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I think the fact that we are posting this on a thread about how freelance web designers have had increasing difficulty finding work over the past few years is evidence to the contrary. It's no longer just the very bottom of the market that uses these tools. They're now mainstream and have captured the mid-market.
We're still talking about the Microsoft that's less than a year away from releasing Windows 10 and DX12. "New Microsoft" indeed.
Except you're not burning it and turning it into something else. You can reuse it. It may not be renewable, but it is reusable.
It sounds the real benefit for you is in OTP rather than anything intrinsic to Erlang's multicore implementation.

> not see that multicore and multi-node are related

There is a huge distinction in implementation, which Erlang/OTP abstracts over for you somewhat (but not entirely...). By optimizing for the distributed (multi-node) scenario, you decouple the that work from the language implementation -- and multiple processes per CPU would benefit just as well as a cluster. A distributed cluster does not benefit from a multi-core implementation. Given the baggage most languages have with the GIL (including OCaml), optimizing for single threaded performance seems like the correct decision here.

With Erlang, distribution is accomplished with the epmd registry, something similar could be done with OCaml as well. As you noted, there is no OTP-like system for OCaml, but the absence of one does not hinge on any multicore implementation. Single-threaded OCaml processes handle concurrency just fine, and usually faster than Erlang, to boot.

Personally, if the OCaml multicore work ends up slowing down the core runtime appreciably, I'm going to be upset.
> Yes, random internet guy has the answer

Ideas (should) stand on their own around here. Take this lame attempt at Argument from Authority somewhere else.
That makes no sense. It's pretty clear that .NET is Microsoft's future, and Xamarin extends the reach of .NET.
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I'm doing OK so far just buying older cars that were never saddled with any such crap, but I imagine that when enough time has gone by that I seriously have to consider a vehicle built that comes ready-to-exploit from the factory, enough hobbyists will have figured out how it's done that ripping out the radio won't be such a challenge.
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Both points are endemic of smaller and newer companies (does xamarin still qualify?), poor legacy and deprecation strategies / product roadmap, bad pricing structure. I think Microsoft can aid in both categories.
Take a look at DX12, WPF, etc. The walled garden is still there and getting worse, they're just sacrificing their other markets.
You think 75% of the population moving to Mars is a likely outcome?
The vscode source is very well "layered". It's not totally inconceivable that the vscode folks or some other team take it and allow you to choose at build time whether to target it's current DOM-backed UI or one backed by more "native" drawing routines and widgets.
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You can get a pretty good deal on the previous gen Nexus 6 from Amazon @ http://www.amazon.com/Motorola-Unlocked-Cellphone-Discontinu.... I was considering getting one there instead of buying it directly from Google Fi.

GPS devices have a host of annoyances... Lack of live traffic information (unless you want to pay a subscription), no Waze reporting (a feature of Google Maps), slow power up and lock, difficult to pick waypoints manually and zoom around freely, etc. Maybe they have gotten better in recent years but I haven't been very impressed in the past.
Kinda funny how things work out.

Back when MS broadcasted OSX/nix compatibility for Visual Studio I felt it necessary to comment that .NET development has been supported in OSX/nix for over a decade.

In short, Miguel De Icaza should be awarded a medal from MS for his heroic effort in developing the Mono platform and tooling; in spite of the constant threat of legal action from Microsoft for 'patent infringement' of their supposedly 'open' (ie ECMA) standard languages and VM.

Hopefully, he finally receives public recognition and reward for all his hard work.
I think you two are saying the same things. The examples he provided are the problems that have already been solved, so you don't need teams of people to figure them out. Instead, you just need two pros who are excellent in specific areas, and "industry best practices" fills in the gaps. 10 years ago, there were no best practices, so this wasn't quite as possible.
Awesome, thanks for the info. While I wouldn't be that surprised if the EmDrive works by undiscovered spooky action at a distance, if it works by violating conservation of momentum that would be bonkers.
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Here's how I do YNAB-ish budgeting, I think it's similar to what you said except using virtual subaccounts instead of a parallel hierarchy: https://gist.github.com/simonmichael/a1addcb652da4e78b183
> OmniSharp powered intellisense and other features are easy enough to stick in VS Code

Already shipping with it. See:

1. https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/3029

2. https://github.com/OmniSharp/omnisharp-vscode
Visual Studio already uses WPF where it matters (the actual editor is WPF, I think, among other things).

That said, the core and infrastructure and all the stuff that makes it run is still a radioactive COM wasteland, and from experience trying to write an extension once, you can tell..
That's... really reassuring, actually, because it means there will still be OTA-free vehicles available on the used market for years to come.
>Work for web designers isn't drying up overall, it's just that the low-end – [...] – has become commoditised.

>The higher-end work – [...] – is still around, and it's become much more specialised

The specialisation means that work for "web designers" has declined IMO.

I used to do sites for local charities and SMEs. They tend now to use Wix or WordPress with a template, something along those lines.

Those who can afford something more bespoke have much greater expectations and web design as a field has grown. Just keeping up with the pace of change of browser tech is hard now, never mind everything else that goes in to a "simple" webpage - one needs a team to do it properly IMO. So the generalists, as I once was, are really not in demand anymore.

The web designer has been killed off by commoditisation and specialisation and there increased expectation and possibilities that are now part of the everyday web.
I don't have a phone either, but carry an e-reader with me most of the time. Best of both worlds.
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Well the problem with something like that is that when you think about it the Ubers and airbnb's of the world would never have made it in Austin based on those criteria. Thats a bit of a problem for me and the city in a way, because when people think "startup" they're thinking more about stuff like that and less about the pragmatic "show me the money" software businesses that Austin tends to fund ... and even at that, not very much.
At $35/litre this could get expensive pretty fast!
Also, I see nothing in the study that precludes the possibility that some of the variability cannot be mitigated with statistical methods. (For some reason the last time I posted a comment like this I was heavily downvoted by people claiming that the type of error in this case is somehow not amenable to a statistical solution, but as far as I could tell no convincing argument or evidence was given for such an assertion.)
"demand for traditional web design is decreasing"? There is still plenty of demand for design work, but its moved to user interface and experience design. The change is mostly trivial but it reflects a more mature mind set when it comes to user acquisition and retention.

But I suppose scaring people into thinking they're losing their jobs will get more eyeballs.
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I'd be curious to know where you (and sibling posters) lived and how that correlates to impressions of Austin weirdness. I live south and while I wouldn't say it's outrageous, there's a pervasive, low-key level of weirdness in the neighborhoods down here that is agreeable. Haven't seen much weirdness north.

Having moved from Boston, not sure what's East Coast about Austin. Certainly not the (lack of) Mexican food.
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> You can't use modern value judgements unless you want a dissonant argument

This is my whole point! It's dissonant. There is no point in holding to the purist ideals of a document, if the authors themselves wrote it to ignore the invconvenient facts of life. Some people talk of the authors like they're some sort of demigods, and therefore any of their utterances are uncontestable. Highlighting dissonance like this is important it countering this trend.
Like a "post image to Facebook" or tweet this image button on the console? /s
Out of interest, were you looking for a freelancer to join the team, or to hire a permanent. The message form the article that I gather is that companies are hiring more in house, and freelancers are getting left behind.

From my own experience, I have been responsible for hiring an in house permanent team of front end web developers and back end web developers. The funny part is, I'm a freelancer on contract managing this team of in house 'web designers'.

As for the audio, I completely agree. It made the whole article feel much more personal, engaging and easy to consume.
From what I remember when researching this very topic for another company, the flow went like this:

Person sends an email to support@yourcompany. The ticket system monitors the account and, when the email arrives, create a ticket in the system.

The support staff triages the message as appropriate (it can be assigned to one or more people, etc), and respond. Any "response" is returned to the user as an email. In other words, the end user (e.g., the customer) does not know that they are interfacing with a support ticket system. Your employees, on the other hand, only interface with the ticketing system.
Xamarin is not about Xamarin Studio. It's about the iOS and Android runtimes. Thanks to its ability to take full advantage of AOT compilation, the performance difference is staggering compared to Mono. Also it needs to JIT in less situations, which is a big plus on iOS since JITing is prohibited on that platform "for security reasons".
>Btw, why do people always worry about the jobs technology will take away?

Because if technology destroys your industry you lose. Automating textile work lead to greater wealth for the world as a whole, but it didn't make textile workers better off. The fact that a new job was created somewhere doesn't matter to them if they can't do it.
LI is irreplaceable right now as a business networking and lead tool, but maddening and getting worse daily in terms of UX. I already pay hundreds on it and ready to pay thousands as it's easily worth that to my business.

But I'm spending that money grudgingly and always reluctant to upgrade because although it saves me time and effort overall, it also wastes my time every day due to crappy UX, badly implemented SPA type functionality, and hateful mobile experience if you don't want to use their app (LI: I will never use your app if it needs access to my contacts list, particularly given the way you leverage that valuable and private info).

That's a really really stupid position for an incumbent to put themselves in as they will inevitably get their lunch eaten by an upstart at some point.
Please don't respond to an uncivil comment with another uncivil comment. That just makes the thread worse yet.
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Ask them about Alan Truing - he kept his work secret so should have had his career ruined by the likes of you.
But it doesn't prove that it truly is a fusion device then.

> random internet guy

Are you sure you're more qualified to discuss this than the poster you're replying to? Why make a point of it if you aren't?
nonsense, gnu tar unpacks anything with tar xf <file> just fine.
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That's something we are building at BitCorps.co. Stripe Altas is a great alternative if you want to set up your business in the US. We let you operate in our supported countries as if you had a local entity.
When cable TV first came out, way back in the previous century, one of the benefits was supposedly going to be no commercials. Because you're paying to receive it. Now I'd guess more commercials are delivered via cable (and all those channels) than broadcast.
I think there's actually more web sites being built than ever, and that the problem is that company's expect more for less.

The WordPress pollution has brought about a revolution in pricing within our field. Companies actually expect full e-commerce for under $1k because they've been spoiled with these easy-peasy systems that can be slapped together in no time at all.

How do I market a team of high end devs, engineers and security consultans to develop a company web presence which Joe Nobody is offering them for $599? Here lies the elephant. Not the folks turning quick bucks at our expense, but the mere fact that it's darned near impossible to convince clients to spend wisely.

There are still companies who know better, but in a world where everyone wants to be a 'startup', it's becoming less and less.
You can't own facts (such as the fact you live at 123 XYZ Street or that you made a 4 minute call last week to your mother). You can own documents (digital or otherwise) containing facts. But the documents you're talking about here are Verizon's database files. You have no right to them.

I'm not familiar with European data privacy laws, but I imagine they're like U.S. privacy laws in the sense that they're not based on ownership. E.g. it's illegal for schools to disclose your educational information to third parties. But your student records are still the school's records, not yours.
Wow at first I thought I must have misread the title. Sounds overly alarmist doesn't it? Nobody would do something like this right? Well the piece is pretty explicit about what and where this is happening.

One way I could imagine to pull this off with little effort is if I'm in an unmanaged Ethernet segment with the targeted server. If you can cajole the switch to send you traffic destined to other stations, you can easily race their response. You wouldn't even have to crack any equipment that way.
hahaha, I was thinking the exact same thing, literally cue cat and all too. Even funnier is my undergrad degree was, originally, applied physics before switching to EE. I follow science when I can but boy do I feel out of the loop sometimes. Reading your post gave me a nice chuckle.
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Well, for one I can't downvote threads. Seems what you need to get a page to stay on the front page is people willing to upvote it, not skeptics against the thing.
It's a very prominent installation option in Visual Studio 2015 that you can't miss. If you mean something else, please clarify.
"The misconception that the modern renaissance of Gopherspace is simply a reaction to "Web overload" is unfortunately often repeated"

The article after this paragraph reads like an argument playing into this "misconception".
One aspect of OS X I've always appreciated is the absence of bundled bloatware and obtrusive advertising. Sure, you can disable the ads and uninstall any unwanted software Microsoft is aggressively pushing on you, but how many people actually do this?

Most of my parent's friends that I've helped to resolve OS issues don't even try to find out how to switch off or delete Windows annoyances. Their machines are bogged down with junk that they don't want or need and some suffer silently while others complain loudly, but very few from either camp take the initiative and learn how the OS works.

I don't know what percentage of the Windows owning public is unable or unwilling to wrest control of their OS from default setting tyranny, but anecdotal evidence suggests it's a not insignificant number.
Yes, the tools have vastly improved over the past five years – but the whole industry has. The tools a freelancer uses have improved dramatically as well. What a freelancer can achieve in a given amount of time has improved dramatically too. And clients' expectations are growing correspondingly.

The whole industry is moving forward. The bottom of the freelance market 20 years ago was plain static pages and that's what FrontPage competed with. The bottom of the freelance market now is a content-managed dynamic site and that's what Facebook pages compete with.
I think the figure is closer to 100 W average across the day since the brain cannot exist in isolation of the body which needs ~2000 calories daily, but still, we're fairly efficient. We're built with advanced nanotechnology.
I have worked in the medical device industry building ultrasound systems for twenty years.

In general, there are thousands of regulations that must be satisfied. Some specifications that must be met include ISO 13485, ISO 14971, IEC 60601 3rd Edition, IEC 62304, and probably ten more that I have forgotten about, such as RoHS, WEE, radiated emissions, etc.

The systems I worked with involved multilayer (16 layers plus) circuit boards, custom ASICs, FPGAs, ARM SOCs, etc., mixed OS (e.g., Windows CE and WindRiver, etc.)

The code base is large and complex, as you have not just ultrasound, but often, calculation packages of various kinds (cardiac, OB, etc.) These packages are expensive to develop and have to be carefully verified. If you're measuring the length of a fetal femur and translating the measured length to an estimated gestational age, you don't wish to be wrong. Same deal with cardiac output measurements, etc.

Then there is the whole issue of transducers. It's a complex field, and you have to deal not only with materials (some of which contain RoHS regulated elements, such as lead), but also, dicing saws (to cut the piezo), matching layers, transmission lines (to send signals to / from the transducer and the ultrasound machine front end.)

I'm not trying to be rude, or baffle you with a lot of jargon, it's just that my experience is that building a useful ultrasound machine is much more complex than it might appear from the outside of the industry, so to speak.

Finally, I think building an iPhone is probably even more complex, but the incredible volume of sales tends to make amortizing the cost more palatable.

I could be wrong, of course, and your comments are welcome.
> I'd love to read more newsletters

NTK used to be good. It's never coming back, but I wish something was like it.
Yes, but most UUID when moved across networks are translated to hex, so 32 bytes/characters whereas NUID's are 22 bytes, so generally a savings of 10 bytes per when stored as a string.
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That what I was thinking. Gecko had it's time. Servo would serve mobile devices better as a technology too.

I also imagine Mozilla's legacy will live on in Servo after Firefox has lost its remaining market share.
>otherwise known as evolution. Design implies some kind of thought process before creation.

I apologize profusely for offending you with the word "Design." I accidentally implied the existence of a god which is a totally off-topic conversation and therefore must commit seppuku.

>There are plenty of counterintuitive examples of traits that have been selected by evolution. Dogs seems happy all the time and they have not been made extinct yet.

Sure, but for the specific case of humanity it is highly likely that the reason we do not stay happy is due to natural selection.

Dogs are a domestic animal and therefore a product of artificial selection. We as benevolent caretakers have have selected the dogs that are happy all the time and euthanized the dogs that are angry all the time. The evolutionary strategy dogs employ is a parasitic strategy and less common than the standard strategy most competitive animals follow. Dogs hijack our paternal and maternal instincts and cause us to give them resources, this caused them to evolve non-standard traits that make them happy all the time and unable to survive in the wild. The evolutionary strategy humans follow is more standard and thus we display more malevolent and competitive traits.
Ever since switching to Windows 10 I have found myself using Ubuntu more and more. To the point where I mostly boot Windows 10 once a week just to keep it and some software up to date.

I like some things about Windows 10, for example the new snap features for programs is nice, overall the system looks quite nice as well. Their virtual desktop implementation is kind of lacking but at least it is there. Explorer is actually quite decent these days as well.

However it just keeps pissing me off. I use SumatraPDF as my PDF reader, it is a great program. I can't think of a time when it hasn't worked perfectly yet for the 5th time now Windows has helpfully informed me it had to restore Edge as the default PDF reader for "reasons", of course I have no idea what these reasons are!

I have Office 2016 installed and yet the stupid "Get Office 365" bullshit constantly nags me and reinstalls itself when the Store does some background updating. I had to hunt down a bloody PowerShell command to force remove it.

Oh yes and in Microsoft's infinite wisdom they auto-install Twitter and Candy Crush Saga on my so-called "Professional" version of Windows which I paid for on a new machine!

Honestly it is a fucking horrible experience. Their own modern Universal apps are garbage. They release these totally shit apps with the idea that "oh we can update constantly via the Store!" but the apps they are releasing are just plain awful. I have used tech demos that work better ffs.

I honestly can't stand the Windows 10 experience. The new way of doing things is just horrible. I end up using Windows 10 just like I used Windows 7/8 with Win32 apps because there are still not any good Universal apps as the platform is just garbage by the looks of it. I mean if the maker of the platform can't even make decent apps what does that say about the platform?!

Ubuntu isn't perfect but at least it doesn't fuck with me every other day to the point where I just want to walk away from the computer.

Yes Linux still has some rough around the edges but I have found that installing Chrome makes everything web-related "just work" as well as on Windows. Netflix? Check! Flash? Check! Also TIS-100 has a Linux version so that keeps me happy :)
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This race is also how QUANTUM is supposed to work:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailored_Access_Operations#QUA...

I wonder if we'll see kernel drivers/software purpose made for detecting those situations soon (duplicate responses to the same request) and logging the traceroute in some database to identify the bad actors.
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Have you ever seen an advert in any of their developer tools? Or are you just being flippant?
I just had a mental image of it bugging out and flooding the room with detergent with an occupant still inside...
Thanks. It wasn't meant to be sarcastic although it surely looks like it when I read it now. I was genuinely interested to find out about it since it's a program I rely on and if it won't be developed further, I'll have to look for alternatives.
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