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I imagine the least abandoned would be something that comes late in a series (or at least from an author with many similar books), where basically everyone who picks it up already knows that they will like it (those who don't were filtered out by the earlier books).

Fashionable problems are the ones for which you'll have the easiest time recruiting employees, raising funding and generating press coverage, even taking into account that their fashionability leads others to pursue them.

The problem with this:

    out/image-id: $(shell find src -type f)

is that if you delete a file from src (without also modifying or adding a file), make won't consider image-id to need rebuilding

That would help, but I think the root problem here (of the debugging difficulty, not the actual perf problem) is the Windows approach of having lots of unrelated services running together in a single process (svchost)

A common reason people don't do it the way you're suggesting is dogma about code coverage.

If the code has branches for each possible case, and then an "else" to cover anything else (which raises an exception indicating something impossible has happened), there is often no good way to write a test that covers the "else" logic, since the coder doesn't believe there's a way to end up going there. Or if there is a way to force it to happen, it involves jumping through hoops that are too much effort.

I've never seen "landed" used as in the second sentence, but I was definitely able to understand from context that it was not being used to mean the same thing as in the first sentence.

Don't the majority of people still watch TV on their TV? I don't care if their service runs on my computer because it's confirmed they will have an app for PS4, which is how I already watch Netflix and Hulu.

I know there are people out there who refuse to run any non-free software anywhere, and it is a good thing they exist, but I would guess that the majority of people who have Linux on their laptop are willing to use a Fire Stick or their TV's builtin OS or whatever to stream TV and movies.

But exactly because it's easier to "stumble upon" the right answer, I think this may be worse for games. I like feeling as if it's necessary to come up with the solution in my head and then do it. It's not satisfying if every puzzle can be quickly solved by selecting each item in the room and trying the couple actions the game offers you for that item.

I have Google Wifi and its mostly been great.

I don't think it makes sense if you don't need mesh; the whole point of the thing really is that it is the easiest way to set up a home mesh network (or maybe it isn't, but in the research I did before buying it, it seemed to be the most popular and recommended, which is why I got it even though I was skeptical of buying wifi from google).

I've seen speed drop offs twice in about a year of using it, which is my only problem with it. In both cases they were related to mesh: if located in the room with the main router, I'd still get 100+MBps, but when I was in range of the other AP's, it dropped to ~3MBps and the app was reported the mesh connectivity was poor where it is usually "great". In both cases, I rebooted the AP's (via the app) and it instantly fixed it.

The conventional technique in poker is to glance at the seconds hand on your watch

The basis for investing should be connecting companies that actually need money with the money they need.

If a company is already making enough money to fund its whole operations plus make a profit that it can use to grow, and it isn't trying to massively grow at all costs, then it has no reason to sell itself to an outside party for an injection of cash

> It will silently fall back to a very slow transfer.

Why would it be silent? The computer would hopefully show a small notification that the transfer is happening slower than it would with a newer cable

I use jupyter notebook for Scala. I like having the same repl software for multiple languages.

The kernel I use (almond) is based on Ammonite, but I believe there are others out there.

That was from The Simpsons way before Mad Men:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO0JaecRWy0

It's also telling that even with every other possible answer being given by someone, there's still no one who wants XML.

Why can't/ don't phone makers like Samsung set the search engine on their Android phones to whatever they want (whoever pays them the most) which would make the Android default irrelevant?

Is leaving the default alone part of the conditions they have to comply with to ship Google's apps?

There was a super interesting article in the New Yorker a few years ago about the smuggling of unreleased albums out of CD manufacturing plants back in the day. Your experiences remind a lot of that:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/04/27/the-man-who-br...

I was getting my Master's in 2003 and Haskell was very hot amongst all the professors and students who were into functional programming.

I learned it because of group projects where we could pick the implementation language and that's what our group wanted.

At that time, Simon Peyton Jones was employed by Microsoft and, at least as I perceived it, was allowed to work on ghc full time because of the goodwill it generated amongst programmers for Microsoft to be the patron of Haskell.

I try to use PS4 Pro as my "smart TV", but I end up having to use the TV itself (which runs Roku) sometimes because of its larger app base. You can't watch Starz through PS4. You can watch Amazon Prime, but not in 4k.

Maybe it's okay though? Is there real evidence to back up the sentiment that kids have less fun (or get less exercise, develop less physical skills, etc.) in modern "safe" playgrounds?

> DON'T FUCKING CHANGE THE INTERFACE

That's why it's important to have good UX people to help you get it mostly right the first time

> lowering of float point code

What does this refer to and how is it handled better in .net than in java?

TVs aren't expensive anymore. He says he got a TCL from Costco. I just checked their website and the 43" model costs $239.

No platform has more and better apps than Roku. A box is a closed platform just like Roku. Any of the things you're worried about are just as likely with a separate piece of hardware running smart TV software as with the software running on the TV itself.

I love that we continue to refer to private/ incognito browsing as something mainly used "when you’re planning a surprise party or gift".

Are the frequent apple.com requests the phone checking to see if it has a working internet connection?

And if so are those responsible for the http (as opposed to https) traffic because they want to see if you're on a captive portal?

But gnu make can be built for freebsd without already having other gnu stuff (or itself), right?

If so, is it really unreasonable for another gnu project to expect you to get gmake first and use that in order to compile the project?

Just in case, next time you should manually read each of the 100k messages.

What's the "one tool" for Java? Is it Maven? Ivy? sbt? Gradle? You may say some of those are "build tools" rather than dependency tools, but I don't see how it's different than what we are discussing in Python.

My Java app declares its dependencies in a build.sbt file using Scala syntax and has them cached in an Ivy directory. Yours declares them in a pom file using XML syntax and has them cached in a Maven directory. Neither of us even tries to do lockfiles and instead just has the CI server build an "uber jar" with all the dependencies bundled in.

Yeah. I've considered moving from Google Play Music to Spotify, but I don't know if I'm ready to deal with Youtube having ads on my phone and TV (I know that ad blocking is an option on my laptop).

The actual "Youtube premium" is basically a non-factor in whether they would keep me, although I'll admit I did really enjoy season 1 of Cobra Kai.

Murder, candy and "black like my soul"? I think the kid's been listening to Die Antwoord: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkmiDwp_HC4