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... there is no "not" operator, which is desperately needed

Not true. It can be achieved by simply adding the

-

Operator to a search. For example, to get Google Search results about Tesla, minus all the stuff on the internet about the cars / motor company try...

tesla -"tesla motors" -car
I believe what hobofan is implying is that the Rust developers have resisted bending the language solely to the needs of Servo, despite there originally being almost a 50/50 overlap between the Rust and Servo developers (nowadays the division is more clear, with pcwalton working full-time on Servo and brson working full-time on Rust).

The most notable example is the proposal variously known as "virtual structs" or "inheritance", which had a brief prototype implementation in Rust (circa 2013) solely to support Servo's needs (specifically regarding representing the DOM), but which met a wall of opposition from the community. Such a feature is still likely to appear sometime in the future (after all, if Servo needs it, then it's likely that others do too), but the Rust developers are taking their time to explore solutions that integrate the most cleanly with the rest of the language.
Thank you for this comment! I think your advice is correct: better not talk about it, and move on. Btw I am now in a weird situation - should I remove my edited comment or not. But I'll let it sit there, this thread makes no sense without it :)
Reading this, I can't help but notice that none of the people they are hiring comes from a non-profit background, doesn't it surprise anybody?
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This reminds me of China condemning Russia's annexation of Crimea.

I wonder why is that.
Web designers, get over yourself
They do talk about this:

> When the system was built, one of the missing features from Kafka 0.7 was the ability of the Kafka Broker cluster to behave as a reliable persistent storage. This influenced a major design decision to not keep persistent state between the producer of data, Kafka Syslog Producer, and Hadoop. An event is considered reliably persisted only when it gets written to a file on HDFS.
ZFS that runs on solaris is not a linux kernel module, and that one was written independently of Linux. The developers likely knew about linux.

The ZFS Linux kernel module is a port of the solaris version, and that one was written dependently on Linux. The developers knew about linux.
I gather that XtreemFS and Quobyte can tolerate benign but not byzantine faults. Is there such a thing as a byzantine fault tolerant file system?
How is this any different than what google provides out of the box? I build a cluster and just deploy a container to a pod.
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This is very common. I have been solicited to contribute to PACs at multiple employers. At each employer everyone has understood the career consequences of not contributing. No threat was needed. The law should really require some sort of firewall where corporate management can not know who has or hasn't contributed.
Rather this is what should be happening. Principals set forth their arguments, congress steps in and sets the rules which then the courts interpret and settle.

Government and manufacturer and service provider along with the constituency coming to a decision on what should and should not be allowable.

As I understand it, the gov, is setting up a commission to investigate this question, as it should [1].

As for mr Cook, I agree, what he speculates to should not happen, and as far as I know is not happening. He's essentially setting up a strawperson argument when he states: "If a court can ask us to write this software, think about what else they could ask us to write. Maybe it’s an operating system for surveillance, maybe the ability for law enforcement to turn on the camera."

[1]http://www.buzzfeed.com/hamzashaban/lawmakers-in-congress-in...
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In the Unites States, yes.

I personally do not hold this opinion, but many gun owners see gun ownership as an inalienable right and any attempt to limit or take it away as a violation of privacy and overreaching by the government.
Yes, for a foundation with $80M in assets overseeing the Wikipedia project the leadership sounds dangerously incompetent, considering that timeline.
Yes, that is exactly what I meant.
That is interesting. If I find a Cavendish with seeds and I plant them, do the fruits of that plant also have seeds?
The phone backdoor thing seems to break orthogonal to left-right, closer to the libertarian-authoritarian axis. At least that's my impression.
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rolling updates to services would be nice. running this as a service (possibly deployed on the kubernetes cluster) to facilitate this via web hooks would be amazing.
Yep, I used the english(Australia) setting. Though I wonder whether it might be an issue with the types of Australian accents as well.

We don't have the accent diversity of the brits/north-americans, but we do still have 2 or 3 kinds with some local variation.

Plus I know some Australians have asked where my accent is from (err...Australia?), so I accept the possibility that my own little idiosyncrasies might be throwing it off a bit, even though when I travel overseas and talk, I think I sound like Steve bloody Irwin...
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What is your monetization strategy for this? (being open source)
Well, "over terrorist's phone" is enough to tell me which issue it is referring to. "Over user privacy" or "against federal conscription by the FBI" would not, and honestly feel more editorialized.
> Tessellation shaders could get around the vertex shader limitation on weird clips

Indeed! It's issue #61, filed in October 2015 :) https://github.com/servo/webrender/issues/61
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Based on their latest release of pricing information, I've done an old vs new pricing comparison. Hopefully no errors - the tiered pricing is more complex to calculate than a flat pricing.

From what I understand, if your volume is i.e. 1,000,000, you pay for 20 blocks (25,000 ea) at $20, plus 20 blocks at $18 for a total of ($20 * 20) + ($18 * 20) = $760/month, plus $10 for MailChimp account.

Volume	Old Pricing	New Pricing
10,000	9.95	30
25,000	9.95	30
50,000	14.95	50
100,000	24.95	90
300,000	64.95	250
700,000	144.95	554
1,000,000	204.95	770
2,000,000	365.2	1410
4,000,000	656.2	2450
8,000,000	1157.45	4050

So, pricing has gone up 3x to 4x across the board. They're much more expensive than both SendGrid and Mailgun now, and even more expensive than Postmark, and their credits expire at the end of the month. Hoooly crap.
I'm sure. Without having a real opinion on WMF, I've known multiple people who found themselves in non-profits and basically got out in a relative hurry. And, with some exceptions, I've had many of the same experiences with many volunteer organizations that I've been involved with.
2nd amendment vs. 4th amendment. Why is one more important than the other ? once there is a precedent to bypass the 4th ? I just think it is something to think about. I get it that it is not a perfect analogy.
Or the: Hey Reddit we are struggling post.
> Sun released the Z File System (ZFS) code under the Common Development and Distribution License, version 1 (CDDLv1) as part of OpenSolaris

ZFS isn't an acronym. It used to stand for Zettabyte File System (not Z File System as the article states), but like BP (formally British Petroleum), ZFS is no longer an acronym.

I wouldn't normally nitpick over something like this but that statement was the first sentence under the heading "The Basic Facts" and they didn't even get it's former name right.
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Dude, all that stuff runs on webkit. This thread is about Servo. At present, something like Servo cannot be embedded in an iOS app. Yeah, yeah react native or anything else can use web views and downloaded javascript or whatever you want to call it. You can't have Servo and it's 100 FPS though which is what this discussion is about
It’s tricky.

In any technical field, it is important for the “good” and “best” people from that field to participate in group activities so that there is a better chance of sane decision-making. And in any sufficiently-complex field that has a government agency, you would certainly hope that at least some of those “good” and “best” people are working for the government. So what to do?

Perhaps one approach is to make sure no one group is over-represented, e.g. 5 different organizations that each have one vote or something.
It's (relatively) easy to verify a software against a strict security definition and decide if it meets the definition or not.

It's incredibly difficult (I'd say "impossible", but I'm being pedantic for now) to check a flaw against such strict definition and check it against all possible use cases and all possible inputs and decide if one of them will lead to bad consequences.

Thus, if there's any practical attack? How the hell would I or anybody else know. We can only know a resounding "yes" after you get owned, nobody can ever tell you a honest "no" to this question.
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Hey! If this workflow we're building is the git for Docker deployment, we'll make money on the GitHub - collaborative deployment tools built on top of this workflow.
I agree, and Amazone probably wasn't the best example. My point is that even when I search for something in quotes Google still autocorrects it (not talking specifically about Amazone here that was just one example I've encountered in the past). This is especially true when I have to find a person whose name isn't spelled normally.
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Got it, so a 1.5x improvement on 30% lines right up with 45%. That's where they're getting their 50% gains number from.
Why would an open-minded team enforce conformity (via 'cultural fit')?
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I tend to agree. People who love when governments control things and people who hate terrorists are both probably pro-FBI. People who want reduced government control or people who value digital freedom are probably pro-Apple. Not that these groups are mutually exclusive, it just depends on what you value most.
Yeah that's the one I had in mind.
I'm not sure that it's easy to dismiss political bias as coincidental given that the people publishing the article are professional wordsmiths who understand the impact of every word they choose.
Those things aren't really comparable. One is a pre-emptive action taken by government before the commission of a crime, the other is a reactive investigation tool. I also suspect your gun example might actually generate more outrage at governmental overreach.
Have you got more references - they would be cool reading?
If you can, go for C++14 directly, it offers improvements over C++11.

Language features that ease your daily working with C++11/14:

- Lambdas, especially when working with <algorithm>

- ranged for loop

- auto instead of typing long types

- variadic templates increase compilation speed over the previous macro based simulation of this feature.

- the basic support for multithreading which std::thread & co offer.

And also, as always in C++: you only pay for what you use. You still can write code in old styles pretty well with C++14, same will be true for coming standards.
From the parent article:

The new engine will meld the best characteristics of gasoline and compression ignition engines with an innovative piston architecture refined by Achates Power that sets two pistons moving in opposition in one cylinder. As the crowns of the pistons slide toward each other, they compress a mixture of air and gasoline to such extreme pressures that the mixture auto-ignites without the need for spark plugs in a process known as compression ignition.

which is the same principle as the deltic engine.
In Prolog you have the ability to create new postfix operators. Of course Prolog being a logic language and not a functional language, along with '!' being used for 'cut' opens up another can of worms.

http://www.swi-prolog.org/pldoc/man?predicate=op/3
>friction between system libraries and your languages standard library

Well, that's the thing : Kotlin emits bytecode. It is entirely interoperable with Java. All the Java APIs of the platform are accessible in Kotlin.

Swift on the other end can only target the NDK, which limits it to a very specific niche on Android.
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I worked for Lila when we were both at SugarCRM, and I never got the sense of what is being claimed at WMF was her modus operandi (I found dealing with her a fairly transparent affair, which is why I thought she landed at WMF). It's really quite dumbfounding.
? Android apps are also compiled ahead of time right now (whether they are written in java or kotlin).
Large enterprises are also not startups, they don't get to have the CEO publish a blog post within an hour of news like this. PR departments are careful to craft messages and narratives, shareholder value needs to be protected, and legal bases need to be covered.
> If Apple are successfully compelled to produce a version of iOS that bypasses PIN security

this would seem a rather scary precedent of forced, unwilling labor. i wonder if it could be construed as "involuntary servitude".
> If they were, then one could care about their POV.

Oracle isn't exactly known for their attempts at fostering good-will with the open source community. Considering that, I don't think they have much incentive to complain now, even if their lawyers are 100% sure that there is a violation of their copyright.

Instead they can just wait for Canonical to hang themselves, then sue them and their customers for the fair market value plus damages. (Maybe they'll offer Canonical's customers a good deal when they switch to Oracle Linux.)
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Interesting, I just tried that. It's been a long time since I've searched for Amazone (that was just the first example that came to mind) but I don't remember seeing that in the past.
As someone that mainly codes in C++ across Android and Windows Phone for hobby projects, there is no escape from JNI for any application of significant size.

Have you used the NDK? You cannot even access the filesystem outside the APK deployment tree without a few JNI calls.
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Kudos to the GitLab team. I've been running it for 12 months now on premises. The Omnibus package makes the instance unbelievable easy to install and upgrade, so there's no excuse not to run the latest versions. I've just been watching my instance get better and better over those 12 months, better UI, more features and better performance. I really love the software and can't talk it up enough.
The obvious answer is no. This is an video about heroics by the Mozilla team to make WebRender and Servo very fast. I bet $5 that the people trying to make webkit very fast are taking an entirely different approach. There are probably zero whole people in the world that want to work on porting the Mozilla approach to webkit
How is that even remotely similar?

One has a court issued search warrant. The other doesn't.

Why should iPhones be magically protected from search warrants?
You got it. To profitably support commercial power users I would have had to change the business model to a pay-as-you-go subscription model. I considered doing this in a way that wouldn't shut out my casual users (for whom I created the app in the first place, and who are still the majority), but I had serious doubts about the willingness of taxi and limo drivers to pay for Just Landed on an ongoing basis.

The proliferation of half-decent free flight trackers (albeit without the unique airport pickup focus), the other systemic problems mentioned in my post, and the increasingly common cannibalization of utility apps by Apple's iOS itself, led me to the conclusion that such an endeavor was likely doomed to fail.

Just because you can find passionate users doesn't mean you've found a good business, and that was the case here.
Right, but Apple's not challenging the warrant, they're challenging the related order.
It's still a muddle, and the tendentious Bloomberg headline does not help. Microsoft's position is extremely cautious, but they had to side with Apple because opening the "all writs" can of worms to compel software creation and signing binaries is going to jack up law enforcement compliance costs to unlimited levels. Gates, in the quote in the article, is also, still, trying to have it both ways: “The extreme view that government always gets everything, nobody supports that. Having the government be blind, people don’t support that.” Evidently he thinks conditional privacy is sufficient and that the issue can be separated from encryption bans and an "all writs" model that compels new things to be created at the whim of FBI agents.
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While it's your freedom to hold an opinion that is contrary to factual reality, I'm not sure how useful it is. What does it help you to misapprehend that Bill Gates is a spokesman for Microsoft?
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imho: The longer the same people stay with an organization, the more personality issues come to the surface. As you end up with a self appointed dictator and his/her sidekick, assorted followers, the opposing team and the rest regulated to the sidelines. Meanwhile it's sad watching a sinking ship.

"Narcissistic personality disorder"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disor...

ps: I don't like you so I am going to vote you down regardless as to the quality of your postings ;)
Agreed. I should have emphasized that usually quotes fix it. They don't seem to every time for some reason.
Quobyte does not appear to be a mature product.

Clicking 'get started' merely leads to a 'please let me waste hours talking with your enterprise sales reps' form.

A mature product should be possible for me to evaluate and try on my own, and I would rather not waste time doing so if I don't even know what it costs.
I think that what the other posters are touching on is: why sell bread at all? Why not sell beer? Or ethanol, to gasoline companies? You have a source of flour, and you also have access to customers who are deriving their livelihoods from your product. If the bread market is tapped out and too competitive to make a profit, why not turn around and seek other markets?

In my experience, consumer mobile is pretty much tapped out - it's very difficult to make a living as an independent app developer. But the enterprise market is still booming. Now that the giant consumer applications (WhatsApp, Instagram, Uber, Instacart, etc.) have been found, there's a long tail of smaller niches that'll pay good money for specialized services.
> precedent to bypass the 4th

You mean like a search warrant?

That's a pretty old precedent...........
No, you're confusing my statement of the what the law at the time was with some sort of comprehensive statement of opinions that I couldn't possibly know.
They're welcome to try, but you're correct.
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I agree. To me the relationship is government over reach. I think it is too much to ask Apple to write a back door into their product. I can see getting a warrant to look at phone records etc. I am a gun owner but not fanatical, I am ok with some reasonable controls. The key in both cases, 2nd and 4th amendment restrictions is reasonableness. But that is always in the eye of the beholder, hence the controversy.
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The difference is that Hicky is good at marketing. His lectures are awesome and he has made himself the leader of the immutability movement. That hasn't happened to lisp before.
We have absolute control over the final stereo-isomer that comes out of the synthesis. The large molecules are assembled from building blocks that each contain two stereo centers. We synthesize all four stereo-isomers of the building blocks in separate bottles and then put them together in different sequences to create the large molecules.
Where the programming (Clasp Common Lisp in the molecular design language that I'll announce soon) comes in is we can build computer models of all stere-isomers and, in software, figure out which ones can do the job that we want. Then we just synthesize that and test it in the lab.
How can every country's MPs change the agreement? How does this work in practice? Have you thought this through?
Wow.

We pay for U-Verse TV, but solely as an account login for online streaming services. I haven't turned on the DVR in over 6 months.
This has been false for years.
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How are the two related exactly? Is XtreemFS part of the core of the Quobyte product, or is it a dead-end, with all new development happening in Quobyte?
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The public reaction might be different, but my reaction would be roughly the same.
What qualifies as a famous architect? do you have multiple tiers of famous, say Lloyd Wright and Ghery in tier 1, but lots of lesser known yet great modern architects in 2/3. Canada coverage?
There are still things to learn, and you may still need to adapt tools, but it's a lot easier to work with an "embedded" DSL than an "external" one. You still need to define the nouns and verbs of your domain, but you don't have to define a whole new grammar.
Thanks for building this, I've been a low-volume user since sometime in 2013. I'll miss it, but completely understand your reasoning.
No, the enforcement arms of the government should obey the law and leave making laws to Congress and the constituency. CALEA specifically prohibits government agents from ordering private companies to adopt "any specific design of equipment, facilities, services, features, or system configuration". Congress considered this authority and decided not to grant it to the police.
Yes, no byzantine faults.
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> But for most people that's the wrong default for things like decades of family photos.

That seems like a weird assumption, that there'd be a single person with access to an account containing the only copies of decades of family photos. If someone else has account access or if there are copies of the photos elsewhere, then "destroy-when-I-die" isn't a big problem.

On the other hand, it also violates the way that I think things would usually work in the physical world. That is, if there's a safe that only the deceased had the combination to, I can still drill it to access the contents.
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Sue them for what? No one anywhere has suggested even a theory where Oracle's license on ZFS is violated.
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Quobyte is not open source.
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Interesting, and I fully agree that sequestration would be a solution.

I root for electric propulsion and solar power (go Elon!). But I support all efforts in this fight.

I will read the references you gave. Edit: "Burning Buried Sunshine" is a great read! 86 m3 of ancient biomass for 1 gallon of fuel..
At least it is Apple the press is attacking, they can survive this.

Any other company would be torn to shreds by the purposeful fear-mongering the press does because of the clicks and eyeballs it generates.

I am "pleased" to see Apple's lawyers arguing against conscription though. It was exactly my thought the first time I heard about this and Apple being ordered to create something that didn't exist before, exclusively for the government. Kind of matches that 270 year old law the FBI is trying to use.