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Strangely incomplete.

No breakout of Commodore UK. UK Amiga sales were probably over 2m of those 2.75m "rest of Europe" [1] under Pleasance and Sumner. Pet and Radio Shack ( right up to TRS-80 16 user Xenix systems ) were huge in their day making Amiga times for US especially disappointing.

In the time of the Amiga, UK and Germany kept Commodore going. US compared to either was extremely disappointing. It's the USA that lead to the often heard description that the Amiga succeeded despite Commodore rather than because of. After the initial launch, later ongoing US advertising was terrible. Eventually, but far too late, they tried putting David Pleasance into Intl but he soon movd back to UK [2][3]. It would be interesting to compare figures by region with the Atari ST.

Both UK and Germany had advertising and packages that made sales. A lot didn't like it as it tended to focus on the gaming side, and ignore the MM side. That said MM use was very successful in both countries.

For evidence of "corporate incompetence", see the video by Dave Haynie, his history of, or the track record under Gould/Ali[4] compared to earlier times.

For a year after the bankruptcy C= UK under Pleasance was favourite to takeover C= Intl. It was only the main Chinese backer of the UK bid changing horse last-minute (2 days) to back Escom instead of C= UK that history turned out as it did. Poetic justice, in the minds of some at the time, that Escom went under within a year of the buyout and never really produced anything ([5] HUGE wall of text). Escom never really wanted Amiga anyway, just the patents.

Pleasance publicly (and sent more info within the developer community) stated plans to produce CD32, 1200, 4000 and CD 1200, and to complete the RISC based follow-up to 3000+. That wasn't chipset compatible so was questioned by many but it was all the R&D left.

C= UK actually stayed profitable from Amiga launch to Escom takeover. iirc they started making speakers and other peripherals after old C= inventory started running out, but never showed a loss.

There was a better history site with more figures but it seems to be gone.

[1] http://www.amigahistory.plus.com/sales.html
[2] http://obligement.free.fr/articles_traduction/itwpleasance_e...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Amiga#Amiga_in_...
[4] http://www.commodore.ca/commodore-history/mehdi-ali-the-end-...
[5] http://www.bambi-amiga.co.uk/amigahistory/escomtruth.html

I long ago threw away old developer notes, so can't give more exact UK figures. They probably went round in the private newsgroups anyway.
Wait, someone still uses Xemacs? I think you're the first I've run across in a long while.
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Just switched the the 'fast' ring and have installed all updates, but can't see the new 'Windows Services for Linux' item in 'Features'. Anyone know how to fix it?
I've recently started using Termux on my phone with a bluetooth keyboard - I'm as productive as I would be doing dev over SSH. All the tools I'd use on a server are there (node, git, nano, etc). I've written a small API server with it and it wasn't a disaster. Admittedly I'm more productive when I'm on my laptop with Atom and a couple of monitors, but if that isn't an option I can still do work. It's a bonus rather than an alternative.
huh? 50k is not almost 65k (assuming you mean 30% ruling). Rent in Amsterdam is also more than 900Euro, unless you mean sharing a room, a shitty flat somewhere far from anything, or you know someone. I'd say 1300Eur is more reasonable price for someone new in the city.
Not saying we shouldn't store software as text. Just saying we don't need to make software with text.
Yes from a design philosophy standpoint vis is closer to kakoune than {neo,}vim. The implementation is quite different though (no C++, no boost, no home grown scripting/extension/syntax highlighting language).
Thanks, now I know I don't need to spend time to study the layout system of TeX.
Actually AST edition with touch interface has been experimented by MS Research with Touch develop (https://www.touchdevelop.com/). In their editor you just insert/combine AST parts instead of typing them.
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I don't think that proprietary applies here.

proprietary
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1. relating to an owner or ownership.

2.(of a product) marketed under and protected by a registered trade name.

None of the above is true to TeX. What am I missing?
It is my understanding that your reply is the reasonable state of affairs. Do you have some "canonical", go-to link that makes your claim approachable to ordinary people? Say parents?
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> why Tesla has chosen Ubuntu server as the underlying OS and nothing else?

This is speculation, but I believe NVidias reference image, Linux4Tegra, is based on ubuntu.
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I currently don't have access to a Windows box, but am currently working on a CLI app in Swift for OSX and Linux. It would be interesting to see if this effectively makes swift cross-platform "for free".
> I will bet you £100 that we won't be programming by speech and gestures in even 25 years time as the disadvantages are enormous.

Unless AI advances considerably. For years I've imagined myself talking to the small specialized AI living in my computer, giving it instructions that it would translate to code...
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There's also a reason people in the same room don't communicate by tapping buttons with letters on them.
To be fair, I was last there six years ago, spent most of my time travelling through the the countryside, a few weeks in Cluj, visited friends in Sibiu, and got robbed when I went through Bucharest on my way to Moldova.

So yes, my view is far less accurate than yours, as it's from about six weeks six years ago - but the only place I saw comparable levels of overt corruption was Kyrgyzstan, and I've visited most of the ex-ussr and associated states. This is no judgment on the Romanian or Kyrgyz peoples - this is a sad fact of life after economic oppression - corruption becomes a way of life.
This is awesome! Can't wait to get my hands on it. If this works well, it is like a dream come true. I never wanted to abandon Windows because of a lot of music software that I am using. Now I will have the best of both worlds. Neat.
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How long was that trello card in a list?
its here : https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rethinkdb/g5UEck3sqM...
Max Planck: people have confirmation bias

You: but he's a physicist, in biology things are harder to prove

(the point is that people have confirmation bias even when things are 'easier' to prove)
I see two problems with this:

- not sure it is legal everywhere (in Europe for example bikes can't drive on sidewalk).

- robbers could just take the robot and keep what it was carrying.
Our team uses a Vagrant box (on VirtualBox) as a development server. Getting it to run on Windows requires a couple extra steps compared to OSX, but it's not too bad. You will probably want to use an alternative to the VirtualBox filesystem sharing though, as it's extremely slow. We use a combination of rsync (installed on Windows via cygwin) and NFS (using this plugin for Windows: https://github.com/winnfsd/vagrant-winnfsd).

msysGit is also handy when using a Windows host.

Rsync is straightforward and has fewer permissions issues to work out when sharing with Windows, but is uni-directional. NFS is a true share rather than a sync, but restricts what you can do to the directories on the guest in terms of permissions. There are other options too, like bindfs and unison, but I haven't personally explored those in depth.
Yeah, that's true. My nutritionist-wannabe facet is also mesmerized by this, and I can't avoid preaching this to everyone - try to limit added sugar as much as you can. Use artificial sweeteners if you really need; they may be problematic, yes, but sugar surely is!
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Microsoft provides a du implementation in sysinternals stuff, but you have to install it and I think even accept a licence in a graphical window the first time you launch it...

They have neglected the CLI for years and powershell while I guess it has its uses for scripting is light years behind *nix stuff as an interactive shell.
Aren't they?
> You migrate and they will kill the project ?

Everyone migrates, draining valuable developer resources from projects like cygwin, mingw and colinux and others. When Microsoft kills it, they will have killed off not only their project, but also the community projects that could replace it.

Meanwhile, because the NT kernel has vastly different performance characteristics (e.g., bad forking performance), we're going to see an increase of "Linux/NT" optimized software that will perform poorly on native Linux kernels, pressuring more developers (and ops) to buy into Microsoft's effectively proprietary solution, completing a vendor lock-in that will continue to bleed the industry long after it stopped being beneficial (see also, every other instance of vendor lock-in ever).
Great! I remember last time I looked at Vis it wasn't so far along (it had no Lua integration AFAIK).

When I started submitting code to Neovim my biggest desires for it were (1) Lua extensibility (2) A clean codebase (3) Compatibility with (most) Vim plugins.

Perhaps ZyX-l's Vim to Lua project (for Neovim) could help with (3) at some point, if that's desired.

An LPeg based syntax highlighting was also something in the back of my mind, though way down the priority list. Fantastic to see it implemented, it truly is the right choice (Neovim uses Corsix's C99 LPeg parser for its testing framework, automatically exposing headers in a way LuaJIT's FFI groks).

Does it build with LuaJIT? (Sorry for the perhaps stupid question, I've just glanced at your comments here and the terminal "video".

Keep up the good work.
While I was born in Australia, I worked in the UK for many years in a job that involved traveling the country. I would often see confusion as people realized I didn't fit their social groupings and stereotypes. It was a real advantage.
1) I don't think that graph is adjusted for inflation.

2) I haven't done it, but I'd be willing to put a few quid on the 1970s having the largest proportion of albums in the best of lists e.g. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/500-greatest-albums-...

Also 1970s rockstars seemed to have a lot more money than their 2010s equivalents.
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I get 9-10 hours on Linux with the UX305FA model (pre-Skylake fanless CoreM, i.e. MBA competitor). Not sure about the UX305LA model (i5/i7, i.e. MBP competitor).
It shouldn't carry any consuquences if the leak is determined to be in the public interest.

That's the whole idea behind whistleblowing, and whistleblower protection.
If op wasn't a shill, he'd get his car bricked remotely
I think it's pretty likely that in 10-20 years, the sugar companies of today will be seen in the same light as the tobacco companies of yesterday.
It is super weird. I think Ubuntu shell for Windows is much, much better.
> what happens if you try to send a Linux signal to a Windows process

Performs the default action as if it were a Linux process. Mostly terminate or ignore.
I'm sorry for your personal experience, but you should be able to realize that traumatic personal experiences can cloud your opinion about a very complex topic such as a whole country.

I visited the US and I wasn't really impressed, for example. But I wouldn't judge the US based on just what I saw in a couple of weeks, considering what I've read and seen about it.

Oh, and regarding corruption: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Anticorruption_Dire...
Oh! I've been messing about with a bit of splitting up of C++ classes into seperate headers as a bit of a test and I recently did a:

sed -i "/#include <vcl\/button\.hxx>/d" $(git grep -l "vcl\/button\.hxx" *.hxx | grep -v precompiled)

Knowing about a :v might have been helpful...
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I can't believe they actually re-create the backend. Seems harder than actually making a MMORPG from scratch. Where do you even begin?
Yep. I've setup Vagrant for my development server environments, and I use the vagrant-digitalocean plugin to deploy to DO. It's easy and convenient (though my host system is also Ubuntu).
The Anniversary Update will be an automatic probably, yes (don't see this as a bad thing), but I am a bit skeptical that this feature will be included in the general update. Probably opt-in/separate download. It's a developer feature, after all.
Of course not a six pack, since the primary ingredient for a six pack is an absence of fat. I'm just talking muscle volume here. "And yet" was probably the wrong choice of words; I really meant "Indeed", I think.
> I wonder how easily this can be recreated using a Lua plugin.

It's probably a better idea to use tmux/screen/dtvm for terminals rather than embedding a terminal in a minimal editor.

The TODO list mentions asynchronous event loops, that's necessary to do any plugins with external processes neatly.
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This is a nice summary of what's going on - to get to the gist of it, Romania has great technical talent, coming out of decent technical schools.

What severely lacks in Romania, in my view:

a). the business environment; the internal demand isn't enough to support starting and growing business on the local market; building products for external markets from get-go is difficult. This leads to:

b). the business talent; the number of big companies (in the sense of growing into an international market) founded in Romania and managed by Romanian business people can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Leading to:

c). the product talent; since there is no big demand for products in the local market, there is no way to grow local product designers - the people that can and want to design and build a product just find it easier to emigrate, depleting the already small pool of available talent.

All of this leads to companies coming into the country just for technical talent, which is easily employed as outsourcing contractors, and keep the self-perpetuating circle of the tech scene being driven by outsourcing. And this effect is also visible at startup level, where the Romanian-funded startups often have the headquarters, and product designers in US or Canada, and the technical talent in Bucharest or Cluj.

I have no idea how to fix this problem, of even if it is a problem in the first place - I feel that as the local economy matures, niches for specific targeted products will appear, facilitating the development of locally-designed products built by local companies. But starting startups based in Romania targeting foreign markets is still an uphill battle versus companies local to those foreign markets.
I expect this shiny new feature was introduced for exactly this reason - serve as a backed for a docker, both local development and cloud services. So - most likely support is coming
Windows isn't free software. You can't expect to run it for free just because it's in a VM. Honestly being able to run it for 90 days for free (after which all you have to do is go back to an earlier snapshot) seems pretty good to me.
It's easy to acquire a skewed impression of any country as a foreign visitor, so I completely empathize with you. Unfortunately getting mugged/robbed would be possible anywhere in the world, even in the poshest of places. As for the status on corruption, there's active progress being made, as an example, see an older article on the subject http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/05/opinion/romanias-anti-corr...
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This is an exaggeration.

1. Only a tiny chunk of the population "get around by cart and donkey" and that's mostly in rural areas. Romania has around 314 cars per 1000 inhabitants. For comparison the UK has 519, Sweden 520, Mexico	275, Brazil 249, Ukraine 220, Moldova 156 and China 128. [1]

2. Corruption is one of the most discussed topics in Romania, but in my opinion it is over-rated. There is virtually no violent corruption, most of the existing corruption has to do government contracts or bribing of government officials.

3. Yeah, the Palace of the Parliament sucks. But it's one of the biggest tourist attractions right now in Bucharest.

4. "gangsters run most of the hospitality industry" - actually most of it is run by large foreign companies or small "mom and pop" entrepreneurs.

No, Romania is not building the next "Silicon Valley", but it does have a vibrant IT community that is increasingly involved in creating technology startups and is developing in the right direction.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_vehicles_...
Well the idea is that once Gresham Dollar gets circulating, the rate at which we dip into our USD reserves will be far less than the amount of GD in circulation, so we'd be able to sustain more total GD than we have USD in reserves.

You can think of each GD as an IOU for a USD that automatically gets paid after a period of time. In that sense, it's like borrowing. But, over time, as people get accustomed to paying using the IOUs, the IOUS become a currency of their own.

Similarly, USD used to be an IOU for gold, but there was always far more USD in circulation than there was gold to back it up. Eventually USD progressed passed the point where it needed anything concrete underpinning its value.

Money has value because other people value it. Once everyone accepts it, its value is self reinforcing. I'll accept cash as payment from Alice because I know Bob will accept it as payment from me.

Eventually, Gresham Dollar will not need to be backed by USD anymore.
Awesome. Trucks and taxis are a very promising target for self driving vehicles for these reasons:

24h availability. No need to stop the truck 8+ hours a day for the driver to sleep/eat.
Reduced fuel comsumption as the article states.
* Frees humans to work on more productive affairs.

Just awesome
If you have libtermkey.so.1 somewhere, you could export LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point to the directory containing it.

More notes on what to do if a build system for a project doesn't link in libraries, and you can't simply install the relevant -dev package through apt-get: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/imurray2/compnotes/library_lin...
The problem is that mathematical notations can vary from topic to topic, from university to university, even from office to office inside a university department, even within the same lecture of a single professor. (Been there: "Notation will be different in this chapter since I've copied it from another author's paper.")
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Calorie density (calorie/volume) is a useful metric, but as you've discovered it's important to also consider satiation/calorie which sometimes is not proportional to calorie density, as well as calorie/serving which also often differs from calorie density.

Not only are fats satiating, but they satiate quickly and for a long time. When they hit your intestines they immediately signal your body that it is full. This is because fats are calorie dense and are the longest burning category of calorie, so the body benefited from an early warning system to keep its satiation estimate accurate. And, to be honest, while fat itself is obviously the most calorie dense (what was it, like 6 or 8 per g, compared to 4 for protein and sugar?), fatty foods often are not dense in terms of calorie/service. Bacon, for example, while often perceived as a fatty, terrible food, is really low on the calorie/serving metric and the fats boost its satiation metric very high.

There are also some subtleties to satiation/calorie. There's the biological satiation; your body telling your brain that you've consumed enough calories. And then there's mental satiation; your mind being happy with what you just ate. And biological satiation is sometimes inaccurate to the extent that it's really a dual purposed signal. It signals "you're full", but it's interpreted as both "I'm full" and "I have enough calories". Fat is ideal in that it triggers "I'm full" while also providing the calories to back it up. Vegetables will fill you up, but they don't have any energy to back them up, so they can be problematic. They work best as a way to tune the density of a meal. And, of course, they provide much needed fiber, vitamins, and minerals, but I was focusing mostly on the weight-gain aspect of foods.

Just a little food for thought to perhaps enhance the way you quantify various diets.
In light of the actions of the US over the last decade regarding interception of communication, undermining of encryption, intellectual property laws, and promiscuous prosecutions, I don't see any way for it to be the next hotbed of technological innovation.
Tell them to go to a European university. It's almost free, a lot of countries offer courses in English, they get to see Europe, and even if the living costs are higher, it's not going to be 6 digits expensive/they'd get an education plus a few years adventure for that money.
I think they meant that a person needs to interpret “two numbers arranged vertically between parentheses” according to context, regardless of whether they’re sighted.

Having more semantic information in that scenario would help the sighted just as much as the visually impaired—imagine hovering over an unfamiliar notation with your mouse and seeing it explained.
Overall, over time it's much easier to take out the hammer and create one-size-fits-all answers to every catastrophe that occurs. Repeat and rinse this process over several years, and you've got a software shop that's running ten times slower than everybody else.

...and not killing anyone.

"People have to channel their creativity into changing the process," says Keller, "not changing the software."

"Most people choose to spend their money at the wrong end of the process," says Munson. "In the modern software environment, 80% of the cost of the software is spent after the software is written the first time — they don't get it right the first time, so they spend time flogging it. In shuttle, they do it right the first time."

"The most important things the shuttle group does — carefully planning the software in advance, writing no code until the design is complete, making no changes without supporting blueprints, keeping a completely accurate record of the code — are not expensive. The process isn't even rocket science. Its standard practice in almost every engineering discipline except software engineering."

http://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff
It is unbelivable how much the society changed in the last 6 years; ouvert corruption is still visible in Romania, but now there is a growing social stigma associated with it, as it should be in a western-type civilization. The gap in mentality is still there, because it isn't easy to eradicate 50 years of bad influence (communism, I'm looking at you!). But the gap is closing, and now it is common to see cabinet-level people ending up in prison, sending strong messages throughout the society.
>> If anything, processed sugars like HFCS which is extracted from corn by a chemical enzyme process, could be the cause.

Fructose, which Lustig (and other scientists) suspect as the prime cause is present in both HFCS and granulated sugar (cane or beet). It’s my understanding that the difference in fructose quantity between HFCS (55% Fructose, 45% glucose) and granulated sugar (50-50) is not a significant factor.