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That video has been submitted numerous times, but it never got any attention.

To be clear, I believe there is some disagreement as if this is one or multiple programs in China, but that doesn't really matter; we need to defend against the establishment of this kind of program regardless.

The trick where positive reinforcement is used to trick people into wanting to participate is utterly terrifying... because it will work. It's obvious that it will work, because it is effectively the weaponization of "high school clique"-style tribalism and carefully re-framed self interest.
I don't do anything beyond installing, uninstalling and upgrading software. I don't tamper with the system itself, don't use any automatic system cleaners, decrapifiers and such.

For example my Windows 10 now got stuck on some system upgrade and periodically informs me about that with fullscreen message box and sound gets stuck for fraction of a second from time to time when I watch movies and games I'm playing get stuck from time to time for few seconds when I'm running them from one SSD but not the other.

My Mac OSX gets stuck on accessing network share and refuses to continue until I restart finder, also prefers WiFi when cable connection is available despite wifi being lower on "set service order".

Haven't run Linux for last few years as a main system but I'd surely find some stuff that stopped working after few months or in some circumstances.
The implementation being completely rewritten is fine. Nobody should rely on internal fields or details of function calls.

The implementation changing to be asymptotically worse is not fine.

Also they could have changed the garbage collector to make both cases perform well.

Edit: And the comments you linked have a good point made in them, if you don't assume some bounds on how long a function is going to take, you can't call it ever. substr is not a function that's supposed to be forbidden.
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The question is not whether or not you're as productive, but rather, are you more than 80% as productive as you were before.
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That’s not really true, though. Look at Japan.

Sweatshops and de facto slavery isn’t everywhere, but you’re kinda right, countries which were colonies before – mostly in Africa, Asia and South America – tend to have less wealth and prosperity.
Now you know why some countries like Germany like cash. It's anonymous by design.
Guess why Google and Apple desperately wants to get in on payments? It fits their data driven business model perfectly.
Everytime you access a website a server is serving you files. Apache (and most web servers) keep logs of this. With Apache defaults you get IP address, the route accessed, and the User-Agent of the user. This is rudimentary information, but if you have these logs from multiple sites, it's pretty easy to roughly track someone. Tracking images in emails use this same principle, a unique link to krick.png is put in an email sent to you, and if it gets served by the server (shows up in the access logs) it's pretty reasonable to assume that you read the email.

If you want to see a simplified version of what this log looks like, run 'python -m SimpleHTTPServer' and visit localhost:8000.
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>1) Memory-safe costs a lot and gives me little. If I know I'm not going to touch memory incorrectly I should be able to take advantage of that.

Wut? Memory safety costs very little and gives you a lot in terms of buffer over flow vuls, remote code execution, use after frees. Running a single in range check costs 1-5 processor cycles which will be branch predicted out of existence.
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As iso suggests, the shareware term sort of degraded and then faded away. Shareware initially was this reaction to commercial retail software that you bought for hundreds of dollars and might not even be returnable if it didn't run properly on your system for some reason. The Association of Shareware Professionals in particular promoted try-before-you-buy without crippling. (I was an ASP member in the 90s though I didn't work at it full-time.)

After I stopped selling software, what continued to be called shareware generally degraded into a lot of crippleware and demoware. At the same time, limited time software trials became ubiquitous, open source started becoming important in the mainstream desktop world, and the Web eroded a lot of the traditional distribution distinction between "real" retail software and small operations.

So "shareware" as a meaningful category just sort of faded away.
And nobody is restricted to shell scripts. Any program that writes to STDOUT will work.
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In my experience, using GDB and any kind of memory debugging tool is all new to the majority of C and C++ programmers, so I'd expect them to find it interesting too.
Not trying to troll here, but in my experience this is true as well. You know what the culprit usually is? PULSEAUDIO ... oh my. I appreciate that audio is a complex solution, but it seems that even suspend issues often come back to, "oh, well pulseaudio isn't letting it ..." sigh
I think we agree as well.

I think a lot of trouble showed up when people thought "string" meant "text", and new programmers learned (in a 7-bit world) how to make programs this way. And then unicode.

I try to be specific and say "array of bytes" (or sometimes "bytestring") if I mean something that's accessed a byte-at-a-time, but since most text is just copied; sent verbatim to the screen, to the HTTP response, etc, I worry about the `O(N)` access and counting algorithms showing up in languages.
Pascal strings are weird.

The first byte tells you the string's length. If the MSB of the first bit is set, the string's first 4 bytes tell you the length of the string. I mean yes its not a horrible system, but there are better systems.

I'll be honest I like Rust's. Just keep the length and the pointer on the stack in a tuple.
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There are?

Go into your router settings through which you use your landline (or the settings in the phone app on your phone), it should look like this http://www.digiversum.de/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Rufsperr... and then add the number you want to block.
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Interesting to see the anecdotal evidence in the comments that the ACA has been very good to some, and very bad to others.

It's been particularly bad for us. The covered employees are largely older (40+), with families, and it's a fairly high-end policy with a low deductible and a high percentage of covered inpatient costs.

We pay 100% of the premiums for employees. The cost, for one employee with a family, is now over $1800/month.

It is a high end policy, but...WOW.
I don't know the details, but figure it would be nice to have this available as a library, instead of as a platform-dependent API.
Totally agreed! Their M&S ads are just irresistible!
Don't worry, they can still get your stuff; the new Dutch cybercrime law allows the likes of Fox-IT to hack your laptop/ISP and grab your data from there.
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Of course they can. But isn’t it better to target specific computers instead of doing dragnet surveillance on all Internet traffic?
Maybe the new tasks will be more interesting, but, really: what about duplicating the working keys? Would that really take more than six hours?

I don't mean to be rude, but to me it seems an abuse of technology to solve a problem lying somewhere else.
The predecessor of "Information at your Fingertip" vision, MS Bob, and various software agents (Siri, Watson, GoogleNow, Cortana, etc).
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In France working 35h/week is actually enforced by law. I personally think it's good for productivity (France is still considered a very productive country, more than Germany for instance) but this law remains regularly critiziced. Many want it removed or updated.

It's very hard to measure human productivity unfortunately. It's much easier to measure the cost of an employee working less hours for the same salary.
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Thanks - that is a really good video - I had heard about that scheme but I hadn't thought about the implications for an entire society of using gamification in that way.
This would also prevent instances of SWATing (someone calls a hoax call into a local police department to force a deployment to a hostile situation where one does not exist).
I am doing exactly the same for quite some time already, but sadly nobody followed my lead yet. I don't loose hope though.
How did you manage to arrange that?

I can't imagine going to my boss and proposing I spend 20% less time working for the same amount of pay, and getting approval for that.
XposedMod is a security black-hole. Someone who's paranoid enough about Privacy would consider staying away from XposedMod too.
Everything not mentioned here is implementation specific:

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/
At least he will have a nice list of tech on his CV.
Have you all seen the doc: http://thewallstreetconspiracy.com

It's related to Google Voice and a startup that went IPO.
Also laws are the way to prevent a race to the bottom. If it's legal to work longer hours people will, and everyone else will do so to compete with them.

Oh, is that why almost everyone earns minimum wage?
You are being a bit hard on sharks here, they provide a valuable service to the ecosystem.
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Have you even read my message? Or the thread you are answering to for that matter? The question is not how website owner knows I visited his website, that much is pretty obvious, but if it is the case that server-side tracking somehow allows to use GoogleAnalytics as well (that is, to notify Google from server side who has visited their website) and if this is the case — how does it exactly work. Because that's what JupiterMoon seems to be claiming.
Put the phone on speakerphone with the volume down, don't listen to them at all and just get on with what you were doing, make some occasional noises to keep them interested. They normally get fed up after about 5-10 mins though.
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It's been widely acknowledged that Woolworth's was very smart to sell this at the time and price they did. Their shareholders would be thrilled to have the company back focusing on their core business again.

If you don't know Woolworths is under immense pressure from their competitors Coles and Aldi and with their other side project aka distraction Masters also struggling they really need to focus and execute.
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I've had this schedule for about two years now. Never had any syncing issues.
Thanks, that sounds reasonable.
The fact that he pursued the cause of the bug even when things got difficult or strange for him was the essence of his real "hacker" experience. Was it a simple buffer overflow? Maybe, but he learned a lot getting his hands dirty
It's interactive in the sense that if you download the notebooks you can work through them with a local Jupyter installation.
Even just your UA string is enough in most cases to make educated guesses. See here: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/01/tracking-by-user-agent... . The server will get that UA string, and it can make subsequent calls (or serve you content that will automatically make calls, like hidden <img> tags...) to further restrict the search space. You can have middleware that does this transparently.

I'm not in that particular market, but I know people who are and tbh more often than not I think it's an arms race the individual simply cannot win. Unless there's a conscious effort from browser-makers to actively counter tracking practices, you should assume everything you do on the web is public and can be tracked by multiple parties.
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> To use an incredibly bad analogy: It's like moving from a monolithic "big iron" server to a pair or farm of smaller ones. There are many advantages, but it means it's now a distributed system with all the problems that can bring.

The thing is that, as you noted yourself, the analogy doesn't hold, for people are not AWS servers waiting for charge or failovers. If they chose to work 20h/wk, it's presumably to spend their time for other pursuits, eg. family, and they often won't be able to or won't agree to work more when their employer need it, perhaps unless it is planned well in advance (eg. Black Friday period).

> Basically, the company is renting two brains for the price of one.

Or, as I questioned, you might got two partly focused and perhaps less skilled people thinking about your problem, instead of someone more skilled totally focusing on it. As was brought in another comment, if you got two freelancers, then yeah, you could pick two brains, but if you have two family guys, not so much.
Yes, there are lots! But we prefer calling ourselves "indie developers" now :)

I don't have any numbers, but I don't think that the absolute number of shareware developers has decreased. It's just that the mobile ecosystem has exploded so that the desktop ecosystem looks tiny in comparison now.
I had a quick look at the ToS and do not see anything about uptime guaranties ? Synchronized backups to other geographic locations ? How about optionally making a local backup of all the data ? And how secure it is on your servers anyway ?
Things like this are very to businesses.
An instance of Fractal Lab you can play with:

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Amazing is discovering how much of the web paradigms were already running at Xerox PARC workstations and how much we still miss in terms of the whole experience.
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And contrary to the document on the parliament website [1], that link points to the document in PDF, ODT, HTML and XML.

[1] http://www.tweedekamer.nl/kamerstukken/brieven_regering/deta...
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Ah, difference in communication. When i read train i thought https://www.google.de/search?tbm=isch&q=deutsche+bahn+z%C3%B... which are very safe, not https://www.google.de/search?tbm=isch&q=strassen-bahn which are virtually unattended.
you seem to have confused innovation with invention. but that's beside the point. you seem to think that software needs to be either to deserve existance. looks like you're in the minority with that opinion, the rest of us is quite happy with iterative, gradual improvement. we consider it better than sticking with whatever the first shot at an implementation managed to hit.
That bullshit is what we call the economy, much more than 50% of it doesn't need doing. Without a basic income, we need that bullshit though.
Perhaps you could perhaps argue that PE companies play the same role in the commercial world as scavengers do in ecosystems - rip up the dead or nearly dead and try and extract value from it.

Not something that I could do, or even admire, but capitalism is much about failure as it is about success.
Because there's huge amounts of money at stake, I believe banks operate with a far higher level of security than average companies doing business online ... for them its an existential threat.
Then I do hope that you do not own a cashback etc bonus card, or your can be quite sure that your personal consumption related high resolution data will end up in some buyers pocket.

And all that for a cheaper (and cheap) bread-knife.
“how it replaced its $110 Core-based Celeron chips for Atom chips” — they already reverted that decision. Latest Celerons 3855U, 3955U are Skylake i.e. 6th generation Core chips.
Care to enlighten a neophyte about what the sharks bring to the financial ecosystem in this case?
It is not only unknown if this holds on machines that don't use 2s complement, it is quite likely that this doesn't even hold on machines that do use 2s complement, but have an optimizing compiler. In many cases, the overflow checks contains terms like

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which an optimizing compiler could compile as

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effectively switching the overflow test off (as there is no non-overflowing execution where this code will produce other behaviour than the original code, and behaviour on overflow is undefined, so the compiler can safely get rid of the addition).
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True. But there are already solutions in place to undermine this anonymity e.g. the bonus card system (see previous comment).
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nginx and apache can support http/https in parallel fairly easily, not much extra complication per se. the benefits are listed in a post below.

I was chatting with a youtube engineer last night and she told me that she does not recall a wide discussion on disabling http fully, I thus submitted a request in youtube's forum and see how it goes.
"The "importing" is not because of a true lack, but because it's a way to seek a lower price-point than they could get domestically."

Isn't this what a lack is? There are very few situations in which a needed thing doesn't exist at all.
The fact that the author wrote a blog post about it, and the fact that someone found it interesting enough to share, are iron-clad proof that these things are obviously interesting enough to write about.
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> So, the usual suspects...

I'm reading an economic history of the pre-industrial age, and when talking about the "la commenda" system (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_partnership#Concept.27...) from Medieval Italy, a concept which is one of the earliest forms of capitalism, the author mentions that this system wouldn't have taken roots if the parts involved hadn't had "a diffuse sense of honesty". Also, if one of the parts involved in the commenda contract were to show dishonesty, "after some time nobody would have given him their own savings to use as investments anymore".

800 years since those times entities like GS are as dishonest as a private entity can be, and still people and other companies choose to involve them in their financial dealings. It's, to say the least, most curious.
I can't stop thinking about Dick Smith getting into his helicopter, going back to Alaska and kick some butts there.
Don't you wish you hadn't surrendered software distribution authority to a single faceless corporate party? When nobody tried to demand bullshit crypto paperwork?

Remember when you could distribute software yourself without getting threatened[1]? Remember when platform vendors didn't take a 30% cut of everything you earned just because they wrote an OS? Not even Microsoft was that evil.

I hope you enjoy the world you've built, hipsters.

[1] See the f.lux Apple distribution debacle
But the question is if GA and others actually accept these kind of requests: remember that someone with such and such UA (or IP, or whatever) has visited that website? And if people actually use it? I still have my doubts that tracking someone by UA is possible — there will be collisions for the large part of the market — but that some analytics service is actually doing it? It's easy to track me if Google can "reach" to the client side when visiting some website: they can use cookies, all HTTP-request data, even flash-cookies maybe. It's a no brainer to track individual with information like this. But guessing who is who just by UA? This doesn't seem that trivial, so I wonder if they really do that.
Bottomline is that you're not free to use what you want in the browser, that's what drove the popularity of JS (and JSON). If you think that XML was a popular choice, but then lost its popularity due to JSON having better syntax - that's not how it happened.

JSON is easier to use, that's why it displaced XML in browsers. But if there was native or close to native (WebAssembly?) support of things like XSLT/XQuery 3.0 and XForms 2.0, then I would switch away from JS and its framework zoo in a heartbeat.

> deep mismatches between JSON and XML

not between JSON and XML, google "X/O Impedance Mismatch"
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GP does not mention the impact on its salary. Usually if you work 80% of your previous time, you are also payed 80% of the previous salary.
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Minor quibble, but the Dutch live in The Netherlands. The inhabitants of Denmark are called Danes.
Purchase and transaction histories provide very rich data profiles and are a big business. There are also several companies that match up this "offline" data with online profiles so you can be targeted online.

PII is not available, it is anonymized. There are laws around this. Purchase data itself is usually grouped into major purchase types, not amounts or actual goods purchased.

For that detail, it would be the CRM/ERP systems of the manufacturer that has that information tied to a serial number and this is why they ask you to register your product when you buy it. Some manufacturers might work with data providers to exchange this data (serial numbers in exchange for purchase histories) but it's rarely done at scale because of cost, complexity, legal/security risk and lack of options to benefit from it.