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Turbo Vision was my introduction to OOP frameworks, then I moved into Object Windows Library with TPW 1.5.

However given the nature of Windows APIs, I eventually moved into Turbo C++ for Windows, also with OWL.

Never used the VCL, by then I was already fully into C++.

Then came the experience with Smalltalk, Oberon, Caml, Prolog and many others.

Sadly never had a reason to invest into Delphi.
>> no worker protections

Worker protection should apply equally to everyone, not give preferential treatment to one group(taxi drivers) at the expense of most other groups who just have minimum wage laws and osha.
Wow, that is hilarious. I actually didn't realize it was a joke until I tried to decipher what the command was doing and got thoroughly confused.
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In some shops, they fill the USB ports with glue. You can only use PS/2 keyboards and mice.
The drivers don't generally personally own the medallions. The medallions are owned by companies who mortgage them to banks. The medallion collapse means these companies almost certainly have negative value, and if the owner isn't making enough money from it they'll just walk away. The bank will then have to legally recognize what is already obvious (that the loan on the medallion will not be paid as agreed, and the collateral is worthless). The bank may have to call in insurance and some bank customers may take some losses. $10 billion isn't going to break the bank insurance industry.

What about the drivers? They've already been fired, that's why the cabs are sitting idle. There's no need to help the financial speculators.
Hugely popular, in particular at commencement ceremonies. Where the supposed interpretation is to "forge your own path" or some such bullshit, since that is _clearly_ not the message in any interpretation...
What consent is that if people don't understands the facts, implications, and future consequences of the action. Worse, updates has an common perception to be small security fixes.

Should we call it uninformed consent? tricked consent? non-binding consent?

If we want to use legal terms, is 6G download ordinarily and reasonably to be contemplated by the user?
In the West(-ern US), a great deal of it is actually owned by the federal government[0]. Should it be sold to provide homes for people that otherwise would live in hurricane areas?

[0] http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/291-federal-lands-in-the-us
It's long been one of my two favorite poems, I've heard about this theme of death, and I don't see it. To me, the poem is about the tension between the ephemera of human lives and the permanence of nature... The poem starts with a reference to private land ownership, a decidedly human way of imposing order in the world, and one that will vanish with our society, and ends with a return to human responsibilities. The middle of the poem is a brief escape to the permanence of the earth, the woods that were there before the humans and will be there after the humans.
Distributing a USB device that pretends to be a keyboard and types commands is somewhere between faux pas and criminal hacking attempt. Even if the intent was innocent, it has to be investigated like a breakin to be sure. In this case it sounds like it was closer to the faux pas side.
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Unless I'm mistaken, this would treat character '9' as not part of the number string, return zero and advance the string pointer by one.
Why should I believe David Orr? His argument is slim and I disagree with his conclusion. I read the poem again after reading Orr's article and it has the same meaning as it always has for me: go your own way and it will make all the difference. We will never know Frost's true intentions and, frankly, it doesn't matter. The words are the words regardless of what he intended.
Or just make the wiggler identify itself as an extremely common type of mouse.
If you have only the poem, the common interpretation is perfectly reasonable. Frost said the poem was "tricky", which is a clue from the poet that the common interpretation could be wrong. But what gives the poem meaning? Are you allowed to interpret it yourself? Or does the poet's obscured intent trump that?

In Blade Runner, Is Deckard really a Replicant just because Ridley Scott said so later? There's a few clues in various cuts of the film, but nothing is a slam dunk.
It is the specified behavior of the discussed code when not passing in a specified base to parse_integer. Now if that is a needed feature in the example context (or a fixed base of 10 would work as well) I don't know. It is an odd convention though, I agree. Hex I somewhat get, but octal?
It only switches to base 16 if there's a digit after the "x". For "0x", it would just parse 0.
But still , that calls for something like UBER with democratic vote over it's decisions. And since most people will be consumers ,not employees of that service , the incentive towards how to manage it's drivers would be the same.
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My wife -- who has taught poetry at the college level as well as writing a whole lot of popular novels -- reminds me from time to time of the "intentional fallacy". What she means by that -- I think :) -- is that the author isn't the sole determinant of a work's meaning.

So (while she's unavailable to be asked at the moment) I'm pretty sure she'd agree that the poem is about both the things it's often claimed to be about. Indeed, some of the works she and I both admire the most are ones that work on several levels at once.
In firefox, you can 'open link in new private window' - as long as you only have one article open at a time, you can read as many articles as you want.

btw - The Economist has had poor business execution for at least the last 2 decades - a nice irony given how they like to lecture others on how to run things.
It's crazy that Microsoft gets so much heat for trying everything it can to get people to its latest OS. By this time next week, a couple hundred million people will be running iOS 9. Within six months they should have 85-90% of their users on it. This makes it better for Apple, developers, and the users. Windows needs a little more of an "onward" mentality.
It is in fact my favorite poem.

I've never thought of it as a triumph of choice, "See, it's because I chose thus!"

And I've never thought of it as self-deception, which I think is what the article says. A poem is in some sense our own, but to the extent that you can be wrong about a poem, I think this article is wrong.

I think it's merely a wonderful acknowledgement that choosing different paths do make a difference, even when it doesn't appear to matter at the time. Frost's character wasn't making an obviously important choice between the paths. But way did in fact lead to way, and life was probably different, partially determined, because of this metaphorical inconsequential choice of direction.

My other favorite Frost poem is "The Hired Man," from which we get the line "Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to let you in."
American nihilism is so often mistaken for something else
It really bugs me that "refactoring" has been taken to mean any code change (hopefully) without end-user visible effect. We didn't need a new word for that. Refactoring is about doing that in a rigously reliable way.

My rule is, if you don't have good tests, you aren't "refactoring" you're "moving shit around and praying you don't break something".
right click and open in new incognito window is how I open any link to the economist.
parse_integer stops reading when it encounters a non-digit character (in order to support reading multiple integers from the same string).
"That said, Firefox does send your browser history to Mozilla."

Does anyone know what url they use for this so I can host file it?
They have listed The Game Theorists and Extra Credits, but they didn't list my personal favorite game analyst, Errant Signal (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm4JnxTxtvItQecKUc4zRhQ).

I find The Game Theorists and Extra Credits to be too preachy and focused on a traditional view of games to be informative, but with Errant Signal the analysis takes a literary approach, looking less at 'game feel' and more at metaphor and message.
Oh, I know it's not used in actual Chinese or Japanese text. It's more used in other languages in place of the hanzi/kanji.
“People who implement new and improved interfaces always seem to get that wrong.”

Linus is completely right on this. I have seen this over and over again where developers, creative and problem solving as they are, attack things with their limited experience and knowledge and fail to understand things fully before heading in like a bull.

There is a time and place for that sort of behavior, though. Linus wrote Linux with that same mentality. Sure, he was exponentially smarter and more able. :) But, that was the time for starting fresh with a cavalier attitude. However, if you try to contribute something like this to Linux today, as mature and stable as it is, and majorly screw it up, yes, you are wrong and expect your ass to get chewed.

I just worry for Linux's sake who, if anyone, will be able to replace Linus if he were to choose to retire or were whisked away by aliens (I won't say die). Some related discussions about that:

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-424721.html

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/2fnnva/what_would_ha...
> But still , that calls for something like UBER with democratic vote over it's decisions. And since most people will be consumers ,not employees of that service , the incentive towards how to manage it's drivers would be the same.

You mean like mass transit provided by a government org? You own the roads, you make the rules.
Yeah, you're right. Missed that 0 didn't advance it, only 0x.
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Unfortunately I think in the computing world the idea that it is even possible to understand the facts, implications and consequences of an action is increasingly a fantasy.

It's hard enough for the seasoned geek to acquire enough knowledge actually understand how a computer works. But then you throw in cloud services where the source of truth becomes blurred, and the services are constantly changing under your nose. Even assuming the best of intentions from companies building these systems, it's impossible to keep up.
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I also like it, when it's well done, but it's very difficult to pull off. I think most instances are just poor decisions by the author that they're going to do just that, and they don't quite pull it off.

I see it well done in The New Yorker quite often, and sometimes the NYT.
That's the program doing that, not the OS.
Seems to me that it became popular because it was better than other popular options at the time like CVS and SVN. I use it today because of a choice I made in the past, and I can use it more effectively today than hg.
Expecting users to understand how they configured their computers? How naive can you get?
I was curious what you meant by "blatantly fraudulent", as in, I thought surely this must just be your own opinion.

I clicked through, and it really is "blatantly" fraudulent, like they're not even hiding it a little bit. (Folks, picture "Imagine if you could literally live forever, as in, never die, not at age 70, not at age 90, and still look like you're 18 years old." type speech.)
Really interesting channel about Geopolitics:
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I'm not following your logic of how airbnb and uber are standard of living equalizers.

First, most people employed by the industries being disrupted by these companies (hotels and taxicab companies) are taxicab drivers, maids, bellhops, front desk. All relatively low-paying jobs already.

Paying people at the bottom less keeps prices low. Therefore, people with disposable income can the spend the same amount of money and get more goods and services. It raises the standard of living for the middle-upper class while pushing people in these low paying jobs closer to poverty.

This is not a diatribe against these companies or the free market. I just don't agree with you. These companies are actually raising our standard of living. Giving us more money and time to consume things and spend more money.
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Users don't understand anything. This is not new.
Exactly. It's like safety regulations in car racing. Racers get put into a hard position where they have to choose between safety and winning, because safety equipment costs weight and money that could be used to go faster. Regulations eliminate that choice and allow people to compete while maintaining some baseline level of safety.
Every update is a different model. Whether they call it 8.1 with KB 1498028 or Windows 10 is simply marketing.
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>it doesn't mean a person has to take it

That's fine as long as the job market is good. Have you considered that those that control enough levers in government might want to keep the job market poor in order to force low wages and less protections? This is how union-busting happens.
I'm convinced way down the road (ahem...pun) that autonomous vehicles are going to become our work spaces. We already see it with some people getting work done on their company buses. But those are limited in terms of letting you work fully.

In our future, you'll have your own personal space on a self-driving car. Room for proper placement of your laptop + keyboard. Ability to loudly participate in conference calls. Dual screens.

And this opens up home ownership possibilities. Bay Area home prices are going through the roof. If companies want to hire people, they need to account for housing prices. Well, why not hire people who live 2 hours away? For example, the job may be in San Francisco (median home price $1.063 million), but the employee lives in Roseville (media home price $372,200).

The work day starts with the 8 am commute. Our employee lets the vehicle drive and starts working. Emails, documents, conference calls, etc. He then shows up in the office at 10 am. Gets that key face time and benefits from those serendipitous moments that only occur in person. Exits the office at 4:30 pm to return home, working on the commute. Has dinner with the kids and helps them with the homework.

One can see real possibilities for positive change once we have autonomous vehicles.
Google has actually published the proper design for the cable here:

https://android.googlesource.com/device/google/debugcable/+/...
USB ports are individually addressable, even through hubs, so you can do what everyone hated about Win98 and show a new hardware wizard if a particular port ever has its device change (devices can be recognized by vendor, product, type, and in some cases serial number).
Pretty sure CrossFTP supports talking to S3 stores (I use it at work to connect to our internal Ceph Object Store, basically S3)
I think you will find that it is your parents' ISP who sucks.
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It seems to me that the poem is more about regret than the stories we tell ourselves about our lives to make us feel better about the randomness of the universe. The poet desperately wants to know what would've happened (if anything) on the other side of the 'difference' but can never know.
Every other state in the union would applaud California for such foresight.
The Federal Reserve specifically targets a "healthy" amount of unemployment to prevent inflation.
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"what is a unionized taxi driver to do in this kind of political and economic climate?"

Start driving for Uber? And try and organize a union there?
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Because automatically keeping all Windows users on the latest version makes the internet safer for everyone.
Isn't there an on-by-default option that causes Windows to behave differently wrt. updates if you're on a metered connection? Still, it's on the user to mark their connection as metered...
If I pay Microsoft for an OS, I expect them to use good judgment when applying updates. Downloading 6GB without warning me and giving me a chance to do it on my schedule is not using good judgment.
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This got me thinking how much test coverage exist for the kernel. It sounds like most of those issues could've been caught by tests (and I'm not referring to API compatibility, but purely to the behavior of the implementation)
I'm referring to how Uber illegally classifies their workers as contractors. And I agree that worker protection should apply to everyone equally.
I agree with your comment but I wanted to share:

I have constructed the argument before that if you consider functionality as an asset and code as a liability, you can consider a refactor as retained earnings (or stockholder's/owner's equity, whichever you prefer). Along those lines, refactoring code becomes much more palatable.

I know it's a flawed analogy because refactoring costs money, so it isn't really RE. It did help me answer a question along a similar vein to yours ("...how do you see your balance sheet improving while still being balanced?"); where I was assuming a reduction in liabilities satisfied "...balance sheet improving...".
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Portability. I have the Mac with Logic but even sitting in bed the iPad is an easier tool to sketch out ideas.
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Data: Any collection of information, bullshit and noise.

Information: Data that has been judged to be true or false through comparison with observed reality at a given point in time.

Bullshit: (1) Data (often a firehose) produced by someone who is indifferent to the truth or falsity of what is being said (2) Data that appears to contain more information than it actually does (3) Noise randomly tagged with truth-values to give it apparent legibility

Noise: The component of data that is neither information nor bullshit and at risk of being prematurely discarded ...

Falsehood: Information that is known to be inconsistent with the observed state of the world.

Truth: Information that is known to be consistent with observed reality at a given time and capable of being unpredictably turned into falsehood by a change in reality in the future.

Illegibility: Information or bullshit that looks like noise to those outside a system, due to the presence of a large amount of metis. (Derived from James Scott).

Metis: A collection of formulas that work to maintain the identity of a system.

Intelligence: The ability to separate bullshit from information.

Belief: Sincere acceptance of the truth or falsity of a piece of information.

Art: the process of creating information starting with bullshit.
While this is true. It does not mean that they are not "normal." They are just so rare as to allow a party to get out of a contract.

As a society, we cannot ignore the cost of the "Act of God" level disasters when summing up the cost of said disaster. If an insurance companies might be able to avoid paying out on a claim doesn't mean property (or lives) did not get lost.
Game theory, perhaps?
I've been watching this YouTube channel phenomenon develop. Not quite sure how it's going to end up, but it's fascinating.

One example: I don't watch TV, but I love watching late show clips on YouTube. Jimmy Kimmel, Conan, Jimmy Fallon. Their channels are pretty good. They upload portions of the show, and I can quickly gauge by the title if I'm interested. I would have never watched any of this footage if not for their YouTube channels.

Fallon: https://www.youtube.com/user/latenight

Conan: https://www.youtube.com/user/teamcoco

Kimmel: https://www.youtube.com/user/JimmyKimmelLive

I watched Smarter Every Day grow from a small userbase to giant, along with all these other "learning" channels mentioned in the article. These guys are setting up Patreons now and getting paid per video, some of them a lot of money, and so they are really incentivized to produce quality, which is also an interesting recent development.

There is just so much good content on YouTube it's crazy. My daughters love watching How To Cook That (https://www.youtube.com/user/howtocookthat). The fact our children have access to such an enormous amount of interesting content is mind-boggling to me. And it's really only just beginning.

Educational/learning channels that should have been included:

AvE - metal&wood working, amazing tool reviews, hilarious guy - https://www.youtube.com/user/arduinoversusevil

taofledermaus - stuff with mercury, shoots strange projectiles out of a shotgun - https://www.youtube.com/user/taofledermaus

King of Random - lots of interesting random builds, nice quick format - https://www.youtube.com/user/01032010814

Woodworking (&metal) Channels:

Diresta - this guy... makes everything look easy - https://www.youtube.com/user/jimmydiresta

Izzy Swan - woodworker pro who has recently switched to doing YT full time - https://www.youtube.com/user/rusticman1973

I Build It - personal favorite - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzGbp-rRVNwyFhn9gHoZr5g

Matthias Wandel - everyone in the community knows this guy, can make anything - https://www.youtube.com/user/Matthiaswandel

Marius Hornberger - similar feel to Matthias - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn7lavsPdVGV0qmEEBT6NyA

AWE Me - pros making amazing weapons, nice quick format - https://www.youtube.com/user/AweMeChannel

Alain Vaillancourt - check out his workshop build - https://www.youtube.com/user/lgosseuxdbois

Shop Time/Peter Brown - does crazy projects - https://www.youtube.com/user/kludge1977

Make - maker channel, features lots of guys from other popular channels making stuff, and their own stuff - https://www.youtube.com/user/makemagazine

Slingshot Channel/Joerg Sprave - makes all kinds of crazy gadgets with wood - https://www.youtube.com/user/JoergSprave

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Anyway, that is more than enough to get started (I have a couple dozen more). I didn't find all these guys at once, they will mention each other, and provide links in the description.
Well take your pick, then. You can have automatic updates and get security/functionality updates, or you can not and not, and an OS upgrade can be reasonably considered under the aegis of system updates.

Y'all have been campaigning for users to be automatically updated, often whether they want to or not (c.f. Windows rebooting overnight causing the loss of any open documents) because having them not be makes everyone demonstrably less safe and users will never update if you ask them to.

You can't have it both ways. Which will it be?
iPhone 6 is most succesfull iPhone ever.

Hasn't every iPhone been the most successful iPhone ever?
I don't think 20GB is enough to make 6GB a trivial amount. I'd say more like 100GB.

MS needs to prompt when downloading amounts of data over a few hundred megabytes, period. There are still places in the world where a prompt is required even for amounts measured in megabytes.
We could just start new sports leagues that allow doping. It would be interesting to watch the NFL if people were bigger and angrier than they already are.