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You are missing the point. Cutting water usage this way doesn't even move the needle. Fifty measures on this scale wouldn't stave off the inevitable by even an hour. If this was the most efficient use of our legislators' time for finding a path to make it through this drought, we are well and truly fucked.

You say elsewhere that, while we should fix the big stuff, it doesn't hurt to try and deal with the small, too. This completely ignores the fact that legislators and regulatory agencies have actually spent time drafting, discussing, voting on, and implementing these measures. This time would have been infinitely better spent on addressing something that might have a chance in hell of affecting statewide water usage.

Edit: I can't reply to you, so this will have to suffice. In case you've forgotten, this subthread, all of my replies in it, and seemingly all of your replies as well, have been discussing restrictions on restaurants serving water to customers without prompting. While yes, there is some that California residents and businesses can do to reduce their own water footprint, measures like the one we are discussing are completely and unquestionably pointless.

That "evidence" you are looking for is precisely the fact that they have wasted valuable and ever-diminishing time pushing forward measures that will have a absolutely zero discernible impact. Do you truly believe that time by the relevant bodies attempting to regulate water usage amounting to less than 0.001% was time well spent?
You could solve the problem just by making water cost more. Wasteful farming can't take the hit, residential users can. It doesn't take magic.

But even simpler than that, if you let people with water rights sell their water, they will be less likely to waste it.

Or maybe get rid of water rights...
"As many Python insiders know well, the Castro brothers, Fidel and Raúl, have long been fans of FLOSS and of Python in particular."

Good one :)
Well, in Python world we did just like what OP described: use uWSGI to respawn a new worker after certain number of requests.

Edit: alright, I got downvoted for speaking a fact. Don't get me wrong, OP's article is great, but not everyone has control over the underlying code, nor has enough time to tinker into runtime nuances.

To confess I have maintained >100K LoC Python/Ruby projects, yet the respawn way is the most effective and easiest mitigation method available and I think it's likely to continue to be in a very long time.
I think the point of this move is that Tony Hsieh does not want anyone who "can and does work through the ranks" to be working at Zappos. He's built a business upon great customer support for selling shoes. The ideal employee for this business is someone who is really passionate about helping customers solve their shoe problems. A manager above them would just get in the way of their helping customers, and an employee who wants to be a manager is not focusing on helping customers.
There is no doubt that if we must choose to do something either to affect the big stuff, or the small stuff, we should prefer that to the small stuff.

But I do not see how ordinary people not wasting water at restaurants has any opportunity cost wrt agriculture water usage. There are different people involved, at different times.
Microsoft has shared decent size 2 people offices for thousands of developers.
Ouch, that hurts just looking at it.
Unfortunately, com.google doesn't support the "do a barrel roll" command. That kind of attention to detail would have impressed me.
I thought it costs 180k a year to run a TLD?
So, I'm one of the more highly-skilled developers working on X. I'm also needed to help troubleshoot some emergency on Y for a week.

Someone has to figure out schedules priorities and whatnot. But I don't give a $#@% about that sort of boring people-stuff, because I only care about interesting technical problems.

How does this get handled?

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People do not always follow the same process over and over again. When they do, that's an excellent candidate for automation.

People can have multiple interests and skill sets, but those won't always include negotiation and constraint optimization. Those tasks still have to get handled for everyone, even the people who won't handle them for themselves.

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There will always be hierarchies. There are at least two fundamental ones: skill, and scope. Neither maps exactly to management hierarchies.
That's what made the games so immersive for me. I can believe I'm the character when he doesn't speak.
Git-cipher, a tool for managing encrypted content in a Git repo
Maybe if you're a computer. But for us humans, google.com makes more sense.
They really should have purchased the tld elgoog just for this prank.
If that kind race looks interesting, but you are not an ultra-marathoner, check out orienteering: http://www.mensjournal.com/adventure/outdoor/the-rise-of-ori....

It's basically a land navigation race. The club I'm in, (http://mnoc.org), does courses that are usually 3km to 8km in length (there will be several to choose from).

The events are pretty minimalist compared to obstacle races like Warrior Dash, mud runs, ect. It's just you, a map, and a large chunk of woods.
The reason your site is taking long to load is because you have multiple >1MB assets. Open up the Chrome inspector and look at the network tab. You're loading 7.7MB, 7.3MB of which are images. There are two gifs that are over 2MB in size. You should reduce the size of them to 200KB at most, and also consider delaying loading images that are below the initial viewport until the user needs to see them. I also recommend compressing all of your jpg's and using a tool like ImageOptim to strip out any extraneous data.
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I sorta thought that as well but I think the end result is that TLDs have lost a lot of importance which is a "good thing" IMO. There's far less need to pay exorbitantly for a great .com and it lessens the value of squatting. It seems messy but I suspect will work out fine.
By "this way" do you mean saving water at restaurants?

More generally, the topic is saving water as consumed by ordinary people. That involves saving water at restaurants, not taking excessively long showers, not cleaning one's dishes in inefficient ways, fixing leaky pipes in one's house, etc. etc.

All of those things add up, and can make a dent in the 20% or so of water consumption that is due to ordinary people.

Of course it would be better to make a dent in the 80%. But I don't think the two preclude each other - there have been improvements in the 80% with some agriculture moving to drip irrigation, and so forth.

If it is shown that legislators spending time on the 20% makes them less effective at tackling the 80%, I would immediately agree that we should ignore the 20%. But I haven't yet seen that evidence, if it exists.
The power of TTX was an eye opener to me. But I think I'll go hide under my covers now.
I remember last year someone discovered a very similar bug in Google's Webmaster tool that would let any person remove any site from Google's search results[1]. It's a wonder that bugs such as this are there in Google's site.

[1] http://searchengineland.com/google-disables-url-removals-aft...
Everyone vents in their own way. I've used stupid pictures before to get over spending a whole afternoon fixing someone else's screw up.
Those aren't costs I pay. Anything it costs Amazon is absolutely meaningless to me; I've already paid for it in my Prime membership, and I already brought up the point about the intangible costs.
It's actually

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React Extension Manager, a package manager for react native components
Top-level domains were the one level where names were purely descriptive - you could generally trust that they referred to what they said (.ly was well and truly owned by the government of Libya, whatever it decided to do with it, and .org is for non-profit orgs). Domain names under them were clearly understood to refer to specific organizations - wine.com is usually understood to be some organization, not an authority over all wine.

Now you have things like .wine, and there's suddenly a question - does this represent the abstract concept? Or some specific wine-making trade group? And which one? And is it clear to users what this imprimatur means? Do we trust ICANN to make this kind of decision, which is much more subjective and opinionated than the ones it traditionally has had to make when deciding who to give a TLD to?
any good sources on sun's history?
You sound like you are telling the kids to get off your lawn. The web is getting so crowded that the old .com/net/org/edu/gov system is not going to be sustainable. The next generation will definitely think you are showing your age when you assume everything is .com, grandpa.
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Here's how to integrate React with Meteor: https://github.com/reactjs/react-meteor

A talk demoing it: https://youtu.be/puoD7b4Ow7k

Here's how to integrate AngularJS with Meteor: https://github.com/Urigo/angular-meteor

A talk demoing it: https://youtu.be/s6IgKYsZAyI
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> Valve has the 'Gabe / Everyone Else' structure. They seem to make it work ok.

Except for the whole Half Life 3 issue. The fans have been clamoring for it for years, presumably someone in Valve wants to make it... but the company has been unable. I don't know if it's they've been unable to keep a project going strong before the team splintering, or there's several competing internal projects, or if there's one which is being unmanaged and so is growing unboundedly, or something else entirely. But something's going wrong there.
That'd be a 185,000 dollar prank!
> Maybe if you're a Java programmer.

Fixed that for you.
Why is it www.google.com and not google.com.www? And if www.google.com is okay, what's wrong with www.google/stuff. Left to right order.
It actually does something similar
While I don't work on any of the related pieces, it should be noted that NaCL has dynamic "check this code" support precisely so you can JIT-compile code and execute it safely.
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someone jump on the "eloog" tld stat.
Really? com.ycombinator.news seems much more logical and intuitive to me, just like 2015-04-01.

Or how about com/ycombinator/news?
Yeah, I was pretty surprised that this wasn't there.

I tried a bunch of UK numbers for big cities (and my US mobile number) and none had city information.
We can also do that with unicorn-worker-killer.
Can I ask which meetup you've been attending? We (the organizers of such meetups) would love to hear where you're having a great time!
http://nic.google has been up since they owned the domain.
How is it more expensive than a modern smartphone? It's $100
>With a finisher rate of about 1 percent, the Barkley has been labeled by many as the world’s hardest race

The 1% figure doesn't add up with the rest of the data they provide
Ideally yes...

But then Google wants to purchase the whole .dev TLD for their own private, internal use http://sealedabstract.com/rants/google-our-patron-saint-of-t...
That puts "com" first as you read it, despite the fact that it conveys no useful information.

Top-level domains have rarely been used as the ontological category they were intended to be. They are little more than flavor-text that is annoyingly required for uniqueness purposes. I think they rightfully belong in the position of least significance.
You've only had about 16 years since the formalization of RFC 2606 [1] as a best current practice to move your internal DNS over to a namespace you actually control.

Yes, it's most likely going to be more typing, but this way, you're not risking having everything break at some point when your pseudo-TLD gets picked up by someone (maybe even yourselves) and becomes a real thing on the public internet.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2606
Minor typo -- "What category whould you like?" should be "What category would you like?"

Also, I'd like to dig down further into the features. For example, with TVs, I want to search only for those that are 1080P/FullHD. I would also want to search for those that are a certain size or higher. I would also want to search for models that have certain numbers of A/V inputs and/or certain types of A/V inputs.

For headphones, I might want to look only at in-ear monitors and with detachable cables.

For each and every thing in your database, you need to extract all the key technical details, and allow those to be discoverable.

Oh, and I don't particularly trust Amazon reviews -- we know those get heavily gamed. I'd like to be able to choose how much weight to give to their reviews as compared to the other information sources.
I think whether or not deflation is "good" depends on how you feel about wealth distribution.

Inflation is a tax. Politicians don't like raising taxes, because it's unpopular. The government still needs money though, so they inflate the currency which redistributes the money from the citizens to the government. Government redistributes the wealth back to citizens through services which usually provide more to the less wealthy members of society.

I think wealth distribution is a good thing and I'm not opposed to it being done in this manner.
Lipstick on a pig. Exactly what the author calls out:

"Sadly, most Ruby devs out there simply employ monit , inspeqtor or unicorn worker killers. This allows you to move along and do more important work, tidily sweeping the problem snugly under the carpet."

The author describes a mindset to solve the underlying problem. Endemic to any language.
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Wirearchy replaces hierarchy as Bankers leave to leverage networks and platforms
But a cage protecting me from the other, rather than containing me.
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Using chrome, and chrome on android inspecting the source shows that it is

transform: scaleX(-1);
Well, we already have Chrome OS and Firefox OS, so it's not inconceivable that one day, everything you see on a screen will just be a bunch of iframes nested inside one another.
This. The primary purpose is to avoid the pain of not having what you need, and the arguments and bad mood that follows, simply because you didn't add something to a list or thought you would remember to buy but didn't
Actually, yes. Any water shortage in a developed area with cheap water isn't actually a water shortage, it's a mismanagement or incorrect pricing. California can simply produce more water if they really need it, which they would if everyone was leaving their taps on.

We're fooled into believing water shortages are environmental problems we need to make sacrafices to prevent. But just paying more for more expensive, higher volume production or recylcing would work too. Eg Isreal.
It's a shame that all Google services blocked by China gov.
I got my first computer in 1983 (a TRS-80), and at that point the old codgers were complaining that computers had gotten too commercialized and that the purity of the old hobbyist days had gone. They were probably right, though it certainly seems hobbyist now.

I wonder if the success of the Raspberry Pi is an indication a lot of people do still like hobbyist computer building, though?
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Stack Overflow: “So we DDoSed ourselves with our own april fools' prank?”
Pretty sure this is legitimate.
Because you're a computer programmer!

Human language is all about optimizing for context. Abbreviations, contractions, etc. For humans, most of the time the current year and/or "com" are the default context, so it makes sense to present the most significant differentiating information first. If you think about it, that's also why "www." got dropped.
What you describe is clearly familiar to any Java programmers out there, but it actually made me think of UUCP mail routing, which used to be a bit like that - the hosts would go from left to right, separated by bangs, and ending in the user. Some details here: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/nag/node192.html

What we have now is obviously much friendlier to the end user, given it has no reliance on remembering or understanding the network topology!
I was really hoping they had a second layer to their prank by having a search for "Java" show java source code with the `import com.google.whatevs` be replaced with `import whatevs.google.com`
The "PC market" refers to current sales. "Installed base" is the term for the metric that includes the languishing WinXP machines.
That actually sounds incredibly appealing, thanks for the heads up. I love finding my way with a map and a compass, but I've somehow never heard of orienteering specifically before.

I hike basically every weekend, but since most of that is in the Smokies I adhere to the trails. It would be nice to venture into some more self-guided routes. I have relatives up near the UP I visit once or twice a year, I'll definitely look into this the next time I'm near a more active orienteering community.
Why is it www.google.com and not google.com.www

you know there's an actual reason for this?

com > google > www

"www" is a subdomain of "google" which is a subdomain of the top level domain "com"

historically that was a conventional way to separate services (ftp.google.com, www.google.com gopher.google.com)
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failoverflow was actually right; while scaleX(-1) is present, it's overridden: http://i.imgur.com/mNjGE0F.png

It doesn't matter though, both transforms have the same effect.
Sure, but "www" much less significant.
Only because you've gotten used to it. Right now you have to learn that [domain]/[filepath] is a thing.

If it was done in the same direction as folders, you wouldn't even have to know anything about domains.
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Wow, $0.005 is incredibly expensive for carrier lookups. I run an SMS gateway and our cost for this is $0.0001 per lookup from our primary provider and $0.0002 from our backup provider. Of course we are dealing in bulk but Twilio should be too...
Costa Rica Is Now Running on 100% Renewable Electricity
Sure, but you have to admit it can also product Enron like negative feedback loops where bad behavior is okay, and rewarded, due to culture.
I was expecting moc.elgoog
LOL, that is so true. I guess 30-something is the 80-something in tech. Now get the fuck off my lawn.
Preempted by elgoog, though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ElgooG

Although it's down now, so i guess this is the official Google replacement
Just deployed a new version of the app with optimized images. Thanks so much for the thorough, constructive feedback.
It's a pretty standard way of counting for outdoorsy stuff in my experience. Most hiking routes will quote the total elevation gain, skiers and snowboarders track downhill vertical, and so on.
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Files, and the ordering of folder hierarchy from left to right, was developed by Unix in the 1970s.

Domain names (DNS) were developed in 1985 to locate things on the Internet, entirely separately, with the opposite hierarchical ordering.

The convention of locating files on a system identified by a domain name wasn't developed until 1992 and standardized in 1994 as a URL.

As a result, we have two hierarchical orderings for two separate things, because they were merged later on.
Undo damage might be easy from a technical point of view, but PR damage is not. If Google paid much more at Pwn2Own, so why not more for this critical bug?
yea, I think this is a real thing... which I'm pretty sure is a sad thing for humanity.
Not to be a jerk, but why not use objects for key value and arrays for int value?

Yes, JavaScript object/array system has it's warts, but to me that's clearly the way it was intended to be used.
Chrome on iOS has some input handling issues inside the iframe.
Eh, that's debatable. Could be confirmation bias because we're just used to it being that way for the last x decades. Fairly sure that if I asked my computer illiterate grandma which made more sense, google.com or com.google, the answer would be "neither." Heck, my parents only add www or com simply "because". There's no rational reason from their perspective to do so other than that it may not work otherwise. If I had originally taught them com.google vs google.com, they'd be none the wiser (assuming either way actually worked).

I actually suspect if we started with a clean slate, it would make more sense to start with "more generic/less detail" to "less generic/more detail." Urls after the domain already do that (well, organized sites, do), e.g. www.site.com/cleaningsupplies/clorox

Then we could have (expanded for example):
company.google
organization.charitynavigator
uk.company.google
xxx.whoa (for those that remember the proposal for a xxx tld)

But there's probably a technical reason for it being the way it is that I'm not aware of or something.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9301485.
Without knowing anything about this topic, calories produced per gallons of water used seems like the right metric. Some quick googling I got this math.

1 almond = 7 calories, 7 cals / 1 gallon = 7 cals/gal

1 lb beef = 213 calories, 213 cals / (110 to 1300) gallons = 2 to .16 cals/gal.

So there you go.
Even professionals in the industry don't understand CDS's. Some of them are deliberately complicated.
That Was Easy: Amazon Dash in an On-Demand World
That's just because you are used to it. But <tld>.<domain> actually makes more sense for multiple reasons:

- That's how phone numbers work, the most significant part of the number is first (<country-code> <area-code> <local-number>) so the most significant part (TLD) should come first in domain names. Users like systems that look like other systems they are already used to.

- <tld>.<domain> would help thwart phishing attacks as most users read left-to-right, so they see right away when the domain is incorrect. Compare this to "google.com.phishing.com" which tricks users because they stop reading after they see "google.com..."

- When you read or hear "go to com.myawesomedomain" you know a domain name is being mentioned as soon as you hear "com.". It is not always obvious otherwise (you have to use specific language like "browse to").
Charge market prices for water, and let the tech industry help with efficiency.

That's how Australia did it: http://irrigation.org.au/documents/publications-resources/co...
Ultra distance running has always been something that has inspired me - I got into it through my friend Mal Law who has just run 50 marathons in 50 consecutive days over 50 mountains (I think adding the mountains made it unique compared to past efforts).
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You mean the single jug that was queued upon pressing the button 42 times.
People buying on secondary markets often directly buy shares. They only resort to derivatives when they're unable to buy directly due to stock restrictions.
Are you suggesting that the strategy you describe above wouldn't just as well if the names were reversed?
>Because a lot of that group said they "didn't know any better" and were "misled" when it came to bad mortgages during the crunch.

What else are you going to tell people when you lose half a mil? That sounds a lot better than "Honey, I gambled our financial future trying to get rich in the housing market, and you'll never believe what happened..."
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An awesome video which changed my perspective towards lambda calculus and programming in general:

programming with nothing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUhlNx_-wYk
There have been gTLDs forever. You might have heard of .com, for example.

Since 2011, the registration process for gTLDs has been opened up.
I found this set of lectures to be really nice: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLT_GI2oINs-CRuwMGDa5_...
Wish I had time to get through them all...
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