msimpson

> it is possible that your company can not afford a bit longer learning curve in the beginning.

That is exactly my point and what I would have replied, otherwise. I just cannot spend that level of non-billable time teaching.

I'm writing this comment on a Q4 14" Razer Blade and there's only two things that could make me happier:

1. An upgrade to a Samsung 2TB 960 PRO M.2 (which I will do soon).

2. A fucking Intel HD 530 driver which doesn't cause intermittent flickering. Note: this is absolutely an Intel borne issue. I have tested, at length.

I've handled the hiring of almost all Web developers within my company for the last half decade, and in that time I have hired absolutely zero women. Yet, this has nothing to do with discrimination and much more to do with the applicants themselves and the numbers by which they apply.

During this time, I've seen Web design positions attract females applicants by about a two-thirds majority, whereas Web development positions attract only one in twenty (if that). And yet, those who have applied seem to fit into two distinct categories of undesirables:

First, the designer, with a design degree, who learned to code from some two-week academy that now feels the need to apply for a position well beyond their skill level. Or second, the mathematics major (or similar) who feels their knowledge of topics only related to programming in general is satisfactory enough to hit the ground running as a Web developer of all things...

So I'll be happy to discuss the potential of a wage gap if I ever seem to hire a true female Web developer.

Good point.

AMD Ryzen 1800X (Summit Ridge):

3.6 GHz (4.0 GHz Turbo) over 16 threads

15,812 Passmark for ~$500

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Intel i7-7700K (Kaby Lake):

4.2 GHz (4.5 GHz Turbo) over 8 threads

12,321 Passmark for ~$350

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Intel Core i7-6850K (Broadwell E):

3.6 GHz (4.0 GHz Turbo) over 12 threads

14,500 Passmark for ~$575

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Competition is back. Ya!

> "Carrying no devices ... interrogated for hours."

Right. So citizens who are aware that the CBP can now peer into their personal affairs decide to leave their devices at home as a matter of privacy and principal. Therefore, this makes these citizens suspicious enough to be interrogated for hours, because:

> People who don’t own laptops, tablets and/or smartphones yet travel internationally don’t exist anymore.

Give me a break.

If you fear phishing, type the wrong password and see if it takes it. If yes, it's obviously a phisher app/site/whatever.

> A study of 4,000 women who had recently changed jobs found that the #1 reason women leave companies is because of “a concern for the lack of advancement opportunity.”

The same study which found that men leave companies for the exact same reason? Meaning there is no inequality in the lack of advancement opportunities ...

Ditto. Here's hoping the Ryzen will pan out and force Intel's hand.

Who said it wasn't?

> There are thousands of small cities all over the world and nobody has to enforce population growth.

Yet, there are many instances where population growth or decline has become an issue due to economic drivers, alone. Over the last 23 years Detroit has lost 34% of its population while Austin has gained 44%. You can't just assume people will distribute evenly into nice small groupings when they are granted freedom of movement and the right to pursue happiness.

Like everything else, you build for scalability and do your best to maintain.

To create and maintain smaller cities you would need to enforce controls on population growth and distribution. Controls which are abhorred by the civilized world.

You just described London.

Using a couple of impoverished Indians, who barely understanding English, as the basis of a joke? Totally fine.

Having them repeat a four year old anti-Semitic Internet meme? Aw, hell naw.

So the best offer the WSJ can provide is "All Access Digital" for $198 over 12 months, after which the price is doubled to $396 for the same length of time. That means, eventually, you'll be spending about $33 a month just to read what are mostly AP stories without even the guarantee of an ad-free experience.

How is this attractive?

> Atom 1.14 has shipped today with improved large file performance

1. Updates to Atom 1.14

2. Attempts to open a 64MB SQL dump in Atom

3. "Atom will be unresponsive during the loading of very large files"

4. Clicks "Proceed"

5. "The editor has crashed"

Yet, I can open the exact same SQL dump in VIM and it displays immediately and I can scroll down with minimal lag. However, smaller files (5-10MB) used to do the same in Atom and now they are fine. So improved, yes. Fixed, no!

For me, however, this still makes the editor untrustworthy. I can't be sure if it's going to take a while to load a large log file or suddenly crash.

I use Atom in Windows and have constant issues with search and replace via selection and large file support. And while these issues are known, I've yet to see a fix.

Consider maintenance of the object in question, now it's a task of removing glue versus screws.

"Campus policing originated with the establishment of the Yale Campus Police Department in 1894. Yale, located in New Haven, Connecticut, began an agreement with the New Haven Police Department to have two of their officers assigned exclusively to the campus as a means to deter crime on campus, and to better student-police relations. Shortly thereafter these two officers were hired by Yale to keep law and order on the campus. It was not until 73 years later that most college and university security departments became police departments. With the protest of the Vietnam War, the Kent State incident, and crime increasing on college campuses all over America, most of the 50 states did not pass laws authorizing colleges to have their own campus police department until the late 1960's."

Davis, R. (1967). History Of Campus Policing. Retrieved February 2, 2017, from http://www.oocities.org/odupd/

If system administration was carpentry, SELinux would be the glue. And sometimes, it's just easier to use screws.

Mistakes will happen, sure. But given the following:

> The replication procedure is super fragile, prone to error, relies on a handful of random shell scripts, and is badly documented

> Our backups to S3 apparently don’t work either: the bucket is empty

It seems like a lot of their backup and restore procedures were never even tested.

A programmer spends much more time reading code than actually typing it. This is why we have mode-based editors, like vi(m). Encouraging speed is not really helpful for this task.

Ha. Not only are you missing my point, but you obviously feel the need to down vote my comments as well. That's pathetic.

Given some of the comments here I think it's important to note that the thermal properties of Vanadium are well known and the metal has been used for years in high-speed steel and alloys, such as Chrome Moly Vanadium, where heat is the enemy.

This discovery in regard to conductivity could be game changing, but it's not really a surprise.

Wait, does this mean B&H is an arms dealer?

A "strong background in signal processing" is not required to generate the results detailed in this article using ffmpeg.

Nor does this article provide any information enhancing the user's understanding of the encoding options employed by the various presets discussed or the ultimate effects they hold in regard to signal processing.

While true, one should always remember, "If it makes a mistake, it's because I screwed it up."

Your definition of an average user cannot use HandBrake, either.

This isn't really a deep dive into HandBrake or video transcoding, it's more of an examination of presets that wrapper provides.

You'd be better off diving into the foundation of HandBrake and using it directly:

https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki

Also, in before, "ffmpeg is too complicated for the average user ..." It isn't, you just need to RTFM.

> "Anti-Adblock killer list"

> "Adblock Warning Removal list"

Ugh, no. I will not be participating in an arms race against advertisements. Either a site yields to my use of an ad blocker or they lose my traffic entirely. End of story.