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Yeah, while I generally support the freemarket, something as finite and important as property to live in shouldn't be at the mercy of it.

Near London we're living in a world where middle earners just 20-30 years older than us were able to get property at resonable prices, sit on them, and now someone earning in the top 1% will struggle to buy anything decent.

Further to that, the only property taxes we have here are council tax. Remove all the funiture from your property and leave it empty and you don't need to pay this. I'd argue that's backwards and what we should really be doing is taxing on levels based on empty, rented and living in, with taxes being prohibitly expensive to sit leaving a house empty.

Of course, being 40 and above has had left you with ample oppertunity to milk the status quo, so you're not voting for this and neither are those who inherit from it.
I map esc to the key between left shift and Z. It doesn't exist on US keyboards, though. And I put backspace on caps-lock. What I don't understand is putting any kind of simultaneous combo key on caps-lock, since caps-lock + a is not really easy to press. It doesn't help that many keyboards have a bit of a gap between a and caps-lock (to help position the left hand and prevent accidental caps-locking?).
Well then be cynical, and let's say that Apple is greedy but believes user privacy is a selling point for its hardware products, just like its accessibility efforts. The result is the same. My iPhone randomises its MAC address when scanning for Wi-Fi, Apple's APIs to ask for user permissions are improving with every release, and iMessage is as secure as a closed-source IM platform can be.
Security issues aside, how is this an investable business? How is it going to generate 10x+ returns legally?
Why not? The world is not wholly evil. I know plenty of ads which accurately demonstrate what is good about a product. It seems like you should teach them, "Learn to think for yourself, even if someone says something or believes in something it is not inherently true." But that is a scary thing to teach a child, as an effective teaching of such would invariably lead to them thinking differently than you.
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Technical debt isn't just a startup thing. It's ever-present in tech organizations. Technical debt is probably a leading factor in the irrelevance and ultimate death (typically sale / merger) of most software companies. The product gets increasingly buggy over time as developers pile on more and more hacks to get features out the door without writing down the debt, and customers move on to competitors that have fewer bugs. This is what happened to Netscape, for example.

For startups, technical debt can show up as unreliability (remember Twitter's fail whale?), or it can sink a product before it ever becomes famous enough for you personally to remember.
Treat London as a series of interconnected towns, and you can monopolise any one of those (normally via inheritance). If there's a free market, the people don't have a chance to figure that out: it's already over.

http://www.standard.co.uk/home/who-owns-london-6308427.html

Large landowners have sufficient economic and political power to fight back against eminent domain - and likely even with the support of their local people - so that's not a done deal either.
What learning cursive really taught me
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/seat-belt-30th-annivers...

http://www.sussexsaferroads.gov.uk/info/safer-for-drivers/se...

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/behavioural-insi...
They demand attention I don't want to give.
They track my browsing and take information about me without my consent.
They try to run code on my computer without even asking permission.

No thankyou.
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Well, he probably made him waste significant time learning a technology that was going nowhere.

Reminds me of Nokia's words at Qt DevDays when they said they're 100% invested in C++ and Qt. I think one year later they royally screwed their entire developer community and switched everything to .NET with absolutely no way to port your code except by rewriting it.

Luckily Qt survived, in no small part because it was open source. I guess the moral of these stories is to be careful when using languages and frameworks controlled by corporations and to focus instead on open technologies...
What does WPF not have already that needs to be added?

I usually end up using WinForms for my limited GUI needs (very limited, desktop only), and that's mostly a wrapper around Win32 APIs that haven't really changed in 15 years or more. Does that mean WinForms is dead?

Although from what i heard at Ignite, they are making some improvements for touch support for WPF, XAML debugging, rendering performance, etc. It had maybe five minutes during an hour-long session on the future of .NET that I went to.

edit: link http://channel9.msdn.com/events/Ignite/2015/BRK2702
IMO he comes across well in this interview. I fist-pumped when he mentioned the arbcom case about punctuation - I use a similar case when I describe how sub-optimal some bits of Wikipedia are.
XAML was never dead. It was the preferred .net UI system for windows 8 apps. Meanwhile they said...building a .net desktop but need a rich UI? Use WPF. The idea that they are a small team just fixing bugs really isn't the case. You could say the same thing about MFC.

If you are butt hurt that WPF didn't set the world on fire the way html did...you just weren't paying attention. Evry developer should know html and js...whether you like it or not. I would say the same thing about C...but html and js are the thing that everyone should know something about
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Someone should train an RNN on neural network source code to see if it's possible to get neural networks to generate neural networks.
I have experimented with an app that always displays a couple of major events in the past and some in the future (including life expectancy) on a timeline. However, after a couple of days I couldn't care less about this information, because it changes so unnoticeably and slowly. It didn't help me at all to get a sense for these time scales.
Not sure why you think WPF is dead. A simple google shows many projects at MS actively using it, it still being developed, active support on WPF codebases, and that it is big in enterprise, which MS actively encourages.

For example, here is a recent post on WPF work for VS 2015 [1]. It is very much alive and being used.

[1] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/11/12/the-roadma...
Ghostery is your friend.

Despite ironically being owned by an advertising company.
"Just" the wild relative of a very important crop, which is susceptible to disease. The genetic diversity in the wild plants is important for breeding varieties resistantr to rust blight fungus, or any future disease that appears.
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I understood, and socially insignificant words don't really have a place (aren't most words crafted from social interactions?). And thus I would know nor care to know as long as people are given ways to reach new level of understandings.

I believe something can be done, otherwise I wouldn't bother talking about it. This is only from personal experience, I experienced both feeling of being very talented as a kid, and the complete lack of it, all of a sudden, when going to college. Since then a lot of things that seemed impossible to understand started to click. It feels like experiencing both extremes of the ability spectrum. And in the end talent/innate-ability, or its absence, doesn't really matter. It's mostly desire and patience to unfold your own misconceptions.

And I strongly believe that the school system and society supports that notion that you either get something in a short timespan or you'll never because it's the way society can function; individual well being / growth jailed for this purpose.
I also cut my teeth programming on the old Apple IIe. Brings back some fond memories... bought a big tome at one stage that had an assembler you could 'install' by typing out pages and pages of machine code... I devoutly typed out all umpteen pages but I never got that assembler to work, even with checksum bytes at the end of every line. Back then programming felt like working magic to me. Ty Woz.
almost seems intentional haha
This article talks around the point of what we need to teach children: write legibly; write fast.

Different systems prioritise different things. Briem looks nice until you see how it looks if you're writing really fast - all those zigs and zags blend in.

I'm not sure optimizing for attractive hand-writing is a good idea.

If you're interested in this kind of thing you might like this ridiculously over-priced book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Handwriting-Twentieth-Century-Rosema...
yes, the overclass is hitting us with a one-two punch--restrict supply and increase demand....

the key is that we cannot control our own government...

I am at my core anti-libertarian because I realize that man is a social animal. But if libertarianism were to truly be applied at the national level, then the fed govt would have little power, and the local govt is more amenable to control by the people. Which might make things a little better.

Another problem however is propaganda control of the masses via the educational curriculum, which has warped the worldviews of young americans. That problem will not go away for a long time. I speak here of fake leftism.
If you compare the amount of activity coming out of the ASP.Net MVC team with that of the WPF team you can see why people are worried.
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The Internet of Things May Depend on Tunable Antennas Made of Liquid Metal
Statistical methods aside, this program's outcomes are super impressive!

I'm generally in favour of direct, unconditional cash transfer programs where we don't pretend to understand what poor people need better than themselves. However, this program is a great argument in favour of targetted, evidence-driven interventions.
I'm sorry, "we need analytics therefore it's fine to violate privacy" is not good reasoning!
I don't get why this didn't get any response.
Interesting read, looking forward to reading more.
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People "in poverty" do much better when they can grow their own food using more natural methods such as polycultures.

But having individuals, or small groups (ie. families) grow their own food is massively expensive compared to modern industrial techniques. The cost per whatever you want to measure it in (if you're that poor, the question is "will I stay alive or will I starve?" so calories is a pretty good measure) of a small group growing their own food is huge.

I actually calculated it myself the last time I came back from a country with an enormous proportion of agricultural labourers using broadly manual and outdated techniques, in which famine is a recent event. They were spending an enormous amount on trying to make enough food to stay alive. It takes me literally between five and ten minutes to earn enough to buy food that will keep me alive for a day. If I were to decide to create that food myself, it would not be five or ten minutes of my time each day.
I wish you were designing all the Web sites.

Would the user be able to switch off the CSS/JS at will irrespective of the capabilities of their http client?
> someone will deem it not top-comment worthy and downvote it

That's unnecessary, because points degrade quickly if not up-voted. New posts receive points specifically to achieve exposure.
BitWhisper: Covert Signaling Channel Between Air-Gapped Computers [pdf]
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Panic over. Apparently Arabica coffee can be grown in artificial environments:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/7170479.stm
I never understood or do understand that reaction.

WPF, Silverlight and WinRT all have XAML at their core.

Sure there are few APIs differences among those versions, but so what?

UIKit is not the same as Cocoa Touch, and I don't see these reactions on Apple Forums.

Nor on Google forums, when they keep changing the UI classes between each Android release.

The whole concepts in the XAML and .NET stack, how bindings work, data templates, DirectX integration and so on are the same, even if there are a few changes required.
Agriculture, particularly meat and dairy, account for half of water usage in California. Texas usage is trending toward oil and gas using a dangerously large amount of water (fracking requires billions of gallons of water at the scale it happens in persistently drought stricken Texas). I am not familiar with New Mexico or Arizona or Nevada, but it would not be surprising to find that one or more industries dominate water usage, and in ways that are not sustainable or responsible.

Water usage by individuals, for cleaning and cooking and drinking, is often miniscule, in comparison to industrial usage.
But Mozilla doesn't appear to have done that. "We need analytics, and we respect privacy, so we've come up with something that's better than most companies but still not good enough for some of our users".

It's easy to bash someone for hypocrisy when they're trying trying to do the right thing. It's a bit weird seeing this consternation at Mozilla considering just how scummy the other companies are.
Only those that don't get that what matters is XAML.
> but people who learned WPF to develop with it are somewhat bitter

Only those not able to grasp that what matters is the XAML stack, not the little layer that is put on top of it.
It is impossible!!! A free market allows and encourages competition! Fucking commies!
The kind of people who will complain that what they sell at the store has "chemicals" in them. That doesn't make them sound very informed.
No Intel syntax dis-assembly?
New Zealand. We went through a very painful era in the late 70s when agricultural subsidies were removed, it ended a lot of farms that were unsustainable without them, with some farmers committing suicide and some very painful impacts on rural communities, but our agricultural sector is much the better for it. The fact that we can compete effectively in the EU and USA against subsidised and tariff-protected local farmers despite the tyranny of distance is an indication of it.

Unfortunately, our current government is leaning towards indirect subsidisation of aspects of the agricultural sector via funding for irrigation works and omitting action on the environmental externalities of intensive dairying, but we'll never again be in a place where people are being paid just for owning animals or growing a certain crop.
WPF, Silverlight, WinRT are all built on top of XAML.

There are just a few differences in the APIs, but that is about it.

Somehow, Microsoft doesn't seem to be able to pass the message that all those names are mainly the flavour of the month from the marketing department for the XAML stack.
If we'd all live like Walden, the planet would be a suburbian dystopia.

I sincerely hope many people WANT to live in cities.
The ASP.NET team is slamming things around to decouple it from IIS and Windows so that they can make a push into the server-side Linux world. ASP.NET MVC is still a relatively new technology stack, as well - three years ago I was only just thinking about getting some of our WebForms apps converted to, I believe, MVC 2.
The screw-up is that they introduced many variations of XAML, each one incompatible with the one that came before. Vista brought WPF, then came Silverlight to 'counter' Flash, then came Windows Phone 7 Silverlight, then Windows 8 came with WinRT, while Windows Phone 8 had yet another dialect not compatible with Windows 8. And now Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 are trying to bring it together again. Add some rebranding efforts to this, and you have what we have now: XAML is a very good idea, but the implementation of it is a royal mess. As long as they keep changing it all the time, developers will keep getting burned and turned off.

An interesting angle to this story is the recent introduction of Xamarin Forms, which is also a form of XAML, even more universal in that it targets iOS, Android and Windows.
This sound's like an application of Conway's law. Sometimes you make a bad technical decision because the "right" way involves to many political fights

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
Similarities in packaging of cyanoacrylate nail glue and ophthalmic preparations
The headline feature to which I referred, from http://www.zapcc.com/product/features/, is "Zapcc caches compiled headers and generated code between compiles".

So a cache of what was generated last time, which will have to be replaced if the input files or compile command changes. So, a lot like ccache. Which is why I asked.
Less desirable jobs would offer higher pay, and the offered pay would keep increasing until the demand for clean airport toilets are met.
Parents are unavoidable. Kids and gf/wife pretty much are avoidable.
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https://rust.godbolt.org/ has that and more disassembly options
This comment thread baffles me.

Java guy here. I've had some limited professional exposure to ASP.NET web apps over the past five years, but have really taken an interest in diving into the Microsoft stack over the past year or two since all of the cross-platform activity started happening. I'm mostly interested in ASP.NET, as I do little to no development in the desktop or native mobile app space, but I've been interested in at least learning more about those areas.

My understanding has been the following:

[1] WinForms is a very ancient framework for writing traditional desktop applications. It inspired ASP.NET's WebForms, an ancient framework for writing web apps. Both are still used by greybeards, but are effectively considered deprecated legacy tech.

[2] WPF is the current standard for writing traditional desktop applications. It uses XAML markup files to describe a GUI, with each XAML file being backed by a C# class storing the event-handling logic.

[3] "Metro" and "Windows 10 Universal" are emerging frameworks. Trying to achieve some level of convergence between desktop and mobile app development. Pushed hard by Microsoft, but no one cares because there are few users of the Windows Store or Windows Phones.

I am accustomed to seeing "WinForms is dead" Internet discussions, with people chiming in to point out that it still lives on in many shops. However, I've never seen a "WPF is dead" thread before.

Are you guys saying this because you're moving on to "Metro / Windows 10 Universal" even for desktop application development? I don't know anyone going in that direction yet, but then again Hacker News is a bit of a startup niche that poorly represents the technology industry as a whole.

DISCLAIMER I haven't actually watched this video yet... it's almost an hour long, and I'll have to do so later. A "TL;DR" would be cool, but I'm assuming that the gist is XAML still having a role within these newer frameworks that I haven't explored yet.
You can cite meta-analysis, like in medicine. "The people who studied this concluded that using this method has a higher chance of bad side effects and lethal complications than using the suggested method".
Gentrification would still exist as the previous owners and renters would be forced to live in the perifery of their towns, as newcomers would settle in their neighborhoods.
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"It seems like" != "a fact".
Reminds me of Doc Bailey's work: http://www.imagesavant.com/
Do there exist any statistics about people mistaking fingernail glue for eye drops? This would indeed be tragic, but I haven't even heard anecdotes about such a thing happening.
I imagine ipv6 would drastically reduce the chance of false positives for collisions.
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I'm on OS X, but I just installed GNU Emacs from source and run it in a terminal window. Never really understood GUI versions of Emacs -- they seem to defeat the purpose of Emacs.
> Another thing you probably don't want to hear is that you are not "senior level" if you lack the experience to have figured this out for yourself.

There are many examples where I don't think there's a strong connection between the level of professional experience with the familiarity with the startup environment/lingo/negotiation.
Do note that XAML is merely a way of describing nested objects in XML. It's just a markup language and it never was incompatible to itself. Heck, if you wanted to, you could use XAML to describe Swing GUIs for Java; you just need a parser that turns the markup into objects.

The implementations of the objects referenced by XAML may differ and have incompatibilities, but that's not a XAML problem. Xamarin.Forms uses completely different ones, for example, while still keeping the same markup.
> I'll ignore the blatant sexism.

Well, I don't date men, so my sample size is composed entirely of the women I've dated (the gp quoted was talking about cooking for a date).

I would argue that worrying that much about what you eat is a very privileged problem to have. Nevertheless, it doesn't make much difference to me what somebody else chooses to eat, so long as it doesn't impinge on my freedom to eat what I want. Which is sort of the rub here. I've never been so foolish as to date a vegetarian or a vegan, but here is a list of things that have been unilaterally banned (briefly...) from my refrigerator:

American cheese
Mushrooms,
Fish,
Spam,
Deer meat,
non-multigrain bread,
Bologna,
Hot dogs,
Broccoli,
Milk
As an example, the amount of life-sustaining food we can get from a cow using modern techniques is so much more than by using old techniques. Yeah, sure, some of it doesn't look very pretty; cry me a river. For a very, very long time throughout human history dying because there wasn't enough food to eat was something everyone had in the back of their mind (and still do in many places).

Much processed food and big bags of frozen vegetables and so on is healthy and cheap; it's got what you need to stay alive in good condition and doesn't have (for example) arsenic in it, which to my mind is pretty much the definition of healthy food. Fat, protein, whatever; once it's broken down to cross the stomach, it all looks the same. It's only a problem if people simply eat too much (or not enough) of something.
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I use that feature almost every day.
Perhaps a mod can replace the submission's URL with this? ^
This is from 2001, anyone know if any changes were made to address this since then?
Police states don't exist because they have huge numbers of police officers, but because large parts of the population collude with them.

So, while the UK isn't an authoritarian police state it does have too many CCTV cameras and a large segment of the public likes them. This thread has had people asking for more CCTV; other threads suggested the local authorities using CCTV and human surveillance to check that people applying for a school place lived in the catchment area for that school.

We have a very large police DNA database and we see people resist attempts to scale it back. You even sometimes see large groups of people volunteer to have their DNA taken to rule themselves out of a high profile crime. And that's even though we know that a DNA database should probably have as many profiles of criminals as possible, and a s few profiles of non-criminals as possible, just because data handling.