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At some point here we're going to have to stop drawing silly lines on the ground and consider ourselves all humans. We have a finite amount of time to get off the planet or our whole species is doomed.

It uses a "Virtual DOM" such that it can calculate the most efficient way to modify the real DOM (which is generally very slow).

For example, if you change the data model behind an ng-repeat right now, Angular deletes the old element from the DOM and writes a new one. Angular 2, and React, will figure out that just the internal information of the element changed and it will just change that bit.

One issue I've heard from a couple friends that worked for the NSA is that they have no idea what they're working on. One friend said he would just get specifications for input into a module and what the module should output. He wrote tests around the specs and wrote the module but had no idea what it was part of.

I've also met programmers who are just out to get a stable job. I bet the NSA looks for people like this. "Sit here, do your job, get this paycheck"

Would you fly in a used plane? Eventually no one will care. These rockets will be able to go through hundreds of flights before being retired.

I saw some students prove that water can be an effective radiation barrier. The only problem is that it's heavy. If we were already going somewhere with a lot of water...

Well the FAA wants the drone pilot to have a commercial pilot license in order to shoot commercial video with it. Seems entirely silly to me. In my opinion there should be an altitude requirement involved here. Like, okay if you own a drone that is capable of going over 2000 ft you need a license to fly it regardless of whether you'll be filming. I have no idea if that is a reasonable threshold or not.

Yes but say you're a torrenting site that allows users to upload their original content to distribute and ISPs block your traffic because they think all torrents are illegal. Then you'd care a lot about that clause.

Well Lane did confirm his silly anecdote about his ex wife. That was a very inappropriate response to an employee reaching out to him about sexual harassment. He should have hired an HR consultant immediately.

Additionally Nazre has a history of sexually harassing female coworkers so at this point it's looking pretty cut and dry.

EXACTLY. The _only_ appropriate response to an employee approaching you with a harassment complaint and asking for HR intervention would be to get a representative (sounds like they didnt have one) and a lawyer involved immediately. Followed by asking if she needs anything to continue working while feeling safe.

What in the world was going through this guy's head?

I reject this assertion that people get ripped "out of the zone". What are you doing that is so complex that you can't jump right back into it?

I've met plenty of people that like to act like they're some super elite programmer that is juggling complex class structures and debugging them inside their head. In my experience so far, those people are full of shit and make overly complex spaghetti code. Idk though, maybe this is different between web development and something like game engine development.

sure, but they're more like screens that can be looked around or removed.

I also like just being able to grab my laptop and flick the connector off really quick.

Not to be a dick here but I think you're in a minority. I dont think many users are going to run into this issue.

He's trying to argue that net neutrality would mean a child watching youtube could slow down another user's content, like a hospital. This is silly and shows he knows nothing about current technology. The current system allows customers to pay for guaranteed speeds from their ISP. The net neutrality issue involves the ISP charging content providers to delivery content to their customers who are already paying.

Anyone that doesn't think there is a problem should try asking a female dev about her experiences in her career. Besides typical societal problems like calling 35 year old women "girls" and forcing them to choose between having a family or a successful career, they face all sorts of discrimination and sexism that men don't even realize they're doing. My SO on multiple occasions has been told things like "You're the best female dev I've ever seen", "It's so nice to have girls on the team!", and "Don't worry you'll find a job because companies always want female devs". Add on top of this any sort of general sexist behavior that is rampant in offices like unwanted advances, inappropriate touching, etc. It becomes really painfully obvious why there aren't more women in tech.

To be fair, it's pretty improbable to accidentally hit the ISS. It takes really precise maneuvers and calculations to get there on purpose.

The guy you're replying to is scare mongering. We're at the step now where the FCC is opening the regulations up for public comment. Obviously they aren't going to release their footnotes before they've iterated on the regulations internally. All of the negative comments on here are essentially "why haven't we seen this yet?!?!?!" on the day they decided its ready for people to see. It's all quite childish bickering bordering on obvious public opinion manipulation.

I can't help but feel that statistic they're using is a little disingenuous. Yes cannabis has a ridiculously high lethal dose, more than you could ever smoke or consume. You'd basically have to create a concentrate and inject it directly or something.

I don't think you should be saying that cannabis is 114 times less deadly than alcohol. There are other contributing factors that could cause harm. There seems to be no research into carcinogenic qualities of cannabis smoke for example. I'm an avid user of cannabis but I dont think we need to go around pretending like there are no side effects and its completely harmless.

This is really disappointing. I've been psyching myself up for the landing for weeks now. :(

I think it would be more reasonable to monitor your child's search history and talk to them about pornography than to try and hide it from them and treat sex like its dirty and gross.

Well the AMA was supposed to be SpaceX only. I'm not surprised that questions about Tesla were deleted or ignored.

I think open office layouts need to be paired with easily accessed private rooms. The successful layouts I've seen will have a large area everyone works in with the outer walls lined with small and medium sized meeting rooms. Either for private conversations, personal phone calls, or if a team needs to meet and not disrupt everyone else. I can see how an open layout with literally no private space would be terrible.

This needs to be said more. I absolutely love being in an open office layout because it allows for easy collaboration as well as the occasional spontaneous fun interruption. People seem to get hung up on the interruptions as if they lose tons and tons of productivity. I just haven't experienced issues like that personally. I find that the interruptions are a welcome break to the monotony of staring at code for 8 hours a day.

The privacy issue also needs to be addressed on a cultural level as well. My first job was open layout but I had one of those nosey managers that wants to know what you're doing every 15 minutes. I got talked to for being on Facebook during my lunch break. In order to really have a successful open office layout you need to have everyone on board and prepared to "let go" a little. Yeah people goof off during the day. We aren't robots that can sit down at 8:30 and constantly type for the next 8 to 9 hours. At my current job no one really cares if they walk up to you to ask a question and you happen to be taking a couple minutes to clear your head and look at cat gifs. I think that's the way it should be.

Yeah I'm thinking more like connect some of the major cities. Maybe Denver to Chicago to Austin? I'm not an expert on the geography between those places though. I'm just spitballing. The Hyperloop doesn't really make stops. Its designed for long distance end to end trips.

I don't understand why there is so much focus on doing this in California where they have tons of development and the huge issue of earth quakes. Surely there's somewhere else that could reap the benefits of fast travel. Off the top of my head I would suggest doing this through the midwestern states which are incredibly flat and mostly void of development for hundreds of miles. You can pay ranchers and farmers for the right to build the support towers on their land. You'd have to worry about tornados and hail storms though. I'm not sure how much concern that would be. If this this is all steel and concrete it should be strong enough right?

Maybe it's 25 students + 100 working professionals?

You have some valid points but I think you may be incorrect on this one.

> 1. You launch eastwards so you get the bonus speed from earth's rotation

Once the ship leaves the ground the earth's rotation has little to do with the flight except for landing location.

source: I play KSP

What? I find the Slack App to be fantastic and I prefer it to using slack.com. The biggest benefit to me is that macgap allows them to use native desktop growl notifications instead of WebNotifications which feel clunkier.

If you already have a great web app and want to allow users to install locally instead of having to keep a browser tab open macgap is fantastic. You can do a minimal amount of work to add great functionality and you dont need to hire a bunch of objective-C devs to clone your web app.

Somebody better call up the Slack devs and let them know they're doing something terrible. It's really going to hurt their image.

My team is using Angular for an app that contains large tabular data all over the place. We ended up having to rewrite the table generation in jQuery and now we've got a POC in development using React. Most other places we've had to use shims like angular-once to make menus performant. At this point we're building work-arounds for most of the things that makes Angular special.