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Be Kind 10 years ago

Laughing at someone's code is like laughing at someone's painting or their novel or really any other creative endeavor. It's not ok period.

Be Kind 10 years ago

That is completely unacceptable behavior. If you were in my company I would petition to have you fired. I hold a strict no asshole rule, life is too short to work with people who would do something like that.

Be Kind 10 years ago

It sounds like your org is lacking in some basic leadership. If issues are brought up in the code it either needs to be corrected or justified with the team.

If you don't want a catalytic converter on your car for performance or intentionally running rich a/f mix etc.. you can put the O2 sensor into a "spark plug tool" that'll trick the O2 sensor into thinking all is well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqDmmLQ4pGk

Hacks are not required to be sophisticated to be effective and people will find them. Maybe for example if you place a 1/4 inch of extra plastic in front of the front facing radar it'll make the car follow more aggressively then it's calibrated for, who knows! that's a made up example but I expect this stuff is going to happen as it already does.

Heavy in relation to trucks is usually linked with "heavy duty" which is a good thing. Many truck manufacturers use "heavy duty" in their branding.

We Need a Better PC 10 years ago

I'm not sure I get it? Why not just buy a Macbook and install Ubuntu? you get the nicely designed hardware and don't have to run OSX if you don't want to.

“I thought … there should be proper rules and regulations,” Batth says. “We have a very corrupt society back in India. With money, anything gets done. I never thought it would be the same in this country.”

I found quite a bit of irony in this quote, The taxi industry has historically been very corrupt. Bribes to city officials to artificially keep the prices for medallions going up (not adding new ones) and to prevent competition are common. I do feel bad for this driver but at some point if you're paying $250k for a chunk of metal you have to stop and think that what you're really paying for is a monopoly in performing a specific action I.E picking up passengers that hail you and this is not a guarantee that that business continue to be worth what it was.

Also, lets not forget that this all really kicked off once we changed our style of governments feudalistic to capitalistic. It's not the last 100 years but rather the last 200 that made the difference the industrial revolution put into place the foundation for the advances of the 20th century. It's hard to get headwind on advancements when every few years all your stuff is being taken away due to the whims of the king/queen/new invaders etc..

The solution is not to tax "toys" as you call them, there are already plenty of existing tax dollars to go around. The larger issue is that we would rather buy 1700 F35 fighters instead of funding NASA for the next 10 years. Actually even the F35 is a slightly more reasonable use of money then some of the other things that make it onto the budget. The money is there in many cases but the will to use it for NASA is not since to many NASA is considered a toy.

Likely HDMI 1.4, 24fps @ 4k, 30fps @ UHD. Interestingly the new Apple TVs hardware is capable of 4k even though it does not currently "support it" (HDMI 1.4, and A8 with can play 4k)

The original Wii shows that yes, they do. The Wii was SD when HD was the hot thing and yet still sold like hotcakes (at the time) because it was casual (non gamer) friendly.

In my apps I generally use the Hamburger menu to hide stuff that's required but not used very often. (Settings, legal agreements etc..) Since engagement is lower for these things anyway it allows you to have them there if needed without cluttering the main content that should be the focus.

Hacker News. I can’t say I un­der­stand the pur­pose of this site, founded by ven­ture cap­i­tal­ist Paul Gra­ham. I have two guesses. One is that it’s like Red­dit for pro­gram­mers, but they can claim that us­ing it is work, not goof­ing off. My other guess, since it has no ads, is that it acts as Mr. Graham’s panop­ti­con into his com­mu­nity of in­ter­est, as Cere­bro does for Prof. Xavier. Any­how, what­ever bored pro­gram­mers are spending their money on, it’s def­i­nitely not me.

lol That sounds about 90% right. In my experience most people don't even blink if they see a programmer with HN open.

DDR3 and DDR4 are about the same performance and Skylake supports DDR3. You most likely don't need to upgrade your RAM regardless.

I can recommend the i5 4460 which is about ~$180. It's a locked 4690k for about $60 less but honestly is able to play even the most demanding games on Ultra settings (Witcher 3 / GTA 5) if pared with a good GPU. I would advise picking up a Z97 Motherboard to go with it so if you do want to upgrade the processor in a few years you have a path to the higher end of the Haswell line.

CPUs seemed to hit their sweet spot around 2010 and have not made a huge amount of practical progress since. Up until about 2 weeks ago my gaming PC was running a i5 750 a processor released back in 2009 and still able to run all but the most demanding games on max settings GTA5 being the exclusion. Even my video cards (GTX660ti in SLI) are on older side having been released back in 2012/2013?.

Recently My PSU Blew and took the motherboard with it so I purchased a i5 4460/Z97 Combo for about $300 from Amazon which clears up the bottleneck in GTA5. This CPU is already a year old but I'm glad to see it's within 1-2FPS of the new chips in most games. Most likely won't even need to look at upgrading for another 5 years.

I think to some extent intel is backing themselves into a corner with this release, their last generation was so good (i5 4690k or 4460) that Skylake seems rather lackluster.

Objective C has been around since the 1980s, it has a long history with NeXT and Apple thus is very mature. Code you write in Objective C now can reasonably be expected to stay very similar going forward. Swift however is still very much in the wind where you run into "well this language feature has not been implemented yet" and with each version that is released your code needs to be migrated or changed to accommodate the changes in the language. The path forward is clear with Objective C vs Swift where you just don't know if some of the issues will even be addressed. I've been writing Objective C since 2007 and Swift since shortly after it was released. Swift still has a long way to go before I would use it as the starting language for a new app that I expected to have users / maintain.