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The article describes the selection process as setting a very high bar - "You don't just have to be healthy. You have to be really healthy."

What sort of requirements are they talking here? General health, physical fitness, proper diet, all of the above, or something else?
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I've been a JIRA user for years, and I love it. Rather than turning down jobs over their choice of ticket tracker, consider it an opportunity - take the job and convince them to switch to what you want to use. I made the case for JIRA at several employers because I got tired of less feature-rich alternatives, and the productivity gains were always substantial.
One Man's Quest to ensure that his way is the only way. This illustrates a serious problem with Wikipedia.

It does not allow diversity of thought or opinion - here, it doesn't even allow natural evolution of language over time - if a "wikignome" has decided something is canonical for Wikipedia, then it is. No argument.

No matter how many people believe this is now acceptable usage, one person - typically one white man - has the right to sanction every single one of them.

We are supposed to tell wikignomes that their work is valued (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiGnome). But I don't think this work should be valued.
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> And then there are the tinkerers, who once served as RadioShack’s core constituency. They’re back and thriving and now known as the maker community. But the company has failed to capture that market

It's not even like it would be hard. Carry the stuff we want to buy. I want to buy 7400-series chips, and I'll pay a crazy markup in order not to have to wait for Digikey. But you'd rather sell overpriced headphones.
Why is it surprising? (And I do not at all mean that in a snarky tone. I've been lurking in the nethack community for so long that it seems perfectly natural to me)
Well, believe it or not, but that's the wage that built Gandhinagar. (Note that due to inflation, that would be the equivalent of about rs.250/month today). Perhaps on paper the workers were making quite a bit more, but this was then "deducted" for their nominal food, housing, etc. In any case rs.150/month was their actual take-home pay. I couldn't believe it either, and triple-checked to be sure.

India has come a long ways since then. Although the working conditions on construction sites are still far from good enough, I don't see children on them anymore, and those same workers would probably be taking home rs.5000/month today -- maybe rs.3000/month in places where contractors are more brazen about skirting the law. In any case: much better.
Dell basically delisted itself by buying out public shareholders with private equity money, which was primarily debt financed. This is far from the MDP concept mentioned, but simply a pure LBO play. I don't see banks financing "disruption".
Maybe I'm misreading this, but they didn't really become a private company, right? They just convinced their board to give them some money and not meddle with the process for a few years.
Thoughts on Appterprise.com?
I'm skeptical of the app based setup. This thing is dripping with a nice glossy coat of "made for non-technical users". I sure hope they have provided means for reserved IPs and custom port forwarding for when people need it. Bonus if it can update dynamic DNS for me.
Thinking in terms of wings is stupid. There are people on our very own hn who think that way though
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8990458
It might be solved somewhere but the problem is for each business to find what software solves it for them. I've been evaluating a switch from a mix of little tools and found no package yet that solves all our business needs. Example: we use four teams with staggered sprint times, so planning, burndowns should allow for that (multi team planning and scheduling on a single project). A lot of tools are out already at that point TFS is one tool with excellent multi-team scrum, but last time I checked TFS didn't even account for weekends in its burndowns. A bug/omission like that left unattended for several releases isn't encouraging. So were still searching.
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It is an issue of grammar.

"To comprise" has the same grammatical usage as "to include" although the two words mean subtly different things. You'd never say "the care package is included of cookies and candy bars" and it's equally incorrect to say "the care package is comprised of cookies and candy bars."

If you want to imply that the care package has cookies and candy bars, but also may have other things, you say: "the care package includes cookies and candy bars." If you want to imply that the care package has just cookies and candy bars, you say: "the care package comprises cookies and candy bars."
What about an `artisan revival` where people sewing clothes would have a decent life and we would get high-quality clothes (let's face it, $5 t-shirts don't last long) ?
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> it's a hodge-podge of a language with inconsistencies down to the root.

We fix that one inconsistency at a time. This man is doing his part, despite all the naysayers.

I don't really give a shit about things like split infinitives but if you've ever seen a person struggle with speaking on a subject without the vocabulary to do so, you know how much it cripples them. Grammar is the same way. Why do descriptivists think it's ok to force everyone to invent language on the spot when people are in dire need?
> The day when there are machines smart enough to do all the service jobs that humans currently do will be the day machines are smart enough not to work for free.

The self-checkout at my supermarket is smart enough to demand pay? Wow, I didn't know that.

Actually, you could quite easily automate an entire store with robotics that haven't been state-of-the-art in years. The main issue is up-front capital, not scaring people, and having one person in the shop to deal with complaints/loss prevention.

It'd be even easier for McDonald's - picking things out of crates, going through pre-set steps to cook them, and packaging them, isn't exactly very hard. You could have one human for quality control if you really wanted.

So, retail as a sector will, at the same time as growing, employ fewer and fewer people. I'm sure you can pick out examples of existing technology that's not very hard to apply to most sectors, aside from capital concerns.
I wouldn't -- the number of times I've inadvertently hit C-w rather than C-s (or M-w when I wanted something else), or control-q when I meant to hit control-a, FAR outnumber (by two orders of magnitude) the number of times I've wanted to close windows or exit my application in that manner.

Perhaps it's my windows upbringing, rather than mac, but Ctrl-F4 / alt-F4 are my preferred window/app closers, and I wish dearly I could unmap the other shortcuts sometimes.
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That's sad. I was a big fan of Titan DB and we use it extensively.

Really sad to see it go. Now we'll have to find another solution, e.g. migrate to Neo4j, although we rely heavily on the scalability of Titan DB.

I guess now is the time to test Neo4j's cluster performance.

Any other alternatives out there?
> Isn't project management software a solved problem already?

Not even remotely. By and large because you'll have technical and non-technical people using the same tool for projects that have multiple audiences. There will always be room for change and improvements, and people are always willing to spend money on those types of things. It's sort of a bottomless well of revenue for companies that create this type of software.
Well if that is how sentience feels then I'm not surprised many prefer to live like brainless zombies. I was petrified.
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eero is the world’s first WiFi system

Huh?

Finally, WiFi that works.

My WiFi works just fine, always has. And if I ever upgrade to an A/C network it'll be fast, too.
Well, maybe giraffedata will precipitate a change in language in which it becomes less acceptable again.

I don't really understand the impulse people have to say, "Language is constantly in flux and there is no authority on what is correct usage. Thus, you should not try to change people's language and I am the authority telling you this."

If you're descriptivist, then one of the things that you should describe is people's bottom-up attempts to change language by, say, excising 47,000 uses of a phrase from a commonly read reference material.
"terraforming Earth" = Terra-forming Terra

Like... reshaping the Earth in a Earth-like shape! Cool, isn't it? Now, getting the tongue off the cheek, you're right, it makes a lot of (at least an economical) sense to look under our nose at the swaths of unexploited but with a higher promise land and, you know, use them?! Only that the thing is, Venus colonization is more than just a new place that we could find useful to extend into for a current-way of day-to-day human life. It is a lot more! Some may tell you that it is bad to have all the eggs put in the same basket and Venus would be a good second basket, but again it would be a lot more than that. Imagine that so far we haven't had any signs of another life-form living in our universe. As small the chance for this to stay this way as it may be, we can assume for now that the entire universe is ours to extend into. And we need to become capable of doing it. We may "start" doing that by colonizing our own galaxy. For that we should become capable of colonizing planets in some reasonably-close star systems first. And for that it would be desirable for us to learn how to do that using a planet somewhere nearby, in our solar system. And yes, for that we should become capable of colonizing without much struggle harsh places like deserts (in polar or other regions), subterranean and ocean depths here on Earth. And more, those should become self-sustained, to mimic conditions of some far-away colonization prospects. In the long run Venus is just one of the intermediary steps, but an important one. We as a species need that kind of colonizing experience. Of course it won't happen right away, but setting the goal of colonizing Venus is in itself a task that rise awareness and spurs in the meantime other important intermediary necessary goals. Biosphere 2 falls in this category, but we need more, and more - we need context for which these kind of projects would come to make sense.
Because lawyers, pointy hair bosses and so on. Someone simply makes a policy somewhere that all company data should reside on company machines, and no other companies' should share servers, server rooms or ops staff with ours. I'm not saying it makes any sense at all, but this actually happens.
It may be beautiful, but it isn't very helpful. Imagine if computer language terms changed semantics - all the code that is destroyed.

Stopping development isn't a blanket thing. Stopping vandals from painting on the train cars isn't 'stopping the development of rail travel'
Don't get me started on "could care less", my eyes sting when I read that. My other pet hate is "so fun", as in "that was so fun"...I blame those US kids channels for that one.
Without the mysticism, it holds little appeal. Even those people who enjoy ritual often need the thrill of mysticism to goad them into performing those, at least until it becomes habit/tradition.
I'm unaware of any GCC hotkeys.
Reminds me somewhat of Debian's /etc/cron.{daily,monthly,weekly,monthly}
The article shares though that she originally wrote the book around the same time as To Kill a Mockingbird, or more precisely, she wrote this book first, and was advised by her editor to expound upon some segments of it to write To Kill a Mockingbird instead.

So a huge gap between publications, but I would expect the writing to be similar.
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Nobody's suggesting solutions. Just what they would look like if they existed. And they wouldn't look like a shift in poverty-stricken populations to a different point under the poverty line.
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I completely agree with you. The project management niche already has a lot of players and I don't see why I should pay double the price when the product i'm getting doesnt have the feature set to justify it.
Yeah, well, I keep removing apostrophes from (most) plurals. It's a plague. Except I'm not proficient enough to make any software that could help me, so I do that only when I happen to stumble upon it, heh.
That's just collection, but you need also need real-time processing. I'm pretty sure Google has more software engineers and computer scientists at hand than any car manufacturer.
Same thing here. Marty is proving to be very good and flexible so far while providing a rather succinct implementation overall. +1
Could care less is very rare in England, although use is growing from Internet usage.

There's some suggestion that it comes from Yiddish style dialect. "I should be so lucky!", for another example.
This is awesome!

I need this printed on t-shirts!
It's the other way around. Descriptivists think that you can't force people to not invent language on the spot.

Rather, they think languages cannot be prevented from changing.
> Is that you, Obama?

Don't be so shrill.

> Things - socially, politically and economically - are continuing to get worse for the average person.

Things are actually improving socially and politically. Scandals are being brought to light and quashed to a point where even untouchable edifices of the US hegemony are feeling the heat. Anti-vaxxers are on the outs. Climate deniers are on the outs. We're seeing the error in imprisoning millions of men because of racism. Factories in China are under scrutiny and almost every nation has an eye on ecology and our impact on the world. Birth rates are slowing, people are calling for more liberal policies across the world.

Economically, the middle class is finally being addressed. Basic income is on the table. There's an understanding that social safety and education are incredibly important.

But there is a lot of entrenched bullshit. And old money is nervous and reactionary. It's going to take a long time, but I believe very strongly that if we have the Internet of today for the next ten to twenty years, the entire world is going to look far more progressive than it ever could have without the Internet.
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That's a different kind of error, namely an error in phoneme to grapheme conversion. So, if you want nitpick, do it right ;).

At any rate, language changes. Both meanings of words, what is considered syntactically valid (see, 'because ADVERB'), and how phonemes are realized. Of course, that does not mean that one shouldn't point out errors (they're vs. their vs. there). However, sometimes errors become common usage.
How do you exit your investors if you don't do an IPO or sell?
Most investors have to exit in a time frame for legal reasons and they are not in for the profit per share anyways, I can only see an LBO by the founders.
Nice, although I'd rather have a mini Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Ubuntu on ARMv7 is great, and I'd like a minimal distribution to get started.

There's Snappy Core, but to be honest I don't want to run that on a Pi just yet.
If Webster added an additional meaning of comprised to actually make this phrase grammatically correct, I wonder if his world would fall apart? ...
This is incorrect - a sizable number get sent to the warzone in a time of war, by far the majority. All who do have received some sort of weapon training, as well as scenario prep when encountering the likes of IEDs or combat situations. This is even more true for the Army and Marine Corps. The risk is pervasive just by virtue of operating in a warzone. In addition, everyone still has to stand post except for higher ranking officers and SNCOs.

While there are plenty of people who spend their deployments behind a computer, don't assume it is so black and white.

Source: I am a Marine grunt
Indeed. Working on something for a long time but claiming you have no idea what you're doing is an easy way of not appearing egomaniacal or vain. Especially in our field, when people can be such pompous dickheads.
I don't recall the LOC, but I used this style at a recent position. Basically, the idea is not to use bare primitive types anywhere - instead wrapping them in something semantic. Probably the two biggest wins from this approach were distinguishing types of indexes and (in the particular project) distinguishing price from quantity.

It does add a bit of boilerplate. For the indexes in particular, foo_lookup(foo, idx) is substantially safer than foo[idx.value] - but then you've gotta write the lookup functions (which may just be a macro but is still a bit of cruft). Locally, if using var.value everywhere in math is getting ugly, you can of course pull things out into temporary primitive variables - enforcing things at the boundaries between functions provides almost all of the benefit.
That's certainly true, although I don't think Apple is struggling in the revenue department these days.

To be fair, Android has contributed to Google's core business by massively expanding the reach of their search ads...or so the story goes.
Isn't your "Language comprises rules that change over time." statement invalid as well? The word comprises should be used when there exists a definite set of items.

For example: "That house comprises 4 rooms" versus "That house comprises at least 4 rooms". The second statement should be "That house is composed of at least 4 rooms" because the room count is not an exact quantity.
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English is either already, or rapidly becoming, the lingua franca for the entire world. If we allow to it continue evolving without constraint, we may well wind up with numerous mutually unintelligible dialects. This is already true of many other languages like Chinese and Arabic.

It would be a shame if people from India could no longer understand people from Australia, even when they were both using English.
"If you only take one thing away from this talk, make it this: beavers are idiots. They have no idea why they’re building these huge structures; they just blindly do it."

I can understand the author's use of the Beaver analogy but it may not be the right analogy.

Beavers build these dams to keep the water level at a certain height. This not only offers protection from predators but also makes it easy to access food.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver#Dams

They may have poor eyesight but they have a keen sense of hearing.

May be he meant that the Beaver does not know why its teeth grow continuously but it uses it to cut down trees and make dams.
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I'm curious about the paper quality as well- it seems like it would be way cheaper for me to do this myself and get it printed locally.
I have a hard time imagining Earth getting so awful that Venus looks like the better option. Even after an all-out nuclear war, it wouldn't be that bad.

This is what made the fundamental plot kicker of 'Interstellar' so daft. "Oh, we have a crop disease problem and dust storms? Clearly we must move the human race to another planet, even if it's a frozen hellscape with no breathable atmosphere." As opposed to, say, building some greenhouses, or ramping up aquaculture or aeroponics.
is 18F the USDS or are they separate entities?
I get the feeling there's more behind your comment than the article.

If "comprised of" is something that copy editors agree on and the rest of us just don't know about then it seems pretty reasonable. Language evolving is a good thing, but keeping non-fiction writing on the conservative side makes sense.
Perhaps David Gerrold will complete the War Against the Cthorr after all! We've only been waiting on that for twenty years...
Moderately off topic question for everyone who could whip up a superior solution over lunch with two Arduinos and a Raspberry Pi ;-)

Where does one go (as a somewhat technical non-Wifi expert) to get guidance on positioning, configuring, naming just two wifi routers for a 700 square foot apartment? (E.g. should I have both on the same channel? Should I have the same or different SSIDs?)
So did those people get job training and move on to white collar jobs, or did their children? My guess is most of those farmers retired or died.
I ran a website and operations for a company that did over 1mm a year in revenue. Everything was done off of a single machine that was the webserver, database server and media server. Had 10k customers all of whom were active daily. Postgres and Python/Django and I never saw load averages much over 10%. Unless you have a substantial fraction of a million daily users you probably don't need mongo.
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Does each unit have 2 radios (e.g. 2x 5ghz radios)? Trunking and communicating with clients with one radio would give you less than half of the normal bandwidth, which is why lots of wireless meshes trunk on a different frequency (though I'd prefer the option of trunking via Ethernet). Unless wifi chipsets have become very clever in the past few years, it seems like this wouldn't allow max throughout.
In my experience that kind of rapid revert has got a lot better recently. I think there was a change in things like Twinkle, and Rollback. Also the "vandal patrol" style pages got leaned on.

I agree that some people do revert too much too quickly.
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How about a quest to clean up "anyways" on HN?
Every English speakers understands "Dogs bites mans", but every English speaker also agrees that it's incorrect.
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That assumes that evolution is always good. It isn't.

Consider the recent acceptance of the ironic usage of "literally" to mean "figuratively". If it wins, there will no longer be as precise a word that means only "literally", and the English language will have suffered a loss.

I am all for the evolution of language where it creates new words, adopts and embraces portmanteaus, or embraces the use of easily intuited non-words into the common parlance, but not every change is an improvement, and where a non-improvement exists, it should be resisted.
Yeah, I poked at that one just a little bit, but found it pretty limited and kinda buggy. Felt like it was fired off and forgotten. But, hey, maybe with Microsoft buying Minecraft and doing Win10 for the Pi, it will get a second look. (maybe. ha.)