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I think "without anyone really noticing" should really mean "without anyone in the general public really noticing". Competitors and people working in the chip industry have probably been well aware of the ARM architecture and its rise for a long time. In addition, some factors that are responsible for the huge success of this architecture have probably been historical accidents as well, in the sense that a different architecture might have been capable of taking ARMs place, but the adoption of ARM by some large tech companies and the explosion of the smartphone market made things move really fast in favor of that platform.

In general I think that the press and the general public only becomes aware of these things long after they have reached a dominant market position and are employed almost universally. It's probably sure that even now many companies that are almost unknown to the general public are working on technologies and products that will change entire markets in the future.
Definitely agree. The PostgreSQL Community began my serious involvement with Open Source Software, about 15 years ago. It's one of the best groups I've ever seen, due to their patience, friendliness, encouragement of others, and willingness to share info/experiences for mutual benefit.

It doesn't hurt that being very good with PostgreSQL is useful on a CV too. ;)
There is another book with a very similar name available as a free beta: Engineering Security by Peter Gutmann.

Gutmanns book is a tour de force with not many, but basically all examples one could think of. The result is a big, big book.

Of the two, Anderssons book is much more readable. But if you want a deep dive with (somewhat opinionated) facts take a look at Giutmanns book.

https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/book.pdf
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I once had a doctor tell me that his chief goal was to make sure he didn't take any action that would interfere with the healing of my body. My body would heal just fine if it was allowed to - he was there to (at most) remove impediments.

Too bad more politicians don't follow Calvin Coolidge's example - easily the best president of the 20th century.

However, as voters, we tend to select for people who will "do something". In opinion polls, we deride politicians who don't visit sites of natural disasters, even though their presence will disrupt recovery activities.
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I think I was being unclear since I think you're agreeing with me. As long as you're not insisting that you're right and everyone else is wrong, you will see a friendly and patient and helpful and vocal community. And, fortunately, most people are like that.

There are a few people who think they need to argue loudly and harshly to be listened to (possibly because they've learned that that works in other projects). Those are the folks who are likely to see little patience but also little argument; they'll get downvoted on Reddit and ignored on IRC. Which is good for the community, since any effort spent arguing with them can be spent working with people who are actually there to learn.

The easiest example to see might be when people show up on IRC picking a fight (whether against something Rust does, or technically in favor and deriding some other language). They'll get one reply saying "Yes, but there are always tradeoffs and other languages are great too", one reply saying they're off-topic, and no more engagement. Which is not to say you can't show up on IRC asking for a language feature! As long as you don't say that anyone who leaves the feature out is stupid -- and again, most people don't say that -- you'll get a helpful response.
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>Incredulousness that it was one person. People either think it had to be a big company or that it somehow "evolved" into existence

I think this is just because most people don't understand what the "world wide web" is. They think it's synonymous with "internet", and so are understandably incredulous.
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There seemed to be a pattern of abuse going on at Udemy that was described in the comment thread on the original article link on HN. This post addresses the article that was linked, but does not address the concerns raised in the thread.
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No, FFOS is moving away from the low-cost strategy. Its target is now hobbyists / tweakers, which are likely to have high-end devices.
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I love JavaScript. I program in it everyday. This is a great list of useful tools.

That being said, I disagree with the main premise. The tooling is getting there but it's just not as good as old-school IDE's for typed languages. Specifically, the code insight tools don't really compare. For example: Intellisense, refactoring, go to definition of a symbol, and find symbol references.

I programmed in typed languages for many years and when I find myself back in an old-school IDE for a typed language like Eclipse or Visual Studio a cognitive load is lifted off my shoulders.
> The average person uses the web all the time but has never heard of Tim Berners-Lee or any of the awards you mention. But they know who won the Oscar for a movie they watched for 90 minutes.

Then I ask: Does the typical user of a mobile phone know who invented the frequency hopping that is used in modern mobile network standards (hint: it was an actress): https://goo.gl/fVYYbY

The same could be said of about lots of other major technical inventions.
Why can't the explanation for lucky charms be that the other fans are wearing them, and so it's in style, and you gain status by wearing one?

That would make wearing them rational.
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You say that like it's a bad thing?
3DMark is still around, it's even available on Android and iOS.
The success of ARM's strategy is based on them being an impartial supplier of designs that facilitate low power consumption and some degree of interoperability at the assembler level.

If anyone buys it, they kill the goose that lays the golden egg. All those corporations run their own vertically integrated stack to some extent -- if you were Apple, would you be willing to trust an ARM design licensed from MS or Google? (Or Intel, when the whole point of Apple's CPU strategy going back 22-25 years is to be mostly CPU-independent after getting burned twice in a row by MC680x0 and then PowerPC)? If you were Samsung, would you license an ARM design from Apple-owned ARM? And so on.
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This article makes quite an attack on Germany's Energiewende (energy transition) and repeats a number of myths.

Here is a link that sets out to debunk some of those myths in a fairly rigorous manner:

http://www.energypost.eu/energiewende-dark-side/
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They only say that copyright owners can't impose their ridiculousness on ISPs. Which should be obvious. It's as stupid as suggesting that gas stations shouldn't service highway toll evaders, because that would be helping them with their crimes. Or that car companies shouldn't sell them cars.
This is a good question but I think you are exaggerating what OP meant.

What he says is that some people have very good intuition (build on experience and some perspective) which allow them to make good decisions without the need to conduct lengthly studies before they make any decision.

This might not be good scientific inquiry but it does make them very effective in moving things forward. Furthermore much of that intuition is built around a very unbiased view of the world which means they might be wrong but will be quick to adjust.

Compare that to those Phd students who only learned a method but don't have any other way than to ask others what the right decision is.

It's like reading a book and not understanding what it's about.

And keep in mind that you don't have to be right to "get it your way" data can back you up repeatedly and you end up failing anyway because you are measuring the wrong things.
I actually didn't know ARM is from England. For whatever reason, I thought the company resides somewhere in Asia.
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> Why are there vast numbers of technical blogs which simply copy content?
> It's because these people want to raise their profile

Sure, but aren't we talking about a website where course creators directly sell their materials to students?

What's the point of copying someone else's teaching materials for your own use on that website, if you're not going to sell them there?

On the other hand, the idea that the 'stolen' courses were not actually sold makes Udemy's negligence look less serious, which is exactly why they would spread that idea.
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Agreed about the documentary. I don't think it's fair to describe this as a "con", though. Larson merely spotted a consistency in the game, and played it to maximum effect. All perfectly within the rules and regulations, no deception or "con" involved - and hence no reason for CBS not to pay out, which they did.

As the documentary points out, they just didn't think that anyone would be able to "aim and hit" the square they wanted - but they were mistaken, and paid for that complacency. They did not make the mistake a second time.
I don't really write much JS these days, but JetBrains IDE's (IDEA, PHPStorm, WebStorm) are able to provide pretty good code intel (and do refactoring) for e.g. PHP using DocBlocks (or of course language type hints/return types now) - I'd imagine the same is true of JS using JSDoc DocBlocks, no?

I know for front-end, and also a reasonable number of back-end web developers in scripting languages lightweight editors like Sublime, Atom etc are popular these days.. maybe that's driven the idea that "scripting/untyped/loose typed languages can't have good Code Intelligence"?
I recommend watching "Micro Men", a drama/documentary depicting the early days of Acorn and the battle with Sinclair for producing the BBC's official microcomputer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Men
It's a pity the code isn't open but I'm sure there's a reason.
The places I've been to in the US seem pretty good, though as a non-disabled person I don't think I'm qualified to say that with any certainty. Anyway, intersections have basically all been updated with the "dots" at the edges of sidewalks, and buses have for years supported wheelchairs. Certainly better than in some less developed countries I've been to where there aren't any handicap parking spots for starters, though of course they deal with more immediate problems.
Reads like a Less Wrong post:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/i4/belief_in_belief/

With people, it seems often to be the case that the fast system is used to make a decision, and then the slow system is used to justify the decision after the fact.
Barcelona is a great city and it started off as my first choice. I know it well and my girlfriend's parents are just over the border on the French side. Had a tour of Betahaus Barcelona too and that was lovely.

Why didn't it make the cut? I visited Sofia for the first time shortly after checking out Betahaus Barcelona and it simply ended up beating Barcelona on every metric I was interested in. It's significantly cheaper to live there; Betahaus Sofia was just as good; Sofia itself feels as young, fun and dynamic as Barcelona. It's a pretty city and everyone I met was incredibly friendly. There also seems to be a better/more fully formed startup networking environment in Sofia than Barcelona.
You could use this same argument to argue against testing software. If one of the people who "gets it" has written this piece of software then there should be no reason to test it because they _know_ it works. Anyone coming in for a job interview at a professional company with this attitude will not be taken seriously.

"They" are human and are prone to the exact same errors and mistakes as anyone else. Google is technologically successful because they try to base their decision on analyzed data instead of a gut feeling.
> I actually mixed up model B and model B+, I owned both. Model B is the more recent one is more expensive.

"Raspberry Pi Model B+" (renamed to "Raspberry Pi 1 Model B+", when Raspberry Pi 2 came out) is more recent than "Raspberry Pi (1) Model B":

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi
Seconded. I found the scikit learn guys very helpful.

Although, they seem to get alot of requests "hey i'm new here, what can i do?" So try to start with a more concrete question than that.
Marc Benioff knows where everything is headed because he can see what a good portion of America's and the world's sales channels look like for the next 3 - 18 months.
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I love Ruby, Python and JavaScript. I believe I am more productive with dynamic languages than say static languages like C# or Java. The abstractions in dynamic languages (at least for me) allow me to write less code with less confusion and less classes to remember.

With so many libraries supporting my development, I usually tend to write much less code using a dynamic language. Also most of the code tends to be isolated with clear interfaces exposed to other parts of the code. Writing tests is simpler too, compared to writing them in dynamic languages.

May be large projects with hundreds of thousands of lines of code, could benefit from statically typed languages. But for majority of the projects (80-20 rule) dynamic languages offer cleaner syntax, simpler coding experience and faster time to market (my opinion).
The Ember Inspector [0] is another great devtools addon for developing Ember applications.

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Great research. My intuition is that health science breakthroughs will come from looking at the body as a complex network management problem.
As a related note to building dependable distributed systems, we've spoken to a few ex-military cyber security engineers and private company security engineers / researchers who say that our new distributed programming language "Hello" would be useful for building powerful and fast distributed security applications. Would appreciate any thoughts/feedback on it.

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Actually, this has lead to an extensive mainlining effort [1] which has resulted in better mainline support than many other boards.

[1]: https://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort
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worrydream.com has a lot of very interesting material on it that is presented in a way that will appeal to students in the 16+ age range. Fortunately, the College network PCs do have Chrome available (not happening in Firefox on Linux).

I did notice that the OA is illustrated with really nice pictures of a studio/workspace furnished with books, notice boards and desks alive with paper illustrations. when I read the tag line...

"An ex-Apple interface designer’s 40-year plan to redesign not just the way we use computers, but the way we think with them"

... I thought the article might be about Jef Raskin and the Humane Interface for a moment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jef_Raskin

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TheHumaneInterface
Another factor could be that IT guys on average do not lead the most healthy life-styles.
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If I see correctly this is using python 2?
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Better if technology related, but an open question nevertheless.
If all the students do is take this "bootcamp", then yes, they will be short-changed. However, if these students already understand that they need the four-year BA/BS certification to get past HR and are either getting that education concurrent or already hold a BA/BS and are looking to jump from whatever they studied into becoming a developer, this program is quite valuable.

My point is that if the antecedent is already acknowledged, I have no problem with this program. I work for a university as a developer. The shop is split with about 60% coming to development from other fields. These developers are quite consistent at delivering product on a timely basis with good support and bring a much needed broader background in terms of understanding and implementing the requirements of various scholastic departments. This broader base and ability is something my organization would not have if we were to insist on just hiring Computer Scientists and/or Electrical Engineering candidates.
Another related British company which has become very successful without anyone noticing is Imagination Technologies (formerly Videologic).

They had a successful graphics card business during the 90s but with the introduction of 3D graphics accelerators their product (PowerVR) whilst semi-successful began to struggle against 3dfx and nVidia's TNT and Geforce range of graphics cards.

Eventually they pulled out of the standalone graphics market and pottered around producing speakers and radios. They had a few sucesses like winning the Sega Dreamcast bid from 3dfx but I believe it wasn't until the need to have powerful and low power graphics chips in phones that the PowerVR's very efficient rendering technology pushed Imagination back into the fore. Their graphics chips nowadays can be found powering most smartphones and tablets.

Very interesting company and a very interesting past.
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With Intel skipping a 'tick' and fabs like Samsung and TSMC catching up in process, ARM-based CPUs are competitive in performance with the low end of Intel's desktop lines up to Core i5 - and use less power.

There seems to be a window for ARM to make inroads into servers, in addition to low-end laptops like Chromebooks.

The trend of mobile devices replacing desktops for more and more tasks (> 50% of emails read on mobile, only 10% of people desktop-only) bodes poorly for Wintel.

One could foresee an era where one can add a keyboard and big screen to a mobile device like an iPad Pro, and most folks no longer use desktops at all. Phones migrate up to replace desktops, PCs migrate up to the cloud.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/druce-vertes-cfa/the-end-of-th...
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Dude, you're comparing specific languages you're naming, rather than comparing dynamic and static.
I am fully aware of the complexity of the game.

That's why it would be interesting to see how much can be inferred from offline learning first.

For example, looking at unit positions over time for the map can be quite rewarding, especially between the different phases of the game (early, mid, late).
> I think "without anyone really noticing" should really mean "without anyone in the general public really noticing".

I think that's implied when a mainstream news outlet writes about it, and not some tech magazine.

> In general I think that the press and the general public only becomes aware of these things long after they have reached a dominant market position and are employed almost universally.

which seems evident, here. ARM becomes dominant -> Guardian writes about it -> the general public learns about it.
I completely disagree.

I think your complaint is baseless and I'm glad I ignored your comment and went on to read the article.

It's a failing of mine, but I will sometimes skip an article if the comments here are like yours, because truly some useless articles do appear.

This isn't one of them. I'm confused by your dismissal, and more so by your reasoning.
The market noticed. Nice steady increase. Symbol: ARMH

https://www.google.com/finance?cid=662445
He probably has peers that speak English with him, that has a larger effect than the language spoken at home, or on TV.
The post is kinda like saying, you don't really need to understand notions of convergence or measure to be able to do integration. It's true, in a sense, and it's faster to just learn Newton's formula and get the job done. But you may get into problems without good foundations.

I like dynamic languages, especially Python and Clojure. But programming with types is important to get things right, on the correct, formal basis. (I think functional programming is a misnomer, it should really be called algebraic-oriented programming, but I digress.) Once you see how to do it correctly it's perfectly OK to mimic the same abstraction in dynamic language.
Yup, has a `from __future__ import print_function` in one of the examples in the bitbucket repository.
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Safely or not, what is the reasoning behind releasing this data to the public at all? What can we build with this data that is useful without violating anyone's privacy?
I am going to do something different from the other comments here and I'm going to agree with you. The reason why most people will disagree with you is because most people are terrified of suffering. They can't see suffering as the thing that makes life interesting, for them everything good comes from pleasure which is a mute point. They expand the definition of pleasure until the point where no argument could be had.

But indeed suffering makes life interesting. I just saw Meru, a documentary of a group of Alpinists trying to climb a very difficult mountain. Most hedonist would explain their behaviour with some bullshit like: "They do it because they feel pleasure from it" Which is total nonsense, specially when you are aware of all the pain and suffering involved in climbing a big fucking mountain.

It wouldn't be much of a challenge without suffering, there wouldn't be a grand obstacle to overcome. You can get more pleasure to stay in your couch smoking weed, but climbing Meru makes life more interesting.
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Hi,

Customer support can make or break a site but for those with small businesses, handling customer support can be a real nightmare (esp. technical and billing questions). You can of course hire full time employee(s) but that is not an option until your site is making a sizable income, or you are funded.

So for the rest of us:

- what are the ways to handle customer support?
- Do you do it yourself, outsource it to some other site / person, or have hired person(s) do it?
- What is the average time it takes you to resolve customer queries?
- How much budget do you allocate for handling customer support?