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The autonomy comes because he decs choose their own 2-4 hour tasks
I do agree that communication is the intention, but in practice, that's just not how it plays out.
I slightly disagree.

> We need to show parents what life was like before the polio vaccine. Before measles/mumps.

The problem is if they already decided to not vaccinate unless you take them back in time, whatever you show them will just be "yeah this is propaganda you are working for 'them'" this is all computer generated.

In a way this seemingly calm and rational way to handling this is already a loosing ground. For example see how you (perhaps unconsciously) phrased this:

> our smug pro-vax point of view

Note the "pro-vax" label. That is the problem. Once you start calling everyone "pro-vax" it validates the crazies as if their point as equally valid. It should instead be "crazies" vs "non-crazies".

Nobody discusses whether we should be "pro-rape" or "anti-rape". There is nothing to debate there. Granted, it should be the same way about torture. We lost that ground. We are just discussing how effective or ineffective torture can be in intelligence gathering as opposed assuming anyone who does it is a sick criminal. I think vaccinations should be in the same domain of discourse.

So quickly pushing for legislature to restrict opting out based on "personal beliefs" is the right choice.
Not an effective store of value, too volatile.

Plus, somebody has to trade the cash they get for bitcoin, and then they're responsible for the stack of cash they can't do anything with.
In my personal opinion, if you need to set aside 15 minutes per day, killing at least 45 mins of productivity, for people to communicate, then your communication processes are broken. All of the things you mention could be communicated throughout the day in a team chat room. If someone needs help, they should send up a flare immediately via email or chat and get assistance as soon as someone is free.

In my personal experience, standups are practically useless if you have a team that has good communication practices. You know what people are working on from the ticket system, things are shared throughout the day as people work on chat, and if you do need some level of daily status report, having everyone email one in directly to the manager is the most efficient route.
I would assume that a large amount of the public actually feels comforted knowing that there's a real human up in the room with all the buttons making sure the airplane stays in the air. Given, I'd doubt very many of those people are engineers, so I'd assume the HN crowd would mostly consist of people that just want to put on headphones and only be contacted if there's some sort of "exception" thrown at some point in the flight.

My biggest question is how much training airlines give pilots about exactly what to say on these updates - on a recent flight, the pilot said that a critical system in the plane went from "too broken to take off" to "yep, that looks fine" with a couple of restarts just before we left the gate. I'm sure he did everything per spec, but I'm not sure how helpful it is to tell everyone that they are riding on equipment that's only legal because the turn-it-off-and-on-again principle isn't just for IT.
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I like Clojurescript in general, but the code bloat problems and runtime speed problems still exist even with advanced optimizations. The big problem is that you have to use code that is Closure-compatible. If it isn't, there are hacks to make it work, but you end up killing the ability to remove dead code. And no matter what, you are going to end up shipping portions of the Clojure code as a runtime within the javascript runtime.

I have used cljs for non-mobile web interfaces, but the performance of Om in Phonegap on mobile hardware was terrible enough that I scrapped it for Xamarin.
I wrote a browser plugin in Go (using gopherjs) that will humanize words like it, it's, and its when you press a hotkey while the cursor is on them. It will randomly pick between his/her or her/his. I'd put it on github if you like, but it would need a bit of cleaning up and work first.
Any idea how big the Anti-vaxxer movement is? I'm not really finding any polls that suggest what percentage of people in any particular region are antivaxxers.
Om is fast at checking if a component's state has changed because you can do a very fast identity comparison on the persistent hash map holding state, but persistent data structures are not faster than their mutable cousins simply because of immutability. That immutability leads to significantly more objects being allocated, which means to really take advantage of these features in a managed language you need a VM with a very high performance garbage collector. This is partly why Clojure on the JVM works so well. That being said, non JIT compiled JavaScript VMs generally provide terrible performance for ClojureScript. I do not believe JavaScriptCore JITs anything, so I don't know how immediately useful ClojureScript with React Native will be outside of toy examples.
Measles can only last two hours air borne. Source CDC.
The asymmetry might be just local fluctuation in this small region of space that we call observable universe.
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Ugly to us maybe, but that won't stop your kids from being fluent in it.
I would LOVE if you wrote up a few stories, however long! Do you think you could?
It's really neat that electrons and positrons traveling in time just bounce of photons, that are timeless (because of the speed they have).

I wonder what cool observation might make by similarly rotating they intuition 90 degrees so that time becomes axis something can move on.
It's a problem, but it's the very reason the language is as popular as it is. I started out as the total amateur copy and pasting terrible code to bring ideas that I had to life. I didn't care about code quality or security vulnerability. Having a broken app was, to me at that time, better than having no app at all.

Now it's nearly 10 years later and at some point I crossed over into being a professional. Now things like code quality and security matter. When I started out, it didn't.

Also on a side note nowadays search results almost always result in Stack Overflow answers - and while those aren't always quality answers either, they are far better than the random blog links you used to get.
Don't you mean "the kind who use proper spelling"?

No. Both "who" and "that" may be used to anchor relative clauses with human antecedents. To quote [1]:

Most writers use 'that' and 'which' as the relative pronouns for inanimate objects, and who as the relative pronoun for humans. This widespread habit has led to the mistaken belief that using that in reference to humans is an error. In fact, while most editors prefer who for people, there is no rule saying we can’t use that, and that has been widely used in reference to people for many centuries.

In other words, my original sentence was perfectly grammatical, and in regard to the original commenter's presentation skills -- and their correlation to his employability and salary potential -- I was simply stating the obvious. But this being HN, I've been downvoted and/or flamed at least 8 times for it.

[1] http://grammarist.com/usage/that-who/
I have for a long time used unobtrusive IEMs with Comply tips (MEElectronics, small, black, with a memory wire that guides the headphone wires over and behind the ears). They shut out the world very effectively, and are cheap enough that it's not a tragedy to lose them. I have never had a flight attendant bug me about them.

United is particularly bad about cranking their PA system up into distortion screeching range. It's pure sadism.
As others have mentioned, I think this may be caused by something else.

Just now I pulled up 711,117 records in Kibana (in a jiffy). And the instance this query ran on isn't particularly fast, I should add.
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Does setupTestCase() return a setup test case, or does it set up a test case? Putting a little thought into clarity of naming can save a lot of repeated effort reading the code in the future. Little things add up.
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And the original Macintosh Portable could get 12 hours on a charge… of its 2lb lead-acid battery.
So you are saying that sarcasm is a vaccine against stupidity?
Maybe if the early adopters actually spent them into circulation, rather than treating them as an "investment", waiting for the "mainstream" to buy them at higher prices.
This was my first book when some time ago I started to transition to team lead role: http://www.amazon.com/Notes-Software-Team-Leader-Organizing/... . It was very useful.
Except it was science which told them vaccinations were dangerous and caused autism in the first place. Now of course the scientific position has (rightly) changed, but we have to explain when it wasn't correct before, and is broken now.

When I talk to my relatives, they remember when vaccinations were dangerous, when we switched from "global warming" to "global cooling", and now to "climate change" which lets science claim any old change as forwarding their cause.

To be clear, I side with science on this, but for people who don't follow science all the time, I can see how it's easy to get tired of the "no, we have the right answer now, ignore that previous answer". See also basically everything to do with eating/fats/etc.

LATER EDIT: I was not clear in this post. By "science which told them" on the first line, I meant to say "The version of science as portrayed by much of the media". The media blew the autism/vaccine issue hugely, and kept the controversy going for a long time.
> It is a terrible language

As Douglass Crockford says, JS is a great language with some terrible parts. I don't understand why some people can't get past that.
So you are saying sarcasm causes autism?
People are anti-vax, disbelieve the moon landing, because they don't trust, actively mistrust, American institutions.
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Seriously please stop making assumptions on Titanium without knowing a thing about it.

> With the latter, you're also interfacing directly with native objects all the time, which is doomed to fail performance-wise. React Native actually performs the layout on a separate thread [...]

Wrong. With Titanium you work with proxies. And JS is in a separate thread. The only actual difference between ReactNative and Titanium on this side is the functional/fully-declarative/almost-stateless vs imperative DOM-like philosophy.

Let me slip this through: «if you don’t know something then don’t make it look like you do».

Sorry for the rant. I’m just very upset from yet another post like this.
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I fully support peoples right to choose for themselves due to the fact that there is a small chance that death or other bad side effects can occur from taking certain vaccines.

Does it really have to be more complicated than that?

(edited for clarity)
It's only a "major design smell" to "bounce back and forth" if it's computationally expensive. This theory makes it sound like electrons aren't firmly rooted in space and time to begin with.

Maybe it's computationally cheaper to define something as existing in all places and all times.
To be a scammer means that you have successfully scammed people. Just sending out bogus emails is not a scam, you need to successfully extract money or some other object from a real person.

Face to face contact is a powerful tool for a scammer, it is a much more personal interaction, and as has been noted, is something that the wannabe email scammer lacks. Projecting confidence at another human and being able to read and respond to their responses in real-time is pretty much the basis for the entire cottage industry of con-men. Email is very impersonal and is easily ignored.
There's js_of_ocaml?
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Not all anti-vaxers are stupid or ignorant, some of them simply have a different quality metric. I've had extensive correspondence with a former colleague who fully accepts all the science, but simply believes that natural immunity is "better" than artificial immunity, and that a 0.1% mortality rate (which is about what measles produces) is an acceptable price to pay. We both accept the science, but he likes the odds and I don't. I have no idea what to say to someone like that.
I write React components in Coffeescript - no JSX. Concise, easy to read and write - just works beautifully.
In my group standups are more about everyone touching base on what they're doing and what issues they have so that other people a) know that they're not duplicating effort and b) can chime in to help if they think that'd be helpful.

That's far from an interrogation
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Remember that the signing bonuses are often to pay people for equity that they're walking away from. This isn't common in east coast tech, but it used to be very common in financial services. 60% pay hikes - well, you have to get out of the cost-plus model of talent. If the 20 best engineers will dramatically increase your chance of getting to a $20 billion valuation, then the money being quoted is actually rather small. If the same guys are installing ERP systems on an hourly rate for a large company like E&Y, of course their value is much less.
Unfortunately you don't, and you never will. You'll have to get used to the fact that "emotivist social pressure" is usually a more effective way to change peoples minds than reason.

If people can't be convinced by reason that their dangerous and unreasonable behavior is in fact dangerous and unreasonable, then little is left besides social pressures.
> Except it was science which told them vaccinations were dangerous and caused autism in the first place.

It really wasn't. One doctor with an enormous conflict of interest told them, and all other evidence both then and now contradicted his claims.
Yes, as Kalleboo said, please do. I can't speak for others, but personally I find such postmortems to be among the most interesting kind of articles on here.
I see a lot of people making money fixing phones and tablets. Many (but not all) mobile devices are easy to repair (enough that I don't mind it if I wear out the left stick on my PS vita every eight months or so)

With less than $50 of tools you can be in business.
You have to prepare for it - have a full battery (most of the planes don't have USB or the plug doesn't supply enough current), have the movies/music already on the phone/tablet. Not everyone is using the phone for this kind of entertainment, so they have to prepare before, and because most of the entertainment is now "in the cloud" and consumed on the fly, you have to know how to copy them for offline use.

Also, the in-flight entertainment system is better positioned than a normal phone or tablet - you need a special case or something to hold a tablet/phone in a kind of vertical position on the little table (also needs preparing for), and you have to look down to it all the time - which is bad for your back, especially in the crammed plane seats.
Yes, let's have a government jail people and take responsibility for their children because some government beuracrat decided a certains vaccine was required. The Tuskegee expirement is one example of why the government shouldn't be trusted to do what is in the best interests of its citizens.
Yeah, I think this is just a snapshot of language evolving. "setup" and "cleanup" just feel like complete, whole verbs to me.

One of the first comments on 'setup' on m-w.com is "most people think this spelling can be used as a verb".

Check back in 15 years and see where we stand :)
> Does it really have to be more complicated than that?

It is, because by choosing not to vaccinate, you compromise herd immunity and put others at risk. An unvaccinated child in a school would impact the right of a kid with leukemia to go to school, for example.
Almost any problem can be meaningfully and usefully solved by introduction of a DSL. It's a remarkably flexible technique.

Ruby is a really bad language to write good DSLs in. Metaprogramming is an awkward replacement for better DSL facilities.

Maybe this book can demonstrate better techniques?
It takes a lot of effort to convince people of things. For many things, it is worth spending the time to understand why people believe what they believe, and crafting arguments to try and sway them.

For the anti-vax crowd, it's simply not. We don't spend a bunch of time trying to figure out how to convince people it's not a good idea to fire off an AK-47 in their backyard when they have neighbors. A large majority of us decided rationally that such behavior causes way too much risk to the rest of us, and made it illegal.

The anti-vaccination crowd are on equally shaky ground. I'm not saying we should mandate the flu shot or a brand new vaccine, but for something as contagious as measles with a 60+ year track record of safety and efficacy, I don't have time or patience to reason with the last 3% of people that don't want to vaccinate their kids.

I've had some serious health problems in my life that were just luck of the draw in genetics. I'm now short one organ, and I'm incredibly thankful that I live in 2015 and I can live a healthy and happy life due to modern medicine. Still, I'm at risk for a lot of diseases because I'm weaker than I would otherwise be. It pisses me off that healthy people don't realize that their actions can kill other people. If my kid was the one with leukemia and his healthy classmates were not getting their vaccines because their parents are idiots, I would be spending all of my time fighting to keep those kids out of schools, doctors offices, public places, etc.
It’s not 2004 anymore

His argument is that PHP is better now that is not 2004, but also, you could say the same about PHP usage on big popular sites.

I'm tired of the argument of "every big site is written on php" cause it's not 2004 anymore and if those sites were to start today they'd probably be written on other languages.

He fails to mention that there is actually a fairly big amount of people that are horrible programmers and use, love, and preach PHP, they're not using Symfony, or reading Hacker News, or writing tests, still they're professional programmers.
The whole vaccination thing has taken a turn much like the AGW debate -- it has become religion, and people define themselves by their (painfully simplified) position on it : I have Facebook friends who post such clever articles and meme images daily, literally preaching to the converted for absolutely no gain but their own smug sense of superiority.

But here's the thing -- vaccinations carry risks. Of course they do. They have massive upsides, but they invariably have downsides, bad reactions, and so on, and it is the utter foolishness that so many try to paint it otherwise. The net result is of course a major positive -- if 1% of the population has an adverse reaction, but 10% avoids getting a painful disease, then a win for the whole (even if it sucks if you're the 1%) -- but it is infantile if not ignorant to not only pretend these risks don't exist (which is ridiculously common), but to actually question people's own assessment of their risk profile.

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/02/05/hpv-vaccine-ga...

All of those incidents might very well be entirely coincidental. Or maybe they aren't. Such is the nature of massive, widespread immunizations, where the abnormal immune system of one person might be sent spiraling out of control, while another might suffer a critical allergic response.

Despite endless evidence to the contrary, many seem to believe we have a complete understanding of medicine and the human body. In some ways we remain hacks, and more often than not luck upon our algorithms. But this blind march really makes the movie "The Children of Men" seem more like a prophecy than a fiction.

EDIT: -2 within a minute. HN has taken a perilous dump into garbage land -- the classic ignorant back-slapping and sophistry -- as more and more entirely ignorant people get down arrow rights.
Well, I was eventually fired from that job because I wasn't consciously aware of that effect at the time, and was basically unmanaged so neither side acted to correct the issue until it was too late. I learned a lot from that experience after the fact.

But in a situation where one person is the experienced team leader and the other is a junior developer, possibly fresh out of college, I think the onus is on the team leader to ask if they need help rather than expecting everyone to speak up on their own. Maybe the junior doesn't realize they need help. Maybe they're too busy with trying to progress on the code, possibly affected by personal problems, to think about their process.

A lot of the improvements that have made a difference for me as a developer and an employee in general have been learning how to work and manage both myself and the people around me, not learning more about a language or framework. I think that's a big part of a manager's job.
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We don't have to convince the anti-vaxxers. We have to convince everybody else that it's worthwhile to legislate mandatory vaccination.
First, all ClojureScript code is Closure compatible, you don't have to worry about that.

Secondly, Om in a Webview and Xamarin are not fair comparisons.