sillypog

I think you can get much higher ratios of CBD to THC in this format. This is what people with chronic pain and anxiety are looking for.

She is depicted as a deeply flawed and vindictive character. As a reader, it's easy to hate her and as I was reading it I imagined the author must have hated her too. But there are other women/girls in the story who come off in a much more positive, almost angelic, light so I don't think the author could be accused of misogyny here. Nor the husband in the book - his mariage seems to be something unpleasant that happens to him but he never seems to hold his wife's apparent flaws against her.

Completely agree, and I was a bit disappointed that the interviewer didn't take the opportunity to ask the author's wife her opinions on the way the wife is depicted in that book. She's such a terrible character, maybe there's no way to politely broach the subject!

Berkeley is tackling this issue with a “back on the street by the end of the day” approach to prosecuting laptop thefts.

They also have a game cafe where you pay $5 an hour to sit and play board games. I’ve never seen anyone whip out their laptop instead but that would be a pretty cheap coworking option.

I assume you mean Sid Vicious rather than Johnny Rotten, a smart and articulate guy whose other band, Public Image Ltd deserves plenty of acclaim regardless of whether or not they are punk “enough”.

It’s not like Malcolm McLaren was the Simon Cowell of his era. He started out as a shop keeper, had deep ties to the scene, and was an artist himself.

Plenty of worthwhile bands have had a leg up from well connected people over the years. At the very least it brings visibility to other artists in the genre and it certainly shouldn’t detract from your enjoyment of Holidays In The Sun.

The school I attended was founded in 1206. I don't think training factory workers was a top priority back then.

Having put in their time at UCSF, this person has most likely already made a decent contribution to the field, at the very least enabling their PI to continue their work. And who knows what they will go on to do now that they have escaped the crushing grind of academia?

Berkeley recently made it easier to build accessory dwelling units on a residential lot http://www.berkeleyside.com/2017/03/20/new-laws-make-even-ea.... I think people are pricing this in when they're buying property in Berkeley now - people who have the cash to invest in building these structures are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars more than the next best offers if the property has a good sized yard.

Sonja Trauss sure gets mentioned in a lot of articles for her work at the San Francisco Bay Area Renters Federation. No surprise to see she's running for Supervisor now.

I was just explaining Knightmare to an American the other day - I assume this was only aired in the UK. If they recreated that show as a VR app that might finally get me to buy the hardware.

Although you don't seem to like the president, you have made a lot of the same points as he did in his campaign. Maybe he will fix these issues and make America great again.

From the article:

"Heading north from Fremont is basically sadness. Hayward, Oakland, San Leandro, Richmond, Vallejo. They’re all poverty stricken and broken. The only green zones I see out in that area are maybe in Dublin, Pleasanton, Moraga, etc., but I honestly don’t know much about those areas because I seldom get out there."

Oh no, what happened to Piedmont, Berkeley, Kensington and all the other lovely East Bay towns? Perhaps the author is only seeing poverty because that's what he's looking for.

To me, the suggestion that living in Dublin is preferable to living in Oakland sounds bizarre. A lot of people in these "broken" cities would rather be there than anywhere else, so they must have something going for them.

I do think these are reasonable questions, and allowing the candidate to use their own laptop sounds very fair.

One thought though, not necessarily for the poster but for anyone who asks these questions: for the second question, finding common elements of two int arrays, the idiomatic Ruby answer is: x & y

Would you be satisfied with that answer? As a candidate, would I be expected to create a set of tests to ensure that it works, even though this is a standard feature of the language?

If you would not be satisfied with that answer, would you be surprised that a candidate might struggle with an alternative, knowing that they would never use an alternative in their normal coding experience?

This reminds me of one of the very best pieces of television I ever saw: BBC's Horizon documentary about The Mystery of the Persian Mummy: http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2001/persianmummy.shtml

The first half is breathless excitement on the part of historians who believe they've found an artifact that changes their understanding of an ancient culture, then it suddenly pivots into a murder investigation. Gripping stuff.

Now I'm imagining the children of the 16th century living in fear of... the Puckle!

I agree. I got a few items into the list and got the sense that a joke was being played. I wonder if the original poster had that sense too and was in on the joke?

You mention setting up a Phoenix app in Docker so I'll link to a couple of posts I wrote describing how I do that: https://dev.bleacherreport.com/starting-a-phoenix-project-wi..., https://dev.bleacherreport.com/brunch-in-a-container-phoenix.... I almost always start new Elixir projects in Docker for local development now, and deploy the images to Elastic Beanstalk. If you're not setting up a cluster it's not a bad option.

At Bleacher Report, we've definitely reduced operating costs on some of our services by switching to Elixir and running on fewer/smaller machines, and we routinely pick Elixir for new services now. But we also recently launched a Node service which could handle all frontend traffic on a single server, so in some ways it's hard to say whether the gains are more due to the technology or improvements in the service design.

Or "Did you see that ludicrous display last night?"

Firing is actually more important than hiring. To understand why, consider this simple chart I made up: as you see it is literally impossible to get any work done at all with 100 people. Sound impossible? Think of it differently: 2 people can pick a place to eat rather quickly; 10 is hard, but doable. 100 — impossible. Nobody will ever eat. 6 billion people? Our species is doomed!

My daughter practically couldn't be in the car before we put some videos on an iPad for her, I definitely second this as a good investment. We just went with a handful of favourite episodes though - it amazes me how many times she can rewatch the same story but I think that given the option she prefers episodes she knows.

I realise now that we've been watching Daniel Tiger through the PBS for Kids app, the videos we bought on iTunes, casting to the TV over Hulu, sometimes catching the morning showing over cable, and now we have Amazon Prime over PS3 as an option. I should probably make a donation to PBS!

There's a pretty big difference between getting a $35 Chromecast vs even last generation's console. Other than the cost, I also feel that now that I'm a parent, my consoles are just terrible reminders that I will never again have the time or inclination to play any of the wonderful games that go with them.

This is definitely why I prefer the Chromecast experience over loading Hulu through the PS3 (which is actually also pretty good, given that Daniel Tiger is always on the front page). It's a small difference, but when trying to get myself and my daughter ready in the morning, any reduction in friction is appreciated.

Roku currently has Amazon, Google Play, and Netflix. I would definitely not pay for a new device on the promise that providers will continue to support it.

I totally missed that. I must have blacked out from my rage. Thank you for your clarity!

I'm sure everyone will enjoy explaining to their toddlers why they can't watch Daniel Tiger anymore.

We actually have Amazon Prime, but I had been streaming Daniel Tiger to the television over a Chromecast using the Hulu app on an iPad. I don't think Amazon Prime works with Chromecast so now I have to look into an alternative, equally convoluted, option.

I don't think the results in SF would be that interesting - everyone is working on their app!

I have a metric now for interactions with strangers in San Francisco: Time to App. It's like Time to Crate in games, but here you time how long an otherwise interesting conversation turns to someone talking about their app.

At Bleacher Report we use a Ruby app called Gantree to manage this process. It pulls in appropriate ebextensions for the deploy by taking a convention over configuration approach, deriving the correct extensions from the stack name.

https://github.com/feelobot/gantree

I don't know if it's the best way, but having young children and joining a day care co-op worked for me.

With Apple releasing Metal, I think the vendors do have an interest in making developers lives easier if it helps to draw them into their platform. I'm just glad OpenGL is still supported at this point.

"People" might be the central node.

As a developer working at a media company, I often see us run articles with terribly misused phrases (like how one sports team will "route" another). I try to point out these issues when I see them but ultimately I think it won't matter - eventually there will be more people who think the incorrect version is correct and at that point it will in fact be the correct version based on common usage.