nqzero

what part of "ruin" don't you understand ?

it was the A/B testing that put him over the top

very good advice and applies to guys too. the goal for both management and HR is to pay as little as possible (to the point that we see the outright collusion of the apple/adobe/google price fixing). so get competing offers and then play hardball

thanks. this is very nice and i wasn't aware of it

note: need to pipe it to "less -r"

for me, aspect ratio is huge - if you want something better than 16:9 in a pure laptop (not a tablet or convertible) your options are really limited

http://blog.nqzero.com/2016/01/1610-or-better-32-43-laptops-...

i don't understand how there can be so little differentiation in this market

> never never never

to answer one idiom with another, never say never. if a politician was sufficiently transparent about who they met with and took money from, acknowledged the potential conflicts of interest, documented decisions, sourced research thru firewalls, and generally had a system in place to prevent the temptation from manifesting, i'd be inclined to trust them

a good regulator might benefit from understanding the impact they're having, and that means talking to businesses. and an honest business that works with a bright and honest politician would have an incentive to help them stay in office, even if that money didn't buy them consideration. so there's potential non-corrupt reasons that these "donations" could happen

that said, i'm not claiming that hillary clinton, or any other politician that i'm aware of, has done this

tl;dr - why i don't like toasters

when one or 2 words change in a long or dense line, it's nice to have the specific changes highlighted

imagine a for loop in which a variable (used on every line) was renamed, and buried in the loop an assignment changed slightly (eg, + became -). with a standard diff, it's really hard (for me) to pick up the minor change. with word by word diffs, it's pretty easy

(i use netbeans diff, not this tool, but they appear similar)

the netbeans.team.diff tool is similar (showing the specific words that changed), allows interactive editing, and does a good job even with large insertions and deletions

not disagreeing or trying to undermine your argument, but curious (i'm in northern ohio). traditional coyotes, or the coyote-wolf-dog mix that is ubiquitous in the northeast ?

that's the definition of an ad hominem attack

i don't use bitbucket so can't comment if they provide this. but github has a nice hack allowing you to svn checkout a portion of a tree

on a slow connection, this allows you to work on or inspect repos that are too large to git clone (one of the few major complaints i have with git itself)

HTML (or more specifically HTML+css, and how they interact with and render in the browser) are anything but trivial. javascript (the language, not the JIT) is relatively simple in contrast

client side rendering + json apis on the server are the holy grail of openness (esp with an MIT licensed client)

citation for your exploits claim ? you've worded it in an awkward manner that makes it sound like a red herring

specifically, are there javascript-only (or js+css+html only) exploits in recent chrome or firefox ?

i assume that it's comparable to kilim, but have limited experience

Comsat (one of the servers in my benchmark i linked) is written by the same people and uses Quasar. so eg Comsat Jetty is an async jetty servlet with a bridge to a Quasar fiber-based handler. the performance in my simplistic test wasn't great (async jetty was 50% faster than comsat jetty) - i don't know if that's representative

however, it's very easy to work with and mimics the Jetty API, which is really nice. https://github.com/nqzero/jempower/blob/master/comsat/src/ma...

for my database i was initially worried about the LGPL license for Quasar, but the guys assured me that it's not viral in this usage and i think they're correct

pron (one of the developers) is active posting on HN and has written some very good/knowledgeable stuff about java, so i suspect that Quasar is technically solid. i do plan on doing an integration with my database at some point and i'll write up my results and post them on HN

i'm using java fibers (https://github.com/kilim/kilim) for a database

for anyone interested in using fibers inside a java webapp, i just wrote up a quick survey of async java servlet performance: http://blog.nqzero.com/2016/01/asynchronous-java-webserver-h...

(based TechEmpower plaintext benchmark, but limited to java async)

the model is that you use async in the server, and then bridge to a fiber implementation and then complete the async response when the fiber completes. for handling high latency low cpu processing on the server, this technique allows handling a huge number of connections

at least in java (i'm using https://github.com/kilim/kilim, but quasar appears to be similar), only methods that yield need to be aware

my #1: the company posts clickbait on HN

i think the point of the article, or at least our interest in it, is that this is a terrible business arrangement. if you can't look at past tolerance as evidence of acceptable use, then you effectively can't ever afford to invest in building a business unless you're lawyered-up

and that's bad for tech, and bad for america

BingeOn does exactly what the ads for it say it does, and is entirely optional. letting customers choose the quality is good for customers, and t-mobile isn't beholden to anyone else

the EFF has lost it's way

regardless of what division is making the determination, either the company is risky or they're not. charging them interest to access the money that is rightfully theirs is extortion, plain and simple

i did a survey of low-cost MVNOs over the xmas break, focused on data-centric plans that cost approximately $10 per month (i use google voice). there's also a link to the full list on wikipedia, which you can sort by carrier

http://blog.nqzero.com/2015/12/at-mvno-pay-as-you-go-data-pl...

#11: microkernel advocates use seizure-inducing black backgrounds with white text

signs that you're good at writing clickbait on HN

tl;dr - "i don't like that words have meanings, i'm more interested in feelings"

is there a simple workaround for the economist paywall ?

OS compatibility is important for laptops/desktops, but not in at least some database / server applications, and those are the applications that would benefit most from raw access

given the prevalence of age discrimination, it's disappointing that wikimedia didn't take the birth year down voluntarily

yes, the data's available from other sources, but a prospective employer might not see that until after evaluating some other aspects of her work, and end up hiring her in a situation in which they wouldn't if they found her age immediately

for that matter, i find wikimedia's prominent display of age for people in general to be a bit too forceful. is that really such a defining characteristic of a living person that it belongs in the highlight box ?

> Boss: We introduced Hue back in 2012 w/ the intention to bait and switch the market once we achieved market lock in. Do it now

FTFY

guess we should start regulating rocks that weigh more than 250g too then ...