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conorgdaly··on Google kills diversity hiring targets
Ireland is under control of the Irish and has been since independence. The Irish are the native population and the majority group there.
conorgdaly··on Anarchy in Sudan has spawned the world’s worst famine in 40 years
The British Isles is a geographic term. It includes(&always has) Ireland given that Ireland is a part of the British Isles but has never been part of Great Britain (the land mass).

The United Kingdom you refer to has a fuller name - "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland" (past) replaced by "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) (present).

I assume you're familiar enough with history to recognise that Ireland(landmass/people/culture) was a colony of the British (with or without your pedantry)?

conorgdaly··on Paint.net
Always choose this app but find myself using Irfan view for printing nearly every time as the Windows native print dialog which paint.net and other image apps use to be severely lacking.
conorgdaly··on Sama says "build for GPT-5 and AGI Now; GPT-5 in 2024, AGI in 2025"
English comprehension fail for OP and seemingly every responder in this thread. Title is blatantly incorrect.

"Sama" did not say that. The quoted part from Sama seems to be

> @sama suggested ppl build w/ the mindset GPT-5 and AGI will be achieved "relatively soon";"

The (not Sama) person who wrote the tweet added their own question

> Expect @OpenAI #GPT5 in 2024 and #AGI in 2025?

conorgdaly··on FTC sues Amazon for illegally maintaining monopoly power
alibaba link for exact product(same images/title/description etc.)

https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Black-Crossweave-Larg...

alibaba unit price(list): $40.00 amazon seller price: $199

conorgdaly··on Ireland will pay you $90K to move to a beautiful island home
> But Donegal is, essentially, 100% Hicktown. It's a rural lifestyle and you raise cows or you farm or you cut peat bogs or something.

This is possibly the most uninformed and ignorant thing I've read on here in quite some time.

> I have been doing extensive genealogical work lately, and my ancestors hail from County Donegal

Well, that definitely qualifies you as an expert.

You know there are actual Irish people on this site with far more local knowledge than yourself? It's not just other uninformed Americans who you may have become accustomed to swallowing your utter braindead nonsense.

Donegal is a rural area - correct. It also (shocker!) has international software companies there(like SITA!). Ireland is geographically small so remote isn't hours on end to reach civilization. But I don't want to disperse any more tales your ancestors may have passed down through the family.

conorgdaly··on US Air Force Moving Fast on AI-Piloted Fighter Jets
Oh, absolutely not easy.

At the end of the day, wireless means they're sending a signal on some frequency over the air(either up to satellite, down to ground stations or on some axis emanating from the aircraft using some known or as of yet unknown medium). If it can be detected, it can be blocked through brute force flooding with noise.

You can't remote control something if it can't receive signal from source and (less importantly) (in effect) can't send signal back to source.

conorgdaly··on US Air Force Moving Fast on AI-Piloted Fighter Jets
> The single biggest advantage of a human pilot --- decision making. Which can be done remotely with a properly designed system.

-> in situ decision making.

unless they're planning on running thousands of miles of uncuttable wire, then signals can be blocked and drowned out (cat and mouse situation)

conorgdaly··on Author Salman Rushdie attacked on lecture stage in New York
Being black or gay isn't a choice.

Being a voluntary member of an organization is a choice.

conorgdaly··on [dead]
Flagged. The submitted title isn't the article title.

You are the only person posting links to this domain. This isn't growth hacking. It's spam. I am very dubious how this got 4 upvotes already as the article is completely void of content.

conorgdaly··on A blue connector does not USB 3.0 make
DJI.

Head and shoulders above the competition.

Although China also has most of the crappy knock-off drone brands that don't get the fundamentals right.

As commenter further up said: " If they don't want that to be the case, someone would need to crack down on the lies and knockoffs."

Even though China can and has done good manufacturing and engineering, I think of crappy knockoffs when I think of Chinese engineering.

Not so much for the Germans or the Swiss.

Given how much power the CCP has, they could rectify this in no time. Much like a corporation, they seem to be focused on short term gains (lots of tiny profits coming from knockoffs and frankly dangerous products which don't comply with laws of buyer's country) rather than medium/long term reputation.

To add to that, the forced data sharing and backdoors CCP forces companies to install just means they're eroding international trust in Chinese companies at the expense of long term reputation.

I feel bad for any actual Chinese engineering companies because they will have that reputation no matter what as long as they are China HQ'd.

conorgdaly··on China’s new plan to seize the world’s tech crown from the U.S
Is that a comment on confidently ignorant youthful comments or is that anecdote something you think resembles truth because someone once said it. It was spoken; therefore it is?
conorgdaly··on Using VueJS Alongside Django
> All the hidden “ready to be inserted into the DOM” elements also need server side code to re-render things the same way.

There seems to be some confusion. With your list example, you still make an ajax call to create a new ToDo, the server returns html which is inserted into DOM.

You'll be making an ajax call anyway, except instead of just 200 reponse/json , you'll get html. This is server side rendered. There is no """hidden “ready to be inserted into the DOM” elements"""

Yes, forms are something which, depending on complexity, can be better served with SPA type solution.

If it's not complex, I'd still keep rendering server side and just add small bit of JS logic to update form header to add/remove to error list and just replace form input field with server response.

conorgdaly··on Using VueJS Alongside Django
> You could use AJAX to tell the server to add the new item, but now you need to update your UI list accordingly. You could use jQuery to construct a new DOM element and append it, but now that list element exists in two different places: in your jQuery code and in your template on the server.

Your server can just return html which is ready to be inserted into DOM. You don't need to duplicate the node view creation logic client side.

conorgdaly··on Most Sampling Java Profilers Are Terrible
Could you give rough idea of cost - dev license/prod license? Their own site is 'Contact Us', & Google is not turning up anything of use either.
conorgdaly··on WINE 1.9.4 Released
Toad for MySql (it's db data compare is unrivalled)...but it doesn't work on WINE.
conorgdaly··on XML fever (2008)
"a few pages of XML that could easily be a few lines of json"

There is no sane way that you could represent "pages of XML" in "a few lines of JSON". Maybe the point you're trying to make is that you need just a handful of key:value pairs but whatever generates your config sees fit to do incredibly deep nesting...but that would be an issue with your application, not XML.

conorgdaly··on IntelliJ IDEA 15 Released, Adds Kotlin to the Family of Supported JVM Languages
thanks for the confirmation.
conorgdaly··on IntelliJ IDEA 15 Released, Adds Kotlin to the Family of Supported JVM Languages
Switched to the All Product pack also. 2nd year was supposed to be free if paid yearly but my account page states next billing will be in 2016.

Did you notice if the "Next billing on " date on your JetBrains account page was wrong?

conorgdaly··on Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users
Whilst abroad, I've used foreign sim cards in my phone and all Whatsapp does is prompt to keep the existing number or change to new number.
conorgdaly··on We are slashing the C1 price by 70 percent
speaking of online.net, they currently have a banner ad front and center on their homepage for scaleway which says: "Run up to 10 bare metal SSD cloud server for free" [1]

Clicking through just lands me on the scaleway homepage. Can anybody shed some light on this? Clicking around their site and couldn't see any mention of it.

[1] http://www.online.net/img/carousel/cloud.jpg screengrab: http://imgur.com/cuvZlgb

conorgdaly··on Ask HN: How to learn about the history of computing?
I've gone through quite a few computing-related 'history' books recently (incl. ) but by far the stand out winner was

- 'The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of Innovation' - http://amzn.com/0143122797.

It deals with the creation of Bell Labs and continues through to modern day, giving a deep history of it. A lot of familiar names(Shockley, Shannon et al.) all pop up.

Another good book not yet mentioned would be: 'The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution ' - http://amzn.com/B00JSRQSL6

conorgdaly··on Stripe Dashboard for iPhone
Reloading page seems to have corrected issue:

http://i.imgur.com/haJzllG.png

edit:Seems to have been related to background loading (opening link in new background tab and then not clicking in to it until after it had fully loaded)

conorgdaly··on Stripe Dashboard for iPhone
I think they may need to revisit the color scheme. Lead in text on left is pretty faint:

http://i.imgur.com/QNpr5rS.png

FF 38 on Windows

conorgdaly··on Google Ideas
I visited that page in both Chrome & FF and see no use of parallax scrolling. This is a good example of parallax scrolling:

http://www.firewatchgame.com/

conorgdaly··on Google Font Effects
Nothing good can come of this
conorgdaly··on Show HN: The Lazy Analyst's Guide to Faster SQL
Any chance you could mention what database/language/standard this guide is for? Nothing listed on download page.
conorgdaly··on Show HN: JSON Query: A tool to query JSON data structures
Probably most people would have thought of it.

You wouldn't make that same comparison with regular expressions(tool) and a text document(data) would you? As in, the tool is not part and parcel of the data.

XPath(and JSONPath) are powerful tools for programatically pulling data from complex data structures.

conorgdaly··on Android Lollipop is out, but almost no one is using it
You can sideload the ota image which retains your settings etc, image linked from here: http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/12/23/flash-all-the-things...

I upgraded from 5.0 to 5.02 using this method and it only made a slight difference to the horrendous performance I was experiencing on my Nexus 7 2012 tablet.

I ended up installing CyanogenMod - tablet back to being speedy and snappy: http://cyanogenmod.org/

conorgdaly··on Ask HN: What mobile HN readers are you using?
No issues with either of the below; both free.

iPhone: HackerNode [1]

Android Nexus 7: Hacker2 [2]

[1] Seems to no longer be in Apple app store. Twitter handle in app is https://twitter.com/nodemaker .

[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.airlocksof...

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