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Yeah, this seems like terrible API design that, while it may be constructed to make a point, sort of obscures whether I should actually care.

GraphQL seems a lot more complicated to consume/explore than REST, and it looks like I need to know a good bit about how the data is shaped before I write a line of code - something that can change, and something that the current REST endpoint system (happily) doesn't need.

This is a very low effort flame bait attempt, and HN is not the place for flamewars.

Aphex Twin seems to inspire indifference or obsession, so this seems very well targeted.

Tool is kind of similar, no one seems to be "a little into Aphex Twin"

People are downvoting you for including Palantir, which has a reputation of over-inflating the quality of its engineers, and consistently choosing big name schools over experience.

I don't know if it's true, when I interviewed with them they seemed very interested even though I only took 3/4 years of a cs degree, and graduated with a different degree from RPI. I'm just explaining their reputation.

Works on Firefox for Android

Until recently, most Arizonans also grew English-style grass lawns, with water that had to be piped in and species that are certainly not native.

Apparently that's rapidly ending, so maybe the standard schedule will change as well someday.

Agreed. Cancer is random and having a genetic likelihood of a treatment-resistant cancer reduces the chance of that sequence spreading. Unlike cancer, bacteria and viruses mutate as they move through the population and slowly become resistant to everything we throw at them. Being treatment resistant is a help, not a hinderance to their genetic propagation.

With growing global density and antibiotic abuse, it's the things like MRSA and syphilis that are likely to never disappear.

Absolutely agreed, where Enterprise === "making a profit"

As a corollary, based on population growth rates/disparities between birth rates, people are going to be very surprised how quickly Mormonism rises. They're basically the only chunk of native born Americans that have a birth rates above replacement, and it's a LOT above replacement.

C# is adding pattern matching in the upcoming release, and to your point, people are acting like it's the new hotness.

Japanese tourists are amazing. I once saw a 20-something couple silently watch a beautiful peacock stroll through the grounds of St. John the Divine, for an HOUR. I was walking around and enjoying the space, but those two seemed to have found some sort of peace with the place that locals will never have. The nodded to me when they left and cleaned up their picnic perfectly. You don't see many Japanese tourists anymore and (completely uniquely) that's a shame.

Isn't that s very serious issue? I absolutely agree that journalistic/non-fiction integrity has collapsed in the post-print world, but what can we do about it?

When your choice is Vox or Breitbart, that's kind of a turd sandwich.

Anything that "blunts" war or portrays it as anything besides "the worst living nightmare possible" is a lie. There of course is wonderful art to be made that acknowledges that fact - Guernica, Saving Private Ryan, The Hurt Locker - but to me, it's critical to acknowledge this. The extras who are casually shot in action scenes aren't extras in the real world, it's an act of actual murder that is abhorrent in the real world.

One of humanities great moments happened after WW2, or maybe Vietnam: the realization that war is not noble, that "pro patria mori" is bullshit, and that no one really wins. Our media must reflect this fact, even if it seems to have lost touch with reality everywhere else. It's critical to the discourse and to our continued survival.

I'm not getting any results for it on DDG, might be a troll

Totally agree. Also, compare with this map of heroin deaths per capita [0]. They're shockingly close.

https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://...

Yeah, you'd have to do that, and then have permissions around routing, like we do with the filesystem today.

I really like this idea, it's really elegant.

I'm not sure why you'd assume that, the NYPD certainly has a history of bravery but not one of technical competence.

Bikeshedding/social signaling

Why shouldn't I be able to say whatever I want about people, even if it deviates from the norm. Norms change, "Gays are people" and "Women should be able to vote" were 100% norm-violating speech until recently. In fact, there's a few countries where those are still unwelcome speech - should we bow to their social norms?

Shouldn't I be able to say things like that? Aren't you happy people did? Do you believe that our current worldview is perfect and cannot be challenged by concepts outside of the Overton window?

The ACLU famously defended the KKK's right to have parades/rallies. Both have a pretty good history of killing Americans and saying horrible things.

This country exists because of freedom of speech and press, and it really does matter to us.

Isn't that just called "Seamless" or "Delivery"

This is fairly well understood, as is the fact that none of the parties involved - Facebook, the media, or the political parties - have an ounce of incentive to change.

So, what do we do? It may be becoming apparent that the theory that democracy does not work in a world with social media is correct, but what can be done with that information?

For every Buzzfeed you kill there's another, for every social network with detailed discussion there's a bigger, dumber one.

I would love someone to propose something radical, but the only new ideas I've heard are monarchy (from people that also tend to think minorities are a problem) which is terrifying, or Chinese style rule, which honestly sort of seems to be working? I have no idea, I'm a software developer, not a political theorist, but you have hit the nail on the head.

Is this a pg-style submarine?

You can sort of do this with Emscripten + webasm, though I don't think async is supported yet.

Very true! But not everyone wants to live in SF/NYC, and imagine your dollar goes a lot farther in Bentonville.

Also, supposedly the new museum is amazing, for what it's worth.

Isn't that because SQLLite's whole use case is "simple, small, fast database that competes with fopen() and not Postgres"? At least in my experience on NTFS, unless you know the section that 2 threads are writing to, and that section is different, you can't write to a file concurrently (N.B.: in C#)

I'd be happy to be wrong (seriously that would make my day if someone could explain a clean way to do the above) but if I want to get "big boy database features" then I'd use a heavy database like SQL Server. I think it's great that there's an option like SQLLite out there for rapid prototyping and "store all your music metadata" type applications!

I have a Moto G, outright. It cost as much as a night out, and it works perfectly. It's got nearly stock Android, and the battery is good.

The camera is HORRIBLE, but the difference is not worth >$650 to me

Fully loaded cost of cars absolutely are, when you include parking, tickets, insurance, bump and tap damage, etc.

Keeping a car in a megacity is usually around $10k a year, from experience with both it's dramatically cheaper in upstate New York.

Google's research arms (in terms of actually shipping), the oil supermajors (scale is the only thing that matters, and that takes time), and probably IBM (because they don't seem to actually do anything)

Hey, that's an interesting question: is there anything you can't fit to two arbitrary points?

Seems like with compression, x/y offsets, and rotation you could fit just about curve.