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"About yay high" is a pretty common expression in New England, especially the more isolated parts
Anybody who is interested in this dialect or 'Yorkshire Life' should give Kes a watch http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064541/
This is a perfectly sensible way to do things. The concept that a person's politics is so "evil" that their talk acceptance must be rescinded is, frankly, childish. It treats attendees like small children, who can't rationally deal with the situation of a person with opposing views.

Of course, if a person promises to speak on a technical topic, and then goes on a political rant, that's a reason to shut them down or walk out: the audience isn't getting what was expected and promised. But the mere fact of a person's unrelated political views being used to remove them from a speakers list - this is the sort of thing that you would expect from the USSR.
A minor point, but in the third passage Leetning is speaking to the author and so I think the translation should be "Now look at you, you passed the eleven plus..."
My version of this, with my Dad, was when I was precocious 16 year old, failing highschool because I was spending all my time hacking code, smoking pot, and girlfriends. Not a bit of schoolwork was being done, and my Dad was having none of it.

So he gave me a summer job. In the hot Australian sunshine, I was sent off to be a labourer on building sites. Since I was the young blood, the brickies and other construction types gave me the shit jobs .. moving piles of bricks from one end of the universe to the other, shovelling shit from one end of the universe to the other, getting lunch and ciggies and mud and bricks to the brickies from one end of the universe to the other. It was monotonous, hot, boring work, and I hated getting up at 5am every day just to get there on time, and work until the sun went down every day, just to go to bed in time to get up again and start moving shit from one end of the universe to the other.

It did teach me a lesson, and that lesson - which dear reader I hope you understand - is that work is good for you. It expands your universe and gives you a life beyond the realms of the little box we're otherwise born with.

So, at the end of summer, I took my hard-earned wages, bought myself a new computer, got back to hacking, split up with my girlfriend, and got myself the hell out of that situation.

And I've never looked back.

Well, now I look back .. because now I'm the Dad, and more than anything else in the world I want my kids to grow up knowing that hard work is good for you, but smart work is better. Don't know how its going to happen, but that's the joy of fatherhood, innit ..
They do ship additional non-security but important updates in point releases. For example, the qcontrol update was sorely needed for the proper operation of several armel-based NAS devices
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In my opinion, the only real effort that is required to keep Debian clean is to remember to do the updates regularly, and dist-upgrade semi-regularly. If you get far behind, then there are going to be headaches, but if you stay relatively current as you move along with new updates, and upgrades to packages, Debian is very smooth sailing. So smooth that I instantly thought to myself "huh, who needs spring-cleaning? My debian-systems pretty much keep themselves clean all along.." and was subsequently surprised about how Arch Linux seems to do things ..

(Nevertheless, its also prompted me to put "try Arch out" on the TODO list for the next down-time period..)
There has been tons of research on the pi-calculus. But very little has been lifted to the "real world". Maybe because the pi-calculus model isn't suited for programming (unlike the lambda calculus that led to Scheme, ML, Coq...).

I'd love to be proven wrong, but it seems to be a niche for a community of researchers to publish useless technical papers. At least, they should devote their energy to try to apply their results to solve real problems.
Did you add non-standard repositories? In my experience dist-upgrade is absolutely fine, unless you installed updated version from alternate repositories. That can blow up in your face during dist-upgrade.
This is a Trello clone, I don't see any new features, but it is probably as good as Trello, except that it is limited to "funnel" processes, not any disordered lists you want, like Trello.

The "updating" bar at the top is annoying.
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Shame there's not a demo board. Being able to go in and play around with some populated data without having to sign up would be a big plus.

And while this may be a better alternative to Trello, no where do I see why it's a better alternative. It would have be nice to have been sent to a click-through page that explains the reasons why, with maybe comparisons, to back up the title :)
In a perverse way this is a succinct restatement of what others have said in sibling comments about the GP needing to make themselves more vulnerable (and less intimidating, when they are seeing successes most people never see).

Whether or not the sibling commenters are right, I won't opine on. :)
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Nope, British. But I'm interested in linguistics, and how English affects other languages and the communities that speak those languages.
Why are you talking to him? Sounds like you should be talking to a lawyer or debt collection agency about him.
"n 1867, a policeman named Armand Barbier arrested Norton to commit him to involuntary treatment for a mental disorder.[3] The Emperor's arrest outraged the citizens and sparked scathing editorials in the newspapers. Police Chief Patrick Crowley ordered Norton released and issued a formal apology on behalf of the police force.[10] Crowley wrote "that he had shed no blood; robbed no one; and despoiled no country; which is more than can be said of his fellows in that line."[18] Norton magnanimously granted what he considered an Imperial Pardon to the errant policeman. All police officers of San Francisco thereafter saluted Norton as he passed in the street"

:D
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The article may be fudged. I studied creativity and found from journals/papers with social rejection we see higher levels of divergent creativity, it's as if the brain does everything it can to think about how to socially include. With social inclusion we see higher levels of convergent creativity. We need both in society!
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Meditation is commonly practiced by all kinds of people, many of whom don't do it in the tradition you may associate with 'Meditation'. I wouldn't be so dismissive of surfing. Activities that force you to clear your mind (so you don't die or seriously hurt yourself) are other candidates for similar outcomes.
Same on Windows Phone. So i guess its not usable for production?
Ask HN: PHP Developer Jobs Using Haxe (i.e. Haxe-To-PHP)
Do you use Haxe to write/generate your own PHP code at work? I was wondering if there are folks doing so. Would it be advisable for someone getting back into writing PHP code? I have stopped writing PHP for sometime (joined the python/django/foundation bandwagon) only to be pulled into a project requiring PHP and must use Haxe. I now want to look for other jobs in the PHP market but I was thinking no coy would hire me to use Haxe-to-PHP for their works. It also looks like I need to master the Haxe programming style at the expense of PHP. I have developed numerous apps in PHP4,purely OOP, in the past but Haxe (though cool) is just in a way different.
> I know of nobody who would

Then you're forgetting about the guy up-thread:

> accountability of governments has increased in response to many of those exact same services (Twitter/YouTube/Facebook/Google).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9672999

But reading your first comment again, I realize that you were making a different point. Sorry.
There are many companies that offer just that "status" as well.

I don't know why you think Apple is special in any way when it comes to jobs. In fact, I heard they're worse, exactly because of the "status" that comes with it.
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Let's try to use the classic analogy with painters.)

Suppose "your team" have to paint a cathedral for a king and you are the "manager". Of course you cannot paint yourself and hence holding an opinion that the paints and brushes are the most important things in this business.

Nevertheless, you have noticed, that some guys, like Leonardo, are much better at painting of the ceilings and in order not to disappoint the king you have to hire him and all the second best guys. Of course, you are sure that these guys are just lucky and overrated.

What you ougth to do, in order to not be beheaded by the king, is to be sure that Leonardo and the other painters has everything they need, of best possible quality and there is not a single obstacle on the horizon.

Now imagine that instead you have decided to hold daily meetings to discuss how to mix the paints properly, about responsibility to the whole team, and importance of writing daily reports about elements finished so far, together with detailed statistics of materials spent on each element.

To be sure that everything is going well, you have to climb to the ceiling few times a day and ask smart, psychological questions in orfer to avoid any possible lapse in productivity by exercising employee's morale and dedication to the project. For that reason you have short meetings in the morning.

Because you have no idea why the masterpieces of these guys are so highly acclaimed, you are constantly trying to improve their decisions by introducing new elements and changing colors, which are, you have been told, are industry standard best practices, and forcing them to use not the paints they used to, but guaranteed, safe, battle-tested priducts they used to paint the walls of the king's palace and stables.
Seconding the recommendation. It's a beautiful movie about the friendship about a boy and a bird (also selected as part of the Sight & Sound Top 250 list of best movies of all times).
There's at least LuaPi: https://github.com/LuaDist/luapi/blob/master/doc/LuaPiTut.pd... - doesn't seem hard or "bad suited for programming".

I'd be wary of claiming that something isn't practical just because it hasn't escaped the academic world yet. Bringing research stuff to "real world" is a hard skill, and in my opinion of a very high value.
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You're right. The drawing canons are, in a way, constraints.

However, it's not relevant for this, I think. Drawing is very different, goal-wise, from design. Designers do learn how to draw early on their education, but I think it's more a matter of learning how to "see" and developing other useful skills. The approach to drawing doesn't translate directly to the approach used while designing.
He asked for a replacement for Times that would be appropriate in a technical paper with support for LaTeX formulae, while taking up less horizontal space than Times at the same point size. The goal here isn’t to be unique or prove that we’re typographically trendy, but to look good, be legible, and fit the requirements.

The main problem I have with Times isn’t that it’s overused, but more that it’s inappropriate for many contexts, and the specific implementations of Times are often bad. If you want to use Times at 8 pt, 10 pt, 12 pt, and 16 pt in the same document, and you pick up a typical digital implementation, at least some of those sizes are going to look crappy because there are no specific fonts included for display or caption sizes. If you need small caps or lowercase numbers you’re out of luck. If you want good kerning you’re going to have to manually adjust the kerning tables. (Not to mention, Times just doesn’t look very nice or even in the best case.) By contrast, Minion is an excellently designed and carefully implemented typeface which has been one of Adobe’s gems for decades and seen lots of polishing.

I think Butterick’s comments are inapplicable in general in this example: we’re talking about an academic typesetting his own documents not a professional typographer doing a paid job. But even in proper context, I think Butterick is being a little silly here. The job of a typographer is to figure out the client’s needs and solve the client’s design problems. Sometimes that means turning out stylish layouts that turn heads, but just as often that means getting all the little details right so the design gets out of the way and lets the content shine for itself.
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0. You dont need a portfolio to get a programming job, there are plenty of jobs.

But you're completely neglecting to mention your work experience and education, so I'm assuming you had a formal CS education.
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The Emperor has been here before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7814140
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"Watch thi'sens." = "Watch yourselves"
As GUI dev who worked with Apple's AutoLayout extensively I can confidently say constraint-based layout is a trap. It looks like more intuitive way to go on simple examples, but complexity spikes quickly as number of controls goes up. It's more complicated, more resilient to changes (harder to maintain), easy to get wrong, hard to understand and debug, bugs generally look uglier (what would be minor misplacement in CSS often becomes overlapping or clipping). It does not support word wrapping without hacks and restrictive assumptions about width. It is a real mess to insert/remove controls dynamically.

Compared to previous experience with Qt, I don't see any advantage of constraint-based layout over box-based layout.
> Because you're so macho, right? And anything you don't understand shouldn't be used.

Or because he finds it so objectionable that he wanted to express strongly how much so it is. You read way too much into it.

> But this macho talk from "team leaders" I dislike.

Why do you assume he's only talking about situations where he'd be the team lead?

> That the leader is so arrogant that wont discuss but bully his team?

How about that other team members should consider the impact of technology choices and discuss them with the team before putting potentially controversial choices like this into use? (and no, not in order to avoid physical retribution, but because some choices are just awful).

> How about we reverse it: who would want to work in a team with some slap happy lead?

How about you don't read way too much into it? Most places I've worked, slapping someone would lead to a minimum a written warning, but more likely would get you fired, and it would not be impossible the victim would call the police to report the assault.

As a result, absent other information, it is quite reasonable to assume that the comment did not imply he would actually slap anyone.
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> This is BS.

No, it's not. The parent is reporting a personal experience. Just like you.

Back in 2009 when I switched to Arch, one of the reasons why I switched was because dist-upgrade frequently blew up on me and I didn't know how to fix it.

Maybe it was user error. Maybe I didn't know what I was doing. Maybe Arch just empowered me to understand my system better. I don't really know what the reason is, but nevertheless, the experience isn't bullshit. It really happens.
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I don't know about Debian, it's probably fine, but Arch is stable. It's the most stable distro I've ever used.
The Racket website at racket-land.org is served by Racket [and mostly written in it, too]. HN is [or at least was] written In Arc and Arc is/was written on top of Racket [or one of its predecessors].

If Racket is winning it may be because its ties to acadamia provide a stable working group who can work on it as part of their day job and a constant stream of grad students who implement their work in it.
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Found a link[0] to their roadmap board. Seems to be read-only, but at least it gives you an idea what their UI looks like.

[0] http://dev.kantree.io/
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I would say an ability to develop a UI while following a shop's preferred style guideline. I would say a mastery of CSS3+HTML is necessary, advanced JS related to DOM manipulation is also welcome.

Familiarity with CSS preprocessors would be considered big +.

A taste for good design as well ?
Blame the homeopaths and chiropractors.

I think this is in a different class though, it's subjective, so the tests aren't necessarily necessary.
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Its really nice - one of the better Trello clones. I just wish Trello development would restart - it seems to have got really slow in the last 6 months with no new major features etc.
It's impossible to do that on SE sites - if you try to flag as a duplicate, the site requires you to chose the question you believe the one you are flagging to be a duplicate of. The ability to vote is disabled until you do, and the site then shows the link in a comment and eventually at the top of the post if it gets closed.
Thank you. I really despise this sort of blatant clickbait headlines.
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Here's a rough translation of most of it. There may be errors, and I would be happy for more fluent speakers of proper deep Yorkshire to correct them.

"Come on, son. Gerrup! Ah've a surprise for thi!"

Come on son, get up! I've a surprise for you!

"Ah see Leetning lost three on t' thutty-niners
t' other week, Poke. Bloody belt'll kill some'dy
sooin, tha knows."

I see Lightning lost three (fingers) on the thirty-niners the other week, Poke. Bloody (conveyer) belt will kill somebody soon, you know.

Poke was the author's father's nickname.

"Lightning" was his father's best friend's nickname.

"Thutty-nine" was the coalface they were working on.

Dad often threw a sickie ...

To take a day off as sick leave, despite not being ill.

"Stick wi' me, son. Tha'll be reet."

Stick with me, son. You'll be right."

"Hey up, Poke. Is that thy lad?"

Hey up, Poke. Is that your son?

"Hey up, Young Pokey. Is tha barn darn t' pit?"

Hey up, son of Poke. Is the child down the pit?

"Aye, sither. Ah'm barn darn t' thutty-niners
wi' t' fa'ther."

Aye, you see. I'm (the) child down the coalface with the father.

"He's a cheyky young bleeder. Tha wants to
gi'im thick end o' thi belt."

He's a cheeky you lad. You want to give him (the) thick end of your belt.

"Tha knows Leetning, dun't tha?"

You know Lightning, don't you?

"Aye, sither, but even then Ah still do bart
twice as much as thi fa'ther."

Aye, you see, but even then I still do about twice as much as your father.

"But thy an't had thi surprise yet,"

But you haven't had your surprise yet.

"Poke's lad darn yet?"

(Is) Poke's son down (here) yet?

"Reet oh. Ah'll start droppin 'em.
Watch thi'sens."

Right oh. I'll start dropping them. Watch yourselves.

"Tha wain't say nowt to thi mam nar,
will tha? This is just between us men."

You won't say anything (lit. nothing) to your mother, will you? This is just between us men.

"But tha knows why he done it, dun't tha?"

But you know why he did it, don't you?

"Nay, lad,"

No, lad.

"Thi dad had to grease a few palms to
get thi darn t' pit that day, tha knows."

Your dad had to bribe a few people to get you down the pit that day, you know.

"Nar look at thi. Tha passed thi Eleven Plus, ...

Now look at you. You passed your 11-plus (a significant school exam),

"... tha's bin to college an' tha's got
a reet good job, an't tha?

... you've been to college, and you've got a right good job, haven't you?

"Exactly! Sither nar, sunshine?"

Exactly! See it now, sunshine?
" We forget how truly isolated a place like the Isle of Man could be _in_postwar_Britain_."

60+ years ago was a bit different, I'm sure
I had this weird thought the other day, not sure if it makes sense; We all think that one day we'll grow old, we see old people around us all the time so I guess we assume one day we'll be one of them. Unfortunately this doesn't seem to be true for many of us.

Goodbye Marco. May you rest in peace.

And to you my friends, smell the flowers while you can.
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That's a supergood write-up.

In short: the tech probably works, the efficiencies claimed are likely bunk and there are some possible risks that need to be researched.
What's apt-get safe-upgrade? You should be safe enough with just a regular apt-get upgrade.
Thanks, this is probably good advice. People have an image of me that I am living a perfect life. With no problems at all. Little do they now, that I endure a situation they would consider hell.

I have a strong tendency to paint myself as bigger and better then I am. And to hide my problems.

Another problem is that I always think everybody should worship me and my big ideas. And forget about those boring little things they do themselves. This I find particularly hard to tackle. Because I really find it unbearable boring what most people do and think.
Ask HN: What are the coolest new web technologies/frameworks to learn right now?
Hi HN,

I'm a relatively inexperienced web developer just getting my feet wet, and was wondering what libraries the fine people of HN would recommend I check out? E.g. something like Angular or Node that would allow me to build more powerful web apps in more intuitive ways than the standard 'barebones' HTML/CSS/JS mix.

Would preferably like to hear about those libraries/frameworks on the 'bleeding' edge / that are 'up and coming'.

Thanks!
I wonder what someone like Conor McBride would have to say about this article.
On British regional accents:

I saw a BBC drama from the 1970s where a man with a West Country accent would say (it was subtitled as) e.g. "He'm a farmer", replacing "He is a farmer", consistently throughout.

I have never come across that grammar before and can't find any source for it. All of his other grammatical constructions were comfortably familiar, and no other character (not even neighbours in the same village) spoke in that way.

I wondered, were we supposed to understand something particular from that? Would we have, in the 1970s?
I only got it after reading your comment. Thanks.