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My first point was that even if the Mint actually stamped out some $0.075 coins, there's no way in hell they would have ever survived in general circulation. They would have been useless, except to buy vending machine Coke bottles. Everyone making change would still be using nickels and pennies, and not pricing things with half cents at all, because there was no half cent coin. So no one would actually have one of those coins in any of their pockets, at any time.

I can't even imagine the thought process that might have led to believing that would ever work, at any step in the process.

I am merely describing one thing of the many, many possible things that would have been less colossally stupid, even though it still may be inferior to just dropping the outdated requirement that one coke equals one coin, and it can't be a dime (because that's too much) or a penny (because that's not enough).

If you knew you liked Cokes, you might buy tokens in advance, instead of on impulse, and pass them around as near-cash equivalents. Though I must admit that if I only bought one thing with real cash from a vending machine, it would still be a more frequent occurrence than buying virtual nothings in a freemium game, so it was just a bit insincere. If I had to use tokens, I'd probably never get any Cokes.
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I think you're missing the forest from the trees. Monopolies in software are created through excellence.

If Facebook "has social" that's because they were and still are the best social network. Of course, now that they are big, they've got a huge lock-in effect, but that's besides the point. Microsoft "has the OS" (and I might add Office) because Windows really has been the best general purpose, generally available OS. Other attempts had potential, but they either keep failing to be as polished or stable for end-users (desktop Linux), or have not been available for all PCs (Mac OS, OS X), or they didn't survive for long enough (OS/2, BeOS). Not sure what monopoly Apple has, but it's no point in arguing that most of what Apple does is technically excellent and beautifully executed. Google "has search" because they had and still have the best search engine and their search engine is indispensable for most people. People talking about DuckDuckGo never tried doing searches from outside the US. Google also has Android, Gmail, Calendar, Docs and Maps, all of which are excellent.
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Related: "Today, we’re announcing the end of Chrome’s support for Windows XP, as well as Windows Vista" http://chrome.blogspot.com.au/2015/11/updates-to-chrome-plat...
I've not found a good replacement for Yahoo Finance's free daily historical data.
Thanks for the comment ecaron.

As this is the first post of a series, I wanted to present the problems we're dealing with when running Docker containers on production. It was also important for me to specifically touch the major shift of mind and new challenges that Docker has brought to our production infrastructure.

As I see it orchestrating Docker isn't about a certain tool or a framework. It is an abstract problem that is being solved in many different ways/frameworks.

That's why I do think that Docker orchestration is an appropriate title for the article, but I can see where you're coming from :)

The next post in the series is going to be much more specific to ECS and Kubernetes.
I had the same reaction when I realized that Guinness, the authority on World Records is the same company that makes the delicious Irish stout. Brilliant marketing.

I think the story was that many pub arguments were about what was the biggest, fastest, most, etc. So Guinness decided to do some research on these records and publish it.

I actually am one of the several hundred people to hold the record for largest hockey game (unless it's been broken recently) and apparently it's quite the racket. Organizations hoping to set records have to go through a lengthy application process, pay an adjudicator to witness the record, etc. Then, if they want it in the Guinness Book (as opposed to just online) they have to pay extra. Record holders can then pay for an official certificate so they can show their friends and family (which of course I did).

Sorry for the wild tangent by the way. I now realize this has nothing to do with Michelin or restaurants.
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More interesting would be actually knowing /why/ this made things faster.
What popular browser vendors used the IE6 rendering engine besides IE6?
I have many memories of dealing with various Firefox/Chrome differences, but I never once dealt with a popular browser vendor outside of IE that used the IE6 rendering engine.

I don't necessarily agree with your assertion that a browser's rendering engine is the only part that matters. Internet explorer ships with windows by default. Mozilla (firefox) has policies that focus on privacy. Chrome focuses on speed, and, well, serving Google.

These are all things that differentiate the products in the market and aren't necessarily rendering engine related. Yes - if one entity maintained absolute control of the rendering engine, then the needs of each vendor would not be served - but then it wouldn't be open source, either.
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I completely agree with you but the issue is not so much the problem with dolphins but that an industry can force the removal of labeling that help consumers make (somewhat) informed choices.

The silver lining in this cloud is that the removal of the labels means that it is inappropriate for people concerned about dolphins or the marine environment in general to be eating tuna at all, though, sadly, I don't think that is going to happen as a result of this.
Google's lead and "special sauce" seems to be much deeper than that, though. Unless you can think of a way to do better search without AI, how do you compete?

We're not talking about handset A vs. B. The technical and talent lead is much deeper wrt. Google and Machine Learning.
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That reminds me of the webinterface of my old router. If you looked at the badly written javascript source, you would see why it refused to work on anything other than internet explorer. They were even explicitly checking for it in the useragent!
I would put your comment in the "doesn't understand what the author is saying" camp. When he says something has "worked" he doesn't mean it has promising working prototypes or has the potential to improve things. He means that the benefits have been very, very clearly demonstrated to be very significant and widely applicable. And "clearly demonstrated" means their impact has been shown in numerous production settings.

As this is the case for distributed systems but not for capabilities, the author's categorization seems spot on, even if current work on distributed systems is "broken", when "broken" has its common modern connotation of "has (possibly much) room for improvement".
Well the legacy app is a solved problem - we have VMs - let them live there and be done with it. Expose the API trough network and call it from anything you want.
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Pity the "performance" bit didn't mention CPU time - slow cheap phones deal a lot better with animated GIF than SVG.
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should have used git bisect?
Yeah, desperation is not enticing.
False, they provide information to analysis tools, which can prevent errors.
Maybe so but I would argue that censored google is not the same google we know.

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Yelp ratings, at least in the bay area, seem to follow this approximate scale, which is frequently insufficient information to base decisions on:

* 5.0 stars: This restaurant will murder everyone you love unless you leave a 5 star review.

* 4.5 stars: The dining experience will probably give you an orgasm.

* 4.0 stars: The food here is not only excellent, but reasonably priced and the waitstaff are hot.

* 3.5 stars: The food is good, but either not quite good enough to justify the price and/or the waitstaff are ugly.

* 3.0 stars: An average, unremarkable establishment.

* 2.5 stars or below: Food frequently contains vermin and makes people sick.
Why Musk? His companies aren't profitable.
"It does pretty much corner the market on PC gaming, though, which is the single biggest segment of people that care about hardware-accelerated 3D graphics."

There are 2 billion cars in the world "soonish". The digitial only dashboards will probably not run on DirectX.

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> It's not clear to me that Yahoo's business has poor fundamental economics because I don't quite know what business it's in.

Buying, say, tumblr didn't help with that because it's not like a free blogging engine would appear to be a great money spinner. Suggesting you want to make it less R18 then suggests you didn't look too hard at what people use it for.

Similarly, when flickr has a lot of people who are prepared to pay to host photos spattering ads all over it seems like... a lack of understanding of how it works.

flickr makes me particularly sad. The user authentication fuck up was appalling. The ads were moronic. It only needs a couple of minor tweaks, some of which (like albums for groups) to make itself a Facebook alternative on the side.
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"- Do you have any experts to back that up?

- No, but you're all nerds, so how hard can it be? We went to the moon after all!"

Dianne Feinstein from nearby: "It's horrific - even the children are using encryption these days with their Playstations and iPhones!"
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Yes, SVG appears widely supported. See http://caniuse.com/#search=svg
Dang... This is the most expensive IGG I've ever backed and they've just kept pushing back, and it sounds like we won't even get the tablet. That's really disappointing. I was actually pretty excited to try out the OS.

I feel a little cheated too, when I backed them I was under the impression that they were a lot more open. Not just in terms of communication, but I also thought their OS was open source. I only found out a few months back that it wasn't the case. This is probably my own fault, though. I really should've looked more closely into it before signing up.
The OP says "Fortune 5". The candidates are Walmart, Exxon Mobil, Chevron, Berkshire Hathaway, and Apple. Which one of those has super bowl ads and uses Akamai? There's your answer.
The success criteria is not mentioned at all, so there is no clear way of settling this.

yes the brand "risc" failed, but does that mean the idea behind risc presented by the computer science community failed?

I'm no processor expert, but it sounds like to me the paradigm behind risc is both theoretical and practically sound and is a key component in most modern CPU's.
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Every single time I post something with tracking to HN, invariably, the first hit is coming from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Anyone have an idea?
As usual, read this as "what's popular in Computer Science" more than "what's worked". Lots of things listed in the Maybe and No category (both the original table and in the article) do work but aren't super-popular and some things listed as "Yes" like bitmaps and subtypes are bad but ubiquitous.

Apart from my usual spiel on how popularity is not particularly meaningful[1], this is also an example of a fascinating idea from poker: "results oriented thinking"[2]. It's a terrible name, but a crucial concept: you can do everything right and still fail or you can do things wrong and still succeed. In Poker it means you can bet correctly and still lose to the luck of the draw and vice-versa; you can't generalize from a single example or even a handful of examples. Of course, this is exactly what so many people in industry do. Results oriented thinking is endemic in practical software engineering.

We even have our own name for it, or at least part of it: the IBM effect. "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM."[3] If you do the same old thing and fail, well, things happen. If you try something new and fail, well that thing you tried has to be terrible! Never do it again! Of course, in reality, those "things that happen" still dominate, but that's not how people make decisions. Then it's all magnified through institutional memory and "common wisdom".

It's also magnified because there's a certain kind of personality that values pragmatism above all else and categorically opposes anything new, idealistic or academic. (To be fair, pretty much the opposite of me :P.) The tricky thing is that they have a point... some of the time. But they'll use any sort of failure to rationalize their view, and because decision makers tend to be so results-oriented this sort of rationalization has an outsized influence.

Putting this all together both this article and Butler Lampson's original argument tell us a lot more about the social dynamics of software engineering than they do about computer science. There are still interesting insights to be had, but certainly not the ones the article is arguing for.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10567962

[2]: Unfortunately, I haven't found a single good description of "results oriented thinking" as the phrase is used here. This blog post is okay, but the first part plays dubious semantic games with words that you may as well ignore: http://randomdirections.com/why-being-results-oriented-is-ac...

[3]: Hilariously, this was the first Google result for the phrase: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt
Does anyone have links to the original study(ies?) rather than just this summary? Some of these claims seem pretty hard to swallow. For example:

> Who is on a team matters less than how the team members interact, structure their work, and view their contributions.

This result appears to be strongly at odds with Google's thorough interviewing. Perhaps they are saying that the data doesn't show a difference based on individual history given the employee was good enough to be hired at Google, and assigned to the team in question by some other HR team?

Any references would be appreciated. I tried searching Google Scholar for the author, but am finding nothing :/
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I completely agree. I'd rather spring forward two hours myself – then I could wake up at the crack of dawn at 10am.
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There's a difference in methodology that explains some of the divergence:

Netmarketshare counts each user only once per day (per site?). If you assume users if Chrome/Firefox etc are more active on the web than IE8 users then it fits.

Which number is more important when deciding what to support on your site is a complicated question. Probably your own user demographic has a greater impact though.
I see Adobe tools mentioned, but what free (as in FOSS) tools exist to work with animated SVGs?
Yelp suffers from the 4 stars problem. In my neighborhood Taco Time, the French Bakery, and a handful of upscale restaurants each average 4 stars on Yelp. So what does a 4 star rating even mean? It obviously has nothing to do with ambiance (Taco Time), or service (Taco Time and the French Bakery), or the food (Taco Time).

So what does 4 starts even mean? And what does it take to get more than 4 starts? Maybe star ratings are all about expectations. My current hypothesis is if customers get what they expect, they reward a restaurant with 4 stars. If the restaurant bests expectations, customers award 4 1/2 stars. This explains why a Taco Time taco nets 4 stars. Customers get what hey expect - a cheap, reasonably good tasting taco, whereas a market down the stream rakes in 4 1/2 stars for making really yummy tasting deli sandwiches.
> Could such still work?

Effectively it would competing with Reddit, HN, Metafilter, and similar sites where the owners have an army of people curating the web for them, for free. Which makes it a hard ask. Obviously there's a demand because Reddit, HN, MF, etc, exist, but enough to make money off of?
It's good the boss can do that sort of math. That's why you need him and why he is called the boss.
I am not sure I understand the TPP connection here.. The ruling wasn't made under TPP as that's not even in force. So I fail to understand the anti-TPP propaganda here.. This dolphin ruling would have happened with or without TPP.

I am not defending TPP at all, but this ruling has nothing to do with it. It seems like a bit of a propaganda ploy to connect the two. Will saying no to TPP undo this ruling? Nope.
SMIL is unnecessary, as explained in the article - use CSS or JavaScript to animate.
>what are some reasons that prevent you from nudging users this direction

our customers want to sell to these IE8 users. The response to telling them to upgrade is "we'll use a different vendor then - one which does support IE8"
I take it you didn’t read Steve Jobs’ Thoughts on Flash (2010)[0], then.

In short: Not a vendor-neutral standard nor an especially good standard, bad for security, bad for performance, bad for battery life, bad for touch, and promoting a lowest-common-denominator experience.

I’m not sure I agree with all those reasons, but the killing blow for Flash was that all those iOS and Android devices don’t run it.

[0] http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/
Can't say i'm surprised. Their support and communication has been consistently horrible. Their focus on the OS entirely misplaced -- no, more eye candy is not the first thing we need. The platform had a lot of potential, but they've squandered it time and time again.
Mainstream supports means no more features, but it's still getting patches, I imagine.
> I'm still not sure what the general rationale was for flash support becoming uncool, technical or otherwise.

Flash became a pseudo web-standard, and a closed one so. This meant Flash-support could only be implemented on devices and platforms Adobe decided to support.

And Adobe's history when it comes to fixing bugs, problems and providing adequate support for anything but their #1 platform (Windows) was appalling.

When Apple launched the iPhone, they decided that they didn't want their platform dependant on other's people code and limited to whatever effort Adobe would bother to put in.

At the time it was a ballsy move, as flash was surely king. In retrospect, I think it worked out (mostly) fine and I'm glad they were willing to foot the risk.

I say "mostly", because with Flash going away, people have been asking for the open HTML-standard to include closed elements which they earlier would typically do in Flash: DRM and friends.

The result is that the open HTML standard is no longer open and that open-source software can no longer fully implement a standards-comliant web-browser, meaning you can only get "working" browsers from the big guys like Apple, Google and Microsoft.

That's a terrible loss for the web and for the future.
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The author points to V8 optimization :

> But if V8 thinks that the code is “too tricky”, it keeps it in slow but dynamic form.

The next paragraph shows what caused V8 to not optimize :

> For example, in the first set of changes I’ve used a global variable defined outside of the class, so it had an external state. In the second one, I’ve changed the class structure on the fly. As a result, V8 did not compile it to effective typed native code.

But you're right, saying "it's probably that" is not the same thing as delving in the code.
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It also has about a million less than pre-war Berlin.

The only thing is during those times the city was criticized for being an overcrowded concrete (well, cobblestoned) dump with many slums.

The city needs to build out instead of up. Current infrastructure can barely hold population density as it is today.
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The blog article had lots of nice historical images, but I think it missed 2/3 of the story: Michelin also made green guides with tourist information and highly accurate maps. The tourist guides were some of the first and cover pretty much every single place of interest in France (from natural attractions to cultural and historical monuments--chateaux and country churches). The maps are some of the most readable and complete in my experience. Thanks to these 2 publications, travelers in France are not at the mercy of the local chambers of commerce and roadside advertising.
This is an improvement on mechanical gauges how?
It makes me distance myself from the brand and distrust it.
I really recommend you read about the Effective Altruism movement if you want a detailed response to your questions.

In response to your question, you are totally right! Anything you can do for most of these problems will probably be completely meaningless compared to the scale of the problem. Almost certainly, the rational decision is to do nothing. So what?

The entire idea of altruism is that you make an economically irrational choice to contribute to a cause that produces positive externalities for society but does not benefit you directly (if it did, it's not altruism anymore: it's just an investment).

Measuring caring in terms of dollars allows you to maximize your possible contribution. Imagine a highly-paid consultant who cares about the homeless, so he volunteers at the local soup kitchen for several hours a week. If he instead simply worked for those same hours and earned $100 an hour, he could pay 10 people to work at the same soup kitchen and help 10 times as many homeless. That's the kind of tradeoff you don't think about if you don't realize that money is fungible with regard to caring.

In the longer run, realizing that money <-> fixing things means that you can also decide to dedicate your life to making money and donate a significant chunk of that money to the cause of your choice, leaving both you and presumably society better off than if you had dedicated your whole life to volunteering/working for your cause in the first place, since your money can fund specialists in the field who are probably more effective than you, as a random coder/manager would be.

And no, this doesn't imply that if billionaires hold the most effective resources for solving the problem, you should give up. Instead, dedicate yourself to effectively convincing said billionaires to care about your cause. The guy(s) who successfully convinced Bill Gates to donate to malaria eradication have probably saved more lives than every volunteer who was previously working on that effort.

The point is, realize that if you want to care, you should make a difference in the most effective way possible, and often that is by leveraging money and resources in ways that most people would not consider "charitable work" in the traditional sense of the phrase.
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The things you could do in Go vs in (Python | Ruby) are actually are results of difference between static vs dynamic typing. Yeah, static typing requires more key presses and some thinking, but in the case of tools (navigation, refactoring) it makes a huge difference. Ruby support would be years ahead of what it is now if the tools could understand the types in all cases.
Naive question - isn't direct linking to encourage votes kind of making the HN magic sauce of scoring upset and driving the entry to never get on the front page?
And I don't come here to read comments that mindlessly parrot the form of their parrot, especially when they're not providing anything of substance.
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