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RSS has largely become invisible. Many CMSs just support it, which is great if you use RSS, and irrelevant if you don't. Many RSS readers are flexible enough to find the feed if you point at a site's base URL too, so while that implicit contract is in place, life is good.

However, that very invisibility might prove to be its downfall: RSS is so incredibly useful to those who know about it that the only way to keep it going is for those of us who create to ensure our platforms keep creating it.

I miss seeing that little orange RSS icon though.

edit: I also miss seeing Dave Winer comment on threads like this!
s/developers/sales/.

I think this comes from considering all those services as separate products. After all, today every product needs a distinguishable name, a logo, etc. /s
this study is definitely deeply flawed - and disappointing as this would have been a really interesting set of results if it wasn't uncontrolled.
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1. The externalities cost of data exposure is fully realised.

No, it only says that because it isn't fully realised, the data is not a liability as it would be otherwise.
Because when you figure out how to use them, you can save a tremendous amount of time and energy, and build sophisticated systems with simple code and little effort. When you have the need in a certain area, a lot of them will feel like "Wow, I didn't know that someone could automate this for me with so little effort compared to doing it myself". Most of it becomes increasingly valuable as you operate larger systems with many moving parts.

These AWS services are each solving a separate problem that people encounter, and usually embody a sort of "design pattern" like a distributed queue, or a load balancer, or a cache. Microsoft Azure and to a lesser extent Google Cloud Platform have similar lists of services (many services, each doing a different thing): https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/

It's really just like figuring out any other software ecosystem, though. If you stacked up a list of open source libraries or commercial libraries in a certain area, I'm sure it will feel the same. For example, so you want to get one application to speak to another over RPC. Well, you could use Apache Thrift, or Google Protocol Buffers, or Cap'n Proto, or Swagger.io, or SOAP or ASN.1 or I'm sure countless other things, and that's simply to perform the same task. What if you wanted a message queue? RabbitMQ, ZMQ, IBM MQ, ... I don't know if anyone has tried to put all of these on the same page and product matrix, or even keep track of them.

There's just a lot of stuff out there to learn and take advantage of. Being an effective software engineer in business is just as much about reusing existing stuff as it is about building new stuff from first principles. I'd say it's actually more about reusing stuff, since all other things equal it saves a lot of time. Don't build yourself or manage yourself what you can use for free or buy unless it's your core competency.
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1. Uberjar doesn't always work. It may cause resource collision (and even shading doesn't always work as some libraries are resistant to shading). It also doesn't support native libraries. Capsule always works and is just as easy to build as an uberjar with the lein plugin.

2. Even with an uberjar you need a platform specific startup script (to pick a JVM version, set JVM flags, set up a boot classpath if you need it or agents if you need them). With Capsule, all of that is stored as metadata in the manifest, and the capsule sets up everything on its own.

3. Capsule provides other features, such as launching itself inside a container (and it's better than Docker because the container is unprivileged, and doesn't require an image), packaging as a native application (with icons etc.), launching itself as a daemon/service and more.
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Is it not better to have the roles open but simply make sure that everyone that gets through meets a minimum standard?
That is completely orthogonal. Kotlin works on top of the Java ecosystem, and therefore enjoys the same capabilities and libraries enjoyed by Java -- which Android users won't get even if they use Kotlin. Kotlin code that uses Java libraries that use features that are not available on Andorid won't work on Android.
Yes, quite some time back they split the languages and compilers part out and the rump of Borland became an application lifecycle management company, or something like that.

The bit you're probably looking for is at http://www.embarcadero.com/ now. Some of the old people like David Intersimone are still there.

I worked with Delphi for a long time, through versions 3, 5 and 7 (the odd numbers were always better). When .NET came, the whole situation went crazy and never recovered. I can't remember the twists and turns now, but I think they released a .NET only RAD Studio which was awful, then they added the Win32 bits back but Delphi.NET was still awful. Then they dropped .NET and incorporated Remobjects Chrome/Oxygene as Delphi Prism, which was an Object Pascal inspired .NET language. Now they've split again, and Radstudio is all about Firemonkey, a cross-platform UI library. Remobjects are doing their own thing.
Given the caveat that performance is always a question of how well the implementation performs inside the limits given by the language: Yes Turbo Pascal produced fast code. About as fast as Turbo C. Which was really quite fast. Also, the compilation process itself was very fast compared to other Pascal compilers.

About the question you didn't specifically ask: There's no reason (apart from optional stuff, like array bounds checking) that a Pascal compiler couldn't produce code of equivalent speed as a C compiler. (There is one language with a potential speed advantage over Pascal/C/equivalents and that's Fortran.)
I know you are right (of course), I just wish is wasn't so much of an upfront cost (cognitively).

I do think the page shared here is fantastic though and has changed my attitude somewhat towards AWS.
I've never quite understood the emoji thing, can somebody explain it to me? Why are "funny" symbols and pictures being put into the Unicode standard? I thought the point of extending the standard with symbols is to accommodate languages that use symbols for writing.
Sigh. Why didn't they use inexperienced soldiers of both sexes in the experiment? I smell some junior officer figuring out a way to deliver the result that his senior officer really wanted to hear.

Now, to a certain extent, doubly inexperienced is also skewed because it would be quite removed from actual battlefield performance.
to say the least. they could have easily controlled for that, and gotten results which could serve as strong guidelines. their conclusion, stressing that "an inch" is enough to lose a war, makes it even sound suspicious. i mean, it is quite unsurprising that women will be worse in certain tasks, but a more correct study could have told us exactly where to draw the line. and in any case, IMO, gender should not be the criteria, but rather simply, e.g., can you throw the fucking pack over the wall? no? then desk job for you. what you have in your pants means nothing if you have the needed muscle and brains to do the job right. i mean, i'm a man, but i'm sure there are many women that could throw a backpack higher than me :D
Sorry, but I reject this point of view. My failure to tolerate religious intolerance doesn't make me intolerant in an equivalent sense. You might as well argue that the abolition of slavery contradicts libertarianism.
Not sure why you think that. Here's California's moonlighting law:

"Any provision in an employment agreement which provides that an employee shall assign, or offer to assign, any of his or her rights in an invention to his or her employer shall not apply to an invention that the employee developed entirely on his or her own time without using the employer’s equipment, supplies, facilities, or trade secret information..."

http://www.weblaws.org/california/codes/ca_lab_section_2870
Should we really be comparing the two genders at all? Is it possible to just set minimum standards - "must be able to run x km in y minutes", "must be able to get x% of rounds on target at y m" - and then accept anyone who meets or exceeds those?
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Maybe. But probably the whole context and power dynamics is a lot more important (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynndie_England).
... or some people reading Hacker News who knew nothing about basic optimizations now do; which is something that that the industry desperately needs. Everyone has been incorrectly quoting Knuth to the point where optimization is widely regarded as a worthless exercise (very evident on e.g. StackOverflow) and I think it's absolutely great that someone new has learned to appreciate the art of it.

Lookup tables today, cache lines tomorrow.
Part of the reason Unicode exists (other than encoding every possible writing system) is to unify existing encodings. Emojis come from Japan where mobile operators used proprietary encodings to transmit emojis in text messages.
I wrote a Caplet to add extra directories on the host system to the classpath of the JVM that ran my application.
Do you think "manipulation" and social engineering by our three-letter agencies is just a completely outlandish idea? These agencies have no problem overthrowing democratically elected governments in other countries (See Iran, 1953). They have no problem kidnapping people and feeding them LSD (See MK-Ultra).

Henry Makow explains one theory here - http://www.henrymakow.com/001904.html - (Basically, "The hidden goal of feminism is to destroy the family, which interferes with state brainwashing of the young. Side benefits include depopulation and widening the tax base. Displacing men in the role of providers also destabilizes the family.") Say what you want about Henry; the guy is no dummy. And if you still think that the CIA and "the powers that be" don't want to influence society at large, then go look up Operation Mockingbird.
I've been able to convert a few key modules over to Swift without any major issues. I can see that the 2-3 week estimate for getting comfortable in it versus Objective-C is probably about right.
The problem with gaze tracking is that achieving the kind of accuracy you are thinking about isn't possible right now.

The trackers he listed have an accuracy of about 0.3-0.5 degree which at a distance of 50cm to the screen still maps to a fairly large area of about 50x50 pixel (depending on screen resolution and PPI). That's far too big to guess where you want your cursor to be placed.

Moreover, the fact that you'll see the cursor moving creates a loop in which you will follow the delayed cursor around with your gaze.
What tool was used to create this document?
Really? I thought they shutdown their last home-made datacenter just recently.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/netfli...
Let me preface this by saying I use AWS only when clients insist on it. I think there are much better options that don't lock their customers in anywhere near to the same level.

I think AWS has plenty of badly named services, but some of these suggestions are much worse worse (and have a huge American influence - that fascination with using brand/implementation names for a generic/standard item) than the current actual AWS name:

* Amazon Unlimited FTP Server - why? ftp is a transfer protocol. S3 is about storage. It should be called Amazon Storage Server. Which it basically is (Simple Storage Service - S3)

* Amazon Memcached - I don't used the service so I don't know if it's only binary compatible with memcached but if its a generic cache that has multiple interfaces (the page references redis too) then more generic term like cache (and elastic implies it can grow/expand) seems more logical.

* Amazon Beginning Cut Pro - wtf. Transcoding is literally the process of converting a file from one type of encoding to another. That seems to be what this does. Final Cut Pro is not a mere format converter, it's a non-linear editor.

* Device Farm - I'll only concede that maybe this should reference mobile devices, but the name seems pretty clear and concise.

* CodeCommit - how is "code commit" less clear than "github". By this logic, Apple's email client should be called "Apple Outlook" because Outlook was a well known email client on the market.

* EC2 Container Service - the reference to EC2 means its slightly non-obvious, but Amazon Container Service would be much better than something referencing Docker. Docker !== Containers.

* WorkDocs, WorkMail - seriously, you're just replacing "Work" with "Company" here.

* Storage Gateway - what are you trying to be obtuse? From your very description, this sounds like exactly what the name describes - a local gateway to a storage service.

* Elastic Map Reduce - the compute/processing part of Hadoop is Map/Reduce. How is "Hadooper" more clear than the current one?

* Machine Learning - you're just being facetious now, right?

* OpsWorks - again, why does their name have to reflect a single specific implementation of a fairly well understood term(s) - Operations, DevOps, etc??

edit: typos
How would you describe in a few words (in keeping with the theme of the piece)?

Where's the main danger as you see it
And the V sign is there but the reverse two fingered salute is not. Though perhaps that would lead to too much confusion and accidental offense between cultures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_sign#As_an_insult
Then I would say the agency you called wasn't conforming to their state's regulations and was potentially endangering lives. I worked in law enforcement from 1999 to 2013 and missing persons cases always had a timely entry regulation during that time. My state's regulations are copied nearly verbatim from the federal rules (NCIC).
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I know, and in front-end they are great, I was talking about this implementation from back-end point of view in Scala.

This implementation requires one to write schema, that is in many ways (maybe fully) identical to your database schema e.g. Slick schema thus you have to write it twice. It would be a better to infer the GraphQL schema from Slick/database schema.
Netflix did have their own data centres. They moved to Amazon to get away from having them.

http://arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2015/08/netf...
Let's just say that if it wasn't for RSS, I wouldn't have seen this page.
I didn’t offer any judgement at all. I just asked poster 'eruditely' to elaborate, as I don’t really understand what he’s trying to say.

I happen to find the notion that the CIA is responsible for the feminist movement rather implausible compared to alternative explanations, such as ordinary women being fed up at their lack of equal treatment or social status and genuinely wishing for social improvement. But again, that’s not what my prior comment was about.

I’ve never heard of Henry Makow but based on this essay he seems like a crank.

> The banking cartel needs a philosophy to justify enchaining mankind. That philosophy is Satanism. The cartel controls the world through a network of occult societies linked to Freemasonry, Communism, the Vatican and organized Jewry (Bnai Brith, ADL, AJC, Zionism.) The highest occult rank is known as the Illuminati.

Is this some kind of parody?
http://blogs.embarcadero.com/davidi/2008/11/02/38933
> Why didn't they use inexperienced soldiers of both sexes in the experiment?

That likely would be flawed in its own right --- these days there are probably few infantry squads composed solely of combat virgins. The Corps summary suggests that the study might have tried to control for lack of combat experience: "Male provisional infantry (those with no formal 03xx [i.e., infantry] school training) had higher hit percentages than the 0311 (school trained) females: M4: 44% vs 28%, M27: 38% vs 25%, M16A4w/M203: 26% vs 15%." [1]

[1] https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2394531/marine-co..., linked FTA
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He really shouldn't. A number of the AWS names are much clearer than the ones he suggests.
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My former university (Manchester, UK) does this.
(1) not all transport is public (2) you'd have to make up for income losses for public transport companies with increased taxes, but now instead of driving income for public transport companies through market demand you're creating subsidies, which creates an organisational culture that's not consumer-oriented but rather oriented towards the government that subsidises it.

Anyway there are pros and cons, these are just the cons. If you ask me public transport would be a big source of investments and a completely free service like say the justice system, public roads, parks etc. Moving about the city in the safest, most efficient, cheapest, cleanest and environmentally friendly manner that's mass transit (i.e. ignoring say bicycles) should be free if you ask me.
Aren't touch screens a bad idea when you want to be 100% sure you're hitting the right button or switch and don't want to make a mistake?

Especially during take off or re-entry I'd imagine a touch screen would be super hard to use in a violently shaking vehicle.
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Ah, that makes a lot more sense! I thought we had people sitting around talking about what funny picture to put in Unicode next. It's much more understandable if it's something that already exists that's being "ported in".
Same here in the Netherlands. For skilled labor it's generally a non-issue, for unskilled labor they'll often require you to live near or own a transport card already.
And I would also add Perl's DateTime library to this list - https://metacpan.org/pod/DateTime
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Jaynes believed that the only kind of probability was that caused by uncertainty about the true state of the world. So he was advocating MAXENT as a way to summarise one's (lack of) knowledge about some system.

In fact, this point of view probably made him less likely to accept a probabilistic theory of fundamental physics. If you've discovered how a deterministic universe can appear random, and how probabilities can still be useful for measuring one's ignorance, then it's reasonable to suspect that these are the only kinds of probabilities and that the universe really is deterministic.
> the only 8-bit low cost computer to offer CP/M compatibility.

The Commodore 128 also offered CP/M compatibility (through a second CPU...), though rarely used.
I tend to agree with this.

Playing devil's advocate a little: it might still be important to test how the gender mix affects group dynamics. You might have a case where a mixed-gender squad is more cohesive, say; or you might have male soldiers being overprotective of female soldiers.
Your questions and your tone already betrayed your judgement. Why use the scare quotes on "manipulation"? Also, you are aware that anytime someone asks a question that ends with "what is X supposed to do?" it sounds just a tad judgmental right?
Except when they suffer huge outages because of some upstream issue and HN/twitter/etc go stupid with "omg half the internet is offline" because everyone thinks AWS is indestructible.

AWS makes even less sense at scale than it does for small companies. Once you can afford to hire competent Ops staff (and assuming you don't have developers who insist they know everything needed to run a complex system in a high traffic environment, so Ops will 'get in the way') you can get much better results with co-lo or even rented full-hardware, and largely the same Open Source software AWS is built on, but without the confusing naming and vendor lock-in.
There have been other tests of women against the male standard where women either did the same or outperformed the men, even though the women had more limited experience.

http://history.nasa.gov/printFriendly/flats.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_13
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Nothing about open source precludes money from changing hands. Case in point: Red Hat.
I once worked on a system that had more than one user logged in at the same time, and my global variable got soo confused.
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FTA: “Of all the consistent patterns we can discern in war, there are two concepts of universal significance in generating combat power: speed and focus. ... speed is a weapon.” [1] (quoting the Corps publication Warfighting [2]).

FTA: "Research from various U.S. and allied military studies reveal that the two primary factors associated with success in the task of movement under load are 1) lean body mass and 2) absolute VO2 Max." [1]

[1] https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2394531/marine-co...

[2] http://www.marines.mil/Portals/59/Publications/MCDP%201%20Wa... (1997; couldn't find a more-recent one).
and it gives off heat so has some use.
From the link:

> She gives herself to her husband and children and is fulfilled by seeing them thrive and receiving their love, respect and gratitude.

Or you know, he's just crazy.

> Feminism has trained women to reject this model as "an old fashioned, oppressive stereotype" even though it reflects their natural instincts.

Does he have another article explaining how we trained the slaves to reject the proper employment model even though it reflects their true desires to experience fulfilment through free work?
I think we have that now. The Japanese emoji that have been standardized are kindda culturally skewed, but suddenly became very available world wide and a lot of people around the world want their culture to be represented equally. Hence the whole skin color deal.