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Again, I am aware of what the behavior is, although this was a nice refresher and I appreciate it ;)

The joke was, of course, surrounding the Mozilla incedent where Brendan Eich stepped down from his position as CEO apparently because of a perception that he was promoting inequality. This characterization was due to his support of prop 8 (a bill about marriage equality, or lake there of).

To completely ruin the joke's punchline[1], was that the "problems he had with equality" were actually his understanding of types and language development and are evident in javascript.

Of course that is untrue, was a joke, and Brendan Eich is a legendary programmer whose contributions I am grateful for.

[1] Joke's punchline could be ruined by it being both a bad joke needing an explanation, being in poor taste, and generally just not being a funny joke.
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C is nearly inaccessible to me. It really is like the Latin of programming languages, insofar as JavaScript is the new English of programming languages which is the world I have been living in for some time now.

Its like you can see the Latin roots of a lot of English, but reading it is like reading lorem ipsum. Same with C vs. JS with me.
I'm a big believer in PostgreSQL but it does have one large and glaringly bad area which needs addressing: distribution. MySQL does Master-Master well. PostgreSQL has been a "chose your own adventure" for a long, long time. With the changes they're planning to make to allow better replication, that will change. Right now, MySQL has that aspect beat.
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I think woodmans argument is that AMT is an active service, you should see network traffic to the management engine and such -- so firewalls/airgaps/SPI should detect and prevent tampering. I think that is a naive view of AMT, it seems far more capable, network management is just one avenue (and it's been proven difficult to comprehensively implement anyways).
I wouldn't be surprised if the Win10 user agreement includes provisions such that using Win10 counts as agreeing to the EULA, as well as a class-action waiver[0]. There, sadly, will be no class-action to wake them up, unless an individual user is willing to go out of their way.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T_Mobility_LLC_v._Concepc...
By "taken hostage their images," do you mean that literal graphic files uploaded to Wix servers were somehow made inaccessible to the user?
Zeitgeist, my dear friend. It wasn't Stalin who castrated Alan Turing, and work ethos was very much prevalent in all industrialized world.

Great Patriotic War and other reversals of Tzarist times (rank system in the army, the concept of motherland etc) did not appear until months into the conflict. Before 1940s you could be hard pressed to find even a mention of "Soviet state", it wasn't really on conceptual radar. After WW2 there were no celebrations of GPW. Not until 1970s when Brezhnev had to create lore for himself: V day wasn't even a holiday.

Propaganda posters had more to do that both were totalitarian, socialist regimes, so there's little wonder.

When my father had his 3 year tour to Afghanistan it was called "serving the internationalist duty". In my pretty average school education there was definite accent on nationalism as an awful thing. So I respectfully disagree.
Kickstarter does not market itself that way. Kickstarter is misleading about what it does and how it works. That people say things like "pre-ordering" indicates it.

There are significant differences between a pre-order and backing. There are accounting differences for Kickstarter and there are less guarantees for backers than for pre-orders. You aren't entitled to any of your money back, support, or timeliness. Pebble Time showed up at Best Buys before backers got their watches. I bought my Pebble Time from the pebble website and people were still complaining about having backed the kickstarter.

With a kickstarter you're shooting your money into the void and hope something comes back to you. With a pre-order you're legally entitled to a product or your money back and receive benefits from the various federal and state laws that govern how businesses do commerce.
This seems like a pretty interesting device. I'm an avid runner, and my option is either to wear a clunky GPS device or to carry my smartphone and pair it to a lighter-weight and sleeker device. This basically enables both use cases without having to lug the phone, plus it adds some interesting features with the built-in storage and streaming 3G.

I think that a lot of people will buy if Pebble can price this competitively. Their closest competition is the $250 TomTom Spark Cardio + Music, and it seems like they will undercut that. With that said, 6 months is a long time, and I wouldn't be surprised if new and better devices come out before this ships.
Adding a store/apps does require core changes though - those apps need to be sandboxed, suspended, etc. which needs kernel support.
>when you are transiting you are already inside the 'security zone' so perhaps they don't do another security check?

For what it's worth, they certainly did another check last time I went HKG->DEL->KTM

I'd assume it's just a layout issue with some transits.
And features add attack surface. But since people seem to want web rendering engines to replace operating systems, there's no way around it. You need WebBluetooth, WebRTC, WebAssembly and every other feature.

There's some good reasons to want this, in fact.
Yep. I have them a shot. Bought two Lumias, including the flagship with the "nice" camera[1]. My wife, who isn't a power user, found it totally inadequate. Other users I know that really wanted to get into it also gave up. MS wasn't just late, they just bungled everything related to running the platform. Which is a shame because the Metro UI is really neat on phones.

1: Camera was able to take nice pics but so slow to actually fire that it turned it to be nearly useless.
Zero successful attacks. Bottom line.

No one here is familiar with the concept of "deterrence", apparently.
COBOL or Pascal if you don't use modern features lol. Idk. It's an interesting question about how we count the changes against the language's lineage. I don't have an answer to that one. We need a debate about it on StackOverflow that moderators close as "not constructive." Those are the threads that usually have great insights into issues like this haha.
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"However, one might treat them as separate languages given LISP 1.0 is very different from Common LISP which isn't Scheme or Clojure."

Well, on the one hand that's true. But on the other hand, a lot of the living languages have that too. BASIC is 52 years old, sure, but no 52-year-old BASIC program would even compile in a modern BASIC, and I mean, it's not even close, not like a couple keywords or some chars here or there, but the entire structure of the language is fundamentally different now.

By that standard: C is still recognizably the same. I'd suggest C++ is a different language before and after templates, which cuts it down to 27 years, and if you wait for the STL to be usable before you say they "took", less than that, but I imagine a lot of the early C++ would still compile or nearly so. Python has smoothly evolved and I can't point to any one feature that was a hard transition, but it is a fairly different language today than it was in the 1-1.5.2 era, but a lot of the 1.5.2 would still run OK. Javascript has actually been relatively stable as a language, coming out of the gate with rather a lot of stuff already built in. Java has also been pretty stable as a language. I don't know enough about Fortran or COBOL.

Lisp is an amusing case where a lot of old Lisp is probably reasonably close to parseable but probably doesn't run at all beyond the basics.

I fully acknowledge there's some subjectivity to the judgments here, but I think part of the 100-year-language idea is that code in the 100 years language should still be usable 100 years later, directly. By that age measure we're shorter on viable languages, though we still have some.
Other certs validate, it might be site-specific from my employer (I'm on my employer's network)?
The blog article goes into great detail, for performance.
I don't see a lot of folks mentioning it, but what jumped out at me in reading it is that the Core will act as a PAN (Personal Area Network) Internet gateway to provide 3G connectivity to other devices via Bluetooth tethering. That could be a really nice touch for "always-connected" devices without having to tie them to a phone.
I wonder about this myself, anyone has experience using this? MySQL 5.6 brought many long awaited features, like schema update without locking tables https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/innodb-online-ddl.ht... (bye bye Percona tools).
Interesting. My options agreement has a clause called "Waiver of Statutory Information Rights" in which I waive my inspection rights of the company stock ledger, a list of its stockholders, and its other books and records, and the books and records of subsidiaries of the Company provided under Section 220 of General Corporation Law of Delaware until the first sale of common stock to the public.

Is this waiver clause enforceable?

EDIT: Let this be a lesson folks! Always have an attorney review your options grant contract.
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The Pebble reminds me of "mp3 players" that used to flood the market during the iPod era.
Completely agree.

TBH, my ideal language for this job would probably be Rust, but that is just not a mature enough ecosystem currently.

Don't get me wrong, I would consider myself a C proponent currently, but I would love to see change in a Rust-like direction.

Despite you classing yourself as a C-opponent, I suspect we agree more than disagree.
That's enough if you have 2-3 USB 2.0 devices on a USB 3.0 only host it's enough to screw it up.
I got a few ASUS mobo's that all have the same issues.

If you have USB2.0 breakout ports use them for the legacy devices, if not use a good USB hub.
For me, this code looks like it was decompiled. It's pretty much this amount of insanity.
Yeah I checked online, and the duty charged to people was all over the place, some correlation with provinces, but not strictly.
Damn! I totally guessed wrong by looking at the header image :P
> Edit: Remembered one more: Juries deciding whether murderers are guilty or not. Simply unthinkable over here. Ironically the horror of this scenario is fuelled by the US/Hollywood itself.

Maybe not in Germany, but France has juries for murder case since 1810, actually, a jury is theoretically mandatory for any case where a sentence of more than 10 years in prison is possible. The accused cannot waive this "right" like in some cases in the US.
(in practice, because juries take a lot of court time, are shaky and difficult to manage, prosecutors often will prosecute a serious crime like a less serious similar one to avoid having to go in front of a jury (e.g. instead of prosecuting something as rape, do it as if it was sexual assault). The prosecutor must have the agreement of the victim and the accused to do it).

Also, it's not only France. Austria, Greece, Italy, Belgium and others have that sort of jury.
But compared to something like angular react is minimalist.
Well the Pebble Time Steel is 250$, but yeah the point stands.
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Even leaving SQL out of the equation, LINQ is basically just standard functional programming constructs, albeit with SQL-y names. Select() == map, Where() == filter, Aggregate() == fold
> The Pebble Core is what the Raspberry Pi should be - a fully functional computer so small it fits on a keychain.

Oh... wow... that's very exciting if this is what it is... but then why not market it as such (a competitor to the Pi) instead of a very limited/specialized accessory to a not super exciting watch?

I have plenty of Pis (well, 4) and always wish they were smaller, and had wifi / bluetooth / 3g out of the box; I would buy what you just described in an instant.

(As it's currently described by Pebble, though, it's not that enticing. Maybe we just need to wait.)

Edit: it is actually described as a micro computer on the KS campaign, but buried way down into the page; it's not even immediately clear one can buy the Core without the watch; doesn't it deserve to be marketed independently?
On a site constructor with custom URLs created by millions of users for their websites every day?
I'm a purist and also need the absolute fastest lookups with out SQL overhead so I go straight for MDB (Sleepycat BerkleyDB) - faster than LevelDB or any others.
A chunk of the telemetry recorded by Windows 10 has been back-ported to 7 and 8 in updates since anyway so that isn't a reason not to upgrade

Of course it is a reason not to upgrade: in Windows 7 or 8.x you don't have to install the telemetry, but in Windows 10 you have no choice.
This looks fantastic, just what I've been looking for. Curious to know why there doesn't seem to be any mention of fastlane [1]? I think every boilerplate mobile project should definitely include an example fastlane setup.

[1]: https://fastlane.tools/
I thought nosql movement was about distributed systems, cap and all that. What does this "active-active-active" even mean? No consistency and no availability guaranties I presume?
Thanks for chiming in Adam. Good to hear you're making it work. I think having a HQ is overrated. Technology is shrinking distance and making it easier to avoid the commute.
I think you'd like Apache Nifi. It has a drag and drop interface for building ingest and transformation pipelines. Everyone I've talked to that's used it says it makes them 10x more productive for ingest problems.
That's against the letter of the law, rather than some vague interpretation thereof.

I know there are problems with the application of three strikes, but it's not terribly unreasonable to say that we have little cause to believe that you will reform after, say, murdering or raping your third victim and therefore little reason to let you out of prison such that you can seek new ones. And it's your third felony that puts you over, it's not like they can bust you for jaywalking, though I'm sure there are exceptional cases, which could be corrected by presidential pardons if there was good cause to believe they've repented.

But I'm sure that's an unpopular opinion here, as I doubt many people here have ever had to worry about someone in prison for murdering their mother who also threatened grandma. Now, it's great if people reform, but committing your third felony is pretty good evidence that you aren't likely to.
I was not aware of the popcnt[1] instruction. It's quite amazing how LLVM can recognize that code, thanks for the link!

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSE4#POPCNT_and_LZCNT
Agreed. That's pretty much how my (UK) accountants treated my Kickstarter revenue.
Based on my experience: MySQL is significantly easier to set up, and it's much easier to admin. PG still seems to do the thing where it assumes your system user is your database user unless you do a bunch of things, and the weird blurred lines between the operating system and the database can get really confusing at the start.

On top of that, MySQL is well-documented and lots of people use it for lots of different things, which makes the most common (and most of the uncommon) problems eminently google-able.

Anecdotally, I've avoided Postgres also in part because it had the same problem that Perl had when I got into Linux: the community was pretty toxic and unwelcoming. I asked about replication once, and I got a bunch of answers that fell into a few categories: 'Why on earth do you need replication?', 'You don't need replication, Postgres is fast enough', 'set up a script to rsync your data directories over and over again', 'mysql replication is unreliable so you shouldn't use it so it doesn't matter'.

That sort of attitude drove me (and, I'd wager, a lot of other people) away from Postgres and towards the vastly more welcoming MySQL community, and I'd wager that a lot of people just kind of stuck there because why switch?

Postgres has added a lot of pretty great features lately, and it seems good? But I'm left wondering why I should use Postgres for my RDBMS, my JSON data store, and my KV store, when history has shown that one piece of software that expands to do everything rarely does any of it well.

(Postgres has since gained replication abilities)
But some people might disagree:

http://www.voanews.com/content/china-expands-mass-re-educati...

http://www.tibetjustice.org/reports/children/detention/b.htm...

I won't pretend the US is peaches and roses, but our human rights abuses (CIA black sites, Guantanamo, etc) don't even hold a candle to many of the atrocities that happen in China. There simply isn't much of a comparison.
A key difference between Fox News and Facebook is that Fox commentators are pretty much advertising their bias. Bill Oreilly is clearly stating his personal opinions.

Facebook is stating it's politically neutral but it wasn't.

Another thing to considers is that Facebook is a monopoly in the social networking business. There are probably half a dozen news networks on a cable plan, plus nearly infinitely online news outlets.

If you don't like Fox news, there is CNN, MSNBC, Bloomberg, etc. Facebook has no direct alternative.
Don't forget WebBIOS and WebHPC

Edit: those were meant to be satirical, but apparently exist.
Same here. I have been heavily exposed to C# / .NET at that time, but after the announcement came out we started looking into other platforms, and it has never been the same ever since.
I mean he's clearly in bumper to bumper traffic, there's little danger in the event of an accident and I doubt the Tesla would actually hit anybody either..
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Oh god. No no no. I cannot hate this idea hard enough to overcome my fear that someday this kind of thing might actually happen! This would be the browser's job, under user control, not ever the site's job. My computer, my choice, no you don't get to decide that for me just because you are a web page designer.
This is about the XAML ecosystem which got slaughtered while Windows was promoting Windows Web Apps and remained silent about the future of XAML.

XAML is now alive and well (to the extent that Windows is), but it went through a very very tough patch in 2010-2011.
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Thanks for this Reg, I have spent the last year of my life trying to vacuum the drama out of this discussion. The "working retirement" of mature technology is so normal and pretty wonderful in the scheme of things. Even the "prominent defector" bit is easily predictable. Once you know this, you can pick technology for the stability & productivity or the +80 IQ, depending on your situation.

https://speakerdeck.com/tehviking/surviving-the-framework-hy...
I want to upvote this a hundred times. I've got family in China too and for fuck's sake they are just normal people. Sure, their government is a control freak, but tell me, how much do you like your government? At least theirs manages to build things! And who's about to elect Trump president?

The scary truth is that humans can't handle proper free speech, just like they can't handle guns. They should be able to but they can't. It would be nice if they could but they can't. Unless and until we embrace actual eugenics, and can weed out that crazy segment who always ruins everything, we can't have nice things. But we can't face that possibility, so we either get censorship and gun control or the good ol' USA massacre of the week and Trump.

I am not against democracy, but I think the current western liberalism, where it is perfectly OK to spread outright lies and counter-social messages on mass media in the name of "free speech", is doomed.

I've mentioned Trump twice and for good reason. I think Americans underestimate just how bad their political situation looks from the outside. Not only the gridlock in congress, but the United States, supposedly and self-appointedly the shining light of democracy for the entire world, is about to elect this idiotic, unqualified populist blowhard. It is really hard to make any kind of defense of that. The USA is currently and enthusiastically proving every bad thing the CPC said about it, free speech, and democracy in general, absolutely right.
> Yes, there are well publicised failures in this regard, but consider the number of problems versus the actual number of lines of code written.

I think that's a pretty misleading metric when you take into account: (1) widely used codebases constantly increase in size constantly; (2) it only takes one exploitable mistake for an attacker to achieve remote code execution. One exploitable vulnerability per 10,000 lines means 1,200 remote code execution flaws in a codebase the size of Chromium.
Artificially changing the point of sales for digital goods is a loophole. It used to be legal, no question, but there's no particular reason why sales for digital goods should be treated differently from sales of physical goods. That was clearly not intended.

It's also not only about cultural reasons: It's the size of the population that matters. Luxembourg has about 500k inhabitants. If they collect all sales digital good in the european union and charge a mere percent of vat on it, they'll increase their tax base significantly. In contrast, if Germany does so it has a more than two orders of magnitude less gain on that. That's why it pays of for Luxembourg, even if they damage the rest of the EU in the process. It's like Washington DC collecting all sales tax for digital goods in the US. Basically some small countries are freeloading at cost for the whole community. (See also the British Tax Havens, or Canal Islands)
I believe the company I work for is writing just under 500K lines of COBOL code per year... now... how much of that is "new" vs extending vs maintaining is a good question. It is very difficult to measure those things in our environment. If you were to ask the 60 - 75 mainframe programmers we employ, I'm sure they would answer that COBOL is very much alive, and no matter how hard you try to kill it, 40 years of system code is just not going away any time soon (depending on your definition of "dead"). Especially as we hire a good amount of "new to us" people to maintain the system.

I think individual companies should define a language as "dead" based on the number of new people needed to maintain the systems. As the number approaches less than 5%(?) of your replacement hires, have you effectively "killed" the language? At the very least it is on life support, and a decision needs to be made about its future. (A grim analogy, I know).
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