on the little printer and the ticket advances as the calculations proceed for each compartment.

You finished hours before the company gager, and could go back over all data & results just by looking through the ticket.

The real excitement was boarding an offshore platform in the Bahamas one time with 20' waves and the crew boat was only about 30' long. They had multiple wooden landings to accomodate the tides, one was virtually submerged, the next was slightly below the waves' crest and the third was
out-of-reach at the time.
A knotted rope descended from the main metal platform at the top of the ladder, draping all 3 landings.
Each worker waited for the pilot to sync a wave properly, then he would quickly reverse the boat to within inches of the target landing, you step off the back of the boat grabbing the wet rope, hang & swing onto the landing as the boat drops a dozen feet the next second and he powers away to a safe distance to repeat it for the next person.
Climb the ladder quick before the next wave submerges the landing you are on.

Here's the rest of the page about the TRS-80 portables:

http://www.trs-80.com/wordpress/trs-80-computer-line/pocket/

I never had to worry about recharging my portable, it ran on AA batteries.
Swift Access Controls are like C's (and that isn't necessarily a bad thing)
Surely we need to do whatever we viably can to make solar as inexpensive and practical as possible, so I think the hope is that a smaller inverter means higher efficiency and lower production costs.

I might be completely wrong. Still, I'm sure we all agree that it's not ever a bad idea to incentivize any sort of energy innovation.
how? link? i'd be interested in this.
I find it completely illegible. But maybe it's just me...
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The iPad is going to incrementally get better and more capable (in terms of specs and software) at a much faster rate than PCs will. Some OEMs have left the PC business and others are under-investing in it given the trend in the PC market. Even Intel has delayed Broadwell which is likely a result of trying to control CapEx (they certainly cancelled a new factory recently because of it). I think in the fullness of time the iPad will gain at the expense of PCs, they're just much more pleasurable and approachable for most people (and I can imagine a scenario where an iPad would dock with a typical monitor and keyboard setup and be powerful enough to handle most "heavier" computing tasks for people).

Tim Cook mentioned that in emerging markets iPads grow much faster and that's likely because it is their main computer.

Also I don't think Apple is too worried about a larger iPhone cannibalizing iPads. A larger iPhone would likely sell for $750 (for 5.5 inches) which is much more than most people spend on an iPad and likely carries higher margins.
Scala's OO features are more like Java's done better. OCaml is this weird object system that is structural most of the time sometimes nominative, and then there is that weird ML module system. Ah...I totally forgot about Moby. [1]

JavaScript has been very successful, and got a whole generation of programmers playing around with prototypes without knowing it.

[1] http://moby.cs.uchicago.edu
The author's best bet is probably to find the owner's contact information through the county assessor's office.
It's arguably more useful to define constraints as "the materials available to you" rather than "strictures on what you may not do".

Ice sculpting, for instance, isn't defined by a lack of clay; they're defined by a block of ice, ice-shaving tools, and a will to apply imagination.

And... you're less likely to get me to go "but graphic novels!" or "but opening textual narration!" and so on.
I'd agree that a lot of coders lack a good sense for design and art (hence the term "programmer art" :D). I'm not a great programmer or artist, but I'm a competent programmer and an "average" artist (at best). This is only because I put so much time into learning art as a kid, and then later doing a lot of design work (mostly related to web design). Additionally I began 3D modeling when I was 13 and most games were still 2D. Anyhow, I think that learning at least a little of both goes a long way in terms of the resulting abilities.

Nonetheless, many of the old demo-scene pieces, which are entirely algorithmic, are occasionally beautiful, I'd argue. (A lot of the newer demos just look like music visualizers though...for dubstep songs :/ )
Are you sure you are not mixing up tax RATE and tax BRACKET?
Demand was ~1/10 of projected demand which dramatically increased costs not only by increasing overhead by also by extending vehicle lifespans well beyond what they where designed for.

Put another way, scrapping a shuttle mission saved less than 90 million.

PS: It was also horribly compromised based on Airforce requirements yet never flew a single Airforce mission.
The iPad grew much faster than the iPhone did in the same amount of time.
Did this remove the horrendous Australis UI?
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This really irks me, where's the best place for us to complain to Mozilla about this?
What's interesting to me (as an Englishman with family connections to the USA) is that all the logos feel very American. I can't put my finger on why, but there's something that marks them out as coming from that culture.
Read a story once where someone said at a company wide meeting with the CEO, if you continue to refer to us as "headcount" then we're going to start calling you "overhead".
I added a reference to the policies I was thinking about - eg the wars in Iraq and in Afghanistan. And regarding the seriousness of this conflict, yes, I see hundreds of deaths. I see it as very serious.
There's no "seems" about it. Useful functionality has been obscured or removed from Firefox time and time and time and time again since Firefox 4 and their rush to imitate Chrome. It isn't a new problem at this point; it has been happening for years now, and people have been angered by it for years now, too.

It's a shame that your comment has been voted down, as well. The more that the Firefox community goes out of its way to deny that users are unhappy, or even to censor them like in this case, the harder it will be for Mozilla to remain relevant.

Firefox is pretty much Mozilla's only semi-successful offering at this point, and even its market share has been steadily dropping (it's probably well under 20% by now). If this slide continues, nobody will have any reason to listen to Mozilla. Their influence over the web, already waning, will unfortunately become non-existent.
Rich Hickey makes a similar argument:

http://www.codecommit.com/blog/scala/is-scala-not-functional...
Hmmm, I'm not seeing the value proposition here. Or, I'm unclear why I'd use this service.

Here's how I understand redirect.name working:

===

1. An A/ALIAS/ANAME record for "example.com" points to a redirect.name service (self-hosted or otherwise).

2. The service sees the "example.com" HTTP request via the host header.

3. Service does a DNS lookup for a matching TXT record redirect rule.

4. When found, the service issues a 301/302 HTTP redirect, according to the matching rule.

===

Is this correct?

If so, compare to:

===

1. Create an A record for "example.com" that points to my Apache server.

2. Apache detects "example.com" via the host header.

3. Virtual host config for matching domain issues a 301/302 HTTP redirect.

===

Aside from shuffling the redirect config from Apache to DNS, what's the advantage of using redirect.name?

Additionally, every domain name registrar I've used includes a feature called "URL forwarding" that can redirect all HTTP requests for a domain to another. Again, what benefit does redirect.name provide that URL forwarding doesn't?

I'd love to hear the use cases.
I'm having a partial flashback here and its killing me. Back in the 90's there was a guy who was building this exact same vision "Space Galaxy" or something where every planet was unique, every alien race unique, every solar system, full planet to planet seamlessness. Derek somebody? Generally considered impossible and derided by the PC gaming press corps.

I agree with most that you need a certain dimensionality to the generation in order to get something credible. Definitely going to check this one out when it comes out.
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And now you are on hacker news telling people how they should feel. How hypocritical of you.
“...the first thing I want to do and focus on is ruthlessly remove any obstacles that allow us to innovate.” --Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft

Wow... I tracked down the video, and he actually did say that.
Yeah we should be so happy that, instead of staying relevant and bringing the web forward, Mozilla has turned into a bastion of feels where expertise and merit is ignored. Nothing Mozilla does is remotely related to any of this, and just because a few whiny LGBTs got their panties in a twist doesn't mean they speak for every gay person out there.

The only good part is where the author criticizes the "doing good" cult vibe that's been substituting common sense at Mozilla more and more lately.
Nicely splits back to school and end of the year buying between two quarters. Given their back-to-school quarter is going to be flat suggests they have less confidence in their 'send your kid to school with a Mac' campaign.

Personally I was all set to get the large form factor iPad but will get a Samsung Note Pro instead.