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In the USA. So far.

There should be a lot more in Europe but.
I think it's a lot worse. Once you take yourself out of the cesspool (I cut the TV cable 4 years ago), and start really being careful about your exposure to worst of it, the impact of the few that manage to get past your defenses is magnified.
Agreed, I was being overly glib -- industry regulations should have scientific/engineering input, but are often outweighed by political input.
It doesn't have to be that difficult, you can just think about these separately.

Is the V8 designer responsible? Yes if people die as result of pollution from his engines.

Is the 1L designer responsible? Same thing.

What about the scenario where the designer did nothing and people still bought engines by other makers? But this is a moral fallacy, "I'm relieved of the responsibility of doing <bad thing x> because another morally irresponsible person would seize the opportunity if I didn't".

What if the 1L engine displaces another engine product in the market that would result in more people dying. It's similar to tobacco companies introducing "light" cigarettes to market. "Lesser evil".
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But Democracy requires everybody to participate in the political process.
A large corporation accedes to the wishes of a rich elite, and helps them deny access to a public park? Say it ain't so...

I wish there was some company around which had a motto of "Don't be evil". I'm sure that company would have done the right thing.
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> there's at least some anecdotal evidence that workers are not always working at work

This made me go look up whether hypobole (dramatic understatement) is a word yet.

I email after hours and on weekends/PTO voluntarily and I do rather enjoy it. I certainly enjoy it more than coming back to 1000 emails to deal with on my first day back.
The car makers had the option not to offer 2 ton vehicles if they can't make them obey the emission laws. In fact, I think fleet emission standards are too weak and we should just put a steadily decreasing upper limit on the emissions.
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Wasn't even that hard, I used google to search for whatever I was eating, even got a few McDonalds in there (easy to count calories since here in the UK they publish them in the restaurants).

Went from 111kg to 88kg which is a good weight for me.
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The checksum algorithm they used will only produce 73 different checksums (00000000-99999999: 0-72) - and all of them even. There is space for 9999 different values.

Tips to improve:
f(x) = ( x * secret) mod 1000

- mod 10000 instead of mod 1000 (as mentioned in the article)

- make sure the 'x' varies between 0-9999 (e.g. by splitting the number in half and adding the parts 03001909 > 0300+1909 = 2209)

- make sure the 'secret' is larger than 10000 and non-divisible by factors of 10000 (2 and 5) (e.g.: 54321)

Pretty sure it wouldn't be so easy to hack then.
I both agree and disagree with both of your points. Heh : )

a) I think that The Pervert's Guide to Ideology is quite self-contained and digestible without the need to read his (entire) work. There are YouTube clips of some of his talks/lectures that are pretty standalone as well.

b) I like Zizek. So he's popular with me for what it's worth. I like Pinker too though. Hmm. Can we not just all get along?
This could only be the case if the engineer doing the development was the same person as the engineer doing the QA.
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> CIG has been the most transparent game studio in the world.

They even have a youtube series called "bugsmashers" where you see examples of bugs being fixed, including seeing the code.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6md9QO4DTs
But what would be the reasoning for not having gates in this fence?
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Threatening to torture and actual torture are two very different things. Your first source doesnt back up the first claim you made.
Not an expert, but relatively sure that's not true. The verification of adherence to those standards is verified by the FCC, no?
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This thread was flagged from #3 to #97 in three minutes after a moderately critical Google comment was made.
Yeah right, people will downvote without comment for having a different opinion. I've been told this was intended behaviour, but not exactly why. Happens to everyone, I suppose.

I've recently been voted into the lighter shades for calling out questionable ideology in an article. Even though it was not even a popular news item, I got at least eight or nine downvotes, and still ended up at +2 after waiting a day. That's because other people who read my comment decided to upvote (or at least anti-downvote), as I am wont to do when I see this kind of thing going on.

I also think, you as viewer should at least be able to choose if you want to order by "goodness" (upvotes-downvotes) or by "controversiality"/"interest" (upvotes+downvotes).
Well, it's at a client's office, and I have another PC connected to the Internet via GSM so I don't care much...

Here's what McAfee says about OSM:

URL : https://www.openstreetmap.org/

URL Category : Public Information

Reputation : Minimal Risk

Application : OpenStreetMap

Rulename : Block Unwanted Categories of Applications
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The two examples I can think of is ColorForth[1] (not sure what the representation is there, or how/if one would couple it with a (D)VCS), and of course Smalltak with it's DVCS Monticello:

http://news.squeak.org/2008/08/15/all-new-monticello-2/

I had no idea there was such a new rewrite (2008), but then I keep forgetting that DVCS are rather new (as in popular, free-software DVCS are pretty new - git is just over 10 years).

[1] http://www.colorforth.com/cf.htm [It would appear that the on-disk representation is rather simple and straight forward, but you're only supposed to use a ColorForth aware editor (eg: ColorForth)]
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Nope, it says fraternite & égalité (equality).
You do know that anyone can edit google maps, right? They don't block editing in a region until after something like this happens.

https://www.google.com/mapmaker
Yeah I'm sure someone could unblock it, but I doubt they blocked it in the first place on purpose: OSM must be in some default list when McAfee Web Gateway is first installed, and that's probably the root of the problem...
It is probably just a barcode checksum/error code, otherwise they wouldn't have to rely on the values of the first 8 digits. Instead they should generate 4 random digits and store them in the database along with other information, then it basically works like a pin number (and xor it with a proper checksum).

Edit: If it is really a checksum, it is a crappy one.
There was one once, a long time ago. Alas, they don't seem to have made it to the table in this current generation of large internet players.
This indeed. You can't just have a 'rogue' engineer doing this. This would have had to be a team. Unless, of course, VW's software engineering practices are from the dark ages. In which case, this is clearly a managerial issue.
FWIW, I believe SOTM sponsorship came from Google's Open Source office rather than from Maps.
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The QA is in the same boat. Because the goal is not set to an engineer as a person but to a department and team.
Back then, the majority of amateur websites used to have ads due to being hosted on one of the ad supported platforms (e.g Geocities [1], Angelfire [2], Tripod.com, etc.). Even major web portals had flashy ads at the very top of their home page [3][4][5][6]. Remember at 800x600 resolutions, those ads took a good chunk of the screen. Download portals (where most people got their software) were routinely serving adware/spyware with little risk of backlash [7]. I could go on and on... (thanks for bringing back memories by the way!)

I'm not saying you're completely wrong but you seem to remember the past through rose colored glasses.

[1] http://www.cnet.com/news/geocitizens-fume-over-watermark/

[2] http://web.archive.org/web/19990208003328/http://angelfire.c...

[3] http://web.archive.org/web/19990208014605/http://www.lycos.c...

[4] http://web.archive.org/web/20000229043301/http://www.altavis...

[5] http://web.archive.org/web/20031012062202/http://yahoo.com

[6] http://web.archive.org/web/20010402054709/http://www.msn.com...

[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claria_Corporation
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I just saw it when I read the blog, yes. I don't follow them day to day and I missed those. This is awesome!
its not like those gifs add anything of value which a still frame couldnt.
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In this case the flagging is ridiculous and the moderators should ban the company IPs that the flags came from.
There is a general trend towards specifying lower viscosity oils:

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I got some issues with the new Apple Remote.

* It's far too easy to come across the touch surface and fast forward.
* Several times we've accidentally hit the search button
(Siri is disabled in Sweden) causing it to jump out of whatever we're watching on

Netflix and go to the search view.
* Needs better keyboard input.

I would prefer a circle and quick buttons for space/delete. Also would love previous search terms or a T9 interface for alphabet input.
At scales when it starts breaking one doesn't directly consume the metrics. In our setup of over 500K metrics/min, we had scripts consuming app metrics from graphite and pushing them back into a different, higher hierarchy which was then consumed by graphiti/grafana.

The Graphite URL API was visionary, and still makes the cut in most common use-cases.
On a slightly unrelated note, "Kiiking", a sport that was invented in Estonia and that hasn't reached much popularity elsewhere, looks like a lot of fun. It's definitely something I want to try one day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiiking
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Disclaimer: SC backer here.

As I see it, the FPS always was part of the original promise (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cig/star-citizen/descri...) and I think it will be good.

To be honest, I'm tired of space games like Eve or Elite:Dangerous where you basically play as the ship.

From the beginning I had hoped, that it would be possible to EVA and fight onboard of a ship - and what was a little hope turned into a solid part of the game.

Do I think my money is wasted because there is nothing to play yet? No, not at all. The goal of crowdfunding is to give the developers the time and money they need and safe them from cutting corners.

Elite, for example. Its great flying, but there is no story and nothing to do besides grinding for the next ship. They rushed the game out of the door and its "nice", nothing more.

Even if everything fails, even if SC is crap or vaporware, I won't be disappointed. Roberts and the others tried and, to be honest, if they pull it off, they might give the industry the kick it needs to get back from yearly updates to FIFA, Battlefield or CoD.

Oh, and BTW: Nobody complains when Blizzard runs late with their games :)
The reason it's hard is that everything you do has to become a "transaction" with the ability to roll back. Say you send five messages in a function, now you have to pre allocate all of them in order to cancel them all if any allocation fails, before sending any. But this pre allocation tends to break abstraction barriers (every API might need separate "prepare" and "fire" calls). It doesn't sound that complicated at first but it gets that way in a hurry. Almost every function can fail, every operation needs the ability to rollback midstream... it makes a mess in a hurry.

It's also a LOT of extra code, really material bloat.

One experience I had doing this:
http://blog.ometer.com/2008/02/04/out-of-memory-handling-d-b...

If you haven't written the test harness to test almost every malloc failing, you might think this is easier than it really is.

Adding 30-40% more code to your code base that will almost never get tested except maybe by your unit tests ... no thanks, not if it's possibly avoidable for a given application.
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Google and Facebook, amongst others, have shown that the quick iteration strategy works, even for complex, critical systems.

Complex systems, yes. Critical... well that depends on how you define critical.

The whole "quick iteration strategy" idea depends, largely, on the idea of "fail fast" or "move fast and break things". This necessarily makes iterative software development into an exploratory discipline, poking at something that doesn't work with a stick so that you understand it better and then creating something that does work off the back of that.

You simply cannot "move fast and break things" in a field where your created artifacts are expected to last a long time; we'd live in a fragile world of prototypes and conservatism were that the case.

In pretty much every other field populated by people who call themselves engineers, there's a whole lot more thought and maths going into the design of constructed artifacts, fed by a whole lot more science, before doing the actual construction. This approach is not just passé, but anathema in the software world. We just don't do engineering the way the rest of the world does.
What infuriates me about this is that the people who made that decision were responsible for at least 50 deaths due to increased pollution, and probably even more.

If a serial killer murdered 50 people, there would be a public outcry - instead, the most we can expect is that a few directors might retire to 'pursue different opportunities' or 'spend more time with family' and they will lead a very comfortable life with the millions they made from their illgotten profits.

White collar crime that results in deaths should be treated just as seriously as any other act that results in deaths. The executives that approved or turned a blind eye to these results should be treated as serial murderers. Moreso, most of those people had the luxury of a very expensive education and a nice and well paid lifestyle. They cheated because their greed told them that the millions they made were not enough.
This was referenced in the recent discussion of ad-blockers. The title isn't terribly informative if you don't already know what the article is about, so I'll explain.

Moloch (the name of an ancient Near Eastern god, to whom children were allegedly sacrificed) is used in one of Alan Ginsberg's poems as a metaphor for, well, actually it's not entirely clear, but something responsible for all kinds of societal failures.

Scott Alexander (author of the article linked here) riffs off this, using Moloch as a metaphor for coordination problems like the famous "tragedy of the commons", where the result of lots of individuals optimizing things is a grossly suboptimal overall outcome. Everyone works longer hours than is actually productive, because anyone who doesn't will be condemned as a slacker? Moloch. Every product in some category is substandard because customers can't readily measure quality and any business trying to do better would be outcompeted? Moloch. Ten companies making near-identical products spend a lot of money on advertising, the end result of which is the same as if there were no advertising? Moloch. Etc.

And it turns out there's rather a lot to be said about this and related ideas, and Scott Alexander duly says rather a lot about them. Also featuring: Las Vegas, Discordianism, artificial intelligence, Rudyard Kipling, H P Lovecraft, transhumanism.

(Pretty much everything else in his blog is well worth reading too.)
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> In the meantime Elite 4 with all its own flaws scratched my itch for multiplayer (I would have loved for that one to be more solo like First Encounter).

Are you talking about "Elite: Dangerous"? Any particular grievances with the "solo play"?

(My grievance is that it looks like they'll never "port" to the most recent versions of the oculus SDK/DK2 -- although I can understand why they'd want to settle for a (solid) proof of concept for now, and then wait with porting until APIs are finalized and consumer ready devices come out)
The first time? That idea is being pushed since blogs started gaining mass recognition, if not before. Hearing famous people (particularly ones who got famous with the old model) repeat it doesn't make it true. Do they say anything interesting to support their position?
I know it isn't the core of the article, but complaining about an out of office message is missing the point of out of office messages. They do not really mean that I won't see your email for a week. But they do mean that if you just sent me an urgent problem, which normally would invoke an immediate response, you won't get that response. It lets people know that the normal communication patterns will differ, and leaves it up to them to decide whether they need to contact someone other than me.
On the one hand I can kinda feel the pain of the homeowners. When my neighbor recently had a yard sale, I basically had to sit in my driveway telling people to not block it in case I had to get out. Some would actually try and argue with me. So, I know how selfish and stupid people can be sometimes.

But, selfish and stupid works both ways. The homeowners near there can't deny people right of way on public streets. They can't put up fake signs/paint. This isn't right either. The best you can do is just try and keep the idiots off your own property.
They're not zero emission vehicles because the American electricity industry is medieval in its insistence on coal mining, though I think it's somewhat unfair to pin that on Tesla.
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> Ensure/Boost have stopped innovating;

Untrue. Ensure keep bringing new flavours and slight changes to formulation. That's tricky to do because regulation - the fact that Soylent appear to ignore all regulation is a bug not a feature.

> Soylent is aiming for use in perpetuity while Ensure/Boost are meant to be stopgap measures,

Soylent supporters need to stop spreading this lie. It's been debunked in every single Soylent thread. It's purely dishonest FUD by now.
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True but I am European and therefore, as mentioned in the article, often store my eggs at room temperature. The hardness of a cooked egg is a function of the size and/or weight of the egg, the cooking time and the temperature of the egg.
> Jia has one of those improbable-sounding but strangely common rags-to-riches stories of modern China. Born to modest means in Shanxi province in 1973, the third child of a teacher and a housewife, he landed a job in the local tax bureau in the mid-1990s, according to profiles of him published in the Chinese media.

> He quickly left to start a string of his own businesses, in sectors from coal to mobile phones.

Not necessarily improbable. But incomplete.

1. Low paying clerk job

2. ?

3. Billionaire
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Pejorative it may be, but it's accurate in this case. It was also used by the article's author.

I'm normally one to champion a homeowner's rights to reduce trespassing, loitering, and destruction of property, and I do understand where the homeowners in this case are coming from. I have a little turd of a neighbor who revels in illegally driving his four wheeler across my yard but the police say I'm in a catch-22; unless they are camping out in my driveway waiting to catch him, they can't arrest him for it, and of course they don't have the resources to dedicate to that. He knows this of course, and rides by at random times, flipping me off if I'm outside at the time and tearing mud holes across the lawn.

My point being, the folks in Hollywoodland who are threatening the author and coercing Google and Garmin are barking up the wrong tree. They should be seeking a solution that reduces traffic in their neighborhood without limiting the public's right to visit the park, and without threatening some guy who is already trying to do the right thing by steering tourists away from the neighborhood and towards the approved viewing areas. Just as I can't erect tire-gouging spikes in my yard or hire a thug to intimidate my neighbor into submission, these folks shouldn't be threatening people and illegally marking their curbs and signs to discourage tourists.
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Could this be extended to keyboard shortcuts? I always feel like the effort I have to do setting the shortcuts on a new IDE is redundant, and shared with a lot of people
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> His friend was notable enough to have already been mentioned on Wikipedia.

The criteria to have an article about a specific person: there are other articles focusing on that specific person in other publications.

The criertia to be mentioned in other contexts on Wikipedia: there are reliable sources that he had a notable role _in that context_.

Edit: I think thats a better example:

If you climbed a certain mountain as the first person ever: probably you are mentioned on the article about that mountain. If you never did anything else of note, why do you need you own page too?

If you are the first person to ever in succession climb all the summits (and others took note of that), you probably have you own article but are not mentioned on every single summits article, maybe on none of them.
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Yeas, USA companies tend to call that region EMEA:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe,_the_Middle_East_and_Af...

Which is usually means Europe, sometimes with Middle East.