Microsoft's issue is a little different in that they rarely retire a concept but frequently cycle through implementations. My experience over the years has been less of a Google style "there's no more Reader, where do I go now?" and more "oh, now I have to learn a new but extremely similar app that does the same thing under a different name and set of terms."
The elephant in the room here is that the lifespan of a lot of recently built houses is not necessarily what we might expect. A lot of these houses will turn out to have problems that will effectively “total” them as they age. There are a lot of McMansions out there that simply have no real long term future.
Even reflection is going to vary based on your IDE. If you use ReSharper or Rider, a safe rename refactoring will locate and optionally update string references as well. I don't know if VS itself has adopted this feature.
Some of this really is pretty wild. I got junk mail within a few weeks of closing that was made to look like fake late/missed payment notices and foreclosure warnings and insurance mistakes and all sorts of horrible lies. I am curious if they maintain the quality of the illusion further into the scam but not curious enough to find out.
Their contribution to this problem doesn't necessarily have to be a negative thing. Saying they made a contribution isn't an accusation. No one is saying that they should stop doing business in California or that they should try and succeed less, whatever that might mean. However, they do contribute to the runaway social inequality in the state. Every high paying employer does, including mine.
This doesn't mean they necessarily have an obligation to do anything about it and again, it also doesn't mean it's a bad thing. It's an inevitable side effect of their success. They did business, made a ton of money, spread it around, and one of the myriad indirect consequences is social inequality which contributes to the housing problem. Again, it's not a bad thing per se, but it's a real thing. The fact that it wasn't a bad thing doesn't mean there is no moral responsibility attached.
It's nice to see a company trying to deal with the consequences of their actions without being forced to.
I think this really begs the question of what exactly is meant by a microservices architectures. In my mind this is one of those subjects that is almost infinitely variable, producing a range of responses from everyone you ask. Personally, I contribute to this mess by thinking that a great way to start an MVP is as a monolith organized into microservices, that is, to adopt some of the the build-time organizational concepts but to just run it like any old monolithic app, without the runtime complexity of a "true" microservices stack.
For what it's worth, not all of these areas are totally unsafe. I am familiar with some of the central valley lakes that are highlighted and I grabbed the current consumption flyer for one: https://oehha.ca.gov/media/downloads/advisories/millertonlak...
The situation is not great but it's not quite so bad as it might seem if you look at that map and think it indicates only areas where fish are completely unsafe to eat.
Roundabouts seem to bypass American NIH and get straight to our native anti-intellectualism. Probably the most common comment I hear from people encountering them for the first time is that they are too hard to figure out. To be fair, signage can be very poor, but still.
This is a real problem. It's one thing for apps under continual development because you can generally stay fairly current as a matter of course. Everything changes when you're working with the kind of app that hums along unchanged for years until out of nowhere, years removed from anyone even familiar with the original devs being around, some change is needed that requires unraveling the whole sweater. This is a problem for consultants, agencies, etc. who are especially ill suited to deal with this sort of valueless labor.
I have brought this up a few times in various organizations and most of the reaction has been along the lines of "ugh, XML bad!" but a few have pointed out that there are several things in the JSON ecosystem which have evolved to basically fill the same niche. Swagger or whatever they call it now is usually the first thing that comes up. I haven't really had the experience of having an API to work with that just handed over a swagger file in the same way so many did with .wsdls back in the day, though.
"The SHAKTI Electromagnetic Stabilizer (aka “the Stone”) has three internal trap circuits (Microwave, RF and Electric Field) to absorb the broadest spectrum of EMI. Placement on automotive CPUs has measurably increased engine horsepower."
The F-35 isn't a dogfighter in the WW2 mold of the P-51 Mustang, etc.
The F-35 was conceived of for a different kind of fight, more like a contest of swarms than a series of related but independent jousts. The F-35 is formidable because it works better in a pack than anything else out there. For example, it can fly out ahead of a mass of 4th generation fighters into an environment they couldn't survive and remain there, low-observable, long enough to feed targeting data back to the swarm who can launch a salvo of missiles from over the horizon, out of harm's way. As the article explains, stealth isn't about remaining 100% invisible, which is impossible, rather it's about preventing anyone from shooting while you get the first shot off instead.
Whether or not the F-35 lives up to this hope is another thing, but it was never conceived of as primarily a dominant dogfighter so it's fun but maybe not hugely relevant to stack it up against planes that were designed to win that fight. The F-35 seeks to win it before it even starts, instead. It remains to be seen if anything was learned from the F-4's introduction and if all of this works against peer states, but this is the idea behind it.
A year or two back we had a super bloom of Joshua Trees at the eponymous park and one of the rangers said that while yes, it's a beautiful sight, it's also a little scary, because they only do that when they're under extreme stress, it's a sign of them almost giving up hope. I hope what we're seeing with the butterflies isn't a similar dying gasp.
Tivo hosed me on a version of item 2 a while back. My Tivo account is ancient, and when I created it the old email+gibberish@gmail.com trick worked fine. A year or so ago they released a new version of their site that wouldn't accept that email as valid. I was eventually able to sort it out but it required escalating the request several times as apparently even CSR tools couldn't handle the + in my old email and they were also unable to interact with the account. Good times.
Yeah, I think there is a certain mindset for whom "going ballistic" seems like a smart power move that you can use to get results, but in day to day reality, I see it as the ultimate failure to maintain control over the situation. Guys like Bezos can get away with it, but that doesn't make it smart.
I don't know about this. One thing that has really struck me about the kind of behavior on display is that a lot of it seems to be under the assumption that getting away with it initially means getting away with it forever, but in reality, we live in one of the most well documented periods of time in history. Information is everywhere and it's nearly impossible to suppress. Not everything happens in internet time, but the truth is going to catch up to a lot of people eventually.
There will probably be dozens of books solely about the topic of what has been said by the executive branch on Twitter. (How clever will all those snappy quips and one liners seem 15 years from now on the pages of the next David McCollough?)
It's usually the case that those who aren't passionate about history will primarily be familiar with the big picture marquee events without fully getting the nuance of the experience, but there are troves of evidence here for extraordinarily rich future histories.
There is a really interesting episode of the UK show Grand Designs that follows someone in a flood prone area who built a house that essentially rests within its own drydock structure. Worth a watch if you find this sort of thing interesting and the show is fascinating in general. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16scx81p2w4
The way that Twitter has become so pervasive despite not really solving the profitability problem makes me think of how a lot of the original constructors of skyscrapers end up building icons and then losing their shirts and being forced to sell it to someone who ultimately sees it realize the initial promise.
This is what people continue to say and it was true in the early days 5+ years ago but I'm a skeptic on this point today. Unless you're talking about one of the ultra moderated places like AskHistory you can count on the toxic bullshit constantly seeping in around the edges of just about every discussion. Sometimes it's shut down and voted into oblivion, sometimes the wind is right and your innocuous discussion is suddenly derailed into alt-right land.
Not only have they hosed the reputation of the brands they've bought, but they're diminishing their own as well. I know it's nowhere as popular as the ThinkPad, but I have been a ThinkStation fan for years. I bought my first one in 2005. I bought another in 2014 and the new one was an identical case with different components inside and a few different labels outside. I was blown away by this because it's exactly what I've always wanted -- I don't care at all about the gimmicky chassis updates -- and I told everyone about it, probably resulting in a couple other people getting one. Unfortunately, I won't have a chance to reproduce this experience as they discontinued the model and no longer seem to have a comparable machine.
I started out building my own machines because that was how you did it to save money and get good components, then vendors eventually became good enough where that wasn't necessary or desirable, and now we've come full circle and it seems likely I'll build my next machine, whenever this one finally gives up the ghost.
This is pretty cool! I switched from a similar extension purely because I prefer the location on the left of the comment rather than the right.
I've tried a lot of these and one thing I haven't seen is a similar feature to RES that remembers collapsed threads. Any ideas if this is something that HN's design somehow precludes or is it just a matter of someone sitting down and writing the code?
Both the ratio of your amount of available credit vs. used credit and the total amount of credit that you have available feed into your FICO score. From the lender's perspective, someone with a lot of unused credit is a better candidate than someone without. One of my cards recently announced a change that caused me to start looking around and its replacement had a substantially higher limit which unexpectedly gave a significant boost to my score.
I used to have this issue and while I'm not totally cured, I improved things a lot by waiting until I was at or near the point where I could barely keep my eyes open before getting in bed and trying to read. You don't need to do it every night, but if you do it often enough, eventually it becomes easier to get in bed, start reading, and find yourself falling asleep even if you aren't already almost there.
After years and years of trying anything that came my way and seemed credible, the only thing that ever worked to change me into a morning person was living in an apartment that was so bright in the morning that even drawn blinds and an eye mask wasn't enough to keep the light from getting to your eyes. A few exhausted weeks after moving in, I was getting up with the sun naturally and feeling great about it. Since moving away, I haven't been able to replicate the effect in my new, dimmer apartment, no matter what I've tried.
There is actually a pretty interesting experiment going on in the Salton Sea area called the Vertical Tube Evaporation project. It uses geothermal rather than solar power, but given the region, if they were to scale up solar or wind would certainly be on the table. The Salton Sea is already basically a giant brine sink. I believe one of the plans calls for a pipeline from the Gulf of California.
I've found that LA is surprisingly tough to get a handle on as a newcomer or outsider. It helps to think of it as a conglomeration of many small towns which have grown together over time, resulting in a situation where there is a "downtown" practically every few miles in most areas of the city. Of course, depending on what part of LA you're in, these former downtown areas may not be in the greatest shape, but they're there. Additionally, there are always the "name brand" areas where lots of people live, but one of the best things about living in LA is exploring everything else, because there is a really mind-boggling amount of everything else out there in LA.
So what happens if we find ourselves in a war of attrition again? Most/all of the potential opponents in such a war are nuclear powers so it's theoretically not a possibility but history is littered with theoretical impossibilities made real. It seems like we have all of these incredibly dominant and expensive weapons but only a relatively tiny supply, no timely and cost-effective way to replace losses, and not many options if they run out. I didn't attend a service academy so maybe I'm missing something, but what if the initial battle is not decisive and after 6 months of somehow-only-conventional war there are no more LRSBs or F-22s or whatevers?
What are people's production experiences with this? I've written half baked implementations of so many of these ideas that I'd love to not have to own any longer.