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But they do consume goat. It's part of Latin American cuisine, and '"Lamb" (or goat on the islands) is the traditional Easter meat served throughout Greece' ( http://www.amb-grece.fr/grece/greek_orthodox_easter.htm ).

Why don't Americans eat much goat? According to http://modernfarmer.com/2013/09/goat-left-behind/ :

> “It’s not a flavor issue; it’s the word more than anything else,” he says. Perhaps calling it “Caribbean lamb” would increase sales.

> Fairbanks guesses most folks simply have no experience with eating goat – or perhaps have had an unpleasant one eating curry cooked with older goat, which might have a gamey taste or tough texture.

> Another hurdle for goat meat: Consumers don’t see it on menus.

It's hard to say it's a Christian thing.

Note that this isn't a new thing either. "Consumer Attitudes and Handling Practices of Retailers for Lamb, Mutton and Goat", Feb. 1959 has several things to say about it, mostly concluding it's a lack of experience. It has more to say about lamb/mutton than sheep.

One of the curious observations is that military family consumption was very low compared to the average American family. Quoting from http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=txa.tarb087001;view=1u... :

> Military officials attribute the dislike of military personnel for lamb to the fact that many troops spent several months or years in England and other heavy lamb and mutton-eating countries during World War II. The reasoning is that they were given so much lamb and mutton that many of them developed a psychological dislike for it.
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> Couldn't it be anything else

What, haven't you see the ingredient list of SoyLent? It's extremely carb loaded.

I've been saying this for months, we need a Ketoylent version.
Ready meals are designed for taste and palatability, not for complete daily nutrition. (Except for military MREs, apparently.) The idea of Soylent is that it's an inoffensive, cheap, and simple way to eat healthily.
"weekend team trips"

Also jealousy issues... Realize that most people can't stand those things and it tends to turn into a test of personality, who will kiss up no matter how awful the experience, or who has the guts to admit the emperor has no clothes... In my wife's work at home experience there was some jealousy that she got to avoid teambuilding by default, while the office people were punished by having to attend. How come I have to go to the Christmas party on my day off and (VLM's wife) doesn't have to?

Oh and another jealousy issue... in this day and age not so many people smoke, but the smokers did not like that my wife could theoretically smoke at her desk but they can not (thankfully she doesn't smoke)

And discipline issues... "(VLM's wife) gets to pick up a sick kid at school without being formally written up for leaving work early because nobody notices, so why am I being written up?" and so forth. A lot of workplace BS exists so bosses can manufacture the reason to fire folks they can't just fire for no cause, and its going to collide with the obvious work at home differences.

At medium size corporations you can also run into Dilbertian requirement problems. Small corporations ignore "corporatism" and big corporations already have remote training, but it can be a mystery how to check the checkbox for annual diversity training, or annual PCI/DSS compliance training, or however else HR tortures the employees. She usually combined this kind of stuff with the rare facility visit, so we'll all go to diversity class as a team in the morning and then hang out and talk about work (aka goof off) in the afternoon.
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I already did: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8887167

What if Ensure had a cool name and didn't carry connotations of age and disease? What if it was sexily marketed? What if it was easy to flavour and make delicious? What if you signed up for a subscription and never thought about it again? What if you got it from vending machines that were everywhere you went and recognised you as you approached, having a glass perfectly formulated to your tastes and needs at that precise moment ready? What if it came out of a tap? What if your home 3D printer could form it into a multitude of shapes and textures (bar, cookie, cereal) and it would still be nutritionally balanced? What if it was surrounded by a devoted and inventive community of DIY hackers? What if the creator of Ensure was rapidly iterating it and discussing engineering microbes to produce pure versions of it?

Oh, or is it easier, instead of using your imagination and a bit of enthusiasm, to point to how it's similar to a crappy product that nobody bothered to market, and imply that it won't be sucessful - because we all know the success and impact of a product has nothing to do with the creativity, perserverance and vision of the creators, right?
How do they manage to keep the different language translations in sync? Seems duanting to send a pull request for anything but typos.
>It's the future. If you're not remote, find a way to fix that.

Would you suggest this even for new grads looking for a first job?

I just know that commuting every day is going to be incredibly depressing but I haven't seen much in the way of remote opportunities for fresh grads.
This makes me wonder, I assume they have procedures to dock a deserted ISS, right? What would happen in case of an emergency where both teams (3+3) have to return back to Earth, leaving ISS without a crew? Will they be able to "get back in"?
Yeah, I would agree with you if we were talking electronics and nerd stuff.

As the subject is nutrition, health and they're proposing a "nutrition revolution", your rant is futile and misplaced. Engineers proposing a "nutrition revolution" because "disrupt" is a problem. Maybe a public health problem, but definitely a mindset one.
When I saw this my first thought was to wonder whether it would be better to use this than to use Racket for systems/shell programming? The Racket documentation has a complete tutorial on using Racket for systems programming.

Can anyone who has used both comment on their relative merits?

P.S. Best Acknowledgements Page. EVER!
Yea but it will be attempts to make business subgroups self funding that led to this. Under sun java was the cherry-on-top of their hardware / gateway drug to their server side hardware. I doubt oracle look at it like that.
it's also extremely slow-paced, so be aware of that.
When Being Good Is Bad
[1] https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3112-how-basecamp-next-got-to...
I think it is not about web apps, more about the casual "one time visit" browsing. There is usually zero incentive to enable JS for a random website where you just want to read an article or watch images. JS there is usually (my impression) used for things that distract or try to lure me into other content. I like distraction free consumption. There is a high incentive to enable JS for a dynamic web app or site you regularly visit (eg HN) though.

Good control for JS and other requests in browsers makes this quite convenient to control as a (expert) user. I like umatrix a lot.
That is a shocking thing to say. If they had followed the wait and see approach there's a good chance she might be blind right now. This high-handedness is why I have such a hard time with the medical profession.
Well... you cannot call free on them, unless I'm mistaken. But other than that it's as normal.

(This could be a problem if you want to call library code that frees a supplied pointer)
"Please don't turn this into a political discussion"

You already did with that post. I'd like a candidate that has some business experience, but realizes that the US government should NOT be run like a business.
What would make a standalone Rust executable 20 MB in size? Last time I checked, Rust did not expect to carry libc with it, and can run entirely without a runtime.
Smart move, now he's going to get free publicity as a free speech advocate.

When someone says something hateful, it's more effective to ignore him than to make a nation-wide scandal about it.

Seriously, the guy strives on all the scandals around him, the more you beat on him the more popular he gets, why not trying another tactic for a change?

But of course, it's hard for politicians to resist the temptation of playing tough on TV news.
The Angular juggernaut is like the Java juggernaut at light speed for corporate IT. I'm interested to see how the Angular 2.0 risk assessment is constructed within corporate IT today. Start on a 1.2 project with, potentially, a full rewrite needed within 2-4 years? That's not typically a risk slowly evolving LoB applications take on. Good luck finding Angular devs in 5 years willing to live on the 1.2 brownfield. Until the schism around 2.0 gets resolved, I'm not sure I see this playing out well for them.
Once in a while, there will be three Soyuz docked, and 9 people on the station. Not for long, though.

Last time it happened was Nov 2013, and apparently previously in 2009:

http://www.space.com/23542-space-crew-olympic-torch-landing-...
<shrugs> they don't feel weird to me, I like 2FA via SMS

Edit: enjoyed your godwin ref though ;)
Nope. To me complaining that an app doesn't work with JS disabled is like complaining that the layout is busted with CSS disabled. It's not clear to me why I should worry about this case as a developer. You can turn shit off if you want to but don't complain that it doesn't work now.
Nice, I just beat it :)
Disclaimer: I provide co-founder advice for a living [1], so take this with a grain of salt

I can see a couple of scenarios playing out here, here is the one that I think applies to you, but let us know if something else is going on:

That new person is mostly a sales person and you expect them to grow a fairly new product which is independent from your existing business. Fine. It's ok for them to have a huge incentive plan, where they earn most (half) of the profits of that new product. Compensation: decent base in cash, huge cut of sales, a small piece of equity (always vesting of course)

[1] http://foundrs.com
I've done a lot of work on multi-modal registration and would be interested in talking to you about this. It's an amazingly hard problem and I see a lot of wheels being reinvented whenever I look at what other people are doing.

My own work has been mostly commercial and so under NDA or otherwise unpublishable, but is primarily based on applications of the pseudo-correlation algorithm (Radcliffe, Rajapakshe, Shalev, Medical Physics, vol. 21, No. 6, pp. 761 769, June 1994.) I can be reached at tradcliffe at predictivepatterns.com if you're interested.
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Pre-harvest use of glyphosate is not something we have been doing for thousands of years.

It is bad, and GMO consumers should be aware of that.
I admit that the AI is not perfect. :)
"Lars Rasmussen, the engineering director at Facebook who is heading up the project, had in his past once headed up one of the failed efforts at an enterprise social network, Google Wave."

Lars Rasmussen was also the guy behind google maps. Seems a little unfair to set it up like the above.
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What would be better is the ability to selectively enable javascript scripts. I want the javascript for your webpage to run normally, but I don't want the javascript for that ad that moves around the screen or the one for that tracker bug to run at all. This was much easier when ads where mostly in flash.
Isn't the whole point is to make sure the abstraction always work ?
It might work because of Facebooks scale but it's not like there aren't a million other FB like enterprise social networks out there.
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What do you believe that middle-lower managers do then?
Pasteis de Nata/Belem are most common from Lisbon on south to the Algarve. Most of the Portuguese in Massachussetts are from Porto or from the Azores/Madeira. You are more likely to find Lisboetas in New Jersey and Toronto.

Pasteis de Nata are one of my favorite foods of all time, but they were fairly uncommon where I grew up in an Azorean Portuguese community in California, although Queijadas are pretty similar.
> Someone needs to build a true sandbox fantasy MMO. CCP has proven that a sandbox done properly will bring in the crowd and keep the doors open.

This is why I had high hopes for World of Darkness.
Hi. So you're responsible for the increased battery usage on my mobile device. Please stop. Also, can you please test your code on a device that came out _last_ year? You know, so that you can make sure it's not sluggish and frustrating to use.
The theory is that, unlike ready meals, Soylent is designed to give you all the vitamins and nutrients a healthy, active adult needs to stay health, in a single package. No need to think about anything or worry about if you're missing anything in your diet, just chug it and go.
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You're obviously not the only one who deactivates javascript by default, but a quick google brought up numbers of around 1% for users with javascript deactivated. I can see why a lot of developers wouldn't be too concerned about that 1%.
Interesting! I created a similar project to help generate YAML fixture files from the database for testing/seeding. But with mine you have to define a "tree" that it walks through to extract the relations.

https://github.com/meesterdude/back_to_the_fixture
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What do you do for a living that involves strategizing around a 'fleet' of goats? Do you lease them out to a client or are you some kind of environmental planner?

I've made jokes about getting a goat so I don't have to mow the lawn anymore, but you've clearly taken it to the next level.
I'm in a similar boat: remote team lead on a government project living in FL :)

Was the rest of the team local to each other? That can be difficult because the team may be accustom to conducting all communication verbally, where you need it to be electronic. I was a new-comer to the team when I became the remote lead, and one of the things I did was focus on getting folks to communicate electronically. Luckily for me, they were in individual offices spread around the building and two were in other buildings, so they were already using IM, chat, and email. I just needed to reinforce it.

Also from the beginning, I've focused on team cohesion and team communication. The team was in a bad state when I joined, so again lucky for me, it was something I knew needed extra attention. As a team lead, it's an important factor that you need to pay attention to, but perhaps don't have to spend a lot of time on when everyone is local. As a remote team lead, you need to spend a non-trivial amount of time on it.

And face time is still important. I travel twice a month for a day or two and try to meet with everyone during that time. I also conduct a daily standup where the rest of the team is in the room and I'm on the phone. It can be difficult to follow the conversations in the room from the phone, but really the goal is to make sure the team is talking to each other, and isn't about my control of the conversation or of the team.

Where in FL are you?
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I can go to the drugstore and get a day's nutrition worth of Ensure right now. How long is the waiting list for Soylent? Because it turns out that actually having product available is like, step 0 of marketing.

Besides, I already conceded that Soylent is marketed to hipsters. If its creators had "creativity" or "vision", they wouldn't have reinvented Ensure. It's marketing over substance.
It is a completely self-contained eating system. If it works as advertised you just eat that and you're done, no spreadsheets, no calculating up to make sure you're consuming what you should be, and so on. You should be getting everything you need.

You're paying for the 100% system, not 98%, not 99%: 100% that is the USP. The price is only a little more expensive than eating out ($3.33/meal roughly).

Plus most off-the-shelf "Ready meals" are extremely unhealthy. Many contain transfats and other foot preservatives which are quite bad for you.
> Employers can create separate log-ins for employees to use with their Work accounts, or users can link these up with their other profiles to access everything in one place.

Doesn't look like you have to have personal account or link it.
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You may not have read many corporate IT legal policies lately.
> It really is no wonder that the softer sciences have a reproducibility problem.

Even Further, I think it's also indicative of medicine being full of people that have a fatalistic, passive attitude towards their patients and medical care. Medicine and health is really hard, and so many health professionals essentially believe that the only thing they can do is wait until something horrible happens before doing anything. And as the case with this woman, when something bad does happen, they bin it in their per-organized mental filing cabinet and you're fucked if they're wrong. Much like police officers, I think many get so jaded by the job that they can't be bothered to give a shit when they really should. And I really hope technology will save us from this.
Predicting Educational Attainment Using Measures of Conscientiousness (2013) [pdf]
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The Fed can also use bad monetary policy to add short-term gains to economic development while sacrificing the long-term health of the economy. So, they can use the tool both ways.
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That's a standard consumer chips though. The Xeon server line can, with the E7-8895 v2 do 15 cores per CPU and you can have 8 of them for a total of 240 hyperthreaded cores. I don't know what could take advantage of that and what the tradeoffs for scheduling etc. would be but Sun will sell you one: http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/servers/x8... -- 6TB of RAM.
Your typical racist cop is primed the same way.
Isn't the whole point of C to have as minimal abstraction as possible?
Lately, the U.S. Government's 'state of nature' has been perpetual war. I can't account for every great civilization of history, but I know a majority collapsed due to spreading themselves too thin, trying to control additional territory using 'brutish and violent' tactics to gain additional power. I've read parts of Leviathan, and keep in mind his writing is merely 17th century observations of the world from a man who grew up in a bourgeois society in England. There is a very good chance his observations of men in their 'state of nature' are his observations of oppressed commoners in England during this time...those who grew up on the fringes of society and had to steal and resort to violence out of desperation to survive.
I'm late to the party here, but `free` is a no-op on a null pointer. So checking for null is just duplicating the first thing `free` does.
0_o This might be amazing, but I think I'll stick with zsh or really any other shell where the author doesn't threaten murderous rampage ☠ ☠ ☠ ☠ ☠
That's up to you and your employer.

Edit: Worth pointing out that it's not really a Facebook account in the typical sense. You can have an FB@Work account without having an FB account, though it seems you can also use your FB account for both.
Angular was written by Google for Google products. It had a big corp audience in mind from the start. It provides developer structure at the cost of agility. This makes sense in large teams where contributors come and go and have varied skill sets. Encapsulation and isolation of scope makes limits the damage one component can do. To achieve this rigidity a lot of background enforcement is required. The result is performance decline and lots of development overhead.
> We're liberated on the server.

I'm liberated on the server in my own app, but not necessarily if I'm publishing something for everyone to use. In that case I'm either forced to feature-detect my way along, or target certain engines. The reason I think the latter will happen is devs to whom node was an escape-hatch from client-side hell will loathe the idea of going back. E.g. [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/brianleroux/status/554753200503271424
Time for sysadmins to learn data science
Replacing the 3-second rule with the nastiness coefficient
I guess it's more about writing less & better than using known functions -- in the same reasoning, I /could/ use new/delete in C++, but I always end up using unique_ptr<T>(...) because it's just better, and we usually don't really know/care about the implementation details.

Now I realize that the comparison I made isn't fair since unique_ptr<T> is standard C++ (and hence, polished), and mine isn't and will never be standard C, but abstraction here is not that much of a threat to understanding -- in the end, it's still syntactic sugar on top of smalloc/sfree.

As a last word, I'll say that this is mostly a toy project,
and I probably won't have the occasion to fully use it. This is just a proof of concept to say that it is possible to have modern idioms in C.
> There are plenty of good cops,

If there were plenty, why are the bad cops never arrested?
The author is fine with other browser side rendering tools. The issue is the need to needlessly render templates client side by parsing out the DOM each time. There is no need for this, and doing it is pointless. Better to have the template render in a state where you don't need to do the dance that Angular does. This consumes a lot of CPU, and a lot of battery life. This impacts performance and user experience.
Note: this is fiction and so is the press release. (if you're one of the reader who usually hits the comments before reading the article)
Section on null seems off to me.

> in almost all cases, it can be replaced by undefined.

Null has a subtle relationship to Object in that

typeof null == 'object'

For that reason, null should be used for values that can be optional references to Objects (or null).
Just a heads up for those confused by the name, this has nothing to do with Bitcoin, rather it's a fork of OpenBSD which is largely (or fully) compatible.
Really disappointed with the quality of this article. PPK was such a valuable resource back in the day when it came to front end development and always had great content (especially when it came to compatibility issues). I'm not even saying I disagree with him here, but this writeup seems pretty half-assed, at least for someone of his caliber.
Which sounds more like pop-culture (to quote Alan Kay) and not science or engineering...

The guy might as well rock a yo-yo for the way he's into fads...
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Think about the some of the implications of that statement for a while.

Hm, people with 6-digit salaries and doctoral degrees whose main job is to figure out diseases perform worse than some random dude? That's the first thing that comes to my mind.
Correct. The links in GP describe the option of adding a "quick detach" mechanism, but that was a hypothetical development direction of the Dragon program, not something that currently flies.
"If the client is fast enough not to notice -- if not, of course, you could lose customers"

This.

I honestly think most front end devs don't test with anything except a fast PC (or Mac). They sure don't test with last year's phones. Web pages are getting more and more sluggish (generally speaking) all the time.

It's one thing to always want to work with new technology, but devs really need to spend some time in their customers' shoes.
Haggis isn't banned. Importing it from Scotland is banned. You can produce Haggis within the US and sell it.
OCR? dump the raw sequence as bytes and encode it into a valid PNG.
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