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I believe in this example GC will actually perform better! With GC, this code will fill up the eden slab with a bunch on these integers. When there is no more space in the eden slab, the GC makes a new slab (one malloc() call), copies over any live data by checking what's accesible from the stack (there are no pointer saved on the stack except for the current val) and the old slab is freed (one free() call). So GC calls free 100M/(number of ints we can fit in the eden slab) times, as opposed to the manual case which calls free 100M times. And, just like the manual case, the GC's malloc and free will be fast-path calls (our eden slab will essentially just switch back and forth between two different memory locations). And the cost for tracing out the live variables here is essentially nothing (10-100s of nanoseconds) since nothing is referenced in local variables. The only cost you have to pay with GC in this situation is increased heap usage and, consequently, a larger cache footprint.
By filtering out the 399M and telling them they suck (eg on standard test) so they should not even try. Then you'll have 1M of post traumatic survivors to label as high achievers.

Well that's what schools do today.
Thanks for the link. They really boiled itunes down to the core product. Skipping through songs multiple times finally works quickly. I don't know how itunes lags with multiple song skips on an SSD.
This is more of a business decision than technical. The industry should avoid going into this trap. Co should give users a choice and keep the ports open.

I bought a T550 minimal configuration, for $600 upgraded the RAM to 16G & 500G SSD for $200, after using MBP for 7 years.

Though the MBP is still kicking ass with an upgraded 8G RAM & 500G SSD.
They could provide the source without it being Open Source, ie., freely redistributable. That was the case for PGP for many years.
But you can't change things without people, and it's people turning up on the internet which is apparently ruining the internet.
Good observation! The article also covers that exact scenario - plus a solution called fencing which a proper locking system can help facilitate.
The problem is that hangouts is still chrome.app. So the cmd+tab switcher groups it with chrome..

I've been using hyperswitch as my cmd+tab replacement for a while, and it is much closer to the windows implementation. I find it better..
Why is "worse" not OK but "better" is? Neither can be perfect and both will be far better than nothing. Just making up some numbers, but if the Windows AV can detect 80% of viruses and Norton can detect 90%, then you're still vulnerable to that last 10% whatever you do. You're also still protected from the majority of viruses whatever you do too.
Even for complexes where it's disallowed, good luck getting it enforced. I get weed smoke coming in through the ventilation system from who knows where in my completely non-smoking building on a regular basis.

Actually was the same before legalization too, and hasn't really increased, so this is sort of a non sequitur.
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My solution for this nonsense would be to make things such that a noncompete is only enforceable as long as the employee is being paid their highest wage in the previous two years during the entire time of the non-compete and they were limited to a maximum of 2 years (both limits are required to avoid certain gamesmanship). If you make this salary only (not stock), it has the bonus of screwing over bogus $1 CEO tax-dodge salaries too.

If it's actually that important that they be kept off the market, they should have to pay the salary during that time. If it's not important enough to pay them for, then it shouldn't be had.
It's likely that it's been planned for much longer than 2 months, and is only being publicized now, after everyone has prepared for the transition.
Why don't you just use the normal web? The hidden web only has the attribute of being hidden. The battle there is not technological, it's of winning the argument with the general public that you should be allowed freedom and not have to hide stuff.
Many, perhaps most mobile Chrome users do not run the latest Chrome, and there's many differences among vendors. See http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2015/02/chrome_conti...
I do, because I paid for it, and I have no reason to believe my data is used for any purpose other than Amazon selling me more stuff, and that they're not interested in poisoning the well by surreptitiously recording audio when I'm not actively engaging in a dialog with my Echo.

That said, regarding the RasPi project, I did something similar for home automation before Echo/Hue/SmartThings/etc were around, and I used the Acoustic Magic Voicetracker I array microphone, which still works well for an updated use of that (now it sits on my desk for dictation and VoIP calls). Perhaps that microphone would be useful to cover an entire large room for you? The manufacturer claims 30 feet of usable distance between the array and the speaker, and in practice, I found that to be pretty accurate.

EDIT: it should be pointed out that the microphone (https://www.acousticmagic.com/products/voice-tracker-i-detai...) is more expensive than an actual Amazon Echo. The price hasn't changed in the 12 years that I've owned it, either. But I did test the audio samples my Echo sends with audio recorded via the array microphone, and the standalone microphone was far superior at all distances in terms of quality, would would be important if you're doing speech-to-text processing with PocketSphinx.
Christ, you earn 3x / month what I do. What have I done wrong?
Wasn't there a graduate student who wrote thesis about building an atomic bomb from readily available resources. I don't remember if his work was ever published, but I certainly remember reading about this.

Update: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Aristotle_Phillips
> So, what is the spiritual successor of 0mq?

Why does it need a "spiritual successor"? Its a live project.

> what would be a modern (i.e. maintained) alternative for the simple "pub-sub via TCP" use case of 0mq?

0mq is maintained.
Get over yourself.
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And it even supports handoff from iOS Safari.
I'm not disputing that there's a cancer risk. But was that known at the time?
Spoiler, it's a swibble, and the reason that the DHOS dosen't know about them now, is because they are from the future.

> SWIBBLE: some kind of device to control the 'politically correct behaviour'
of citizens. It is "an artifically evolved telpathic metazoan." It's
purpose was to stop war by ensuring that everyone maintained the same
ideology, that everyone agreed. The last war was fought between those who
wanted swibbles and those who didn't. When the main character asks the
wrongly directed time-traveled repairman what happened to those who lost
the war, the answer is wonderfully simple, "Why," the repairman said
gently, "the swibbles got them.":Service Call, vol 4.
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I'd like to add that this is a great example of how a great In App Purchase can be utilised in place of free trials. People are so against IAP because of companies like Zynga, but there are good examples of IAP like this one.
Maybe so, but your comment history is so full of unsubstantive comments that it certainly looks like trolling. We eventually ban accounts that do that, so please only post substantive comments from now on.
That would still be the case if the verdict was the other way around.

That's my point: there's nothing to celebrate here, as nothing as changed. People without full Internet access still don't have it. And so, for what is the post thanking a lot of people?
Banning unreasonable clauses is a good step. It's not a complete solution, but those are rarely possible anyway.

Better education would be another good step. WTF Are Contracts 101 should be a required course at every high school, along with WTF Are Credit Cards, WTF is Voting, and How TF Do Taxes Work.
I'm aware of all those things. I have different priorities than you. This does not mean that I’m worshipping at the altar of Jim Steve Jones Jobs and lost the ability to think for myself.
I have a three year old MacBook. I would like to use Chrome, but it brings my laptop to a crawl. Almost unusuable. I just figured it was my 4 gigs of RAM, and everyone was having a problem with Chrome?

You guys run Chrome with no problems? You must have more ram?
I would love to see some solution that integrates time blocking and pomodoro.

After trying various todo lists and kanban boards I finally settled on using my google calendar which works perfectly as both my todo list and scheduler.

More on this
http://calnewport.com/blog/2007/12/03/monday-master-class-do...
We use BobX (2010)
it will depend on what's kind of project. if it's a widely used product: kind of mobile app general public, try base your compagbe on twitter and facebook. buy sponsored ads.

-be active on social media.
-invite friends and familly to use and invite their inner circle.
-reply on users feedbacks and try to satisfy them.
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No irony; get rid of drug laws and you rid yourselves of drug crime; restrict gun sales and you reduce gun crime.
I like the fencing solution. Couldn't such a scheme be implemented over a database instead?

Why I'm thinking more in terms of a database-oriented solution is because there is still the problem of crashing. What happens if the system crashes just before the email is sent? The system somehow needs to remember to restart that task (sending the email) when it comes back up. And this is probably best done through a database anyway.
Maybe. I can see it going the other way.
They also pay poverty grade wages and demand cult like obedience just for the pleasure of working at ~Apple~~~.
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Update; he just told me he's been working on positional tracking for GearVR; probably more important right now for Oculus. But, I'm still bummed! I would love to mess around with this, and almost pulled the trigger on a GearVR headset after watching the demo.

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/696842361976926208
"If you still don’t believe me about process pauses, then consider instead that the file-writing request may get delayed in the network before reaching the storage service. Packet networks such as Ethernet and IP may delay packets arbitrarily, and they do [7]: in a famous incident at GitHub, packets were delayed in the network for approximately 90 seconds [8]. This means that an application process may send a write request, and it may reach the storage server a minute later when the lease has already expired."

This statement confused me. It seems to say that the packets were delayed in the network for 90 seconds before being delivered. From reading the original sources it actually sounds like packets were discarded by the switches, so the original requests discarded, and the nodes were partitioned for 90 seconds. When the partition was removed both nodes thought they were the leader and simultaneously requested the other to shutdown. Can anyone confirm? Keeping packets delayed in a network for 90 seconds would seem quite difficult (though not impossible assuming certain bugs).

Edit: On re-reading I think this is just talking about the network stack in general - not the network. A temporary partition may delay delivery of your request until max TCP retries is exceeded on your host, if its recovered before then your request may arrive later than you intended.
I'm running an M3800 with Mint Linux 17.3. I can squeeze 2 hours out of the battery if I really need to; suspend/hibernate is currently completely broken, requiring that I cold boot the machine each time I open the lid; bluetooth has never worked properly, even after extracting the proprietary firmware from the Windows drivers.

And this is on a machine that shipped from Dell with Ubuntu 14.04 installed, so supposedly all the hardware is open-source friendly.
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Show us the evidence of that claim.
You can buy whatever screwdriver you need for a few dollars. It's an annoyance, but not a real obstacle to repair.
You really think there's less weed smoking where it's illegal? How does that work? Drug laws work so it's next to impossible to obtain them? Fear of getting caught?
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It's quite presumptious to assume people who don't care about their apps as much as you are all brainwashed. I've always found many of the default apps to be "good enough" that I didn't mind using them, and I know I'm not the only person who thought so. Lately they've degraded to the point people are complaining.

Besides that, the software problems affect their entire software base, including parts that can't (easily) be turned off or removed, like iCloud, Music, the iOs task switcher, etc.
When you call their tech support and their own tech support gives up on their products and just recommends the now PayPal owned Braintree...well that wasn't the only bad sign I guess.
Actually, he is responsible for graphics cards having to ship OpenGL drivers. Without Quake, MS would have probably been successful in killing OpenGL on the desktop.
Don't worry, the head of CSIRO is "interested in the development of technology that would make it easier for farmers to dowse or divine for water on their properties."[1]

That's right, the head of our national scientific organisation is going to solve climate change with metal rods.

[1]http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-20/nrn-csiro-ceo-water-di...
Well yeah, of course, but what conclusion are are you drawing from this?
I wasn't talking about the 90s (And I don't think any mac fans complaining about the dropoff in quality are talking about pre-OSX Macs either, other than Siracusa and the Finder). You basically missed the entire era where OSX was really good on its own, improving rapidly, and next-generation when compared to the competition in Windows and Linux. This period was basically (Again, according to the mac fans complaining about Apple's declining software) bookended by Panther and Snow Leopard, so you essentially came in right towards the end.

To be honest, I can only think of 1 feature that was added post-Snow Leopard that I use regularly. Being able to receive/send messages from my mac and that isn't available to non-iPhone users. And better trackpad gestures, but that's closer to hardware (although it requires OS support) than software.
Agreed. I'm unfortunately forced to use the Hangouts app on android since Google Voice was smushed into it (losing 90% of its best features in the process, like being able to mark voicemails as spam). So now I'm stuck doing my texting shoehorned alongside this other chat app that none of my friends use except by accident when they meant to send a text.

Now Google's decided to split SMS back out into a separate SMS app, so god only knows what's going to happen to Google Voice texting in that transition. I think the Voice team got merged into the hangouts team and shortly reassigned, and then everyone who was left on the hangouts team was moved a month or two after that.

Next time I replace my phone I'm just going to bite the bullet and port my phone number back out to a real carrier. It's a bummer, since this is the only Google product that I've ever paid them actual money for.
Did I miss something? I run Yosemite and the latest Safari, including point updates, runs fine.
http://www.macworld.com/article/2987211/software-web/apple-r...
He was CTO, why would infrastructure guy ever be held responsible for poor overall performance? It's not rocket science, nor F1 team
Would this be allowed in the app store? I thought Apple prohibits dynamically compiled code on iOS?
I can see this street corner from my office window. The box is still there: https://cl.ly/3O271Q3r2n3w
Plenty of languages that have been used instead of C for a while have been coded in C++. I don't see the issue since he's using LLVM, which I believe is a wise decision.
There is an Apple repair program for that issue http://www.macrumors.com/2016/02/06/late-2013-mac-pro-video-...

Good luck!
I have to agree... When I got my current rMBP(late 2014), I actually had to return my first purchase when I found out I couldn't upgrade the ram or ssd myself. Even though you can technically replace the SSD, the interface Apple is using doesn't seem to be common at all, so you're stuck with mostly costly options in a sea of cheaper SSD components.

The display isn't the best, but close... the touchpad is bar none the best in any laptop, but I might be willing to sacrifice that when I need another laptop... I haven't been doing iOS native, and my work issued laptop is an rMBP as well, but may just create a build server for cordova out of a used mac mini if/when the need arises.

I never bought into iOS devices, mainly because of early ties to Apple, and I'm somewhat entrenched in Android's ecosystem. The poor software updates, broken SMB/CIFS support and a host of other issues has me more than concerned.
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Their software tends to be intuitive sometimes ago, around OSX Lion and iOS 6, which should be a much more important priority than just flashy and shiny.

A lot of 'improvements' made after that, comes with little or none consideration to make things more useful. Rather it seems to focus more on atheistic, which, as a developer, I couldn't care less.
Agreed. I don't think Apple creates their applications for power users though. We switch to VLC because we handle a wide range of file formats, QuickTime is "good enough" for the average user (perhaps not anymore considering MKV files are very popular amongst pirated videos). Photos, Calendar and Safari are "good enough" for users who don't use a lot of third-party extensions/Developer Tools, or sync their Calendars across multiple non-Apple services.

XCode is a necessary evil for a lot of developers, FaceTime depending on your situation is also a necessary evil for users. iMovie is the best of a bad bunch for the average user.

However the OSX interface is still very slick in comparison to *nix, requires hardly any maintenance and still supports "all the things" because developers love the hardware and the UX and have built the applications needed for it.

I've always turned away from Apple because "you are paying for a brand" - however since being given a Macbook to play with I've really enjoyed using it for dev and personal use. I've uninstalled and removed pretty much all the "bloat" that people like us have a preferred alternative for, but the average user simply doesn't give a damn.

I still run away from iOS however. The requirement to find an exploit in the firmware to do what I want is a PITA.
This is great! Basically cement is a fractal substance. Are there other known fractal substances?
The Internet market in India already has 300+ million users, and has been growing at a good pace. It's hardly an incipient market.

And besides, before AOL there was CompuServe (and Minitel, in France), which did provide access almost exclusively to its own services.
I don't believe him.

1kg of uranium spread into 10x ingots, suspended in a pool of heavy water ... I don't think this is sufficient to actually maintain criticality, even if he had a startup neutron source. There isn't nearly enough mass. A commonly cited figure for a CANDU reactor is ~8 kg, in a well-designed geometry, with a properly designed reflector in addition to the moderator.

He used metallic uranium instead of uranium oxide. Therefore, I don't think he had a sufficient neutron source to get the chain reaction started. For example, modern power reactors rely on (alpha + oxygen -> neon + neutron) reaction, with the alpha decay of the fuel as the alpha source.

"Should the reactor run away" Water-moderated reactors have a negative temperature coefficient of reactivity. So if he actually achieved criticality and generated enough power to produce heat, the reactor would be self-regulating.
Yes, that's definitely a more precise statement of the facts as we know them today. Please allow me to expand on it:

Amazon has told us that this product we paid to have in our homes won't spy on us, and has (to my knowledge) given me or anyone else ZERO indication that they'd suddenly decide: "Privacy? Fuck that! Let's see if someone is saying something salacious in that bedroom in Watertown, NY; that customer seems to be buying a lot of lube." Or, less sarcastically, violate their paying customers' expectation of privacy to suit their own ends, whatever those may be.

Google, however, has "snuck in" code to actively listen to the microphone in their browser, which we don't pay for. I won't use the old "if you're not the buyer, you're the product" routine here, but I will say that I trust the privacy protections of a free browser with portions of black-box, closed-source code a hell of a lot less than I trust the same protections of a paid-for product with portions of black-box, closed-source code.
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> But was that known at the time?

Yes. They even knew they were going to fake the results:

http://www.ieer.org/latest/iodnart.html

"For example, in 1953, the Public Health Service was asked to obtain milk samples in St. George, Utah, near the test site. But the service took a sample from a carton of milk purchased in a store, not from a local farm or dairy -- at a time when the majority of residents of southwest Utah obtained milk from their own cows and many others purchased milk from neighboring farms.(12)

According to Morgan S. Seal, a fallout monitor with the Public Health Service, the testing procedure was not very useful either. "In the case of milk, we even treated it with perchloric acid to get rid of all the organic residue....we knew for a fact then that those oxidating techniques completely eliminated any iodine in the material that you were treating."(13)"
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I think this is regression to mean. No one was expecting the Apple world to grow at the same speed did they ?

I think part of the reason why app's core apps such as Apple news or Mail client appears to be so horrible is not because they are worse but because everyone else (app makers) is getting better. Whether it is Flipboard's News app or Microsoft's Outlook they are specialist at building that and Apple is not.

I think it is time for Apple to focus on the platform and development tools rather than continuing to build other kind of software.
The FAQ could use a cleanup by a native English writer. Meanwhile:

- no mention of ability to import favorites from IE

- no mention of ability to import from a plain text/csv file

- no mention of ability to check current validity of URLs in old bookmarks and clean them out

- I click on "favorites", having loaded none, and it instantly goes from 0 to 28, populating with spam favorites that I neither selected nor have ever visited