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Same here. It’d also be great if the variables were a bit easier to interpret.

Is that definitely the case?

I interpreted this as meaning that although you pay for 10mb/s Internet, Comcast can offer a special package that allows you to stream Netflix in 4K.

I’ve been struggling with this lately as I’ve been studying ML/Stat. Thanks ColinWright!

I was surprised to learn that everyone hated the Principal and the Pauper, I loved that episode.

I'm interested in hearing his reasoning, too. Maybe said companies don't want people posting about what they're doing at work or don't want a PR nightmare if the employee says the wrong thing

Isn't that still an indicator, albeit not a strong one, that Tesla-like autopilot features are safer?

Saying "Cars with ABS have lower crash rates than the same cars without" means that I'd prefer a car with ABS... I don't wanna spin out in the snow. I'd also enjoy and feel somewhat entitled to a lower insurance rate than a non-ABS car.

I was a pack a day smoker for quite a few years and a quality e cig finally made my smoking habit much less compulsive.

I almost made the switch 2 years prior but I wasn't allowed to use it in my private office so I figured what's the point?

Call it habit or whatever but I still can't get as much work done at home when I'm not smoking so I consider it my weekend treat.

Very true, nice codes :). Would be nice if we could write that without transpiling.

Not necessarily true. I think that's an outdated, albeit mainstream, approach to marriage.

It should be more like forming an LLC wherein you make a partnership agreement. Called a prenuptial agreement in the US, I assume it's more popular amongst the wealthy.

I'd want a solid contract wherein there would be no alimony, separate finances, and rational child support meaning no, you don't get X percentage of my income, you get 50% of the actual cost of raising the children.

Should be much easier this way. Say the wife contributes 35% of the mortgage payment on a monthly basis, 35% of the home is hers in a divorce.

If she stays home to watch the kids, you "pay" her a portion of your salary to account for this.

Maybe we can crowd source some niche accounting software to make this trivial.

jQuery is really useful when it comes to DOM manipulation, obviously.

Without using any framework you'll find yourself iterating over NodeLists all over the place.

ie, it's much cleaner to write

$('p').css('color', 'blue');

Than

document.querySelectorAll('p').forEach(el => el.style.color = 'blue');

Also, Microsoft kinda screwed us by keeping IE 11 around until 2025.

I've considered a degree because I'm not very good at algorithms and have next to no interest spending time doing this on my own.

That being said I've decided against it because, who cares? I'd rather build up my portfolio.

A full baccarat implementation for node and the browser.

It's plain ol' js. I used it as an opportunity to give jest a try. It took a single Saturday to get the general concept down, then some bug fixes over the next few days as I misunderstood the drawing rules.

https://github.com/kgdiem/fisher-yates-baccarat

Also TextJawn, my first production ready native Android app. It was also done in a single Saturday with some bug fixes going out over the next week. "TextJawn enables password protected remote management over SMS.

Locked out of Google? Forget your phone? No problem! TextJawn lets you ring, locate, and check your messages by sending a text message."

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thosejaunt...

Why can't we just host our sites in Somalia or something?

May seem facetious but in all seriousness I was watching vice a few weeks ago and the Somali disapora is returning and building infrastructure and high quality housing with absolutely no government regulations or taxes.

Interesting. What about mother-to-baby transmission?

I was looking for libraries that use native code but react-native-navigation was too opinionated and Air BnB's solution wasn't and isn't production ready.

I pretty much put the project down after that and started learning Swift (I already do Android).

Now I decided to go all out on iOS dev with the hope of making a career change from web.

Looks very good, will have to try it out.

How do you manage 100+ screens?

I started building a react native app but decided against it because switching activities seemed to be very hacky compared to native development. Seemed like it'd really get out of hand with 10+ screens.

Wix's "React Native Navigation" was too opinionated / inflexible.

Quoting Talib Kweli, "Give me the fortune, keep the fame".

Though I agree with your sentiment as it applies in broad strokes I'd like to sell some software, make ~$10M, and be a recluse.

I don't even need the $10M, though, I'd be happy to not have to wake up at 7 o'clock, rush to the train, then sit at a desk all day.

Right. At my last interview I'd try to steer the discussion to a side project or job-before-last but they pretty much only cared about my day job.

Right. My sister is always having a hard time with math and it seems like the teachers are always focusing on solving equations rather than explaining the reasoning behind it.

It's pretty simple when you realize it's (mostly) all about lines.

Right. The following could be written as "Netflix uses Node to render React components" which is pretty much a given.

> Java still powers the backend of Netflix, but all the stuff that the user sees comes from Node. In addition to Node, Netflix is also using ReactJS in their stack.

App developers are only a piece of this equation, though.

From (solo) developing an sms based app in 2017 there was little incentive to target an API level lower than 19 (KitKat), which provided a standard API for SMS.

The majority of devices support it so what's the incentive to support legacy software?

Now if there are breaking changes introduced to telephony in the future I'll probably maintain 4.4 support and add a check for API level. That isn't feasible for every app, though...

I'm a recent graduate and work at my Alma mater, a large semi-private University.

The bar was extremely low, especially at the business school. I was perplexed after reading people's discussion board posts or edit group work. Many students had serious trouble writing coherently or using proper grammar. Math classes were even more ridiculous.

Around sophomore year I gave up on school work in favor of software development and still managed to graduate with a 3.2 GPA.

I'm looking for a new job in part because I disagree with their decision to seriously ramp up marketing and recruitment. IMO if a university can't stand on their faculty / programs / research they aren't really worth attending.

It's useable, far from the worst I've used, but it's bad.

I'm planning on buying a MacBook pro again but I'll keep my Chromebook for something I can use haphazardly.

Don't do it!

I got a Lenovo 14" IdeaPad N42-20 and desktop to replace my 256gb MacBook Pro.

It turned out to be a bad idea, mostly because the screen is terrible. It's the same resolution as the Samsung 3 mentioned in the article.

It also seems so small compared to a 15". Side-by-side windows isn't very nice, either.

I find myself working less because I don't feel like sitting at my desk or using the Chromebook.

Isn't the "uncomfortable" thing something he and others can learn to use to their benefit?

That's my takeaway. Can't wait to flex this new privilege, tell my manager meeting with users/stakeholders makes me uncomfortable.

Like, instead of being negative about it, he could have said "Hey everybody, check it out, all you have to do is say something's making you uncomfortable and everyone caters to you".

> If you drive them, and their ideas, deeper into the underground there will be no one there to oppose any of their ideas, it will be yet another echo-chamber driven by a victim complex.

Exactly. This is the same argument I pose with my neoliberal friend about Ann Coulter, Alex Jones, David Duke, etc.

"Think of the children!", I cry. If society refuses to acknowledge ideas that they find offensive the ideas don't go away, ignorance just goes unanswered.

Following this line of thinking, maybe it would be more useful for YouTube to recommend more moderate sermons/lectures to people who are looking for extremist videos.

Google could go a step further and insert ads for mental health when people view content like this. The public could also take this upon itself, especially in countries like the UK and Canada, purchasing ads for national mental health services targeting these users.

> What does this pattern tell us? Doc wants to cut all your limbs to be sure you're not leaving his clinic, right?

Yes.

Laravel looks just like a well structured Java program assuming you use strong types as the rest of the framework does. :P

Edit: that's not to refute what you've said or anything.

Some background on the history of chips in credit cards

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/04/13/474135422/episo...