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Or there's another alternative. The main reason it was hard to make money from the industrial etc segment - was low volume combines with a lot of support costs.

But what if

a. xilinx built c-like tools that enabled embedded software engineers develop easily ?

b. they released those freely to some segment of the market ?

c. they've built an external support and IP ecosystem, either open or closed or both ?

Those actions can increase margins for xilinx, and they seem to be doing a,b.

As for the hardware, maybe the article is right. Also ,recent industrial chips are using 28nm, and going beyond that is extremely expensive and might not fit the industrial scenario anyhow, maybe there's not a lot of innovation left in the industrial FPGA market,
I'm fairly sure the Israeli profiling is based on profiling behavior. Highly trained and skilled agents looked for body language tells.
This.

I donated to the defence fund when she was Bradley and I'm not sorry I did it. Secret courts and whatnot have no place in America. At all. Ever.
By that argument, if you're grieving the loss of a loved one, deciding whether to marry, struggling to write a novel, or even fixing a bug in a computer program, you have a disease. All those presumably have some biochemical correlate.
I was highly skeptical, but as of the past few months i use it more than FB and Instagram.

What I found was the limited and spontaneous nature of snapchat works well because it is much less formal and easy than a Facebook or Instagram post that I have to "compose".

I.e, i can take a silly picture of my dog and put a sticker on it and fire it out there, without having to worry about shot composition/hashtag use (Instagram), or content/grammar (FB)
Uncommonly good distillation there. Thank you.
Since when is a run-of-the-mill cloud PBX a "Twilio alternative"?
> IDL operations are not particularly slow. Last I measured, a call from JS into C++ is between 10 and 40 CPU instructions of fixed overhead

To put that in perspective, that's the same number of instructions as objc_msgSend, which every Objective-C method call in native iOS or Mac apps goes through [1]. "The DOM is slow compared to native" is a common meme, but it's not that simple.

[1]: http://sealiesoftware.com/msg/x86-mavericks.html
And combined with owner-move in evictions you get to 2 evictions every day. Which some would qualify as 'all the time'.
That's great. I'm going to have to remember that phrase. Another I considered is Security through Obsolesence. Makes it sound more retarded. ;)
Well I've goat to tell you, we send a lot of goats! To give you an idea, since we launched April 2015, we've sent over 2 million messages.
> I think there are still tons of options out there for people who like writing lower-level code, but it's moved into areas like embedded systems and scientific lab tools. All the coding work for most of the common stuff has been basically commoditized already.

If that were true, there wouldn't be new JS frameworks coming out every month. Those "hard core" coders are also the ones making the frameworks. Which isn't a bad gig, especially when you can sell educational materials to teach people the framework you made. :)
Currently the differences are window tracking (RT only tracks apps afaik), chat tracking, instant feedback, and keeping the tracked data on your machine.

Downsides compared to RT: no sync between devices (and it's not coming soon), no "offline time" (but it's temporary).
Pass a factory `createT()` instead, problem solved.
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Given YC companies get: AWS, Google (100k), IBM (120k), DigitalOcean (250k) and Microsoft (500k) in credits - $5k for AWS seems small.

There used to be a way to get some of this without YC, but don't know if it works anymore.
Is there a term for when you say something knowingly broad but ALSO understand there are specific cases where it doesn't apply? Like a simple term I can paste onto the end of statements like (sic) or similar so that I can avoid the nitpickers?

EDIT: honestly not being facetious just curious because this exact thing happens constantly.
Is this something seen frequently in user code, or just an edge case? I'd love to get even faster with my libraries compiling, but honestly the continuous improvements in compile speed over the last half a year have already made me happy :)
hey, kind of off-topic, but wouldn't you be able to like this?

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Some rooms have more than one light but typically only one would be used. Examples:

Master bedroom -- 2 lamps, but one is mine, which is hardly ever turned on.

Kids rooms -- one overhead hanging (swag) light each. Plus the closet light, but I'm not counting that as it is already a low voltage bulb (code requirement).

Living room -- the foyer has hanging light with 3 candelabra bulbs, which are 20 watts each. The dining room (the other side of the great room) has a hanging light with 5 bulbs, again 20 watts each. So one room is 60 watts, the other is 100.

Kitchen/family room -- overhead long tube fluorescent (120 watts total), family room had a torch light.

Bathrooms have multiple bulbs (4, 6, and 10 bulbs for the 3 bathrooms), but most of them are burned out and/or unscrewed. And they were 25 watt bulbs. So I'm counting an average of 60 watts per bathroom.

Basement has 6 bulbs total, but only a couple are used on the way to the laundry.

So slightly more than the equivalent of 10 60-watt bulbs for the lights that are used most often. At first I thought that I could save a lot with the compact fluorescent bulbs, but I really didn't see any change in the electric bill after changing out all that I could -- the chandeliers take the candelabra bulbs, and while I could get fluorescents to fit they would be way too bright. Same with the bathrooms, I didn't want 10 bulbs in one bathroom that put out the same lumens as 10 60-watt incandescents, and I couldn't readily find any fluorescent or led bulbs that were equiv. to a 20-watt incandescent.
Cheap microcontrollers can replace old CPLDs, which now are technically FPGAs but really don't have much of a place in modern hardware.

They can also replace FPGAs because even small microcontrollers are now really systems-on-a-chip, with integrated SPI, CAN, LVDS, or even USB/transceivers. To me, that's more like replacing an FPGA with dedicated hardware - it's just that microcontroller peripheral options are so thorough that dedicated hardware no longer needs to be custom.
I'm not sure your position is consistent, since, if the TSA is filling the role that private security used to fill, there must be some explanation for the change, and the TSA was created in direct response to the 9/11 attacks. (I'm not even sure sentiment would have been in a place to create something like the TSA without 9/11 either.)

However, my point wasn't whether the TSA was created specifically for one type of attack, but that it was created for a problem that 90% solved to begin with and the remaining 10% could have been filled with government serving as intelligence and advisor (e.g. requiring airlines to reinforce cockpit doors, or informing them of specific plots or new techniques to defend against); which, of course, it was failing to do pre-9/11, but that's a separate problem also not solved by the TSA.
You wouldn't mind placing your life in the hands of someone with a documented history of both predilection for consciousness-altering substances, and poor future time orientation and impulse control?

...well, you're braver than I am, that's for sure.
If you Google 'DF Sponsorship' you can get all the info (&rates). I believe a weekly sponsorship is about $13k and he does $15k-20k per podcast across 3-4 ad reads.
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Its an edge case for the `n` to get high enough for it make a big impact.
That would be really neat, but the core technology of Realm is written in native code. Somebody in the community could certainly create a Realm-like API for web local storage. If you (or anyone else reading this) is interested in building it, I would suggest building it on top of localForage (https://github.com/mozilla/localforage), and definitely hit me up if you'd like to further discuss implementation details!
So much snark.

Error handling is something Rust does really well. Having used exception languages quite a bit I much prefer the forced handled return values.

Exceptions don't map well to the type of handling patterns like and_then(...), or_else(...) and the like which I find much more ergonomic and clean.
Page 143, or ctrl + F for "All executive officers and directors as a group (9 persons)".
>If you are the sole user of a technology, then part of your cost is maintaining that technology that used to be shared by all the other users of that technology.

Yeah the guy who maintained the OS was basically the only guy in the country who could so obviously we had to put up with his bullshit lol
Wouldn't the obvious way forward be to open Jenkins for your ops?

(That said, Rundeck is probably more straightforward use. You could trigger it from Jenkins.)
You can get an idea of this just by using standard funding math. Series E means investors hold 70% give or take. Execs hold 20-25% of the remainder, and rank and file employees have < 5%. One factor here that is meaningful -- original shareholders have taken money off the table, meaning they've given up ownership in the company to investors in exchange for cash. I don't know if that offer was made equally to all shareholders (I've heard a lot of good things about Twilio, so I imagine it was) -- which is why I say < 5% -- the number would be larger otherwise.
That's interesting I didn't know that, have you any figures to hand?
I saw no mention of GPS in the article. A bit of Googling found another story where someone in the comment section claimed that she did own a GPS but for some reason had not brought it that day.

It sounds like even a compass would have had a good chance of saving her.

I saw some comments on Reddit from people experienced with the Appalachian Trail that said that it is quite common for people to hike the part she was on without taking a compass or GPS or even a good map of the surrounding area.
The way he wrote "live shotgun shells" and "live handgun rounds" signaled to me his intent to be alarmist rather than factual. Live as opposed to, what, inert? Inert rounds are way harder to get your hands on. Live rounds cost cents each and can be bought at tens of thousands of store with nothing beyond proof of age. Having ammunition means nothing and is completely routine to a very large swath of the country. Clarifying that it's "live" is using alarmist scare words.
I'm lucky. Exotic name. And I've had it for 10+ years. $10/year
perhaps the right link is https://getbadges.io/ ?
> who writes malware for a 30 year old OS?

This may be relevant ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet
Exactly. I didn't mention Rackspace idly -- they used to have huge developer mindshare back in the day. Didn't save them, and it won't save Twilio if they can't find something truly sticky to keep people on their platform.
Looks good.

I have written a simple tool to manage database fixtures for Go. It's similar to Django's fixtures.

Might be relevant for some people. Both migrations and fixtures are a needed thing for most projects.

https://github.com/RichardKnop/go-fixtures
If imgur has to buy profiling data from someone else, it isn't really their data is it? That is, imgur could not recreate that same data alone, they need the partner who can get the missing data from the rest of the partner's network.

The bottom line is imgur's data is probably not worth much, what _is_ worth a lot is imgurs traffic, and that traffic is taking a hit from adblock.
> Unfortunately, I think because this has its roots in China's culture (systemic), there is no quick fix as changing the culture of a billion people is nearly impossible. I think the entire thing needs to come down and be rebuilt from scratch.

I agree with everything you wrote up to here. I'd have said the same thing until I moved to Taiwan. Now I'm not sure what to think

I live in Kaohsiung (pronounced gow-shung), Taiwan, which is relatively unknown but is actually the second biggest city in Taiwan after Taipei. It's the site of a 1979 protest named the Kaohsiung or Formosa Incident [1]

People were protesting martial law and seeking democracy. The other day I was talking to someone who was at that protest. He told me the feeling of the populace was that steps towards democracy must be made. Otherwise, people were going to start a revolution. 17 years later, in 1996, after a series of changes, Taiwan held its first direct election. Since then, a diverse cast of characters have been elected to the legislative body. Around 65-75% of the Taiwanese turn out to vote [2].

I feel Taiwan's warless entrance into democracy shows that governments can evolve without war. The BBC has a very succinct history of Taiwan that is pretty accurate if you're interested in learning more [3].

Taiwan is a very controversial subject, particularly to China, who claims ownership of it. Taiwan has its own government, holds elections, doesn't pay taxes to China, and you need a passport to go between TW and China.

There are a lot of differences between China and Taiwan so it's hard to predict what will happen in China. I am optimistic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaohsiung_Incident

[2] http://www.idea.int/vt/countryview.cfm?CountryCode=TW

[3] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/asia_pac/04/taiwan_fla...
Users are strongly and emphatically discouraged from using this for expection-style control flow. This is for managing crashes at the thread or FFI boundary.

In general, we're very happy with monadic error handling and don't want exceptions.
> Given YC companies get: AWS, Google (100k), IBM (120k) and Microsoft (500k) all offer credits - $5k seems small.

$5K in exchange for spending 5 min to fill out a form is well worth it. And that's not including any indirect value you'd get from the actual office hours.
I don't understand why use cases 1 and 2 wouldn't just send a text message picture. Why would you bother with a 3rd party app that erases them?

With that said, that is probably the least percentage reason as to why people use it. The greatest being for sending half naked photos to strangers.
How are snapchat employees making out here? It seems like share dilution and even more investors getting exit preference has got to be eroding value like crazy.

Perhaps someone with some experience can shed some light here, if you joined snapchat 2 or 3 years ago are you seeing all of your supposed value evaporating away?
Not racial hatred, images of Robert Byrd kissing Hillary Clinton will get censored. Basically anything that is a joke at the expense of Hillary Clinton will get removed.
Progress on specialization is good.

> Altogether, this relatively small extension to the trait system yields benefits for performance and code reuse, and it lays the groundwork for an "efficient inheritance" scheme that is largely based on the trait system
I'm surprised all of these comments are so negative. Yeah, maybe there are some things that don't quite add up yet, but they have great developer engagement, solid services, and are actually innovating in the space. Twilio is a winner. When or how much is another question.
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These are not exceptions, and are not intended to be used like exceptions. They may have an implementation that's kinda sorta similar to exceptions, but that doesn't make them exceptions.
> The correct pronoun is 'her', not 'him/her'

The correct pronoun is whatever people deem the correct pronoun is. Personally, I don't see a lot of value in referring to people as their preferred gender. I see more value in referring to them based on their biological sex.
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I actually really like the UX. What's so bad about it? Swipe to see pictures, tap picture you want to see, tap again to make it go away
These days, mostly Objective-C on iOS and Java on Android. Python, mostly, for scripts and quick-and-dirty. Bash for anything else. So, yeah, I haven't seen a lot of linked lists lately. Back in my Microsoft days working mostly with C? You betcha. But I haven't worked there in quite a while.
Webpack isn't like Gulp at all. It's absolutely insane what Webpack can do. It can solve any asset-related problem imaginable. Compile SCSS into CSS into JSON and require it in your Javascript? Convert SVG images into data-URLs that work on all browsers? Manage async dependencies in your JS code without dynamic script tags or global variables? Automatically figure out exactly which assets you need on which page and chunk them all together? All of the above.
The reality is that some VCs invest in smart but risky bets and some just throw money around like it's free. Uber and Tesla are risky bets, but also have solid thinking behind their business and target specific market demands. There are risks in execution and a whole host of other problems, but the idea behind it is fairly solid.

What is not a smart investment is funding some company that is planning on making "the next social media analytics platform". There are what, 200+ companies all doing that?

The issue is mostly one of perception: What happens when investors realize this and want their money back? The house of cards comes crashing down, and might take out some smaller, legitimately innovative places in the process. Money flows out of the industry, it is no longer seen as viable. Investors see VCs as some kind of get rich scheme, it's only a matter of time before reality intercedes. When that happens, it may even take out the biggest players. VCs are a great idea but often poorly executed, basically due to greed.
Shameless Google Cloud plug:

Snapchat runs entirely on Google Cloud Platform, and have famously declared that they have 0 Ops people because everything they use is fully-managed and no-ops. This is one of the reasons they are able to deliver features at such a rapid pace - they aren't worried about scale or reliability the way anyone at the scale is on-premise or on AWS/Azure.
Yup, that was it. Thanks for the name reminder.

And I still stand by my earlier statement: Imgur has declined, but they have not yet stooped to the level of end-user abuse shack did. (Granted, hijacking direct image URLs is sleezy as hell.)

Imageshack made even uploads a chore. Sure, picking the image from your drive was easy - but then they made every attempt possible to force their inline branding into all inbound links.

Getting a hot-linkable image from shack uploads required extra effort. And they tried to trick you into using their quality-degraded downscaled versions everywhere. It was dreadful. I even remember couple of cases where after the upload there was no way of getting the image link out. At all. All you got was a 80x80 thumbnail and a link to their shitty pages where you could, MAYBE, view the image. (Which was, of course, downscaled and further compressed. The original was gone.)

So no, as far as I am concerned, Imgur has not yet reached the imageshack abusement park level.
Not all meat is the same. A slice of deli bologna isn't the same as a cut of pasture-raised sirloin. One comes from a factory that requires animal feed and antibiotics, the other comes from a farm that only needs sunlight, rain, and grass.
Nice package! Unfortunately is completely falling on its face for my ruby on rails project, but I'm sure it can be improved.
It is wonderful.

YMMW but IMO it is a shining example of modern Windows UX done right. A couple of examples

* double clicking selects the block you clicked on until next previously tagged time

* the tagging dialog has wonderful autocomplete

* you can set up automatic tagging

* you can add timelines from outlook etc
"This is exactly wrong. Profiling does not increase safety whatsoever. Bruce Schneier argues it much better than I would:"

You may say it doesn't 'increase safety', but Israel is a great example of it working. The attacks, hijacks, and deaths have nose dived to nearly 0. They have a hybrid system that involves both random checking and profiling.

I'm not saying we should lock up anyone that fits a specific racial profile. The problem is that when we use data and risk assessment to question specific people that may be suspicious, it's seen as racist if the person is anything but white.

The two articles you linked mention hijackers that happened pre-911. I don't think people are hijacking planes and diverting them to central america nor do we have IRA militants bombing planes.

We need a hybrid system between random checking and profiling. Random checks work so far, but will not help with long lines because everyone needs to be checked equally.

To reduce long lines, we either need to scale-back security (which is a bad idea) or use information and data to make the process more efficient (IE: profiling).

Some profiling is a good thing, but we can't completely rely on it.
their P/E ratio is huge, they are not worthless just overvalued
I really like the UI. Is it possible to implement keyboard/mouse movement activity tracking? I don't mean keylogging or anything, but something like key presses per minute while an app is focused or mouse movement in pixels per minute while an app in focused.
Catering to irrational fears is emotional terrorism on everyone else.
Could you share a link to the Firebase SMS verification you stated in your comment? Was actually looking for something like this... :D
The real problem is there's huge, legacy systems tied to these platforms that they don't understand and are too risky to port/re-engineer. Think of our military systems or payroll going down since software was ported wrong or relied on underdocumented assembler or compiler feature.

There's some hope on reducing costs at least. Look up NuVAX for an example of emulators being designed to work exacly like old hardware for fraction of price, space, energy, and so on. I haven't heard attempts but next step might be instrumenting them to trace programs code/data for porting. Or binary translation to modern architectures. I know DEC did latter for VAX-to-Alpha port.
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Until signal handlers get involved...
Biological sex isn't binary, even if socially ascribed gender is, and is often based on one aspect of biological sex (external genitalia.) If you think what's between someone's legs is more important than the person themself, that's your preference, but don't be surprised if outwardly subjecting people to that kind of objectification produces negative responses.
This is genius
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I have no problem with the article or its goals, but my issue is why is so much configuration even necessary for a "large" frontend JS application?

Why don't we see this kind of configuration hell in other major languages? Look at Python, or Scala, or Go, or even Rust. Do you see projects requiring 10 dependencies just to setup a testing environment? Or having to manually integrate every piece of the build process instead of using pre-made plugins?

We don't even have to talk about the extremely low average lifetime of libraries in the JS world; it's like a perpetual popularity contest!
Right, exactly. A heartbeat. And further, the signing key could be deleted securely, so coercion or spoofing would be impossible. That, however, would be an argumentally illegal action taken after the gag order. One could have an anonymous third party responsible for that. But then they have much power. And the signal to them would also be an argumentally illegal action taken after the gag order.