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Its because on the web patches can be pushed as quickly as the user hits refresh, or at least so seem the thinking to be.

The real problem comes when the same mentality is applied to software running locally, perhaps with patches never applied after initial install.

This likely because developers are now so used to being always connected (this thanks to thinks like GIT that allow them to work from just about anywhere with a power outlet and a net connection), they can't grasp that not everything else is.
> I'm in favour of this arrangement, since I think it's the only way to get updates to work reliably,

Then how is it Google can update my chromebook while I keep running ubuntu with 100% of linux features? I've done this for a year with no hiccup and no linux upgrades.
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We happen to have a society that enjoys trolling people that intend to "Disneyify" reality.
Corollary: Breaking things isn't an option for some businesses.
There's a huge difference between running outdated software with serious security problems and using older hardware that might be perfectly capable of running a modern OS and modern web browsers. I own both a 7 year old desktop PC and a 5 year old laptop that I use occasionally when I need to run some Windows-only program, and they're both perfectly capable of running Windows 10 and every other piece of software I've thrown at it.
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Is there any documentation of just how he was able to be so prolific? That's an incredible list.
I have used the DK2 for 90 minute sessions with no issue. I would imagine this release is lighter
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Great points. This is a big selling point of Ethereum that could potentially be fundamentally flawed, so really interesting to consider.

I'm curious what you think of using a blockchain as a conflict resolver with a large company on the other end. Essentially, instead of having your average joe resolve the conflict, the user can pick eBay, Amazon, etc. to act as resolver.

I realize there is no incentive for established companies to provide this service, but I see it as quite empowering for the consumer and seller so maybe someday people will fight for it. I personally think that if this was to work, it wouldn't be a mom & pop shop providing conflict resolution, instead it would be a large semi-transparent entity like eBay. All blockchain would do is provide a trusted medium for everyone to transact on.
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Exactly. The Oculus maybe opens up some very interesting desktop UI possibilities, but none of the options I've seen seem to fulfill that promise. Yet
I wonder how the 1.3B will be distributed ?

How much capital allocated to invest in each startup ?
What is the algorithm used to generate the investment decisions ?
How do they judge which founders to fund ?
GNU started out as a UNIX clone, but that doesn't mean it copied code from UNIX.

There's nothing wrong with building a compatible clone of a proprietary program or platform; that's a valuable contribution.
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Switched from an iPhone 6 to a Nexus 6P in January. Couldn't be happier! Sure it isn't perfect but no phone is and the 6P, for me, gets closest to the perfection goal than any other phone currently available.

Also the camera in the 6P is excellent which is a lovely surprise for a Nexus! It holds up well, better in some situations, to the brand new S7 Edge camera in my experience (my father has the S7 Edge so this was actual personal experience).
The distinction between a ballon and a pressurized chamber might just be wether the material is flexible or stiff.
If the firm hasn't yet succumbed to mediocrity, then the career goals of each executive should be well-aligned with overall company strategy. Ensuring that this is the case is a primary goal of executive recruiting.

Middle managers and ICs, not necessarily, but a company generally can't afford to have its executives be out of step.
If you make the text big then you'll always be moving your head around, which is slower and more tiring than just moving your eyeballs. It's like sitting too close at a movie theater.
Yes, they do.
The abstraction paradox is with regard to any abstraction. Theories are abstractions. But science is not just theories. It's application as you say. Arguments should be over accuracy and application. To simply prove a theory wrong is redundant because it will always be possible. It's what can be referred to as a "dick move".

Your tone was misleading, but everything you said backs the theory. I must thank you.
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I used this link, but same principle as the other reply. http://osxdaily.com/2016/03/22/downgrade-ios-9-3-back-to-ios...

Thing to note is that I didn't have the bug in 9.2.1 so I assume that something else changes within the upgrade process (i'm no iOS expert plainly) whether it be firmware of whatever, which doesn't get downgraded.

I find it somewhat questionable that I can revert to a previous version and still have that the problem the upgrade caused. I'm guessing this is my lack of understanding about mobile devices though. The whole process made me feel rather impotent compared to troubleshooting a PC or similar.

edit: (I should point out that I had to go to a laptop to post this comment, since the reply link still won't work on the iphone!)
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Why wasn't using Firefox or Chrome an option? They're free. Maybe corporate policy prohibited it, but that means it's basically a choice to keep using old and broken stuff.

People find Apple's statement offensive because the people who use old PCs tend to be poor, so that statement was basically shitting on poor people for not having the means to buy new electronics. I don't see how your example compares.
capitalism, consumerism and planned obsolescence. These three things are destroying our planet.

Climate change is a non issue by itself. Pollution (of all kinds, not just CO2, but the toxic sludge from coal plants and Chinese cellphone factories) are non issues compared to the economy of scale we've constructed around new shit.
How does this relate to that other similar tool the name I just forgot?
Interestingly this seems like a very well known encryption technique. https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-science/crypt...

Why would anyone want to build a company around this? Doesn't make any sense.
I’m not arguing that there’s no market for this product* . I just find artistic censorship morally objectionable in much the same way that others find violent or sexual content abhorrent.

Just on the other side of this particular culture war I guess.

* surely plenty who want, but I disagree that anyone “needs”
Vitally important programs like Medicare have an acknowledged ~10% fraudulent payment rate. And that isn't counting inefficiencies, just outright fraud.

So programs with less oversight, and less importance, are likely to have just as much if not more fraud. A lot of it perfectly legal and baked into the system like military contracts.

Not embracing a culture of harsh punishment and strong public shaming of even the hint of corruption has cost this country trillions over the years. Trillions which would have compounded results (like maybe smaller classrooms with better educated teachers).
Agreed. It seams to me like the both CPU and FPGA would be both bound by the speed of their memories for the KV store. That's why I'm not sure why it would be beneficial to put it on a FPGA.

Skimming their summary, conclusion & comparison I can't really find a a good answer to it. Not saying it's a cool project but I don't see a practical case / nor pushing anything forward.

I imagine a pretty low-end server class x86 processor should be able to saturate most network links. There prob is a fair overhead going from network device, memory, OS, process and back out. But you could have your KV run in kernel space or as a real time process with dedicated core(s) / network device (memory mapped).
Curious, what do you mean by "western design"?

Had a look at images of "BQ A4.5" - but I can't really tell what's "western" about it.
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In my experience the weight alone is not particularly useful for predicting head/neck fatigue. A lot of weight, properly distributed is far less fatiguing than much less weight poorly distributed.
It's funny that unpaid developers who release ROMs for my Android phone apparently do a better job at QA than the people at Apple.
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You'd be writing this on a typewriter and pinning it to a board with a thumbtack in a town square if it weren't for government research into computer technology and the internet.
The idea of getting something for nothing, or less than what it's value is, is pretty hard to take from people. Lotteries just break that down to most base form, and slap a guarantee of authenticity on the return (however unlikely your chances are, it's not an actual scam or a lie that someone DOES win big)

To answer your questions..

1) no one, the state would shut any business like it down if it weren't the state itself - and that's a big flag in itself, as you mention.

2) If it's ok to have it, I don't see why it can't be marketed. It's age-limited (I'd say harder to break the rules and play underage than buying cigarettes and booze could possibly be since you have to go to the state itself to collect any large winnings)

3) "Players have more fun" is the one I remember seeing. If we were seeing ads like "I got out of my trailer park because I won big" or some such nonsense, I'd have more of a problem with it.

4) I don't know about that. That's assuming a lot on someone else's behalf. What you're calling an expression of hopelessness could easily be considered an expression of hope, or fantasy by others.
I've added usage into description.
Fame is a pretty important social indicator.
Perhaps instead of trying to cut their costs, their best hope going forward is to keep their prices and profits high, and use the proceeds to fund some new completely independent "startup" journals to achieve their admirable original goal? And perhaps dedicate what they can of their current team to developing software and processes that others can use to run a lower-overhead journal?

There are highly successful super low-overhead journals that do not advertise, do not pay 6-figure salaries. See http://www.jmlr.org/ for example.

If you receive a 300k$ a year grant, then $1k per paper is 0.3% of your budget. And it is not uncommon for medical researchers to get a lot more than 300k$ a year.
you know people will be wearing them till they get sores. They will have scars - the addicts will.
It's not just habitats that can benefit from this research. Amazon's health & personal hygiene dept is marketing a similar technology that can reduce the mass-to-orbit for a humanoid explorer up to 40% (including life support equipment).

http://www.amazon.com/Big-Mouth-Toys-INFLATABLE-JUDY/dp/B004...
I guess the question is how small does the text need to be? When zoomed in so it takes most the view, you essentially have the equivalent of a ~40" screen right in front of you. Would that entire viewspace being a single terminal offer enough fidelity? If I could just turn my head to see a second terminal of similar size for secondary info (such as build error output, viewing a log, etc), then I think that might be sufficient.

It's worth noting that I think trying to approximate current desktops or monitors in a VR environment is entirely the wrong way to go, as it's an abstraction of an abstraction, when we now have the ability to get closer to the source that the initial abstraction ever could.

That is, we have multiple windows, or multiple displays with windows to approximate our ability to have multiple things in front of us. But we don't actually look at both things at the same time very often. That is, we might examine two separate papers, and have one in each hand, but we look at one at a time. Having two documents or terminals open in separate windows/displays but both visible is a way for us to approximate this on a display. We have both visible at the same time so we can physically look back and forth between them easily. With a VR display, we might want a view like that, but when interacting with an item, it will likely be zoomed to fill 90% of the visible space, as that's how we generally interact with things in real life. When we don't, that's because of other limitations that prevent it, or because we need to split focus for a specialized task.

Personally, I would love to have a VR system that presented windows/screens of apps in a 3x3 grid (or more likely a 3x3 cross, a center item with items at the four cardinal directions), where the center item was zoomed to 90% of the display or so, but I could look around at the others, and could rotate vertically or horizontally to center (focus) a new item. This would be the "active" applications/views, and other things could be stashed to the side. It might start as a single item, expand to 2x1, items, then 3x1 (so I can look left or right), then 3x1 with one above, then one below, etc.
This is an excellent point.
Hey, did you call a therapist? Maybe we can help you find one. Zocdoc looks like an easy way to make an appointment [1]

You're as important as anyone else in this world. You're no less and no more important. We're all equals and you deserve a fair shot at happiness just like everyone else. If you can't do it for you, do it for your daughter. She wants you to be happy she just does not understand what's going on, just like the girl in the article. She's better off with you around.

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Sure, but that memorable message is not really all that useful on a non SSL page, but it's also not particularly important from a security point of view.
Only if your industry is capital rather than labor intensive, in which case you'll have elaborate procedures in place for safeguarding and maintaining your infrastructure.

For everyone else, a certain amount of breakage is expected. When things break, there are generally manual processes that can be put into place to keep business moving.
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IMO, sub 150 = low end, 150-320 = mid range, 320+ = high end. The 660 GTX is worse than a 150$ graphics card (GTX 950).

Granted, in terms of hardware people are currently using the GTX 660 might still be mid range.
There have been FPGA-based startups before, the one that comes to mind is Bluearc (implemented TCP and NFS stacks, and a filesystem in FPGAs in a network attached storage appliance, later acquired by HDS). The problem seems to be, that it takes a massive engineering effort to keep introducing new FPGA designs that are even faster. Otherwise your temporary advantage gets eaten up by Moore's law. Competitors just have to wait for Intel to introduce a new CPU and their code gets an automatic speed boost. Meanwhile their engineers are working on features. Bluearc fell behind with delays to their new models and the competition caught up in performance just by buying new motherboards. As a consumer you want some guarantee that the product you're buying will continue to be the fastest, and it's a safer bet to place on Intel than a startup.

If it's a very specific problem domain you can get a temporary advantage but you have to stay on the treadmill constantly to stay ahead. It also seems that there's a middle road that isn't often taken (possibly with the exception of gaming) where you can use assembly language (at least for performance critical sections). It's probably less difficult than designing for FPGAs and you still get a boost with new chips, assuming Intel doesn't destroy your optimisations.
> I think the resolution is still too low for most text-based work

I used a headset with 2x 800x600 screens, but a narrower field of view; I would imagine that the arc spanned per dot is similar to the Rift, and I found it quite usable for text-based work.
6 of one, half a dozen of the other.

As long as it's behind and simple interface and it works, I don't care what it actually does.
Sorry, which tool :-) ? Docker compose?

Cloudron gives you a private server (we use DigitalOcean right now) on which you can install web apps. We automate everything about maintaining your server - DNS, certs, app updates, backups etc. In short, we want to make it possible for everyone to have their own server. Cloudron is more a consumer product than a development tool (of course, we have tooling that enables developers to create apps).
RDMA key-value has been done: https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi14/technical-sessions/...

And DPDK: https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi14/technical-sessions/...

And DPDK+GPU: http://kay21s.github.io/megakv/

It would be interesting to see a fair comparison of these to determine the real value of exotic technology.
Is there any Gogs.com hosted version?
>Instead it usually takes a chunk of that money and promises it as a loan to someone else, who will hopefully in the end pay them more in interest than they're paying you, enough more that the difference is better than just shoving the money in the central bank.

I see that you correct this slightly later on, but in reality your deposit likely pads the bank's reserves so that it can lessen its draw at the Fed's overnight (zero interest loan) window.

Banks first create loans, then seek deposits to cover them.
Great little town on the fringe of wine country, why not?
It can't scale 20x without running into decentralization problems.

http://fc16.ifca.ai/bitcoin/papers/CDE+16.pdf

Most large blockers are running businesses that depend on no/low fees, plus the reddit mob that goes with whatever argument sounds most conspiratorial (aka Blockstream sabotaging Bitcoin for sidechains).
I don't strongly disagree with any of that. I was only pointing out that it's wrong to attribute a decade of history to something like cadvisor, which is brand new and does not draw on anything more than lessons learned from Google production.

I also don't blame people for being confused about Google's container infrastructure. Google has issued blog posts in the past that were misleading (at best) about the relationship between Omega, Borg, and Kubernetes.
You ever Notice how the engineering departments at these move fast and break things companies grow exponentially? Thinking of etsy, and Facebook, and a few others.

Part of it is if they survive, they thrived... But I think the other part is that the code starts to become sharded across people's brains. The technical debt piles up so high in some places that it becomes impossible to maintain productivity with the same number of people.
Guessing TheLogothete is using MS touted number which is 'search powered by bing', includes Yahoo (~23% WW and US only >30%) https://www.google.com/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=PGz5VqD0GJGAoAPIrLjABA&...
It's till comment that I realized it's not talking about Bitbucket
I suggest learning the full history of the thing which is jwz to understand why jwz is a jerk. He's amazingly smart, but extremely impatient and outright hostile to nearly every software engineer he encounters.

He's often right (see CADT) but in a way that is jerkish, and that's really limited the adoption of jwz code.
Great, the docs are a bit bad for that, I'll have a look at the code :-)
nicely done ! looking forward to trying it out !
That is a silly notion... 'if' is not for children, 'if' is for conditional statements. As software developers, we use 'if' every single day of our lives. Stating things in the form of conditionals is very important when talking about the future (since the future is full of conditionals).

Also, as far as 'showing you a way' that 'the data you want to keep secret reliably stays secret'... well, that is the definition of encryption, and we are pretty good at encryption. In fact, if we weren't, then this entire case would be a moot point.
> 2) Apple started to emphasize their environmental friendliness (including energy efficiency) in manufacturing process and product raw materials and has been advancing their game each year[2]. So a once more toxic product made 5 years ago might be manufactured less so. In the process of replacing this 5-year old product, it is actually moving us forward to a more environmental friendly life style. Similarly, like the light bulb evolution: incandescent -> CFL -> LED etc.

That's an odd argument to make. Producing a new device (as opposed to continuing to use your existing one) will always be worse for the environment, other than with regards to your first argument (energy efficiency). Even with energy efficiency in mind, it's questionable at best - CPU/GPU performance is only part of the equation, and recent devices certainly don't use 12x less energy compared to ones from 5 years ago.
Python and Flask on Heroku. What you're describing is almost the "tutorial" web app (look up Grinberg's book on Flask). Heroku is a nice platform to work on that takes a lot of the complexity out of cloud hosting. Flask lets you do almost all the coding yourself, but it has add-ons available to take care of whatever you don't want to do.

Heroku gives you a PostgreSQL database with one click, but you could easily integrate a MongoDB database if you wanted to try NoSQL. In Mongo, you'd actually store and retrieve your data in JSON, so it's even easier than writing SQL.
Different scale?
Nicely done ! Gonna try it out tonight !
> the Gear is aimed at the general public with Samsung phones, the Rift is aimed at PC gamers with gaming PCs

And the article is aimed at the general public, not gamers. That's why there is nothing wrong with Fowler's analysis.

I'm not arguing that the Gear is going to give the best experience of all solutions, I was defending Fowler's point.
Well, in physics we compute the speed with half life of what we want to keep alive regarding the costs.

Mass transportation is an example of industry where half life is decades/century. Fast for this sector is slower than what the life expectancy of a coder represents.

Games made to support a product ad are ephemeral, 1 month. Faster than a new release of firefox.

Some dangerous radioactive isotopes are 10000 years. So nuclear plant related automation should not be using any CPU.

A citizen data should last for the government as long a citizen live. Government if they aim at remaining stable should consider the half life of their automation to be long, way long. Hence slow changes. Very slow

So do banks. But banks have to adapt with the speed of trades.

Fast and slow can be set by doing something agile hates: careful business analysis.

The problem is how we coupled all the businesses with insane costly rhythm that are forced down on every economical activities by the mean of noncompetitive business practices. Like useless obsolescence driven by HW monopolies, cheap energy, cheap regulated and poor education.

Do we really need 1 Pb hard drive when entropy predicts we will not be able to find any relevant information given we have to much data without increasing the means involves in costly ways?

We don't need fast changing technologies, we need boring, slow changing technologies that are reliable.
These days people seem to read only a title and begin writing their comments about it.

Yup, seems that way. Kind of depressing, isn't it?

My highest-scoring submission so far, and almost no one seems to have actually read it.
That can easily be bypassed by usage of the discount window.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discount_window
>How does that work?

They create liabilities; IOUs. Just like you can. And there's no limit to how many you are allowed to create, beyond your creditworthiness in the eyes of the party to the exchange.