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Opera's main competitors are open-source projects. You are suggesting that they create another competitor right before putting the company up for sale, and I'm suggesting that they are unlikely to do that.

Yes, a different for-profit company did create an open-source browser project, but that was a rare situation in which the for-profit company dominated a very lucrative market (search) and the open-source project had the effect of undermining one of the few strategic advantages (namely, Internet Explorer's usage share) enjoyed by their only serious competitor.

In other words, in certain situations it might make sense for a for-profit company to use an open-source project to take users away from a proprietary software product of one of its competitors if the competitor would have been able to use its control over the proprietary software product as a lever on consumer behavior in a huge and lucrative market. But those situations are rare and do not apply here.

Google's open-sourcing Chromium resembles Russia's "scorched-earth policy": the move destroyed some of Google's options or resources, but made sense because it simultaneously took those resources away from Google's biggest threat. But the circumstances in which a scorched-earth policy make sense are rare and do not apply in Opera's situation.
I'm interested in the coexistence of telegram and telephone; it sounds like they used telephones for local delivery or acceptance of telegram for a while. Was long distance calling unsuited for cost reasons, or unavailable, or otherwise not desired?

Sort of similar to SMS vs. voice, SMS vs. email (esp on mobile mua), email vs. IM.
Wouah, thanks for the heads up. I had no idea about this, I'm gonna look into it and re-create the RDS db myself.
And they still got to track you. And you pay for that. Great deal.
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"It's more readable and not vulnerable to the Year 2038 problem"

What makes you use signed 32-bit Integer for Unix timestamp in this age and day? I work with embedded systems and use Unix timestamp extensively, but never have I found any serious reason to use it as int32_t.
I think it's unlikely: The 5-year gap between those two events seems a little long, and during that BitKeeper was used for a few years so it's not like alternatives hadn't worked.
from http://blogs.technet.com/b/volume-licensing/archive/2014/03/...

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The front end servers used to host your website would generally be considered as running “web workloads” and CALs or External Connectors will not be required to access these servers. Once the customer adds a widget to their shopping cart, creates an account and enters their credit card and shipping information to complete the sale – they are now authenticated via your back end commerce servers/application (non-web workload). Since users are accessing the backend commerce servers which web workloads are not running – CALs or External Connectors will be required for users to access these back end servers.
> I have Chrome installed is for sites insisting on running flash stuff

Same here, I use it for Facebook. But Facebook servers HTML5 video instead of Flash to Chrome. What a world!
Java's standard lib uses Timsort for sorting Object[], and quicksort for arrays of primatives.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4018332/is-java-7-using-t...
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I wonder what in post caused such a downgrade? I'm honestly thinking about ROI for Rethinkdb, I posted link to licensing FAQ from MS in one of my responses for clarification.
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I have seen these people who have "curse of the gifted." One of them is me, another is my step-son.

Problem is people's approach to your gifts, first; your parents. If they say continuously that you are gifted, very smart, very beautiful, adorable etc and you can do anything you want because you are so smart, you are most likely doomed later in life.

Now, my step-son about to finish high school. His mother, always complimented him starting from kindergarten. He was smart all along, did all problems from his mind easily without much effort. His parents and teachers complimented him everyday. He was happy, and proud of himself to be smart, his parents were also proud.

High school required more disciplined work. He couldn't make it, too many distractions around. He was thought to be a very special person when he grow up, but now, he is below average, and sadly, he accepts that even though he had the potential. I see how he will fail more in college, and can't help.

My only difference from him was that he is failing in high school, I failed in university.

I have a small daughter, 4 years old, and I am afraid as hell not to spoil her. She looks very smart and gifted. I always say she is not gifted, she is just normal. I don't want her to be very special person when she grow up, I want her to be happy and healty, that's all. Only thing I am trying to do is not to say her that "she is gifted, she is very smart".

I don't know how to solve his brother's problem. Looks it is very late.
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What an amazing email from ESR.

I feel like I've had the issue he describes happen to me in multiple facets of life, at different points.

College? Check - There definitely was a point where I couldn't cruise and catch up by cramming. High school was a joke in comparison with some of the learning challenges I finally encountered.

Task management? Hah! Todo lists are for old people. I cruised by on this one for a LONG time due to (at least my own perceived) pretty large short-medium term memory before personal life + work life (and moving up the chain) meant that there's no way I'd remember everything that needed tending to unless I adopted some sort of system.

More guilty one? Tests. For better or for worse, I worked professionally in an environment where we a) had a compiler, b) had a QA group, and c) managed to put out a lot of working software without a test suite. It definitely made me finally give in to "code should have at least SOME test suite, if not a pretty comprehensive one" after much kicking and screaming. To this day, in my mind, I harbor feelings that it's possible to pump out largely working (i.e. with a defect rate not much worse off than any other project, because no software is without any) software incredibly faster and make the users/customers/people who wanted the thing built happy WITHOUT writing tests. That said, I also know it's completely irresponsible and not scalable to do so.
"Top-of-the-line microprocessors currently have circuit features that are around 14 nanometres across, smaller than most viruses"

Yea this is not true. The 14nm or 11nm stuff from chip manufactures is more of a marketing thing. It's much more complicated than that.
Yep, I have a RF burns on 2 of my finger tips that I sustained between 5 and 10 years ago... They are dead little bits of flesh. Discolored a deep yellow, there is no feeling left and they feel, I guess I'd describe it as, quasi-numb when touched.

I was an embedded engineer at an RF company and it sort of comes with the territory. We had technicians who had lasted 4+ decades in RF (same company, actually) with scars to show for it. Same story, mostly on their fingers from accidentally hitting hot spots.
It's basically like putting your hand inside a microwave oven
"Until it supports MY specific OS, it's not cross-platform, wah wah wah!" In this way, there is no cross-platform program at all, because there's always something that's not supported. How is Windows a measuring-stick of compatibility for UNIXlike tools? (And why would this ever be useful on Windows, which has completely different way of managing processes?)
I'm willing to bet the moment you move from private beta to a more open beta, you'll be getting Cease and Desists.
This rings bell to me and I tried to applied it myself. "The importance of fundamentals". Some of the hard parts are be honest to myself and admitting it, then re learn everything from scratch. I used to be able to get away with "instinct" but fundamental theory/knowledge is important too.

Pete Carroll preach about it and emphasize it in his team. Elon Musk also talked about the usefulness of sound fundamentals when it comes to learn about any fields of knowledge.
Excuse my ignorance, but wouldn't the bird need to be grounded for the power to jump? Or does that only apply to electrical circuits?
there is. it's very, very noticeable on micro wave towers. the drum like cover on microwave antennas is just a lame regulation to try to save birds. they still die just by passing by. the building were i lived had one that required constant "maintenance" (dead bird cleaning)
That reminds me of an urban legend regarding microwaves, which doesn't seem entirely infeasible. It involves a man working at a small fast food stand, who worked next to his microwave. Now his microwave was used often, and it had a small hole in the metal screen allowing microwave radiation to leak out. The man slowly starts to feel abdominal pains after a while, goes to his doctor, who diagnoses it as liver problems and recommends drinking less. A couple of months later, the man has died, and the autopsy reveals that parts of his liver were cooked.

I was told this story by my grandmother to prevent me from watching food cook in the microwave. That and cataracts, which can also be caused by heating up things that shouldn't be heated.
That was the occasion for the interview and they go into it at the end.
This is a sad news, especially to those of us who have been in the industry long enough to remember what kind of company Qihoo is.

> Qihoo has often been surrounded by rumors of foul play, fraud, and dirty tricks. Its apps have been banned from the iTunes store before

Well, the same team started by building Malware, tons of them, and then hijacked computers to manipulate Alexa ranking or DDoS competitors websites.

Then they turned around and started a new company to built anti-Malware software that had, and still probably has, an enormous market share, which gives them more machines to sell adverts.

RIP, Opera.
> I don't know about the specifics talked about here

The specifics matter a lot here. ESR was trying to get his patchset for his rather complex configuration/menu language into the kernel (to be used to configure kernel configs/options) which seemed to have to do more with ESR's need to be perceived as a "kernel hacker" rather than any concrete problem. Fortunately, Linus said no. ESR responded with some weird tirade which had nothing to do with the matters being discussed. Luckil
thx @fpilger, fantastic to see another Py3 ready application. It's clear now. One way to avoid this is either give a install write up an installation guide [0] that explicitly mentions the python version and dependencies.

This is one of the first questions I ask, "is this code Python3 ready?", so I look at the install requirements first. Maybe I'm an edge case. A short cut might be just to say in big words, Python3 ready.

[0] For example this PIL fork, Pillow (python3) https://pillow.readthedocs.org/en/latest/installation.html
> I see how he will fail more in college, and can't help.
> My only difference from him was that he is failing in high school, I failed in university.

Help yourself first, man. Figure out how to beat your own distractions. Reach your potential. You can do it, and then your example will inspire him (or at least show him the way). You owe it to your son, and you owe it to yourself.
Every generation presents the symptoms you list. The newest generations are no more asinine than the Silent Generation, the Boomers, the Greatest or their parents before.

Protesting child labor in beginning of the 20th century? How beholden to the whims of mainstream society, how desperate those people must have been for social acceptance that they protested such a common and accepted practice.

How were the older generations so incapable of independent thought to be easily conned into warring in the Middle East? The Drug Wars? Vietnam? Korea? Prohibition? Wars in Texas/Mexico and with pre-existing indigenous peoples?

How on earth did massive, completely non-functional flares in the legs of pants, or oversized suitcoats, or cravats ever make sense?

When we learn to love the awareness and consciousnesses around us we can love the change for simply being, instead of decrying it for being different from what we've previously experienced.
It contains the files that would normally be in .git (run `git help gitrepository-layout` for more details on the contents).
Having read the actual missive they sent, they come out looking worse in my eyes; not only was the threat still at the end, but it was crowned by a complete unfocused display of management babble.
It's really hard to give any kind of critique that benefits someone without them and everyone around them being offended. I always try to give advise about what should be done instead of what is currently being done when I find someone's done something highly inconvenient, sadly a lot of people take my comments as "pooping" on them. It is not easy trying to help people who think they're fully entitled to be higher than you no matter what. They would be too good if they did receive feedback for self-improvement though I suppose? :)
Although telegrams are not restricted to 140 characters, this guide translates well to writing tweets. It will not take long before an article "How to Write Tweets Properly" (2016) (twitter.com)" is posted to HN.
Maybe he thinks it should be 'kiloWatts'. CamelCase impairment?
Might want to uninstall Opera Mini if you have it installed. It MitMs all your traffic.

So now that traffic might go to China to a company you may not trust.
Anything other than SNS? Within AWS or outside of it?
Numerous journals offer access to researchers, campuses, etc., through various systems. These are either individually authenticated, or are offered through campus-wide systems.

My understanding is that Sci-Hub works through "donated" access -- either credentials or inside-the-firewall systems -- through which it can request papers. There are other options for feeding papers into the system as well, and once they're inside, they're then available. Given that most disciplines tend to have a few highly-cited papers, and a standard Zipf / Power curve, starting with the most relevant papers and working down will get you a lot of coverage.

You've still got to keep up with new publications, but that's tractable.

Elsevier would have to deny access to entire academic institutions, or highly-placed researchers. Given they're already in a hot seat, that's a risky proposition.
Ho, been there, done that: https://biz.twitter.com/en-gb/write-good-tweets, although that one does not focus on restricting word/character count.
Well, SciHub isn't LibGen, though they're similar in concept. I believe SciHub used to be accessible through LibGen, but the latter has been flattened a bit.
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It seems that the contents are copy/pasted from a bunch of different messages. Here is the list of messages from that day: https://lkml.org/lkml/2000/8/22 . Torvalds's responses are in there as well.
Looks promising! I was able to get it installed and delivering logs in 5 mins.

I really like the high volumes you offer; I really agree that volume should be cheaper. What Papertrail charges per GB seems really high IMO.

That said, I'm just a hobbyist doing under 1GB month of traffic. I will try to stick with the free plan for as long as possible. If you could offer some nice features for $5-10/month, I would upgrade for that.
> "I still worry about what will happen if the complexity of the kernel exceeds the scope of your astonishing native
talent before you grow up."

It never did and he never grew up. LOL.
Well, Forth is considered untyped, which I think is apt: it's basically bytes on a stack passed between words, with semantic meaning completely in the programmer's head and hopefully well-documented.

With that in mind, shouldn't we expect it to be a good base case for describing the "weakest typed" language?
Previous discussion (632 points, 2 years ago, different URL):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7219872

And here is a good comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7220508

From it: "Eric writes using vague generalizations about age and experience; Linus writes with specifics about his experience with the kernel."

And: "Also, compare this message from Linus earlier in that thread https://lkml.org/lkml/2000/8/22/52 with a post of his from yesterday: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/2/10/575, especially regarding abstraction."
I was once in a completely empty swimming pool (~25*10 m size) The surface of the pool was completely undisturbed. When I put my head under water I could hear a radio voice. Since I could not rule out the possibility that it was simply audio from nearby speakers that I simply could not hear through the air, I was always wondering whether it would be possible to listen to radio waves in water.
I extracted a static site out of this and put it up at http://til.zammu.in/ . This kind of content is great for Static Sites as people can easily contribute to them using Github Pull Requests.
For posterity, note that this will fail if your home directory isn't empty. To get around that, clone the repo's working directory into a temporary directory first and then delete that directory,

git clone --separate-git-dir=$HOME/.myconf /path/to/repo $HOME/myconf-tmp
cp ~/myconf-tmp/.gitmodules ~ # If you use Git submodules
rm -r ~/myconf-tmp/
alias config='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.myconf/ --work-tree=$HOME'

and then proceed as before.
An ETF that trades against Goldman's advice would be an interesting product.
I can relate to this. I'm a SE now but when I was in university I didn't bother studying, especially for an algorithms/data structures class. I did ok in the class (well below my average) and made up for the relatively bad mark in other classes. Now I really wish I had of just worked at it because I'm trying to fill this knowledge gap now after work. It would have been far easier if I had just studied it properly the first time.
Was it a patch by ESR? From the earlier Linus message, it seems the patch was from another dev: https://lkml.org/lkml/2000/8/21/25
It doesn't seem like this has anything to do about Linus raw talent, or the "curse of the gifted".

Quite the opposite, it seems it was an opinion evolved through experience.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2000/8/22/52

Linus point was apparently about avoiding crappy interfaces when one goes about having common code just because it looks like they do the same thingy.
He seems mindful enough that sharing code is hard.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2000/8/23/47

On the contrary, a raw talented engineer would usually jump into the opportunity to refactor and share common code, without realizing when the challenge is above one's ability.

In this aspect, even a few decades of experience in software (fragmented in many separate projects) can be less valuable than a single 5 year stretch in the same code base.
Ask HN: Can we have an open source credit bureau?
The world is sharing more information. Every year more data from every aspect of our life is being captured online. Some of it is still private (nonetheless online), but a lot of it is quickly becoming open, prominent example being Facebook. We are sharing more even without realizing it. Not just data, we are opening our homes for strangers based on reputation (AirBnB). I'm wondering if we can build a community and open source data that determine credit decisions (some sort of reputation), could it upend current systems. It can be a summary about each person that gets updated because it’s connected to all these other places where we voluntarily input data. This will solve a lot of problems with people moving countries and their credit history not being used in other countries. All of this will require overcoming a lot of legal hurdles among other things. I'm curious about it as a purely theoretical exercise.
I don't even use Windows. I'm just sayin' calling something cross-platform when it doesn't support most used OS is wrong.
Or perhaps some box-drawing characters (though they may not have the support that ||||| does)
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With services like ngrok the need to port forward isn't as big.
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I very much doubt that Windows is the "most used OS" where console applications are considered. That's just like saying "why do you call this airplane engine cross-platform when you can't even use it on a car? I don't care that it fits most airplanes, there are far more cars!" Different purposes.
Here are a few earlier discussions of this email:

Curse Of The Gifted (2000) 606 points
luu 2 years ago 365 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7219872

Eric S. Raymond - The Curse of the Gifted (2000) 243 points
vinutheraj 6 years ago 59 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1167754

The curse of the gifted programmer (ESR's email to Torvalds) 95 points
semmons 6 years ago 38 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1221756

It's interesting to compare the quality of discussion over the years. In this case, I think the more recent ones come out looking pretty good.
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Sounds like his position hasn't changed, despite the tremendous growth of the kernel since then. Maybe he was right after all.
That happened to me sometimes, living in the UK --- my computer speakers would come on in the middle of the night and start whispering to me in French. It was exactly as creepy as it sounds.

I think I did eventually pin down which station they were picking up, but I've forgotten now. Interestingly, since I've moved to Switzerland, it's stopped. Maybe the signals don't get through Swiss customs.
I was one of those freshman who floundered his first year because of execrable study habits. It was a good thing my freshman year was pass/fail. I didn't figure things out till the next year.
Except this driver has a stake in petrol companies and he does not pay for his petrol, so he gets richer the more fuel is blown while standing still. By the time you've taken out any "power limit", he's just blocked the gearbox on neutral and revving, while shouting "it's not going anywhere! I need more power!"

The economy is not physics - it's psychology.
Trump is not a fascist. No way

He is a narcist. He spent like first 8 minutes of his first speech after winning New Hampshire saying things like

I love you.
You love me.
I have lots of money.
You love me.

Actually Hitler was a narcist so maybe Trump is a fascist.
Anybody know the year for this?
I worked in one office where they did the standup standing up. Not sure it made any difference besides the pressure to not fall over on a tired day.
Was he at all correct in thinking that this applied to Torvalds? Time seems to have proven that ESR was completely off-base.
Fortunate are the parents who can live around these new creatures that consume data without actually assimilating anything. I remember I used to feel really guilty when I played nintendo for hours and hours, discovering levels and fighting bosses. Today, I compare it to this...and I feel a little smarter.
... and the main author of Lua was the PhD advisor of the author of htop. Small world :)
The actual site (not this article) is currently serving up a 502; I think the author needs to play with his autoscaling options in EB!
How do you get in? It looks like the front panel/window opens up.
That a bit elitist. But I bet our parents felt the same way about us in front of our video screens and their newspapers.
They might have yes. But tell me with honesty which of the two activities is emptier.