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Nonsense. I have a Windows 10 laptop with 2 GB of memory and it browses very happily. Just don't use Chrome.
While I have no love for the incentive structure for drug companies, I agree that conspiracies about them deliberately prolonging sickness are nonsense.

Imagine the kudos that would go to the researchers and the company that cured the common cold! And a pill for that would sell well enough to offset the losses from palliative lozenges, decongestants, etc. And it's not like they are short of other pills to sell.
Or to phase it another way: The article is extremely poorly written and attempts to be edgy by suggesting something unconventional only to then roll it back entirely just a few paragraphs later.

The whole thing can be distilled down to: "Make sure you're using a modern hashing algorithm, and pay attention to the work factor." It actually has nothing interesting to say regarding salts and or peppers that hasn't been said a million times before.
It seems that every little living thing on earth has an interesting story around it. One that, in the long run, might increase our quality of life substantially. Maybe one day we will have crops that infest with viruses their predators?

It pains me to imagine all the stories that we have already lost. What impressive feats happened inside the Dodo's digestive system? Or its visual sensors? Or its virus spreading abilities? But then again, there are already way more stories that we could ever read, so who knows?
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Work is good, sure, but there's more to life than it
I think the real question is whether the car will be gold or rose-gold. Place your bets.

Joking aside, I do think that under Tim Cook, Apple has changed how it thinks about its products from being "beautifully designed premium products" to being "fashionable", and I'm seeing this trend more and more in Apple products lately, which I find a little worrying (for the company's core values and culture, too).
Is memory shortage really a problem these days? Frankly, if you have like 12-16GB of RAM, which is realistic even for notebooks, and you don't have 200 browser tabs open or work on very special tasks, you'll never fill that RAM. In fact, I've been running Windows 7 with paging disabled (no pagefile to lessen SSD wear. Turns out that was not necessary since you'd have to page astronomic amounts to wear it noticeably) for years and never had a problem. I mean, yeah, he mentioned 1GB Ram tablets, I see the point there.

Overall very informative and he's good at explaining. At first I thought the concept was stupid but it's actually clever. Also: "If you have enough memory [...] nothing is gonna get compressed either." So it's not like this slows you down if you don't have to worry about memory size (like me).
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Presumably, you can pay someone else to do it. And as long as the thing being worked on follows some reasonably open standards, there is a competitive market for those workers, so you can pick and choose.
The exception may be for companies that have clearly recognized network effects.

In this case, your product may not be valuable without a lot of users, customers or cars .. You need to spend to get to critical mass, but I'm sure it's important to articulate a plan on why your business becomes profitable from that point onwards.

Too often, there isn't a tipping point or that tipping point is very hard to reach and companies never become profitable
I was less surprised by the vandalism than I was by how tame it was.
I was a little puzzled about this as well. Specifically, this incident:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_attack_on_Karbala
Its classic Guerrilla tactics make the villagers more scared of you than the central government.
The point is that we've grown to mentally associate the word "work" with "doing chores for my boss because I have to." It's a dirty word, the way we use it.

What about redefining this word to mean, for some individuals at least, "I'm pursuing my dream"?
This is fantastic news. I wish more companies would get into this. Google, Facebook, Microsoft. Every company that has a ton of cash should consider doing it. Tesla proved that it's viable, so the hard work has been done. And building an electric car from scratch is not nearly as daunting as an ICE car. The car companies are heavily incentivized to not do it, so to me it's a great opportunity to get in early in a high-growth industry.
Not on this guy's device. I JUST updated to iOS 8, and it's been an absolute failure. My phone is near useless now. Crashes and hangs have become so prevalent that I actually avoid using my phone.
Note how Lisp's TAGBODY/GO doesn't have this problem.

(loop
(tagbody
(loop for x in '(1 2 3)
do (go next))
next
(print 'out)))

(OUT is printed repeatedly.)

How it works is that tagbody contains a bunch of labels mixed with forms. The tagbody establishes an exit point for GO expressions used in these forms. When a (go label) occurs, it works by abandoning the current sub-form being evaluated, and initiating a control transfer to the exit point, which then transfers control to the appropriate label.

The upshot is that whatever form is interrupted will cleanly unwind, as necessary:

(tagbody
(unwind-protect (progn
(go out)
(progn 'never-printed))
(print 'bye-bye))
out)

Note that you can only have labels and GO in certain forms like TAGBODY and PROG, not just willy nilly in any construct. The labels of a given TAGBODY are all on the same level of nesting: immediate children of the TAGBODY form. SO this isn't possible:

(tagbody
(go impossible)
(let ((x 42))
impossible x))

Here, impossible is not considered a label associated with the tagbody, so the (go impossible) is branching to a nonexistent label. If it were allowed, of course it would create the problem of what becomes of the initialization of x.

Thus, compilers only have to reason about GO within specific constructs, and rely on those GO's to only be performing abandonment followed by a simple lateral move.
As amazing as you think your empathy is, I suspect your comment comes from a sense of feeling superior because you are applying your value system in a place where it has no use at all.
Thanks for your answer
I would like to get a remote job in a SF company. I'm planning to visit some startups to have interviews, but I'm not sure that is going to work. Seems like most startups hire remote workers only from U.S.

Where do you think that I could begin?
This seems like a weird market for Apple to be pursuing because they’re such a consumer oriented company, but it seems likely that the future of transportation will be less oriented around individual car ownership.

Additionally there’s a good argument to be made that we hit “peak car” several years ago, so consumer oriented automobiles may not be a real growth industry.

I’d seriously question any business plan that assumes that the transportation mode share of cars, especially individually owned cars, will be greater than it is now.

Maybe I’m thinking too long term here.
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I'm more than a little bothered by this.

I'm way more bothered by the way everyone has just assumed that Ahmed's teacher and all the police are clearly racist idiots refusing to back down in the face of supposedly obvious misunderstanding, which seems FAR less obvious the more evidence comes out.
The Pro version of Windows 10 doesn't force updates. You can buy a full license for $200. Or, use "Anytime Upgrade" on a Win7 Home box, get a Pro license for $90, and then use the free upgrade to Win10 Pro from there.
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This is a pretty sad state of affairs with the modern web.

I have an old Linux box running with 4GB of ram under my desk right now and it is borderline unusable for surfing the web with Chrome if I have any other applications open in the background. Firefox isn't as bad but it is also not a pleasant experience either.

At home, I have a laptop with 2GB of ram that I've upgraded to Windows 10 and the Windows Edge browser is also virtually unusable because of memory usage with more than a couple of tabs open.
Cheers on using Reviewable for a better review process, but I notice it adds loads of useless text to the git commit messages[0]. I always figure that GitHub, Reviewable, and other hipster things might not be around one day, so I have stopped using GitHubisms like "Fixes #1" and such in my commit messages, and instead referencing the commits from pull requests and issues. That way, when GitHub is gone at least the git commit history still makes sense ("Grandpa, what is GitHub?").

[0] https://github.com/servo/servo/commit/4dc986bca35f986e2f15f1...
Let's extrapolate the argument to the second order.

Mobile gaming, for example, has bad Unit Economics. Games like Candy Crush Saga and Game of War spend absurd amounts of money in acquisition.

...which is Facebook and Twitter's primary revenue stream.

There is a possibility of a domino effect.
> They're willing to put up with ads and reduced quality for just $10 a month.

I see two reasons for this:

1) Free is huge. Most people are willing to put up with a lot of bullshit for free.

2) Netflix. We pay $7.99/mo for essentially infinite TV on multiple devices, but $9.99 only gets me audio on one device at a time. It seems like a worse deal, so why would I pay?
John Deere is already moving in that direction:

>John Deere—the world’s largest agricultural machinery maker —told the Copyright Office that farmers don’t own their tractors. Because computer code snakes through the DNA of modern tractors, farmers receive “an implied license for the life of the vehicle to operate the vehicle.”

>Several manufacturers recently submitted similar comments to the Copyright Office under an inquiry into the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. DMCA is a vast 1998 copyright law that (among other things) governs the blurry line between software and hardware. The Copyright Office, after reading the comments and holding a hearing, will decide in July which high-tech devices we can modify, hack, and repair—and decide whether John Deere’s twisted vision of ownership will become a reality.

http://www.wired.com/2015/04/dmca-ownership-john-deere/
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Not in this case it was a sw issue on the GPS that caused this problem.
For those who don't want to get through the whole article:

TL;DR:
LiteStore is lightweight, self-contained, RESTful, multi-format NoSQL document store server written in Nim and powered by a SQLite backend for storage. It aims to be a very simple and lightweight backend ideal for prototyping and testing REST APIs and client-side, single-page applications.

Useful links:

- Project Page & Downloads: https://h3rald.com/litestore/

- User Guide: https://h3rald.com/litestore/LiteStore_UserGuide.htm

- Github Repo: https://github.com/h3rald/litestore
You are talking about credit - financing infrastructure, tooling, other investments. Yes, the value is definitely there.

The problem is, most of the recent "innovations" do not add any value to the economy. What value did Credit Default Swaps (CDS) ever bring to the economy? How does high-frequency trading (HFT) benefit the society?
Price gouging on life-saving pharmaceuticals is not a poor business decision. It's an excellent business decision. But it is also a crime against humanity.
I imagine she is fully aware of this but chooses to work anyway. I don't understand that level of obsession, but good for her.
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I am one of those people. I usually use Spotify only to listen to a few popular songs – I am not one of those people who has 2657 carefully curated playlists and 22693 files in their music library.

So, to me, Spotify is really more like a convenient desktop client to the local radio station. And, just like I don't mind the ads from the local station, I don't mind the ads from Spotify. I'm certainly not paying them more than I pay Netflix per month.
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How consuming negative news makes you less effective at work?
The formula implies constant wage, not wage growth. But it can model growth in savings. An example: I save $200 per week. I have $800 saved already. How much will I have saved in 3 weeks?
I coud see how her work is extremely satisfying and provides her with plenty of rich stimulation. It's not like she's a sole proprietor.
Yes, she ruined it for them. Two more women would flight just three years after
her, they would perform a space walk, but that was cancelled after her flight.

I only mentioned that because she tried to act as victim of sexism, but she was is one of the reasons: She said she was sad so few Russian women have followed her into space, none at all for one 19-year period,

> in that context it seems to me as though sexist assumptions by those in positions of power combined

Nice try. Korolev, technicians etc were the one opposing women astronauts. Politicians 'and those at position of power' wanted women astronauts, but they lost argument after her flight. Communist party did more for women rights that any western politician.

> You cannot shoulder the oppressed with expectations of perfect performance

If you are buying this paternity propaganda bullish have a look at first Japanese astronaut. His backup was a woman with better qualifications. Mir crew had to sedate and restrain him, because he got panic attack. Doubt that would happen if she would fly.
Hmm.. I think they have whales that drive revenue.
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I feel like you're suggesting two things in this post:

1. Holmes does not have perspective due to her focus on work.

2. Perspective is needed to build a successful business.

I think these are revealed to be inconsistent when we add in the following:

3. Holmes has already built a successful business.

Since (3) is known to be true, at least one of (1) or (2) has to be thrown out or weakened.

That said, I think DevX101 was focusing on her happiness and you were focusing on her success. We have no evidence that Holmes is happy. We only have evidence that she's been successful.
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@sama: right on with this. SV $ metrics are always measured in revenue growth, not free cashflow, margin, etc. Measuring revenue works fine for high-margin businesses, which software has been for a long time.

Now that we're using VC to finance resource-intensive SaaS companies (e.g. analytics) and even cleaning/home care/service companies, there's a need for collectively higher financial sophistication.

Revenue growth is a good proxy when you're selling zero-marginal cost products; not so when you're selling 95 cents of cost for $1.
This is a story in itself, should be submitted.

But in the end, farming will go fully robotic.
In contrast with consumer cars, which will always require a human driver.
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Advise for game developers: that's why you should not do clones or games which looked different but are actually clones - like not-so-innovative 2d platformers. If you think about an innovation for your next game, think about it twice, will it drive sells, really?
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>It is never economically optimal to make decisions that can directly lead to the deaths of citizens in the host society, in exchange for higher profits.

When the short term profits are great and the long term costs are too far for you to personally realize... it seems to make great sense.

Now it may not be optimal for society at large, but that doesn't matter when society at large isn't making the decision. For the one choosing, short of laws to punish them and with methods to launder any social guilt, it is economically optimal.
I think that's my main option right now.
I'm planning to visit some startups to have interviews, but not sure that it will work. Seems like most startups hire remote workers only from U.S.

BTW, that's an amazing link, thanks a lot for it
The masses should make a long term bet and short the company stock if its listed.
WOW! this site contains all about Erlang. Excellent work! Thanks!
You have to be kidding me? Their paragraph font size is literally the same as a level 2 heading by default. It hurts my head just looking at it.
Hence, I just don't read it at all. Tomorrow there will be other news and this article will be already history.

Any extra friction, including extra click to go to Apple News — more churn.
What the hell? How does a Frenchman sell a personal vehicle then? I wouldn't trust a check...

I just recently sold a vehicle for $7,800 in cash. It's insane to me that that could be considered illegal.
Not at all. By the time Apple gets any traction, this indeed may be the reality.

That being said, people will always want to travel in style, whether they own the car or not. Think black car versus beaten up taxi. Apple wants to be the luxury brand intersected with technology. Who else does that as well as they do?

Also, as per below, Apple's model of making things which can't be serviced by the owner fits the idea of no ownership.

Finally, this new business model is going to obliterate all the old car makers that can't evolve fast enough. When significant disruption vectors clearly exist that can only be leveraged by the extremely well capitalized... well, this is really a no brainer for Apple.

The only really question is, can Tim Cook create the tech? Google is struggling with it and they are by far the most skillful at AI.

In the end though, we'll all be better off with Apple in the race than out of it.
Low margin businesses are all the rage because all the large, high-margin opportunities are either gone or have such huge barriers to entry that startups have to raise a half billion dollars before making an honest attempt.

At least that's what I see. Not that we shouldn't chase the expensive ones, but I don't know that VC is the right framework for that.
"1800 people working on the project wouldn't indicate that Apple takes the project seriously"
The article (if not the actual test) appears to make the comon mistake of misinterpreting the second half of Godwin's Law. People often read it as saying that once Nazis are invoked, the conversation ends. What Godwin's Law actually states is that the useful part of the conversation ends. Conversation of course continues, if anything more heatedly than before, but it can be safely ignored by all third parties as having no useful substance.

At least that's how people seemed to understand Godwin's Law back in the Usenet days.

(Of course, the dynamic would be different nowadays, when Godwin's Law has been part of the "received wisdom" for decades.)
I take it she is taking the supplements to make up for a vegan diet?
That's easy, I'd pick social good. If I had my way in building a system, I'd absolutely work to make it as least vulnerable to manipulation by sociopaths as possible. Not being a sociopath (and I'm not saying that you are, either), I really can't see a downside to picking social good over lower-cost shit from Amazon.

Building those sociopathic levers in by design? No way.
That it's meant to redact "untrue" information isn't relevant. It's very often used to redact inconvenient information, such as news stories about your bankruptcy or negative reviews of your business.

RTBF does things well beyond its intention.
Seems like a cool idea, but would I have to learn german or french? I just know english and spanish right now. Thanks for the advice!
For http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ your thoughts on why that is better than using rsync ?

Edit: I am now noticing this tool isn't even maintained anymore.
I think you're conflating hurting women and fighting feminism. They are not the same thing. I'm not a feminist but that doesn't mean I'm a misogynist. It just means I don't agree with the tactics and politics employed by feminists (as a political group). I can't speak for everyone in GG, but I think my opinion is shared with others.

> None of the misogynistic toolbags have been chased from their homes, none of them have been confronted with credible threats to their lives and their families. It has not happened. The notion that it has is fictional at its core.

No one has had this happen to them. No one has been arrested on either side of GamerGate. There's no "credible threat" to anyone involved. The fiction you say exists on GG is evident in your own argument as well. No one is credibly being threatened.
> Tereshkova did not have a panic attack in space. She had a panic attack before going and was strapped into the seat against her will.

Any source? There were two backups, and if there would be delay a few days, she would not have fly anyway.
A good double-tab auto-completion in a CLI gives explicit boundaries and flattens learning curve almost to the GUI level, while letting you retain full flexibility and expressive power of a CLI.

This work wonders in systems where complete set of commands is (semi-)fixed, like Cisco IOS CLI. *nix CLI is somewhat behind on this front, unfortunately.
When you see a cockroach there are probably hundreds behind the walls. I'd like to see doctors start standing up to the big players when they do similar things.
> Games like Candy Crush Saga and Game of War spend absurd amounts of money in acquisition.

I think this is wrong. These games have strong invite-friend mechanisms and have high retention. That's why they are popular in the first place. No source at hand though.
> You are correct, it is satirical.

I don't think that's the case; I think that it isn't simplistically prescriptive the way that shallow readings usually take it, but I don't think its satire either. Its more complicated than that.

I think that there are a number of things that come together in ST:

(1) Heinlein's concern about what he saw as a then-current political current to dismiss what he saw as clear, current, existential threats.

(2) Heinlein's enduring strong opposition to conscription and view that it was equivalent to slavery.

(3) Heinlein's general frustration with the bureaucracy and politics of the day and feeling that it was due in large part to the incompetence and lack of civic mindedness of the governing class and, the electorate more generally.

ST, though, wasn't utopian -- it wasn't describing the way things should be -- it was an exploration of ideas related to these topics (and, in some ways, a release of Heinlein's frustration around them.)

> But its a common misconception that its some sort of military love-letter.

There's definitely an element of military love-letter -- particularly, to the individual infantryman -- to it.

That's actually one of the few things the common shallow readings get right (Heinlein himself has written as much, subsequently.)
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Tesla would have been a better benchmark than BMW. I believe comparison is not entirely fair for the following reasons:

The Tesla roadster was developed together with Lotus and there were only 1000 units produced. Producing a one-off small batch series is in
another ballpark than real mass production.

For the later models Tesla partnered with Daimler and Toyota. Toyota produces more cars on a single day than Tesla in a whole year.

I'm enthusiastic about what Tesla does but if they want to play with the big guys they'll have to grow up.
You mean, I will "slide to unlock" to enter my iCar?