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poooogles··on EU copyright reform: the facts
>To clarify: I find the UK’s knife ban stupid, and it affects me personally (I often cook at friends’ places and, if these friends have no proper knives, I bring my chef’s knife

There's nothing in UK law that prevents you from doing this. Bring along a cook book and store the knife securely (and keep it in your bag) and you're going to be fine. If you get stopped by the police mention it straightaway and move from there.

The legislation is written broad enough that discretion is possible in cases like this. Where it's going to look funny is when you're stopped with it in a pub at 9pm on a Saturday night.

So yeah I see both sides (I might go for a beer down the local after cooking on the way home with the knife for example), but really there's not much wrong with your knife laws IMO.

poooogles··on Ask HN: Are you doing async programming with Python?
Yeah I'm using it plenty for web services where I've got a concurrent app but most data processing is done upstream.

It's pretty easy to get started with and with the new keywords simple enough to teach. The testing story is a bit horrible due to how coroutines work though, having to create asynchronous True and False when patching returns for example is a pain.

poooogles··on Giant shipload of soybeans drifts off China, victim of trade war with US
Same for tides.
poooogles··on Facebook finally hands over leave campaign Brexit ads
>entire establishment, business and media conspired to sway the result towards Remain.

I don't remember that at all. Plenty of media was pro Brexit.

poooogles··on The EU's biggest fines on tech companies
Depends upon their European operations. Considering the size of the European market, probably not.
poooogles··on HashiCorp Consul 1.2: Service Mesh
nginx does that already. The problem is it'll stop you being able to reload configuration on other bits of config. Once there's a config error nothing can reload.

Limited blast radius don't really apply when it comes to nginx config errors (which given its origins is understandable). One error in one bit of config and it all stops.

poooogles··on Barents Sea seems to have crossed a climate tipping point
Milankovitch cycles combined with other geological events (think Lake Agassiz flooding into the Ocean) are what domainate natural climate variability.
poooogles··on HashiCorp Consul 1.2: Service Mesh
>This is the solution I've used and it works pretty well.

Just make sure consul-template never writes bad config as that will stop everything reloading. That's bit me a couple of times.

poooogles··on AT&T confirms it is buying ad platform AppNexus reportedly for between $1.6B-$2B
>it seems like a poor business to start investing in now.

Allegedly they're buying it to integrate into their TV offerings. There's a huge market there that's relatively untapped at the moment compared to Display so it makes some sense.

poooogles··on Nearly 80% of Japan’s Airbnbs removed in response to new home-share law
Based upon my neighbours; yes completely. Anecdata is anecdata however...
poooogles··on Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
>You have pretty much misunderstood the entire point of open source software.

What? That's a stretch of a comment from saying both the Ubuntu and Windows behaviour of updates is the same out of the box.

poooogles··on Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
If you're on latest Ubuntu (or derivatives) since 16.04 at least you've been getting security track upgrades (through the default config of unattenfed-upgrades) forced on you.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's what you get default out of the box with Windows as well?

poooogles··on Glom – Restructured Data for Python
You forgot the line that's the biggest offender of all, "... for Humans".
poooogles··on Cloud Memorystore: A fully managed in-memory data store service for Redis
AFAIK the policy is will be added once it's GA?
poooogles··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)
Infectious Media | Software Engineers (up to £55k) | London, England | Onsite, EU Only

We are a young, vibrant and award winning company specialising in programmatic advertising. Founded in 2008 at the inception of programmatic, we were one of the first practitioners globally and a pioneer in Europe. Today, we run global programmatic campaigns for leading advertisers from our offices in London and Singapore. On any given day we have campaigns live in over 30 countries. Each month we process more than 750 billion ad decisions and hundreds of terabytes of data. Unlike most agencies we have built our own RTB infrastructure from the ground up, to suit our way of working.

Our RTB infrastructure at a core is written in Go, with supporting services using Ruby, Python and whatever fits. Our infrastructure is powered by a mixture of GCP/Mesos and Marathon supported by an internally written ETL scheduler which you will help develop and maintain. Some of the other technologies we use include Kafka/Cassandra/Docker/Redis/Clojure and much more.

We're hiring for software engineers who can help work on our internal data platform. If you can write Python, some SQL and know how to write clear concise code then we'd love for you to contact us.

http://www.infectiousmedia.com/about-us/work-for-us/

Benefits: Company bonuses, flexitime, 25 days + public holidays, pension, cycle to work, health cash back, food and more.

Contact: sam.pegler | infectiousmedia.com

poooogles··on Python startup time: milliseconds matter
That changed with the dict improvements in 3.6.
poooogles··on Make your own sourdough
The modernist cuisine books might be up your street then.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=modernist+cuisi...

poooogles··on Apple open-sources FoundationDB
From what I understand that shouldn't happen as writes are written to a WAL on HDFS (been a while since I've used it).

From my memory writes within a row are atomic. It seems to pass Jepsen as well [1].

1. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/yokota.blog/2015/09/30/call-m...

poooogles··on We saved $50k/year with a Go microservice coded in a hackathon
One true Scotsman fallacy at work is what it is.
poooogles··on Google seeks to limit ‘right to be forgotten’ by claiming it’s journalistic
>Europe doesn't have free speech, so, no problem.

Just because hate speech isn't protected doesn't mean we don't have free speech.

poooogles··on Spotify opens on NYSE, valuing company at almost $30B
>Well, there's the short of the year.

I think you're missing SNAP.

poooogles··on Billion-Dollar Facebook Investor Tells Mark Zuckerberg to Quit as Chairman
>We’re not trying to harm Facebook, we’re trying to make it a stronger company.

Ha. That's a statement and a half. Does answering to shareholders make your company stronger? Lots would argue that too many shareholders focus on short term growth over long term strategy.

poooogles··on I usually run 'w' first when troubleshooting unknown machines
netstat is deprecated and has been for a while, you should be using ss from iproute2. Most of the commands should map directly so it's pretty drop in.
poooogles··on Stock trade app Robinhood raising at $5B+, up 4X in a year
Any UK alternatives to this? Been looking at moving away from Barclays which charge you fees out the wazoo.
poooogles··on Stuffing a Tesla Drivetrain into a 1981 Honda Accord
>The K-series is the descendant of the T16

Descendant only in the fact it came later. The engines share nothing from memory. The K series was an all new small capacity engine (1400cc) on release. Compared to the O, M and L (diesel) it's a fully aluminium block and head with steel damp liners. The K series had its bore and stroke upped to bring it to 1800cc after launch, along with adding variable valve control with the VCC engine.

The two engines share very little in common, the most frequent thing being they're normally both attached to a a PG1 gearbox.

Source: UK MG owner that used to own 300bhp ZR.

poooogles··on How GDPR Will Change The Way You Develop
If you're using an IPv4 address as a seed then that's pretty useless due to the small address space.
poooogles··on One year of cycling to work
>Please don’t do this.

Please do. Being doored isn't something you want to have happen to you; and can have pretty life changing results if you're unlucky.

If you're in a car and you can't pass if someones riding out of the door zone then you probably don't have room to pass anyway.

poooogles··on I’m the Wife of a Former N.F.L. Player. Football Destroyed His Mind
>...take out Rob Gronkowski.

Context https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwALEoMUHrk.

poooogles··on Tsunami warning ends for B.C. after large earthquake strikes off Alaska
Yeah, no more than a bit of swell does though. Best example I can find is this -> https://youtu.be/ZS6EmSxncz4?t=78
poooogles··on Linus Torvalds: “Somebody is pushing complete garbage for unclear reasons.”
>The original post was "we need this brashness", my point is, we don't.

I think we do when communicating with some people. It's all a matter of context. To 99.99% of people being brash is just going to be a hindrance. For some however it's required for them to see what their actions are not up to standard.

That's my 2c's anyway. I've never had a situation (within the tech industry) where I've needed to be so on the nose as Linus, but a couple of times I've got close after repeatedly telling one person their actions were VERY wrong and risked doing the whole entire team damage.

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