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Enjoying it at the end of the day is the key thing, on a personal level and as a team. Shame it ended, but seems an understandable reason.

Now, having an ex-POTUS reading their is one helluva bragging right for him!
Kind of a good example of what I mean about how I don't care much about "bloat" anymore... it is my perception that the vast majority of people who fling the term around are not doing so after any sort of careful examination of the system in question and coming to a considered conclusion... it's mostly just an accusation more than anything else. It's not generally a very nice thing to say about a framework, even if you can somehow objectively prove it, it immediately puts the entire conversation on a very hostile footing.
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It is usually a "colossal error" to write your own in-house closed-source/proprietary language, no matter how small or large the language is.

Really?

I don't think so, having done this once, to the great success of the company. They also wrote their own database. The compiler was maintained by a team long after I left the company.

Software is hard. There are more interesting, and hard, problems than pushing the value of a field from one subsystem to the other.
> As a software engineer, you quickly start wondering how wise it is to spend years learning a language that will be of no use once you leave your current company

I wouldn't worry about this at all. The choice of language on project n has never once negatively affected my work on project n + 1. As a programmer, my job has a lot more to do with solving problems (in the generic sense) than it does the tools I'm using to solve them.
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>Regardless of what you think about the current reactions, they are not solely the result of someone feeling bad. They are the reactions to the murder of [3000] innocent people by a [group of Islamists] professing [the need to eradicate nonbelievers]. Now, whether this justifies this action or not is a different matter.
I don't think "decent" is any more meaningful than "competitive". Based on my experience, "competitive" has proven to be sometimes way below market value, I don't see why "decent" would be any different.

Some companies have no clue what "competitive"/"decent" really is, some do but are just trying to find someone to milk for cheap.
Yeah CoffeeScript is pretty easy to learn and doing things like configuring snippets seems like a good use for it.

In general tho, I am pretty hesitant to go all in with CoffeeScript, mainly because you still have to watch and massage the javascript output, negating any time saved for me at least.
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That's how a lot of well-designed software works, including Windows (in general) and old-school Mac Classic with AppleEvents (not sure if OS X still does that.)
Yup, even better!
> Which is to say, the realloc problem is only a problem in memory constrained -- think embedded or kernel...

Or userland, when your software is processing hundreds of millions of datapoints - each with several additional independent properties.

> I think the thing you might be underestimating is how much faster it is to iterate over a vector than a linked list...

No, I'm well aware of the effects of locality - the linked list of arrays is an easily tuned compromise between speed and memory consumption (leaning much more towards memory considerations).
>Nassim Taleb summed this up for me: “3,000 years ago people were doing math on tablets. Now…people are doing math on tablets.”

>If something withstands the test of time, use it. Every leader learns from the past. Every leader uses the past as his filter to figure out what will succeed in the future.

I don't know if I can come up with a worse quote to prove that point even if I tried.
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This is kinda the reason that you have quite a few die hard emacs fans.
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The general design of this machine is pretty exciting except for the 16:10 screen. Taller, or at least squarer is generally better for text-oriented tasks like programming. Lenovo probably can't easily offer a 4:3 screen on a low-volume model like this proposal would be, but there are suitable 3:2 panels on the market, and that would be better.
By email? What if I don't have that and need it delivered on newsprint to my doorstep?
I so desperately want to like Atom (and Code), but I have a window refresh issue with it (https://discuss.atom.io/t/display-does-not-refresh-when-focu...).

This issue is still present in the current release. It seems like a minor annoyance but when it happens it really kills my productivity.
What struck me most about this article were the observations about Scalia's dissent from the bench. It sounds like he made a fool of himself. Is he really that arrogant and contemptuous of the liberal justices?
Agreed with the last bit. I wrote a few plugins and it drove me insane. Maybe it's the lack of tutorials or sparse documentation.

That said, the new features (.sublime-syntax files instead of TM files, etc.) look very refreshing.
Can it tak without being prompted?
Given that the frequency response of this is probably << 5khz I would guess most of the EMI being picked up is from the inductors in the phone's voltage regulators, not RF transmission.

I also I assume the minimum threshold is set fairly high given the shape and location of the antenna. Arduinos and USB links, especially from laptops, are rather noisy themselves.
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It's because the HN algorithm treats multiple submissions as upvotes for the first submission.

So if lots of people see a new blog entry, then submit to HN, all but the first count as upclicks for the first submission.

This propels it up the ranking.
Try OBJC_PRINT_REPLACED_METHODS sometime. It's frightening. (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9466732/in-objective-c-ho...)
I'm happy that somebody has raised this point. David Harvey gives a particularly good analysis of the concept of monopoly as it relates to rent here:http://www.socialistregister.com/index.php/srv/article/view/...

To usefully understand the struggles taking place around Uber's "disruption" of traditional taxis we need a more nuanced perspective than regulation=monopoly=bad/free market=competition=good
I really like pixel art, but good vectorised games (masterpiece sample would be Another World) can have lots of charm and much better animations
Hell yeah Snoop should run Twitter. Honestly, what's the worst he could do? Twitter owns scale but their vision has been woefully lacking for years. And I bet with a figure like Snoop in charge people would be more engaged with the direction of the company than if it's just another wealthy tech bro nobody east of Sacramento's ever heard of.
Is Twitter really in that bad a shape to pull a shark jump like this?
Still: is anyone complaining of Emacs or Vim or ST3 being slow/complex because they have installed plugins to the core?

What's an example in the wild of this "cycle of bloat" in which people complain about it?
I recently switched back to Firefox, too, after almost 6 years with Chrome. In that time it felt like the two browsers switched roles, and now Firefox is lightweight and privacy minded, while Chrome is bloated and invasive.

I recently launched Chrome to see if an issue a website I was visiting was experiencing was Firefox specific (they weren't), and I was really taken back by how old Chrome felt†. It lacked the "crisp" feeling Firefox has††, and the UI (new tab screen especially) just felt stale. It was actually really surprising.

† I was updated to the current version.

†† I understand how caching works.
Visual Studio code needs to let me make CoreCLR executables on OSX and Linux, yesterday.
There's a lot of examples. Just watch Back To The Future Part II for some obvious examples.

When they landed on the moon, do you think they thought we'd still be faffing about doing not much in space 50 years later? I'm betting they thought we'd be colonising mars by now.
"...sent out a Teletype warning..."

WAT?

This is what we use in the USA for inter-agency comms in the 21st century?
What did they get out of that decision anyway? There was a moment in the blurb film where the narrator says, "Atom is based on JavaScript - so it's easy to use!"

What? I don't get the value proposition.
The Unix Hater's Handbook (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unix-Haters_Handbook) has a few sections on of some of the ills of the Unix philosophy.
And at the same time...

> It seems crazy, but it’s not. Because it seems crazy, it’s exactly why Twitter should consider it.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CrazyEnoughToWork
Yeah it kinda reminds me of the "plumbing and porcelain" approach of some programs like git. It also is nice that a lot of modern init process can fire up the back ends on demand and kill them after a while.
If you publish a job description and already know that your budget won't let you match market value I would just not mention salary at all in the ad.

Stating "competitive" while you know very well you're not is harmful in 2 ways:
- candidates who know the market will be very disappointed after taking the time to interview, most likely resentful and they will spread the word
- if someone actually accepts the low ball offer presented as "competitive" it means that they have no clue what the market is and you probably don't want to hire them.

You can be very upfront about it though, "salary below market value but most of our compensation package is composed of options/equity".
Is there a Circa or NYT Now alternative for Android? Circa was great and NYT Now apparently has no plans to make an Android version any time soon.
I agree. It also seems like they had a relatively straight forward migration path that worked out really well.

Sounds like good decisions were made at the right times.
The answer to that question is "it depends". If the author is the kind of person that sometimes clicks on ads, then blocking content will make a difference to those sites. I never clicked ads before discovering AdBlock, so the fact that I've been using it for years now didn't deprive them from any money.

Before anybody asks if I gave a chance to ads-filled web sites recently: my tablet doesn't have AdBlock (I run Opera on it because it so much faster than Firefox) so I see all ads and I still don't click them. Luckily I have AdAway on my rooted phone and it blocks all ads, in browser and in app (it uses the hosts file.)
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You are conflating a property of the claim itself (violating the laws of physics) with a straw-man property of the person making the claim. They aren't the same thing - one enables a simple proof by contradiction, the other is ad-hominem.

Further, your "climate change, it's all bogus" ad hominem isn't even a real claim that skeptics make, and is more more indicative of your thinking than of reality.

I get the impression you are just looking for ways to dismiss arguments which make you emotionally uncomfortable. Consider religion instead, it's a lot more unapologetic about simply declaring who the heretics are.
"It's just that the difference between wisdom and intelligence is in knowing when not to use that brilliant technique you know."

Which is precisely why I've never written a full compiler, even though I've written all the pieces many times.

For instance, instead of writing a parser, could you perhaps get away with just a direct JSON serialization of some AST? Do you really need to emit something, or will an interpreter do? So far I've never been so backed against the wall that I've actually needed a full compiler.
To me it looked like he linked the wrong video accidentally, since it didn't match up with the text at all.
There are some differences, however. Work hours are dictated by the hours of the facility, not by the government client (with the exception of shift employees, such as security, whose rosters are controlled by their companies). Government employees aren't permitted to direct work of contractors; they have to go through the contracting officer who then contacts the contracting company's manager for all requests. Part of the contracts' language specifies interchangeability of personnel (as long as they are similarly qualified and possess the necessary clearances). And the contractors are employees of the company awarded the contract.

If you had a different experience than that, then your former office is at serious risk of a lawsuit.
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> Recently I've been exploring the idea that small programs should consist of two parts; a "backend" that you can communicate with via a strict message protocol like protobuf. It can handle multiple requests because it is a mini server, the message format is locked to a "type" and you communicate with it via RPC.

Well there was an implementation of something like that, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCE/RPC

or DCOM, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Component_Object_M...

then there was dcop, dbus, and a bunch of others and now nobody remembers what the goal was
Thanks for the solid example. I especially like the use of the NVIM_LISTEN_ADDRESS environment variable for service discovery of the backend!
Who said it was a problem?

I wonder this too - it's a freakin text editor. A very cool text editor, but hundreds of megabytes?
It's strange that the HN crowd, consisting mostly of developers who work for companies that exist on average for 16 months, has the audacity of calling Wasabi, a tool that has been in use for close to 15 years, a failure.
I wouldn't be at all surprised that it would light up with the phone off too, or really with any metal material set on it. You've got a free antenna set above an already noisy circuit: the Arduino plugged into a laptop via USB. Putting a metal cover over the antenna could easily be enough to increase the field strength.
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Jefferson owned slaves. While we're cleaning up our history, maybe it's time to tear down the Jefferson Memorial?

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-t...

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CNN anchor Ashleigh Banfield this week questioned whether the Jefferson Memorial should be taken down because Jefferson owned slaves. "There is a monument to him in the capital city of the United States. No one ever asks for that to come down," Banfield said.

Fellow anchor Don Lemon responded by saying Jefferson represented "the entire United States, not just the South." But he added: "There may come a day when we want to rethink Jefferson. I don't know if we should do that."

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Yes. I keep trying to like Atom because I want to have native WebView buffers while I'm editing. Every time I try it, I end up wondering how anyone can be comfortable using it. I'm not sure how much of that is due to instability that will be fixed over time, and how much is because I'm coming from Emacs.

Have any experienced Emacs users found that Atom makes them more productive in any dimension? I want to like it but I can't see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Instead of just downvoting my comments, pleas provide a justification.
I'll make sure I'll bring it by bike and throw it at your doorstep when 1.0 gets released
I only hace 64 in my tablet. Half of which the OS already ate.

More to the point it is suspicious that such a basic functionality as a text editor has so much weight without reusing things with other programs. If every program measures itself by the same standards of size, we will all run out of disk...
Your link explicitely says "you MIGHT not need jQuery", there's nothing wrong about that, quite often you actually don't need it at all. It doesn't say "never use jQuery"
>You are conflating a property of the claim itself (violating the laws of physics) with a straw-man property of the person making the claim. They aren't the same thing - one enables a simple proof by contradiction, the other is ad-hominem.

I don't see why you think I haven't considered that.

My whole argument is based on the idea that ad-hominens are pefectly fine in some cases.

When? For people with a bogus claims record.

How? Under the observation that a person making some bogus claims is also likely to make more bogus claims -- and thus the person can be dismissed as a general bogus-claims-maker.

Why might lose some good arguments he might make here and there, but life's too short, and dismissing the person completely gives us time to listen to people with a better "claims" track record.

In essense, the very basic of filtering, that everybody does (more or less well), and you undoubtly do as well.

>I call your "climate change, it's all bogus" claim a straw man, and indicative more of your thinking than of reality, because that's not even a claim that skeptics make.

Actually lots of "spectics" make it. Some make a lesser claim, that's its not human-caused, but others also claim it's not happening altogether. There's even a term for that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_denial

>I get the impression you are just looking for ways to dismiss arguments which make you emotionally uncomfortable.

Nope, I'm looking for ways to dismiss arguments which waste my time.
The guidelines ask you not to complain about downvotes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
Remember what happened to Flash? Turns out there's not only a lot of iOS users out there, but iOS users end up using the web more on their devices in general too.

Ideally they should come up with better ads that don't try and take over your entire or system resources (this is even after some extreme JS and display optimizations happening over the years in JS and browsers).

Also unless I'm mistaken, this is about putting more control in the users's hands, he can choose to enable ad-blocking just like on a desktop browser.
This would be a great publicity stunt for Snoop and then he would move on after 3 months. See the documentary Snooplion[1] where he used the Reggae community[2].

[1] http://snooplion.com/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snoop_Dogg#Personal_life
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Yes.

1) Declining active user numbers.
2) They have not improved their product since it's inception.
3) They cannot increase the advertising load by much more, so do not expect a big jump in revenue.
4) Lots of engineering talent has left and more is in the process of leaving.

Meanwhile, the exodus to instagram and snapchat continues.
Primarily states' rights or primarily slavery, that "peculiar institution"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornerstone_Speech

It's a bit of historical revisionism to suggest that slavery wasn't the main driving cause of the rebellion, and ultimately the treason, committed by those ruling in the South. It was the choice of slavery over patriotism back when the states seceded then, and it's ever more abhorrent now to think one should wave the Confederate flag as some nod towards a "culture" that was nothing more than a wrapper around the terrible institution of slavery.

Now, I'm not blaming all of the people in the South. Surely the soldiers that fought and died weren't the same ones making the decisions and state house speeches. But now that we are generations removed and have the opportunity to choose the legacy that we promote? Why choose a legacy that encourages the romanticization of a culture that supported the inferiority of one race compared to another?
Both of those should be looked upon with suspicion. I can't say "never do it", given that every employer I've ever worked at has had its own proprietary database, and one of the projects I worked on at Google was a proprietary template language. But all of them were a large maintenance burden, much larger than originally anticipated.

I think the old business adage about "In-source your core competencies, outsource everything else" applies here. If you derive a big competitive advantage from having a proprietary database or proprietary template, and it generates enough revenue to afford a dedicated team of experts to maintain it, build it. But if you have a bunch of smart & motivated developers who can build a proprietary database, but your product isn't databases or templates and your core differentiator isn't the performance or query patterns you get from building it yourself? Put them to work improving the product, and work with the infrastructure that other firms have built already.
'Decent' could have a connotation of 'good' (though that depends on the source, and the location targeted) - it's in my vernacular, but would agree, it can certainly be offputting, and a case of your second point - milking for cheap.

How might companies tackle the issues some have listed here of displaying salaries, while not deterring people (assuming they're being fair, not exploitative).
You say that, and yet this didn't really seem to matter for Apple: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Dre#Violence_against_women
> And it turns out that "text editing" looks really simple, and gets really not simple really fast.

Text editing is really simple. The problem is that plain text editors are mostly only used by coders. (Non-coders who want to write text use Word.) And coders want features like syntax coloring, autocompletion, split views, multi-file management, etc. Features that would be of no use to someone writing a quick email or jotting down a cake recipe. Basically, what coders want is a program that looks as simple and feels as lightweight as a plain text editor, but gives them many of the features of a full fledged IDE.
It's hard to tell with the way the article is written, but I think the FBI tested the device in the 1980s or early 1990s.
Interesting... I see it now. I assume some issue during the PDF to image conversion in the web app. PDF support is just a few days old.

The OCR library itself supports only image formats as input and is "innocent" with regards to this issue ;)
Actually I don't believe that would happen. I think the relative PYTHONPATH gets expanded at startup and becomes an absolute path. Subsequent changes to the working directory wouldn't affect it.
"Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping"--Seems quaint now, doesn't it?
I'm doing this now, for a crappy language and a crappy processor. It's been a nightmarish hellscape of a project, but also very expanding. Highly recommend.

(If you're interested in goofing around with Starfighter, you're going to get an opportunity to get handheld through a lot of this stuff.)
Why not? Because it creates a maintenance nightmare and if it's not your core business that means it will never be a priority. Using Google and Facebook as a counter-example is silly. These are $250B+ companies and these tools are a significant part of their business.
All those things can and probably will happen at some point. It doesn’t take away that no matter how “good” the company seems to be, the first advice we are selling to fresh soon-to-be-employees is to look for jobs as soon as they get into one. We are selling the idea that we don’t even have the will to keep being where you are comfortable, and simply negotiate better terms when something starts to rub off. Also, if they leave as soon as possible, like in #2, the company would have still lost some money.

To simplify, because everyone’s a Hipster now (yeah, pun intended), since now it’s trending to move every X years from job to job, a lot of neonates do not even consider simply renegotiating extending or improving the terms of their current comfort zone.