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I can't say I'm feeling sorry for the counterfeiters. Now it sucks if you got suckered into thinking you had bought one thing and ended up with another, back when RAM was both expensive and in short supply(and Intel was still making it) it was not uncommon to have "grey market" RAM with Intel markings but substandard chips.

It is always interesting to see the mechanics at play too, people who get counterfeit chips are more often (but not always) people who have released all "quality" requirements in order to achieve the lowest possible price. As being price preferred they put themselves at risk of getting substandard parts, and then when they get parts that don't work or work anomalously, they frame that problem as someone else's problem rather than their own choice.

In the referenced forum post you have a person using "Chinese clone" Arduino nanos which happen to have chips on them that report as FTDI USB to serial converters but are in fact something else. So drop the vendor or have the vendor write their own USB driver for windows but why hate on FTDI for identifying the bogus chip and refusing to work with it?
The article or the proceeding one has an error:

> Starting a 7:00pm event at 8:50pm is simply unacceptable

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> (even though the invitation insisted that everybody be at the venue by 7:30pm sharp).

So did it start at 7:00 pm or 7:30 pm?

That error notwithstanding, if this turns out to be true it seems pretty petty to cancel his preorder out of spite. In general I take a negative view of companies that "punish" their customers for writing negative reviews or comments. Makes me wonder if Tesla will let journalists review their vehicles fairly in the future.

Instead of this turning into a negative PR event, they could have turned this into a positive. Just call the guy, apologise for the late start, and invite him in to view the vehicle in a private showing. No doubt he would write an article either on the apology OR on the vehicle, and it is a net gain to Tesla's PR (or worst case he writes no article, and you still don't wind up with the negative PR we see here).

Instead now we have a company which may punish journalists and critics.
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Your argument would make sense if computer knowledge had been replaced with something else of utility, in younger generations. What has it been replaced with?
I have a good friend who lives in Alabama and works for one of the many DoD contractors.

When he leaves work at 5pm he actually can't access his work email. Nobody can send him anything from work on an unsecured line.

When he leaves work at 5pm on a Friday, nobody can contact him about work related things until he is on site at 8am on Monday morning.

He's a senior level unix admin. That can't ever be paged. I'd say that's pretty okay.
I think the damage is done and more subtle than a huge public disaster.

When the fake-killer driver burst onto the scene previously, I just switched to microchip MCP2221's. It just wasn't worth the risk that I might accidentally source a counterfeit on a BOM and not find out until later.

If it says FTDI on it, its now a no go. Just no way to be sure anymore.
State of the container world, January 2016
Indeed. Now only the very top management have the privilege of private offices. I've worked on a +400,000 sqft campus where only a handful of top managers had private offices. Generally, you have a private office only if you are important enough that you also have a personal secretary.
> What if other civilizations have the same problem and can't travel to other planets before resource starvation comes in?

They probably die.
On HN I've seen posts from people that have locally installed to their machine all or the majority of Google Fonts. It's kind of a "best of both worlds" approach in that you get a speedier web and all the nice typefaces and I've been debating doing it myself.

It almost seems like a useful browser service to possibly cache common font CDN fonts all the way into the system font store and maybe for the OSes to consider adding a lot more of the free as in speech/beer fonts into OS images.
I like the field, but as someone who's done graduate work and peered into what is plausibly possible, seeing the industry's preferred technologies is like reading Donald Trump's twitter feed. More, I will defer to email, as it'd cause flamewar. :-)
There are hundreds of billions? of galaxies though.
It's not really scriptable, but if you look at the network traffic you can "copy as curl" one of the URLs that pop up as you're playing with "Find My Friends" on icloud.com and paste it into a terminal. It will return a JSON blob with geo information of all of your friends.

I don't know how long the cookie that "copy as curl" grabs lasts, but if it's long-lived I can absolutely see dropping it into a little script and feeding the lat/long into a static Google Maps tile URL.
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You've correctly assessed the situation. This is not something you can fix.

This is a great illustration of the role of luck in success. The founders were lucky enough to find a niche that could support a company held together with tape and sticks.

As you can see, the leadership's priority is not building a culture or a strong organization. Their priority is extracting value for themselves.

Read this:
http://www.codingjohnson.com/hex-lies-and-startups

And govern yourself accordingly.
I've been working on something, just specs right now, to handle just that scenario. Something I'll have open source. It is a problem and not a small one.
I do think C is a very useful programming language to learn. Certainly, concepts like memory and pointers can be crucial knowledge. But I disagree that C needs to be a programmer's first language. I've seen plenty of programmers who started out with Python or Java, then later went on to learn C and were none the worse. I myself started out with Visual Basic. Just because you didn't start out with C doesn't mean you can't subsequently learn it and low-level concepts.
Ah, I agree, we all need to see progress and potential eventually. I was previously working in semiconductor and it would take 3-8 months to see any effect of my work. That long cycle time pushed me away. Now I am a front-end developer and love it. The feedback of aesthetics, no matter how small, reminds me that I can still have an impact. Thank you for sharing your new found love!
(Replying to my own comment)

Looks like you submit proposals here: https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/documents/ I'll lurk a while and learn the culture before entertaining submitting a proposal. ^_^
And a potential public relations nightmare. They'd have to thoroughly vet anyone that is going to be walking through someone's front door in their name.

Honestly, probably easier to just send a SIM card to people with $5 credit on it.
I'm proud to have done something similar to this. I knew I was going to have to sign over the publication rights to my dissertation. Before I did that, I published the approved, and signed off "final draft" to the Internet Archive with an open license. (I hadn't heard of Aaron or the Guerrilla Open Access Manifesto at the time.)
Facebook paid just 4% tax on £2.4bn profit
I'm of the mind we should be teaching predicate and temporal logic, formal methods, and critical thinking before teaching languages.

Though if you were to start with a language C might be a good one just to show you how sloppy thinking leads to incorrect behavior and poor performing programs.
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> the only real downside is that there aren't enough hours in the day to do it

I opened this comment section just to write that line. When your hobby becomes your job, you never work a day in your life.
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wow! cool tool, thanks for the link!
This is how far human radio broadcasts have reached into the galaxy

http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2012/3390.ht...
Scala and the AWS Lambda Blueprints
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I love programming. I started programming to automate my work as a radiologist in residency. I don't get paid for programming, but i think it helped me get a nice academic job when market for radiologists was bad. I program mostly as a hobby and as a way of life. But i help out my colleagues by sharing some of my software tools or sometimes just solving their data problems from time to time. Most of the time i am collecting computing power, bandwidth, storage capacity, and ofcourse collecting and learning from data...
Researchers create first self-assembled superconductor
On modern cans the lid will be depressed inward from air pressure. If this lid is popped upwards (while still sealed) this shows that biological activity has change the air pressure within the jar... so it wasn't properly sterilized/seal on production.

I'm assuming these are Mason Jars. Which have been in use since 1858 (the patent has long expired so they're almost universal).

When dealing with something like pickles the seal isn't as important as the pickle juice itself is incredibly hostile to bacterial life. The seal is more important to prevent evaporation.
This OP is struggling to use MinGW, why not install VS2015 or just install Microsoft's version of clang? True, that will depend on the latest version of msvcrt.dll, but at least your source code will remain cross-platform.

As far as I know, clang should compile anything gcc would compile.
wonder how many of each were first time founders?
Indeed.

But what about everyone else? The longer I work in this field and the more I understand about optimization and physical processes, the worse I feel about the work I do and the work of most programmers. Not "but it's just a social app?!" people, but the people in medicine, law, education, small business, hardware, logistics, etc, all pushing business forward bit by bit, automating away the repetitive pieces and making it easier for those in monetarily advantageous positions to capture the flag.

It's hard for me to be too happy when I see ubiquitous animal suffering in a system I'm helping to persist, seemingly towards the end of life on earth altogether. Why do I do it? I need money, and I'm only so strong for now. How can I cooperate when the biggest and greatest are of a world of defectors? Selfishness wins? It's all too easy to conclude, "I can't make a difference, not really", and the probability of making a difference drops to 0, prophesy fulfilled. After all, rent is due, student loan is due.

Count me in as someone who, given the support of basic income, can and will live frugally and give my working self 100% towards ethical objectives, as I understand them. In the meantime, this whole "but we have it so great compared to everyone else!!" just makes me feel even worse, over-burdened. If I can't make a difference with all these advantages, without seemingly herculean efforts, then who?
If you're going for a full-stack CS or CE degree, yes: start with a low-level near-bare-metal language and work up from there. One may need Java et al to initiate interest in such details, but once the path is started get down to basics ASAP and build up from there.
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The trend in businesses across the country isn't from private office to open offices. It's from cubicals to open office. Cublicals don't really predate the big white collar office, but they've been around since the 1960s. Before then offices tended to be smaller. But they had bullpens then too.

People hated cublicals because they imagined the alternative was a private office. Instead the alternative is no real private space at all. People started believing cublicals are the worst of both worlds. Not as private as an office, but still limits community and collaboration.

In the media, cublical farms were considered at best a joke and at worst the tyranny of the modern workplace.

What is pushing the trend further is insane real estate prices. Now even executives and high value employees (lawyers, management, etc) are getting pressured to give up offices.
Sadly, there really is a lot of collaboration cargo culting these days.

But it's interesting because in the large majority of fields the best outcomes really are in some ways collaborative efforts. The lone genius is actually extremely rare.

I'm inclined to say the key to effective collaboration is that it has to be driven entirely by the collaborators, and it is only actively happening for a very small percentage of the time spent on a project.

A cargo culting middle manager might think she's helping by setting up hours of meetings with different people to get their "perspective". Those people probably can add value. But the best way to do it is to let the project lead go to them with questions or asking for feedback when they think it makes sense.

Management can help by fostering a culture where people are willing and eager to talk to their colleagues when they need help, or to get new ideas. To some extent communication tools can help, but there are other much bigger factors: Don't make people feel like they'll be penalized in performance reviews for not knowing things or needing help. Cultivate a sense of shared ownership of projects and outcomes. Give people maxuimum autonomy over their schedules.
Well, the EU law only is about tracking cookies. Technical cookies are always allowed – like, a sign-in cookie is automatically allowed if you click "sign in".

That means 99% of websites don’t need a cookie warning.
The doc I linked on [2] looks like it's been updated within the last 2 months, this seems to be where they are keeping the most current notes. Probably updated for the new r6p0 driver. I'd start there, if I was working on this right now.

It also looks like they moved on to 14.04, or my memory about which LTS release was used was incorrect; in any case, there is at least a ghost chance that the current Enlightenment will compile in this context, and at worst these docs will help show you which kernel you need to use in order to make the graphics drivers work.

Maybe these instructions and kernel drivers can be adapted to a current release of Arch for ARM?
MVC Podcast Ep.16: ‪#‎CSforAll‬; Be Like Bill; Go AI; Parse; API Design
You're right that I've not experienced this. Still, I feel like you also need to reconsider the situation you're describing. The small business in this story was told that they need to pay thousands of dollars for software that needs to call an external server to operate. Imagine if you bought a car that needed to call GM in order to keep running. Wouldn't you be obliged to confirm how long the server would be up? And wouldn't you otherwise share some of the blame for the inevitable eventuality when GM turned off the server? Yes, it's crappy and user-hostile to turn the server off, but that doesn't absolve the purchaser from all responsibility.

As for the big name CAD software, I would assume you're referring to AutoCAD. They do offer offline activations according to their site. They also offer on-premises license servers. I don't even see an external server option except for the initial registration (which can be done manually). So maybe you're referring to some other CAD software? Regardless, I don't think your claim that "everyone making software in this league works the same way" can be accurate, given that I can buy seats directly from Autodesk.com and they explicitly state that a network connection is not required for continued use. (Though it looks like they are going subscription-only starting today)

As for Adobe, that does sound frustrating. Was/is it not possible to download the updates and save them offline for later use? I do agree this is customer hostile, regardless. At the same time, I wonder how long they need to keep the update servers going. CS5 is nearly 6 years old. Certainly they should be able to continue to support their older products for longer than this. But it's not free for them to do so, assuming that the reason support ended is because they actually replaced the underlying update infrastructure. As an industry, we should really come to an agreement for how long software must be supported. If we think 10 years is reasonable, we should commit to that. If it's 5, then we should commit to that. In either case, we should make it clear to our customers what the support life is, because modern unsupported software is basically dead, even if you have a license (as the broken Adobe updater demonstrates). I feel like this is going to get resolved eventually, but whether by the courts or by the move to subscriptions, I'm not sure.
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In a universe that is very old and very large, anything that can occur will eventually happen somewhere. This includes the launching of interstellar self-replicating von Neumann probes. All it takes is one civilization somewhere lobbing one sufficiently automated sublight probe, and in a few million years the galaxy is full of them for the rest of time. Either the galaxy is full of interstellar self-replicating probes, or empty of them. Their absence here is strong evidence that nobody, at least in our galaxy, has evolved a technical civilization, and that we are the first or only to approach that level.