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The "consultants don't do execution" mindset is extremely outdated and you're leaving a lot of money on the table if you follow that mantra (as well as giving those of us who do execution a bad name). Even McKinsey staffed up a large Digital & Services org because their strategy-only approach hit a wall. The only thing to look out for is to differentiate your team's billable time between strategy and execution and charge for each accordingly. Clients will often want strategic guidance at execution rates if you're not firm about it.
They've got a lot of catching up to do to Google Play. Multi-device, convenient, big selection, etc.

It seems inconceivable that they could catch up. What do they have going for them that Google doesn't have multiple times over? It's certainly not audience, capital, or technology.
"SQL is the worst form of database querying, except for all the other forms."

LOL. As long as many people believe things like that, innovators can go out, learn new tools that will give them 10x more productivity and be able to make better things faster, delivering more business value.

In the words of Paul Graham
http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html

"But I don't expect to convince anyone (over 25) to go out and learn Lisp. The purpose of this article is not to change anyone's mind, but to reassure people already interested in using Lisp-- people who know that Lisp is a powerful language, but worry because it isn't widely used. In a competitive situation, that's an advantage. Lisp's power is multiplied by the fact that your competitors don't get it."
How do you figure that getting a more diverse group of people interested in programming will make us more homogenous? Seems like it ought to do the opposite.
Roy Ngerng? He wasn't posting 'questions' to his blog - he was posting cringeworthy conspiracy theories that were provably false. Granted I don't think he should have been sued - that just legitimizes him and made him out to be a martyr, but he's most certainly guilty of the crimes he was charged with.

If you don't trust the official media, even independent blogs whom don't typically side with the government don't report on him favorably - eg. http://mothership.sg/2015/07/this-was-how-senior-counsel-dav...
The article says so. The plan is to have human drivers in each city drive the "last mile" from the interstate freeway exit to the destination. The current autonomous technology is only effective on freeways, so having human drivers drop the truck off at the interstate, and pick it up again solves the temporary problem of not having 100% effective automation of city driving/trailer parking.
Not really. It's a bad idea to bury past decisions that deserve some sort of "no trespassing," "thar be dragons," or "do not feed after midnight" monument off in some historic commit in version control. The problem is that VCSs are completely undiscoverable inside the flow of walking through code to see "where's the right place to implement this awesome feature idea I had." What you might not realize as you start implementing that feature is that it's already been implemented 5 times and removed.

A comment at the end of a "go to definition" chain serves as a good dead-end indicator that can save lots of overhead and wasted effort.
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If we are talking about America, certain white people certainly profited from stirring up racism here for centuries.

We don't even have to look back to when slavery was legal, the blatant use of racism and dog-whistle politics to gain white racist's votes is well documented as being the core tenet to the Southern strategy.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11566073
It sounds like your son exercised his free will. Whether you influence him or society does, he ultimately has to be responsible for his choices. Some will be easy, some hard but it's a cliche to disagree with your child's choices.

Maybe he's comfortable with his gender and gender roles? Maybe that will help him get a wife someday and you grandchildren. It's not for everyone but maybe it will be for him.
There are tons of 6502 assemblers out there. It's a pretty easy processor to work with. I wrote maybe half a dozen assemblers back in the day (each one better than the last). On a lark, I wrote one in Python a couple of years ago; it's on github (https://github.com/landondyer/kasm).
What exactly does Netflix stand to gain from making it harder for its non-american subscribers to VPN the geoblocked content?

Surely they must have predicted a substantial drop in subscription rates as soon as people realize they can't watch the good stuff.

It just seems like international-marketshare suicide.
I'm not sure I understand your point.

Are you saying that people should be uncomfortable pursuing their interests if those interests aren't culturally acceptable for their class/gender/race to pursue?

Because I disagree. People should feel comfortable pursuing such interests. We should work to remove the cultural stigma that stops people from participating in fields they would clearly enjoy. It doesn't homogenise anyone.
If the price goes to near-negligible, and people (eventually) reach some saturation level for the amount of easily replaceable stuff they have access to, what will a feeling of infinite supply do to consumer demand? Surely you can only need or use a certain amount of stuff. And what will this do to the value of money if having more money doesn't change your life much. Is money becoming worthless?
The company making the vehicles will be responsible for any damages, and paying a massive insurance premium I'm sure. There will be legal consequences for gross negligence and anyone damaged will be made whole. I don't see how that's any different than the system we have now.

And the emotional appeals cut both ways. How long before the parents of a child killed by a drunk or sleeping truck driver say "Why was he driving anyway? Why wasn't he replaced by a machine that wouldn't drink a six pack and nod off while at the wheel?"
> Could this be an indication that Windows could also be suffering from some similar bug?

No. Linux and Windows vary greatly. If the only difference between the two OSes were in the scheduler, maybe then we could say Windows also suffers from a similar bug. But there are so many other working parts to a modern OS that Windows could be slower than Linux despite having a more efficient scheduler.
Before, we were told how tough it was on a person to be waterboarded.

That it was so debilitating that it was only used in extreme cases.

Now this guy is waterboarded 3 times a day for a month, basically at every meal (if you want to think about it in terms of frequency).

It seems clear that it is not rare; and that it doesn't really deliver results.

Again and again, we have been lied to about waterboarding, how often it is done, what level of use we get out of it, etc.

And, this is just 1 example - there could well be other methods of torture and many other cases of incompetence... makes you want to say "you know what? Let's just scrap the whole thing..."

If waterboarding was a piece of software it would be considered too crashy and unreliable and a replacement that worked better would be sought immediately.
What does Rust promise if I infinitely recursively call a function which can not be tail optimized? Eventually the stack will exceed either available memory or available address space, what then?
> Try finding a price for one of Oracle's or IBM's
> enterprise products on their website

Not to defend these two but in some cases for IBM you will, if you know the incantation and buzzwords, find the price. For example WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere MQ can be looked up because IBM deals in PVU's (processor value unit) and bundled licenses that include support. They do provide a PVU calculator. Of course, you'll have to register to get more information or download a demo. It's frustrating but not impossible.
Their trademark predates the .chat TLD (I looked it up on TESS).

Nevertheless, your use is arguably different (this distinction matters under trademark law). You're no doubt going to call the business (if it even is a business) something other than TINYCHAT, and are going to have a substantially different trademark.

This is tricky (and IANAL), but I'd simply not respond if you are actually in good faith preparing a different product with a different market. Simply owning a domain doesn't make you a trademark infringer. There is no dot in their trademark (service mark) name. They could have included a dotted version in their trademark application, and they opted not to.

In addition, to avoid further headaches with those people, consider coming up with a different name for your product, and simply redirect your URL to that different name.
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So you are using the _diversity_ argument to argue in favour of Singapore? Really ?

Caning and hanging people for minor offenses? I'd gladly lose that, even at the cost of "reduced diversity of styles of government."
We shouldn't be "getting" anyone to do anything. People should be celebrated for making their own choices, even if that means not being an engineer. The push to make everyone a STEM professional us what's homogenizing.
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I wouldn't be surprised if for lots of the content like this the UK is actually in the worst group.

The example that is currently annoying me: Sky has an exclusive deal with HBO for some of their shows, so I can't legally watch some of the best TV currently being made without paying for a mountain of other stuff I'll never watch.
I know that article, it's excellent. And I like Paul Graham's point of view, usually. But that article addresses (and will ever only address) the "elite". Like QUEL, which didn't make it. SQL did.

This doesn't have too much to do with innovation. It has everything to do with product-market-fit. SQL is the technology for the masses. QUEL (or something else more recent, very lean and sophisticated) is the technology for the elite. But why doesn't the "elite thing" go mainstream? Wrong product-market-fit.
Getflix still mostly works. They added new proxies but many of the old ones don't work.
My guess is that Netflix has now positioned themselves as the first global 'television' network.

They hopefully have enough power and leverage to stop the content producers from stupidly restricting access via region, but they're not able to do this effectively if users can easily bypass the restrictions.

If it doesn't work out then at least they'll get a global audience for their own content and the rest will go back to piracy.
I suspect they were given ultimatum(s) from the content copyright holders, and decided to keep the content but lose the international viewers. Then this can be used as leverage in the ongoing negotiations.
Numerous high-resolution texture packs have been around for years.

Minecraft by default ships with a 16x16 or 32x32 pixel tile size texture pack but community-made packs have much higher resolutions if you want them (128x128 tiles, 256x256, etc).
From a first look on Windows, this is implemented with NTFS sparse files [1] and a file system minifilter. The sparse files act as placeholders so that you can browse your entire Dropbox structure. When you access a file, the minifilter sees that and starts fetching the data from Dropbox servers in the background. You can think of it as HSM [2]

[1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa3...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical_storage_managemen...
Looks like the perfect setup for big brother. Not that they are not already on that road.
I am all for benevolent dictatorships, it's when they turn non-benevolent that I am worried about.
In order to make content companies cooperate with them on international expansion, i assume content creators demanded this, so they could still play the old game of selling content differently in different places - with a simple reasoning - more control = more revenues.
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Sorry, I don't agree: heavy Google Reader user and now a NewsBlur one. While I appreciate the NewsBlur existence it is very very very slow while Google Reader was extremely fast. I don't know if NewsBlur only retrieves my feeds when I start a request or if it constantly retrieves them on the backend.

Disclosure: I have 2350 feeds in NewsBlur.
Since it is a production of them, is seems utterly moronic to remove one of the main reasons people would join their services in the first place. Many non-us customers joined, just to cancel the account right after they realized that they had no access to the good content. In some cases this is not the fault of netflix, but that of 19th century copyright laws. I cannot blame them, when other services had the rights prior to them...

But 'House of Cards' is a Netflix production, and this doesn't apply here. They would have done themselfs a favour by not selling the rights to this content to the highest bidder. Especially since their ads suggest access to 'House of Cards'.
Sorry, but try being Romani (colloquially: gypsy) anywhere in the UK and tell me it is "white" that makes the difference.
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I used a bash script to do this, until I got a laptop that has only a mini-display port. Now I don't/can't connect to anything :(
Without advocating Carl Schmitt, I think you are misrepresenting his views there. His concept of the 'Ausnahmezustand' (state of exception) is broader than just executive orders. He basically meant to describe the powers of a particular executive in a constitutional system by looking at the "not normal" case. This is similar to security in computers - you are not interested in the case where the computer behaves nicely. You want to know what you can do when things go wrong. So he described the power of the state as defined by what it can possibly do if they abuse them as the constitution enables it to do: "Sovereign is he who decides on the exception."
> It caught up quickly to the rest of the developed world in economic ways

I think this is the only reason people praise Singapore. It's not how clean or orderly it is, it's how rich it is.

If it was dirt poor and still horse-whipping people for farting or whatever they do, it would have few people arguing in its favour.
Another amazing 'weird' nature reserve is the DMZ between South and North Korea. You can see the most amazing birds of prey there hunting animals in the area between the propaganda villages.
> There was no privilege associated with being a geek.

You still had some "privileges" by not being black, and not being a woman. "Privileges" in the sense that you weren't automatically assumed to be a thief, for example, when walking in to a store. Or the privilege of actually being granted an interview for a non-secretarial position when you applied for one.

The "white male privilege" people speak of is less to do with people handing you bags of money and opening doors for you, and more to do with those doors not actively being shut in your face simply by dint of gender or skin color.

I speak as a white male who grew up in the 80s and in to technology. I certainly remember it was not 'cool' to be in to computers/tech back then (not like now) but there should be little disagreement that being male was not a hindrance for most desired walks of life (whereas being female, moreso then, definitely was).
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It's removed in 10? That's kind of a disaster, as it's critical to making the Surface and various tablets usable.
yeah basically greader uses Feedly as a source.

I agree about the feedly for android, i prefer the more text-y view of greader (which looks more like the old google reader).

greader also lets you view feeds in a list with the most recently updated first.

p.s. you don't need the Pro version for any of the above, the regular version is ad supported but otherwise free to use.
This is a cool technological advancement but for me "in context" is not in a directory structure, it's in a conversation, my team has mostly replaced Dropbox with Slack with the exception of long form documentation.
Well, actually Romania has a high number of women studying technical subjects, almost at the same level as males.

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/in-romania-vestiges-of-comm...
Taken to the extreme, a separate network for platooned long haul transport could even be electrified, combining 90% of the relative advantage of railroad over conventional road with more than 100% of the benefits of conventional road over railroad.
> We can see physical or psychological torture used effectively in many TV series.

Almost exclusively by the heroes, and it always works almost instantly. It says something about the people writing them.

I can't wait for the episode of Daredevil where he spends a month and a half torturing someone for information.

Remember all of those scenes in movies from the 70s and earlier when halfway through the rape, the woman starts to get into it, and when we cut to the morning after she's like "never leave me," and now the viewer is expected to sympathise with the rapist and his victim against the world?

It's a snapshot of the mindset of elites.

> Remember at school. When one child get punished, all the other childs of the class become quiet. The main desired effect of torture is manipulation of population. They do not care if the tortured guy speaks or dies, they want to inspire fear.

This is only way torture is effective. Except, in this context, the more accurate term for it is terrorism.
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This is very interesting because Indian food is spicy (with actual spices as opposed to being chilli hot) because the hot and humid climates meant food spoiled easy. Spices and oil were a way to make sure food didn't go bad ... Or disguise the rotten flavor in food.

China is fundamentally a cold country - they would not have evolved their culinary history in the same way.
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The human labor cost delta between the US and China is large enough to make Chinese human labor worth using by US companies. Is there the same level of delta for robot labor cost? If the total cost of a dark factory labor is roughly the same in the US and China, it will be harder to justify manufacturing in China and then shipping to the US.
Nice. But shouldn't we be having open standards for such a basic part of our infrastructures?
I point out a positive in Singapore and you say its whats wrong with Singapore?
I expect their revenue isn't disproportionately from Linux users though.
I've had similar experience with CA and the Autosys product. Great lunches, nice cocktails, and weeks of arm twisting to get to speak with actual engineers and get into a tech session. Forget about DB schema, we ended up figuring that out on our own. This was a product we already owned.

In comparison, BMC was up front with an engineer during the eval and provided us with great documentation including the DB schema. We didn't go with them or others in the automation space for... reasons... but it was a very different experience.

[edit: Why the downvotes? My experience with another 800-lbs gorilla confirms the parent comment]
Crave TV has great content, but they have been very frustrating for me technically. Random drops in the stream, session cookies getting corrupted (they only recently allow password changes from their site).
I'm saying different cultures are in general attracted to different activities. In the end it's up to the individual to decide what they want to do. They may choose to participate in an activity where they are a minority. There's nothing wrong with that at all but it won't always be easy. There's nothing to do beyond that. You keep saying "we" but your strictly talking about your own personal agenda.
I am not denying that. In fact, there is a GitHub issue intended to solve this (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/16012).
I was just saying it from a standpoint of that is has been mandated by the government (U.S.) and the date has had to be pushed back multiple times because the railroads are having a tough time implementing it. It's actually a much harder problem then you might initially think. The cost of the human is negligible; it's about the cost of the cargo, and not needing to stop unnecessarily to change the humans out.

Either way, if we can't accomplish automated long distance rail...automated trucking freight doesn't look to be that close.
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> show Minecraft running with enhanced textures. I saw the still shot at the end of the article, and was curious

I'm reasonably sure that still shot is not a real-time/in-game shot. It looks to be rendered with Chunky [1] (an out-of-game renderer which takes hours/days to render a still shot). This is why you're seeing such a large render-distance and things like depth of field/soft-shadows.

[1]: http://chunky.llbit.se/gallery.html
I still can access netflix through the VPN I use. As long as I still can do that, I will keep my account. The second they block it, I'll cancel my netflix account and will go back to resorting to piracy. If movie studios don't want my money then so be it, I'll find better use for it.

EDIT: And I say this as someone who spends roughly $100/month supporting artists I like on Patreon and Kickstarter, so I'm not opposed to paying for content. I'm just opposed to big media conglomerates screwing me.
Same here downunder. Loved my Netflix US subscription. Now I have no subscription with Netflix guess they don't want money ey?
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UBI has nothing to contend with the boostrap narrative. You just shift the target. Rather than pulling yourself up by your bootstraps to not starve or die of exposure, you pull yourself up by your bootstraps to do anything at all beyond basic survival with a roof and bread. You want a car? Go work for it. You want TV? Go work for it. Etc.

UBI is only meant to reduce the demand for total income enough that people can recreationally work for things they want, because there isn't enough work to go around for all the things they need. If you wanted to live on a UBI without additional income, you could spend your days at parks or libraries, but by design you should not have the income to be purchasing luxury goods - if you want those you can seek work for them, and because of the drop in labor demand UBI causes, you should still be able to find something.
With Oracle and IBM you often can't even figure out what the damn thing does. I have had several occasions where senior management told me to check out that really cool technology they saw. I went to the website and tried to find out what it does and couldn't figure it out.
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So, if I try search inside Dropbox or Documents folder it will download all files from Dropbox to my computer ?
Ask HN: How do you deal with “slipping breakpoints” in JavaScript debuggers?
This has been annoying me ever since I started working as a JS dev.

Say you have a 100 line file, you put breakpoint in L80 in Chrome devtools. Then you add a line at the beginning, and L80 becomes L81. The breakpoint I just put a minute ago can fall on an empty line and never execute.

I know about `debugger` which is quite handy sometimes, but it's not very feasible to pollute whole codebase with it during debugging session.

Any other options?
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