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Apple still has a lot of extra measures in place to work with carriers, they just do it ahead of announcing updates instead of dropping the code like Google does and then waiting for everyone to fix it for their equipment.

From my recall, Apple actually has a "Verizon team" that works on ensuring iOS updates meet all of Verizon's certification requirements for release ahead of announcement, which is why Apple software updates never suffer that terrible additional wait Android updates have before they end up on Verizon phones.
Eh. Many students will have the rest of their lives to perfect the art of poking at a library. Getting the chance to play with the more sublime CS stuff is much harder outside of university.
> And you have to hit the back button twice to go back

Could browsers not be smarter about this? If I'm on page A and I click a link X that redirects to B, when I click back I expect to go back to A, especially if X still redirects to B.
In reality I feel as though users are more concerned about a stable, well-refined, secure product versus having the latest trends.

This is becoming more and more important to me as I have ranged from the updating on nightly builds to only updating when I see real performance benefit - and even then I wait till I see more users from my model and service provider commenting on how much the change benefits them.

*edit - of course application updating is an entirely different process and I allow this to update ASAP due to unlimited data plans but updating core os features has become more and more towards the above versus the application update idea.
I don't think it would stop unwanted behaviors by tourists. So the tourist gets reprimanded and then leaves when their trip is over, the next tourist comes and the process begins again. It's whackamole.
Against the numbers of bishops, swamis, gurus and imams?
Not to mention search on MS sites essentially doesn't work (unless something has changed).
Very interested in your comment about a directory that aggregates sites like this -- do you think combining different causes in a page could hurt in some way? I'd be worried that with too many causes to focus on people might get distracted.

In the meantime, you might be interested in checking out watsi.org, a site that crowdfunds healthcare for people around the world. They're explicit about where each dollar goes (100% of your donation directly goes to funding care for patients).
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Think of it as a coprocessor.

There used to be a separate FPU processor for math / floating point operations.

Then there was a separate GPU processor for graphics / parallel processing.

Now, this.
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some people are still using Eclipse...

however it is so baffling that in several conferences I have seen Googlers ask such persons to come forward and explain to them why they don't want to switch.
Past performance should be a predictor of future performance if the forces driving the market remain similar to the forces driving it in the past.

If they are not the same, then past performance may be a very bad predictor. But even in that case it is hard to imagine I'd do better by picking individual stocks unless I start researching companies as a full-time job.
If the error is a 'but-for' cause of death, then I think it ought to be counted. All treatments are aimed at addressing an underlying problem. Just because that problem is terminal doesn't change the fact that a mistake killed the patient. As someone who just watched up close a loved one die from cancer over a seven-year period, you really come to appreciate every minute that they're still breathing (with some allowance for the final, vegetative stages).
Well he does say "To be clear, I’m not arguing that an entire market could ever go passive."

Which kinds of begs the question, how much passive investment can there be, and what is the limiting factor, if not a Grossman-Stiglitz model where 'arbitrage ' (in this context market-making, market-timing etc.) makes prices boundedly efficient, and less arbitrage means higher spreads, less liquidity, less pricing efficiency.

There must be a 'Bernstein peak' and mixed strategy equilibrium, where if you have too much active, expenses are too high, and if you have too little active, liquidity suffers and costs from spreads and volatility are too high.

http://abnormalreturns.com/2016/02/19/the-bernstein-curve/
I thought the biggest concern about launch window was journey time? And that would only matter for a crewed mission. I didn't think fuel mattered because it would probably be close for either mission profile- burn to get up to speed, shutdown and coast for months, then any orbit corrections and slowdowns as the Mars approach nears. It's not like the engine is burning for the whole trip, and they'll be using solar for internal instruments. Or am I misunderstanding?
small medium large should be their lineup for everything.

phones, laptops, tablets, desktops, cloud.

iPhone mini, air, pro

macbook mini, air, pro

it's also probably time to end the tick/tock s vs non-s naming and just count up.
I totally agree with you. I would love to meet some non-technical people who have practical experience. However, most of my friends are technical and I don't even know where to start looking.
You're putting words in saulrh's mouth. saulrh didn't claim that the copy, once liberated from the DRM wasn't equivalent to the original, so you are injecting the inconsistency into the argument.

But you are also being obtuse. A DRM'd copy is not the same as a non DRM'd copy, even if the underlying work is the same. If they were, there would be no reason to make the distinction. Really you're claim to the contrary is very Sophistic. I don't believe for a second that you don't see the difference.

The main issue being brought up here is that copyright protection is bundled with a responsibility to relinquish control of the work at the end of the copy protection period. So Johnny_Brahms is saying that if rights holders aren't holding up their side of the deal, then they shouldn't benefit from copy protection. This puts the cost of DRM back on the rights holder, where to date, the cost has been largely externalized.

Under this scheme, rights holders still may opt for DRM, if they expect that DRM will protect the work better than copyright, but they will actually have to do a cost benefit analysis on the matter. Under the current scheme, rights holders have all of the optionality. That is, they take all of the upside, and leave the downside for the public. The aim of this scheme is to force rights holders to put some skin into the DRM game.[1] Which seems appropriate to me, since there are significant costs associated with DRM.

[1] That is, the public pays the costs of access, as well as the cost of loss of access once the DRM authentication chain can no longer be completed (usually because the rights holder loses interest in the work and so stops maintaining the authentication system). We also observe that a lot of weak DRM schemes exist. This is only because copyright exists as a safety net for a broken DRM system. There are actual legal benefits to slapping a trivially circumvented (widely known to be broken) DRM scheme onto a work. But the upside to doing so is very small, and the downside is widely distributed across all legitimate current and future users (plus would be users that are thwarted from legitimate use by the DRM) of the work. If you take away the copyright safety net, then that bit of moral hazard would likely immediately disappear since the costs of adding bad DRM would be jointly borne by the public and the rights holder, rather than just by the public.

[edit: gave the discussion tree root (Johnny_Brahms) credit for the proposal rather than the article, since it was described as a previously held position.
I think probably a better middle ground would be "have the authority to rewrite it all from scratch". If you're the technical cofounder, you need to drive the technology, and part of the technical side is knowing and being able to throw out junk at the expense of time and money lost if needed, while your cofounder side should be carefully balancing up the value of doing so.

If the offshore stuff works, great, build on it. If it doesn't rewrite it.

If the architecture is good, but not the implementation, incrementally swap out what you can, as you need.
There are 3 main areas as I see it: healthcare, foreign policy and rebuilding NYC after 9-11.

On healthcare, she was influential in getting SCHIP going (after the Clinton administration took a huge hit for pushing for universal healthcare). That expanded coverage to millions of low income children. I used to live in Vermont and I've voted for Bernie ... but ... he's never secured healthcare for anyone. Then, there's the Pediatric Research Equity Act which she authored. It requires drug companies to study their products in children.

Next is foreign policy. Clinton authored the sanctions against Iran and got China, Russia, and the EU to support them. That's after 8 years of Bush that alienated the US in the international community. US exports to China also increased by 50% when she was Secretary of State. And, she was also influential in the work that finally got Osama bin Laden.

And, we can round this off by noting that, as NY Senator, she secured funding to rebuild NYC after 9-11.
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Well, there was rim fire and there was centerfire. The only reason I know that is because the rim fire rifles couldn't be dry fired. Specifically, I was shooting anschutz rifles (at a busy train station or else I'd google it :p.)

The hand contamination was definitely a thing. We weren't ever advised on washing our hands properly, so that risk is pretty high especially considering we would often eat snacks after. It was pretty irresponsible of all parties, but I have a hard time blaming my 16 year old self and my peers. The coach should've known better, though. The other concern was that here was a trap 10m down the line which flew up dust - apparently it was too expensive to clean (go figure). We'd sweep the ground, too, which kicked up a surprising amount of fine dust. Can't say for sure how much of that was lead.

I've thought about raising this as a legal issue, but if doctors can't take it seriously, I wouldn't even know where to begin on the legal front.
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Right, and the Kernel could just provide those. No need to write something to load extra code from storage and run it.
Hang on - nothing I said can be seen as "throw them in the deep end until they get over it"!

For people with mild symptoms you should do "watchful waiting" if the trauma happened less than 4 weeks ago.

Single episode "debriefing" after a traumatic incident should be avoided.

People should have access to early intervention trauma-focussed psychological therapy

https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg26

(Although this guidance is going to be re-written soon).
I'm really interested to see if and how SpaceX covers the cost of this mission. Is it just a huge R&D/PR write off? Do they sell data/instrument payload slots to NASA or others?
There is a significant effort to prevent users from having root on their devices. It isn't successful yet, but it does not mean vendors aren't trying.
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I think the point is that you don't actually benefit from DRM, you just aren't adversely affected by it.

The only benefit to DRM for pirates is that it makes more people interested in consuming pirated works, and to the extent that there are network effects that's a benefit, but I suspect the number people turning to piracy because they can't get non DRMed content is minimal.
I can't say much about whether the claims in this article are valid or not, but the day that Google publicly cuts a huge percentage of their workforce will be a very sad day.

There are a LOT of teams at Google that do cool things that contribute absolutely nothing to their bottom line.
For what it's worth, I have a lot of stats here that put this into context and also provide some good additional reading:

http://www.alexkrupp.com/Citevault.html#iatrogenic

(And yes, I know this could be made much more readable with some basic CSS, I'll get around to it eventually.)
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I do not have any data on it (1) but I think it's like moving a bookmark across the page as you are reading: it makes it easier to jump from the end of one line to the start of the next one.

(1) not even on the claim that that bookmark has that effect.
the surgeon makes a medical error, and the patient dies on the table has he died of medical error or cancer?

Medical error. Just because the patient was going to die sooner than later, does not erase the fact that a medical error was committed.

Quality of life is a completely different topic, in my opinion, and I am sure we would find more common ground in that discussion.
Yes threads are bad but going to asynchronous programming can be like going from the frying pan to the fire -- one of those things that generations of programmers seem to learn time and time again.

In the 1970s there were two control programs developed for the space shuttle, one asynchronous by IBM and a synchronous one by Rockwell that was much simpler. They tested them side by side and found a timing mismatch and their first instinct was that Rockwell was wrong but really IBM was wrong.

Back in 2000 I was involved with a site that had a 100MB or so download associated and the boss didn't like the high process count it took to serve with Apache so we tried a number of the open-source "single process" web servers that used asynchronous I/O and we found that all of them (at the time) were associated with failing downloads and corrupted data, so we went back to Apache.

In the 2006-2010 time frame I was involved in a number of front-end client projects using tools such as GWT and Silverlight where the other people involved were flummoxed with the complexity of async comm and I was able to get things working by imposing a definite discipline on how information flowed in the application, that is, having visual objects in the UI register themselves against a communications framework that would notify them of changes.

Ultimately that is what you need to do to succeed with threads: I've had very good luck with Executors in Java, especially the LMAX Disruptor. Not every problem fits into the Executor framework, but for the ones that do, I get consistently good results as compared to various "fork-join", "actor" and other snake oil frameworks.
Circumventing a weak protection is still a violation of DMCA in US. This would be essentially the following choice for the company:
a) you can force people not to circumvent your protections, but you can't assert copyright (so if someone didn't circumvent the protection herself, one can legally redistribute),
b) you can assert copyright, but can't force people not to circumvent protection (so that one can circumvent them for personal or other allowed use).

I'm not sure if that would be a good idea, but it's not obvious that it's not.
Who said they are starting now? SpaceX was founded for the purpose of getting to Mars.
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> Once PyPy3 is available, will this work with it?

We'll find a way!
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My big problem reading Microsoft docs is the pattern (around Visual Basic docs?) where they put objects, properties, methods, functions, etc. in separate sections, making it hard to figure out what applies where. Are they planning to address the difficulty of getting information out of the structure at all, or are they just putting window dressing on it?
To that I say you can have an even cheaper way to hedge against risk by having put options on the stock you own.

Also your example assumes that all the shares were bought at the same time and declined 50%. If you've been investing for years, the value of your gains/losses wouldn't simply be a "market crash" it would include the price at which you bought the stock at plus any dividends you reinvested. So a 50% downturn from a certain high point could be much less from how much capital you initially committed. Add to that you can take capital losses as a way to reduce tax liability in a given year.

There's enough ways to hedge without having too high of a cash drag.
Most people will find leaving the grid very inconvenient, whatever the saving. Here in South Africa, rolling blackouts caused chaos. Yet very few people left the grid.
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That doesn't impugn the model. Using Bootstrap to cover the 90% case, rather than building from scratch, lets you spend more time and effort on solid UX, rather than having to reinvent basic UI from the ground up.
Another sucker here! I paid for two upgrades (url and remove branding) and I still haven't received an email. Just noticed now when I logged in to do invoices for the past two weeks.
I should haven't ignored the red flags when I emailed support at Invoiceable and received no reply. This is the problem with freeware, but I expect better service when we pay. It would be smart on Invoicely to give 6-12 months free in good faith.
There's a great anecdote about this.

Son: the biggest number is 1081

Dad: what about 1082

Son: well, I was close
It is a common practice almost everywhere I work.

When Photoshop is too expensive, we get Powerpoint-driven development instead.
If the same cartoon was drawn in Germany, no one would have been fired. A matter of Socialism vs Capitalism.
This suggestion reminds me of the classic "egg drop" challenge (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_drop_competition). Can you land your vehicle without the egg breaking?
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"In a bizarrely unfair real society arguing that you have the right to maximally leverage whatever value you your dad and your grandpa managed to drag away and coral seems greedy and disingenuous."

You're arguing against aristocracy, not capitalism. In 19th century America (the most free society in history) there was a phrase "from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations." In the absence of state-protected income, inherited wealth never lasts long.
Often the medical errors happen on very common procedures like central-line catheters or IV insertions. Staff are overworked and tired, or they get distracted and miss one step and it results in a patient blood infection and often death.

John's Hopkins came up with a five-step checklist for central-lines that reduced overall hospital deaths by 10% http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/safety_ch...
Browsers are already smart about that, but they also allow websites to override it, which is kind of important too. And then they can mess it up.
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This is true not just in US, but in India as well.

Most people who studied Computer Science, Electronics, Electrical engineering are taking way better salaries than other courses. Most of my friends in Civil/Mechanical/Other engineering branches barely have a good full time paying job. I remember friends who opt to study Mechanical/Civil engineering courses in better colleges instead of Electrical/Electronics/CS are now worse. A few made a shift to a programming career, Most regret the decision to chose college over courses.

MBBS is a torture, if you don't make it to being a MD and then to work at a corporate controlled hospital. Dentistry is the absolute worst. Only people who could afford to study 1.5 decades and gather a specialization seemed to have done well on the longer run.

Finally people who for 'passion', 'interest' and such stuff went into studying history, literature, law, commerce etc. A few of those people went into teaching, a few are now desk clerks, but a good part doing small time jobs or running small shops.

The absolute worst I have seen is my friend who did architecture from a reputed college in Bangalore, went on to do his MS from a college in sydney in architecture, he now competes with local masons for projects, people who have never been to school or at best have high school education.
why not setup a contract where his company gets a residual 50% commission for each deal he sells. or some fixed price per mo per customer you charge him etc. so that you can remain different entities but still "partner" and put a non-compete which says he can't just get rid of you and build out the service later on.
Sometimes, yes - more often they result in cronyism and officials and bureaucrats amassing power to trade for $$.

Since you brought up trains, look at the giant mess that is the California 'bullet' train. Not a single section of track has been completed, and it's already doubled in budget, reduced dramatically in speed (current projections put the trip time at ~4hrs due to a number of issues including track sharing), with ticket prices 70% higher than promised, and the legal requirements for private investment have been ignored because no private company is willing to touch it with a ten foot pole.

Dramatic changes indeed...
I too have studied several languages, both in high school and in college, as well as some dabbling on my own. The classes alone are not enough, no. But they are a tremendous resource and make it much easier to get where you want to go.

You might be able to reach similar levels of language proficiency without the courses but the biggest problems are 1) finding hours and hours a day to drill writing characters and other mundane aspects of learning 2) guidance from an instructor who can tell you whether things that look/sound right are. And also I think a university course also gives you a survey of the literature and culture of that language and insight into it that would be hard to acquire on your own.
So there's two obvious ways for faster machines, one of which we can do today:
1) Move off of silicon.
2) Write better code.
I think there's always time for you to return to study humanities.
That might be a reasonable argument if it were balanced by having meaningful and practically enforceable penalties for people who treat any work that is under copyright but not DRM'd as if it were already in the public domain today.
The author doesn't understand the concept of the support library.
Interviewer - Use the debugger to find the bug.

You - No.

Interviewer - I guess you don't know how to use the debugger and it is required for the job. Have a nice day.
That's where the networking comes into play. Going to business meetups. You can meet seasoned entrepreneurs in the local business community who would love to cross into something more technical, but don't know how.
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