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Rhetorical question or not? I've often asked at Agile conferences, it seems Agile can't be applied to hardware industries.

I can't imagine the first sprints: First the infrastructure for A320 then iterate through to A380? First the police checks the iterate through to baggage claims? First the roof then the air conducts? It seems the closest to this mind set is: First Tegel Airport then upgrade Tegel again...

The root reason is certainly, we've invented Agile because software industries have hundreds of competitors with fast moving markets and we needed to lower the overhead costs. Even though the article explains how Schwartz pursued moving targets, airports have quite steady markets, competitors (train, etc) aren't massively agile, and there's a lot to gain by studying things ahead.
This is a pretty Mono-focused article so I don't really think it's relevant to the recent release of VS 2015.

I'm currently working on Roslyn CoreCLR and cross-plat and Mono is working on integrating more of Roslyn into their stuff, but I don't think the two are necessarily connected, so I wouldn't strictly describe the two as duals.
Part of the value that LinkedIn adds is that there is some degree of authenticity to the resumes.

There are some API standards for background checks between businesses and agencies, so that could be a good place to start. You could offer authenticated profiles, where people can't lie on their resume about where they worked.

Of course, LI could just implement this if you became too competitive to them.
If I were writing a science fiction story there would be primitive villages on higher inland areas, and partially submerged technologically advanced cities on the coastlines :-)

But what I find most amusing is that when I was a kid "science" was saying "but we don't know if any other star even has a planet!" and to me as a kid it seemed preposterous that other stars wouldn't have planets. And now of course we know that pretty much ever star has at least some planets. The unusual case is no planets.

Similarly with life, it seems ridiculous to think that somehow this planet at this time was the only place anywhere that sentience emerged. So it really makes me wonder, why the heck aren't we already talking with them?

What is it that keeps intelligent life that originated on other planets from communicating with the intelligent life living on this planet? Why won't they talk to us?
Seems like people keep saying this again and again, despite the fact that there is no single universal implementation of "classes".

Are Python classes broken as well?
I have many false employees on LinkedIn, but I can't completely divorce myself from blame after naming my company "Made Up Name." :-)

And I also recommend a phone call. I understand it will be uncomfortable for you after firing him, but be polite and if he doesn't comply, try LinkedIn, and then finally the legal route.
Oxford to Edinburgh takes about 6 hours on the train, going via London. The bulk of that is on the London - Edinburgh train (a nice 4.5 hour block).

Oxford to Birmingham is about 1hr15 if everything goes to plan. Parking, going through security, boarding, etc is, generously, at least an hour. The flight is about 1hr15. It takes 30 minutes to get from the airport to the city centre (but you'll also have to navigate your way through the airport to get to the bus.

Adding that up comes to at least four hours, and could well be closer to five. So you actually saved at most two hours, and possibly as little as one. However, you probably had a pretty miserable journey (whereas on the train you could have relaxed for four hours with a good book and a nice cup of tea).
Makes sense. That said, will they not admit anyone who has a legitimate reason for prescription stimulants?
You need to monitor how close you are to a wraparound. https://bucardo.org/check_postgres/check_postgres.pl.html#tx... is one way you could do that.
I've had update-heavy InnoDB table balloon in size, because its purge thread wasn't keeping up.

MyISAM didn't have such problem, but it also couldn't handle high update concurrency.
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> Do you think something like Mindmapping interfaces are not suitable for "more than a few people"?

Well, given the limited apparent reach of mindmapping software compared to more linear notetaking software, quite possibly; also, while vaguely similar, its a different domain, and getting the right UI semantics is a new challenge for discussions.

Also, discussion have a network effect, so accessibility to a broad audience is going to be even more important for forums than for mindmapping (though perhaps you could have a more linear, say tree-oriented, presentation along with a power-user graph-oriented presentation. Not sure if that's really viable.)
actually, this feature was being exploited by spammers. a pending contact was still exportable.... so you add thousands of people, then export the list and send them email. easy way to gather targeted business email addresses that are worth money.

as much as i may or may not like linkedin(i dont much), i think this little bit of info is useful when judging the reasoning behind the decision to turn it off.
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From what I've read, shorting stuff is complicated.

What about a site, say the web 2.0 version of longbets.org, where users can make predictions just using karma (or HN points) and user results are published? Does anything like that exist?
Why was this comment down voted? It's another point of view in the conversation, which I find valuable.

If you have facts to prove him wrong, feel free to reply and publish them.
I also have found the recruiter email to have gotten a lot better recently. As an experiment (as my startup is hiring - I wanted to see what the candidate experience might be like these days), I expanded my LinkedIn profile to trigger as many recruiter-friendly tickyboxes as possible, expecting a deluge of spam. I got about five messages, all fairly well crafted and personalised to some extent. Honestly, I get more spam to my email address than InMail these days.

I also ran a fun experiment where I set up another LinkedIn profile nearly identical to my own, changing the name and gender and writing a very terse summary for each job. Boy, does he get a lot of random spam. I wonder if by writing a more detailed description of my skills/experience/contributions, I somehow generate better inbound messages...

Speaking to the point about "what would you export", I definitely have contacts who I am only connected through via LinkedIn; a key example being former colleagues whose personal email addresses I never got, and whose work emails I barely remember. I think it depends on the kind of network you have built there, though. The more work you've put into your LinkedIn connection pool, the more you want to export it.
I couldn't help but laugh when I read your comment and noticed that the author's last name is Faust.
I'm personally a really big fan of IBM's hardware, particularly their POWER-based systems. IBM hardware simply never dies, and I've witnesses firsthand the "nobody was ever fired for buying IBM" phenomenon. Lenovo's IBM-derived products (i.e. their ThinkPads and related workstations/PCs) are also among my favorites by way of their IBM heritage; ThinkPads in particular are known for being among the best laptops for FOSS operating systems (GNU/Linux, the BSDs, etc.) when it comes to out-of-the-box hardware support, and many of them will even run custom BIOSes like Coreboot.

I'm not as much of a fan of their software, though that's probably because I haven't really used a whole lot of it.
I understand this. Spouting random facts doesn't constitute a rebuttal.
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I have a fondness for the names of those first generation computers (my Mac Pro was named PROZAC in tribute) and I've always liked the name of the BRL Electronic Scientific Computer, BRLESC, which was surely pronounced "burlesque". It also had a cool control panel.
"That said, I’m constantly astounded by how easy and fast it is to get around here on a bike."

This was my favorite thing. Red lights and stop signs in Canada/US are infuriating on my motorcycle after living in Saigon and being able to ride at a constant (albeit slow) pace throughout the whole city.
"Eating the world"? Methinks a little bit of exaggeration/echo chamber effect at play, here.

http://langpop.com/

Coldfusion, of all things, ranks ahead of the first pure functional language on that list (Haskell). Scala, the next highest impure but strongly functional language, ranks behind Visual Basic and Delphi.

Or, from another (more recently updated) source:

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....

Note, not a single functional language in the top 20. Haskell ranks in at #44. Scala, #30.

Don't let the Hacker News bubble fool you: FP is still extremely niche. At best, I'd claim we're seeing an increase traditional imperative languages that make it possible to utilize functional idioms, and mixed environments where you can combine functional and imperative code (think Java/Clojure or C#/F#) while taking advantage of existing software ecosystems. But in that case, it's more about sprinkling in functional approaches here and there, rather than completely drinking the kool-aid.
Haven't checked it out yet, but it's getting good reviews so I will at some point.

"Halt and Catch Fire" is another great show currently airing that HN crowd would probably enjoy. It's a period piece set in Texas during mid 1980 personal computer revolution. Pretty accurate on the technical level and has top notch actors/production.
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But the liquidity isn't fake, hence why the firms pay recruiters rather than waiting for the actually-interested people to beat a path to their door. The jobs are real, as are the candidates willing to actually show up to an interview. If you have a job and no suitable candidates, sourcing them is a valuable service, even if a few people get annoyed by the recruiters (better by them than by the employer...) along the way.
Boil it like pasta and strain (fine mesh) after ~15 minutes, back into the (empty) hot pot and let it sit covered another 5. I just tried this and it the rice comes out as good as in a rice cooker, maybe a touch fluffier+stickier (I'm using Calrose).
Everything you write is pretty terrific except somehow you think it's bad?
>...but are people actually going to go for it? I don't know

~..death would take care of people who didn't know how to type..~ - Steve Jobs
I think the real takeaway here is that any part of your underlying technology that you don't thoroughly understand puts you at risk, and that risk goes up significantly in a large volume environment. It's frequently not possible to have experts on-hand for everything, but you need to make sure you have them for your critical stuff. They don't necessarily have to be on your payroll either; really good consulting companies can do a lot for you as well. (Disclosure: I'm a partner at a consulting company).

When it comes to Postgres and data, I'll just say what I've been saying for ~20 years:

"All databases suck, each one just sucks differently."
You're building on CoreCLR without depending on Mono? That's awesome, do you have a link to how to get that set up and working?
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What if the parity bytes exceed 255? I'm assuming this is done with modular arithmetic, but does mod math work to recover missing data from the parity bits without trial and error? (i.e. is the recovery function a one-to-one mapping in reverse?)

I'm not well-versed in modular arithmetic, so excuse me if the answer is obvious to those that are.
Does the indoor location feature work on time of flight, RSSI or something else? If it's time of flight, how do you convince the OS to give you accurate enough time measurements?

The website claims 3 year beacon battery life - but bluetooth has a reputation for poor power performance. How often do the beacons broadcast, for how long, and at what power output?
"NOTICE: This domain name expired on 7/21/2015 and is pending renewal or deletion."
It already does that: Event-driven, non-blocking I/O

http://reactphp.org
http://daemon.io
http://socketo.me (based on reactphp)
That's supposed to be coming with Beta 7, in just over a month.
Things like this boosts my thoughts of life out there living alone, discovering/inventing everything from scratch over and over. While we pride ourselves on passing the knowledge generation by generation to be where we are now, imagine if we could learn/share it beyond our planet, solar system, galaxies.... Long way to go!!
The only thing I use and it is really quite valuable is just the simple database of resumes and how I'm connected.

LinkedIn is so ridiculous that it now limits how many searches per month you can do. Not only that, but the $30/month service I am trialing does not increase/remove the limit!!
I don't think so. It's fine with the date added.
I'm sure some people track these sort of tribal affiliations between inhabitants of the British isles over the course of a millenium, too, but again I'd consider it a silly thing to get riled up about.
May want to check the SSL cert on https://smugmug.com (https://www.smugmug.com is fine) https://i.imgur.com/0EUcx8r.png?1
It's not out yet, but you might want to check out "Privacy on the Ground: Driving Corporate Behavior in the United States and Europe", by Bamberger and Mulligan.
I think this is a pretty decent redesign. It does look like it sacrifices a bit of information-density, however. The assumption seems to be "Reddit-as-imageboard," even though a number of subreddits are much more text-oriented where the large thumbnails serve no purpose other than to show fewer posts at a time.

Additionally, I don't know if the workflow he presented is entirely realistic. When I use HN, for example, I scan the front page, opening the discussions I find interesting in new tabs and then just moving down the list. I would use Reddit in much the same way. I'm probably not typical, but I'm probably not part of a tiny minority either.
Betfair if you put money in the UK.
Also autocomplete doesn't seem to work with an alias of a quoted table, in case of using keywords as table names or having casing in names, e.g.:

SELECT * FROM "access" a WHERE a.

But it's a nice tool! (:
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Your introduction is great, I like how you question that there is only one right answer. This always annoys me on stack overflow. The answers are for everybody, the author of the question is just one case.

But your mockups confuse me. I think there is more to discussion than just pro/contra. Also I don't see anything about graphs. Did I miss something?

On voting I think that just up/down is not expressive enough. When somebody downvotes, I cannot tell if they disagree or just want to tell me that my post is too off topic or has bad quality. We need more choices. But this makes the UX more complicated. Do you have an Idea?

What do you mean by discussion going in different directions? The branching that happens in tree comment systems like this one?
It's not. It's right next to the 'buy/long' field/dropdown for most online brokers.

The broker might make you jump through a trivial hoop to get a margin account and fax in an additional agreement. Stock short account you just had to request and to get option shorting my broker, TD Waterhouse, had a simple Q&A quiz to make sure you understood the risk profiles of option shorting.
If that was the reason, why not just remove exporting of pending contacts?
Ordinarily yes, but the bay might not be wide enough to fill in part of it, especially when you're trying to fit aircraft carriers through it.
Have you ever dealt with a recruiter?

Scum that spam people are like real estate agents sponsoring the PTA meeting -- they are trolling for listings.
Maybe this is why I'm loving F# more and more as I continue to dive in. I write C# at my day job, but there really is more interesting OSS development going on in F#. The community seems very approachable and I find myself actually wanting to contribute.
For the record, the standard psql already supports auto-completion, albeit with much less pretty interface (a common readline-style horizontal candidate listing). Syntax highlighting seems great, though.
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It works by RSSI [1], and I believe you can calibrate it with your antenna/case design. Not to mention any attenuation by the phone's antenna or your hand/body.

Quote:

"Phones or other smart devices can pick up the beacon’s signal and estimate the distance by measuring received signal strength (RSSI). The closer you are to the beacon, the stronger the signal. Remember that the beacon is not broadcasting continuously—it’s blinking instead. The more frequent the blinks, the more reliable the signal detection."

[1] http://developer.estimote.com/
In addition to the various theories abounding here, I've got another one: Microsoft has historically never been big in distributed systems specifically.

The licenses for their operating systems have always acted to make farms of Windows machines rare. Until fairly recently, the administration approach made it painful. Microsoft had good support for client-server systems, but you did it their way, which wasn't "reactive".

Here's a quick question: Anyone know of any networking/distributed system developments that came out of a Microsoft environment?
Does it mess up society when people rent out rooms in their houses?
You should get out more. My family and I ride Amtrak from California to Colorado. That 1 train is always busy. In a first-world country, there would be 2 trains/day instead of the single train.
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I wonder if we'll abide the prime directive when the day comes ;)
Slightly off-topic but the Royal Mail used to run a network of nine 'Mail Rail' stations underneath London with small trains that moved general mail around. They were discovered in 2011 by a group of photographers exploring abandoned tube stations.

If you want more detail:

http://www.placehacking.co.uk/2011/04/24/security-breach-lon...
Cool, it's not just a portable coffee stand, it's a company that sells cheap portable coffee stand franchises and (appears to) make franchising really easy - http://www.wheelyscafe.com

I want to know whether there are any in Seattle. It would be nice if there was a map of active Wheelys on their website.
Because I'm tired of arguing with nerds talking theory over matters that ultimately are experiential, I'll say the following two points and I don't mind being downvoted.

1) Whomever says the experiences of meditation are akin to those of psychedelics is plainly full of shit. I've done psychedelics for about 4 years, and western ceremonial magic which involved plenty of meditation daily and consistently for about a decade. Apples and oranges. And thats including all the freaky spectacular shit I've experienced.

2) Practically, how much of "all that exists in the unknown" you think you will or can experience living a basic run of the mill western life in a human body? As I said, ingest 5 dried gramms, then come to talk to me about what will get trumped in your realm of experience. Until then, its only thinking you understand sex because you read dirty magazines, only for something that is several orders of magnitudes out there.
Instead of short selling an equity (which is indeed complicated not so much in its difficulty but in its potentially unlimited downside), you can buy a put option. For the cost of the option you receive the right (not the obligation) to sell a stock at a specified price.
If the stock price then goes down below that that price, simply buy the stock at the lower market price then use your put option to sell it at the higher price.
The downside is limited to the cost of the option.
19% gain in a day is pretty damned good.
It looks like the insurance issue is already being solved: https://www.policygenius.com/blog/uber-lyft-and-other-ridesh...
Today NASA, apparently experiencing hard times with budget [1], announces "let's say" just found exoplanet. With pictures. Awesome high res pictures, reposted by every media in the world, of an object 1400ly away from Earth. Oh, uhm... of an object as it was back in 1875.

Photoshop? Sure. For popularization? I wouldn't say. Begging for money? Yeah, more buzz, more money. From whom?

2 days ago Yuri Milner, Russian oligarch and media magnat, announced 100M$ financement of mission to discover new life. Literally 1 person got all this money - Stephen Hawking.

Another 100M$, Yura? Davai, at least now you know where to fly!

[1]: http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/03/05/nasa_bud...
That is a bug. I've filed an issue on your behalf.

https://github.com/dbcli/pgcli/issues/283

Thank you for catching that.
Of course, the point of the story was not universal accessibility but the decisions made by people confronted by this incredible randomness (some burning whole shelves after finding one incomprehensible page, some frantically trying to protect the works, some looking for the book(s) that would contain the contents- but of course how to know if they're accurate?). In some ways, the Borges story stands as a testament to the massive shift we've undergone subsequently: infinite libraries (functionally) infinitely reproducible. At the same time, though it was still prescient- one of the main problem of our times is no longer (re)production but curation. It's no surprise then that Google is the behemoth that it is.
i am not a linkedin employee, i just know a few tricks that blackhats use. :)

thus, i can not explain why they went full stupid instead of just fixing the issue.
My service @ http://hook.io does this.

We also have cron support: http://hook.io/cron

It's also entirely open-source http://github.com/bigcompany/hook.io
Great work. Is there a way to issue multiline commands?
> in every liberal democracy

Could this be the reason? Maybe it's an arms race and each government is afraid of being spied by the others so they invest in surveillance too.
~iPad sales definitely won't be in strong year-over-year declines within five years~ - probably also Steve Jobs

Sometimes people build technologies that just aren't that attractive to people. I stretched a little for the Steve Jobs joke, but it turns out that sometimes you build something, it works, it's even pretty awesome, but a few years later it turns out that smartphones have 6" screens and tablets just seem less useful than they used to.

Or sometimes it's worse, and you build Google Wave to revolutionized and unify email, chat, and discussion boards and it turns out that people Just Don't Want your tech.
The prime directive is fiction, so probably not.
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> I also ran a fun experiment where I set up another LinkedIn profile nearly identical to my own, changing the name and gender...Boy, does he get a lot of random spam.

Alternate hypothesis: bad recruiters looking for software developers filter by gender...

To be honest, I've had two emails from recruiters in three years, both highly targeted to specific terms in my profile, and I nearly accepted one of the jobs. Skipping those horrible spam-magnet keywords altogether is a good start.
"pretend to sign up to our other services so it looks like IBM is attracting new business and you can continue to use this service for free"
I think german grammar is really diferent from english. For example they make a sandwich with verbs. For example:

I have been in Berlin. vs I have in Berlin been. Its not the exact translation and maybe theres a beter example but its the idea.

Ich bin in berlin gewessen.

There is also all the declinations. But yeah its noy japanese.