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The full name of the game Colonization is "Civilization IV: Colonization"
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It can be sent over email or anything , doesn't even need security.
I don't want to do that because I do like the os X better a GUI

I think that in the current pity world of 16:9 displays, actually Ubuntu has the most logical GUI layout because they conserve the vertical screen real estate as much as possible. This means they merge global toolbar, menu and window title bar when windows are maximized.

I see that OSX has followed this trend but their solution seems to be more ad-hoc and application based that it does not feel natural for me.
> Straw-manning is necessary

Well, if you're going to advocate that everybody just believe whatever they want without facts or reason, don't be surprised if people tl;dr your comment and ignore you.
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That's like saying for CPU's, "Who needs to code at assembler for performance when Java and its threading model are available?" Two very different levels of abstraction and capabilities. Best results out of FPGA's are done by hardware designers using hardware tools that map to lowest levels.
As I wrote in the blog post, we didn't take a closer look at the performance difference, and I know that "measure, don't guess" is maxim. But if I risk it, I believe there are some differences that could make a difference in performance as described in the following chapter. (This is for COFF but applicable to ELF.)

https://github.com/llvm-mirror/lld/blob/master/COFF/README.m...

We can't reach a conclusion until we add a linker script support to lld, though.
According to the article, it was canceled because "they couldn't get a French name and nobody wants to do it"

I think this has more to do with Francophone people feeling marginalized as opposed to colonialism or caring for Indian people's feelings.
Thank god. Not being able to paste/visit the link directly from WhatsApp surely prevents them from planning an attack over Telegram /s

I agree with you that Telegram has been in the news recently, but I doubt it's related with this incident.
Owning it, or, how to tell whether or not you’re leading
> "Safe-spaces", on the other hand, are cudgels of fear, handed to anyone claiming "victimization" to be capriciously used against people with whom they simply disagree and want to shut up.

Oh please. Now who's fear-cudgeling whom? You're being extremely melodramatic in reaction to a questionable anecdote.
> My Telegram account can be synced on multiple PCs and devices, while Signal seems to be phone only.

I believe that is only temporary. The latest version of Signal hints at multi-device synchronization, though it appears to not be fully implemented. One example of this is the Chrome browser extension[0].

[0] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Browser
As I mentioned in another comment, Mozilla stopped developing updates back in 2012 and passed it to the community. I imagine the maintenance will move likewise.

If you're upset about decisions that have been made with Thunderbird, submit a pull request.

Here's the code: https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central
"losing their chance at immortality"... author is not really paying attention to the idea of reincarnation there.
Partially, but the point is that you're (manually and expensively) reinventing the wheel that desktop toolkits had already built for you.
The thing that's craziest about the MAS to me is how bad the actual application is.

It's super slow, constantly hangs, and is just such a bad experience from the consumer side that it undermines the (very real) benefits of having a centralized store of applications you've purchased and installed.

It'd be one thing (and a fairly standard Apple move) if the customer experience was good and they didn't care about trampling developers to get it that way, but the actual customer facing software that is the App Store is a shockingly bad piece of software.
This is not a day care! So sit down and feel guilty while I tell you about the invisible man who lives in the sky and judges your for touching your genitals. This 2,000 year old book is filled with magic recipes for living after you are dead, and you should grow up and listen to them.
Or they are smart and have figured it out--figured out that religion gives them power and control over others, like any cult structure.
What if they restrict running compilers?

Edit: I see from down votes that people disagree with this idea (no problem with that).

Still, why not?

You need a developer licence for iOS that effectively means that you are restricted to run compilers on iOS.

Why not extend it to OSX?
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Maybe you'll only be able to run your own software after getting an expensive code signing certificate and going through an identity verification process. Or it'll be like games consoles, with the "dev" versions being different from the retail ones.
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yup, same here. I help SMBs with marketing, and Yelp is usually never worth paying for.

The only small case is when the ROI on adwords is reaching the level of diminishing returns
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It's been a long time since I've done Lua (2005/2006 IIRC?), but I remember Lua's C embedding API being remarkably excellent already.

C calling Lua, calling back into C, back and forth across the boundary was absolutely painless. Compared with experiencing that in many other languages, at the time, I was convinced that was as easy as it is. (Plus, the size of the lua runtime made it great for embedded projects, whereas now embedded computing has gotten so much more powerful you can really include almost any language stack if you really want to)

As a result, I'm not positive why I need a C-like layer on top for cases where I probably want to write C.
India will have a good run, as long as oil prices remain low. It still have to do reforms which the Central and State governments are not willing to do. Even though Modi is supposed to be the pro-business friendly messiah, the politics and yearly elections at state level put certain binds and limitations. India will have growth, and lot of people will be millionaires but I would be surprised even in 2030 if India surpasses UK or Germany, and makes into TOP 5. The economic policies are not cohesive and politics for a lack of better word are "Tribal".
Not all apps, some older apps (e.g. Tweetbot 1.xx) stopped working permanently & can't be fixed, because Apple doesn't allow old versions to be re-downloaded from the Mac App Store. It's convinced me to stop using the MAS and I've been re-buying my MAS apps direct from the developer wherever possible.

I commented more fully over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10562030
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Let's look at the Atom/VS Code use case...

> "Formatted copypasting"

Do you need this for a coders editor?

> "usability features"

Like what?

> "network features"

Which network features do you need for a coders editor? In the case of Atom/VS Code, can't think of a single one that a browser engine doesn't already provide. Not going to need things like AD-integration, etc...

> "The OS will become little more than a very expensive pixel pipe."

If that's what people want, then so be it. I see no problem with simplifying the OS, most of them are already too bloated.

> " But that's what people like, because C++ is hard, native widgets are hard to customise, and everyone loves designing interfaces, so that's where we're going."

The main advantage is the cross platform compatibility. If certain OS vendors didn't make it hard to build apps that utilised a common base then there'd be much less drive to produce web apps. It has very little to do with the complexity of C++.

> "I anyone ever starts making javascript-optimised CPUs and GPUs, they're going to make billions."

As I've said a number of times now, the final target with web apps won't be JS, it'll be WebAssembly.
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It's not entirely an ad hominem. The original claim contains an implicit appeal to authority in citing the link to the blog. Saying that the authority cited is not actually a valid authority (due to a known bias) is not quite the same as ad hominem.

We resort to reputation to calibrate the burden of proof. If the source cited is not a valid authority, that doesn't make them wrong, but it does make it harder for them to establish a claim that merits rebuttal.
No, that was a later release. Colonization was a Micropose game in its own right designed by, imho, the real genius behind the series, Brian Reynolds who later designed Alpha Centauri.
It's funny how Microsoft was once in court over essentially shoving browser components into UI, and now this.

I wish that the features of web engines were more compartmentalized. The "convenience" of a Thing That Does Everything will also introduce fragility and bloat (and maybe even security exposures).

For example, I would probably love to call functions to lay out some rectangles for me. I know a web engine can do that really well, and I don't even mind passing in CSS strings to describe what I want. The problem is, I don't want "Internet in a box" to come with it; I just want the layout in that case. It would also be a lot easier to identify problems and contribute solutions if there was a way to "only" do X and focus on that part of the engine to fix.

It would be awesome to be able to take those kinds of low-level details, and start really going cross-platform with them. Make a library that can finally lay out whatever the hell you want consistently across machines, that can be patched into all existing UI libraries or other tools. Make a portable text rendering and text layout system. Make a portable GL viewer. But don't tell me that each of those things only works if I create an InternetInBoxView. Instead, refactor InternetInBoxView to use those separate parts.
If all self selecting groups would address the issue as exemplified in this case, I think we'd be better off. While I could not care less about this college or its mission, I'm glad they are confronting the issue of manufactured offense. Taking offence at anything which makes someone feel uncomfortable mentally/psychologically. People should be able to deal with the ugliness of reality as a matter of course rather than something which affronts them or something which calls their existence into question.

Harassment, of course, is something different and malicious and should be confronted uncovered and called out, but simple discourse, antagonistic as may be, is something humans should learn how to engage with with relative ease, rather than recoil and become less able to deal with the realities of living in a complex and undanitized society.
Definitely wasn't the sole reason, their server software generally sucked, e.g. a lot of people happily switched to Apache once it was perceived as being sufficiently trustworthy. I could see the latter happening in the 1995-6 period.

One thing I've read about the rewrite is that Netscape accuihired? (back before that was a word) a failed company, and put its failed managers in charge, who I guess were good at what really counts in the short term (looking out for themselves). An obvious corollary to the "don't do a rewrite" is "if you're going to do one, employ really good people to do it".
> AMD dropped rings in their 64 bit architecture which Intel was forced to adopt, so they're becoming a historical curiosity.

Not quite. Hypervisors are operating in Ring -1, SMM is equivalent to another ring above that, and I can't find anything about AMD64 dropping Ring 1/2? Ring 0/3 at least are still in use.
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I've moved to Mutt/OfflineIMAP on most every machine I own, and it's worked remarkably well. It's a CLI app, yes, but it outshines Thunderbird (and most other GUI clients, for that matter) in a number of ways:

- FAST. Mutt lets you process thousands of messages in short order. Mutt is directly responsible for helping me dig out of a 50k deep email hole brought on by years of GMail's approach (archive, never delete) in a few days of on-and-off cleanup.

- Plays well with others. Uses a bog standard Maildir format that anything sane can read (including Thunderbird, so migration should be easy), provides a very powerful hooking system which can do anything from verifying PGP signatures to checking your spelling before sending to displaying attachments.

- Sane defaults. Doesn't require a lot of in-depth customization to provide the basics, and the bells and whistles are hardly out of reach.

- You have a backup of your mail for free (by using OfflineIMAP)

- Not hard to learn (at least for the crowd here). If you can use Vim, you can be using Mutt at full speed in less than a week.

- Search capabilities that blow nearly every other project out of the water (regexes with some very cool niceties)[1]

- Secure by design. Mails are rendered as plaintext, HTML is decoded by piping messages through a program like w3m. Tracking bugs can't do their job, spammers can't see that you've looked at their stuff, and you're immune to whatever image decoding bugs crop up. (Though you can still view images, it's an explicit process). Also, builtin GPG support.

I followed Steve Losh's guide[2] on setting it up.

[1]: http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-4.html

[2]: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/the-homely-mutt/
Colonization is an old Sid Meier classic that co-existed separately to Civilization, sharing similarities with it.

http://www.gog.com/game/sid_meiers_colonization
>The ARM peripherals need to be assigned to I/O pins which happens in the FPGA (PL in Zynq terms).

ARM "hard" peripherals can be assigned to MIO pins, which have nothing to do with the PL, or EMIO which can be routed through PL to the FPGA pins. In both cases, the user must write to PS registers to configure internal muxes and assign the peripheral to a given set of pins. In the latter you must assign the ARM pin as an input in the PL and route it to a PL output as in any regular FPGA design.

>The ARM subsystem has bus connections to programmable logic which happens entirely in the FPGA (e.g., you connect a 16550 UART to the ARM via AXI bus, etc).

Yes it has but the interconnect subsystem is configured in software not through the bitsream.

> I'd say Zynq is a far more complex bitstream than just a vanilla FPGA.

Zynq's PL is a Xilinx 7 Series fabric, I wouldn't say both are much different in complexity. I'm not saying they're simple, tough...
Of course it is. In fact, some of the hard evangelicals usually scoff at Christmas because of its pagan origins and syncretism.

There actually have been Wars on Christmas... waged by Christians themselves: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_in_Puritan_New_Engla...
I am not sure a white hat is going to add value in most cases.

You have sensitive data and are worried about security. This is good (far too many people aren't). Bang for buck though, you are going to do better with a very security minded developer. A good developer with OS knowledge can make sure your code base is safe from all the common vulns and follows best practices. In general, that would be a lot more useful to you than someone that would come in and maybe find a hole somewhere.

Now if you did something very nich like invented your own crypto algo, and you need a white hat crypto guy to go test it - sure - get an outside set of eyes. But for someone to check for root access being disabled over ssh and no SQL injections? Seems overkill. Fortune 500 companies will throw millions at white hats, and only find a few vulns. As a startup I don't think you can do that (unless your funding rocks).
I hope you mean "we" as in the web or software development community at large, and not "we" as people in general. Because it would be a complete joke to tell production studios to use HTML5.
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Instead of what exactly? Eudora? Windows Live Mail?
>but it's probably not enough to persuade other people that it's gone.

I believe there is a long standing bounty for anyone who can retrieve useful data from a drive that had been zero'd once. No one has been able to thus far.

A lot of the disk wiping "culture" stems from a much earlier time when disk technology was less reliable, especially in regards to writes. Dan Gutmann himself says that the Gutmann method is long antiquated and only worked with MFM/RLL encoded disks from the 80s and early 90s.

Perhaps instead of humoring these people, we should be educating them. A zero'd out disk is a wiped disk until someone proves otherwise.
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Nobody is saying it's difficult, just that it's out of band.
Kind of like we have tools that look at assembler to prevent any errors and malice in original C code? ;)
From experience, this often works with essentially reasonable people but occasionally is prone to spectacular failures. Some people have difficulty accepting the possibility that a human being can both understand their position and not be in perfect agreement with it.
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I thought that it was unmaintained now!
But the original source of the information is the DOJ.

Government statistics may not always be perfect, but are you implying that the government is guilty of purposefully manipulating data? Why?
Java by itself is workable. What I was referring to is adding yet another (and rather unnecessary) layer of complexity to an IDE which barely functioned as it is. That layer of complexity is the "web platform", which forces you to create UI out of divs, curse words, and duct tape to this day.
Yeah. It's not re-education. It's continuing education.
Do actual humans still use G+ and linkedin? I thought they were mostly just playgrounds for bot-wars.
Do a Spartan-6 and a Virtex-6. Use the tools I linked to in my main comment where possible. Would be very useful given their price, performance, and lots of info on them.
It's not prejudice to point out absurdity. Religion is simply that... and while there may be some intelligent people, I would say that anyone who believes in supernatural sky beings that run everything and watch every move and every thought of every human is not smart.

I think smart is the application of intelligence, and while intelligent, the religious are not "smart" in that area.
I think it's pretty easy to imagine. "Would you like to see an ad for Viagra? Y/N" "I want to tell you about my views on Obama (negative). Y/N". "Would you like to hear my view on Creationism (positive). Y/N"

The basic protocol requires an accurate summary of the topic and the sentiment from the initiator, and a single bit from the target.

BTW this is essentially how Mormon missionaries do it ("Do you want to hear about my views on Jesus (positive)? Y/N", and I think it's great.
There's nothing wrong with starch (a complex carbohydrate of plant origin), nor its metabolization into sugar in the body.

Starch, for example, is a polymer of glucose units and is typically broken down to glucose.

The most important carbohydrate is glucose, a simple sugar (monosaccharide) that is metabolized by nearly all known organisms.

Doctors and scientists once believed that eating complex carbohydrates instead of sugars would help maintain lower blood glucose. Numerous studies suggest, however, that both sugars and starches produce an unpredictable range of glycemic and insulinemic responses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbohydrate_metabolism
(Since you're stirring up the pot) Is it really rare and absurd to tell kids about Santa without trying to make them believe he's real?

I'm not a parent so please do enlighten me as to why kids should believe in a made-up entity, up until some arbitrary age at which point they should be told the truth. Is this some perverse initiation to getting your heart broken or something?

I was raised with the whole santa bells & whistles without ever being told "by the way, he's real". As far as childhoods go it was pretty uneventful and christmas was always fun. Did I miss some crucial childhood enlightenment?