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LMAO thanks mann, I will take that as a compliment.

I'm 42 years old.

I don't know if it is flattery and bullshitting - lol - but, when most people meet me they are quite surprised by my age.

I still do read all the blogs, am immersed in programming culture, and feel as if the world is my oyster.

The average age of my friends here is probably around 26 or 28. However, I have good friends that are 21 and I have other friends older than me.

Really doesn't cross my mind much.

I usually do some form of training everyday. Usually strength training, though I've been in hiatus with mostly body weight exercises, as I wait for the new gym at Vincom to open. I used to box and do martial arts, and have been able to maintain staying in good shape. That is very key.

Being physically active, combined with always meeting new people - helps you avoid becoming the angry, old expat who knows everything and wishes for the good old days. Mental fitness.

I've got my skateboard here and still skate occasionally, but not in that ex-skater mid-life crisis way. lol - I've never stopped. Can still bomb stairs, ride fast and am fine keeping up with the younger local guys I skate with.

Still surf (thought I still suck at it) - when I get the chance. Took a surf trip to Sri Lanka year before last, when I had to be in Dubai for a project.

I avoided the trifecta of Marriage, Mortgage and Children, all of my adult life. I've been focused on three things - bulding relationships, mastery of what I love (design) and building businesses.

That latter part, relationships, design and business hasn't changed. I still love those things. I still welcome new people. I still make new friends everyday and I still love what I do.

The marriage part - I'm more or less an atheist for all sense and purpose, and really never thought about marriage.

Over the years, I never settled.

Then I met my match.

I still go out with my friends all the time, tonight, Friday night, I will go out with my friends and probably be out til 4 or 5AM.

That's not my wife's thing - but we have trust - and we give each other space and freedom. If I get home at 2AM - she might say - "why are you home so early, everything ok?"

She has her space, I have my space, we have a good foundation - and we compliment each other well.

If you're in Saigon, hit me up.

I always love meeting new people.
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Poor man's alternative - a meditation eye mask that gives you total darkness, a good set of earplugs for silence, and a comfy mattress or just sit in a regular meditation position. After 30 minutes, the lack of spatial information and total silence removes you from your surroundings, you get a feeling that you don't know any more where you are, there is no world, just your mind. Can be scary or impressive.
Perhaps. Since it's impossible to tell, however, the safest assumption is that he wasn't.
It's a better UI than Azure imo. The UI is not nearly as intuitive or clean.
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I never said anything about price, and that "trend" definitely wasn't liberalism. Why are you splitting hairs? Did you reply to the right comment?
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"oh no" that Firefox is dropping support for a slightly older technology (again)?

"oh no" that GTK2 is a sinking ship that everyone is fleeing from?

or do you mean "oh no" that Firefox is going to be at the center of yet another incendiary (and ultimately fruitless) debate.

Because I can agree that any one of those is a good reason to say "oh no".
Apropos of nothing relevant to the actual content of the page, the sand effect easter egg on the logo was really cool. One of the more lifelike effects I've seen.
> How many users actually have BT on? I never have it on

You are making arguments to support the past.

> Also abusing an already insecure standard

Bluetooth Smart (i.e. 4.0+/LE) supports AES128 encryption, though that is irrelevant here since we are talking about beacons, which are public.

> the .gl TLD isn't supported by the standard, eh? who thought this through?

It is supported. If you read the Eddystone documentation carefully, you'll see that the TLD bytes are merely convenient shortcuts. You can encode "thedrop.club" if you want.
Given this is in the context of people loudly condemning a poster here for actually being concerned about other human beings' well-being, I think your claimed concern about "civility" in this one instance is dubious at best.

If someone prefers people making stupid and reckless arguments to other people civilly pointing out that those arguments are stupid and reckless, I'm not concerned about their perception of me.
So 3G/4G uses less power than using GPS in a web app? Huh?
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Show HN: Meet Panel (app), "spliced DNA of Quora, LinkedIn, and Whisper.“ -User
Regarding why you're probably getting downvoted: your comment does not add much to the discussion. Quick one-liners, which tend to make the obvious jokes, are usually seen as noise, and get downvoted.
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It hasn't been debunked because there is a wage gap, according to the first three articles you linked. You can argue about what constitutes "significant," but the first article notes that according to the BLS, "the gap is 19 cents when looking at weekly wages" and "even smaller, 14 cents, when you look at hourly wages." The AAUW report, which looks specifically at college graduates working full-time, similarly found a gap of 14-19 cents. Also, the first three articles you linked are the meaningful ones here; links 4 and 5 are about gender differences in salary negotiation, and the last is an opinion column. It and the CONSAD report are the only ones of your link set that claim the gender gap is "very insignificant."

The variable CONSAD is controlling for, at least from my reading, is "people who have interrupted their careers by temporarily withdrawing from the labor force or switching from full-time to part-time work" -- mostly women who take maternity leave or part-time jobs to raise children. The amount of money those women would make if they hadn't interrupted their career is an interesting data point to determine, but I would argue that by using that "adjusted" amount, CONSAD has moved the goalposts, because that's not the median gender wage gap as actually experienced. The various studies linked to by the WaPo and the AAUW study all seem to be in general agreement around the 14-19 cents range. Whether that's "significant" is subjective, I suppose, but it doesn't strike me as a small amount.
As an aside, I worked in a directorate, and the director of said directorate (who worked at amazon before us) told a story every so often of meetings he would be invited to, where the amazon UI team would agonize over specific pixel placements of text and images on the amazon website.

The amusing part to me (this was years ago) was internally I was always thinking "their website is, at the very least, non-intuitive and overwhelming" when he told such stories.

I guess they found better UX people. =pp

edit: typo
I've been out of the gtk loop for a while now—I built a couple apps on gtk2 back in the day. What is wrong with gtk3? Why would this be controversial at all?
>german high quality standards

are not a thing when you subcontract to imtech
static set circlesMade(val) {
this._count = val;
};

What's the value of "this" here?
Technically all footage is historical.
"This is a picture of me when I was younger"
devoid of any actual useful content, ironically...
That is a very informative post! However, if you are willing to spend $900-$1000 per month on housing, you can technically look at almost every Asian city (perhaps not the very center of the city, but a decent neighborhood). Because $1000 is indeed a lot of money for accommodation when compared to the standard of living in most of the world. I live in Seattle and pay $1500 for 2BR2BA apartment that I share with a roommate in a nice neighborhood (not Capitol Hill - that place is going out of the roof!)

I am from India and I worked in Bengaluru and Delhi before this. I used to pay about ~$500 for a studio 3 years ago. In Bengaluru, you now have tremendous access to Venture Capital (including the Silicon Valley names like Sequoia), great incubators, work spaces, and a lot of talent and IT type crowd. English is no-problem.

On the negative, you must be willing to spend inordinate amounts of time in traffic - you can own bikes just like in Saigon, but the roads have potholes :-D - breathe polluted air, potentially fall sick because of poor hygiene and eating outside food.
I'm not sure why he complains about his package coming slowly. He chose the cheapest shipping option!

In fact, I'll bet he paid Amazon less than what it would actually cost to ship via USPS. And they ain't fast either.
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Agree. I am now doing LCHF and exercising every day. It made a HUGE difference. If you don't believe that it will work for you, try it anyway for a few weeks and see what happens.
thanks! i don't have a small android, but i'll see if i can fix it with some google chrome emulator on desktop
You don't, but hedge funds don't just do hedging. Hedge funds can use basically any investment strategy that they want to. The only common feature that they all share is obscenely high fees.
that's too bad. it was cool. on the other hand I didn't use it often so I guess I'm part of the problem ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I think you misinterpret the causality of recent cloud price drops: Google's price drops at year pushed AWS to follow suit, and they haven't matched since (the gap is greater than 20% for GCE vs EC2 now). Microsoft is also publicly committed to matching AWS.

Huge Disclaimer: I work at Google on GCE.
I go to Starbucks for the coffee. And I don't generally stick around unless I have time to kill for some reason. And I'd get coffee from one of these if the line was shorter and the price was close to the same. Admittedly I'm not super particular about my coffee, but I drink a few cups a day.
It's a reasonable question - the proponent of a new technology should be able to articulate the benefit it brings. FLAC does have the merits of being lossless, open, royalty-free, stable, widespread, and extensible.

Of course I wouldn't discourage anyone from developing their own codec as a learning exercise, but essentially the format war is over, FLAC won, and it's hard to think of use cases for any plausible alternatives. On the other hand, there's still plenty of room to make one's mark in the video space.
that's like saying that "if you can't print it on punch cards it's all bad". the progress didn't stop with lynx. probably good 90% of the modern internet won't work without javascript
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Gtk+ 3 is part of the modern degenerate conspiracy along with systemd and other abominations such as kdbus to destroy Linux by straying from the time-honored ancestral traditions of UNIX which were devised when men were still true hardworking men, that spent hours of sweat and tears configuring their window managers and compiling kernel modules as was ordained by the ancients.
* Would you consider your model a true franchise?
I would not describe it as a true franchise. Rather a model of it's own inspired by the franchise model.

* Does a Wheelys 3 make drip coffee and espresso drinks?
Yes

* As you expand across the US and gain brand recognition, will there be a store locator app, gift cards, loyalty programs, etc.? (I live in a California tourist beach destination)
Yes
Gtk+3 != Gnome3
What's interesting is that they were able to raise $4 million, and rejected a $40 million acquisition by Twitter
(according to http://www.businessinsider.com/frontback-app-shuts-down-2015...)
Ask HN: How you compare shopify.com and amazon.com in terms of opening a store
Why would someone host a site at shopify.com and not open a store at amazon.com and vice versa?
It's a good tradeoff for you up to the point where you're priced out of the city, and much of the current hubbub about rising prices is from people who incorrectly thought they were safe from that.
It's the class constructor function.

Something like:

Function Circle(){}

Circle.circlesMade(val) = function circlesMade(val){
this._count = val;
}
> The overwhelming majority of users have javascript enabled.

I find that it's often developers who don't, making it a questionable tradeoff (in my mind) for a blog written by one. For this very reason I choose to use absolutely no JavaScript on mine. (Correction: Oops, Gists are included via JavaScript — I'll be replacing them with code blocks ASAP.)

I had some of the same annoyances as the OP, and chose Jekyll + GitHub Pages instead (http://nkantar.com/choosing-jekyll/). I found that optimizing for my workflow (write Markdown, commit, push) was more worthwhile than having absolutely zero generation tools (which I don't even need if I simply create a new file on GitHub, as a neat bonus I've used at least once so far).
I don't know you , But you made my day.I don't know how to thank you !
Yes, it is.

"If you’re used to designing and deploying applications in your own data centers, you need to be prepared to unlearn a lot of what you know."

Which is it? Did it save them money because they didn't have to "build their own redundancy and failover" or did they have to build a bunch of custom tools like Chaos Monkey because "I knew to expect higher rates of individual instance failure in AWS, but I hadn’t thought through some of these sorts of implications." ???

From reading Netflix' blog, it's clear that it was a huge learning and engineering effort. That cost has to be taken into account and added to the fact that across many AWS offerings, you're looking at as much as a 10x price / performance penalty versus dedicated or collocation. I'm unconvinced that they couldn't have done it cheaper and better through more transitional approaches, and moreso that it's a meaningful indicator for anyone else.

AWS has been massively innovative. But it's much more expensive, and a huge part of their business is sales and getting CXOs onboard, not necessarily providing good value.
This frustrates me to no end; I live in NO and would love to be able to get to Jacksonville, Pensacola, Mobile or Orlando without the interminably boring drive down I-10...
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This is not a hard and fast rule and I have no idea if there is any pattern, but I reserve getters for trivial properties like `firstName + " " + lastName;`

If it does any non-trivial amount of work, then I always use a function. The reason for that is in codebases that I've worked on in the past, getters were heavily overused and people ended up writing code that while at a glance seemed entirely reasonable, it was actually doing an absurd amount of redundant work and was causing performance issues. I feel that requiring the `()` to invoke it as a function at least hints that "this does stuff" rather than hiding the implementation in a getter.

Does that make sense?
Thanks buddy. Price alone really wasn't the impetus for me writing the article. For $1,000/ month you can look at most asian cities - and yes, you can look at US cities. You could bootstrap in Columbus, Ohio - Detroit or Omaha for a similar price point.

What I was getting at is - the scene - the people here, the combination of factors and overall value.

That coupled with a lot of the other factors - is the distinguishing point not just price.

Like I said below though, a lot of things have change - imo - for the better. I need to update the article soon.

I need to get back to India. I lived there for a year in 1999. I can't imagine how it has changed now.

Cheers.
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Can an admin make the title of this include the date, Sun, Jan 11, 2015?
Banana pi BPI-M3 octa core single board computer
Eight-core CPU Allwinner A83T (Higher Performance than Raspberry pi 2)
40 PIN compatible Rapberry Pi 2 generations
RAM: 2G LPDDR3
Storage : Onboard 8G eMMC flash.
SDIO interfaces on-board wireless WIFI&Bluetooth BT4.0
Provides CSI,DSI,Audio,2USB ,1OTG interfaces
Support TF card
Fiexible(External) WIFI&BT antenna Connection or on-board antenna
Support SATA port

http://forum.banana-pi.org/t/banana-pi-bpi-m3-octa-core-development-board/29/4
Just like a back up link in a network that may be higher cost or a higher latency but you still route a small amount of traffic on it just to make sure the link is good in case the primary route is down or becomes congested, you want to make sure you know the health of the back up route.
I go to Starbucks pretty often, but specifically for their espresso drinks (latte, macchiato, iced drinks, etc). None of which you can get at McDonalds, or at a cart like this. Most of the people I see in Starbucks are not drinking "coffee", they are drinking some fancy thing with syrups and ice and espresso.
While I agree with you that Microsoft was getting in the way of the ecosystem, I believe that since last year this is no longer the case.

I tried, and couldn't find exact date when Microsoft officially endorsed Newtonsoft.Json as THE way to handle json in .net. But I believe that this happened just last year. Look, in 2011 Scott Hanselman blogged about this library [1] and the comments (esp. the first one) are pretty interesting. Here, .NET tried to solve a problem and community did a better job, and just recently Microsoft recognized it.
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I have a little i3 NUC with 2TB HDD. I quickly go through my photos when I upload them and then they go directly into my OneDrive folder which will sync while I sleep. 10TB (soon to be unlimited) storage because I have Office 365 means I never worry about running out of space.
meh. It's not that bad.
I'll go a step further: This smells like a bubble!

If you're in a dense urban center like NYC there are already countless coffee stands that already do this (most have doughnuts and a wide range of pastries). But it's a really hard business to be parked in the street.

Also that sort of business can't really work in suburbia unless you use the ice cream truck model, which is also very tough. And unlike a food truck you won't do well in bad weather (do you want to drive on of these in the winter in Maine or the summer in Texas?).

The idea that this competes with Starbucks also misses the point that people go to Starbucks for a seat and to recharge their phone more maybe even more so than the coffee.

Of course this can be a successful business, but you're dead on about magnitude.
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Thanks for clarifying. It does seem all too common to pretend the database is a black box (via ORM) in the most popular frameworks.
I don't know the author's intention specifically, but I generally use a pattern of:

1.) If a value read/write, then it's a property via getters/setters

2.) If a value is computed, then it's a function

Specific to this case, area is 'generally' a computed value of other attributes of a 'shape':

c.radius() = 10 'Bad, overwrote the radius function

c.area = 314.15 'Ok, radius is settable from just area. But doesn't match the area signature of other "shape"-like objects.

let rect = new Rectangle(10, 30);
c.area = 200 'Bad, which do we change, width or height?
That's strange, coming from Java.
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Original HN thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6960398
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Are these useful to someone with tinnitus, or does the ringing render them intolerable?
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It's really cool and heartbreaking at the same time. Brilliant!
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Well, OK not technically a day, but practically speaking it bought me around 7 extra hours in Edinburgh, which felt like an extra day in comparison to having to spend 8 hours+ on the return train journey.

There are many other practical factors about my specific journey your comparison doesn't include, such as the fact that I don't actually live in Oxford, so I need to get the bus to Oxford station (in which time I can get 90% of the way to Birmingham Airport by car), the times of day I was travelling, connection times, and travel time at the other end of the train journey. (And if you factored in Oxford's marvelous road works, that's probably another 4 hours saved right there ;-)

As for a miserable journey... last time I went to Edinburgh by train it was so overcrowded they simply cancelled all the seat reservations altogether, because people couldn't get to their seats. So I stood/squatted/sat on luggage in a crowded hot train for hours. Not fun at all. I knew would be busy. That's why I bought a "reservation"!

The plane journey was a doddle by comparison.
I realized that PostgreSQL can listen to both the Unix domain socket and a TCP address so I've been able to run the tests. I'm stuck now with the integration tests failing because they can't run the Selenium Chrome webdriver. I opened an issue. I also have some failed tests on a model, still didn't looked at them.

I won't convert this app to Sequel only to check that it works with JRuby. Neither I'll write the next one with Sequel. If JRuby doesn't handle AR it's over for me. It's JRuby that must be compatible with MRI (the reference implementation of the language), not the other way around. That until the majority of rubyists use JRuby as default. It's too risky.
i used jekyll as well, and it's alright. this thing gives you the same workflow minus dependency on ruby runtime or a specific hosting platform that supports jekyll (like github for example).

i just write stuff and git push it to heroku
That's a validation of some of the other discussion in the thread. JavaScript gets a 'class' keyword, but it's really just syntactic sugar over prototypical inheritance. So there is some misunderstanding about what it does and doesn't do.

That said, it could have also been written as:

static set circlesMade(val) {
Circle._count = val;
};

which means the exact same thing, and would maybe help people to understand that "_count" is just like a static class property on the Circle "class"
It's a lot less hassle, effort, and stress to just use a service that actually wants my business, though.
Not quite what you are asking for but Melbourne has a digital strategy for their trees and is in the process of rolling out a sensor network also ... http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/Sustainability/UrbanForest/P...
WinPython did the same for me when I was a newbie. Still use it.
The DE0-Nano has a successor, the DE0-Nano-SoC which also has a dual-core Cortex A9 on chip (similar to the Xilinx Zynq chip):

https://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?Language=...
"That cost has to be taken into account and added to the fact that across many AWS offerings, you're looking at as much as a 10x price / performance penalty versus dedicated or collocation."

This.

The pricing is especially egrerious in bandwidth charges which for AWS are almost pure profit.

Amazon is only cheap if you don't use it.
Well, there's nothing wrong with ALAC which works flawlessly in Apple's world and any player worth its money.

And since all of this is lossless, it's not as if you're locking into a format.
It's really so nice to see this kind of business. Kudos to the whole team. I personally feel that you can't take on starbucks, as starbucks is not juz about coffee, but also an place to sit, meet with people along with coffee. So wheelys got to do something about that, at least couple of seat for customers to sit down and have a sip.