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I have always objected when software was designed against my own ethics. I was never forced out, I just got another job or worked on another project. Every developer asks the question "why" am I making this. Only developers who care about the product seem to dig when given a hand wave and not a lot of them seem to care.
The footer indicates REVSYS, but (in my opinion) that doesn't really say anything useful about what I'm meaning. The article itself would be better if it directly mentions this, so people can put it in context from that instead of having to guess.

It's possible I'm being an idiot though. ;)
See the JetBrains MPS for example.
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> "I'm confused by some of the model discussion in the text overlays in this. It mentions the A3000 and A4000 and describes them in ways that don't seem to match the actual products."

Knowing about the unreleased A3000+ may help clear up the confusion:

http://www.amigahistory.plus.com/prototypes/a3000plus.html

Regarding the CD32, it was basically an A1200 with a CD drive. I think it had one CD32-only custom chip, I forget what it was called. In any case, it was possible to convert a CD32 into an A1200. The A1200 was a popular machine, I'm sure the CD32 would've lasted a little longer if Commodore didn't close, even if it was just lived on as a living room version of a desktop Amiga rather than as a pure games machine.

As an aside, I believe the first GTA game was originally being developed for the Amiga, but the Amiga version was dropped after Commodore went bust. If the CD32 needed a 'killer app', it may have found it in GTA.

That said, both the CD32 and the A1200 were a couple of years late IMO. I remember reading something from Dave Haynie saying that AGA could've been ready in 1990. If the CD32 was competing with the SNES and MegaDrive instead of the Saturn and PlayStation, I suspect it would've been a lot more successful.

EDIT: My memory may have mangled this Haynie quote (different chipset, different year:

http://www.amigahistory.co.uk/acutiator.html

I messed up on the quote, but considering OCS was released in 1985, 1990 for AGA doesn't seem too much of a stretch.
Hey, thanks for the comment! I'm hoping it will serve a different purpose in that there's times when I write code that doesn't end up in github, especially little experiments in Codepen, JSFiddle etc. Also tracking notes for what to do during your next session has been invaluable to me. As I add more and more features I think the difference will become clearer.
Between this post and others like it [1], Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert's ideas sound like they're evolving towards something very much like Julia [2], a dynamic language carefully designed to make ahead-of-time data-flow-based type analysis easy. This analysis allows Julia to achieve performance comparable to C and Fortran. Much of the design involves selecting which aspects of traditional unrestricted dynamism can be given up without compromising usability. For example, function bindings are constant by default, which allows type inference to know with certainty which function object is being called in most function calls. Similarly, since much of the difficulty in optimizing dynamic languages comes from trying to guess the types in arrays/structures/objects, Julia allows programmers to specify these, thereby eliminating this difficulty entirely. More information about Julia's design and implementation can be found here [3].

[1] http://pointersgonewild.com/2012/11/09/static-vs-dynamic-why...

[2] http://julialang.org/

[3] http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.5145
It can't happen again because the Chinese have paid the full price up front in cash. Also, many of them want to become American residents.
Chinese Pull Back from U.S. Property Investments
A blog, datepicker, and meetup events are trivial to me. They're like the freebies you'd expect in a party favor bag. It sounds more like he doesn't want to work hard, just hang out and talk, make a few small things, and somehow expects that to translate to survival.

It's a common fallacy shared by hippies: "let's all get together, feel good from drugs, sex, and music, make a few bead necklaces and paintings, and we'll live happily ever after as a peaceful family."

It's ironic he's continuing to do the same he's warning against by blogging about it on Medium.com.

Here's the secret about those "free" ideological communities... it's only free in terms of dollar bills; really their currency is love.

They want to be loved, and accepted. To hang out with fellow kind who stroke and groom them. They don't want to go out and hunt or fight. They're like the weak, infants of the tribe.

That's why someone like Stallman pushes so hard for the "free" thing, because in a highly competitive economy, he just isn't equipped to function. He can produce a few things, but all the other stuff necessary to thrive in the harsh outer world just isn't there. It's either find a way to get some love somehow, in a less competitive "free"verse, or be a loser in misery.

This guy might have more potential if he's managed to reproduce and have a spouse. Or there might be some critical flaw there that's blocking his ability to work at Google, and he's stuck without much opportunity.

Unfortunately, some people are sucked into that "free" religion when they didn't need to be. It's a disservice to society, but an advantage for the guys who can convince people to join their hippie circle. Stallman is a selfish greedy top 1%er like people accused Bill Gates of being; the only difference is, he's a lot more tricky in his deception.
Unless buying a house creates sustainable jobs, they aren't going to get a green card out of it.
There used to be a feature in many products, still exists in embedded, where unneeded features can be stripped by a configuration tool. I used to use this on desktops, too, to reduce amount of HD space and memory they use. It was more manual for sure but it helped. Security benefits showed up later when 0-days didn't affect what didn't exist.

I think more software should have that feature. Keep adding stuff to attract clients. Yet, keep the core interface and setup simple with extra stuff subject to hiding or automated stripping. Hell, even MS Office Install has that feature to a degree.
No, it's not equivalent. Reducing cognitive load includes (in particular) the elimination of extraneous, non-germane, or duplicate information or tasks.

A specific example that the paper gives is filling out long forms; if you can replace a long form with a shorter one, that is a reduction in cognitive load and bureaucracy, but it is not "dumbing down" anything.
I have never successfully restored a computer from Time Machine backup. The operation always fails.
iCloud Music Library is similarly unreliable. It hasn't (so far) corrupted my library, but attempting to download or stream music onto my iPhone often fails. It just hangs up, or stops mid-stream.

Hugely disappointing. Apple just doesn't seem to be able to figure out how to make reliable cloud services.
CEO's Guide to Vim:

1. Press `Escape` key
2. ":q!"

Jokes aside, text files are a wonderful medium. Not everything can be expressed easily as text, but I highly recommend using it to everybody for whatever can. Emacs may not be the best tool for less technologically literate individuals (for this Atom or Sublime Text are very good), but the format is certainly very useful. I think people should look into using the command line more, as it can be much more productive after a period of learning.
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> What the web is increasingly unable to do today: provide text content without requiring a code execution environment. This site is another example of that.

I was about to argue that this website is actually an excellent example of what you seek -- each link has a separate URL associated with it that returns a page containing that content. The links point to these real URLs so they work with "open in new tab" and "copy link" and in browsers without JavaScript enabled, while the JavaScript that runs when you click it changes the page content via AJAX (possibly saving a few round-trips) and updates the current page URL so that back/forward history and the address bar both work just like you're navigating between real webpages.

And this works perfectly in Firefox (with JavaScript) and almost perfectly in Lynx (the table of contents still fills the first screenful, but that's hard to fix since Lynx doesn't support CSS). But it completely fails if you have JavaScript disabled in Firefox.

Every page starts with the table of contents visible and the content collapsed (through CSS). The page then seems to assume that JavaScript will be able to immediately switch the page to the correct view (i.e. the site is broken if you have working CSS but not JavaScript). Navigation to a given page directly should start the other way by default, and to make that happen is just 21 missing characters (` class="page-feature"` on the <body> tag). However, this unfortunate error completely ruins this otherwise beautiful example of progressive enhancement.
An IDE. The same as the technical people use.

(In what world can "non-technical people" build any kind of app?)
Yeah, MorphOS is meant to be pretty decent, it's definitely worth a go, especially if you've got a compatible PPC Mac lying around (IIRC the demo version of MorphOS is free).
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> ...I'm not a lawyer so I may be misreading the law, thus the reason for "no-no" as to avoid rendering anything that might remotely look like I know what I'm talking about.

It's better to use a construction similar to the following:

"I'm not a lawyer -so I might be wrong-, but according to 123.e.(g).1 of $LAW, it looks like $THING is illegal.".

Authoritarians and other folks in power love to downplay the seriousness of their actions with soft talk and babytalk. [0] It's better to be explicit about your uncertainty and potential lack of qualifications to interpret source material, rather than to simultaneously imply your lack of expertise and reduce the perceived seriousness of a prohibited action. :)

[0] Please note that this is not a criticism of you. I try hard to say only what I intend to say and leave nothing to interpretation.
A good point, antipope actually covered it awhile back.

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2015/06/they-too...
This is more than outliers. There are way more middle / high income people over-extended to call them outliers. Also, there are pretty much whole countries of people who we would consider to have "poor" incomes who manage their money prudently.
On mobile, though, it's total!y non interactive. I can see a guy in a boat and that's it. It's like quakelive, except you can play quakelive against loads of people, not just stare at the title screen.
Fundamentals of 802.11ac Wave 2 [video]
Yip, you can't really do a re-write unless you've gone to the bother of understanding what is there in the first place (and wrapping tests around it, if at all possible).

And if you're going to the trouble to understand it and wrap tests around it, then maybe refactoring the existing codebase is a smarter choice. If less sexy.

I think a good mindset to have is to look for the challenge in making decent refactorings.
Hmm. My takeaway from this article is that the author simply doesn't have a burning passion to change something in the world or build something that should be in the world, and so a startup has not come to mind. Which is the right course of action: do nothing. Just starting a startup for startup's sake is the worst possible reason. And sometimes the startups that are started are flukes, even obnoxious flukes like Harvard's TheFacebook, and the true business emerges because the founder(s) were smart enough to quickly figure out what was going (and catching) on, how the market was reacting, and they pursued that vigorously and executed brilliantly. I consider all the big widely covered stories, WhatsApp, Facebook, Airbnb, etc., random flukes that executed well with grit and a determination not to give up. But I don't find them very inspiring.

All the startups I founded or co-founded (none located in Silicon Valley) were based on a burning desire to build something that wasn't available to the public but SHOULD be, and I was determined to make it available. Once I decided to go forward, nothing could stop me. Made a thousand mistakes, some in the end costing the respective company. But figuring out what to do as a startup was not typically the hard part. Not having enough good people or funding was. I hope to do another startup but right now I don't have any burning passion to build something that's not yet in the world except for stuff related to improving the way the voting public is informed by media (aka stopping how the public is misinformed by media), sustainable energy, improving health, and making people happier. We'll see if something emerges.
In a specific cohort lets say age 18-35 - is the only thing that matters for this study "access" to women not how many women a man can married?

Wonder what the polygamy male-female ratio is compared to current societies with skewed ratios (CN / IN)?
That's a really clever solution!
I don't disagree with any of your assertions. An educated society made up of well informed citizens is the ultimate goal. However why should the government be responsible for giving a less advantaged student permission and almost encouragement to pursue a path that reduces their likelihood of paying back the loan in full/on time? The necessary education for someone to be well informed should be transferred to the high school system where the student does not need to go into debt to receive the necessary education.

If there was restricted access to loans or harsher terms, people from less favorable economic backgrounds would likely not pursue those sanctioned fields, unless they had some specific advantage such as ability since this could yield to a higher chance of success.
What can Go do that Python cannot? Nothing. Why are there droves of projects that are migrated from Python to Go? Because Go is fast.

Web apps are too slow on mobile.
I like that, but it could use some CSS love. Will you accept a PR if I clean things up a tad?
Hitting something small going 30MPH at 400 feet seems hard even with most guns. Adding some cameras you could probably track down who is attacking easily enough to discourage most people.
The relative importance of Mrs Einstein (1990)
Your post reeks of xenophobia, tribalism and protectionism.

No country is buying your home country. Just a bunch of foreign individuals snapping a few properties in a certain segment of the real estate market (upscale) helping the local and national economy alike. If you're really think that every foreign RE investor is a secret spy working for some shady state-sponsored organization to subvert your country, it's really a shame.
A couple days ago, I needed a new cordless landline phone and wanted to try out Prime Now. It was impressive that I could track my courier's location and have it arrive within half an hour - only problem was that it was the wrong model. I've ordered hundreds of things from Amazon and can't recall ever receiving an incorrect item. To make matters worse, the CS rep I spoke to said they couldn't send couriers to do returns or exchanges: I had to UPS it 2,000 miles to Kentucky. Winning the ecommerce delivery race won't mean anything unless Amazon can maintain its high accuracy rate and positive user experience.
Apple's entire iCloud offering is a mess.

I have no idea what the "rules" are. For example, I bought iCloud storage plan for 200 GB for $4/month, and I'm not sure what that is backing up. Is it just backing up a single version of my phone? Or multiple, in case I accidentally delete something? I'm thinking it's the former, which is only barely useful.

I also do a lot of Photostreaming with my family. Photostream is a great product. I already have 4 separate photostreams with thousands of pictures and videos, but I'm apparently paying nothing for it. Why? What's the limit? How can I get a copy of an entire photostream? Can they arbitrarily delete all my photostreams? All of these I'm unsure about.

The same goes for Photo Library and iCloud Drive. I have no idea how it works, what the limits are, but I'm too afraid to try it because of the things that OP says. It may delete my entire photo library, and I can't afford that because I have years upon years of photos on my iPhone of my family that I can't lose.

I wish the explanations were better, and their guarantees were stronger. As I said, it feels like their entire offering is a mess, which is too bad, because it shouldn't be this confusing and bad for all of their success.
This website should really use CouchDB ...
The point is the Chinese will need to get that cash back when the rest of their assets are devalued.
what does python or go have to do with this web page? what does go have to do with making web apps faster?
Elixir (and Erlang itself, actually) are definitely the vanguard of dynamically typed languages at the moment. I think this is because they aren't just convenient to write "normal" code in (like Ruby, Python, JS, etc.), they also come with major advantages in writing concurrent and distributed code, which is increasingly important. BEAM is also a particularly good runtime with better performance (especially memory) characteristics than many of its dynamically typed competitors.

I think this is the counter-argument to the original claim; new dynamically typed languages can be successful by offering convenience for important functionality. Even so, I think type annotations to aid static analysis (which Elixir has and JS will likely have in the future) will be an important feature.

I think the bar has simply been raised for new languages with both static and dynamic type systems. The former can no longer be boilerplate-y, inflexible, and inconvenient, and the latter can no longer be statically uncertain and hard to reason about. This is a good thing.
Indeed. It's actually blocked right now by my ISP.
Suggestion: Shut it down. There are really cases where it is hopeless and this is one of them.
"...iTunes in particular is becoming increasingly less about your music, and more about everything apple."

This. 100 upvotes for this. If iTunes had a "local storage only" version, that doesn't share jack sh*t with Apple, doesn't potentially upload any sensitive info, doesn't try and force their crap onto people... (and the boundaries get moved with every single forced update!), that would be more than welcome. This is a huge pain point / bug bear for me at least. :(
It would be hard pressed to argue that the government is offering loans for the ultimate happiness of the student. As the article points out, the lender is smiling when giving the loan but the end goal like any other business should be to get the funds back with interest in a reasonable time frame. If someone were to pursue a degree for happiness the government does not need to be in the business of funding that. They should be funding students looking to create a sustainable life for themselves.
surely he falls easily into the "cocksure" category
Often going 5 miles in a city can take 30+ minutes. So using drones makes this easier. Further per package delivery costs are probably lower. At day 10,000$ per drone, an average deliver 8 packages a day, for 3 years. That's 1.25$ per package.
The huge practical problem with this test is it requires an MRI. Don't get me wrong, this is great work, but I don't see it coming into the spotlight as a new way to diagnose attention disorders.
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If you intend to negotiate something like them you need to GET IT IN WRITING FROM THEM before sending payment. If they don't send you an invoice or whatever with the proper total amount due on it, DO NOT SEND OUR MONEY. They will often lie to get you to send a payment and if you can't prove you negotiated the lower amount you will still owe.
It's amazing what some people find important, isn't it.

Is that pedentry better than the "android isn't really open source because Google doesn't do pull requests" though?
Interesting.

I've hosted over 40 couchsurfers in Manhattan so I have a few concerns.

My largest one is that HackerCouch lacks a reference system so that people "know" who is a good or bad host or guest. Googling every one who messages me, the host, may not yield as much info as I would like, since most folks aren't 1000-twitter-followers, ten-thousand-github-commits, Forbes-interviewed, rockstars (Like Me![1]). Accordingly, HackerCouch needs some faculty to indicate and ensure the trustworthiness of its listings: perhaps like the kinds founds in Couchsurfing.org, BeWelcome or AirBnb. Otherwise, all hosts ought to have and to link their listings to at least one other platforms so guests can see their pictures, reviews, and other metadata, to make an informed decision to stay with someone who is, essentially, a stranger.

On this note of having to use another platform: I know I would also have to create a staging email address for managing requests. Having received 400+ requests in 4 months, I can safely say that 1% of people will go to... creepy lengths if they feel like they aren't getting the attention they deserve. Clearly showing off all my contact info is fine on my marketing site, but not fine when I'm offering something up for free that people can take free advantage of. AirBnB and Couchsurfing offer a comforting layer of messaging for the host: allowing me to interact cordially with most potential guests without fear of the crazies.

Please note I'm not saying this to discourage you; I would just like this promising idea to avoid the many painful lessons Couchsurfing.org has learned. (... and then ignored.)

[1] This is sarcasm. But if we meet in real life, I'll be sure to scream about it with conviction[2].

[2] This is not sarcasm.
The beating that we Apple IIgs owners took in the BBS scene from the Amigans in the early 1990s was downright brutal. It gives me no particular pleasure to note that the Amigans suffered approximately the same fate as we did (horrible marketing, unnecessary obsolescence). Either one of our machines would have been more fun than what we ended up with, no?
He did it in Illustrator. I find his work fascinating.
If you need a way of deploying a Hugo site, I highly recommend Stout [1].

1. http://stout.is
>Acme is a little less feasible for me due to not having found a proper (3-button + trackball) mouse to use with it.

I use Evoluent at home and HP's 3-button mouse on the go (http://www8.hp.com/us/en/products/oas/product-detail.html?oi...): while Evoluent is more ergonomic, it's too bulky to be portable.
So if you want to buy a house, then make a careful plan to wait for the next economic crash and that's when you can buy a house! Solid plan.
As a "general" kind of point, after using both *BSD or Linux for a few weeks, the BSD version generally feels better engineered.

The command line utilities can be markedly different from the Linux version if that's what you're used to, but it's something that can be adapted to.

This is a "general feeling" kind of thing though. It seems to be a common sentiment, but may not apply to everyone. YMMV etc. ;)
I don't think this will be everywhere, just urban -- at least a t first. My guess is they'll also use PrimeNow (1, 2, 4 hour delivery by car/truck from a localized warehouse -- happening NOW in my city) as a canary in a coal mine to test a given market's suitability to immediate delivery (in terms of demand, regulatory env, probably tons of other factors).
Right, relaxing the "it must grow faster than polynomial" might free up some new methods that we've foregone. But it's also the case that existing methods might still work fine - breaking them wouldn't be Omega(exp(n)), but may still have a high enough lower-bound for realistic values.

Of course, if we discover that P=NP, getting at those lower bounds would be a priority...