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A little backstory - I was working at Apple on the team that helped bring Swift to life.

The big roadblock (especially for things like frameworks) is 32-bit support. There's no 32-bit runtime for Swift. When that requirement is lifted I'm certain we'll see a flood of Apple apps built with Swift. There was (and still is) a huge amount of enthusiasm for the language internally. Many teams were working with it and plenty of internal tools where built with it. So yes, Apple is absolutely using Swift.
OK, so you want to learn how to code
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I've been wondering - in many startup companies, the engineers own all of the knowledge to run the company (documentation practices are discouraged by management because that's not "shipping"). Why don't we see more collective action? If the entire engineering staff walked, the company would be fucked, which gives them quite a bit of leverage. Meanwhile, the engineers can easily find other jobs since they're relatively in demand.
Salt water isn't good for rockets. Once you solve this really hard problem of landing a rocket on a barge on a dynamic ocean you have a real competitive advantage.
Country is essentially a political tool. Historically borders have been drawn so that tax collection and defense is easy. There is no reason to assume anything else for the future.

With rising costs of defense tech and automation allowing small crews, defense is about money. Tax money to be specific.

Bitcoin is making money transactions difficult to follow. International banking and tax havens are also a thing. Either we are going to see private armies and private countries, or countries shift taxation away from income and transactions. And start to tax something more traceable.

Location is prized and traceable. Water, electricity, internet bandwidth, everything that moves through fixed cable is also good candidate. Then comes traffic. If we rely on liquid fuels, road traffic could be taxed without tracing. But planes and ships are probably going to see some tax entering/exiting a port.

The article seems to be right for the wrong reasons. Country formation is usually very Machiavellian business.
I like his description of one unfortunate aspect of American culture he discovered on his first visit:

"...for the first time in my life I was confronted with a civilization that did not give its scientists the automatic benefit of the doubt or the respect that I was used to. On that trip I learned the word "egg-head" as a truly untranslatable Americanism...I was shocked to see how intellectuals could be-—as it were—-by definition suspect, and I remember that the feeling of uncertainty from which I saw my colleagues suffer, worried me very much."
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I think that is likely although that is predicting the future territory. Fundamentally the block size limit is about consensus, which bitcoin is very good at. I personally think consensus about the block size limit should be amended constantly through each block mined. Some would agree and some would disagree.
I don't know if that would apply to GitLab too, but maybe consider switching from the CE / EE model to just one "product" and a free for non-commercial model? Like e.g. http://3t.io/mongochef/download/ does it? I like that model way more than a feature-reduced version.
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Facebook hasn't even gotten their SDK working with dynamic frameworks :/
The topic is about C and I never said that such behavior is normal or anticipated. It's one of many cases where C standard lacks concreteness and we can only workaround such issues. In a perfect world, many things would be different.
I wrote an iOS app around the iOS9 release and did it purely in Swift. It's a great language and easy to grasp. I liked the if let pattern for example.

The hard part is using the frameworks and not getting annoyed of XCode slow downs, the language itself is very friendly.

Documentation is good too. Worked through the Stanford course which gives you a great introduction and a book about iOS design with Swift implementation.
Bitcoin is inherently malicious. It is deceptive in that it promotes the illusion of power through manipulating bitcoin. It is very easy, for certain people to manipulate.

China for example, and all of the miners the more people that are involved the higher you go with Bitcoin the more corrupt it becomes. I find it highly centralized, and in the control of a very select few. Even the Winklevoss twins holdings is not the same as the miners and their groupthink.

Failed experiment, yes. But now you have an 8000 lb monster in the room. Does this require regulation or is the monster going to destroy itself?
I hear that in the mathematical world it's measures as milli-Mandelbrots. Why, some people even get as high as three, or occasionally four!
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I don't go to youtube to read. You've got something genuinely extremely useful, but at the moment you are poisoning the well.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCPL

C followed B which followed BCPL.
If your intent is to memorize every factoid and point made in the text, then speed reading won't be effective.

However, if you naturally skim articles really quickly looking for information that will be of interest to you, then in a sense you are already speed reading.
Another commenter clarifies:
The authenticity of the water color drawings sheet is undisputed; what was shown to be a forgery – see http://skyweek.wordpress.com/2012/06/26/nuncius-mit-angeblic... – was an alleged proof copy of the Nuncius that also contained water colors.
Ncurses is a pretty low level to target, nowadays. I’d recommend something like Urwid (for Python) or similar higher-level for your language of choice.
Here's a side-by-side comparison of their three barge landing attempts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA7RzJckvQ4

I don't think big, over-engineered solutions really look necessary with the amount of progress they're making. Plus, there aren't any cushioned walls on Mars, which is SpaceX's eventual goal - use this sort of tech to touch down there.
I think anyone who follows the advice of Tucker Max, America's biggest no-apologies frat bro, should not be taken too seriously.

You still got it wrong for who you should be investing in: People who have a vision driving them to the core, who can't imagine not seeing their change happen. People who just want to start businesses "because they can't really think of doing anything else", are people who just want the lifestyle or equate it with personal freedom or something. They don't have much of an edge.
Here's an example of the technique for "teaching to the test": the formula you use should include all the numbers in the question. For example, if the question is "find the angle alpha in this right triangle" and gives lengths of the two sides, you know the answer should be some function of these two numbers (and nothing else).

More importantly, non-interactive nature of the test does not allow for follow-up questions. A few follow-up questions on oral exam let the examiner probe a lot deeper in less time, therefore getting a much better picture of student's ability and skill level.
Multiple cameras and motion detection on the Raspberry Pi
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In this case the ice would have been protected by being enclosed or mostly enclosed by the leg mechanisms.
I was so suspicious when this page didn't have a favicon... (it's safe)
If you think about it, there is a lot of energy and time pissed away because of trust issues. Reports, "cover your ass" emails and tasks, workflow limitations because of lack of trust, locks on doors, security systems, LOADS of bullshit jobs. Lack of trust shows in most aspects of our life. And, ironically, I think(without any concrete data to back up, it's just my own musing on the subject) that verification and "check systems" contribute greatly at the trust individuals show to each other.
Ice buildup on cryogenic components has been a problem with earlier private launch attempts from VAFB. See [1]for a frozen main LOX valve that didn't fully open due to ice frozen out of humid air.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Rocket_Company
They aren't toothless if the only ISP in your city cuts you off.
You don't have to control agricultural land. You just need to trade for food, which is beneficial to both farmers and city residents. Many cities do not control the lands that produce their food. In fact, many cities may not even be in the same province or even nation as the source of their food.

For instance, Washington, D.C. produces no food of its own (excluding neighborhood gardens) as the District contains no farmland within its borders. The Potomac is polluted, meaning fishing is not a viable source of food either. Virginia and Maryland have farmland, though the counties and cities in either of these states in the DC metro area either do not have farmland or have very little farmland.

All of these counties and cities get their food via truck, train, ship or some combination thereof. Modern transportation has made it so we no longer have to have farmland nearby to avoid spoiled food.
I wonder why you are downvoted. This sounds like a pretty accurate description.
> Yeah, I don't understand why they won't keep landing them on the ground like everyone else does.

No one else lands first stages. SpaceX is the first to do it.
I speed read that and I agree with what it says.
Someone should draw a map of the U.S. if city-states were to rise to power.
I always read that as Davros for some reason.
I've done non-animated ones myself using that method, but I've seen animated ones too - I assumed they were done by assigning an animated graphic rather than constantly updating the icon in a JS timer event until the notification is no longer relevant. Next time I see it I'll inspect the code and see what is going on.
I think there's something to be said for spring cleaning.

If your balance sheet is such that the incredibly marginal increase in borrowing costs is anything other than a bump, than you are a dead man walking anyway.
I'm sorry, but I still see examples that only explain what majority rules is. I'm not seeing where you are suggesting one thing or another different than what I've said. Again, it's an excellent system as long as you agree with the majority.

I'm assuming you're not suggesting that since people "always" change the context on the usage of somebody else's words that it's an acceptable thing to do.
Archlinux does the same thing for their releases.

https://releng.archlinux.org/pxeboot/
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yeah, it feels the title this time should be rocket explodes AFTER landing, to give a better feeling of how close this was
We considered that but we value having a completely open source version for all projects more. For more information about how we see the difference between CE and EE please see https://about.gitlab.com/about/#stewardship
> How is "discriminating against a group" different from "balancing its overwhelming predominance in a particular field"?

Since you ask, I'll repeat myself. Suppose you have lots of people applying for 100 slots in the university. Affirmative action at a US university designed to give you a quota of, say, 10% minorities could, in the worst case, crowd out qualified persons #91-100. "Jewish questions" deployed against highly qualified Jews in a Jewish-dominated field in Lithuania could have easily excluded most qualified persons in the range #1-100.

I really don't like affirmative action either, but it differs substantially in intent, technique, and impact. Considering them morally equivalent slights against the ideals of fairness and merit is a very narrow, black-and-white world view - and without abandoning the ideal of justice, I think it's important to see that there are many shades grays in this world, and some are much much darker than others.
I worked damn hard on this and would be grateful for your opinion
This is why British fee-paying schools are called 'public schools', by the way --- they're open to any member of the public who can pay, rather than being open to only a certain subset of the population. Plus public schools were under public management (a board of governors).

I believe there still are some private schools (UK sense) in the UK, but I can't find any references.
Nobody ever gave shit about territory itself. Just that economic power used to come mostly from arable land.

War has not gone away. We just happen to live an age of global hegemony, so it seems distant right now.
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A philosophy professor who writes about things like social contract theory, which is precisely the topic that attempts to explain what impact inequality has on a society. If anyone is in a position to explain why wealth inequality is a problem, it's T. M. Scanlon (or any other eminent philosopher).
Is there a reason not to design the rocket with more legs, say 6 legs instead of 4?
Retirement of certain Google search APIs
Sorry, I missed that you're YC too :)
Google uses Kubernetes? I thought it was just inspired by Borg and a 20% project.
Valve greenlights sale of fan-made Half-Life game
So far from true. At a startup, everyone is blunt, because it pays to be. Everyone there is counting on success.

Whereas at a corp, the ceremony was created by someone else who may not even work there anymore, for some superpsionic reasons that everyone basically just shrugs at because they don't want to lose their jobs. It'a a sludsgefest that startups can skip - no point in needless vagaries when in a startup, it's actually appreciated to collaborate organically instead of being culled for doing so.
I think true dogfooding would require a mix of both new applications as well as migrating older applications over.
this is too vague? what have you tried to get the 100 customers? what haven't you tried? what's your budget per customer? If a customer is worth $5000 you can do a lot to get their attention. if it's a 1 $3 transaction then you don't have a lot of options(blog or a convenience store). some kind of retail store distribution)
Interesting, feel free to make a detailed technical feature proposal on https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues and mention me.
Well, really, these startups should be able to show this quick growth without constant infusions of cash. I thought that the point of all the money was to keep ahead of the competitors who are also raising a lot, not as a baseline of operations.
Just checked out Martin Richards' web site:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mr10/

(Richards invented BCPL.)

He has an interpreter for BCPL. The page says:

BCPL, an interpretive implementation of the BCPL language and system, including many demonstration programs. Click on BCPL.html to obtain a copy of the current version. This version can be installed easily on most machines running Linux, Windows and MAC OSX. In particular, it is easy to install this version on the Raspberry Pi machine. See the Young Person's Guide to BCPL Programming on the Raspberry Pi (bcpl4raspi.pdf) for details.

His Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Richards_(computer_scie...

says:

He was awarded the IEEE Computer Society's Computer Pioneer Award in 2003 for "pioneering system software portability through the programming language BCPL".[9]
Good thing that CSS doesn't explode quite as literally and violently as rocket fuel does, then ;)
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Is that like, a double ad hominem?
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=How+do+I+delete+my+HN+account+and+all+i...
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When I submitted the (exact) same article last night I thought about how this topic was covered in a book I read titled, Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making. Part of the premise was that people in some of the large (and prosperous) cities of the world have more in common with each other than they might with the many of the people of their own country.

Due to the mobility offered by airlines, the concentration of successful people going to relatively few universities, and the global reach of their companies, many New Yorkers might know more people living in London than they knew living in the majority of U.S. states.

http://www.amazon.com/Superclass-Global-Power-Elite-Making/d...

Personally I have always felt that people who live in large cities have a much easier time navigating foreign large cities (even if they don't speak the language) than people from smaller towns in the same country. Using a subway for instance.
What useful work do you imagine being possible with SHA256(SHA256(nonce+block)) by choosing the nonce differently?
Betting on cities is betting on continued decline of nations.

Writing off the nation in exchange for the bright lights of the city is also a dangerous bet, because cities are very fragile.
Glad it worked out. I wasn't able to contribute unfortunately, but I wish you good luck for the future.
If you need help on the difference between "publicly viewable" and "open source" see this answer to a related question on the Open Source Stack Exchange: http://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/2338/can-i-use...
Knuth mentions that his secretary used TeX when he developed it [1]. In the preface to the "Waite Group's Unix System V Primer", it says it is written for "a secretary or a manager in an office, or student in a computer science class, or a computer hobbyist". And the "ENIAC girls" were the first (low-level, machine code) programmers, and their work was basically considered secreterial.

I guess, back in the day when secretaries were called secretaries, their work might also have been more "advanced" (i.e. more similar to the work of the scientists they supported). Nowadays there is no formal barrier to women holding the same job titles as men, so women interested in programming do not become administrative assistants.

[1] https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb17-4/tb53knun.pdf
> You still got it wrong for who you should be investing in: People who have a vision driving them to the core, who can't imagine not seeing their change happen.

This is a start, but only a start. I've run into plenty of these "types" who don't have the skills or experience to launch a successful startup. The question shouldn't just be "Do I have the passion for this?" but also "Do I have the abilities to execute this?"
> ... complement our existing phone.

So we're supposed to carry two phones now. Not because we need it but just so yet another phone manufacturer can sell their stuff to us (and iPhone won't catch up, ha ha). I guess you actually have to be a genius to shoehorn real people into fitting that concept. But if you're that kind of genius, you could just make people buy your product instead.
It's true that the number of entrepreneurs in Singapore has increased dramatically, compared to 5 years ago when my cofounder and I started our company. When we started back then, many investors told us that to succeed, we needed to move to SV. However, being based in Singapore has numerous advantages.

My bootstrapped startup is not consumer focused, so having a large local population is not key. But working with corporates, it's a bliss being based here. There are hundreds of multinational companies, of which many base their (edit: regional) headquarters here. It's so easy for us to reach to potential customers, and from there, to expand to other regional and global offices of these multinational companies.

Hiring can be an issue, but it's not difficult to get work passes for skilled foreigners here. Yes, there are quotas for companies hiring foreigners, but these are largely for less skilled foreigners. Many foreigners study in local universities like NUS and in turn have a bond to work in Singapore after they graduate. If you have a degree from a good, recognised university, it's not difficult to get an employment pass here.
In the US, less than 2% of the population works on farms. That's roughly 6 million people at a full 2%, less than the population of NYC alone.

Should farmers decide to not ship out food for some reason, it would be easy for cities to keep them in line if they are facing an existential crisis.
Obviously the sane approach is to write new code in Swift, including tooling and tests (as in Federighi's example). Not to rewrite and possibly breaks apps that are shipped to millions of users, just because of ideological reasons. Any software engineer who has worked on complex projects should understand this, no?
> Everything about the landing except the stuck leg seemed to be perfect.

And there's the issue: it only takes a tiny bit of imperfect to ruin a landing.

I do think that SpaceX is going to get to the point where they are recovering enough of their rockets to make it pay off. But there will probably always be a significant chance that some little thing will go wrong. Don't be fooled later by "we've landed 5 in a row" about that.
Let's hope we can get some delegates in AppKit that use weak instead of assign at the same time ;)
So how do Swift apps work on 32-bit hardware like iPhone 5/4s if there is no 32-bit runtime?
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Most major linux distros default to "heuristic overcommit", aka vm.overcommit_memory=0. The intent being to refuse obviously excessive allocations without sticking to a strict limit.

You can also enable behaviour like you describe by setting overcommit_memory=2 and some ratio overcommit_ratio (default 50) or exact number of kbytes overcommit_kbytes

Source:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vm/overcommit-accou...
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
That's a great example of the endgame of income inequality will transform the world.

I find it sad, as that is the cynical world my children will inherit.
Axway acquired my employer several years ago. The primary metric used to evaluate technical solutions seemed to be the birthplace of the engineer. Very silly decisions were made. I advise caution.
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I'm not a great fan of affirmative action either. Some of the things you say make perfect sense to me. I was only remarking that a similar mechanism exists today in the US and it is considered ethically valid.

As for the difference between AA and simple discrimination, the latter is usually intended to increase the power of the current dominant group, while affirmative action should act in the interest of a minority or disadvantaged group. The mechanisms are the same, it's the objective that's different. Much as the same substance or tool can be used to cure or to kill, it's the intention that matters.
Weight. Every pound you use up on things like legs is a whole bunch of pounds you can't take to orbit.
I wonder how they got the stem cells from blood. From what I knew, these cells are mostly available at birth, not much afterwards