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>What is a historical fact is that Salieri openly and explicitly prevented Mozart's career from going where Mozart wanted it to go.

Quotes from credible modern historians please. To my knowledge most historians think that there is no concrete evidence of this. There was just competition for jobs. Rest is drama added later.

>Whether or not he actually killed Mozart we can never truly know.

Good example of the false rumor. Salieri seems to even have confessed the murder when he was delirious but nobody believed him even then. Later he took that confession back.
> animals are generally much more emphatic than we give them credit for.

They're also frequently much more emphatic than people I mostly work with as a programmer. ;-)

No, really: I own two cats now, and I grew up with dogs, cats, horses and goats around and it led me to believe that animals generally do dream, do have emotions and are generally able to understand or feel emotions of others. They also do think, they do try to predict the future, and they do learn on their own, sometimes frighteningly quickly.

But it's convenient to believe otherwise and even people who should know better tend to forget about it during the meals. Just try to imagine how eating a burger would feel with a thought like: "ok, now I'm eating something that was smarter and more emotional than my 2yo niece".
> I'm not sure I would want to try analyzing a 267 GB database on most modern machine.

Why? Modern servers come with more RAM than that. Even multi-terabyte datasets are not a problem. Today's hardware is way better than most think.
LambdaCube 3D; OpenGL in Haskell with Haskell'ish Shader Pipeline DSL
Here the announcement of the second release: https://lambdacube3d.wordpress.com/2016/02/13/dsl-in-the-wil...
A bit generalizing, but nevertheless philosophical, thought provoking and interesting point.
One motivation for fake/dummy postings is feign compliance with H-1B/L-1 constraints about having pursued legally-eligible workers already. This is discussed in detail in:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10970166

(scroll down to "nommm-nommm"'s subthread for specific video evidence)
PZ made the usual error that most biologists make: if it's busted, the information isn't there and can't be recovered. It's dead. The vital spark has departed. It's soul has gone to heaven. Vitalism is alive and well.

Ask anyone who owns a computer if you can recover information from the hard drive of a busted computer.
I'm sorry, but this is terrible.
10:00 to 18:00
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By "client" I meant client of the ID generation servers, may they be web servers that run DB clients, or cellphones. When someone uses a distributed ID generation cluster, they presumably want large throughput, like millions of IDs per second, and latency will likely be a problem.
It's not too much "retro", but you can find a lot of resources on OSDev:

http://wiki.osdev.org/Main_Page

The forum is very instructive too:

http://forum.osdev.org/
Yes, there needs to be an alternative.
> YOU'VE READ 3 OF 6 FREE ARTICLES .

Just because a page was loaded and scrolled doesn't mean it has been read. They could at least measure if the user spent more than 30 seconds on the page before counting an article as read.

Also, you have to have an account to continue reading. That sucks. shouldn't happen on a news site/mag.
Raspbian (Raspberry Pi Linux distribution) now with 3D support
I forget we make releases. If you want to download the image here's the link to the iso ( http://9front.org/iso/9front-5048.e16a172bcae6.iso.bz2 ), link to dash 1 ( http://fqa.9front.org/dash1.pleaseexcusemetheoutflow.pdf ), and our site ( http://9front.org ).
However, there are real lifetime and thread-safety side effects of passing a reference to the outer structure when you only need a reference to the inner structure.

In a GC'd language without an effects system, passing in a reference to the outer structure would still prevent the GC from freeing the outer structure (depending on the ABI, even if you null out the reference passed outer reference inside the function, the value passed on the stack might be immutable) and would also mean that you need to be careful about later changes causing non-thread-safe mutations to the outer structure. If your language isn't GC'd and doesn't have an effects system, then you need to manually keep track of the borrowing.

These aren't artifacts of Rust's type system; they're genuine side effects that are present but more subtle in other languages.
Paywalls also have a negative effect in the linkability of the Web. If I suggest you to go to some page, and you have to pay for it, then independently if the price, I have a much higher responsibility for the content actually being relevant for you.
Creating docker containers is easy
Occam's razor leads one to think that there is an obvious textual correllation from one hand-pimped thing tonthe next. In other words, a simple keyword based 'related to' algorithm, rather than a deep understanding of why you didn't want the flashlight and offered you the batteries instead.
I use for this Google alerts, for now results are mixed. But give it a try!
Same^ This was great for "how to move postgres -> redshift" but i didnt learn anything about the title of the post ...
Poor Salieri. Two hundred years after his death, he is loaded with such fake history. Also, too bad that the movie itself is so captivating that one almost wishes it was true.
Buy or switch to an open source solution: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwitchingToUbuntu/FromMacO...

https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Apple

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-of-life_%28product%29

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_%28operating_system%29
Consider the huge ecosystem that has developed for serving ads. Each advertiser need not make arrangements with each site owner.
AMD Will Support FreeSync with Their New Linux Display Stack
The author only gives two problematic usage examples, the first of which (ConjureMagic) nercury correctly addressed earlier as a symptom of poor OO design (related to the 'code to implementations' quote above).

The second issue (async) is quite similar in my opinion, and in practice your async handler will be explicitly decoupled and strongly typed at some point for reasons of testability so the example is describing also an OO design issue and not an issue with auto.

There may be real problems with auto but this article did not provide any compelling evidence of them.
A great illustration of how the slander works: "we can never know". Of course we do know, to the normal standard of historical proof, that Salieri didn't kill Mozart: any sane historian would note the fact that Mozart died after a fairly prolonged illness, that his death wasn't considered suspicious at the time by his doctor or his family, and that rumors of Salieri's involvement started decades later, and that the supposed "Salieri's confession" doesn't exist, and would pronounce the case closed. It's not a mathematical proof, but that can't be the standard by which we dismiss baseless rumors, unless we want to keep around every ridiculous accusation ever made by people who were not even contemporaries to the events.

As for the rivalry between Salieri and Mozart, it seems that there was a short period of rivalry while Mozart was trying to establish himself in Vienna, and a longer period of amiable relations and collaboration (such as the music piece now discovered). None of this rose above the expected level (given that they had different musical styles), and it certainly doesn't make a composer who was otherwise not known to be involved in murders into a poisoner.
Selective reduction in tax is indistinguishable from a subsidy.
It's certainly not accurate, but the characters are totally believable and there's nothing that does not make sense as long as you accept the premise of the movie. And the inclusion of Mozart's score is brilliant from beginning to end.
>The new King in town (Apple) is behaving worse than the previous one, and getting away with it!

The "old King" was a monopoly (95% of the market then). And even that wasn't illegal.

They only had trouble because they used their monopoly position to threaten OEM vendors (PC makers) into certain deals.

Apple is far from a monopoly (like 15-20% of the laptop market and something like 30-40% of mobile), and stopping support for a product is not illegal.

And Microsoft supporting old OSes and browsers (IE6 etc) for ages held back the Windows ecosystem and the web for almost a decade. 10 years in IT are an eternity, and we had XP for almost as long.

>what can I do? I have a late 2011 13" MBP and specific software that cannot run on Mavericks or newer.

Is that software that critical? No alternatives available?

Its the software's vendors fault for not keeping their software up to date with OS releases (and, heck, 10.7 is 5+ years behind). Why should one software prevent you from updating your OS to the latest version? What if you wanted to buy a new computer (that would need to run the latest OS to have support for its latest generation hardware, GPU, USB3/C etc)?
So.

It's easy to dismiss this: the fallacies of network programming, etc etc.

But something happened in the last 10 years many people haven't really thought through: the network became faster than (most spinning) disks. Reading 1 MB from a spinning disk is roughly slow as reading 1 MB from the network in the same data center.

That makes you consider exactly what a "computer" is. A "supercomputer" is little more than multiple traditional computers with very heavily optimized network interconnects. But now everyone's internet connects are just as fast, why should we consider a cluster of computers any different?

Yes, SSDs change this (especially M2!). But view the SSD -> Network relationship as we used to view the RAM -> Disk relationship.

I think it's worth rethinking some of the traditional boundaries of what "a computer" is.
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> The man whose music wasn't performed in many countries as a result of this belief.

What are you talking about? Salieri was actually REDISCOVERED precisely because of the movie. Before the movie his legacy had gone in complete obscurity.
The separate Issues problem could be worked around by disabling Issues on all repos, then creating a new “our-org/our-project-issues” repo that contains no code, but has Issues enabled.
Doesn't everyone love mangoes?
What you say is very sane why should learn 3 packet managers. The problem is that language packet managers are not good enough, they are enough to get software to install on the developers system. Often leaves the future and the users hanging there with something less optimal.

I guess my issue is that "good enough" is a very fluid concept, and I often discover some months after that it was my excuse for shitty code/integration test.
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>Kafka is my favorite Existentialist

Like one would say "Pistachio is my favorite ice-cream"?
This tweet says it all: https://twitter.com/Wu_Tang_Finance/status/69838431638495641...
As it is now, whenever you recommend pages that host third-party ads, you may be pointing people at malware.
"It's certainly not accurate, but the characters are totally believable"

This is the major danger and trap all these films fall into. Our imagination of the past after decades of these films has nothing to do with reality.
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Salieri's confession itself was never anything more than a rumor. Following his delirium and suicide attempt, it was said that he confessed to a priest that he poisoned Mozart, but there is no such written note or testimony (I suppose there couldn't be, since priests don't reveal confessions). Again, we can't prove with mathematical certainty that he didn't confess, but given that he had many mutual friends with Mozart and that they defended him from these accusations throughout this period, we have no reason to believe such a thing.
So, before knowing there was reliable data, you constantly made unfounded claims?

You made a good guess. Is that something to brag about? An opinion that you feel the need to "constantly explain to people" borders on ranting... (an embarassing past-time of my own)
I always find this to be fascinating logic. Where else in computing is it perfectly normal to hear "I prefer to be wrong"?
I'm surprised how many people haven't done any research on the acquirers.

Logan Abbott and Roger Abbott (his father) are behind Wirefly and Bizx and lots of other shady companies with plenty of criminal history.

> ...Mr. Abbott, has a track record of entrepreneurial flair and illegal hustle. He spent three years in prison after conviction on cocaine trafficking in 1983. After his release, he set up a telemarketing company that attracted regulatory scrutiny for its tactics in selling precious metals investments. In 1991, Mr. Abbott founded Communications Telesystems, which became known for slamming, the practice of switching customers from one long-distance service to another without their permission. After tens of thousands of complaints, the California Public Utilities Commission revoked the company's permission to operate most services in the state.

1. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/27/business/technology-a-suit...

2. http://articles.latimes.com/1997-05-21/business/fi-60971_1_s...

3. http://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/3d/16...

4. http://www.droid-life.com/2014/03/13/wirefly-abruptly-closes...

5. https://www.bizx.info/about-bizx (check the ceo)

Needless to say, probably not a very high chance of sourceforge reclaiming it's reputation and more like slashdot losing whatever it has left.
I would imagine (although I have no data to back this up), that the majority of contributors to open-source scientific programs are scientific researchers themselves. They are building tools to scratch their own itch. Hence it is win-win for them to build tools that contribute to their own research.
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Surely people using vim/emacs for serious C++ work are going to at least have ctags, and probably something like YouCompleteMe?
Yes. I could have added "author", I suppose.
... it was either that title or something more catchy like "Valentine's Day is broken" ... or "The 1 secret that corporations don't want you to know about love".

I already regret my decision.
http://shinnok.com/rants/2015/04/05/blocking-ads-and-tracker...

I've been using this simple script on OS X for quite some time now. It works like a charm and is using git for that exact reason, to be able to quickly disable/enable and also keep track of exceptions, changes, etc.
Regarding Uber, his argument wasn't so much "poor cabbies" on its own, but seemed to be more like "look at where the money is going, it's going out of the economy and into investors, growth".

So, poor cabbies is one thing, but it would be more about the redistribution of wealth from a community of people to a company. Uber is not a ride sharing service, it's a business model.

The article makes clear his view: If we think short sighted that it's only good for getting rides - we are missing the point. And he says that much about digital natives - they miss the point.
I'm 33 and FB lets me keep in touch with people I no longer see every day or even for a few months. It provides a real value for me.

Many people seem unhappy with Facebook because "ugh others are stupid". Hide their posts, problem solved. This seems to me a teenage problem, not a tool problem. We've all been teens (even if only by definition) but bashing the tool because of the users seems a bit snarky.
If you consider Mozart's own letters to be credible historical sources, he wrote about Salieri's attempts to sabotage his career.
You have the right choose not to use Apple, usually a major version of OS X is supported for 3years.
what software you are using? built for powerpc cpu?

Apple is a hardware company yet, they are earning money by selling their products, so it is not hard to see why they keep pushing people to buy new product.

You should stated your software name, and let us see whether there is a solution for it.
History didn't start with that movie, you know. Salieri's work was not performed e.g. in Russia, where the influence of Pushkin's "Mozart and Salieri" was particularly strong, throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. For part of the 20th century, I was a witness to that myself - I heard several times from friends who were musicians that Salieri's works are never performed because he is thought to have poisoned Mozart. This is why his music was obscure. If he is being rediscovered after yet more slander, well, that's good, but two centuries of the worst kind of lies and calumnies are still a bad way to treat a person, I would say.
True, however this is competing with Supercomputers, which are quite a special case.

It's difficult to define a supercomputer, but essentially a defining factor is being able to read data from the memory (not spinning/SSD disk) across the network at the same speed as if it were local. This is typically done with specialised networking (like Infiniband) that can reach nearly 100Gb/s, something that we are still quite far away from on 'commodity hardware'.

I think this company must be doing something very different, or have made some sort of breakthrough, that allows them to do what they're claiming, I don't think the network becoming faster and having SSDs is what has enabled this, at least not for the most part.
<I also cannot imagine 11 months of blocking a SCOTUS nomination and leaving the court with 8 members.>

But that's exactly what the Democrat-controlled Senate did after Justice Abe Fortas resigned in disgrace in 1969. They knocked down Nixon's first two nominees, and Fortas wasn't ultimately replaced by Blackmun until a year later[0][1][2].

[0] - Several Wikipedia pages say May 12, but:

[1] - this one says May 17: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsuccessful_nominations_to_th...

[2] - this page says June 9:
http://supremecourthistory.org/timeline_blackmun.html
> This is overly simplistic.

Only in the same way law of conservation of energy is overly simplistic.

All the people that say "It's not only about money!" then give examples which boil down to "Tt's also how you spend it!" to which I can only reply "Duh!"
Beyond the pure clerical duty of executing on existing laws, the President has both the right of legislative initiative and relatively unhindered communication channel with the nation (as opposed to being a Senator, Congressman or just a random activist, where it's just another voice out of many) to explain his case. The way the congressional and senatorial elections are structured, it's possible for a President with a plausible agenda to manipulate the public into electing cooperative legislators.
Another quote I try to live by is from Brian Kernighan, who said "Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming." It's common programmer humor that early in our career we fall in love with building beautiful and complex machines, but as we gain experience learn how to keep it simple, short and concise while accomplishing the same task.
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The human brain is probably the most efficient computational device ever and it runs orders of magnitude slower than modern electronic devices.
OSDev does indeed have some great resources, but sadly most of the info is targeting x86. Of course the general principles of interrupts, framebuffer memory etc. can be applied to other platforms provided you have an understanding of the platform. Which I guess is the problem - there are tons of great resources, however to fill in the gaps between them requires a knowledge of the platform which a beginner won't have.

The best approach I've seen so far is the excellent Nand2Tetris, however it can't run on hardware due to the custom HDL it uses.
The unlikely return of VB's hungarian notation...
If these problems can't explicitly be scaled horizontally by the developer, why would this system be able to scale them horizontally by doing it behind the scenes? Any limitations of data exchange between nodes would still apply.
The title is indeed a little misleading since it implies that us already the case.
Coming from a mainly C++ background, I find that the Rust language makes best practices in languages with manual memory management (and to some degree also in garbage collected environments) explicit. This is a great property of the language and it definitely changed the my C++ programming. You can see it as automatization of the more boring aspects of code reviews.
Argentine physicians claim Monsanto larvicide is true cause of microcephaly
And not recessing means sitting Senators cannot campaign. Which party likely benefits from that?
Progress = forward movement towards something. This is still great progress, regardless of how much there is left to do. Chrome was even the first browser to stop playing lots of flash ads months ago.
Depends on where you live. I bet you could comfortably live for few months for 820 USD in Thailand.
Same effect, but different mechanism (and causal route):

http://www.stuartmcmillen.com/comics_en/rat-park/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park
Researchers are paid to churn out papers, working under publication pressure. As you can imagine, the result is not the best, most user-friendly software.

(Making software is difficult. Adding publication pressure is not going to help the process.)

So, there is a second class of people, called scientific programmers, who might do what you imagined. However, their work is undervalued. For example, although they are often listed as authors of scientific papers, they will almost never be first author. And this type of people will also be the first to disappear if funding dries up. Further, when writing scientific proposals, nobody thinks about hiring a scientific programmer, or it comes as an afterthought.
Our company policy is quite standard for BigCorps in Sweden:

8-17, with 45 minutes of lunch. Flextime +-1 hour (i.e 7-16, 9-18).

We trade 15 min of lunch (60->45) during the year for only working 7 hrs during the summer, so 8-16 between June and August. Practically everyone is off in July so it is a good deal for the company strictly speaking but that one hour does make a bigger difference than I thought it would.

In my current project most get in between 7 and 8 but in other parts of the IT organization most get in closer to 9. Varies a bit and many have kids so they tend to arrive late or leave early.
I believe the format itself, that is, text, not voice nor face to face contact makes conflict more likely.
> the cost in energy is directly proportionate to the clock frequency

Approximately true at lower frequencies, less accurate at higher frequencies. Voltage must increase to reduce the transition times, at higher frequencies. You can see this in any spec sheet.

http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/34766/how-does-po...
The measurement should be better (and not autoload articles) but if they feel their content deserves direct payment, that's their right. This will only start to become more anyway as adblocking continues and publishers need to protect access - which means there will need to be accounts/logins.
Elsevier sues Russian scientist for publishing papers
Quality Police for Java projects, 0.16.2 released
Tom Hulce's portrayal of a cultured, clever, hardworking man as some kind of ethereal buffoon couldn't have been farther from reality. The false picture that it presents of talent would be harmful to those that it might have influenced.

The defense that the characters were meant to be iconic stand-ins is also undermined by the inclusion of so much accurate trivia (in addition to the many inaccuracies)
I have a hard time distinguishing someone's behaviour from their innate personality. Perhaps forgiveness is the key.
It's personal resentment against a person in particular, and there's not much to be done about it.

But I do think that people like that are harmful, and that they need a good blunt reality check.