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Can we get a screenshot?
I don't understand. How is Amiga not WIMP?
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Device drivers are the original OO in operating systems and they seem to work pretty well. Without any OO support in the programming language.
Governments don't resort to this trick? Are you kidding?
"Neither have been designed well, both are the products of random evolutionary pressures."

As is every living being.
During Microsoft's heyday, if your company used Windows and you wanted to try some other OS, you were out of luck: It would be enormously expensive to transition to another one -- you'd have to buy or write all new software and retrain all your employees.

But if you're a Google user and you want to switch to some other search engine... you just switch. Instantly.
I think that they are talking about discoverability. They are probably comparing it with Xerox Alto or similar.
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Assistant professor is the entry-level academic position in the US.

Many people do a postdoc first, but it's not uncommon to go straight to assistant professor right after getting your Ph.D., especially if you came out of a renowned school like MIT.
I didn't exactly say that. But I think you and others are underestimating our collective skills. We make stupid decisions, get tired, etc., but we manage to recover, workaround others' mistakes, etc. I think people are underestimating how hard it will be to get "the last 10%" of driving skill, that gap between slapping together cruise control+camera+radar+GPS to be able to handle the best-case scenarios, and being able to drive at least as well as the average human in the average-case scenarios.

Another thought: what if it takes a generation or longer for self-driving cars to do well with cases like slippery rain or ice? People will stop practicing how to drive at all, until suddenly one day they have to drive in the most dangerous conditions possible. Will the net cost/casualties of accidents still be lower than it is today?
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Oculus also has a Seattle office which was probably set up to keep Atman Binstock and Michael Abrash happy. Mind you, those offices near home don't just help to attract the stars but also their local network of coworkers: Oculus pulled in a lot of ex-Valve and ex-Id people.
I suppose it depends on what your standard is
and what you're comparing it with. The Insurance Institute for highway safety says there is about 1 fatality per 100 million vehicle miles travelled in the US.

http://www.iihs.org/iihs/topics/t/general-statistics/fatalit...

That still translates into a lot of annual deaths of course (and doesn't capture the many serious injuries not included in that statistic). But humans actually drive a lot of miles with relatively few serious accidents.
Even after all these years, Project Xanadu is still kicking, trying to do something like this - "the longest-running vaporware story in the history of the computer industry". http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/3.06/xanadu.html
> Are you more interested in getting a cheap flashable router than in air safety?

Yes, it's more important that 299m Americans who don't live beside an airport be able to use that spectrum than some small number of passengers per year that may or may not die in a possible crash that might be caused by wifi interference.

There are so many lower-hanging fruit for safety that this is a non-issue.
There's a false analogy here. Driverless elevators raised a concern in regard to the safety of the elevator cab's occupants in what was primarily a matter of private policy on private property. Essentially any public policy decision was about regulating the use of private property within private spaces and any citizen could opt out by taking the stairs.

On the other hand there are primary concerns with driverless cars in regard to the safety of non-occupants in the public commons and therefore it is primarily a matter of public policy regulating the use of private property in public spaces. The notion that opting out of public spaces is healthy for citizenship in general seems antithetical to a meaningful concept of citizenship in a liberal polity.

There are luddite concerns over self-driving cars. But there's an auto-industry counter tale of "Remembering when Tetra-Ethyl Lead in Gasoline was Considered a Good Thing."
Doesn't appear to support https. Ideally a similar mechanism to say Fiddler/Charles Proxy where a certificate is provided and appropriately translates the https between both sides of the connection. Obviously you would need to trust a new root. I'm fine with that on a dev/qe machine.

Basically, DNS injection for a machine would mean no noticeable difference in HTTPS.
I don't think so. The reason a recent hire is well suited to onboarding a new hire is because process of onboarding is very dynamic and changing and its a one time or at least rare thing in the life of an employee. The onboarding process the new employee is going to go through is likely completely different from what a employee might have gone through 15 years ago but is probably almost identical to want someone hired 15 days ago went through. It seems silly to me to compare who is best at providing help to complete a single, short, well defined task to who may be best at advising how to live a happy productive adult life. How could a fresh 18 year old adult possible give advice on how to balance your work and family life?

Edit: Now if you were to narrow the question to: What age of adviser is best for assisting a young high school grad with their transition to college life such a comparison might be more meaningful.
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> I think I can be a software engineer

I have no doubt in my mind that you can. Keep at it.

> ... not everything I have ever done has been a success

> ... algorithms are challenging

> ... new javaScript framework every week

> ... thousands of other men and women trying to get jobs

This may sound rude, but -- no one cares about any of this. All you need is more experience IMO and creating websites or writing software to scratch your own personal itch will be your best investment.

> ... willing to keep trying ... until I die

Okay, that's probably good. Don't give up.

> build using modern web technology ... Using tools like Grunt, Git, GitHub, JIRA are second-nature

You mentioned github but don't include a link to your account or any repos on your resume. If you haven't published anything, take time to demonstrate some competence and create a public repo. It will serve as a portfolio that employers can review.

> Bachelor of Science in Business Administration

Wow -- BusAd? A university degree is so expensive these days. Why spend so much money getting a degree that intersects so little with your interests?

Well, regardless, it doesn't matter. For my degree, I learned about automata and all kinds of other stuff that I so rarely apply to work. Just get experience working on software and the career will follow.
IIRC Carmack said he had to stop working on Armadillo because his wife was concerned about how much it was costing the family. Presumably they were down to their last x million dollars.
If you read the "WimpIsBroken" article linked from the same rant, you will see it reference, negatively, of course, the Windows 8 design, so it can't be all that old, or at the very least, it has been updated recently.

I generally dismiss a lot of the things the author is saying for 3 reasons:

1. The author is listing a lot of problems without actually specifically listing why they are in fact problems. For instance, he states that neither Windows nor Unix can teach you how to program. Why would my OS need to be able to teach me how to program? That's like complaining that my Car doesn't teach me how to rebuild the transmission, or my refrigerator doesn't teach me how to generate refrigerant. That's just an obvious example that jumped out at me, there are many others.

2. The author is pointing out a lot of problems without actually pointing out any solutions. People who point out problems but provide no solutions are generally useless. If you ever worked on a project with a person like that, you know what I am talking about.

3. c2.com lacks any sense of design or taste. The author also lacks any ability to communicate his point of view in a logical and consistent manner. I wouldn't trust the author to design a Ski Free game, let alone an operating system. In reality, if tasked with a job to write a Ski Free game, the author would instead return a 30 page paper on the subject of problems with modern game design.
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Wouldn't it be simpler to design a 'computer' that can't be hacked by opening an email attachment or clicking on a URL.
Your teacher was a fucking idiot. What was his name, and what city does he live in?
That may be the rational response under certain morals, but not everybody is rational always or has the same morals. Who is legally responsible for those Y deaths? Or, even if there was no death but the car broke a traffic law, how is that addressed? If the Y deaths are disproportionately a distinct class of people from X (say, pedestrians, construction workers), are they going to be eligible for some class action lawsuit? Or will it deepen class divides as poor pedestrians become bitter about being hit by self-driving cars carrying rich people? Are the "drivers" going to suffer guilt, wondering if there's something they could have done to prevent an accident? Are issues like this going to cause the law to require a human "standby driver" ready to take over, canceling many of the hoped-for advantages of self-driving cars? If drivers have legal or monetary liability, are they going to want to hand that over to a machine built as cheaply as possible and designed by overworked startup engineers? (perhaps the first generations at least.) Will the cars keep audit records to prove "who" was driving, etc.?

Maybe some of this is getting off-topic; I'm just musing on how complex the practical and societal factors could get.
Why are you just a software QA engineer with your skills?
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> What does ZFS have to do with this?

Presumably ZFS is immune from CryptoLocker. CryptoLocker can only compromise NTFS 'computers'.
I totally agree with the sentiment, but remember that for each of us, as we look at other people(s) there's a breathtaking number of activities that we would consider wasteful.

While I am not a huge fan of cultural relativism, I appreciate that there may be some validity in considering such things through that lens. Though it may just be hopefully healthy self-doubt.

Academic exercise -- what differences would you imagine for transition to a UBI between, say, India with this kind of social norm, the UK or AU (as examples with a half-way decent welfare and some 'work for unemployment benefits' programmes), and the USA or Singapore (again as examples, with extremely modest welfare arrangements)?
I haven't looked into it in depth, but AFAIK weather radar works at X band, doesn't it? And it doesn't detect air movement, but water droplets, correct?
While I don't really disagree with the general point, 200 years ago there was minimal understanding of medical sterilization methods and no anesthetics so it's certainly understandable that surgery at least was viewed with, shall we say, suspicion. Given that you would probably die or be seriously incapacitated in some way.
Stutters pretty bad on my UHD screen :(
I am not sure when it was written, but it references "WimpIsBroken" article on the same page. That article has been updated to also bash Windows 8 design. So, if not written, then it must have been at least updated somewhat recently. So I am guessing the author still agrees with all of his points of view.
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They got a 20% return on 6 billion, more specifically
Planes need 3D steering and trains 1D... yet we have driverless planes and not driverless trains.
What alternative does he propose? I don't see any. Furthermore, why doesn't he propose/create practical, incremental improvements? In the meanwhile, I am just going to stay compatible with all the miracles and all the horrors of the past! ;-)
Yet, oddly, of the hundreds of people that contact me this way a year...

0 of them have something I want to buy.
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That might still be an argument in favor of microkernels if the Linux process can't crash the machine or cause it to miss hard-real-time deadlines. Or if you can use it to confine malicious code in the Linux process.
> Every part of your system must now know the hash structure you're using and often reproduce logic in many places like dealing with optional keys that may be missing.

Why not just write accessors and mutators for your hashes? Also, Python hash a function dict.get(key, default). Does Ruby not have this?
Universa is Spitznagel's fund right? I follow Nassim very closely and he is my largest influence but I am just getting the facts straight here. He did say in one of his interviews it has the same people as his old fund and he shut it down due to throat cancer (empirica).
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This is why I don't think top-down socialism will work in the US, we're just too economically, politically, and culturally diverse for one system. Now, on a state level I think in some places it could definitely thrive, but for some reason the leftists want everything done on a federal level, making it much harder to institute social programs and make them work.
How does it compare to the same amount of money put in VOO over the past 5 years?
It only talks about customer pricing and there is a lot more to it than that. On overly nice founder might have trouble of disposing of a bad employee, which could destroy the culture or destroy the product. They might accept worse investment terms by being nice to investors which might allow themselves to be removed.

So, in terms of not overpricing the product, there is a valid discussion to have. But in terms of being a pushover, that's a bad thing. Often nice people get taken advantage of. So ther needs to be a clear differentiator between nice pricing/marketing and being firm and leading from the front. A founder needs respect from their team and nice might not make that happen.
I propose TempleOS for this author.
People who are treated well by systems will generally defend those systems, even if it means rationalizing acts of injustice or cruelty happening just next door.

At the very least, how much a person is willing to question the hand that feeds them can reveal the strength of their character to others.
we're on aws, so we use vpc with security groups that limit connections to our vpn or a bastion server at our network edge

i'm not aware of anyone running an erlang or elixir repl over http but it would be an interesting project
Nice people give up more equity than they should and trust the people with the money.

If you really want personal success, you need to show strength, not be 'nice'. Otherwise, the only person you will be making successful are the venture capitalists.

I've seen this time and time again: many venture capitalists feel that new founders haven't paid their 'dues' and don't deserve to have a share larger than essentially an employee.

There should be statistics on YC companies: What percentage of founders actually end up making a significant amount of any buyout.

I'm guessing it's a very small percentage...
That story about the bicycle made me wonder if we're going to wind up with traffic deadlocks in the near future.
It is called a hedge fund, after all.
Since we've opted for a flexible item table structure (not every business out there requires the "item", "description", "item price", "total" structure) the table columns can pretty much anything, so the application currently have no way determining what to multiply with what.

Not sure about the number of digits in the totals, but obviously this should be unlimited. On our own installation we're in the for digits, so there should not be an issue with this.

Discounts are located in the Financials tab. It's a simple invoicing app, so there's no way to specify a discount based on when the invoice is paid (nor are we likely to implement something like this).

Terms can be placed in the invoice footer.
Thanks for the link, I listened to the Ramos bit. To me, it was noticeable the narrator already took a point of view. It also advocated taking points of view and saw taking a point of view on certain issues necessary (in this case advocating for undocumented immigrants).

Immigrations is a tough issue. There is the human factor. When confronted with the individual cases, it's hard to make a case against open borders. But if we took it to the extreme, we know neither the US nor Europe can accommodate the rest of the world without becoming like the world those people are trying to avoid. (Most of the people are economic immigrants).

In addition, suppose we could sustain a European or North American lifestyle. What would resource demand look like if either sustained 100 million or 500 million immigrants?

Also, what is the responsibility of the bad governments for their poor stewardship of their own people? And what about the questions of a North American or European working freely in anyone of those countries? I think it's a two way street. If we open our borders, so should they. And it should be reciprocal. We open it up to Cuba, Cuba opens it up to us. We open it up to the Netherlands, they open it up to us, etc.
I think it is possible.

Easily hooking up to large monitors and/or 4K TVs will be important. Also new designs in furniture, where some table and counter surfaces becoming virtual keyboards with nearby displays will help also. My Note 4 is powerful enough for a lot of work with better peripheral support.
Jnthn's been giving this talk for a while, but my understanding is that he keeps it updated, and he did recently make some large changes to the language WRT these features, so tihs may have updated material in it.

Edit: Yes, it's drastically different than the original version he gave a year ago. Worth watching again if you've already seen it, IMO.
>Are issues like this going to cause the law to require a human "standby driver" ready to take over, canceling many of the hoped-for advantages of self-driving cars?

The law can say whatever it wants but there's effectively no such thing as a "standby" (for <30+ second timeframes) for a driving system that's operating autonomously. The driver is watching a movie, reading a book, or sleeping. And if the driver isn't allowed to do any of those things--say by the system shutting down if they take their eye off the road for more than 5 seconds--no, then, the system is largely useless.

In which case people won't pay for it except to the degree that it's essentially an assistive driving safety system.
Under current fourth amendment law, the data collected is likely to be viewed as verizon business records, not as the "papers" or "effects" of the complainant. If that it is the court's analysis then only verizon would have standing to object to the collection of the records, since only verizon would have a possessory interest in them, and only verizon would be harmed by their illegal search or seizure.
Thanks for your feedback! Will follow up on it!
Quoting from Hesse's Siddhartha about a merchant chiding Siddhartha for a rice-deal he did not complete.

"That's all very nice," exclaimed Kamaswami indignantly, "but in fact, you are a merchant after all, one ought to think! Or might you have only travelled for your amusement?"

"Surely," Siddhartha laughed, "surely I have travelled for my amusement. For what else? I have gotten to know people and places, I have received kindness and trust, I have found friendship. Look, my dear, if I had been Kamaswami, I would have travelled back, being annoyed and in a hurry, as soon as I had seen that my purchase had been rendered impossible, and time and money would indeed have been lost. But like this, I've had a few good days, I've learned, had joy, I've neither harmed myself nor others by annoyance and hastiness. And if I'll ever return there again, perhaps to buy an upcoming harvest, or for whatever purpose it might be, friendly people will receive me in a friendly and happy manner, and I will praise myself for not showing any hurry and displeasure at that time."
Western Digital

(obviously don't know, but I have had maybe 3 or 4 failed Segates in my entire career and 50+ dead Western Digital drives)
Well, radical surgery was needed -- it just wasn't at the level of the operating system interface, but rather much deeper in the implementation. For example, ZFS post-dates this rant and certainly represents a radical rethink of filesystems -- but it did this without breaking extant applications. That extant applications were (and are) a constraint on the problem is something that's entirely unappreciated by mid-1990s OS research, which was hellbent on throwing out existing abstractions rather than building upon them.

Finally, in terms of Spring: based on the fact that you are implicitly defending it, I would guess that you never had to run it. As one of the very few outside of Sun inflicted with that flaming garbage barge, I can tell you that it was not at all a pleasurable experience -- and that whatever novelty it represented was more than offset by its horrifically poor implementation. If I ever harbored any illusions about Spring, they certainly didn't survive my first encounter with a machine running it...
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Does anyone know if the original requirements documents for these systems was ever published or archived?
Not using Google Fusion Tables :)

https://www.amigocloud.com/api/v1/users/22/projects/3153/dat...

By the way, here is the data in many different formats (kml, shapefile, geojson, etc) in case you want to play with it in other software: https://www.amigocloud.com/data_share/8850bab3c62141278ac5c4...
The API doesn't let you set the progress, you must know in advance how many steps there are and then call the increment function that exact number of steps. This is not conducive to, for example, a network transfer where you have some total number of bytes, and then you receive a packet of some arbitrary size and you want to set the progress to a percent.
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I like the thought experiment. But, continuing further a little bit, if we had sufficient technology to gain practical immortality, couldn't we also engineer our species to not want to have children AND engineer enough genetic variability?
Rich uses a very precise and archaic definition of simplicity, which he describes in his "Simple Made Easy" talk. In a nutshell, when Rich talks about making something simple, he's talking about limiting the number of things that can affect it.

For example, under this definition, the simplest thing possible is immutable data, since nothing can affect it. The next simplest things are pure functions, because they're affected only by their arguments. Clojure is a language built around Rich's idea of simplicity, so Clojure prefers data over pure functions, and pure functions over side-effectful functions.

What you're describing is what Rich would likely term "easy". Something is easy if you can do it with little effort. Something is simple if few things affect it.