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Worth pointing out that in most of the schools of thought in Islam, it’s not advisable to have more than one wife, except in situations where there are significantly more women than men. Islam and polygyny have a long and complex cultural history which is pretty interesting. And there is also polyandry in Christian countries like Nigeria, where cultural exceptions have been made. It seems to be mostly an African & Indian subcontinent thing...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygyny_in_Islam

The author is simply reflecting the rising anger in the community. If you don't believe me, look for public polling on trust in Si valley and social media companies, look at politics, or just talk to anyone outside the bubble.

> Don't be disingenuous

"My interpretation is objective reality, but your interpretation is dumb". How about don't be an asshole, man?

I've used "Voice Dream" for this for years. It's brilliant. iOS/Android text to speech app:

http://www.voicedream.com/reader/

It has so many voices available in the voice store, and I've had no trouble reading books with it. I'm constantly amazed by the quality of some of these voices when played at high speed... They take breaths, express emotion, everything. My only problem is they occasionally mispronounce brands, names & acronyms: Quite amusing to learn about "Sharr-E-poynt" instead of "SharePoint", "Amd" not "A.M.D", or use an incorrect pronunciation of a character in a book when talking about the book... Can't really see how WaveNet would fix that, but look forward to seeing these voices turn up in Voice Dream.

It turns off Automatic reboots, not Automatic updates.

Hyper on windows is buggy AF tbh. cmder or conemu are more popular.

More options @ https://www.slant.co/topics/1552/~terminal-emulators-for-win...

Author should check out this script for an even more minimal setup :)

https://gist.github.com/alirobe/7f3b34ad89a159e6daa1

... Microsoft keep doing that. They've deployed development builds to Office 365 production.

Incidentally, Office 365 SharePoint is built on React.

Great ideas. It seems like this sort of 'sane defaults' functionality could easily be added to future versions of webpack, and that might really help with adoption... rather than this community endlessly switching tool chains.

Actually, that was only the case temporarily. For ...reasons... (I think it was the SkyDrive legal complaint?) the product rename happened before the client was technically consolidated.

Since January, OneDrive and OneDrive for Business use the same client and (on o365/SP16FP1) the same infrastructure & API. If you're using the old ODFB client that was bundled with old versions of Office, you should upgrade. The old ODFB was terrible, and MS has been trying to get rid of it for years. (If you're using an old version of SharePoint 2013/2016 to host OneDrive locally, you should probably patch that too.)

The new client is OK. But it's too late for me. MS have burnt me so many times with OneDrive/SkyDrive/Mesh/Windows Live/FolderSync at this point that I'm now an avowed Dropbox/Resilio user, and I won't be looking back for many years.

A similar consolidation will be happening with the new Skype/Skype for Business clients. They broke my TV's skype camera to make that happen, and it's still not happening. I've switched to Hangouts/FB Messenger. The main reason these transitions are taking so long is: (a) all the on-premises customers create backwards compatibility hell (b) complete confusion around authentication and (c) they doesn't seem to be very good at delivering good software.

The "OneDrive app" is a Windows 10 app store app, similar to the iOS and Android apps.

Aussie PM. Tony Abbott. Caught hell for saying it but I agree, it was accurate.

Australian traffic signals are also 'smart'. They don't cycle in non-peak hours. They just use sensors to detect oncoming traffic and route appropriately. Main roads default to green, but lights on side roads will switch just before you drive up to them.

This is why the buttons are necessary during non-peak hours... If I press the button, the light will go red as soon as it's safe. Jaywalking isn't a crime here, but this is still very useful in some situations.

Our "Coordinated Adaptive Traffic Control" systems are pretty awesome. Even during peak traffic, all the lights are controlled by a central control room, with a computer that manages all traffic flow as efficiently as possible. It will sometimes shut down a lane or modify a speed limit to allow emergency traffic through or prevent grid-lock further down the freeway, reducing overall travel time. It's able to simulate different traffic flow models and select the best one. The result is that even during peak hours, I can easily travel from the outer suburbs to the CBD (30k/20mi) in approx 40 minutes.

Details here: http://www.scats.com.au/

This is Visual Studio '15' (2017), not Visual Studio '15 (2015, v14).

You mean like an AMD APU?

The dev kit is $10k. I imagine the final product will be cheaper.

No. And that was added back in Windows 10.

I switched from OneDrive to Dropbox this year - was loyal to OneDrive since it was WL Mesh. Dropbox made a world of difference. No more duplicates, and so much easier to reorganize files.

Much of this is beyond me, but is it producing (synthesizing) sounds? Or just sampling sounds?

Is a BeagleBone like a raspberry pi? :)

Seems like if I really want to know what's going on at that level, I should really use something more simple, like a raspberry pi...

http://visualstudio.com Team Services is also pretty nice. Free unlimited hosted git repos for 5 users, also includes free build/test/load test/release/CI management, kanban boards, team chat rooms. eclipse/xcode/xyz integration, etc, etc. If you've got a small team, not bad.

Great battery life, but not very lappable...

I used to do that, until I realised that anything I could comprehend at 2.5x wasn't new to me, and therefore wasn't worth listening to at all. I cut my podcast subs by half (to a mere 100!) after figuring that out. I'm now at a lazy 1.4x (entertainment/philosophy) - 1.8x (technical).

Um. Isn't Yahoo powered by Bing anyway?

I found this really interesting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Islamic_philosophy

Notable contributions: Scientific method, peer review process, evolution, psychology, clinical trial process.

I always knew that the Qur'an was unique in posing scientific challenges to humanity rather than providing neat/tidy stories and explanations... but I never understood how much this resulted in what we call modernity.

... Have you seen their prices?

Yeah it's a consideration, but the mere use of an existing old wive's tale doesn't completely discount the possibility of there being some truth to it anyway...

Apple were not the first company to create a phone with navigation features.

Surface is a tablet which can also run Photoshop, AutoCAD, MATLAB, Visual Studio, Flash, and whatever other weird legacy apps are kicking around. It can multitask. It has a proper digitizer. It has a kickstand and a very innovative cover. Yes it's not a laptop. No it doesn't have the Android store. That doesn't mean it's useless.

(P.S. just noticed my hacker news account is 1337 days old today. wheee.)

This is very true. I think it's also probably true that it gets harder to trust code as you get closer to the coalface, much the same way as when collaboratively working on a document, one may become frustrated by another person's grammar or style - yet a third party reading the document would not be able to tell the difference. This I suspect also applies to chefs, plumbers, architects, and many other professions.